June 23, 1928
PRESTO-TIMES
Wilbur T. Collins, University Music Shop, 1652
North High street, Columbus, Ohio.
Fay D. Doty, Berens Piano Co., 146 South Beach
street, Daytona, Fla.
Albert J. Heath, Columbia Phonograph Co., 434
South Wabash avenue, Chicago.
John Hughos, Hughos-Krabbe Co., Champaign, 111.
Active Distributors of Fine Pianos in Los An-
Leo R. Kolisch, L. & L. Radio & Music Shop,
geles Gets Exclusive Agency for That
6121 Addison street, Chicago.
City and Vicinity.
J. E. Moorhead, M. & D. Radio Co., 105 North
Mills street, New Castle, Pa.
The Fitzgerald Music Co., Los Angeles, has been
Roy Oliver, Rorabaugh-Brown, 211-221 Main street,
given the exclusive agency in that city and vicinity for
the lines of pianos of Hardman Peck & Co., New Oklahoma City, Okla.
Edwin O. Pearson, Pearson's Music & Athletic
York. The fact was anounced last week by J. E.
Shop, 36 Calendar avenue, La Grange, 111.
Yuncher, vice-president and sales manager of the
G. K. Purdy, Geo. C. Beckwith Co., 341 Broadway,
progressive Los Angeles company which is celebrating
Milwaukee, Wis.
the thirty-sixth anniversary of its founding. Aids to
H. G. Saunders, William Talking Machine Co., 1818
impressing the fact on the Los Angeles public were
Third avenue, North Birmingham, Ala.
very handsome show windows featuring the Hardman
E. S. Wilkins, Elite Music Co., 211 South High
and special printed publicity.
street, Columbus, Ohio.
An effective phase of the latter was a special letter
to possible purchasers of such a fine piano as the
Hardman. They were mailed to time with the ap-
pearance in the newspapers of big displays announcing
the appointment of the Fitzgerald Music Co. as a
Hardman representative. A notable reaction to the
publicity was the purchase of Hardman models by
A. Wyrock, of the Fair Committee, to Present the
prominent people in the musical world, among them
Immensity of Great Civic Enterprise.
Carrie Jacobs Bond and Charles Wakefield Cadman.
A.
Wyrock,
of the committee of the Chicago
"We are certain that the Hardman with its wide
World's Fair Centennial Celebration in 1933, was
reputation for fine musical quality and remarkable
secured to present to The Piano Club of Chicago
durability will prove of great advantage in our sales
the largest civic enterprise of our lives, at the lunch-
activities," said Mr. Yuncher. The most significant
eon this week.
tribute to the Hardman is the long list of individuals
"Our success as a city in an enterprise which
of musical fame and of organizations associated with
already engages the attention of the whole world
high class music using the Hardman."
will depend upon our ability to get at the greater
interests and then gratifying these interests in our
program for the exposition. The islands just off of
Grant Park and extending to the south, which are
now under construction, will furnish a setting of
surpassing beauty for this, the largest and finest
project we could conceive," said Gurney R. Brown-
secretary.
Dealers and Their Representatives Present at ell, "Moving
pictures illustrating the advancement of
Event at Stevens Hotel Were From All
Chicago from the very beginning until now, cover-
ing the Chicago fire, rebuilding and all phases of its
Parts of the Country.
growth, will feature Mr. Wyrock's talk. Everyone
Among the representatives of music houses attend- should be present on this occasion."
ing the radio convention at the Stevens Hotel, Chi-
cago, last week were the following:
A REAL SALE.
K. C. Gether, Gether Piano Co., 528 12th street,
In advertising a piano and phonograph sale in Hills-
Milwaukee.
boro, 111., the Rhodes Music House says: "This is not
a sale to fool the public. But a real honest sale.
P. C. Johnson, Goldsmith Piano Co., 1227 Miller
We are quitting business and selling for less than one-
street, Chicago.
