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Presto

Issue: 1928 2188

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MUSICAL
TIMES
PRESTO
Established
1881
Established
1884
THE AMERICAN MUSIC TRADE WEEKLY
10 Cents a Copy
CHICAGO, SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1928
TUNERS MAKE BIG
CONVENTION PLANS
President Charles Deutschmann, Following
Visit to Cleveland, Feels Assured of a
Record Attendance for Meeting in
Hotel Statler Aug. 13 to 16.
Charles Deutschmann, president of the National
Association of Piano Tuners, dropped off at Cleve-
land recently on his trip hack to Chicago from New
York, where he had attended the national conven-
tion of the music trades. His purpose was to confer
with Cleveland members on plans for the annual
convention in that city of the association August 13
to 16 inclusive.
Mr. Deutschmann met J. B. Wurstner, president
of the local chapter, A. E. Smith and C. L. Mack,
members of the planning committee, and Rexford
C. Hyre, secretary of the Music Merchants' Asso-
and again in the evenings from seven-thirty to ten
o'clock. These features are of outstanding value in
an educational program which will surpass the sched-
ule of any previous convention, and all tuners,
whether members of the association or not, are urged
to attend the Cleveland gathering.
MUSIC TRADE NEWS
OF INDIANAPOLIS
Visiting Salesmen Report Trade Good in
Cities of State—Early Closing Rule for
City Is Adopted by Music Houses.
J. D. Sill, assistant secretary of the Kimball Piano
Company, Chicago, spent the day in Indianapolis
recently with the local store head, Mr. Coverdill.
While in the city Mr. Sill had the pleasure of seeing
Indianapolis, and seemed rather impressed with the
city. Mr. Coverdill reports the month of June very
good, with an unusual number of upright pianos
being sold during the month.
Charles Howe of the Apollo Piano Company is in
Indianapolis pepping up the sales force of the Wilk-
ing Music Company. The sales of Apollo pianos
and reproducing pianos during the past week have
been exceptionally good, according to Mr. Wilking.
Mr. Howe will leave Indianapolis Tuesday evening
for Quincy, Mich., where he will spend the Fourth of
July with friends at his summer home. While dis-
cussing business conditions, Mr. Howe reports busi-
ness over the territory he has covered during the last
month improving, with every indication for a good
fall business. One of the new arrivals at the Walking
Music Company's store is the new style 415 Jesse
French & Son's upright pianos in the duco finish.
John S. Pearson of the Pearson Piano Company
has gone to his summer home at Wequctousing,
Mich., where he will spend his vacation. Business
with the Pearson Piano Company has been up to
the standard during the past week, and the month of
June equal to last year.
The majority of the music houses in the city will
close their stores at 5 p. m. during July and August,
and 6 p. m. on Saturdays.
Visitors during the week w 7 ere Irwin Douhitt of the
Kohler-Campbell Industries, and Mr. George Mans-
field of the Kurtzmann Piano Company.
OUR WORLD TRADE.
CHARLBS DEUTSCHMANN.
ciation of Ohio, who agreed that an attendance of
between five and six hundred from all over the
United States is expected. Arrangements are being
made to have the Hon. John D. Marshall, Mayor of
Cleveland, deliver the address of welcome to the dele-
gates. Other speakers on the tentative program are:
Robert E. Taylor, president of the Music Merchants'
Association of Ohio, will speak on the subject of
"Salesmanship." Rexford C. Hyre, secretary of the
same Association, will speak on "Organization," and
Anthony L. Maresh, president of the Cleveland Mu-
sic Trades Association, will speak on "The Future
of the Piano Tuner." The Hotel Statler will be the
headquarters.
A special meeting of the officers and directors of
the association was held in Chicago last week, to
arrange for final details of the convention at the
Hotel Statler. Those in attendance at the meeting
were Charles Deutschmann, president; Edgar Sea-
graves, first vice-president; A. V. Minifie, second
vice-president; W. F. McClellan, secretary; and the
following directors: C. T. Backus, J. B. Wurstner,
Charles Merkle, George Steger and Lester Singer.
In addition to the various exhibits and discussions
of a technical nature to be conducted by piano man-
ufacturers, the Baldwin Piano Co. of Cincinnati will
hold classes in grand action regulating during the
four days of the convention at which corps of its
finest regulators will serve as instructors.
