September 1, 1929
nients some dealer or salesmen has made. By your
dignity and kindliness and your respect for your pro-
fession and for the piano business, leave these people
with a higher opinion of the piano as representing
Art and Culture; and challenge firmly any statement
that may reflect upon the value of the piano in the
home, upon its popularity or upon the progress of
the great business itself."
LIST OF EXHIBITORS AT THE
PIANO TUNERS' CONVENTION
(All these exhibits were on second floor.)
Cable Piano Company, Chicago.
E. P. Johnson Piano Company, Elgin, 111.
American Piano Company, New York (including a
special Ampico Exhibit).
Weaver Piano Company, York, Pa.
Gulbransen Company, Chicago.
The M. Schulz Company, Chicago.
Schiller Piano Company, Oregon, 111.
Steinway & Sons, New York.
Chas. Frederick Stein, Chicago.
And two or three other piano exhibits.
Standard Pneumatic Action Company.
Tonk Brothers (Piano Supply Department).
Schaff Piano String Company, Chicago.
Walter M. Gotsch Co., Chicago.
On an American Piano Company bulletin near the
elevator on the second floor was the following invita-
tion :
"American Piano Company welcomes the National
Association of Piano Tuners and invites you to visit
their exhibits in rooms 202, 231, and 239.
The Schiller Piano Company exhibited a Georgian
and a Louis XV, both very fine grands.
The E. P. Johnson Piano Co. exhibited three grands
—one Queen Mary Ann in teakwood, 5 ft. 4 ins.; one
Louis XV and one Colonial style, 4 ft. 8 ins.
NEW MANAGER FOR
CLARK WATERTOWN STORE
R. R. Edwards, Who Has Been Specializing in
Washington, D. C, Is the Man.
Melville Clark, president of the Clark Music Co.,
whose main store is located at 416 South Salina street
in Syracuse, N. Y., with a branch store at 6 Public
Square in Watertown, N. Y., has announced the ap-
pointment of R. R. Edwards, as manager of the Clark
Music Co., Watertown branch.
Mr. Edwards comes to the institution well equipped
for his position because of his experience in all
branches of the music business. He has been asso-
ciated with the industry all his life and his experi-
ence has been a varied one from both the sales and
managerial angle. He is familiar with theatricals,
having sponsored the founding of the Syracuse Opera
Association. For the past several years he has been
with one of the leading music houses in Washington.
D. C, where he specialized in pipe organ installation
for several years.
The branch store of Clark Music Co. represents
harp, radio, phonograph, piano, pipe organ and repair
departments, just as the main Syracuse store, where
are to be found the world's finest instruments in their
respective departments.
MANY PIANO WOMEN
IN CALIFORNIA
Some of Them Are Named Here—Good Saleswomen
But Cagy as Buyers.
BY MARSHALL BREEDEN.
There are many women in the California piano
business. Most of them belong to the men who
operate the stores. The ladies are good piano men.
They sell the merchandise, but in their turn are quite
hard to sell. Cagy buyers, one and all.
Mrs. Hockett of Fresno is as much a part of the
piano and music business as Mr. Hockett himself. So
too is Mrs. Bethel of Pasadena, and Mrs. Hendricks
of Santa Barbara is important in the Hendricks Music
Co. In Santa Ana, Mrs. Shafer is always at the desk,
for she watches the books and checks and cash of
the Shafer Music Co. So, too. for that matter, does
Mrs. Young of Escondido.
Frank Creswell was once with the Bartlett Music
Co. and now, since that firm is no more, Frank is
operating as fine a small piano and radio store as
there is. It is called George, Inc., named in honor of
Mrs. Creswell. whose maiden name was George.
This store is located on Melrose avenue away out.
It is so far out that with the exception of Vic Ander-
son, C. W. Boothe, Fred Christianer, myself, Harley
A. Brown, and half a dozen other wholesale piano
men, none have found it.
The present spell of heat has maintained itself for
P R E S T O-T I M E S
lo these many weeks, and as a consequence the piano
business has not been so brisk. Radio seems also to
have noticed the heat. Maybe pianos will pick up
when old Jack Frost approaches; it is certain radio
will.
Many dealers and salesmen have gone vacationing.
Mr. Shuck is in the wilds of Oregon, Lesley Simmons,
of Whittier, is motoring into the wilderness, Al Danz
spends considerable time at his beach house in Balboa,
and Marshall Breeden is slaving in the hot, hot city.
Louis Danz of Anaheim has put in a line of auto-
matic ice boxes. The electric freezer is getting rather
popular with music dealers. Kohler & Chase have a
big department of them; so too has Don C. Preston,
of Bakersfield, and now Louis Danz is to be added to
the growing list.
George Markle came up from San Diego the other
day. He had a customer with him. He made his
sale and returned in the new Chrysler which is now a
member of the Markle family. It has a history. A
San Diego newspaper offered it as the first prize for
the getting of subscriptions, and lo and behold, Mrs.
George Markle was returned the winner. Now she
drives George's old "Chev."