Samuel J. Hoffman, Hoffman Music Shop, 325 half price. We have sold many instruments during
this sale. Just ask anyone. This is your opportunity.
Joseph avenue, Rochester, N. Y.
Better hurry, as these bargains are going fast. Only
D. R. O'Connor, J. L. Hudson Co., Detroit.
a few davs left.
O. Tellison of Kauffman-Tellison Music Store, 54
South Broadway, Aurora, 111.
STANDARDIZATION INFORMATION.
Ray Miller, Miller Bros., 11241 South Michigan ave-
The Standards Yearbook for 1928, prepared by the
nue, Chicago.
National Bureau of Standards, Department of Com-
R. R. Robinson, Robinson Music Shop, 101 Front,
merce, among other things, outlines the standardiza-
Buchanan, Mich.
tion activities of trade associations. The book may
B. J. Kollros, Sonora Phonograph Co., Chicago.
be had for $1 from the Superintendent of Documents,
David Wexler, Targ & Dinner Music Co., 229 West
Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C.
Randolph street, Chicago.
HARDMAN LINE FOR
FITZGERALD MUSIC CO.
PIANO CLUB TO HEAR
ABOUT WORLD'S FAIR PLANS
MUSIC DEALER AT
THE RADIO CONVENTION
IMPORTANT ACTION OF
THE BOARD OF CONTROL
Board Decides to Hold Only One Meeting Be-
fore Next Convention and Also Plans Trip
West for Delbert L. Loomis.
At a final meeting of the Board of Control of the
National Association of Music Merchants held on the
closing day of the convention in New York recently,
it was determined to hold but one meeting of the
Board of Control between now and the next conven-
tion, departing from the usual custom of holding one
meeting in the fall and one the latter part of Janu-
ary. The Board meeting will take place in Chicago
Sunday, October 21, and Monday, October 22.
At the October meeting of the Board a number of
matters of importance will be discussed, among them
plans for the next convention which, as previously
announced, will take place in Chicago probably during
the week beginning June 3. It is hoped that the Board
may have the pleasure of holding one meeting with
prominent Chicago merchants who will probably be
active in connection with the coming convention.
Report on Constitution.
Another matter of much importance will be a dis-
cussion by the Board of the new constitution and by-
laws. It is expected that the By-law Division Com-
mittee, of which Parham Werlein is chairman, will be
prepared to make a preliminary report to the Board
and it is probable that by that time the committee will
have prepared a new constitution and by-laws.
In accordance with a plan also agreed upon at the
final meeting of the Board of Control of the National
Association of Music Merchants it was decided to
arrange for the executive secretary of the Association
to visit a number of cities on the Pacific Coast in the
early fall for the purpose of bringing to members of
the trade in that section first-hand information regard-
ing the promotional work which is being carried for-
ward by the executive office of the Association, work T
ing as it is in cooperation with the National Bureau
for the Advancement of Music.
Loomis to Visit West.
According to plans tentatively made the executive
secretary will leave New York the latter part of
September or during the first days of October and
will visit Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Ta-
conia, Seattle and Spokane, and will probably also
stop in one or two places on the way to the west
coast, and will return via Chicago in time to attend
the Board of Control meetings which will be held in
Chicago Sunday and Monday, October 21 and 22.
Shirley Walker, president of the Music Trades As-
sociation of Northern California, and just elected a
vice-president of the National Association of Music
Merchants, is taking a very active interest in the
projected trip and will personally arrange for some
of the meetings.
MOVES IN ALMA, MICH.
The Grinnell Piano Company Store, Alma, Mich.,
which has been located on West Superior street for
the past year, has been moved to East Superior street,
where it occupies more commodious quarters.
JACOB BROS. CO.
Manufacturers of "Pianos of Quality
Established 1878
We have a financing proposition worthy
of your investigation.
JACOB BROS. CO.
3O6 East 1 3 3 r d St.
NEW YORK
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