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PRESTO-TIMES
July 21, 1928
ports that about every ten days or two weeks it re-
ceives an order from Mr. Chesebrough for additional
sets of band instruments. On the day the article was
written, "Conntact" discloses, Mr. Chesebrough sent
Success of Dealers in Many Places in Creat- in an order for twenty-five new Conn instruments, the
ing the Band Spirit and Eventually Forming
total value of which ran nearly $3,000. At this rate
it is not incredible that his first quarter business this
Bands Equipped with Conn Instruments.
year should have exceeded that of the entire period of
Dealers at many points have achieved success in the preceding year.
organizing school bands. The successes are recorded
Numerous articles suggesting means of increasing
in "Conntact," the official publication of C. G. Conn, sales are to be found in the issue. "Talking Points
Ltd., Elkhart, Ind. The efforts of one Conn dealer on Conn Instruments" should be a valuable review
resulted in the organization of a sixty-five piece band for Conn dealers. The new Conn pocket catalogs are
in a high school whose total enrollment was seventy- also the subject of an article here, and other space is
three students. The other dealer did more business devoted to advertising copy that has proved success-
in the first three months of the year than he did dur- ful when employed by Conn dealers.
ing the whole of either 1927 or 1926 as a result of his
Announcement is made in the issue of the Conn
band organizing work in the public schools of his
Dealers'
Convention to be held the last week in
city.
August. Suggestions for making the programs of
The Hager Musical Instrument Co., Ayind Rapids, maximum interest are requested from the dealers.
Michigan, made its remarkable recorc^fc'nong the
The cover of the June "Conntact" is attractively
pupils of the McBain, Mich., High School by employ- done in colors and depicts a marriage procession
ing this plan: He guaranteed a playing band within emerging from the church beneath an arch of golden
a certain reasonable length of time after it had been saxophones, the modern application, obviously, of the
equipped, and then gave his assistance in selling the custom of the military in presenting swords to form
idea to the students and their parents. He helped the an archway for the wedding procession of one of its
band candidates to select instruments, and furnished members. The picture is from an actual photograph
them on the basis of an easy payment plan. Next, he supplied by the Transvaal Music Co., Johannesburg,
secured a band leader capable to instruct them.
South Africa, Conn distributors there.
As has been noted, sixty-five students out of a total
enrollment of seventy-three, became members of the
NEW SONORA PORTABLE.
band. Their success brought many other schools to
The
arrival
of the new Sonora Portable Phono-
Mr. Hager requesting his assistance in organizing
bands for them. As a result, the Hager Musical In- graph has been marked by the great enthusiasm with
strument Co. has since organized nearly thirty other which dealers and the buying public alike have ac-
claimed it. The Sonora Portable is small in size and
bands, and has others on its waiting list.
The second Conn representative, Harry Chese- light in weight, but its steel frame insures a lifelong
brough of Boise, Idaho, simply went out among the durability. The Portable is encased in a heavy span-
It has a forty-three-inch
children and parents in his vicinity informing them ish-grain morroceline.
that if they wanted a band organized in the school he sealed air column tone chamber, air-tight from sound-
would superintend it, secure a leader, furnish the in- box to flare. This feature, and the new Bellows Type
Sonora Reproducer, is responsible for the remarkable
struments and music for six weeks for a total of
$20.00 each. No one, he guaranteed them, would be mellowness of tone and depth of reproduction. The
under obligation to buy the instruments unless this Sonora portable is the first of the great new line of
instruments of the Sonora Phonograph Company, Inc.
band was able to play a concert within three months.
Others, including radio sets, electrical and acoustical
The success of his procedure is attested to by the phonographs
and combinations, electrical reproducing
sales department of the Conn Company, which re- instruments, loud
speakers, records, etc., will follow
in rapid succession.
ORGANIZING CONN BANDS
THE FAMOUS
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COLOR SCHEMES FOR GRANDS
New Combinations of Tints and Variations Show with
Variety of Combinations.
New color designs recently prepared by the Duco
Color Advisory Service which are now being used
on nationally known grand pianos include the follow-
ing:
The first design shows the body in French gray,
high lighted with a deeper tone of gray. The inside
of the lid is finished in old rose, and an old rose
stripe is used as a decoration on the sides of the case
and on the music desk.
The second is a new period design in the Italian
Renaissance manner. The case is entirely done in
natural antique finished walnut, and the legs, which
are carved after the manner of the period, are poly-
chrome, in old blue, orange, Pompeian red, and old
gold, with touches of green. The inside of the lid is
finished in Pompeian red.
The third is a Chinese Chippendale design in which
the whole case is in black with a dull finish, while
in the inside of the case is Chinese red, high-lighted
with a dark brown. The supports which join the
three legs are carved in Chinese design, lined with
red. The Chinese motifs on the case are picked out
or accented with red. Chinese red felt is used
throughout to carry out the design. Another grand
piano in Chinese Chippendale design, a sister-piece
to the above, has been done in Chinese green.
A RADIO-PHONOGRAPH.
Dr. A. L. Epley, of the Bloomington University
physics department at Bloomington, Ind., has com-
pleted a new combination instrument which will be
both radio and phonograph, according to the Bloom-
ington Telephone. A demonstration was given for
the Starr Piano Company, of Richmond, Ind., and
representatives of-the Holcomb & Hoke Company,
of Indianapolis, last week, which were satisfied with
the results, according to the newspaper.
HIGH GRADE
Folding Organs
School Organs
NEW Q R S CO. APPOINTEE.
G. Todd Taylor is the new representative for the
Q R S Company in the Pacific Northwest and the
Inter-Mountain territory, with headquarters in Port-
land, Ore. He is well known in the western trade,
having been connected both with the Glen Bros.-
Roberts Piano Co. and the Daynes-Beebe Music Co.
in Salt Lake City.
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