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Issue: 1939 2287

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ECHOES FROM THE MUSIC INDUSTRIES
;
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENTS
HARRY V. WILLIAMS JOINS STORY & CLARK
of the advertising contest conducted in connection with the
Annual Musical Industries Trade Convention was made re-
cently by Lawrence H. Selz, publicity counsel for the National
Piano Manufacturers Association and publicity director for the
convention.
All retailers are urged to submit advertisements for the
contest, which it is believed, on the basis of the growing in-
terest in the last two years, will be the biggest in the history
of the industry. Advertisements for both pianos and other
musical merchandise and photographs of window displays in
both classifications should be sent to :
Advertising Contest
Music Industries Trade Convention
Hotel New Yorker
New York, New York
Sales manager Gordon Laughead, of Story & Clark Piano
Company, announces the appointment of Harry V. Williams to
the traveling force of his organization. Mr. Williams has al-
ready started for his new territory in the southeastern states,
accompanied by treasurer Ed. Story, who will journey with
him part of the way.
Story & Clark feel they are fortunate in securing the ser-
vices of Mr. Williams, who, though young in years, is a vet-
eran piano man. Mr. Williams successfully managed the
Rudolph Wurlitzer branch stores in St. Louis, Buffalo, and
Syracuse. For the past year he has been associated with the
San Antonio Music Company, San Antonio, Texas, in charge
of their Rio Grande Valley sales operations.
Harry Williams is known to most piano dealers through-
out the United States and his initial trip through the southern
states will be more in the nature of a visit with old friends
than calling upon new ones.
The closing date for entries will be July 30th at the hotel
New Yorker.
Cups will be awarded in classes for the best piano advertise-
ment in cities over 100,000, best in cities under 100,000 and
for the best piano window in both size cities, as well as for
the best musical merchandise advertisement and the best
musical merchandise window in the large and small cities.
Advertisements will be displayed throughout the conven-
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Raymond E. Durham, president of Lyon & Healy, Chicago
music house, passed away suddenly Sunday morning, April 2,
in Chandler, Arizona.
The Tonette is so easy to play, you can learn by yourself in just a few
minutes. You can play almost anything on it—song hits, classics, old
favorites. For solos, duets, novelty effects, pre-band work and for
playing with piano and other instruments!
INSTRUCTIVE! AMUSING! UNBREAKABLE!
5 00
BLACK MODEL
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$ 25
MARBLETTE
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$ 50
SOLID COLORS
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(Choice of red, blue, yellow, green, Spanish ^ ^ *,
marble, white). All models come attractively
boxed and complete with instruction ch Right, Lyle Hopkins,
band director, leading
a Tonette class in a
Harvey, Illinois, school.
ACCESSORIES FOR THE TONETTE
Collection of 25 Favorite Melo-
dies. Words and music with piano
accompaniment. Some duets and
trios, arranged for Tonette
50c
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some with piano ace. Include
chart. For school and ensem
playing
25c
Folding Desk Stand. Made o
closure
25c
Moore's Classroom Method.
Little tunes in solo and duet form,
Playtime Tonette Songboo
Instruction chart. 22 solos and
duets with piano ace
25c
CHICAGO MUSICAL INSTRUMENT CO., 30 EAST ADAMS STREET, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
EXCLUSIVE DISTRIBUTORS
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Jakway, well known interior decorator. The pamphlet de-
scribes the walnut tree from its infancy in the forest to its-
maturity in your music room, and is handsomely illustrated
with charts and plates.
ORGATRON
The Everett Piano Company reports a splendid export busi-
ness in their Orgatron. Among recent installations are a spe-
cial gold leaf design for the Federal Building of the New
York World's Fair and a regular design for the Florida Build-
ing. Three Orgatrons have been installed at the Golden Gate
Exposition in San Francisco and just recently one was in-
stalled for the New York Historical Society in New York
City.
PRESTO MUSIC TIMES received some of the late copies
of the Orgatron World which is an attractive four-page publi-
cation issued monthly in the interests of the organ department.
From Dr. Alexander Russell, manager of music salons, John
Wanamaker, New York :
"In 1929 an old friend of mine bought a Minuette Gulbran-
sen Upright (No. 284567) from the Music Lover's Shop in
Rochester, N. Y., brought it to New York, and put it on her
houseboat which she and her husband have on the water at
Port Washington, L. I., every summer. The piano, of course,
had to stay on the boat all the time and although it was sub-
jected all these years to dampness, heat, cold and everything
you can think of, it stood up beautifully until the hurricane
last September which completely swamped the houseboat and
everything in it.
TRY YOUR LUCK ON THIS "NEW" PICTURE
PRESTO MUSIC TIMES will give a box of cigars to the
person guessing the names of the old-time music merchants
shown in the pictures above. If more than one person guesses
all the names, or if two people guess the same number of
names, PRESTO MUSIC TIMES will award two boxes of
cigars.
"I might add that it was partly my admiration for the way
this piano stood up on this houseboat (as well as its fine tone
and action) that got me interested in the Gulbransen line. So
in a sense the houseboat piano got Gulbransen and me to-
gether."
PIANO KEY REPAIR
PRESTO MUSIC TIMES is indebted to Mr. E. U. Will of
5305 North Williams Avenue, Portland, Oregon, and to Mr.
Harry Edward Freund of Woodstock, New Jersey, for their
valuable editorial suggestions. Both Mr. Will's and Mr.
Freund's suggestions have been acted on, and when the stu-
dies are completed the results will be published in PRESTO
MUSIC TIMES.
RECOVERING OF PIANO AND ORGAN
KEYS. IVORY OR IVORINE
REPLACEMENTS OF FRONTS, SHARPS AND
BUSHINGS
All Work Guaranteed
Relaying with Ivorine, 50 000, per set
$4.50
Relaying with Pyralin.
Prices of recovering with Ivory of all grades, will be
furnished upon request.
Special prices for scraping and polishing old keys.
NELSON PIANO KEY REPAIR
DEPARTMENT
J.S.DAURER
904 South Sixth Ave.
of the Wurlitzer organization has prepared an arrangement
entitled "The Rhumbaneer" which is printed in the May num-
ber of the Accordion World, the exclusive accordion maga-
zine. Mr. Daurer made the arrangement especially for the
new Wurlitzer Artist Accordion.
for Floor, City and on Trucks
in piano and furniture woods we suggest that you write to
the American Walnut Manufacturers Association, 616 South
Michigan Avenue, Chicago, for a copy of "The Story of Amer-
ican Walnut." This interesting pamphlet was prepared by
Burdett Green of the Yale School of Forestry and Bernard C.
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MAYFIELD MUSIC CO., HUTCHINSON, KAN.
ENGRAVERS AND LITHOGRAPHLRS
PRINT ANYTHING IN MUSIC - BY ANY PROCESS
ESTIMATES GLADLY FURNISHED
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FIRST CLASS PIANO SALESMEN WANTED
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