November 24, 1928
P R E S T O-T I M E S
TEACHERS GET
PIANO INSTRUCTION
good for some of us." "Follow your boy and girl
tonight and they will lead you to some place where
there is music—Some place where there is music,
should mean home." He illustrates his lectures with
the Duo-Art, and is assisted by Mrs. Edith Dens-
more, who sings, accompanied on the Duo-Art.
Music Teachers of Portland, Ore., Attend Se-
ries of Lectures on Group Teaching System
by Experts—Other Means to Promote
Piano Interest Also Employed.
MUSIC GOODS EXPORTS
FOR MONTH OF AUGUST
Zay Rector Bevitt of San Francisco is giving a
series of class instruction to the music teachers of
Portland, Ore., under the auspices of the Sherman,
Clay & Co. Portland branch—her Bevitt System of
Piano Playing by Harmony Diagrams. The classes
started November 8 and will continue to the middle
of December. This is Mrs. Devitt's third visit to
Portland for this purpose and in addition to the daily
classes, evening instruction is being given for those
whose duties do not allow them to attend the day
classes. This system is used by many of Portland's
prominent music teachers, who greatly appreciate the
opportunity presented to them by Sherman, Clay &
Co. to get first hand instruction from the originator
of the system. Last year her classes grew to such a
size that it was necessary to move from the audito-
rium in the Sherman, Clay & Co. store to the hall of
the Women's Club.
George C. Will, the veteran music dealer of Salem,
Ore., was a Portland visitor the middle of November
and in speaking of the music trade in Oregon's capital
city said it never was better.
Dent Mowrey Elected.
Dent Mowrey, of Portland, Ore., composer-pianist
and Duo-Art recorder, was elected president of the
Portland Musicians' Club at its recent annual election.
This organization meets monthly at a breakfast at
which time musical matters and means of increasing
interest in musical affairs are discussed.
Promotional Features.
G. L. Taylor of the San Francisco Sherman, Clay &
Co. headquarters, is giving a series of music pro-
motional lectures in Portland, Ore. He was pre-
sented to the Chamber of Commerce and to the
various musical clubs and schools of the city. When
he finishes in Portland he will visit Salem, Eugene,
Corvalis, Ore., and Longview, Wash., visiting schools,
colleges and clubs of those cities before returning to
California. This will take him to the middle of De-
cember, it is announced. His appeals are very force-
ful and some of the aphorisms that he drives home
are that "All kinds of music for all kinds of people,"
"Some music is good for all of us and all music is
Eighth Month of 1928 Proved Biggest, According to
Figures Just Published by Government.
Exports of musical instruments for August made it
the biggest month of the year, according to a bulletin
of the bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
at Washington. The total for the month was $1,373,-
000, the nearest approach to that figure this year
being that of March, $1,299,000. Of course, more
than three-fourths of this was in phonographs and
records (phonographs, $686,000; records, $307,000).
Playerpiano exports amounted to $195,000.
The headliner in buying our goods was Mexico,
with $186,000, of which all but $37,000 was in phono-
graphs and records. Second came Argentina, $143,-
000, almost wholly in the phonograph section, that
country's bill for phonographs being $120,000 (rec-
ords $19,000). Australia was third, the total being
$131,000. Here the emphasis was reversed, however,
the chief item being playerpianos, $93,000, with only
$2,000 for straight pianos. Australia also bought a
considerable amount of player actions, nearly $14,000
worth. Brazil and Colombia were tied for fourth
place, with $97,000 each, practically all in the phono-
graph division.
Above
is
shown the
Mezzo Grand,
Style
C,
5' 2".
CONWAY'S "CANNY" SUCCESS.
Tt is a few years ago, but it seems like yesterday,
that C. C, Conway was managing the Hallet & Davis
Piano Company, of Boston. Mr. Conway jumped
from pianos into the tin can business, and he has
been for some years the president of the Continental
Can Company. He is 50 years of age; he moved to
New York from Chicago twenty years ago. Mr.
Conway is a native of Oak Park, 111. He learned the
piano business at the W. W. Kimball Company's
offices in Chicago where his father, the late Col. E. S.
Conway, was for nearly a lifetime wholesale piano
manager. "Research in the canning industry has
advanced far beyond the present general knowledge
of the people about tin cans," said Mr. Conway.
"There is a general idea now that when a tin can is
opened the contents should be taken out immediately
or the product will spoil. This is not true."
SHOWS GREAT LINE IN CHICAGO
At the left
is shotvn the
William &
Mary Period
Grand,5'2".
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