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Issue: 1929 2227

May 15, 1929
P R E S T 0-T I M E S
And Another Small Grand
m/ios
Style R Grand—A feet,
7 inches long. Popular
size, beautiful case.
Real Packard Quality.
Finished in mahogany.
by a T{ealSalesTHanf
AGAIN Packard points the way in increased volume in Grand Piano
-**• sales. The Style R Small Grand, at a particularly low price, offers
Packard dealers unusual sales advantages that can be used to develop
new business. It is in the extremely popular 4 foot 7 inch size but
with all the full rounded tone beauty and volume you expect of Packard
instruments. The mahogany case is splendidly built, beautifully finished.
Get Packard plan behind you-get Packard values on your floors. Write us.
THE PACKARD
COMPANY
3335 Packard Avenue
Fort Wayne, Indiana
(Continued from page 5.)
Mr. Grinnell has been closely identified with the
wonderfully successful development of Grinnell
Brothers which for more than half a century has been
associated with Michigan's business history and is
admirably qualified to speak authoritatively upon sub-
jects which are of paramount importance to every re-
tail merchant in this country. Mr. Grinnell will be
the last speaker at the Tuesday joint session and his
address will have the effect of rounding out the pro-
gram in a manner which cannot fail to be of the
greatest possible interest to every person attending
the convention.
EXHIBITORS TAKE SPACE AT DRAKE
The following exhibitors have already made reser-
vation at the Drake Hotel for the Music Trades Con-
vention: Grigsby-Grunow Co., Atwater Kent Mfg.
Co., Auto Pneumatic Action Co., Baldwin Piano Co.,
Buescher Band Instrument Co., Capehart Automatic
Phonograph Co., Commercial Investment Trust Co.,
Cable-Nelson Piano Co., Hobaft M. Cable Co., Ev-
erett Piano Co., Walter M. Gotsch Co., Gibson, Inc.,
Gulbransen Co., Frank Holton & Co., Geib &
Schaefer Co., Kohler Industries, C. Kurtzmann & Co.,
Mathushek Piano Mfg. Co., Lester Piano Co., Lud-
wig & Ludwig, M. Schulz Co., Standard Pneumatic
Action Co., J. P. Seeburg Piano Co., Steinway &
Sons, Sonora Phonograph Co., Inc.. Stromberg-Carl-
son Telephone Mfg. Co., Slingerland Banjo & Drum
Co., Simson & Frey, Inc., Vego Co., Tonk Bros. Co.,
Wurlitzer Grand Piano Co., Winter & Co., H. N.
White Co., Regal Musical Instrument Co., Bruns-
wick-Balke-Collender Co., Schumann Piano Co., S.
Simon. Haddorff Piano Co.
TEXANS TO ATTEND SHOW.
The readers of the Presto-Times in the Southwest,
from St. Louis to the Gulf, writes Elmer Armstrong
of Dallas, have been greatly interested in what it has
published relative to the National Association gath-
ering in Chicago.
Mr., Armstrong says: "There is a deep interest
manifested by the music merchants in the coming
Convention. A vast army of Texas radio merchants
are going to the Convention to see everything new
that is to be seen. Chicago will have the largest
gathering of music merchants ever held."
"Many of the merchants have been figuring costs
of sales, and there is a sentiment that is generating
among the radio merchants to ask better discounts
than have been offered. When all expenses incident
to the sale of a radio, such as freight, drayage. ad-
vertising, salaries to salesmen, services, collection ex-
penses, and other items are figured, the margin left
for a dealer's profit is too small at the discounts that
radio distributors are giving."
DENVER GETS U. S. BAND CONTEST.
The fourth annual national band contest will be
held in Denver, May 23 to 25. Bands competing in
this contest will be the pick of 35 or more states in
which state and sectional contests are being held.
Nearly 700 bands will compete this year as against
500 last year and 150 in 1923. One of six judges will
he John Philip Sousa.
