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HAPPY FLORIDA PIANO MEN
November 26, 1927
NEW REMICK SONGS SELL WELL
Late Additions to Winning Numbers Increase Profit
Possibilities of Sheet Music Dealers.
Jerome 11. Remick has awakened the pre-holid;y
sheet music business with an irresistible collection of
new songs. Departments have been fortunate in the
privilege of presenting winning Kemick numbers and
the fact has contributed to a season of profitable sell-
ing in stores in all sections of the country. The
Remick line has become a sure means to popularity
for the store handling it because the Remick name is
associated with so many phenomenal hits.
The manner in which the later songs are attracting
the song buyers assures many more big selling hits.
These numbers are among the biggest sellers in a
great many places: "Twing-a-Ling," •'Surrender,"
"I Told Them All About You." "Who Knows," and
"l'.l Think of You." The songs have the admirable
character of originality that distinguish the Remick
productions, with poetic charm in the words and
alluring melody in the music.
WINNER OF SWIFT & CO. PRIZE
Philadelphia Composer Awarded First Honors and
$1CO in Male Chorus Competition.
The interesting group shown in the accompanying
cut suggests a balmy day in Florida and temporary
freedom from piano business cares by the officials
and branch managers of the Ernest Philpit & Son,
who are pictured. The happy piano men were pho-
tographed before going aboard a light cruiser for a
day of deep sea fishing among the Florida Keys.
It was one of the pleasant interludes during a con-
ference of managers held at Miami.
BUYS MUSIC BUSINESS
and Accessories Manufacturers. It is expected that
the promotion, which will probably be done by the
bureau and financed by the association, will be based
upon group instruction and the use of such instru-
ments in playgrounds, camps, social departments of
industrial corporations and in schools. Xew and sim-
plified, group and individual instruction methods a*e
to be devised. Suitable publicity concerning the
attractiveness of fretted instruments is being planned.
W. M. and E. M. Kane, Well Known in Home City,
Secures Control of Welton Store.
\V. M. and Li. M. Kane, who have been associated
in the music and real estate bns'ness in Lancaster.
Ohio, for several years at 213 South Broad street,
have concluded a deal in which they become the sole
qwnlers of the entire music business of the J. C.
Welton Music Co., including a Victor agency, located
ait 11127 South Broad street. This transaction will he
df Considerable interest to the> many friends and
customers.
It; is understood that \Y. M. Kane will close out
ljis entire rrrnsic business at 213 South Broad street at
qnce. preparatory to taking over the new store ai.d
that Mr. Welton and his daughters will continue to
operate the new store until the new owners can take
charge. Mr. Kane stated that they will incorporate
their new business and continue at its present loca-
tion under the firm name of Kane Music Co.
PROMOTING F R E T T E D INSTRUMENTS.
" The National Bureau for the Advancement of
Music is developing a plan for the promotion of
fretted and similar instruments for and at the request
of the National Association of Musical Instrument
BILL WIEMANN'S TRIP.
Bill Wiemann, sales manager of the Edward B.
Marks Musjc Co., New York, returned early in No-
vember from his first important trip of the new
season. He had left the first of August and was
gone in all fourteen weeks, during which -he eclipsed
not only his own records fc.r volume and variety of
sales but all those made in earlier years by other
salesmen of the house. The surprise wallop of his
entire trip was "Down South," which is at present
one of the biggest numbers of the day. Wiemann
found the demand for this constantly growing and
sold plenty of each of the twenty-odd arrangements
now published of this old masterpiece.
The Hi-(irade Trunk & Toy Co., 913 Broadway.-'
Brooklyn. N. Y., owned by Herman Scbrank. carries
a line of small musical merchandise.
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NEW PIANO ACTION SHOWN.
Charles Reiser, of Pratt. Read & Co., Deep River,
Conn., had on exhibition this week in Room 501A.
Stevens Hotel, Chicago, a new piano action which
was examined carefully by several of the Chicago
piano manufacturers. Some of the advantageous
features claimed for it are simplicity in space, inter-
changeable unit pneumatic, etc.
CONGRATULATIONS FOR D. W. PERKINS.
David Wal'.on Perkins, veteran president of the
Chicago Conservatory of Music, recently observed
his eightieth birthday. -Mr. Perkins has been con-
nected with the conservatory since it was founded,
twenty-live years ago.
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RADIO MEN MEET.
At the annual meeting of the Pacific Radio Trades
Association held in San Francisco recently Ernest
Ingold was elected president and J. W. Laugh! n
vice-president.
The following comprise the new
board of directors: Shirley Walker, G. Harold Por-
ter. C. B. dlendenin, Don Oilman, deorge Campe.
Eric I'mmack and W. II. Kampcr.
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Dudley Peele of Philadelphia is the winner of the
Swift & Company Male Chorus Prize Song Compe-
tition, according to an announcement by E. A.
Schlamp. president of the chorus in the organization
of Swift & Company. Chicago. Honorable mention
also was given to (iustav Mehner of drove City.
Pennsylvania.
This is the seventh annual competition of the
chorus, and the winning of the award carries with it
a prize of $100. The judges were Adolf Weidig.
Allen Spencer, and I). A. Clippinger. The musical
setting is to "Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind." It
will be sung by the chorus during this season's
concerts.
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