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PRESTO-TIMES
COINOLAS
FOR
RESTAURANTS, CAFES and
A M U S E M E N T CENTERS
Style C-2
FROM THE BIGGEST
ORCHESTRION
TO
ACTIVITY IN THE
INDIANAPOLIS MARKET
Frank Carlin Says More Interest Is Being Displayed
in the Piano Every Day—G. C. Pearson Returns.
By HOWARD M. RUDEAUX.
The C. G. Conn Company, Ltd., is comfortably
located in its new quarters with the E. L. Lennox
Piano Company, in North Pennsylvania street. New
wall cases have been installed, with all-glass cases
serving as counters, where the famous line of instru-
ments are on display. The fixtures are very attrac-
tive and fashioned in walnut, dull finish. The store
is one of the most attractive in this section, and is
in an ideal location.
The E. L. Lennox Piano Company, newly organ-
ized, is having a very good business, and Mr. Stock-
dale, in charge of the sales department, is well pleased
with results. The store has been generally over-
hauled and re-arranged, and is nearing completion.
Some changes are still being made on the upper floors
in the way of re-decorating and re-arranging the
display rooms.
Robertson's Music House, formerly located at 235
North Pennsylvania street, has moved to new quar-
ters at 225 North Pennsylvania street. The new
location is a more modern building, with plenty of
window space for display purposes.
On October 30 the Wilking Music Company was
robbed of $140. The robbers entered through a door
in the basement, leading from the main basement of
the building, by prying the doors. The money was
hidden in a desk, but after a diligent search, from
the looks of things, it was discovered. In fleeing,
the thief dropped a new one-dollar bill which was
found on the basement floor.
The Pearson Piano Company reports business good
with prospects good for real Christmas selling.
George C. Pearson has returned from California,
where he spent the greater part of the summer. He
is enjoying the best of health and taking an active
interest in business affairs.
Frank Carlin. of the Carlin Music Company, re-
ports business in good shape. Mr. Carlin is looking
for a good holiday trade, and says that there is more
interest displayed in the piano every day. Inquiries
are more frequent, and the general trend is better.
The Marion Music Company is going right along
with the Schumann piano, which is reported selling
better every day. The company reports some activity
with the Brinkerhoff Studio instrument, which has
been selling exceptionally well. Radios are keeping
up in their sales, and business in general is good.
There is an attempt on foot to organize a sym-
phony orchestra in Indianapolis by John DeCenant,
formerly with the Richard Strauss Orchestra in
Vienna, with Victor Herbert and Sousa's Band in
this country.
Recent visitors in Ind'anapolis were: W. N. Van
Matre, of the Schumann Piano Company and Charles
Mclntosh of the company were visitors at the Marion
Music Company last week. They were on their
way to Dayton, Ohio, to visit the Schumann repre-
sentative there.
J. H. Shale, represenf'ng the American Piano Com-
pany, called on the E. L. Lennox Piano Company
last week. Jesse French, Jr.. of Jesse French &
Sans Piano Company, New Castle, Ind., was in In-
dianapolis last week.
STYLE L STRAUBE PIANO.
Tiny Colnola
THE SMALLEST
KEYLESS
Manufactured by
The Operators Piano Co.
715-721 N. Kedzie Ave.
CHICAGO
The Style L Period Straube of the Straube Piano
Company, Hammond, Ind., is undoubtedly the most
talked about and written about piano in the high
quality field because of the fact that it contains many
special fertures most noticeable, of which is the
Duplex Overstrung Scale, an invention patented by
Straube. This invention permits of a string length
about 10 inches longer than ordinary piano construc-
tion would permit. It is a very valuable arrangement
contributing to unusual volume and richness of tone.
Both the musical and technical professions have ex-
pressed very high admiration for this instrument, due
to the fact that it is not only a beautiful piano musi-
cally and structurally but, the company claims, it also
is the only full scale 7 l / 3 octave ample string length
piano of its size in existence. The sufficiency of
string length means that tonal excellence is attained
without radically weighting or straining the strings.
This advantage insures the instrument retaining its
tonal excellence indefinitelv.
November 15, 1929
of the Conover Grands they had purchased, that they
sent The Cable Company written expressions of their
satisfaction. They are: Notre Dame, Syracuse Uni-
versity and the Universities of Missouri, Alabama,
Illinois, Wisconsin, Montana, Northwestern and
Minnesota.