Paul L. Schaaf, manager of the Cable Piano Store.
Kenosha, has returned from a trip through the clinic
at the Mayo Brothers' Sanitarium at Rochester, Minn.
SPECIAL TRAIN FROM EAST
COMING TO CHICAGO CONVENTION
N E W NAME FOR WICHITA DEALER.
The Adams-Bennett Music Company is the new
name of The J. (). Adams Music Company, Wichita.
The change is a tribute to Merle K. Bennett, treas-
Cut Rates on Railroads Will Help to Keep Down
Expenses of the Round Trip.
A special convention train, bound for the Music
Industries Convention in Chicago, will leave Grand
Central Station, New York, on Saturday, June 1. at
1:00 p. m. Eastern Standard Time and 2:00 p. m. Day-
light Saving Time. Rate, one and one-half fare,
which means that the return trip is just one-half of
the normal rate on the certificate plan.
The rates from New York are: Fare, including
lower berth, $45.30; fare, including upper berth, $43.50;
compartment for two, $61.80; drawing room for two,
$67.80. This train is scheduled to stop at Albany,
leaving at 4:22 p. m. Eastern Standard Time, or 5:22
Daylight Saving Time. Those taking the train at
Albany or New York, may secure their reservations
from Albert Behning, care of Behning & Chinnock,
105 West 40th street, New York city.
For those in Boston and vicinity, there is a train
—No. 39 B. & A.—which is to leave Boston June 1,
at 9:30 a. m. Eastern Standard Time, or 10:30 a. m.
Daylight Saving Time. This train stops at Worces-
ter, Springfield, Pittsfield, and connects with the New
York train at Albany, leaving Albany at 4:22 p. m.
Eastern Standard Time, or 5:22 p. m. Daylight Sav-
ing Time. Further information about the Boston
train will be given by William F. Merrill, 258 Boyls-
ton street, Boston, Mass.
DEATH OF J. F. O'RYAN
CAUSES DEEP SORROW
Man
Whose Presto-Times Cartoons and
Stories Made Many Laugh Passes
to His Reward.
It is with profound regret that Presto-Times re-
ports the death of John Fergus O'Ryan, managing
editor of this paper for more than twenty years past.
The immediate cause of death was cardiac asthma
accompanied by complications.
Mr. O'Ryan w r as a native of Cashel, Ireland. He
distinguished himself in this country as an artist and
cartoonist on the dailies oi both San Francisco and
Chicago. He was widely known throughout the piano
trade and famous as a wit and raconteur. Both as a
friend and an editor he was loyal and true and he
will be missed in many places.
Mr. O'Ryan is survived by his wife, Mrs. Idele
O'Ryan, nee Hart, and their daughter, Miss Evelyn,
and son, Fergus O'Ryan. Another daughter, Maud
Helen, died some years ago. The funeral was held
from the O'Ryan residence, 626 Wisconsin avenue,
Oak Park, on May 15. to St. Bernadine's Church, and
interment at Mount Carmel.
Notice has been served to creditors of H. C. Bay
Co., Chicago, bankrupt piano dealers. A meeting of
creditors will be held at the court room of Harry'A.
Parkin, referee in bankruptcy, room 620, 137 South
LaSalle street, Chicago, 111., on May 13th, at 11 a. m.
MKRLK K. BKNNETT.
urrr and general manager, who has actively managed
the business for the past eight years. This concern
is one of the outstanding music firms in the South-
west and handles everything in music. There is no
change in stockholders or in the policy of the firm.
SCHILLER PROPHECY FULFILLED.
In the "Thirty-five Years Ago" column of Presto-
Times, current issue, appears a fac simile reproduc-
tion of a Schiller piano advertisement, reduced from
its original half-page to column size. The thought
it brings is aroused by the line—"For the Money, the
Best in the United States: Schiller Pianos." That
expression not only applies to the Schiller piano to-
day, but the 35 years that have intervened have each
proved a verification of the prophecy which has been
fulfilled to the letter, as evidenced by thousands of
Schiller purchasers and hundreds of enthusiastic
Schiller dealers.