CHARLES JACOB AND WIFE
ON GREAT AUTO TRIP
Cross the Ocean by Steamship But Tour Europe in
the "Horseless Carriages."
Charles Jacob, president of Jacob Bros. Co., and
its large allied industries, with Mrs. Jacob, sailed on
the "Mauretania" on August 16, for an extensive
European trip through England, Scotland, Ireland,
France, Germany and Switzerland—largely by auto-
mobile.
Asked if he would patronize the airplane in his
travels, Mr. Jacob smilingly replied that youth was
JESSE FRENCH CO.
TRIPLES_SCHEDULE
Fifteen Thousand Radio Cabinets Shipped
from the New Castle Plant in August—
Piano Export Trade Is Keeping Up
Very Well.
Special activities now prevail at the Jesse French &
Sons piano factory. A local paper, the New Castle
(Indiana) Times, referring to the rush of work, largely
augmented by the radio department of the business,
says that "fifteen thousand radio cabinets will be
shipped from the Jesse French & Sons piano factory
during the month of August. These 15,000 cabinets
are over and above the large number made for their
own radio; the Jesse French Radio." Continuing,
the paper above quoted adds:
Factory Schedule Tripled.
'"The doubling of large orders and reception of sev-
eral new contracts has tripled the schedule of the fac-
tory and caused an eight-hour night shift to be
started. This means that every week four carloads
of radio cabinets made in the factory will be shipped
from New Castle. This is the start of the season and
new designs are being completed with the hope that
the production of the local factory may be boosted
even beyond the present high mark of 15,000 a month.
The night force will continue probably for at least
two months. Mr. French said. Inquiries are coming
in good regarding both radios and pianos, and so indi-
cations are most favorable for the factory.
The Jesse French Radio.
A new model of the Jesse French radio is about
ready for the market and is known as No. 629; a 9-
tube screen-grid chassis, the retail price is to be
$159.75, less tubes. A nice lot of advance orders for
this new model will give it a good start in the radio
trade proper, as well as in the general music trade.
Important connections have recently been made with
representative houses as distributors in certain sec-
tions of the country, and all in all, the radio business
of the Jesse French & Sons Piano Company seems
to be describable as a "near-boom."
Describing this new Jesse French model, the New-
Castle Times says: "The lowboy, which stands just
40 inches high, made up in American walnut with
Oriental walnut trimmings is most in demand. The
Oriental walnut is really an imported wood, from
Australia, instead of the Orient. There is very little
demand for anything but walnut radios, but nearly all
the pianos sold are mahogany."
Good Piano Export Trade.
Jesse French III says ther£ is no great radio export
business on account of the almost prohibitive tariff,
but their piano export trade is picking up consid-
erably, while their trade in the United States keeps
fairly active in their general piano business and excel-
lent in their special and ensemble products.
J. V. SILL'S VACATION.
J. V. Sill, sales manager of the W. Kimball Com-
pany, Chicago, spent last week at his summer cottage
at Lakeside, Mich. Mr. Sill enjoys the Lakeside golf
course very much and says the swimming at Lake-
side Park Beach is unsurpassed.
The Kankakee Piano & Music Store, Kankakee,
111., held a formal opening on June 22 and gave
souvenirs. It handles grand and upright pianos,
radios and small musical instruments.
C. A. Woodall, music dealer, has moved his head-
quarters from Kuttawa, Ky., to Princeton, Ky. He
still maintains a branch office in Kuttawa.
CHARLES JACOB.
adventurous, and as he would celebrate his seventy-
second birthday on the ocean and was out to see
what could be seen, he might do so.
A large delegation of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob's friends
were on board to bid them bon voyage.
Everybody acquainted with this excellent couple
wishes them much pleasure from their sightseeing
and visiting trip. Mr. Jacob is one of the most indus-
trious and faithful of the piano manufacturers, and the
feeling of his numerous friends is that if anybody is
entitled to a trip of this sort it is this very gentleman.
FOUR PRESIDENTS' VIEWS
OF VALUE OF MUSIC
Quotations from Coolidge, Harding, Wilson
and Roosevelt, All Ap-
proving It.
Music is the art directly representative of democ-
racy. If the best music is brought to the people there
need be no fear about their ability to appreciate it.—
Calvin Coolidge.
* * *
We cannot have too much music; we need it—the
world needs it—probably more than ever before, and
I am the friend of every effort to give it its rightful
place in our national life.—Warren G. Harding.
* * *
The man who disparages music as a luxury and
non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music
now, more than ever before, is a national need. There
is no better way to express patriotism than through
music.—Woodrow Wilson.
* * *
Let the love for literature, painting, sculpture,
architecture and, above all, music, enter into your
lives.—Theodore Roosevelt.
WURLITZER BABY UPRIGHT.
The Wurlitzer Baby Upright piano is advertised in
Chicago as one with "exceptional tone volume,
sparkling brilliance and easy action, combined with
dignified case design, which makes this dainty piano
the peer of all small instruments. Fits conveniently
into any restricted space."
Harold Norris, piano tuner of Middletown, Ohio,
attended the tuners convention in Chicago last week.
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