Music Trade Review
Issue: 1926 Vol. 82 N. 22 - Page 11
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Exhibits
at the
Anniversary Meeting
of the
National
Music Industries
The Hotel Commodore, New York
J
T is quite likely that when the roll is called at the Hotel Commo-
dore during convention week there will be found to be a greater
and are inclined to stay away if they are offered only the privilege
of sitting in on association business sessions. Through the medium
of the displays, it is believed a much larger number of dealers will
be brought to New York and once here they can be persuaded to
take part in association work between periods of sight-seeing.
This year the official exhibits for the most part will be found
in the Hotel Commodore, where over 100 concerns have made
reservations for display purposes. There will, of course, be one
or two exhibits in hotels outside the convention headquarters and a
number of local houses will s"how their lines in their own factories
and warerooms. It is noticeable, however, that among the scheduled
exhibits at the Commodore there are about as many Eastern con-
cerns as Western, which seems to bear out the statement that the
official convention exhibit is regarded as a valuable feature.
For the convenience of those members of the trade who are
planning to attend the convention, The Review has compiled a list
of exhibitors, both at the Commodore and elsewhere, together with
such facts as are available regarding the products to be shown and
those who will be in attendance. This list should provide a valuable
guide for the visitor who is interested in special products and who
seeks to find the displays with a minimum of delay.
number of exhibits at the official headquarters than have been
seen at any previous national convention, and they will be so diversi-
fied as to be representative of every division of the music industries.
The increase in the number of exhibits is due in no small
measure to the encouragement given to trade displays by those in
charge of the convention program, and to the fact that, by schedul-
ing the business meetings for the morning hours, the afternoons
vvill.be left free for the inspection of the various new products by
attending dealers.
On several occasions efforts have been made to eliminate dis-
plays as a convention feature, but with little success, because, al-
though the trade authorities frowned upon exhibits, there was a
strong inclination among manufacturers and wholesalers to go it
on their own and display their wares to visitors at points outside the
official headquarters.
Another angle that has led to the encouragement of displays
not only of new instruments, but of selling and advertising ma-
terial, has been a realization that many tradesmen come to the con-
ventions for the chief purpose of seeing what is new in their lines.
The Manufacturers' Exhibits at the Hotel Commodore
AMP10O CORPORATION. New York. The Music
Department will have a special display of rolls in
Room 00(5, Hotel Commodore, with new Kosloff In-
struction Rolls for Dancing- as the -feature. Noted
recording 1 artists such as Adam Carroll, Marguerite
Volavy, Richard Rogers, Zez Confrey and Vincent
Youmans will play. J. Milton Delcamp, J ; J,
Davin, James A. White and Edward Lundquist will
be in attendance.
AUTO PNEUMATIC ACTION CO. New York. Will
exhibit
Welte-Mignon
(Licensee)
reproducing
grand actions and Auto DeLuxe Expression Grand
Actions in Rooms KJOO and 1602, Hotel Commo-
dore. • W. C. Heaton, President; H. J. LaJoie,
Vice-president; Wallace Reynolds, Secretary; Or-
ville Johnson and J. E. Corrigan will be in charg-e.
BACON BANJO CO., INC. Groton, Conn. Will ex-
hibit Silver Bell and B. & D. Super Banjos and
Banjo-Ukes in Room 1405, Hotel Commodore. Fred
Bacon and D. L. Day will be in charge. Special
entertainment features will be "Mike" Scheidl-
meier, world-famous tenor banjoist; Mrs. Pred J.
Bacon, ukulele soloist, and Fred J. Bacon, stand-
ard five-string banjo soloist.
BACON riANO CO. New York. Will exhibit their
regular line of pianos in Suite 1000, 1001 and 1002,
Hotel Commodore, with W. H. P. Bacon, Guy L.
Mclntyre and Harry S. Holmes in charge. A spe-
cial feature will be the 3 foot 9 inch player.
BALDWIN PIANO CO. Cincinnati, O. Will ex-
hibit Baldwin, Ellington and Hamilton pianos in
Room 1900, Commodore Hotel.
Lucien Wulsin,
H. C. Dickinson, J. P. Thornton, E. P. Williams,
G. A. Pelling, Wm. B. Murray and Philip Wyman
will be in charge.
BEHR BROS. & CO. New York. Will exhibit spe-
cial new designs and finishes of regular and art
pianos in Room 1100, Hotel Commodore. Wm. J.
