Presto

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PRESTO-TIMES
February 25, 1928
TWO NEW DIRECTORS
FOR QULBRANSEN CO.
At Recent Meeting Important Appointments
Are Made and Company Takes Over
Gulbransen Roll Corporation.
of the company, announced some time ago, in moving
the roll business to the Chicago factory. The man-
ufacturing, purchasing, selling, advertising, credit
and other departments of the roll business have been
assumed by the various departments of the Gulbran-
sen Company, resulting in greater efficiency, unifica-
tion of effort and more economical operation.
PIANO FOLK SOJOURNING
AT HONOLULU HOTEL
BUSINESS GROWS FOR
E. LEINS PIANO CO.
Presto Man, Visiting Factory of Company,
Sees Cheerful Sign and Learns Some
Cheerful Traits of Its President.
E. Leins, president of E. Leins Piano Co., Inc.,
At a special meeting of stockholders and directors
304-306 West Forty-second street, New York, was
of the Gulbransen Company, Chicago, held February
21, the number of directors was increased from seven Mr. and Mrs. Van Matre and Mr. and Mrs. R. O. found busy as a honey bee in June, on the fifth floor
of his plant, on Monday of this week by a Presto-
to nine and one additional vice-president was elected.
Foster at Royal Hawaiian.
Times caller.
John S. Gorman, sales manager, was elected to the
R. O. Foster, head of Foster & Waldo, music mer-
newly created office and also as a director; Walter
He said business was good and noticeably getting
Kiehn, advertising manager, is the other new director. chants of Minneapolis, accompanied by Mrs. Foster, better. "In our repair department we are very busy,"
President A. G. Gulbransen, commenting on the left February 16 for a two months' sojourn at the said Mr. Leins. "And once in a while some cus-
moves, stated that they reflect the aggressive mer- Royal Hawaiian Hotel, Honolulu. They will stop tomer gets careless and buys a new piano," he added
with the quizzical smile while his many friends like
chandising policy of the company, which will be along over over a week at Los Angeles, en route.
Mr. and Mrs. Foster will have the pleasure of meet- so much.
even more vigorous lines than in past years. "With
Aside from being a genius at piano construction
the greater resistance that is being encountered by ing W. N. Van Matre, head of the board of direc-
the selling end of business in every line," said Mr. tors of the Schumann Piano Co., Rockford, at the and knowing a great deal about the "innards" of many
Gulbransen, "it is increasingly important that the famous Honolulu hotel, where he and Mrs. Van makes of pianos, Mr. Leins is a man of many human
interests. As a community worker in "Hell's Kitch-
selling and advertising divisions have proper repre- Matre are guests.
en" he is best known to many on Sundays and in the
sentation in the official family of the company."
A RHODE ISLAND ASSOCIATION.
evenings. In his young days he taught Sunday
Mr. Gorman has been engaged in a very extensive
School classes. He farmed as a boy. He knows the
Steps
to
form
a
musical
merchandise
association
in
survey of the retail piano situation, traveling many
idiosyncrasies of preachers and tough guys. He
thousands of miles during the past six months to Rhode Island were taken recently at a meeting at the knows the craving for music that exists perpetually in
Axelrod
Music
Store.
Those
who
attended
the
initial
learn the true conditions. His mind is a particularly
youth. Three years ago his Boy Scouts were short
analytical one, suited to the present needs of the meeting were William K. Place, agent for Conn in- a player on one of their nines and they drafted him
struments,
Gibson
banjos
and
Lyon
&
Healy
harps;
situation. Under his direction the Gulbransen whole-
in with whoop and hurrah. He admits that he played
sale salesmen are carrying forward the distinctive, Ernest H. Stafford, of the Meiklejohn Company, ex- a very good game for a man past 45, and slyly
clusive
R.
I.
distributor
for
Paramount
banjos
and
sound policies of the company in a more aggressive
Buescher band instruments; Paul Sweet, of Sweet's conveys the information that his muscles were sore
manner than ever before.
Music
Store, Arthur Campbell, of the Campbell Music for the three days afterward, although the Boy Scouts
Mr. Kiehn has been advertising manager of the
never fund that out.
Co.,
and
Abraham Axelrod.
company for the past seven or eight years. This
end of the business has extended into the many dif-
THE CONN HOUR.
EXPECTS BETTER TRADE SOON.
ferent ramifications of a modern advertising depart-
"We are expecting trade to get better and better,
The Conn Artist Concerts by noted Conn Band
ment and today covers the entire arnge of wholesale
and retail advertising activity. New forms of Gul- Instruments artists and lectures on the band and or- and that very soon," said H. Buegeleisen of Bue-
bransen advertising and improvements in older forms chestra instruments by J. F. Boyer, secretary C. G. geleisen & Jacobson, S, 7 and 9 Union Square, New
of promotion are being constantly introduced to meet Conn, Inc., Elkhart, Ind., which continue each Sun- York, to Presto-Times' caller on Monday of this
day afternoon over radio station of the Chicago Eve- week. Mr. Buegeleisen had based this expectation
the new order of the day.
Another matter of business taken up at the special ning American, are increasing in popularity. The on an improvemetn he had noticed in collections, and
meeting was the taking over of the Gulbransen Music fame of the artists and the ability of Mr. Boyer to with the return of spring weather very soon he be-
Roll Corporation, a New York company, by the Gul- discuss their artistry make the Conn Hour a period lieves the call will nicrease in the lines of small goods
and supplies his house handles.
bransen Company. This legally carries out the action of great pleasure to radio fans.
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