Music Trade Review
Issue: 1926 Vol. 83 N. 16 - Page 7
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OCTOBER 16, 1926
The Music Trade Review
Indiana Music Dealers to Organize in
Indianapolis on October 25 and 26
Two-day Session to Be Held in That City to Organize a State-Wide Association—Joel B. Ryde
General Chairman of the Committees in Charge of the Event
jNDIANAPOLIS, IND., October 11.—Tenta-
*• tive plans for the two-day program on
Monday and Tuesday, October 25 and 26, when
the music dealers of Indiana will meet in In-
dianapolis to perfect a State-wide association,
were announced at a luncheon last week by
Harry W. Wert, of the Pearson Piano Co.,
chairman of the program committee. All that
is needed to complete the program is the final
acceptance of two of the speakers, which has
been assured by C. L. Dennis, of the National
Association of Music Merchants.
The morning- session on October 25 will be
devoted to registration, under the direction of
Albert Sering, of the Carlin Music Co. The
dealers will meet at luncheon, where Alvan J.
Rucker, corporation counsel of Indianapolis,
and William C. Christena, of the Christena-
Teague Piano Co. and president of the Indi-
anapolis Music Dealers' Association, will deliver
addresses of welcome.
Following the luncheon, the first business
session will convene, with Joel B. Ryde, of the
Fuller-Ryde Music Co. and general chairman
of the convention committee, presiding. E. R.
Jacobson, Hammond, Ind., president of the
Music Industries Chamber of Commerce, will
make the opening address. He will be followed
by a speaker to be announced later on the
subject, "Accomplishment of Co-operation and
Association Work—Value of Organization to
Dealers." Consideration will then be given to
the plans for organization and committees will
be appointed on membership, by-laws and
nomination of officers.
At the Tuesday morning session Roy A.
Maypole, of Detroit, Mich., will talk on
"Methods and Means of Increasing the Interest
of Indiana People in the Playing of the Piano."
The next item on the program will be the
Melody Way of group instruction with a class of
non-instructed pupils by W. Otto Miessner, of
Milwaukee, who will also talk on "The Crisis
in the Piano Business." Edward C. Uhl, of
Los Angeles, Cal., president of the National
Association of Music Merchants, who will be
in Indianapolis to attend the meeting of the
national executive committee, has been assigned
the subject, "Interesting Young Men in the
Music Business." Before adjourning for lunch-
eon the nominating committee will make its
report.
A real treat is in store for the dealers during
the luncheon hour. Former Mayor Lew Shank
and Thomas M. Pletcher, president of the
Q R S Music Co., Chicago, both masters in
repartee, will co'mpete for forensic honors.
The Tuesday afternoon session will open with
the election of officers of the contemplated
Indiana association, which will be followed by
the Curtis Way of group piano instruction, ex-
plained and demonstrated with pupils by
William L. Bush, of Chicago, and Helen Curtis,
of Kansas City. Roy Maypole will preside
during this demonstration. The concluding
number of the business sessions will be a demon"
stration of the Orthophonic Victrola and the
Brunswick Panatrope reproducing machines.
The convention will terminate in a banquet
on Tuesday evening, when Frank E. Edgar, of
the Aeolian Co. of New York, will be the
speaker of the evening. The new Indiana offi-
cers will be introduced and the evening will be
rounded out with a series of entertainment
features which are being arranged by George
E. Stewart, of the Wilson-Stewart Music Co.
and chairman of the entertainment committee
of the event.
The Indianapolis Athletic Club will be head-
quarters for the convention and guest cards
will be mailed in advance to all those who plan
to attend the two-day meeting. Requests for
guest cards should be mailed at once to A.
T. Rapp, chairman of the hotel committee. His
address is Rapp & Lennox Piano Co., 245
North Pennsylvania street, Indianapolis.
The Results of the Piano Playing Contest
(Continued from page 3)
in a minute, but as a rule only after the most public to what they have for sale, that has
careful thought and consideration. As the sales stirred up new interest in what they have to
resistance towards pianos and player-pianos sell, and that has prompted people to talking
has naturally increased during the past few and acting, perhaps merely out of curiosity,
years, the piano salesman to-day really has to about what they have to sell. I think we have
have something to talk about. I firmly believe a great slogan in Detroit, 'Teach Your Child
that this piano-playing contest idea gives him the Piano, the Basic Instrument.'
one of the most interesting subjects that he
"This all helps to make business and lots of
could possibly wish for. Our Detroit store, new business, and I believe that the day will
during the past three years, has enjoyed a come, and in the near future, when piano men
most satisfactory amount of business. The will give much credit to the piano-playing
reason for this, as I can see it, is that we have contest idea as a dignified, constructive method
kept everlastingly at it, but naturally we are of increasing piano sales."
not satisfied. The same as everyone else, we
want to do more. I cannot see why the piano-
playing contest will not help to do this.
