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Juno, 1930
P R E S T O-T I M E S
The Snyder Music Co., 18 East Market street
Wilkes-Barre, Pa., is conducting a bankrupt sale of
pianos.
Ray Bartholomew is representing the Holtou band
The music department of the Marbury Drug Co., instruments in Columbiana and Mahoning counties,
Ruston, La., has grown rapidly and is now to be Ohio. His home is at Salem, Ohio.
operated as an exclusive music store. J. O. Baugh-
The Cunningham Piano Co., 1312-14 Chestnut street,
nian will have charge of the department while he will
Philadelphia, is keeping its store open evenings during
be assisted by Mrs. Maud Atkins, Jim Sculley, Roy a special sale.
Kendall and Will Harris, who will have charge of
The J. W. Poole Music Co., the oldest music store
the piano sales and service.
in Huntington, W. Va., has moved from Third avenue
The directors of the Brunswick-Balke-Collender to newer and larger quarters at 420 Tenth street, that
Co., Chicago, have authorized a dividend of 1 per city.
cent, payable July 1, 1930, on the outstanding pre-
The Mallory Piano Co., Inc., 17 Flatbush avenue,
ferred stock.
Brooklyn, says: "The superb tonal quality of the
J. J. Sanford, manager of the Starr Piano Co. Lester has earned for it a world-wide reputation
store at Tuskegee, Ala., says: "Do not let your chil- among artists, teachers and all lovers of music."
dren grow up without an opportunity to learn to play
The John Wanamaker store, Broadway at 9th street,
the piano."
New York, is specializing in selling Yose pianos this
Harry Graybill, manager of the Lewis & Palmer spring.
Music Store at Rochelle, 111., is selling both Zenith
"Baldwin pianos are better pianos" is a slogan used
and Philco radios.
"Change your piano. Let us send it north. Alaska at the Baldwin store at 13 Chestnut street, Lewis-
town, Pa.
wants your upright," says Count George Hay Du
Barry, president of the Royal Courts of Music, Seat-
Galperin's, of 17 Capitol street, Charleston, W. Va.,
tle, Wash.
whose motto is "Everything Musical," is conducting
Meredith's Music Store at Dayton, Ohio, sells a piano sale.
Buescher wind instruments and the Washburn string
Schmoller & Mueller Piano Co. has opened a branch
instruments, as well as the popular Hyatt portable piano store at Scottsbluff, Neb., under the manage-
radio.
ment of Gene D. Gray.
George Allen Dewey of Oneida, N. Y., dealer in
C. J. Hcppe & Son, 1117-1119 Chestnut street, Phil-
Zenith radio, was one of those attending the At- adelphia, make this statement in their advertising:
lantic City convention.
"No wonder people who want the finest in pianos
Rorabaugh-Wiley's. Hutchinson, Kan., announces turn instinctively to the Duo-Art Reproducing Piano."
an annual June contest piano sale. The company
The Ludwig Music House has taken a long lease
sells Mason & Hamlin. Chickering, M. Schulz Co.,
of the Goldman Building at 709 Pine street, St. Louis,
Starr, Richmond and other fine pianos.
Mo. It moved in about May 1.
Adams-Bennett, Wichita, Kan., advertises: "We
The Large Music Co. is the name of a new music
can accept a few used pianos in trade on new radios
store just opened in Appalachia, Va., owned and
and radio combinations."
operated by J. Willard Large and M. S. Large.
The Schumann Piano Co.'s store at Rockford, 111.,
For transportation on mules over the passes of the
loses its lease and this is the explanation: "The pro-
posed widening of Wyman street makes it necessary Andes Mountains in South America, pianos are gen-
for the Schumann Piano Co. to close out its Wyman erally built dismountable.
street retail store, after 16 years in the same location,
The musical instrument known as the Theremin is
corner of State and Wyman streets."
being demonstrated at the Pearson 1'iano Co., In-
Melburn Kline, Elmdale, Kan., aged 14, has manu- dianapolis.
Funeral Home Music Co., Plymouth, Wis. Sell
factured a piccolo from a cane fishing pole. He is a
automatic phonographs, radios, musical instruments,
trombone player in a high school orchestra.
NEW FIRMS, CHANGES, REORGANIZATIONS
The Anderson Herald, Anderson, lnd., has been
announcing a $30,000 factory sale of pianos for the
Pearson Piano Co., 7 East 9th street, that city.
The D. Z. Phillips Music Co., Pueblo, Colo., has
purchased the complete stock of the Pueblo Music
Co., that city, and is conducting a sale, with free piano
lessons with each piano sold.
Miss Bernice Myers has opened a store at Kokomo.
lnd., on East Mulberry street, where she will sell
sheet music, Brunswick records, band instruments
and musical accessories.
The Emerson-Hiltbrunner Co., Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
is holding a removal sale of pianos.
The Woodward Music Co., Woodward, Okla., is
moving into its new building in that city.
William Kramer, piano and radio salesman, has
joined the staff of the Schmoller & Mueller Piano Co.
at Sioux City, Iowa.
Watkins Brothers, 241 Asylum street, Hartford,
Conn., are featuring the Steinway pianos, "exhibited
in the living room of the model home, 39 Crestwood
road. West Hartford."
The Davis Industries, which manufactures phono-
graphs at Kokomo, lnd., has been considering locat-
ing a factory at Troy, Ga., to employ about 200 per-
sons. President Meyer Davis was at Troy a few
days ago looking over the situation.
Atlas Radio Stores have leased for fifteen years a
ground floor store with a second-floor salesroom in
the two story building to be erected at 3139-41 Lincoln
avenue, Chicago.
The Oliver H. Ross Piano Co., 316 Houston street,
Fort Worth, Tex., is conducting a sale of the Aeolian
Co.'s lines of pianos—expecting "to sell 150 in six
weeks."
William H Richardson, president of the Richardson
Music Co., Los Angeles, Calif., returned from the
Atlantic coast two weeks ago with the report that
the piano trade is improving.
Silas Lynch, music merchant of Dallas, Tex., has
purchased the controlling interest in the firm of
Bush & Gerts, 1311 Elm street, that city. The new-
owner intends to revive the plan of the Bush Temple
along the lines planned by Col W'Uiam L. Bush of
Chicago, when he opened the establishment in 1904.
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