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August 1, 1929
PRESTO-TIMES
AMERICAN PIANO CO.
TO DISTRIBUTE RADIOS
Robert B. Rcse, Well-Known Radio Executive,
to Direct Operations Through Com-
pany's Retail Outlet.
The American Piaiio Company has just announced
its intention to distribute a complete line of radios
through its chain of retail outlets which operates
under the name, "Ampico Hall". The established
stores of the company are located at Fifth Avenue,
New York City; Brooklyn, N. Y.; Fordham, N. Y.;
Jamaica, L. I.; Newark, N. J.; Chicago, 111.; Mil-
waukee, Wis.; Cleveland, Ohio; St. Louis, Mo.; Bos-
ton, Mass.; Philadelphia, Pa., and Atlanta, Ga.
Robert B. Rose has been appointed vice-president
in charge of radio promotion. He will join the or-
ganization on August 1st and will make his head-
quarters at Ampico Hall, New York. That Mr. Rose
has been associated with outstanding achievements in
business-building is evidenced by his successful mer-
chandising and expanding of a number of depart-
ments for R. H. Macy & Company over a period of
ten years. .
Only six months ago Mr. Rose became general
manager of Landay Bros. His success with this
chain organization, during that short space of time
greatly increas : ng their sales and net prolits, is well
known throughout the trade.
The American Piano Company will carry the best
available makes of radios in each price level in keep-
ing with the prestige, traditions and complete price
range of their famous line of pianos, the Mason &
Hamlin, the Knabe, the Chickering, the J. & C.
Fischer and the Marshall & Wendell.
Years of consistent advertising, prepared and di-
rected by New York specialists, backed by an adver-
tising appropriation running into six figures, and
combined with an increasingly aggressive merchan-
dising policy sponsored by George Urquhart, the
president of the company, has firmly established
Ampico Hall in each market.
The vast financial resources and distributing facili-
ties of the American Piano Company, their aggres-
sive merchandising methods extended to retailing
rad'o on such a comprehensive scale, and under the
capable guidance of Robert B. Rose, will umjues-
t'onablv make this company a vital factor in the field.
INDIANAPOLIS NEWS
Frank Davis, manager of the House of Baldwin,
just returned from Detroit, Mich., and reports busi-
ness in that city very good. Business in Indianapolis
;
s moving along at normal at present, although it
shows a gain over last year which is encouraging.
Ned Clay, who has been associated with the Starr
Piano Company for many years, will join the Bald-
win sales force Aug. 1.
Mark Mayer, traveling representative of the Brink-
erhoff Piano Company, was in Indianapolis recently,
and reported business in some sections good, and in
others not. so good. The condition is spotty, accord-
ing to Mr. Mayer, although there are evidences of
improvement in the very near future.
The Marion Music Company is having a very good
business. Schumann and Brinkerhoff instruments,
handled by the company, are having an even break,
and future prospects are looking excellent. The radio
department of the company is having an excellent
volume of sales, and showing a constant increase.
Walter Timmermann, manager of the Christena-
Teague Piano Company, says business is good, and
the volume of sales are of high grade instruments.
Ampicos in the American Piano Company's line are
selling better than expected for this time of the year,
especially in the grand pianos.
Frank Wilking, of the Wilking Music Company,
reports business good. The new styles of the Apollo,
in the Hepplewhite and Georgian, are now on exhi-
bition and meeting with public favor. Reproducing"
instruments are moving very good. One of the recent
sales was one of the Jesse French & Sons style 47,
which was sold to the director of the Singerbund, a
local musical society composed of mostly German
nationality. Used pianos are moving very good with
the company, and the large stock of a fortnight ago
has vanished.
Rapp & Lennox are enjoying a good business and
have no complaint to make. Business is all that can
be expected, was the answer to the usual query,
"How is business?"
Leonard Carlin, formerly associated with the Car-
lin Music Company, has joined the sales organization
of the Crescent Paper Company's radio department.
FREE FROM ANY TROUBLE
BY USING BOWEN LOADER
Firms at Antigo, Wis., and Harrisonburg, Va., Write
Manufacturers of Appreciatron.
The following are samples of many letters of appre-
ciation that come in to the Bowen Piano Loader
Company, Winston-Salem, N. C . manufacturer of
Bowen One-Man Loaders and Carriers:
"I bought one of your Loaders in 1922, and must
say that I have been very free from any trouble with
it. I did break a spring once, but I thought 1 had
broken my car all to pieces I hit a bump so hard.
