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THE AMERICAN MUSIC TRADE WEEKLY
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CHICAGO, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1928
ALL SET FOR THE
TUNERS'CONVENTION
Alluring Schedule of Events Prepared by Effi-
cient Committee for Annual Gathering
to Be Held August 13 to 16 at
Hotel Statler, Cleveland.
presented to the new divisions. In the evening the
annual banquet will be given, with ten minute talks
by prominent members of the trade.
The following addresses will be given on Thurs-
day: "How the Tuner Can Help Himself and the
Industry by Refusing to Service Wornout Pianos," by
John H. Parnham, president Everett Piano Company;
"Old Pianos," by John S. Gorman, vice-president The
All plans are now perfected for the annual con-
vention of the National Association of Piano Tuners
at the Hotel Statler, Cleveland, April 13 to 16, accord-
ing to President Charles Deutschmann, who expresses
the assurance that the attendance will exceed that
at any similar gathering of tuners heretofore. He
says the work of the committee of arrangements has
been effective in creating the desire to attend as well
as the degree of enthusiasm that makes success for
annual meetings.
The event will begin on Monday the thirteenth with
registration and the preparatory work of the conven-
tion opening in the afternoon the reports of the pres-
ident, Secretary W. F. McClellan and Treasurer Les-
ter Singer will be presented. Then will follow ad-
dresses by F. E. Lane, chairman of the New York
Division, on "Advantages to the Tuner of Co-opera-
tive Effort," and by A. V. Minifie, second vice-
W. P. McCLELLAN.
CHARLES DEUTSCHMANN,
president of the National Association, on "Why We
Should Hold Regional Conventions." On Monday
evening a conference of council members will be held,
with an address by V, H. Brown, Spokane, Wash.,
on "The Mathematical Why and Wherefore in Piano
Tuning."
The following addresses are scheduled for the Tues-
day morning session: "The Acquisition of an Effi-
cient Tuning Technique," by Charles Walter Beach,
Springfield, Mo.; "Tact and Tactics," by Horace F.
Curtis," Minneapolis; C. D. Bond, superintendent of
Weaver Piano Company, York, Pa., and president of
the National Piano Manufacturers' Association. In
the afternoon there will be an address by Mrs. John
Horner Kapp, president of the Fortnightly Musical
Club of Cleveland, on "The Kinship of the Musician
and the Tuner," and this will be followed by a re-
sponse on "Tuner-Teacher Relationship," by F. E.
Lane. In the evening the Question Box will be
opened and all questions answered and discussed.
This meeting will be conducted by Nels C. Boe,
assisted by E. J. Disler and C. L. Mack.
The Wednesday session will be devoted to associa-
tion business, reading communications, and discus-
sions. In the afternoon will be held nominations and
election of officers. Also at that time invitations will
be received for 1929 convention, and charters will be
Gulbransen Company; "Selling Your Services," by
Robert Taylor, president Music Merchants' Associa-
tion of Ohio; "The Future of the Tuner," by A. L.
Maresh, president Cleveland Music Trades Associa-
tion. Following the talks, a demonstration of Melody-
Way Method of Group Instruction will be given. In
the afternoon there will be several more very inter-
esting talks, one by George F. Turner, on "The Piano
Plate."
The Piano Tuners' special train leaves Chicago, La
Salle street station, Sunday, August 12, at 8:25 a. m.,
arriving at Cleveland at 5:23 p. m. Sunday. Fare,
$12.28. Other trains on the New York Central leave
at 10:30 a. m... 10:35 a. m., 2:30 p. m., 9 p. m., 11:30
p. m. and 11:37 p. m.
"The indications are that the attendance is going
to be large," said Secretary W. F. McClellan, na-
tional secretary of the National Association of Piano
Tuners', Inc., at his office, 22 Quincy street, Chicago,
on Thursday of this week to a Presto-Times repre-
sentative. "The exhibits will be numerous and varied,
the schools for grand piano regulating are to make
a showing of being up to high standards of instruc-
tion, and every one of the three days—August 13, 14
and 15—at the Statler Hotel will be full of interest
and profitable to those in attendance."