BONDS AND NOTES
ARE PROTECTED
The Bankers-Commercial Security Company Shows
Reasons for Its Reliability.
The Bankers-Commercial Security Company, 270
Madison avenue, New York, has several music trade
men among its officers, namely, George G. Foster,
chairman of the board; Richard W. Lawrence, ex-
piano man, president; Walter A. Hall, attorney, who
is also attorney for the Chase-Emerson Piano Com-
pany; Frank E. Wade, former president of the Am-
phion action works, Syracuse, N. Y.; C. Alfred Wag-
ner, vice-president and director, The Aeolion Com-
pany, New York.
These bonds and notes are protected by: The re-
sponsibility of the makers of the title retaining install-
ment contracts held by the trustees; the guaranty of
dealers of approved credit standing; a direct lien on
radio receivers, talking machines, pianos, industrial
equipment and similar merchandise covered by the
installment contracts; the protection afforded by a
dealer reserve of 20 per cent, representing that por-
tion of the purchase price of the paper on which pay-
ment is deferred; the obligation of many leading man-
ufacturers and jobbers with respect to installment
contracts purchased from their dealers; the company's
resources of over $18,000,000.
Other safety factors are: The geographical distri-
bution of the makers and guarantors over 48 states,
Canada and England; the self-liquidating nature of
the bonds and notes; collections on the installment
paper automatically providing funds more than ade-
quate for the payment of every obligation at ma-
turity without re-financing.
The liquidity of the company. If the purchase of
contracts was stopped, the collections on paper now
on its books would, within less than eight months,
retire every dollar's worth of outstanding obligations.
U. S.'MARINEIBAND ADDS
LYON & HEALY HARP
The dean of American bandmasters, John Philip
Sousa, once remarked that "no other instrument could
take the place of the harp when that instrument is
needed." This is fast becoming a recognized fact
among bandmen throughout the world.
Latest among prominent band organizations to add
the Lyon & Healy harp is the famous United States
Marine Band of Washington, D. C , official band of
the President. R. J. Keenley, manager of the harp
department of Lyon & Healy, Chicago, announces the
recent purchase of the beautiful concert model 22.
Z E N I T H P R E S I D E N T ON YACHT T R I P .
The yacht Mizpah, in which Commander Eugene F.
McDonald, Jr., of Chicago, president of the Zenith
Radio Corporation, intends to cruise the Mediterranean,
left Chicago on November 3 on the first leg of its jour-
ney. The yacht goes to New York by way of the
great lakes and St. Lawrence river, a distance of
2,940 miles. The owner with his party will join the
yacht when it reaches New York and will start from
New York for the Mediterranean early next month.
In Commander McDonald's party will be Dr. Baker
Brownell of Northwestern University, Dr. Hiram
B. Hawley of Syracuse, and J. M. Kinney, banker of
Buffalo..
MUSIC H E L P , GULBRANSEN AIM.
The seres of Saturday night broadcasts over the
Columbia Broadcasting System which the Gulbran-
sen Company is sponsoring and in which Henry
Hadley, foremost composer-conductor, and the Gul-
bransen Symphony Orchestra are featured, was
planned with a definite educational purpose, according
to a statement by John S. Gorman, vice-president of
the Gulbransen Company of Chicago.
"Believing that the American public needs to be
awakened to the many benefits to be derived from
the study of music, we decided upon a series of radio
broadcasts as a part of a nation-wide educational pro-
gram for the purpose of creating greater interest in
NINE RAHS FOR CONOVERS!
Just at this season of the year college football
seems to be what the average person has on his mind.
Realizing that, The Cable Company, Chicago, is
"cashing in" on that interest with a display of foot-
ball gear and pennants in one of its show windows.
The pennants, however, are not merely used to catch
the eyes of passers-by; they are the emblems of nine
colleges, which were so enthused with the qualities
W. R. G. BAKER P R O M O T E D
'
W. R. G. Baker, at present in charge of radio engi-
neering and manufacturing at Schenectady, N. Y.,
with the General Electric Company, has been selected
to head the engineering division of the new RCA-
Victor Corporation, with the title of vice-president in
charge of engineering. His headquarters will be in
Camden, N. J,
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