16
March, 1931
PRESTO-TIMES
ANOTHER PIANO INDUSTRY MAN
CAPEHART GRANTS
ENTERS THE RADIO FIELD
EXCLUSIVE LICENSE
TO DEFOREST.RADIO
Incorporation of The Cheney Co. for Conducting a
CORPORATION, TORONTO
General Radio Business
DeForest Will Manufacture Capehart 10-12C Record
Changer in Canada.
Almost simultaneously with the announcement to
the trade covering the new Capehart Record Changer
conies the interesting news that an exclusive license has
been granted to this well-known Canadian radio man-
ufacturer,
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The negotiations were recently closed in Fort
Wayne by Mr. H. E. Capehart, representing The
Capehart Corporation, and Messrs. J. E. Hahn, W.
M. Angus and A. L. Ainsworth of the DeForest Co.
The Canadian radio firm will manufacture the Cape-
hart Record Changer for the big market which exists
for automatic phonograph and radio combinations
throughout all the provinces of Canada.
Canadian dealers are just as alert to the enlarged
profit opportunities afforded them in merchandising
the automatic combination as are dealers throughout
the United States. The automatic combination is
without doubt the very thing the public is waiting
for, as it increases the utility of radio many fold
through giving the purchaser the kind of music he
wants whenever he wants it.
The Capehart Record Changer handles both the
10-inch and 12-inch records and thereby brings a new
enjoyment to music lovers—that of hearing their
favorite recorded selections, regardless of record size,
played for them automatically. The Capehart unit
doubles the value of radio and makes it possible to
have the finest operas, sonatas, concerts and dance
numbers reproduced automatically and without effort
on the part of the listener.
Not only does the automatic combination raise the
unit of sale price for dealers, but it affords them the
secondary profits which come from the sale of rec-
ords in sets and groups.
The DeForest Radio Corporation stands very high
with the Canadian music trades and it is anticipated
that Canadian dealers will have the same enthusiasm
for the automatic phonograph and radio combination,
embodying the Capehart record changing mechanism
as have the dealers in this country.
The individual for whom a new corporation at Chi-
cago is named is no less a person than W. S. Cheney,
familiarly known to his friends as "Jack" Cheney, a
man who has been engaged practically all his life with
manufacturing houses in the music industries. Mr.
Cheney was formerly associated with two of the
largest supply houses in the country (located respec-
tively at lvoryton. Conn., and Chicago, 111.).
Briefly speaking, the news of this incorporation is
set forth in the following notice which appeared re-
cently in the daily papers of Chicago:
The Cheney Co., 33 E. Jackson DUU.
Capital, $100,000. Gennral r&dlo busiuess.
Iocorporators: w . 8. Cheney. V. L. staley.
F. M. Bust. Correspondent: Henry L.
Schiele. Room 341. 33 S. Clark St.
Mr. Cheney's line of activity in the radio field will
be primarily in the wholesale and jobbing trade, with
offices on the eighth floor of 23 East Jackson boule-
vard—offices that are conveniently fitted out to take
care of a goodly line of business that is expected. At
this moment Mr. Cheney is making a feature of man-
tel radios, including an electric clock.
No man in the music trade is better qualified to
successfully conduct such a business as he has started
than W. S. Cheney. He knows the general music
industry, personally and practically, is persona grata
to a large list of dealers among whom he will build
up a trade without much trouble—a trade for the
Cheney radio, which he styles "The aristocrat of
midget sets."
NEW PRESIDENT OF
OHIO MUSIC MERCHANTS
On the occasion of the 28th anniversary meeting
of the Music Merchants of Cleveland, held at Hotel
Winton recently, Frank H. Kimmel, manager of Am-
pico Hall, was installed as the president for 1931,
succeeding Anthony Maresh of the Maresh Piano Co.
Otto B. Heaton, Columbus, president of the Na-
tional Association of Music Merchants, addressed
the group and said music was the fourth greatest need
of t'.ie human race, following food, clothing and shel-
ter in importance. He called music the chief ener-
gizer of mankind.