NEW STEINWAY & SONS
AGENCIES ANNOUNCED
Six Representative Music Goods Firms Secure
the Coveted Privilege of Selling the
Fine Line of Instruments-
The names of two representative houses have been
added to the list of Steinway & Sons dealers. The
names, announced by Roman de Majewski, successor
to Ernest Urchs as manager of the wholesale depart-
ment, are as follows:
The Duff-Gore Corp., Raleigh, N. C.; Hobbie Bros.
Co., Inc., Roanoke, Va.; Poppler Piano Co., Grand
Forks, N. D.; Sampson Music Co., Boise, Ida.; Wil-
liams Piano Co., Sioux Falls, S. D., and the D. L.
Whittle Music Co., Dallas, Tex.
$2 The Year
CHEERFUL SPIRIT
IN INDIANAPOLIS
A Satisfactory Condition of Business Reported
by Dealers, Who See Promise of Excel-
lent Trade in Music Goods for
the Fall and Winter.
The extreme hot weather has had its effect on
the piano business, and practically all dealers report
trade rather slow. With full prospects looking very
good most of the dealers are anxiously awaiting the
first frost, when it is predicted that Indianapolis will
have a very active piano business.
John Pearson of the Pearson Piano Company re-
ports business very satisfactory for the first six
months of the year, and July above last year. "We
have no complaint to make," said Mr. Pearson, "our
business is ahead of last year up to this time and
another month will see fall business opening up,
which from all indications will be better than last
year. Music merchants are continually looking for
volume, and sometimes I think we all expect too
much."
An Excellent Size.
At the warerooms of the Christena-Teague Piano
Company it was learned that the inquiries that are
coming in are for fall purchases. The class of people
who buy the high grade instruments are away on their
vacations, and until they return there will be little
activity in the high grade instruments. It was re-
ported, however, that there is some activity in second
hand instruments.
In spite of the alterations at thes tore of the Wilk-
ing Music Company and the torn-up condition of the
store, July business is reported very satisfactory. The
finishing touches are now being added, and another
week will see things in order.
Visit to Schulz Factory.
Alfred Rapp of the firm of Rapp & Lennox spent
a day in Chicago last week at the factory of the M.
Schulz Company, looking over some of the com-
pany's art styles. Mr. Rapp seemed very well pleased
with the new style instruments, and hopes to place
many of them in the better homes of Indianapolis.
Mr. Wagner of the M. Schulz Company was in
Indianapolis last week and called on the Rapp &
Lennon Co.
CHEERFUL REPORT BY
TRAVELER HARRY J. SIPE
A Trip Through Iowa Recently Convinces Adam
Schaaf Roadman of Several Agreeable Facts.
Harry J. Sipe, traveler for Adam Schaaf, Inc., Chi-
cago, this week returned from a trip through Iowa, in
which he used his admirable gift of observation as
well as his ability to listen well. Mr. Sipe saw the
convincing promises of a great corn crop and the
visible promises of rich harvets in other things; noted
the reactive effects on the piano dealers and returned
with a Sipe report of an encouraging kind.
Mr. Sipe is optimistic from cause. One of the
accepted economic facts is that the farmer's frame
of mind causes sure and quick reaction on commerce
and industry. In the piano business and the music
business generally, a good year for crops and prices
invariably has proved a satisfactory one for sales and
collections.
The Adam Schaaf traveler saw the fine crop prom-
ise in Iowa, but he says that the facts that are ener-
gizing the music dealers there and filling the manu-
facturers elsewhere with optimistic anticipations are
in reports of the unemotional statisticians of the agri-
cultural bureaus of the state and the federal gov-
ernment.
BUYS MARSHALL & WENDELL.
The First Presbyterian Church, Dallas, Tex., on
New Years Day purchased a Marshall & Wendell
grand through the Will A. Watkin Company. The
same dealer now reports a duplicate of this piano
sold to the Highland Park Presbyterian Church,
Dallas.
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