PRESTO-TIMES
DENVER MUSIC SALES
HELPED BY STOCK SHOW
Visitors to Big Annual Event Last Week
Free in Spending Money for Musical
Instruments.
meeting of the association at the Argonaut Hotel in
Denver one evening last week. The association
plans to establish an interference department, headed
by a skilled radio service man, which will devote its
energies exclusively to the investigation of reports of
interference and, if humanly possible, the elimination
of the causes of such trouble.
Denver's annual Music Week, which is also assisted
by the musical instrument stores of the city, will be
held this year the week of May 5.
The Darrow Music Company, Denver, Frank Dar-
row president, during the past week ran a large
advertisement featuring the Stock Show.
During the past week the annual stock show was
held in Denver, bringing thousands of visitors to the
city from all sections of the Rocky Mountain region.
As a result business in all lines was speeded up and
the musical instrument dealers received their share
of the better business. "Welcome, Stockmen!" was
a common beginning to the musical instrument store
advertising done during the week.
A. E. Cox, president of the Denver Music Com-
pany, informs your correspondent that business was
Statement Found on Letterhead of John R.
good during the past year and the present year looks
Leeks, New London, Conn., When
like a good business year for the musical instru-
He Orders Buyers' Guide.
ment dealer.
"Interference," that medley of discordant sounds
"Only a piano in tune is fit to train a student's
that tries the patience and sometimes ruins an other- ear" is the earnest statement at the top of the letter
wise perfectly good evening for the radio listener, paper of John R. Leeks, New London, Conn. It has
will be made the object of relentless warfare in the terseness and quality of conviction that fits it
Denver, if the Colorado Radio Trades Association, for use as a slogan for the National Piano Tuners'
an organization made up of musical instrument deal- Association and without doubt was framed by Mr.
ers handling radios, and radio dealers, is successful in Leeks from his firm belief in the necessity for the
putting into operation plans discussed at the monthly tuneful quality in the piano used by the student of
the piano.
The untuned piano is an abomination to anybody
with the natural ear for harmony, but to the boy or
girl using such while learning to play, it is harmful
and a certain preventative to progress. Mr. Leeks
is so convinced of that killer of enthusiasm in piano
students that he makes the phrase on his letterhead
an official statement of belief.
Pianos, Player-pianos and Repro-
Mr. Leeks expresses his faith in the efficacy of
Presto Buyers' Guide in the most effective way—by
ducing Pianos are products of one
buying it every year and using it. His letter received
of the most responsible organiza-
this week was a commendation of the Blue Book of
tions in the piano manufacturing
the Music Industry and included his order for the
new 1929 edition.
industry.
PHRASE FOR TUNERS'
SLOGAN IS PROVIDED
January 19, 1929
PICTURE REMINDER
OF OLD FRIENDSHIP
Recent Photograph of William Thomson,
Glasgow Music Dealer, and of Harry
Lauder Is Reminder of Close Asso-
ciation of Two Genial Scots.
The accompanying picture is a reproduction of a
photograph recently taken of a notability of the music
trade and a world-known star of the concert stage.
Meet William Thomson, head of William Thomson
& Son, piano and organ dealers and importers, Glas-
gow, Scotland, and Sir Harry Lauder, joy-maker to
the human race. The picture was taken recently in
Scotland during an interval between the successive
tours of the Scottish star.
Besides a joint pride in being Caledonians, the
two men are similar in many ways. For one thing,
BRINKERHOFF
Alert dealers everywhere
appreciate the privilege of
representing the
BRINKERHOFF LINE
The Mayfair Small Grand
made by the Brinkerhoff
Piano Co. is only 5 feet long
and of exquisite appearance.
BRINKERHOFF PIANO CO.
711 MILWAUKEE AVE.
CHICAGO, U. S. A.
.
WHEN TONE
IS DESIRED THE
F. RADLE
FULFILS THE
REQUIREMENTS
The piano is the result of long ex-
perience and ambition to attain a
position of eminence.
CLEAR, BEAUTIFUL TONE
is a distinctive feature of F. Radle
Pianos and the case designs are
always original.
F. RADLE, Inc.
ESTABLISHED
1850
609-611 W. 30TH STREET
NEW YORK, U. S. A.