When I think of all the hundreds of miles I have
taken pianos and the extremely rough roads I have
been over with this Loader, I marvel at the little
trouble it gives. My first piano was taken over one
hundred miles and sold the day I started, and I
know that I have doubled my sales since I have had
this Loader, and I only wish that I had had it years
ago.
" J E W E L L MUSIC COMPANY. Antigo, Wis "
JOHN C. CAMPBELL DIES
FROM EFFECTS OF A FALL
Man Whose Son's Name Went Into Kohler & Camp-
bell Was Active and Reached 91 Years.
On Sunday, July 13, funeral services were held at
St. Andrews Church, Yonkers, N. Y., for John C.
Campbell, piano manufacturer and banker, who died
in St. John's Riverside Hospital from injuries re-
ceived when he fell down stairs at his home, 45 High-
land avenue, Yonkers, the previous week.
He w r as 91 years old. He was vice-president of
the Yonkers Savings Bank and a director of St.
John's Hospital.
Mr. Campbell was born in Newark, N. J., and at-
tended school there. When a young man he moved
to Yonkers. His son, the late Calvin Campbell,
with Charles Kohler, established the firm of Kohler
& Campbell. John C. Campbell also was connected
with the firm until two years ago when he retired.
He was former city treasurer, police commissioner
and fire chief of Yonkers. Since 1895 he had been
trustee of Yonkers Savings Bank and for more than
ten years vice-president of that institution.
His widow and a daughter, Mrs. Mary Campbell
Lorini, survive.
NEWS FROM THE NORTH
Frank S. Colburn, 71 years of age, song writer,
who bears a living likeness t o the famous news-
paper caricature, "Uncle Sam," is visiting in Osh-
kosh, Wis., for a few days.
clippings designed to show that he was the true
author of the words to that famous old song, "After
the Ball," which made Charles K. Harris famous.
The Elks lodge No. 292 of Green Bay, Wis., will
send its drum corps to Marinette-Menominee on
August 29, 30 and 31, the dates of the state round-
up of Elks or, in other words, its annual state con-
vention.
A program of overture music was given music
lovers who followed the Paine Lumber Company
band when that organization made its weekly ap-
pearance at Mary Jewell Sawyer Park, Oshkosh.
"We have used your Loader for over four years W'is., last Thursday evening.
Georgiana Harriet Peeney, 22, of Evanston. 111.,
almost every day, and find it the best one on the
graduated civil engineer, built a radio set at her
market.
"BLUE RIBBON PIANO CO., Harrisouburg, Ya." home and much of the family's furniture was carved
bv her.
BALDWIN PIANO CO. DOING WELL.
Vice-President H. C. Dickinson of The Baldwin
Piano Company, Cincinnati and Chicago, in convers-
ing with a representative of Presto-Times last week
said "We have nothing to complain of in regard to
business. We work hard for what we get but we are
making sales right along, so will continue to produce
and sell our fine pianos." Mr. Dickinson is too busy
to plan a midsummer vacation.
NEW CANADIAN RADIO GIANT.
There is to be a new industrial giant in Canada
in the radio industry. This news was made public
at the fourth annual convention of the Rogers and
Majestic radio dealers held at the Royal York Hotel
for two days. The interesting announcement was
made to the delegates of a larger organization, now
in process of formation, of a group of interests re-
sponsible for a big share of the radio business of
the Dominion. In this group would be the Standard
Radio Mfg. Corp., Ltd , manufacturers of Rogers
batteryless radio and Majestic electric radio; Rogers
Radio Tubes. Ltd., manufacturers of the famous
Rogers guaranteed A. C. tube; the radio division of
the Q R S Canadian Corp. Ltd., distributors of Rog-
ers and Majestic radios.
GOOD WHEAT CROP IN KANSAS.
E. F. Lapham is back in Chicago from a three-
weeks' sojourn in the north woods of Wisconsin
which he spent at his son's fishing grounds. At the
Piano Club luncheon Mr. Lapham told a Presto-
Times man that he had received a letter from a
friend in Kansas telling him that the wheat crop,
which was then about ready for the reapers, was
good—40 bushels to the acre, in some places more.
Especially in the west half of Kansas wheat was
about the average crop.
H. P. WILLIAMS BANKRUPT
Herbert P. Williams, proprietor of the Williams
Music Store at Shelbyville, I ml., filed a petition in
voluntary bankruptcy in Federal court at Indian-
apolis last week. He listed his liabilities at $21,-
246.16 and assets at $16,288.56. Williams & Pell
are attorneys.
PIANIST DROWNS.
Reginald Peel, 23, a pianist known to radio audi-
ences of station WLS, was drowned Wednesday night
in Barron lake, four miles west of Niles, Mich. He
was a member of the Maple City quartet, Chicago.
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