Mr. Heaton said that this country owns 15,000,000
pianos and has 240,000 music teachers. He estimated
that some 2,000,000 children are taking piano lessons,
A recent revision of the number of bands and and that there are 40,000 school bands and orchestras.
orchestras which participated in 1930 in the state con- The nation spends about a billion dollars a year for
tests with which the National Bureau for the Ad- music, he said, radio broadcasting alone accounting
vancement of Music cooperated shows that there were for $50,000,000.
no less than 995 bands and 715 orchestras, comprising
a total of over 80,000 participants. These figures rep-
resent an increase of more than 100 groups over the
totals announced last fall, and of 625 over the 1929
attendance.
There is every expectation that the number of
entries this spring will be even larger than last, in
Max J. de Rochemont of New York, who recently
spite of the depressed conditions under which all parts
of the country are suffering. If this is the case, it made quite an extensive tour to Australia, found a
will be due to the rising number of preliminary dis- growing interest in piano class instruction in that
country, where the people are showing a desire to
trict contests which are being arranged in most of
the states, for many schools are complaining that the inaugurate the same kind of class work as that which
burden of traveling costs will prevent their going to is now under such good headway in the United States.
Mr. de Rochemont has prepared an exceedingly in-
the state finals.
teresting article under the caption, "Group Piano In-
struction Sweeping the United States," in which arti-
cle he goes into piano class instruction very thor-
THE GROWTH OF C. G. CONN, INC.
Musical Truth, published by C. G. Conn, Ltd., oaghly, calling attention to more than 900 cities and
Elkhart, Ind., speaking of the development of the towns that have organized classes. Some of the
Conn industry to its present great proportion, says: topics he handles are "Enjoyment in Piano Playing
"In 1912 C. G. Conn retired from active participation Creates Piano Sales," "National Bureau Fosters the
in the band instrument business. Since then the busi- Movement," "Piano Class Literature Distributed to
Method
ness has continued to grow and to improve the qual- Thousands," "Leading Colleges Offer
Courses,"
"Local
Workers
Foster
Classes,"
and
ity of its instruments under the leadership of its pres-
"Storming the Tide of Passive Listening."
ent head, C. D. Greenleaf. The dynamic talents of
Conn were exactly suited to the work which he did in
The General Automatic Music Co. of Beaumont,
founding the great institution which bears his name.
Texas, has been incorporated at Beaumont with a
In a like manner the modern business methods which
have been introduced to the band instrument industry capital stock of $20,000. The incorporators a r e
by President Greenleaf are the things most needed Jerome Konheim, Walter Kirschner and Charles J
Wagner.
to carry on the business from the point at which its
founder left off. Under the supervision of Mr. Green-
The Schmoller & Mueller Music Co. has purchased
leaf modern, precision manufacturing processes have several buildings in Nebraska and Iowa for its branch
been introduced to the business. Costly machinery, stores. It is said that negotiations are under way
accurate to the thousandth part of an inch has re- for purchase of buildings at Lincoln, Fremont and
placed hit-or-miss manufacturing methods. Conn in- Scottsbluff, Neb., and Sioux City, Iowa, and the
struments are made better than they ever were and
firm is also contemplating a location on Farnam street,
are offered at the lowest possible cost."
Omaha, the building now occupied at 1516 Dodge
street, Omaha is the property of that concern.
Click's Music Shop. Inc., 2503 Devon avenue, Chi-
The Waltham Piano Co. of Milwaukee, has leased
cago. Capital, $5,000. Deal in radios and musical one-half of the Rasmussen building at Antigo, Wis.,
instruments. Incorporaors: Carl Glick, Otto Pfeiffer which will now be the location of the Waltham store
and Michael H. Brodkin. Correspondent: Brodkin & in that section, conducted by Edgar Netzow, who came
to Antigo from Stevens Point.
Biever, 134 N. La Salle street, Chicago.
MANY GROUPS ENTERING
STATE BAND CONTESTS
AUSTRALIAN INTEREST IN
PIANO CLASS TEACHING
TheQUEENANNE
has won and held public
approval through these fea-
tures—
1. Selectivity and
sensitivity.
2. Quality workman-
ship.
3. Beauty in cabinet
and design.
4. Simplicity and ease
of operation
—and
5. Unusual value—
1.50 complete.
To see it, to hear its flawless
performance, is to appreciate
its worth.
THE
JESSE FRENCH & SONS
PIANO COMPANY
NEWCASTLE
INDIANA
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