"We are in the piano business because we
TORONTO, CAN., October 9.—Gerhard Heintz-
love the piano business, and we only get out mann, president of Heintzmann & Co., Ltd., of
of a business that which we put into it. So this city, died yesterday here, two days after
if we wish continued success and continued his eighty-first birthday. Mr. Heintzmann, who
business of the very highest caliber, then it came to Canada from Germany in 1867, estab-
is up to the piano men to-day to put into the lished the present firm in 1877. Besides his
piano business some real constructive work and manufacturing activities, he was active in civic
ideas. It needs new pep, new thought, some- affairs in this city, being a member of the
thing that perhaps deviates slightly from the Toronto Board of Trade and the Board of
traditional.
Technical Education.
"I dare say that the florists would give lots
of credit to the expression 'Say It With
Flowers.' I imagine the telegraph companies
would give lots of credit to the phrase 'Don't
Write—Telegraph.' We could go on and name
DAYTONA BEACH, FLA., October 8.—The National
several different lines of business that have Piano Co., 210 South Palmetto street, is en-
profited by an idea that has been somewhat larging its display rooms to accommodate its
different, that has called direct attention of the growing business. The store adjoining its
warerooms has been acquired and, by construct-
ing a large connecting archway, the floor space
has been greatly increased. The new room will
be devoted entirely to the display of grand
pianos.
To Open in Lethbridge
WINNIPEG, MAN., October 9.—Robert A. Willis,
vice-president of Willis & Co., Ltd., Montreal,
accompanied by W. M. Howe, Willis repre-
sentative in the province of Alberta, recently
visited Lcthbridge and arranged to open a store
in that center. Premises have been secured in
the Royal Bank Building. E. C. Patey and
A. E. Patey are Lethbridge representatives for
Willis pianos.
New Grinnell Manager
DETROIT, MICH., October 13.—Grinnell Bros, an-
nounce the appointment of G. F. Morton as
sales manager of the wholesale talking machine
department, succeeding the late Charles H.
Grinnell. Mr. Morton was connected with this
department for quite a number of years and is
well known to the music merchants of the State
of Michigan.
Manufacturers to Meet
The regular Fall meeting of the New York
Piano Manufacturers' Association will be held
at the National Republican Club on Tuesday,
October 19, at 12:30 o'clock, a luncheon being
served in connection with the meeting. It is
stated that a number of matters of importance
to the association and trade ai large will be
discussed.
Pratt Read
Products
P i a n o Ivory
Pian o Keys
Piano Actions
Playei Actions
Established in
1806
at Deep River, Conn.
Still There
Gerhard Heintzmann Dead
Standard Service and Highest
Quality
Special Repair Departments
Maintained for Convenience
of Dealers
PRATT, READ & CO.
THE PRATT READ
PLAYER ACTION CO.
National Go. Enlarging
Oldest and Best
OCTOBER 16, 1926
The Music Trade Review
Indiana Music Dealers to Organize in
Indianapolis on October 25 and 26
Two-day Session to Be Held in That City to Organize a State-Wide Association—Joel B. Ryde
General Chairman of the Committees in Charge of the Event
jNDIANAPOLIS, IND., October 11.—Tenta-
*• tive plans for the two-day program on
Monday and Tuesday, October 25 and 26, when
the music dealers of Indiana will meet in In-
dianapolis to perfect a State-wide association,
were announced at a luncheon last week by
Harry W. Wert, of the Pearson Piano Co.,
chairman of the program committee. All that
is needed to complete the program is the final
acceptance of two of the speakers, which has
been assured by C. L. Dennis, of the National
Association of Music Merchants.
The morning- session on October 25 will be
devoted to registration, under the direction of
Albert Sering, of the Carlin Music Co. The
dealers will meet at luncheon, where Alvan J.
Rucker, corporation counsel of Indianapolis,
and William C. Christena, of the Christena-
Teague Piano Co. and president of the Indi-
anapolis Music Dealers' Association, will deliver
addresses of welcome.
Following the luncheon, the first business
session will convene, with Joel B. Ryde, of the
Fuller-Ryde Music Co. and general chairman
of the convention committee, presiding. E. R.
Jacobson, Hammond, Ind., president of the
Music Industries Chamber of Commerce, will
make the opening address. He will be followed
by a speaker to be announced later on the
subject, "Accomplishment of Co-operation and
Association Work—Value of Organization to
Dealers." Consideration will then be given to
the plans for organization and committees will
be appointed on membership, by-laws and
nomination of officers.
At the Tuesday morning session Roy A.
Maypole, of Detroit, Mich., will talk on
"Methods and Means of Increasing the Interest
of Indiana People in the Playing of the Piano."
The next item on the program will be the
Melody Way of group instruction with a class of
non-instructed pupils by W. Otto Miessner, of
Milwaukee, who will also talk on "The Crisis
in the Piano Business." Edward C. Uhl, of
Los Angeles, Cal., president of the National
Association of Music Merchants, who will be
in Indianapolis to attend the meeting of the
national executive committee, has been assigned
the subject, "Interesting Young Men in the
Music Business." Before adjourning for lunch-
eon the nominating committee will make its
report.
A real treat is in store for the dealers during
the luncheon hour. Former Mayor Lew Shank
and Thomas M. Pletcher, president of the
Q R S Music Co., Chicago, both masters in
repartee, will co'mpete for forensic honors.