Behr, President; Corley Gibson, treasurer; Wm. H.
Bowles, Edward J. Fitzgerald and K. W. Curtis,
salesmen, will be in charge.
BRINKERHOFF PIANO CO. Chicago. Will ex-
hibit their line of pianos, players, grands and re-
producing grands in Rooms 1552-1554, Hotel Com-
modore, with W. T. Brinkerhoff and W. S. Lanz
in charge.
BUSH & LANE PIANO CO. Holland, Mich. Will
exhibit their line of grands, upright grands, Ceci-
lian player-pianos and the Bush & Lane Welte-
Mignon (Licensee) reproducing grands. Wm. F.
Clevey, Sales Manager and vice-president; Walter
Lane, President, and C. L. Beach, secretary, will
be in charge. Exhibit will be seen in Suite 752-
754, Hotel Commodore.
CABLE-NELSON PIANO CO. South Haven, Mich.
Will exhibit a full line of uprights, players and
grands, including period models, in Rooms 000-1-2,
Commodore Hotel, with John H. Parnham, Presi-
dent; J. L. Barron, Vice-preside;nt; O. C. Stone,
advertising manager; W. W. Radcliffe, R. E.
Johnson, Wm. Rashall, Cliff O. Davis, W. A. Carl-
son and J. T. Gormley in charge.
CHASE-HACKLEY PIANO CO. Muskegon, Mich.
Will exhibit their line of Style 5 grand. Style 32
player, Style 12 upright and Stylo BB Baby Grand
in Room 807, Hotel Commodore. David Howard
and J. 10. Jennings will be in charge.
CONN, LTD., C. G. Elkhart, Ind. Will exhibit new
models of band instruments in Room 741, Hotel
Commodore, with C. D. Greenleaf, J. F. Boyer and
C. J. Fairchild in charge. Advertising features
for dealers will also be shown.
CONTINENTAL PIANO CO. Will have an exhibit
in Rooms 1652,54,50 Commodore Hotel. G. Wilson
MacDow, F. R. Allen, Roy Burgess and J. B.
Heckler will be in charge.
DAVENPORT-TREACY PIANO CO. New York.
Will display New La Petite Player, 3 feet 9 inches,
11
and Style 4, 4 feet 2 inches, upright piano in art
mahogany; new modified Jumbo players, 4 feet 9
inches, in mahogany in Suite 1500-1-2, Commodore
Hotel. Geo. W. Allen, Edw. Forshay, Kenneth W.
Curtis, Fred A. Martin, Arthur A. Wensley, Geo.
Loberheim will be in charge.
DE LUXE REPROD ICING ROLL CORP. New
York.
"Will exhibit Library of Welte-Mignon
(Licensee) reproducing records and dealers' sales
helps in Rooms KJOO and 1G02, Hotel Commodore,
and at factory and recording studio, 653 W. 51st
St. W. C. Heaton, President; J. T. Gibson, Vice-
president, and W. A. Lund of the Promotion De-
partment will be in charge.
DOLL & SONS, INC., JACOB. New York. Will ex-
hibit their line of pianos and player-pianos in
Room 1415, Hotel Commodore. H. E. Morrison will
be in charge.
ESTEY PIANO CO. New York. Will exhibit com-
plete line of uprights, players, grands, modified
period grands and reproducing grands, New Auto-
graph Period grands and reproducing grands in
Suite 1025-27-29-31-33, Hotel Commodore.
G. W.
Gittons. President; E. H. Vog-el, sales manager;
Chas. H. Jackson, W. M. Simmons and L. L. Ab-
bott will bf in charge.
FOSTER-ARMSTRONG CO. E. Rochester, N. Y.
Will exhibit Chickering, Mason & Hamlin, Halnes,
Marshall & Wendell, and Fischer line at Hotel
Commodore. C. J. Cunningham, E. J. Jordan, L.
C. Wagner, F. D. Masters, W. G. Frederick and S.
J. Ailing, G. R. Whittier and G. S. Wehrley will
be in charge.
GABLER & BRO., ERNEST. New York. Will ex-
hibit their line of pianos and players in Room
1411, Hotel Commodore, with H. E. Morrison in
charge.