Classes for tuners in the schedule will not conflict
with the regular sessions of the convention as they
will be held before, between, and after each meeting
The "Big Five" among the buyers of American
merchandise—United Kingdom, Canada, Germany,
Japan and France—purchased more than one-half of
all American exports during the first quarter of 1928,
says a report on "Our World Trade," made public
recently by the Foreign Commerce Department of
the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. Sales
to Canada, Germany and FVance in the first quarter
were greater than a year ago, while those to the
United Kingdom and Japan fell off.
WORLD'S FAIR MUSIC.
Young America will play a big part in Chicago's
Centennial Celebration. In the realm of athletics that
fact has long been assured, but recent developments
show that they will loom up big in other respects.
Likewise the younger element will take a big hand in
the musical program. Already assured is an interna-
tional piano playing contest, open to boys and girls
of school age, from which many virtuosos will prob-
ably be discovered.
WESTCHESTER GOOD PIANO SECTION
Piano dealers of New York have found Westches-
ter county about the best section during the last year
in which to sell pianos of the very highest grade.
Of course, there is unlimited wealth there and "gobs
and slathers" of culture. Westchester has spent 47
millions of dollars in the last six years on public
works. The assessed value of real estate in West-
chester county is $1,318,826,453; 140 miles of park-
way have been built.
$2 The Year
MAY MERGE WITH
RADIO ASSOCIATION
Western Music Trades Association in Fifth
Annual Convention, Consider Such a
Proposal and Elect Royal W.
Daynes President.
At the fifth annual conven-
tion of the Western Music
Trades Association held in
L o s A n g e l e s , Royal W.
Daynes, president of the Con-
solidated Music Co. of Salt
Lake City, Utah, was elected
president, succeeding Edward
H. Uhl of Los Angeles, who
had held that office for the
expiring term. Other officers
elected were: Elas Marks of
Sacramento, first vice-presi-
dent; Shirley Walker, San
Francisco, second vice-presi- R o y A L w D A Y N E S .
dent. A 1 fr e d Farquharson
was re-elected secretary. The new treasurer will be
appointed by Mr. Daynes.
Mr. Uhl, who presided, suggested a change of
name for the organization, a title to include radio,
the importance of which in the commercial scheme
was obvious. He pointed out that two organizations
were duplicating efforts. Nearly everybody in the
music trades association is holding membership in
the radio organization.
Philip T. Clay, president of Sherman, Clay & Co.,
San Francisco, favored the change of name of the
association suggested by Mr. Uhl. It would be a
notification to the public that the radio and music
are one. He favored the merging of the organiza-
tions on the grounds of economy. It would mean,
he said, the elimination of double dues and make for
only one annual meeting with bigger attendance and
more enthusiasm.
Walter Fagan, a Los Angeles radio dealer who
was called upon by Mr. Uhl to give the radio men's
reaction to the proposed action of the Western Mu-
sic Trades Association, said the move was a sound
one. "Radio and music are identical and you will
never divorce them. Radio is entertainment like a
piano, but to make the merger real, radio must be
adopted as a thoroughly recognized and respected
phase of the business by all musical instrument
houses," He concluded with a suggestion that a
committee be appointed to confer with radio asso-
ciations in all sections of the west to gauge their de-
sire to be absorbed into the comprehensive "Music
and Radio Trades Association.
OPENS IN DAYTON, OHIO.
The Miami Music Co., Dayton, Ohio, has opened
ready for business in its new location, 12 and 14
West Third street, in the Liggett building. E. L.
Arthur, the proprietor, has had 15 years' experience
in his line of work. He recently quit his position with
a leading Dayton store for the purpose of embark-
ing in business for himself. He came to Dayton five
years ago from Indianapolis and liked the city so
well that he has decided to remain here permanently.
The Miami Music Co. will specialize in the Victor
line, handling a complete stock of electrical equip-
ment. Victrola, radios and all small instrumentals
identified with this line will be handled at this store.
SHEPARD POND IN WEST.
Shepard Pond, treasurer of the Ivers & Pond Piano
Co., Boston, Mass., attended the annual "Pageant
of Music" and the convention of the Western Music
Trades Association in Los Angeles last week. He
will return to Boston late in July, and will meet many
dealers on the coast before his return there.
JOINS Q R S CO.