MRS.
HOOVER CHOOSES STEINWAY FOR
FETES.
Steinway & Sons have been honored with the dis-
tinction of having Henry Junge of their organization
intrusted by Mrs. Hoover with pertinent details in
connection with White House musical functions.
Under Mr. Junge's guidance, and with Stewart
Wille at the Steinway accompanying Lawrence Tib-
bett, baritone, of the Metropolitan Opera Company,
the first musical matinee of the Hoover administra-
tion, held April 19 at the White House, successfully
inaugurated the series of musical affairs which will
bring added lustre to the name of Steinway.
Among the 200 guests were members of the diplo-
matic corps and the official circle and their wives, as
well as personal friends of Mrs. Hoover.
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May 15, 1929
PREST O-T IMES
IR1ON TELLS WORK
OF MUSIC C. OF C.
President of Music Industries Chamber of
Commerce Describes Its Methods of
Promoting Cultural Development
of the American People.
In his address to the New York State Music Mer-
chants' Association at their convention at Bingham-
ton. N. Y., on May 2, Hermann lrion of Steinway
& Sons, president of the Music Industries Cham-
ber of Commerce, said in part:
The Music Industries Chamber of Commerce, an
organization of vast importance to our industry, has
some real achievements to its credit—achievements
benefiting all who derive a livelihood from the mu-
sic industry.
Its first service came in the stress of wartime, when
the newly organized body prevailed upon the War
Industries Board to recognize the music trade as one
erate the growth of the list if our funds were not
limited.
The results of this work may eventually be com-
puted in dollars and cents, but monetary satisfac-
tion will not be the only one, for when there is a
piano in every American home, not only as decora-
tive furniture, but as an instrument to be played on,
our industry will have solved not merely a problem
of gain, but an aesthetic one.
We shall be well on the road to that goal when
our nation becomes music-minded, and we shall reach
it sooner if every one who loves the industry con-
tributes a small share of his mental and physical abil-
ities to this work of education. The Chamber is the
most powerful aid we have because it can exert the
collective brain and brawn of the industry.
RADIO-VICTOR CORP.
FORMED FOR SALES
World-Wide Sales Organizations of Recently
Merged Concerns to Be Under
One Management.
The Radio-Victor Corporation of America, a wholly
owned subsidiary of the Radio Corporation ci Amer-
ica, has been incorporated in Maryland to take over
sales activities of the Radio Corporation of America
and the Victor Talking Machine Company. This
step makes the Radio Corporation of America a hold-
ing company for a group of operating companies en-
gaged in the radio and allied fields.
BALDWIN PIANO SHOWS GAINS
HERMANN 1KION.
essential to the prosecution of the war. Had we not
united, we might all have been put out of business for
the duration of the war.
As Useful in Peace.
When peace came, the Chamber's task seemed
finished: but we had come to realize that such an in-
stitution could wage constructive campaigns in peace-
time as well as fight defensive actions in wartime;
so its existence was continued. One of the Cham-
ber's first post-bellum efforts was the securing of the
removal of taxes on musical products.
The Chamber embraces various independent as-
sociations in one body for the advancement of com-
mon interests: but each component association oper-
ates also in its individual capacity in affairs that it can
best handle independently.
Developing Musical Culture.
Of the Chamber's departments, the most important
at this time is the National Bureau for the Advance-
ment of Music, whose aim is to develop the musical
culture of our people. This department has estab-
lished contacts with every musical activity in the
United States and has enlisted in music's behalf
thousands of volunteer workers through whom it
disseminates musical interest to all. It issues pub-
lications on every conceivable kind of musical ac-
tivity, and offers advice on the musical problems of a
community. The Bureau, fortunately, has been able
to keep the commercial nature of its work in the
background, so that educators do not object to being
led by it. but would miss its guidance in musical af-
fairs should it cease to exist.