GIBSON. INC. Kalamazoo, Mich. Will exhibit
their line of banjos, mandolins, guitars, ukuleles,
Exhibits
at the
Anniversary Meeting
of the
National
Music Industries
The Hotel Commodore, New York
J
T is quite likely that when the roll is called at the Hotel Commo-
dore during convention week there will be found to be a greater
and are inclined to stay away if they are offered only the privilege
of sitting in on association business sessions. Through the medium
of the displays, it is believed a much larger number of dealers will
be brought to New York and once here they can be persuaded to
take part in association work between periods of sight-seeing.
This year the official exhibits for the most part will be found
in the Hotel Commodore, where over 100 concerns have made
reservations for display purposes. There will, of course, be one
or two exhibits in hotels outside the convention headquarters and a
number of local houses will s"how their lines in their own factories
and warerooms. It is noticeable, however, that among the scheduled
exhibits at the Commodore there are about as many Eastern con-
cerns as Western, which seems to bear out the statement that the
official convention exhibit is regarded as a valuable feature.
For the convenience of those members of the trade who are
planning to attend the convention, The Review has compiled a list
of exhibitors, both at the Commodore and elsewhere, together with
such facts as are available regarding the products to be shown and
those who will be in attendance. This list should provide a valuable
guide for the visitor who is interested in special products and who
seeks to find the displays with a minimum of delay.
number of exhibits at the official headquarters than have been
seen at any previous national convention, and they will be so diversi-
fied as to be representative of every division of the music industries.
The increase in the number of exhibits is due in no small
measure to the encouragement given to trade displays by those in
charge of the convention program, and to the fact that, by schedul-
ing the business meetings for the morning hours, the afternoons
vvill.be left free for the inspection of the various new products by
attending dealers.
On several occasions efforts have been made to eliminate dis-
plays as a convention feature, but with little success, because, al-
though the trade authorities frowned upon exhibits, there was a
strong inclination among manufacturers and wholesalers to go it
on their own and display their wares to visitors at points outside the
official headquarters.
Another angle that has led to the encouragement of displays
not only of new instruments, but of selling and advertising ma-
terial, has been a realization that many tradesmen come to the con-
ventions for the chief purpose of seeing what is new in their lines.
The Manufacturers' Exhibits at the Hotel Commodore
AMP10O CORPORATION. New York. The Music
Department will have a special display of rolls in
Room 00(5, Hotel Commodore, with new Kosloff In-
struction Rolls for Dancing- as the -feature. Noted
recording 1 artists such as Adam Carroll, Marguerite
Volavy, Richard Rogers, Zez Confrey and Vincent
Youmans will play. J. Milton Delcamp, J ; J,
Davin, James A. White and Edward Lundquist will
be in attendance.
AUTO PNEUMATIC ACTION CO. New York. Will
exhibit
Welte-Mignon
(Licensee)
reproducing
grand actions and Auto DeLuxe Expression Grand
Actions in Rooms KJOO and 1602, Hotel Commo-
dore. • W. C. Heaton, President; H. J. LaJoie,
Vice-president; Wallace Reynolds, Secretary; Or-
ville Johnson and J. E. Corrigan will be in charg-e.
BACON BANJO CO., INC. Groton, Conn. Will ex-
hibit Silver Bell and B. & D. Super Banjos and
Banjo-Ukes in Room 1405, Hotel Commodore. Fred
Bacon and D. L. Day will be in charge. Special
entertainment features will be "Mike" Scheidl-
meier, world-famous tenor banjoist; Mrs. Pred J.
Bacon, ukulele soloist, and Fred J. Bacon, stand-
ard five-string banjo soloist.
BACON riANO CO. New York. Will exhibit their
regular line of pianos in Suite 1000, 1001 and 1002,
Hotel Commodore, with W. H. P. Bacon, Guy L.
Mclntyre and Harry S. Holmes in charge. A spe-
cial feature will be the 3 foot 9 inch player.
BALDWIN PIANO CO. Cincinnati, O. Will ex-
hibit Baldwin, Ellington and Hamilton pianos in
Room 1900, Commodore Hotel.
Lucien Wulsin,
H. C. Dickinson, J. P. Thornton, E. P. Williams,
G. A. Pelling, Wm. B. Murray and Philip Wyman
will be in charge.
BEHR BROS. & CO. New York. Will exhibit spe-
cial new designs and finishes of regular and art
pianos in Room 1100, Hotel Commodore. Wm. J.