G. Todd Taylor, manager of the phonograph de-
ARTISTS SEPARATE FOR SUMMER.
partment of the Glen Bros.-Roberts Piano Co., Salt
Otto Maier and Lee Pattison, of two-piano fame, Lake City, Utah, and formerly of the Daynes-Beebe
have separated for the summer. Mr. Maier is to teach Music Co. has left for San Francisco, where he has
in Munich and Mr. Pattison to hold summer classes taken a position with the Q R S Co. branch in that
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July 7, 1928
P R E S T 0-T I M E S
QULBRANSEN COMPANY'S
SEMI-ANNUAL DIVIDEND
ENSEMBLE IDEA HELPS SALES
The Regular Seven Per Cent Dividend on Pre-
ferred Stock, Payable July 1, Represents
Unbroken Record of Payments.
The Gulbransen Company, Chicago, has declared
the regular semi-annual 7 per cent dividend on pre-
ferred stock, payable July 1, to stockholders of record.
This represents an unbroken record of payments on
the preferred stock.
From many sections of the country reports are
being received of a natural stimulus in piano interest
and sales. This, coming at this time of the year
particularly, augurs well for the earnings of the com-
pany during the balance of 1928.
Renewed interest in active piano selling is being
shown by many merchants from whom orders have
been very sparse during the past six or eight months.
Re-possessed instruments are being sold out and mer-
chants' stocks are in a healthier condition than in a
year.
While radio activities in the Gulbransen factory
are kept separate from piano activities, the radio pro-
duction is utilizing the capacity of the plant in excess
of normal piano production, and this should be re-
flected in increased earnings by the company and
greater values to dealers.
CHEERFUL ATTITUDE
OF HOWARD C. RICE
President of C. Kurtzmann & Co., Buffalo,
Says Consistently High Grade Piano Pro-
duction Is Assurance of Contin- -
uous Sales.
A Presto-Times Eastern correspondent made a call
last week upon Howard C. Rice, president of Kurtz-
mann & Co., Buffalo, N. Y. This is one of the few
piano factories in America that has not felt to any
great extent the sting of depression in business as
keenly as many others have. Mr. Rice has man-
aged his business carefully; his customers are men
of honor; his terms have been fair but not ruinous to
himself, and as for his goods they have been made in
the best possible manner, of the best of materials.
The most recent Kurtzmanns have been the best
the company ever turned out from the big plant, and
Mr. Rice says this high-grade standard of production
is to be kept up right along, for he believes there is
no future for cheap or trashy instruments. Kurtz-
manns have always been leaders, so the downfall
of the cheap instrument is no concern of the man-
agement of the Kurtzmann factory.
Mr. Rice says the trade of the Kurtzmann Piano
Company has kept right on in a remarkable manner,
considering what other manufacturers have been saying
about their various businesses. But he says he real-
izes that the company is one of a few that can truth-
fully make this favorable report. He attributes the
measure of success achieved in 1928 by the Kurtz-
mann concern to the merit of the goods and the
character of the men who are handling the instru-
ments of that make.
CHRISTMAN PIANO COMPANY
ISSUES VALUABLE LEAFLET
Good Advice Is Given to Parents to Continue Music
Studies Through the Summer Vacation.
"Vacation Time and Music" is the title of a very
instructive and suggestive leaflet by H. J. Bookman,
Studio of the Piano, 706 Riverside drive, New York
city and issued by the Christman Piano Co., 597 East
137th street, in the same city. This is said:
"The school vacation was adopted many years ago,
when most families grew and raised their own food.
The children were needed to assist in the fields during
harvest and were thus trained at an early age to
share the family responsibilities. This need no longer
exists in cosmopolitan life and the vacation has be-
come an established institution.
"Vacation is the ideal time to begin such studies
that could not be considered during the school term,
for the present school system cramps and crowds our
children so persistently that they are hard put to
undertake, or keep up progressively, with any subject
studied under private teachers. Wise parents will
map out a short constructive summer program, em-
bracing those school subjects that require further
study, and enroll their children in the summer schools
if available.
"The study of instrumental music cannot wait until
JESSE FRENCH & SONS' QUREN ANNE ENSEMBLE.
Progressive piano dealers for a long time have
provided suitable backgrounds when showing fine
pianos. Decorations and furnishings of warerooms
have been made appropriate as far as possible to the
character of the instruments shown. But the Jesse
French Piano Company, New Castle, Ind., has devel-
oped the idea in a way that provides a sensation in
piano presentation to the trade.