The Tuesday afternoon session will open with
the election of officers of the contemplated
Indiana association, which will be followed by
the Curtis Way of group piano instruction, ex-
plained and demonstrated with pupils by
William L. Bush, of Chicago, and Helen Curtis,
of Kansas City. Roy Maypole will preside
during this demonstration. The concluding
number of the business sessions will be a demon"
stration of the Orthophonic Victrola and the
Brunswick Panatrope reproducing machines.
The convention will terminate in a banquet
on Tuesday evening, when Frank E. Edgar, of
the Aeolian Co. of New York, will be the
speaker of the evening. The new Indiana offi-
cers will be introduced and the evening will be
rounded out with a series of entertainment
features which are being arranged by George
E. Stewart, of the Wilson-Stewart Music Co.
and chairman of the entertainment committee
of the event.
The Indianapolis Athletic Club will be head-
quarters for the convention and guest cards
will be mailed in advance to all those who plan
to attend the two-day meeting. Requests for
guest cards should be mailed at once to A.
T. Rapp, chairman of the hotel committee. His
address is Rapp & Lennox Piano Co., 245
North Pennsylvania street, Indianapolis.
The Results of the Piano Playing Contest
(Continued from page 3)
in a minute, but as a rule only after the most public to what they have for sale, that has
careful thought and consideration. As the sales stirred up new interest in what they have to
resistance towards pianos and player-pianos sell, and that has prompted people to talking
has naturally increased during the past few and acting, perhaps merely out of curiosity,
years, the piano salesman to-day really has to about what they have to sell. I think we have
have something to talk about. I firmly believe a great slogan in Detroit, 'Teach Your Child
that this piano-playing contest idea gives him the Piano, the Basic Instrument.'
one of the most interesting subjects that he
"This all helps to make business and lots of
could possibly wish for. Our Detroit store, new business, and I believe that the day will
during the past three years, has enjoyed a come, and in the near future, when piano men
most satisfactory amount of business. The will give much credit to the piano-playing
reason for this, as I can see it, is that we have contest idea as a dignified, constructive method
kept everlastingly at it, but naturally we are of increasing piano sales."
not satisfied. The same as everyone else, we
want to do more. I cannot see why the piano-
playing contest will not help to do this.
"We are in the piano business because we
TORONTO, CAN., October 9.—Gerhard Heintz-
love the piano business, and we only get out mann, president of Heintzmann & Co., Ltd., of
of a business that which we put into it. So this city, died yesterday here, two days after
if we wish continued success and continued his eighty-first birthday. Mr. Heintzmann, who
business of the very highest caliber, then it came to Canada from Germany in 1867, estab-
is up to the piano men to-day to put into the lished the present firm in 1877. Besides his
piano business some real constructive work and manufacturing activities, he was active in civic
ideas. It needs new pep, new thought, some- affairs in this city, being a member of the
thing that perhaps deviates slightly from the Toronto Board of Trade and the Board of
traditional.
Technical Education.
"I dare say that the florists would give lots
of credit to the expression 'Say It With
Flowers.' I imagine the telegraph companies
would give lots of credit to the phrase 'Don't
Write—Telegraph.' We could go on and name
DAYTONA BEACH, FLA., October 8.—The National
several different lines of business that have Piano Co., 210 South Palmetto street, is en-
profited by an idea that has been somewhat larging its display rooms to accommodate its
different, that has called direct attention of the growing business. The store adjoining its
warerooms has been acquired and, by construct-
ing a large connecting archway, the floor space
has been greatly increased. The new room will
be devoted entirely to the display of grand
pianos.
To Open in Lethbridge
WINNIPEG, MAN., October 9.—Robert A. Willis,
vice-president of Willis & Co., Ltd., Montreal,
accompanied by W. M. Howe, Willis repre-
sentative in the province of Alberta, recently
visited Lcthbridge and arranged to open a store
in that center. Premises have been secured in
the Royal Bank Building. E. C. Patey and
A. E. Patey are Lethbridge representatives for
Willis pianos.
New Grinnell Manager
DETROIT, MICH., October 13.—Grinnell Bros, an-
nounce the appointment of G. F. Morton as
sales manager of the wholesale talking machine
department, succeeding the late Charles H.
Grinnell. Mr. Morton was connected with this
department for quite a number of years and is
well known to the music merchants of the State
of Michigan.
Manufacturers to Meet
The regular Fall meeting of the New York
Piano Manufacturers' Association will be held
at the National Republican Club on Tuesday,
October 19, at 12:30 o'clock, a luncheon being
served in connection with the meeting. It is
stated that a number of matters of importance
to the association and trade ai large will be
discussed.
Pratt Read
Products
P i a n o Ivory
Pian o Keys
Piano Actions
Playei Actions
Established in
1806
at Deep River, Conn.
Still There
Gerhard Heintzmann Dead
Standard Service and Highest
Quality
Special Repair Departments
Maintained for Convenience
of Dealers
PRATT, READ & CO.
THE PRATT READ
PLAYER ACTION CO.
National Go. Enlarging
Oldest and Best
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