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PRESTO-TIMES
Oct.-Nov., 1935
GENERAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS and MUSICAL MERCHANDISE
The Yahrling-Rayner Music Co., Youngstown, O.,
is featuring a special department of music instruction.
Instruction is given in all lines of musical instruments.
The department is under the management of Cliff
A new listing of band instruments of the York
Band Instrument Company, Grand Rapids, Mich., has Smith, a well-known band and orchestra man formerly
just been issued and mailed out to the trade. It is with Vincent Lopez and with the Royal Canadians.
This branch of Yahrling-Rayner will be known as the
an interesting and instructive book, cataloging and
featuring many new models which will be added to Youngstown Conservatory of Music, and is located
at 306 West Federal street, that city. Arrangements
the list of York instruments. And there are several
sensational offers shown, one of them a York standard have been made for instruction in the following in-
struments: accordian, Boelm-clarinet, alto-saxophone,
trumpet in satin silver with gold bell and case, listed
tenor-saxophone, trumpet, mellaphone, violin, Spanish
at $76; another, a York standard cornet with like
guitar, Hawaiian guitar, tenor banjo, mandolin,
finish and case that lists also at $76. A York standard
trombone, satin silver with gold bell and case, is put ukulele, xylophone and drums. The Youngstown Con-
servatory of Music will be located at the Yahrling-
at $81.50, list price. As everyone in the band instru-
Rayner .store and all lessons will be given in their
ment business knows, there are no instruments on
studios, Mr. Smith asserted.
earth of better quality than the York line and these
sistance for they are really sensational prices for
A Washington, Iowa, paper, in speaking of Milburn
York instruments.
McKay, director of the Washington and Fairfield
Municipal Band, says that Mr. McKay has contracted
Presto-Times observes that this is a dealer catalog,
strictly for the dealer who carries band instruments. with the C. G. Conn Company of Elkhart, Ind., to
And, too, the. catalog does not list an instrument nor give free service to schools and students desiring such
a single item that the York Band Instrument Co. does service and has also taken the agency for the Conn
instruments for several counties. Mr. McKay's store
not, itself, manufacture. Nor is there any list of
installment prices in the book. Only cash prices are is located at 119 East Washington street. Mr. McKay
has some comprehensive projects in view for musical
shown, so that the dealer can make installment prices
education; among them he contemplates starting a
and terms to fit his own particular plan. There are
county grade school band which will give students an
no mail-order coupons or mail-order selling plan or
instructions in this remarkable, clean, business-like opportunity to learn and appreciate music and will
help develop a fine high school band.
pamphlet; it is a dealers' catalog and for dealers from
front cover to back page. Better send for one.
The bill which was introduced in Congress by
Representative Hoepel of California and approved by
J. W. Jenkins Music House, Kansas City, is making- the Committee on Immigration of the House of Rep-
considerable of a feature of the Hammond electrical resentatives, provides that any agency bringing an
organ which they took on for distribution in the alien musician to the United States must prove to the
Jenkins territory. Hammond recitals have been staged
Secretary of Labor that no American musican of equal
by Jenkins and recently demonstrations have been
ability desiring employment was unemployed in the
held in various churches in Kansas City and other
United States and that in the country from which
cities.
the musician came employment would be given to
Ralph Wilson and C. P. McNab. proprietors of
American musicians. The committee had previously
The Music Box, have taken a three-year lease on
reported a bill applying the same restriction to alien
premises at 59 East Broadway, Eugene, Ore., where actors, but without the reciprocity provision.
a larger and more complete stock of pianos, musical
merchandise, etc., will be carried than at their former
A two-day celebration took place on the opening
place of business, 68 West Broadway.
of Ptak's new music store at 5416 Broadway, Cleve-
Directors of the Automatic Musical Instrument Co., land. Ohio. This business is under the management
Grand Rapids, Mich., announce a 3 per cent dividend, of B. E. Ptak and his brother, Victor Ptak. This is
the 25th anniversary of the founding of Ptak's Music
paid on Sept. 1, which goes to show that the auto-
matics are enjoying increased prosperity as we are Store in Cleveland. A musical program was given
with souvenirs for visitors.
getting out of the depression.
