30
June 1, 1929
P R E S T O-T I M E S
CHICAGO LEADS IN RADIO,
DECLARES J. K. DUNLOP
Manufacturing, Jobbing, Retailing and Re-
search Activities Center There, Says Head
of Chicago Radio Institute.
Chicago is the greatest manufacturing, jobbing, re-
tailing and development center of radio in the world,
according to statements made by D. J. K. Dunlop,
president of the Chicago Radio Institute, 64 East
Lake street, in an address before the Western Radio
Club recently.
Large Chicago concerns are today producing on
an average of 5,000 sets per day. It is estimated that
50,000 sets are turned out daily in the Chicago area.
Chicago manufacturers are invading the South Amer-
ican market where the wave lengths are the same as
ours.
Several stations will be on the air soon with im-
proved television broadcasts. There will be a great
development in this field this fall, as three large com-
panies have television virtually ready for public use.
STILL DEMAND ORGANS.
PARIS SALON OPENS MAY 11.
The reed organ business may be almost nil on the
North American continent, but in the colonies of
South Africa, South America, Australia and else-
where there is still a good demand for these instru-
ments. The English music trade papers still carry
advertisements of reed organs, the same as the Amer-
ican trade papers did up to some twenty years ago,
and a Spanish musical paper called "Musical-Hermes,"
published at Barcelona, advertises the reed organs of
two different manufacturers in Spain and advices
come to Presto-Times that these manufacturers are
enjoying a good business in the exportation of reed
organs, together with a fair sale at home. The same
paper carries an advertisement of autopianos which
instruments are handled by the music house of R.
Parramon Casa de Musica of Barcelona, Spain.
The seventh annual Salon de la Musique et du
Phonographe, the yearly exhibition of the music
trade, will be held from May 11 to 26 at the Paris
International Fair
The' salon will be a self-con-
tained section of the fair and, as in previous years,
be under the direction of the Office General de Mu-
sique. Pianos, musical merchandise, phonographs,
radios and sheet music will be included in the ex-
hibits.
The Salon has become a world market of predom-
inating importance, attracting buyers and visitors
from almost every country. The number of visitors
increases every year (three millions in 1928). Numer-
ous orders for booths at the next exhibition already
have been listed.
CHANGE IN PIANO ROW.
The first floor stores on each corner at the inter-
section of Jackson boulevard and Wabash avenue in
Chicago for many years have been music stores. The
Cable, Kimball, Lyon & Healy and Steger buildings
constituted the hub of the piano section in the loop
and pianos were the chief commodity in the stores
in their street floors. The intersection will have a
changed appearance when a business other than that
of music will be opened soon in the first floor of the
Steger Building. The space has been leased to an-
other line of business and the Steger retail show-
rooms will be on the sixth floor hereafter.
CARNEGIE PUBLIC SCHOOL COURSE.
Two classes arranged to prepare students to teach
instrumental music in public schools will be offered
this summer for the first time at the Carnegie Insti-
tute of Technology in connection with the Public
School Music Course, Dr. Roscoe M. Ihrig, director
of the summer courses, has announced. The summer
course of the Department of Music will be given dur-
ing the six weeks' period between June 28 to August
9, 1929. The summer courses at Carnegie, it is pointed
out, are open both to regular students of the Depart-
ment of Music and to others possessing the necessary
qualifications to pursue the work that is planned.
The new plant of the Stromberg-Carlson Telephone
Manufacturing Company on Blossom road, Rochester,
N. Y., is now complete. The grounds include twenty-
eight acres, while the factory building measures 625
by 460 feet over all, and covers approximately 360,000
square feet of floor space. The plant is a single build-
ing, one-story high, divided into four units. One of
the features is the radio assembly department, with a
continuous belt for carrying the completed sets down
to the testing room.
WINDINGS FINER THAN HUMAN HAIR.
"The reason why we are in position to provide very
high resistance in wire-wound units today," states
John Mucher, President of the Clarostat Manufactur-
ing Co., of Brooklyn, N. Y., "is because of the special
alloy wires now available, together with new and im-
proved methods of winding. The finest work we now
undertake is in conjunction with wire-bound volume
controls up to 25,000 ohms. Here the wire is about
one and one-half thousandth of an inch in diameter,
as compared with two thousandths for the usual hu-
man hair."
Marking of dials of the 1929-30 radio receiving sets
with but a single scale, that of kilocycles, is to be
an established manufacturing practice, according to
the Radio Manufacturers' Association.
John Philip Sousa has written another march, "La
Flor de Sevilla," which he has dedicated to the Inter-
national Exposition at Seville, Spain, which opened
on May 7.
STROMBERG-CARLSON PLANT READY.
W. C. HESS MAKES JOURNEYS.
W. C. Hess of the Settergren Piano Company,
Bluffton, Ind., was in Chicago on Monday of last
week and left Monday evening for New Orleans.
From New Orleans his route takes him to New York
and back to Bluffton. Later he will be seen at the
Chicago convention in June.
EISEMANN IN FINANCE CORPORATION...
The Ungerleider Financial Corporation, a $25,000.-
000 corporation, in which Samuel Ungerleider, Wil-
liam Fox, William C. Durant and other leaders of
industry are interested, announced that Alexander
Eisemann, formerly chairman of the board of direc-
tors of the Freed Eisemann Radio Corporation, will
shortly join it as vice-president. It is understood that
Mr. Eisemann's interests in the Freed Eisemann
Radio Corporation were acquired last year by the
Charles Freshman Company prior to the merger of
the Charles Freshman Company and the Freed Eise-
mann Radio Corporation.
S ee the-;
Straube at the Drake
Rooms J66- j6y
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VERY Music Merchant interested in making more
money is cordially invited to visit Straube Head-
quarters during the convention of Music Industries
in Chicago, June 3rd to 8th.
The Straube exhibit will include those outstand-
ing and exclusive features which music merchants
throughout the country have found to be such real
sales stimulators.
The Sonata Model, the world's smallest full scale
grand piano with Duplex Overstrung Scale; the Style
L Upright, with Duplex Overstrung Scale, as well as
Reproducing Grands, Uprights and Roll-Played Pianos,
in modern and period encasements, and in the new
Hilite finish, will be shown. The Straube Radio will
also be on display.
Straube executives will be pleased to welcome all
music dealers in rooms 766-67 during the convention.
STRAUBE PIANO COMPANY
"Duplex overstrung scale of
the Straube Sonata Grand
Manila Ave., Hammond, Indiana
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"Duplex overstrung scale of
the Straube Style L Upright
traube
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W O R L D ' S
Nationally Advertised
Nationally Priced
F I N E S T
Showing the laminated key bed and
staunch construction of the back of
the Straube Grand
P I A N O S
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