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MARCH 5, 1927
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Wisconsin Music Merchants Association
Is Granted a Charter by National Body
Members of State Body Discussing Plans for State-Wide Piano Playing Contest to
Culminate During National Music Week of 1928—Piano Tuners'Dinner
\ / f ILWAUKEE, VV1S., February 28.—The
Wisconsin Association of Music Merchants
is now properly affiliated as a branch of the Na-
tional Association of Music Merchants, having
applied for and been granted a charter. H. L.
Ashworth, executive secretary of the associa-
tion, states that the membership of the Wiscon-
sin organization and the Milwaukee branch is
gradually being built up to very sizable propor-
tions and it will in all probability soon be one
of the largest State associations in the country.
Members of the association arc considering
plans for a State-wide piano playing contest to
begin within a short time and to culminate dur-
ing National Music Week in 1928. The associa-
tion will give this project a great deal of pub-
licity through the State. More definite an-
nouncements will be given as to the action
which will be taken in this direction at a later
date.
A small calendar has been printed on the
back of each business card of the Flanner-
Hafsoos Music House, Inc., as an incentive to
the persons who receive it to carry it around
with them. According to Florian F. Flanner,
of that company, people who are not vitally in-
terested in immediate purchases must have
something on the business card which is given
them which will be valuable and interesting to
them, otherwise they will throw it away. Im-
mediately above the calendar on the Flanner-
Hafsoos cards appears the phrase "C. G. Conn
Hand Instruments."
At the National Association of Piano Tuners'
banquet held at the Republican House Thurs-
day, February 24, Charles Deutschmann, na-
tional president, spoke on "Customers and Serv-
ice." The other two speakers on the program,
both Milwaukee men, H. M. Holmes, vice-presi-
dent and sales manager of the J. B. Bradford
Piano Co., and Paul F. Netzow, vice-president
and treasurer of the Waltham Piano Co., spoke
on "Sales and Service" and "Manufacturer and
Service" respectively.
Further improvements are being made in the
window of the Orth Music Co., to better the
appearance of- displays of various musical instru-
ments. A. V. Orth, president and general man-
ager, reports that the Atwater Kent radio busi-
ness continues to be exceptionally good at this
time. In the record department Mr. Orth says
the two records, "Muddy Waters" and "In a
Little Spanish Town" are having an excep-
tionally good run.
The Wisconsin Radio Trade Association will
meet Monday, February 28, at the Elks' Club
here for the purpose of stimulating Summer
sales of radios. A salesmen's contest which will
last the entire month of March will be put into
effect at this meeting. Fifteen hundred dollars
worth of prizes will be offered, the first prize
of which is $500. It is expected that the meet-
ing will act as a real stimuli to the salesmen,
as it will enable a man of ability to earn a good
bonus if he gets exceptional business during the
month of March.
The high schools of Milwaukee are keeping
up with the march of science and are turning
to radio for instruction of their students. In
the physics laboratory of each high school a
radio set and other wireless equipment has been
installed. Talks, programs and instructive mat-
ter are picked up from the air. The science of
radio is taught. The action of the battery cell,
the flow of electrons within a vacuum tube, the
purpose of the condenser, use of the induction
coils, and the transmission of radio waves are
all explained to the pupils. Radio clubs have
been formed to further knowledge and enjoy-
ment of the radio.
George P. Schaffer, of the Lester Piano Co.,
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was a visitor at the J. B. Bradford Piano Co.
during the past week.
W. A. Bye, manager of the Carberry-Parker
Co., announces that the name of that company
has been changed to Chickering Warerooms.
The band instrument and record department
has been discontinued and the company is selling
only Chickering Ampicos and Victrolas. A. H.
Einbender, formerly with the Cable Piano Co.,
of Minneapolis, is now with the Chickering
warerooms as a salesman.
COINOLAS
Supremacy thru their
Performance
Salt Lake City Dealers
Combat New Sales Law
Oppose Plan to Provide for Recording of All
Instalment Contracts as Increasing Expense
of Conducting Business
SALT LAKK CITY, UTAH, February 26.—Efforts
are being made here to enact a conditional sales
law such as is being advocated in a number of
other States at this time. It is stated that musi-
cal instruments and other articles sold on the
time-payment plan would come under the law.
At a public hearing this week before the legisla-
tive committee in charge of the measure, the
sole defense of the proposed law was voiced
by the committeemen themselves. The author
of the measure, Representative Hollingsworth,
declared the bill had the indorsement of various
associations of manufacturers of products ordi-
narily sold conditionally.
Col. Joseph J. Daynes, president and general
manager of the Daynes-Beebe Music Co., made
the principal opposing address. Colonel Daynes
particularly objected to the matter of filing of
record of all transactions on deferred payment
>ales, which is required by the bill, pointing out
that this would increase expense of doing busi-
ness in his own establishment, typical of many
other of the larger retail organizations in the
music field, by about $4,000 a year.
Colonel Daynes cited a feature of conditional
sale of jewelry which he said might retard
trade. It was in the case of a young man of
limited means desiring to bu> an engagement
ring on the time-payment plan who would not
do so if he knew the transaction was to be re-
corded. The same objection, he held, would pre-
vail in the sale of furniture.
Others present who protested against the
measure included George S. Glen, president of
the Glen Bros.-Roberts Piano Co. More than
iittv merchants in different lines appeared be-
fore the committee to oppose the bill.
New Stores and Changes
During the Past Month
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(jtrreuvllle, T«?x.—H. <_J. Decker, secretary and
treasurer of the Collins-Decker Music Co., here, has
resigned his position, and has been succeeded by J.
L. Miller, of Dallas.
Vernon, Tex.—H. B. Madaox has opened the Texas
Music Shop in the Cy Long Building on East Pease
street, this city.
Durability that has
defied the years
Raproduc* Playar Organ
Known Values
Proven Satisfaction
Virginia
Your territory may be open
Appalachia, V'a.—A new music store, called the
Hord Music Shop, has been opened in the Thomas
& Clayton Building by Hord Bros., formerly of
Middleboro, Ky.. and will feature Cable pianos and
Brunswick phonographs.
Norfolk, Va.—The new branch of the Paul-C.ale-
Greenwood music store has been opened at 440
CJranby street, with J. G. Stegall as manager.
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Washington
Seattle, Wash.—The University Music Stores, Inc..
have been incorporated with a capital stock of
$50,000.
West Virginia
Charleston, W. Va.—The Beckley Music Store, this
city, has filed an amendment to its charter.
The Operators Piano Co.
715 N. Kedzie Ave.
Chicago
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