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dent O. H. Boyd will respond. During the business
session on Tuesday the visiting ladies will be enter-
tained by the Cleveland lady hosts with an automo-
bile ride, during which the most interesting spots
about Cleveland will be visited.
The dinner, which will be the official closing event
of the convention on Wednesday night, will be fol-
lowed by a dance. The menu follows:
Assorted Cannope Romanoff
Celery
Olives
Salted Nuts
Puree of Pea Soup, St. Germaniny
Filet of Sole en Princess
Squab
Chicken
Roti Pysane
Potato Bermy
Peas Fermere
Waldorf Salad, French Dressing
Frozen Pudding
Demi Tasse
Cigars
Cigarettes
turers and jobbers, who have reserved exhibition
space at the Winton Hotel:
C. G. Conn, Ltd., of Elkhart, Ind., Parlor M.
Gulbransen Co., of Chicago, 111., Parlors H and I.
The Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co., of Chicago,
111., Parlor J1-.. .
Bush & Lane Piano Co., of Holland, Mich., Par-
lors J 2 and 3.
Columbia Phonograph Co., of Cleveland, O., Rooms
214 and 216.
The Art Novelty Co., of Goshen, Ind., Room 210.
H.'C. Schultz, Inc., of Cleveland, O., Parlors J 4
and 5.
The Cleveland Ignition Co., of Cleveland, O.,
Rooms 206 and 208.
Walth.am Piano Co., of Milwaukee, Wis., Parlors
B and C.
Kohler & Campbell and affiliated companies of
New York, N. Y. f Parlors A and D.
The Golf Tournament.
E. Reihhold Schmidt Co., of Cleveland, O., Room
The golfer is promised a pleasant day and evening
at the Cedarhurst Country Club on Monday, to be 218.
Wurlitzer Co., of North Tonawanda, N. Y., Par-
conducted by and under jthe auspices of Ohio Music
Merchants' Golf Association, Chas. H. Yahrling, lor G.
Lyon & Healy.of Chicago, 111., Parlor F.
president; W m . R . Graul, vice-president; Arleigh C.
. Grossman Music Co., of Cleveland, Parlor I.
Dom, treasurer; Jos. F. Volz, secretary.
Chas. M. Stieff, Inc., of Baltimore, Md., Rooms
The Cleveland Golf Committee is composed of
Henry Dreher, chairman; Raymond W. Schirring, 202 and 204.
Packard Piano Co., of Ft. Wayne, Ind., Rooms
Ernest S. Germaine, Charles H. Yahrling, Harry
220
and 222.
R. Valentine.
Board of Control to Meet
The Cedarhurst Country Club can be reached by
The Board of Control of the National Association
automobile only. To get there, one should drive
straight out Euclid avenue to Stop \2y 2 , Wickliffe, of Music Merchants will meet in Cleveland during
O., where a large sign will direct you to the road the convention period next week, possibly during
Tuesday and Wednesday, at the Winton Hotel. The
leading to the entrance of the club.
Those who have entered the tournament and have Board of Control consists of the Executive Com-
sent their entrance fee in advance will be provided mittee, which includes all the officers, the Advisory
with transportation to the golf course by the Cleve- Board comprising all the past presidents, the Auxil-
iary Board which includes the delegates from all
land committee.
The Cedarhurst Club is one of the new clubs in the chartered state and regional associations, and all
Cleveland district and will give all golfers a fairly State Commissioners of the National Association.
good chance to show their skill on the many blind
President C. J. Roberts, of Baltimore, called this
holes. The beautiful swimming yool will be very meeting so that the National work could be started
welcome to those wishing to take a swim. Bring your earlier in the year than usual. President O. H. Boyd
bathing suits. Many fine prizes have been donated of the Music Merchants Association of Ohio, when
and the usual spirited competition will prevail.
informed that the National Board of Control was
going to meet in Cleveland, extended an invitation to
The Exhibits.
all of them to remain over and attend the business
At the convention in Cleveland September 12, 13 sessions and social activities in connection with the
and 14, the exhibits promise to be valuable aids Ohio State Association.
for attracting the dealers. The latest models and
The Platt Music Co., Los Angeles, plans to erect
finishes are to be exhibited in pianos, phonographs
and radio. The following are among the manufac- an addition to the building at 830 South Broadway.
GULBRANSEN FOR BIG HOTEL
September 10, 1927
BLUE RIBBON LINE
PROVING BIG SELLER
Amazing Shipment Figures for August Make
Clear the Meritorious Qualities of
the Artistic Models.
August 31 brought to a close the biggest month
in shipment that the Hobart M. Cable Company, La
Porte, Ind., had ever accomplished in its twenty-
seven years of piano building. The company shipped
511 pianos from its factory for that month and carried
over a fine batch of orders for September.
