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September 1, 1923
P R E S T 0-T I M E S
GULBRANSEN JUBILEE SALES
CAMPAIGN NEARS CLOSE
But Inspiring Broadside Is Provided to Stimulate
Salesmen in Final Lap.
The Gulbransen Company, Chicago, has issued a
final broadside to stimulate salesmen in the final legs
of the Golden Jubilee Summer Sales Campaign. This
is said:
"Round up all of those prospects you have been
working on during July and August. Write down a
list of all the reasons you can think of why they
should have a modern piano in the home and imme-
diately. Get yourself in a fighting mood. Show your
prospects who are on the fence your registration card
and explain their decision may make or break your
chance to win. You'll be surprised how many sales
you can crowd through by putting on a smashing
finish wind-up."
NEWS ABOUT THE MEN
WHO RETAIL THE PIANOS
Brief Items of Trade News Gathered Here and
There in Music Field.
avenue, Chicago. This sale was for just Monday and
Tuesday, the ad saying of the instrument: "It
means a ready-made repertoire of all kinds of music
for all sorts of occasions.''
The Moist Piano Company, 309 South Wabash ave-
nue, Chicago, is conducting a midsummer sale of
artist grands of the Vose & Sons and A. B. Chase
makes.
Murfreesboro, Tenn., is organizing a brass band.
The Pan-American Band Instrument Company is
organizing a brass band among the young people of
Eaton, Ind.
E. Meyers, 5864 Michigan avenue, Detroit, Mich.,
has succeeded to the music business of S. J. Mojzlik.
E. J. JORDAN IN NEW YORK.
E. J. Jordan, manager at Chicago and for the west
of the wholesale department of the American Piano
Company, with offices on the twentieth floor of the
Straus Building, 310 South Michigan avenue, Chicago.
is in New York this week on a bushiess trip. He
is expected back on Monday. The American Piano
Company is having a good business at many cities
and is preparing for a bigger year's output in all its
lines.
RADIO CONVENTION FOR 1929.
Announcement that the Fifth Annual Convention
and Third Annual Trade Show of the Radio Manu-
Musical Vienna recently met in the courtyard of facturers' Association would be held in the late spring
the house in which Schubert was born, giving a con- of 1929 was made this week by Major Herbert H.
cert of the musician's songs.
Frost, the association's president. Some time between
Al Waltamath, for several years with the Alford & May 15 and June 15 (1929) is tentatively named as
Fryar Piano Co., of Canton, Ohio, has joined the the bracket dates between which the convention will
sales forces of the Frederick Piano Co., Pitts- be held. Two other national radio associations will
hold meetings of their own, concurrently with the
burgh, Pa.
The European Music House has been established at RMA. They are the Federated Radio Trade Asso-
6721 Michigan avenue, Detroit, Mich., by Raymond ciation and the National Association of Broadcasters,
which, with the RMA, compose the radio triangle.
Bariik and Lawrence Subeta.
The Gateway Music House has been established in
BOYS' BAND GROWS.
the Estes Arcade Building, Haines City, Fla., by E.
Logan and D. Jeffords.
The Los Angeles Playground Boys' Band, which
Mrs. Florence Brooks-Aten of New York city and was organized with fifteen boys less than a year ago,
Dublin, N. H., recently offered $6,000 in prizes for has developed into a sixty-piece band and is being
a song to replace the "Star Spangled Banner."
called upon to play at many public meetings. The
An Apollo reproducing grand sale was announced playground band is composed of boys from all Los
in a full-page advertisement in the Sunday Chicago! jAngeles Playgrounds and is directed by Edwin E.
Tribune this week by Wurlitzer's, 329 South Wabash| 'Suman.
DIRECTOR OF MUSIC
PRAISES THE BALDWIN
Head of Public School Music, District of Columbia,
Writes His Pleasure.
The following is a copy of a letter received by the
Baldwin Piano Company, Cincinnati, recently, from
Edwin N. C. Barnes, director of music, public schools
of the District of Columbia, dean of education, Wash-
ington College of Music:
"The Baldwin's beautiful singing tone is a delight
and its support of the voice a joy. I have never seen
its equal in sustained tone for purposes of accom-
paniment."
CHICAGO AROUSED
Aroused over New York's attempt to embarrass
and forestall Chicago by holding an international
industrial exhibition in 1932, scores of leading citizens,
representing labor, the church, the world of business
and finance, continue the sending of telegrams to
Stuyvesant Peabody urging greater effort in making
the 1933 World's Fair an unqualified success. Prom-
ises of support and calls for every resident to rally to
the centennial cause are embodied in the messages
sent Mr. Peabody, who is chairman of the commit-
tee now conducting a $5 membership drive in an
effort to learn how many people in the Chicago area
are willing to back up with a $5 bill their desire to
have the centennial observed.
COLUMBIA PHONOGRAPH CO.'S PRIZE.
The $10,000 prize for the winning centennial sym-
phony commemorating Franz Schubert was forwarded
last week to the composer, Kurt Atterberg, in Stock-
holm, Sweden. The award, representing the grand
prize in the international contest held by the Colum-
bia Phonograph Co., was cabled through J. P. Mor-
gan & Co. of New York. The young Swedish com-
poser, who at 31 already has six syniphon'es under
his signature, did not attempt to complete the Schu-
bert "Unfinished" symphony as did some of his com-
petitors. His work was adjudged superior to all
others submitted.
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