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The Music Trade Review
Many Pittsburgh Dealers
Plan to Attend Convention
Substantial Delegation to Represent Steel City
at the Annual Meetings—F. A. Winter Is
Eighty-two Years Old
PITTSBURGH, PA., June 1.—The Piano Merchants'
Association of Pittsburgh will be well repre-
sented at the national convention, which will
open in New York on June 7. Arthur O. Lech-
ner, president of the association, has personally
urged the members to arrange their plans to
spend at least two days of that week in New
York. In speaking of this Mr. Lechner said:
"All indications point to the coming convention
as being a large and important one, and I should
like to see a large representation from the music
trades from western Pennsylvania. This is es-
pecially desirable in view of the fact that a
meeting of the Pennsylvania Music Merchants'
Association will be held in the Hotel Commo-
dore on the afternoon of Monday, June 7. It is
to be hoped that the music dealers of western
Pennsylvania will rally to the standard of the
new association and give the new president and
his colleagues their hearty support."
F. A. Winter, senior member of the firm of
F. A. Winter & Son, Steinway dealers of Al-
toona, on May 23 celebrated his eighty-second
birthday anniversary. Mr. Winter is quite active
for his age and still retains his faculties to a
degree surpassing that of many men much
younger in years than himself. Mr. Winter,
participated in a Veterans' Day program at the
First United Brethren Church of Altoona, where
he sang and played. He had taken a group of
five hymn tunes, which he adapted to appro-
priate solo form and in addition to singing this
Mr. Winter played on the piano "Monastery
Bells" and "The Rosary."
Appointment of Daniel Nirella and Charles
Passetti as directors of Pittsburgh's Muncipal
Band, recently organized by the municipal park
JUNE 5, 1926
concert committee, to play a season of Summer
park concerts during 1926, was announced by
Will Earhart, chairman of the committee. The
Pittsburgh Municipal Band is a new feature in
local music this year. Members of the band
have been selected by the park concert com-
mittee and will be under the direct supervision
of that group. The committee aims to sponsor
the finest season of music Pittsburgh has ever
known.
The High School Orchestra, of Franklin, Pa.,
won first place; Kittanning, second place, and
Brookville, third place, in a musical contest held
at Clarion, Pa., in which eight western Pennsyl-
vania High School organizations participated.
The boys' quartet of the Ridgway High School
won first prize for singing. A total of 800 stu-
dents took part in the program; two cups were
given as prizes—one to the orchestra winner,
and the other to the school having the most
points in other events. This school was the
Ridgway School.
William C. Hamilton, of the S. Hamilton Co.,
accompanied by Mrs. Hamilton, left for their
Summer home on Cape Cod the past week. Mr.
Hamilton will attend the national convention in
New York the week of June 7, going there
direct from Cape Cod.
Akron Radio Men Organize
AKRON, O.. June 1.—Jack Moore, secretary of
the Akron Merchants Association, has been
named secretary of the recently organized
Akron and Summit County Radio Dealers'
Association, a subsidiary group of merchants.
The new organization, which will meet once a
month, has affiliated with it all retail and whole-
sale music houses and radio shops in the greater
Akron district.
Consult the Universal Want Directory of
The Review. In it advertisements are inserted
free of charge for men who desire positions.
Winter Piano Go. Marks
Golden Anniversary
Erie, Pa., Concern Enjoys Half Century of
Steady Growth—Now Occupies Entire Five-
story Building
ERIE., PA., May 29.—The Winter Piano Co.,
1015 State street, this city, has lately been
celebrating its golden anniversary and has been
visited by many patrons, who take pride in this
establishment. The company was founded a half
century ago by the late George Winter, at 356
East Ninth street, and has steadily grown until
its present proportions make it one of the
leading music stores in the western part of the
State. The present building on State street
comprises five floors, covering over 18,000 feet
of floor space, devoted entirely to the display of
musical instruments. The Winter Piano Co. is
the home of the Knabe and the Ampico and
devotes a large part of the second floor to
Ampico showrooms. Both Victor and Bruns-
wick phonographs are carried and the small
goods department features the Conn line of
band instruments. More than sixty people are
employed in the various departments of this
house.
The Duo-Art in Akron
AKRON, O., June 1.—Announcement is made that
the B. F. Harbaugh Co., well-known local piano
house, has been named representative in the
Akron district for the Duo-Art reproducing
piano. This concern recently completed altera-
tions to the store interior to acccommodate the
new line.
Lovane S. Parsons, pioneer piano dealer of
Waterloo, Iowa, passed away recently at the
age of seventy-three years as a result of a heart
attack. He established the Parsons Music House
in 1876.
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