COURT REINSTATES RECEIVER
FOR BELL BROTHERS CO.
Receiver's Final Report Also Filed and Discharged
by Judge Dearth at Muncie, Ind.
Reinstatement of the Peoples Trust Company as
receiver for the Bell Brothers Piano Company, Mun-
cie, Ind., in the suit originally brought by Philip A.
Deterling, was ordered in the Circuit Court by Judge
L. A. Guthrie last week, when he acted favorably
on the petition of the E. C. Atkinson and Company
and other concerns who were creditors of the Bell
Company. Judge Guthrie gave his ruling immedi-
ately upon conclusion of arguments.
The receiver's final report was filed and it was
discharged by former Judge C. W. Dearth on De-
cember 17. A suit now pending in the Randolph
Circuit Court at Winchester, in which the Bell com-
pany seeks judgment for damages in the sum of
$450,000 against Fred D. Rose and the Merchants
Trust and Savings Company, figured in the argu-
ments of attorneys.
W1I.IJAM THOMSON (LI0FT) AND
SIR HAURY LAUDER.
they have a strong admiration for each other and
an enduring mutual friendship based on that often
expressed feeling. To Harry Lauder "Wullie" Thom-
son is "mon amang men; a true fren tae buckle tae."
To the big Glasgow music dealer the famous star of
the stage is still the frank and modest laddie of their
early acquaintance.
Growth of Friendship.
Out of that mutual feeling has grown a warm
friendship in which each takes delight. How close
is the bond between the friends was shown in the
STEINWAY & SONS EBONIZED GRAND. incidents following the death, not very long ago, of
In the great dailies of New York, Steinway & Lady Lauder, when the sympathy of Mr. Thomson
Sons, 109 West 57th street, are picturing and adver- went a long way towards assuaging the deep grief
tising the Ebonized Baby Grand—$1,375. Its de- of Sir Harry.
scription reads: "This instrument is small enough
The privilege many men in the music trade in Chi-
for the most limited space, yet it retains that breadth cago, and elsewhere in this country, enjoy of ac-
and beauty of tone which a true grand piano ought quaintance with the famous singer of Scotch ballads,
to have. A very popular model." Reading on we is due to Mr. Thomson's pleasure in "makin' guid
find: "There are six Steinway models, varying in fellows acquaint." The Glasgow dealer's activity
price from $875 to $2,750, according to the size. But in the music business dates back to the old days
there is only one quality of Steinway, and that is when the organ was the principal commodity he
the best. . . . Drop in at Steinway Hall today and imported from this side. He was for years a big dis-
choose your instrument."
tributor in the British Isles of Story & Clark organs
and other makes as well. Eventually he responded to
the demands for pianos in his trade and the United
W. F. BOOTHE DIES.
William F. Boothe, formerly of New York and States continued an important purchasing field for
Philadelphia, died recently in Los Angeles, Calif. Mr. him. And in his frequent visits to America his joy-
Boothe was well known in the East many years ago, ous distractions from business are the meetings with
and was a manufacturer of pianos in New York twen- old friends.
ty-five or thirty years ago. He retired from active
GULBRANSEN FOR SCHOOLS.
business seven years ago and came to southern Cali-
A new folder of the Gulbransen Company. Chicago,
fornia, where his brothers, John W. Boothe, manager
of the music department of the May Company, and contains lists of churches, schools, colleges, clubs and
Charles B. Boothe, western wholesale representative institutions of various kinds, which have purchased
of Premier Grand Corp., are living. He was a brother, and installed Gulbransen pianos. It is a most con-
also, of E. A. Boothe of Jacob Doll & Son, New vincing bit of printed publicity and should prove
of great service to the Gulbransen retailers and sales-
York.
men. A complete list of such places where the Gul-
Another interesting Chickering sale was made in bransen is now giving pleasure would fill too much
Dallas, Texas, by the Will A. Watkin Company, who space, but the names picked are representative. The
placed a beautiful walnut encased Chickering grand churches with Gulbransen pianos are in thirty-three
piano in the recreation room of the new $3,000,000 states. Schools in thirty-seven states have Gulbran-
Telephone Building, of which Dallas is so proud.
sen pianos to aid class or orchestral work.
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