In its new scheme the Jesse French Piano Com-
pany goes further than merely providing accurate
Period models for exacting piano customers; it accom-
panies the correct styles with other artistic units of
furniture to make alluring ensembles. For instance
a Queen Anne grand -is part of an ensemble made up
of a bench, cabinet, chair and lamp.
"The business of piano selling will receive a stim-
ulus when this advantageous style of piano merchan-
dising gets under way" is the assurance of the Jesse
French & Sons Piano Co., expressed in its message to
the trade.
The idea of selling furniture to match the piano
is another of the original ideas which characterizes
the selling aids to dealers of the Jesse French &
Sons Piano Co. Tts excellence is commended by
leading music merchants and interior decorators. The
innovation is the more valuable when backed by the
conservative reputation of the New Castle company.
The ensemble scheme increases the appeal of the
fine Period and other Art pianos of the company,
always notable for its artistic case designs. The
Jesse French & Sons pianos have had an equal appeal
to the fine musicians and the owners of fine homes.
The pianos with the name on the fallboard are artis-
tic productions, the culmination of years of experi-
ence in the production of high class pianos. The
ensemble feature in presenting the product is another
phase of the desire to further identify the line with
the idea of "Quality First and First Quality."
after the elementary school graduation. It must be
studied during the school period no matter how
heavily taxed the child may be with the regular
scholastic work. For it is what the young, fertile
and retentive mind absorbs willingly or unwillingly,
that is best remembered through life.
"If possible, the music student should not take a
vacation from music. It is an expensive departure,
not so much in money, as in time and patience. In
September, the studies at school will resume where
they left off. But a ten-week vacation from music
will result in a depreciation in the art and in a loss
of valuable time before confidence is regained.
"Parents are badly advised in waiting until the re-
opening of school to start their children in the study
of music. This refers, of course, to those whose
children will spend the entire, or most of the vaca-
tion, at home.
"For the beginner, the vacation offers an excellent
opportunity to establish a careful unhurried founda-
tion, for the child's mind is not then burdened with
numerous school duties. With twenty-four lessons
during the three months, and time for at least twice
as much study, not only can six months' progress be
accomplished in three, at a saving of 100 per cent,
but three additional months' time can be saved
through the earlier start.
"The point to bear in mind is that children can do
themselves far better justice when unhampered dur-
ing vacation, than in the fall in conjunction with the
full scholastic program when a greater effort is neces-
sary to obtain equal results. In September, when
time will be limited, they will be playing the kind of
music they enjoy and will therefore study willingly.
A good start is important and the vacation is the
logical time for it."
FEATURES THE ORCHESTROPE
IN SHEBOYGAN, WIS., STORE
BALDWIN FOR ORCHESTRA.
The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, which has
chosen Baldwin as the official piano, was organized
in 1895, following years of artistic growth and devel-
opment of music in Cincinnati, the Cincinnati Sym-
phony Orchestra stands today at the apex of achieve-
ment, many of the members being solo artists of note.
Wonderful Product of the Capehart Automatic Phono-
graph Corporation, Huntington, Ind.,
Interests the Public.
The Buchheim's Music Store has been appointed
dealer in Sheboygan and Fond du Lac, Wis., for the
new automatic phonograph, the Orchestrope. This
instrument, which is now on display at Buchheim's,
has been greeted with unusual enthusiasm by those
who have been privileged to view it in operation.
The Orchestrope is an amazing talking machine
for it plays a total of twenty-eight records without
attention. It plays the records, turns them and plays
the reverse side, operating continuously without the
slightest attention on the part of the owner. It is
entirely electrically equipped and providing a volume
in any desired quantity. Once it is loaded with a
magazine of records, it will play for hours without
attention or repeating, for one loading means fifty-six
selections.
This instrument is the masterpiece of the Cape-
hart Automatic Phonograph Corporation, and is the
result of a considerable engineering research.
THE U. S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Better teamwork among all phases of business as
the most effective means of maintaining local and
national prosperity will be the central theme of the
Sixteenth Annual meeting of the Chamber of Com-
merce of the United States to be held in Washing-
ton, May 7 to 11. More than 1,500 business organiza-
tions, representing all lines of industry, finance and
commerce, as well as every section of the country,
have been invited to send delegates. In addition, in-
vitations have been sent to several hundred of the
country's outstanding business leaders.
Samuel Adams' store has been moved to the Levy
& Sleeper block on Main street, Belfast, Maine.
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