Presto

June 30, 1928
PRESTO-TIMES
16
LIVELY PIANO SALES
IN INDIANAPOLIS
South Haven, Mich., was in the city during the week,
after a trip through the southwest, and brings en-
couraging reports of good business from the terri-
tory he just left.
Interesting Items from the Progressive Indi-
ana City Tells of the Sales-Making Activi-
ties of Some of the Trade Hustlers.
WILLIAM KENNETH FORBES
JOINS E. E. FORBES & SONS
H. G. Hook, manager of the Starr Sales Corpora-
tion, reports a gain in business over last month up
to this time, in addition to heavier receipts of cash
for the same period. Business conditions, according
to Mr. Hook, is improving with a very encouraging
future to look forward to.
Harry Bason Gennett, artist, and musical director
at the Zaring Theater, one of the fashionable picture
houses in the city, has just selected a Starr grand
Style 39 in mahogany for his home. Mr. Bason has
the reputation of being one of the finest musicians
in the central west. Emil Sidel, master of ceremonies
at the Palace Theater and also a Gennett artist, pur-
chased a Starr parlor grand with the chromatic
glissando keyboard: Mr. Sidel • is widely known in
the musical circles in the city and state.
The new radio division at the Starr Sales Corpora-
tion has been placed in charge of H. J. Goodnite,
who was formerly with the Circle Sales Company.
Mr. Goodnite is an experienced radio man with a
wide acquaintance in Indianapolis.
Geo. C. Pearson, president of the Pearson Piano
Company, has gone to California for an indefinite
period. Business with the Pearson Piano Company
is up to the standard, with prospects looking very
promising. High grade instruments are selling better
every day is the report.
At the Julius F. Hermann recital given at Cropsy
Hall the Jesse French & Son's piano was used. The
Wilking Music Company report the hilited finishes
in the French pianos selling very good, and among
the sales of the week a very prominent jphysician in
the city purchased a Style S in walnut.
Chas. Howe of the Apollo Piano Company is spend-
ing some time in Indianapolis on special sales work
with the Wilking Music Company.
George Mansfield of the Everett Piano Company,
THE FAMOUS
CLARK
ORCHESTRA ROLLS
of De Kalb, Illinois
Third Son of E. E, Forbes, the Founder, Now Active
Member of Birmingham, Ala., Firm.
William Kenneth Forbes, the third son of E. E.
Forbes, has entered the firm of E. E. Forbes
& Sons Piano Co., Birmingham, Ala., as the fourth
member of the firm. He was graduated from David-
son College two weeks ago, and from Phillips High
School in 1924.
Forty years ago E. E. Forbes, Sr., entered the
piano business in Birmingham. He believed that the
sale of pianos offered not only an opportunity to
create a business, but to build character as well.
He had a conviction that he was rendering a genuine,
worth-while service to every home into which one of
his pianos went. He evidently caused the public to
share his belief. Now there are thousands of Forbes'
pianos and players in the Southland, where the E. E.
Forbes & Sons Piano Co. is doing a large volume of
wholesale business not only in pianos, but in phono-
graphs, records and phonograph parts as well. Out
and onward has that conviction led through four
decades.
A Fine Line.
On May 1 the Forbes house was honored by
appointment as exclusive representatives in Ala-
bama of the Mason & Hamlin, the Knabe, the Chick-
ering, and also the J. & C. Fischer and Marshall
& Wendell pianos and the Ampico.
The house has continuously striven to comply with
the requirements of the title, "Alabama's Leading
Piano House," by offering the valuable service and
a wide selection of high-grade musical instruments.
By fall of this year, Forbes' expect to even extend
the present service by the addition of a complete line
of sheet music, music books and small musical in-
struments.
H. C. LOMB ON STANDARDIZATION.
"Standardization in the Music Industries" is the
title of an article by Henry C. Lomb, president of
the National Association of Musical Instrument and
Accessories Manufacturers in the Annals of the
American Academy of Political and Social Science
for May.
Although he points out that no two enterprises
could be farther apart than standardization and the
music industry Mr. Lomb undertakes to defend
standardization and even offers evidence to show that
economic waste can be eliminated from the manu-
facturing methods predominating in the industry
todav.
MUSIC TRADE MEETS
IN LOS ANGELES
(Continued from page 13.)
George H. Leathurby, of the George H. Leathurby
Co., San Francisco, representative of the Seeburg
organs and pianos and the Geneva organ, attended
the Western Music Trades Convention in Los An-
geles, but his firm did not make an exhibit.
The entire exposition stands as a credit to the
Music Trades' Association of Southern California, of
which Wm. H. Richardson is president, and to the
committee which worked so long and faithfully in
preparation.
The auditorium of the Ambassador was used for
the erection of a "City of Music," with booths simu-
lating periods and national types of architecture. In
the center was the "Tower of Melody," surrounded
by the open booths. Close to seventy manufactur-
ers and wholesalers of musical instruments, were rep-
resented in the booths, and in several instances the
displays were arranged by their Los Angeles
agencies.
Pianos predominated in the "City of Music" and
the method of their showing was particularly tasteful
and attractive. The interest in the piano was in-
creased by the means for demonstrations provided
in the sound-proof booths. The forenoons were de-
voted to the trade, the public being admitted in the
afternoon and evening.
The Golf Tournament.
The fifth annual Western Music Trades Golf
Tournament was held Friday, June 29, at the Lake-
side Golf Club, Hollywood. Beeman P. Sibley, who
is president, was very active in making the game a
success. Fifty prizes contributed by the music trade
and industry added to the efforts to win of the
players. The committee comprised: Beeman P. Sib-
ley, chairman; Frank Grannis of the Southern Cali-
fornia Music Co., treasurer; committee members:
Harold Pracht, Sherman Clay & Co.; L. E. Fontron,
Martin Music Co.; Victor Clark of Tupper organiza-
tion; T. V. Anderson, coast representative of the
W. W. Kimball Company; T. J. Mercer of the Bank-
ers' Commercial Security Co.
A-l SALESMEN WANTED
We want EIGHT competent
men who can handle a Ford
truck with loader to help our
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WISCONSIN TERRITORY
And also, in some instances, to
work direct for our stores and
agencies.
WE FURNISH CARS
and pay on a commission and
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with our newly - developed
SALES PLAN, which has pro-
duced excellent results.
CLARK ROLL NOVELTIES.
The Best for Automatic Playing Pianos
Organs and Orchestrions
Whether you sell automatic playing in-
struments or not, it will pay you to
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CLARK ORCHESTRA ROLLS
Monthly bulletins of new records. Write
for lists, folders and FULL PARTICU-
LARS.
Clark Orchestra Roll Company
Manufacturer* — Originators — Patentee*
De Kalb, Illinois
A welcome feature of the football season this year
will be the line of college football songs to be pro-
duced in roll form by the Clark Orchestra Roll Co.,
DeKalb, 111. The songs will appear in a bulletin in
time for the opening of the season.
PIANO COMPANY BUYS PROPERTY.
The Grambling Block at 225-29 East Washington
street, Indianapolis, was sold last week by the Gram-
bling heirs to the Pearson Piano Company for a cash
consideration of $$0,100. The block, which is a three-
story, double brick building with a large brick ware-
house in the rear, was bought by the Pearson Piano
Company as an investment and for use of the ware-
house, Mr. Ralston said. The property has a frontage
in Washington street of 33 feet and nine inches and
has a depth of 195 feet.
Write direct to
WALTHAM PIANO CO.
1623 Island Ave.
Milwaukee, Wis.
99%
interested prospects become customers
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