The music industry—the piano trade in particular—
must expand on an educational basis. Music, espe-
cially, must become a possession of every child, espe-
cially that kind furnishing keenest personal satisfac-
tion—self-expressed music. Toward this end we must
work through the medium of the National Bureau for
the Advancement of Music.
We have already made considerable strides forward.
An outstanding accomplishment last year was our
obtaining from the music supervisors of over six hun-
dred cities and towns an endorsement of group piano
instruction in the public schools.
We could accel-
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.
More "straight" pianos, both in grands and up-
rights, were sold in 1928 by the Baldwin Company,
Cincinnati, than at any time in its history, according
to the annual report of the company filed recently
with the Stock Exchange.
The total volume of business done for the year,
exclusive of small goods sales, amounted to $13,-
312,972 and the profits for the year were $422,477.18,
after deducting taxes and interest and making ample
provision for depreciation and obsolescence in re-
ceivables, inventories, manufacturing plants, machin-
ery and equipment.
The current assets shown by the statement as of
December 31 were $14,134,749, of which $9,524,840
were bills and accounts receivable, exclusive of agents'
equities, and $4,275,241 were inventories. The total
of current liabilities amounted to $1,360,436, including
bills payable, accounts payable and reserve for taxes.
The surplus is shown to be $4,170,831, with reserves
of $3,202,824.
The statement showed a decrease in both sales and
production of player pianos.
ACTIVE DALLAS DEALER
The Will A. Watkin Company, Dallas, Tex., re-
cently presented a list of Texas institutions to which
it had sold Chickering, Knabe, Mason & Hamlin and
Marshall & Wendell pianos. The Chickering was
placed in Dallas Woman's Club, The University Club,
New Bell Telephone Bldg., Stoneleigh Court, Cliff
Temple Baptist Church, The Hockaday School, etc.,
etc. Knabe: City Club, Columbian Club, Baker Ho-
tel, Palace Theater and all Publix Shows, Melba
Theater, etc., etc. Mason & Hamlin: Southern Metho-
dist University, Highland Park Town Hall, Majestic
Theater, etc. Marshall & Wendell: First Presbyter-
ian Church, Highland Park Presbyterian Church,
East Dallas Baptist Church, etc.
ALWAYS
a p r o d u c t w o r t h y of
"A Name Well Known Since
1875"
JESSE FRENCH & SONS PIANO CO.
NEW CASTLE, INDIANA
GULBRANSENS SHOWN IN WEST
At the Convention of the Western Music and Radio
Trades to be held in Salt Lake City, June 10-13,
the Gulbransen line of pianos will be displayed
by the Glen Brothers Roberts Piano Co. Gler.
Brothers have for years sold Gulbransen products in
Salt Lake. Ogden and the surrounding community.
The Gulbransen Company will be represented at
the Convention by John S. Gorman, vice-president,
and G. E. Corson and Louis Matson, salesmen, re-
spectively, for the west coast and the intermediate
states of Idaho. Montana, Utah and the Dakotas.
The Gulbransen Company is looking forward not
only to the opportunity of having a large number of
western dealers become better acquainted with the
Gulbransen line of instruments but to the opportunity
of presenting some important new sales material.
The CABLE COMPANY
Makers of Grand, Upright
and Inner-Player Pianos,
including Conover, Cable,
Kingsbury, Wellington and
Euphona.
Chicago
ERNEST VOGET'S SALES RECORD.
Considering that Wayne, Nebraska, the town he
serves, has a population of only 2,400, Ernest Voget's
sales record for a 36-day period during 1928, is. to
say the least remarkable. During those three months.
Mr. Voget sold 4 grands, 4 uprights and 4 second-
hand pianos he had taken in trade.
Refer to Presto Buyers' Guide for in-
formation about all Pianos, Players and
Reproducing Pianos.
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