August 20, 1927.
PRESTO-TIMES
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ROY BARGY MAKES
AMPICO RECORDINGS
Noted Pianist Records Four of His Own
Popular Compositions and a Fifth
Semi-Popular Number.
A recent visitor to the Ampico Recording Labora-
tories, New York, was Roy Bargy, who came on
from Chicago especially to record four of his own
popular composition and a fifth semi-popular number
Cunningham is one of the many old employes of
the company.
Mr. Fox, traveling representative of the Settergen
Piano Company of Bluffton, Ind., was a caller at the
Pearson Piano Company during the past week.
Henry C. Lueck, formerly with the House of Wur-
litzer at Syracuse, N. Y., has joined the sales force
of the Pearson Piano Company.
Mr. Onderdonk, vice-president of the Chickering
& Sons Piano Company of Boston, was a caller at
the warerooms of the Christena-Teague Piano Com-
pany last week.
Ted Perkins, representing the Gulbransen Com-
pany, was a visitor of the Christena-Teague Company
last week.
HAZELTON SPANISH BEAUTY
SUBJECT IN BILL BOARD
ROY BARGY, AMPICO RECORDER
to be issued in due season by The Ampico Corpora-
tion.
Bargy is an extremely interesting man at the piano.
His ancestors came from France, where a portrait
in oils of one of the Bargys of the 18th century (a
great actor of the time) hangs in the celebrated
Carnavelet Museum, which is the former home of
Mine. DeSevigne. Roy Bargy was brought up in
Toledo, Ohio, where he received a thorough education
in the piano classics, it being intended that he should
become a concert artist. The effect of this early
and painstaking musical education is apparent in
evrything he does at the piano. There are no fire-
works when Roy Bargy plays. His large and ex-
tremely flexible hands bring from the piano an
extraordinarily rich and characterful tone—the same
skilful and well-under-control hands that make him
one of the best golfers in the Chicago district. After
two days and a single night in New York, it was
necessary for Bargy to return immediately to Chi-
cago for his dance orchestra duties.
LIVE TRADE NEWS
FROM INDIANAPOLIS
Dealers Get Together and Discuss Business
Conditions, and Other Activities
Are Noted.
Several of the larger dealers of Indianapolis are
contemplating the adoption of the carrying charge
in place of the present rate of interest. The law of
custom, however, is the greatest thing on earth, but
it has been customary to charge a low rate of interest
on piano sales, and just how the new custom will
work out is question. Every conceivable commodity
that is sold on the payment plan has a regu'ar carry-
ing charge with one exception, and that is the piano,
said one dealer, and now the time has come when
we must give up the antiquated idea of interest, and
adopt a carrying charge. Harry Wert, president
of the Indianapolis Music Merchants' Association,
will bring up the carrying charge matter at the first
meeting of the association, which will be early in
September.
Mr. Cunningham, one of the salesmen of the Pear-
son Piano Company, has just completed his thirty-
sixth year with the company, and has left Indian-
apolis to spend a short vacation in northern Michigan.
Mr. Cunningham is one of the veteran piano sales-
men of the city and one of the remaining few of
the old school. His thirty-six years of faithful serv-
ice has made him many friends, and in addition to
his pleasing manner, his suave way and even temper
he has proven himself a successful salesman. Mr.
Martin Music Company, Los Angeles, Features the
New Model in Effective Manner.
Like tennis players and huge trees, Spanish types
of architecture have become synonymous with Cali-
fornia through many years of close association. It
was but natural, therefore, when the Hazelton Piano
Company of New York City developed an exquisite
Period model grand in authentic Spanish design, that
the instrument should meet with the warmest kind of
reception not only in the East but throughout Cali-
fornia as well.
Always on the lookout for something new and dif-
ferent, the progressive members of the Martin Music
Company in Los Angeles quickly saw the promo-
tional possibilities of the Hazelton Spanish Beauty
and immediately contracted for a huge display board
at one of the most strategic points in the city. On
this board, in bold, sweeping relief, with rays of light
drawing the eye to the central focal point, is featured
the Hazelton Spanish grand.
The board is flood lighted at night and already the
Martin company report several direct sales from this
unusual display.
Much favorable comment has
already been received directed both to the beautiful
Hazelton piano and the clever execution of the out-
door advertisement.
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AMPICO USED IN MUSIC
HISTORY COURSE AT VASSAR
Lessons Fully Illustrated with Ampico Recordings
by Prof. G. S. Dickinson.
The Music History courses, conducted by Prof.
G. S. Dickinson at Vassar are now fully illustrated
by Ampico recordings greatly extending the effec-
tiveness of the department of Musical Education in
the famous Poughkeepsie institution.
Professor
Dickinson recently expressed himself enthusiastically
regarding the Ampico as an adjunct to his teaching:
"I am glad to express my great satisfaction in the
Ampico which is in use in connection with my
classes," writes Professor Dickinson. "I find it a
thoroughly sensitive and artistic medium, and its
adequate repertory puts me in command of the essen-
tial materials of piano literature. Its contribution to
the effectiveness of my w r ork is a distinct one."
Vassar is but one of the long list of the great edu-
cational institutions in the country using the Ampico
in Music History and Music Appreciation Classes,
the instruments receiving the unqualified praise of
the great educators who have come in contact with
its immense potentialities for musical illustration.
The nominating committee of the Piano Club of
Chicago, of which E. F. Lapham is chairman, have
practically made up the slate for the October elec-
tion, but as it had not been signed by the entire
committee at the meeting last Monday the ticket was
not announced. In the line of succession, Harry
Bibb's name would appear for the office of president;
orobably Roger O'Connor for vice-president, W. R.
Brownell for secretary, and some representative
member, preferably from a representative house,
could be named as treasurer. It is planned on re-
turning to the Illinois Athletic Club for the Monday
noonday luncheons that preparations be made for a
grand rally and banquet at a date to be anounced
later.
Music dealers at Evansville, Ind., say with the
starting of September they are looking for quite an
improvement in trade. They point to the fact that
general business conditions in Evansville have been
gradually improving for some time past and bank
clearings are larger than they were this time last
year. The large industrial plants in Evansville with
but few exceptions are being operated steadily and
reports from the rural sections are more encouraging
than they were a few weeks ago. Dealers say there
is no reason why their fall trade should not be as
good as that of last year.
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