This pleasant result is the reaction to its aggressive
presentation of the Blue Ribbon line and the un-
doubted merits of the instruments included therein.
The pianos are going over in even a bigger way than
the company had anticipated. The beautiful new
models with their lacquer, high-lighted finishes are
proving the strongest allurements to the piano buy-
ers and dealers everywhere are realizing their selling
qualities.
NEWS OF THE TRADE
FROM THE PORTLAND FIELD
Some Recent Events Which Have Interested the
Music Trade in Busy City.
The Portland, Ore., music trade was visited late
in August by Fred Rydeen, Pacific coast representa-
tive of the American Piano Company, New York,
who stated that the outlook for coast business this
fall and winter was very promising.
After a lapse of several seasons the Portland, Ore.,
trade was visited by H. W. Pedler, Jr., sales manager
of Harry Pedler & Co., Inc., who is making an ex-
tended trip, and when he came to Portland, had been
six weeks away from headquarters. Mr. Pedler re-
ported that he found business conditions much better
than when he visited the coast city several seasons
ago.
He was featuring their new metal clarinet,
which he said was being well received by the trade.
During the entire month of August, Yeathman
Griffith, vocal pedagogue, has been giving master
classes for teachers, artists and pupils in Portland,
Ore. This is the fourth season that Mr. Griffith has
given summer classes in Portland, which were filled
to capacity. Mr. Griffith uses the Chickering piano
exclusively, and the instrument for his Portland
classes was furnished through the courtesy of the
G. F. Johnson Piano Company, the Chickering repre-
sentative of that city.
H. H. Thompson, who for several years has had a
piano department in the music store of Seiberlin'g,
Lucas Music Co. of Portland, Ore., has been placed
under bonds, being charged with obtaining money
under false pretense. The warrant charges him with
obtaining $400 from the Mortgage, Bond & Ac-
ceptance Company on a contract purporting to con-
tain the signature of B. M. Tonaka, which it is
alleged is a forgery.
WALTHAM PIANO CO.'S
EXHIBIT AT CLEVELAND
Four Innovations in Line of Milwaukee Manufac-
turer Will Interest the Dealers.
The Waltham Piano Co., Milwaukee, will have
an exhibit at the convention in Cleveland next week
which will comprise four important innovations.
The first of these is the Cameo grand of Louis
XVI Period design in lacquered mahogany and wal-
nut. The length is 3 feet 8 inches and the width
is 3 feet 10 inches. The second is an electric
phonograph playing through radio tubes. The third
is a combination electric phonograph and radio.
The fourth innovation, and a most important one
in the Waltham display, is a small upright 88-note
piano in Gothic and Spanish designs. The piano is
known as the Bungalow model. The dimensions are:
Width, 56 inches; depth, 34 inches, and height, 45
inches, and it comes in lacquered mahogany and
walnut.
The accompanying cut shows a group of Kiwanians
around a Gulbransen Grand that has been used in
the Hotel Winthrop, Tacoma, Wash,, for two years.
In this cut Mr. Hopper of the well-known Hopper-
Kelly Company of Tacoma is seen in the picture,
being the man on the left hand side with the bow tie.
When this big tourist and commercial hotel, built
as a community enterprise, was furnished and opened
two years ago, two Gulbransens were bought for
concert and general hotel use. One was installed
and has been in constant use on the beautiful roof
garden of the Winthrop; the other has been in use ni
these two years in luncheon club rooms, and both
have proved very satisfactory, according to Manager
Ray W. Clark. The Winthrop is operated by D. M.
Linnard, Inc., of San Francisco.
Not only have the pianos been used for concert
purposes, but one or the other have been used almost
nightly during the two years for the orchestral dance
music provided. The Gulbransen in the club room
is in daily use for the choral singing and other
musical features of the luncheon clubs. Every mu-
sician who has used these instruments has spoken in
the highest praise of them, according to Mr. Clark.
Two of the executives of the Winthrop Hotel own
Gulbransen instruments, being Ray Clark, the man-
ager, and Mr. Carter, auditor of the hotel.
ILLINOIS ASS'N CONVENTION.
The Illinois Music Merchants' Association will
hold its annual convention for 1927 at the Palmer
House, Chicago, October 11 and 12. An attractive
program of events, of which H. H. Fleer, manager
of the piano department of Lyon & Healy, Chicago,
has charge, is being prepared.
In order to encourage the wider use of Latin-
American music in the United States, the Pan-Amer-
ican Union has just concluded an arrangement with
the Army Music School for the inclusion of a study
of the music of South and Central America in its
curriculum.
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