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June 23, 1928
PRESTO-TIMES
OLD MUSIC FIRM ADDS RADIO
H. R. Eisenbrandt & Sons, Inc., Baltimore, Features
Full Line of Receiving Sets—-Other News.
H. R. Eisenbrandt & Sons, Inc., 216 West Frank-
lin street, Baltimore. Md., the Monumental City's
oldest music house and one of the oldest in the
country, has now added a line of radios, featuring
the A-C all electric Majestic radios, manufactured
by the Grigsby-Grunow Co., of Chicago, and for
which it has been appointed exclusive distributor for
Baltimore, Maryland, District of Columbia, and parts
of Delaware, Virginia and West Virginia.
This is the first time in the long history of this
local music house that radios have been sold by it.
For more than one hundred years, H. R. Eisen-
brandt & Sons, Inc., have devoted their business
exclusively to the selling of band and orchestra in-
struments.
Many Baltimore musical instrument stores did a
thriving business in harmonicas during the past few
weeks in equipping aspiring harmonicists and in
equipping harmonica bands.
Baltimore prize-winning harmonicists have had
their talents recorded for films to be shown and
heard in. moving-picture theaters in all parts of the
country. The event took place in the Band Pavilion
at Clifton Park.
DE FOREST RADIO CO. REORGANIZED.
The De Forest Radio Co., New York, has been re-
organized and become closely associated with the
Acoustic Products Co. and the Sonora Phonograph
Co., Inc., for the production of radio receivers, phono-
graphs, and accessories. P. L. Deutsch, president of
the Acoustic Products Co., and the Sonora Company,
becomes a member of the board of the De Forest
Company. James W. Garside is president and gen-
eral manager of the De Forest Company, and the
directors are prominent in the business world.
JESSE FRENCH & SONS WALL MOTTO
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LUMBER ORDERS INCREASE.
The lumber industry showed further improvement
last week, reports from 868 mills to the National Lum-
ber Manufacturers' Association indicating larger aver-
age new business. The piano industry put in only
moderate orders.
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The Jesse French & Sons Piano Co., New Castle,
Iud., has issued a wall motto to dealers which is
reproduced herewith and which is unusually good as
an inspiration and characteristic of the taste in print-
ing of the company. It is a tribute to Music and in
its framed form adds the artistic touch to any office.
H. Edgar French, president and genera] manager of
the company, in a letter, gives credit for the motto
to Richard E. Banta, publicity man for the company.
Mr. French says: "In his publicity work, he has
evolved something which is deserving of wide pub-
licity on the part of the piano trade; in fact, we felt
impelled to have it engrossed and illuminated. Use
it as you may like, giving Mr. Banta credit. The
thought is his, even though we sign the message."
NEW CADMAN SONG.
Groups.of children playing harmonicas, strumming
ukuleles, and singing songs on the Los Angeles play-
grounds have been an inspiration to Charles Wake-
lield Cadman and brought forth a new song from
him, "The Playground Song of Youth," which he has
dedicated to the children of the Los Angeles play-
grounds. During the past few months Cadman has
been interested in the widespread interest in the
musical activities developed on the playgrounds, and
secured the co-operation of Corrine Dodge, author
of the lyrics for which he composed an unusually-
attractive song.
"The Playground Song of Youth" has met with
such enthusiastic response that it will be given first
place in the Official Song Book of the Los Angeles
Playground Department, which will be off the press
next month. This new book is a collection of ap-
proximately ISO songs which are suitable for commu-
nity singing in playgrounds, camps, and industrial
recreation groups, and has been compiled as a result
of the increased demand for singing in Los Angeles.
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