Behr, President; Corley Gibson, treasurer; Wm. H.
Bowles, Edward J. Fitzgerald and K. W. Curtis,
salesmen, will be in charge.
BRINKERHOFF PIANO CO. Chicago. Will ex-
hibit their line of pianos, players, grands and re-
producing grands in Rooms 1552-1554, Hotel Com-
modore, with W. T. Brinkerhoff and W. S. Lanz
in charge.
BUSH & LANE PIANO CO. Holland, Mich. Will
exhibit their line of grands, upright grands, Ceci-
lian player-pianos and the Bush & Lane Welte-
Mignon (Licensee) reproducing grands. Wm. F.
Clevey, Sales Manager and vice-president; Walter
Lane, President, and C. L. Beach, secretary, will
be in charge. Exhibit will be seen in Suite 752-
754, Hotel Commodore.
CABLE-NELSON PIANO CO. South Haven, Mich.
Will exhibit a full line of uprights, players and
grands, including period models, in Rooms 000-1-2,
Commodore Hotel, with John H. Parnham, Presi-
dent; J. L. Barron, Vice-preside;nt; O. C. Stone,
advertising manager; W. W. Radcliffe, R. E.
Johnson, Wm. Rashall, Cliff O. Davis, W. A. Carl-
son and J. T. Gormley in charge.
CHASE-HACKLEY PIANO CO. Muskegon, Mich.
Will exhibit their line of Style 5 grand. Style 32
player, Style 12 upright and Stylo BB Baby Grand
in Room 807, Hotel Commodore. David Howard
and J. 10. Jennings will be in charge.
CONN, LTD., C. G. Elkhart, Ind. Will exhibit new
models of band instruments in Room 741, Hotel
Commodore, with C. D. Greenleaf, J. F. Boyer and
C. J. Fairchild in charge. Advertising features
for dealers will also be shown.
CONTINENTAL PIANO CO. Will have an exhibit
in Rooms 1652,54,50 Commodore Hotel. G. Wilson
MacDow, F. R. Allen, Roy Burgess and J. B.
Heckler will be in charge.
DAVENPORT-TREACY PIANO CO. New York.
Will display New La Petite Player, 3 feet 9 inches,
11
and Style 4, 4 feet 2 inches, upright piano in art
mahogany; new modified Jumbo players, 4 feet 9
inches, in mahogany in Suite 1500-1-2, Commodore
Hotel. Geo. W. Allen, Edw. Forshay, Kenneth W.
Curtis, Fred A. Martin, Arthur A. Wensley, Geo.
Loberheim will be in charge.
DE LUXE REPROD ICING ROLL CORP. New
York.
"Will exhibit Library of Welte-Mignon
(Licensee) reproducing records and dealers' sales
helps in Rooms KJOO and 1G02, Hotel Commodore,
and at factory and recording studio, 653 W. 51st
St. W. C. Heaton, President; J. T. Gibson, Vice-
president, and W. A. Lund of the Promotion De-
partment will be in charge.
DOLL & SONS, INC., JACOB. New York. Will ex-
hibit their line of pianos and player-pianos in
Room 1415, Hotel Commodore. H. E. Morrison will
be in charge.
ESTEY PIANO CO. New York. Will exhibit com-
plete line of uprights, players, grands, modified
period grands and reproducing grands, New Auto-
graph Period grands and reproducing grands in
Suite 1025-27-29-31-33, Hotel Commodore.
G. W.
Gittons. President; E. H. Vog-el, sales manager;
Chas. H. Jackson, W. M. Simmons and L. L. Ab-
bott will bf in charge.
FOSTER-ARMSTRONG CO. E. Rochester, N. Y.
Will exhibit Chickering, Mason & Hamlin, Halnes,
Marshall & Wendell, and Fischer line at Hotel
Commodore. C. J. Cunningham, E. J. Jordan, L.
C. Wagner, F. D. Masters, W. G. Frederick and S.
J. Ailing, G. R. Whittier and G. S. Wehrley will
be in charge.
GABLER & BRO., ERNEST. New York. Will ex-
hibit their line of pianos and players in Room
1411, Hotel Commodore, with H. E. Morrison in
charge.
GIBSON. INC. Kalamazoo, Mich. Will exhibit
their line of banjos, mandolins, guitars, ukuleles,
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