October 15, 1929
C. 0 . CONN, LTD., BUYS
RINNE MUSIC COMPANY
Owner
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P R E S T O-T I M E S
of Indianapolis Firm Through the Deal
Becomes the Branch Manager.
Sale of the Rinne Music Company, 128 Pembroke
Arcade. Indianapolis, dealer in musical instruments,
to C. G. Conn, Ltd., Elkhart, manufacturer of band
and orchestral instruments, was announced last week
by Herman Rinne, who organized the Rinne company
two years ago. The consideration was said to have
been in excess of $25,000.
Mr. Rinne has been active in the musical field for
more than twenty-seven years. At one time he played
with John Weber's band in Cincinnati and later be-
came affiliated with the orchestra at English's opera
house, Indianapolis, continuing in this position for
twenty years. He also formerly played with the
Indianapolis News Newsboys' Band.
Officials of the Conn Company announced appoint-
ment of Mr. Rinne as manager of the Indiana district,
which embraces more than two-thirds of the state.
Paul Rinne, a son, who has been associated with his
father, will act as manager of the new Indianapolis
branch of the Conn Company.
Mr. Rinne said the new company will continue to
operate in its present quarters until a suitable new
site can be selected. The company plans to open at
an early date the most complete "factory-to-consumer"
music house in that part of the country. The Conn
company has assets listed at more than $30,000,000
and plans to erect its own Indianapolis store.
The company manufactures its own line of brass
aYid wood-wind instruments at its Elkhart factory.
Since acquiring the Leedy Manufacturing Company
recently, the complete drum and drummers' accessory
line of the company will be placed in the stock of
the newly organized Indianapolis Conn Company.
The company will make a specialty of a musical in-
strument line manufactured at the Elkhart factory
known as the Pan-American. This brand is especially
adapted to use in schools, factory bands and various
other institutions.
The new company will maintain a large repair
department, in the charge of E. R. Gatto. A corps
of fifteen salesmen to tour Indiana and adjoining-
states is being recruited. The company will carry an
extensive line of violins of domestic and foreign
manufacture. The Conn Company recently acquired
the factory of the Buescher Band Instrument Com-
pany at Elkhart and the Selmer Company, Inc., now
of Elkhart. These additional lines will be handled
Chicago Is Greatest Musical Center in the United
by the Indianapolis branch.
States Today, Mr. Bendix Says.
SEMI=CLASSICAL PROGRAMS
OF MAESTRO MAX BENDIX
NEW COMPANY FOR ROCK ISLAND.
The Automatic Electra-Music company, Rock
Island, 111., with an authorized capital of $50,000,
filed articles of incorporation with Scott County Re-
corder A. E. Lindquist through Smith & Swift, attor-
neys. The officers of the company are J. L. Cornet
of Moline, 111., president; L. E. Slauson, of Moline,
111., vice-president, and W. C. Dow of Davenport,
Iowa, secretary-treasurer. The officers and W. A.
Scharnweber of Davenport make up the board of
directors.
STEINWAY FOR ECONOMY.
"The finest of the world's fine pianos are at Lyon
& Healy's, says a Chicago advertisement. "Fore-
most among them the immortal Steinway. As the
one piano to command full depth and brilliancy of
tone, Steinway has been intimately associated with
every great name in music. Incomparable service
long after the commonplace instrument has gone its
way, recommends Steinway to you as the instrument
of true economy. Highest value also, in their price
classes, are Brambach, Lyon & Healy, Weber, Steck
and Stroud. Hear the Brambach Apartment Grand."
ATWATER KENT MASTER RADIO.
The General Furniture Company, with twelve stores
in Chicago, advertising the Atwater Kent radio, says:
"If you have never heard this wonderful set you have
never experienced real radio satisfaction. Talk about
fine tuning—selectivity like you read about!—and
distance as you never expected to get it—this new
Atwater Kent master radio leads the field. We show
you this marvelous set in an entirely new style of
cabinet—similar in appearance but vastly different in
construction. You must see it to fully appreciate its
superiority, and it comes equipped with one of the
finest dynamic speakers ever built—the combination
gives you America's best radio and finest speaker—
tone of inexpressible beauty and purity. No hum or
distortion."
Choose Your Piano As The Artists Do
Announcement has just been made of a series of
popular Sunday afternoon band concerts with semi-
classical programs to be given by the official band of
the Century of Progress exposition under the leader-
ship of Maestro Max Bendix.
According to Mr. Bendix, the concerts will fill in
"the large gap" that at present exists in Chicago's
musical scheme.
Mr. Bendix, who was musical conductor at the
World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition of 1904, and the San Francisco
Panama-Pacific Exposition of 1915, hopes to be able
to stage his first four concerts in Chicago during No-
vember. At present he is engaged in the task of
selecting the musicians for his 60-piece symphonic
band, his offices being in the world's fair suite, Burn-
ham building.
"Chicago is, in my estimation, the greatest musical
center in the United States," said Mr. Bendix in dis-
cussing his plans.
"I base this assertion on the fact of its having one
of the finest orchestral organizations of today, grand
opera and choral societies of supreme excellence, edu-
cational institutions of the highest standard, individual
artists and teachers of international reputation and an
appreciative public who demand the best that can be
offered and are ready to support musical entertain-
ment of the highest class.
"The Chicago World's Fair will soon be in a posi-
tion to offer a symphonic band of the highest caliber
and we hope to be able to give our first concert in
November. As I said before, there is a large gap
between the symphonic orchestra, opera, and jazz, and
it is this gap that we propose to fill."
CHARLES G. DAWES' MUSIC.
To the strains of "Melody," a composition by Am-
bassador Charles G. Dawes, members of the Jefferson
Park Congregational Church, Chicago, filed into the
new edifice at Giddings and London streets for their
first services there, on October 6.
Through Generations
Have Come Ludwig Ideals
HE Ludwigs, the Ericssons
and the Perrys created,
nearly a century ago, the stand-
ards to which the Ludwig has
been built. Their ideas and ideals have been car-
ried forward by the present generation and today
the direct descendants of those early builders of artis-
tic pianos are the men directing the destiny of the
Ludwig Piano.
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