Notice of the dissolution and surrender of charter
A Wilmerding, Pa., paper tells of the opening of a
of the H. B. Beasley Music Co. of Texarkana, Ark.,
radio store at that place by D. J. Gariage. Now if
has been announced.
young Mr. Gariage will add first a line of brass band
instruments and musical merchandise and follow this
MUSIC PRINTING
up with a piano agency he will start in as a regular
music dealer. It will probably pay you to do this,
Persons who are planning to issue music from their
Mr. Gariage.
own place of business or location carrying their im-
print as publishers will find it to their advantage to
Two recent incorporations in New York City arc
communicate with the Otto Zimmerman & Son Com- Ray Robinson, Musical Accessories, and Favorite
Musical Supply Company. The attorneys are Herbert
pany. Cincinnati, Ohio, a house known as a leader in
Ascher, 475 Fifth avenue, and R. E. Gleit, 535 Fifth
music printing and engraving. This house will deliver
avenue, respectively.
your music in fine condition ready for marketing and
show a class of work that will be a delight to you and
The J. A. Sandee Music Store, formerly located
a quality of work that will help to enhance the sale
of your compositions. The work will be fine and satis- at 103 South Main street, has moved to 5 South Main
street. Fond du Lac, Wis. The new place provides
factory and the cost very liberal and entirely reason-
able. The advertising card of this house appears in this more adequate quarters for the display of musical
instruments and sheet music.
issue of Presto-Times.
York Band Instrument Company
Issues New Catalog
Old,
KANSAS CITY BALDWIN AGENCY SECURES
DOWNTOWN LOCATION
New Home of the Nederman Music House
The Nederman Music Company, which for several
years past has been located at 4700 Broadway, in the
Country Club Plaza district, Kansas City, Mo., has
leased the six-story building at 1015 Walnut street
(the former J. W. Jenkins & Sons building), that
city, where a more extended assortment of different
models of pianos, band instruments, general musical
merchandise and publications will be carried and an
extended line of band instruments, general musical
merchandise and publications. A fine display of the
Baldwin line of pianos centering on Baldwin, Hamil-
ton, Howard, will be brought to public attention in
an especially prominent way. There are six floors
to this building. A basement, 49 by 105 feet, with a
space above will enable the Nederman Company to
expand its activities effectively. The officers of the
Nederman Music Company are: Paul Nederman,
president; E. F. Nederman, vice-president; O. M.
Wilson, secretary-treasurer.
New Models Start New Sales
Dealers in many parts of the country, enthused by
the selling qualities of certain of the late re-styled
uprights and after having had occasion to "look in''
on the other fellow and see how the new instruments
are going with him, have started advertising cam-
paigns on "new creations in piano making," "the piano
of the future" and several other captious captions
to attract the buyer, whether the prospect be first
sale, new sale trade-in or take-back. One of these
enthusiasts whose first inspiration toward the new
style vertical was at the Chicago convention in July
is Arthur F. Winter of the Winter Music House.
Erie, Pa. In praise of the new type instrument he
says:
"The piano of tomorrow is an entirely new instru-
ment, not a spinet, not a grand, not an upright, but
a combination of all three. This new instrument is
admirably suited to the home of today for it is only
23 inches deep and 52 inches in width."
By the way, the new corporate name of the Winter
Music House is The Winter Company.
MAKING ROOM FOR RESTYLED UPRIGHTS
In a special cleanout sale of advertised pianos, to
make room for an arrival of the rcstyled vertical up-
right instruments, 110 in number to be accurate, the
J. S. Reed Piano Company, Baltimore, Md. offer
big reducions in price but make three exceptions of
instruments in their stock which are the Knabes, the
Mason & Hamlin and the new vertical grand models.
Everything else goes on the reduction price except
these Excepted Ones.
The Wichita Musical Instrument Company, Wichita.
Ivans., is now located at 153 North Market street
where an entirely new line of musical instruments
has been installed. The new proprietors are H. C.
Moon and W. F. Walker, both well-known musicians
and music men of that section.
R. W. Peer, who has been band instructor in the
public schools of Oakland, Iowa, is starting a music
store at Schuyler, Neb., and where also he is organiz-
ing a juvenile band.
David Chambers has become sole owner of the
Burgess Music Store at Sydney, Neb., a business
formerly operated by F. O. Burgess. The name has
been changed to Chambers Music Store.
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