Music Trade Review
Issue: 1928 Vol. 86 N. 1 - Page 6
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The Music Trade Review
Christman Pianos in
New Pythian Temple
the exterior being of gray brick with the two
lower stories in carved, cast stone of limestone
effect. This ornamentation is Egyptian, and
there is a colonnade at the top of the building.
Eight Instruments Used in $2,000,000 Structure
Which Is to Be Dedicated on January 25
JANUARY 7, 1928
Features Highway Sign
in the Form of a Piano
V. W. Huffman, of Herington, Kans., Gires
Both Kansas Wheat and the Kimball Piano
Some Good Publicity on Old Trails Road
Henry Christman, secretary of the Christman
Piano Co., New York, has just announced that
Christman pianos have been chosen for use in
An unusual road sign is that which has been
placed on the National Old Trails Road fifty
miles south of Herington, Kansas, by V. W.
Huffman, an energetic piano dealer of Hering-
lon. The sign is made in the form of a piano
and enameled white with lettering in black. On
the top panel appears the sentence: "Kansas
Grows the Best Wheat in the World." Above
the keyboard "W. W. Kimball Makes the Best
Pythian Temple Auditorium
The building includes fifteen lodge rooms, a
grand lodge room, auditoriums, gymnasium,
bowling alleys and billiard rooms.
GROWS THE BEST
N THE WORLD
W.W. KIMBALL Cd.
BEST PIANO IN THE WORLD
New "Two Black Grows"
Record Is Broadcast
Entrance to Pythian Temple
the new $2,000,000 Pythian Temple which will
be dedicated at 135 West Seventieth street, New
York, on January 25. Eight of these pianos
will be used in the building, some of which
are Studio grands and the rest uprights.
The Pythian Temple was designed by
Thomas W. Lamb and is a ten-story structure,
During the broadcast of the Two Black Crows
in the Columbia Phonograph Co. Hour recently,
Part 6 of their latest record was played on the
Columbia-Kolster Viva-tonal electric phono-
graph, as a comparison test with the artists
themselves, who had just been entertaining in
person. From far-distant points came compli-
ments on the lifelike reproduction, which many
hearers mistook for the Crows' own broadcast.
Clarence E. Weissner, was recently appointed
manager of the musical merchandise department
of the Schmoller & Mueller Piano Co. in
Omaha, Nebr. He is well-known as a saxo-
phone soloist and orchestra director.
Huffman Road Sign
I'ianos In the World," and on the lower panel
"Sold By V. W. Huffman Co., Herington." The
sign has attracted wide attention, and, although
a considerable distance from the Huffman store,
is credited with bringing in actual sales. Mr.
Huffman has been in the music business in
Herington for twenty-seven years and has fea-
tured the Kimball piano for eighteen years of
that period.
Gus' Phonograph and Radio Shop, 616 South
Gay street, Knoxville, Tenn., has been incor-
porated with capital stock of $15,000.
and speaking of
TALKING POINT
the new Jesse French & Sons Period Grands have them—and they speak for
themselves. To the person who is buying a piano with two purposes in view,
to beautify a home as well as to brighten it with music, the new Period Grands
speak for themselves, eloquently through the two most impressionable senses—
THEIR BEAUTY APPEALS TO THE EYE
THEIR MUSIC APPEALS TO THE EAR!
The correspondence of established dealers is solicited
The JESSE FRENCH & SONS PIANO CO
NEWCASTLE, INDIANA
The Music Trade Review
Christman Pianos in
New Pythian Temple
the exterior being of gray brick with the two
lower stories in carved, cast stone of limestone
effect. This ornamentation is Egyptian, and
there is a colonnade at the top of the building.
Eight Instruments Used in $2,000,000 Structure
Which Is to Be Dedicated on January 25
JANUARY 7, 1928
Features Highway Sign
in the Form of a Piano
V. W. Huffman, of Herington, Kans., Gires
Both Kansas Wheat and the Kimball Piano
Some Good Publicity on Old Trails Road
Henry Christman, secretary of the Christman
Piano Co., New York, has just announced that
Christman pianos have been chosen for use in
An unusual road sign is that which has been
placed on the National Old Trails Road fifty
miles south of Herington, Kansas, by V. W.
Huffman, an energetic piano dealer of Hering-
lon. The sign is made in the form of a piano
and enameled white with lettering in black. On
the top panel appears the sentence: "Kansas
Grows the Best Wheat in the World." Above
the keyboard "W. W. Kimball Makes the Best
Pythian Temple Auditorium
The building includes fifteen lodge rooms, a
grand lodge room, auditoriums, gymnasium,
bowling alleys and billiard rooms.
GROWS THE BEST
N THE WORLD
W.W. KIMBALL Cd.
BEST PIANO IN THE WORLD
New "Two Black Grows"
Record Is Broadcast
Entrance to Pythian Temple
the new $2,000,000 Pythian Temple which will
be dedicated at 135 West Seventieth street, New
York, on January 25. Eight of these pianos
will be used in the building, some of which
are Studio grands and the rest uprights.
The Pythian Temple was designed by
Thomas W. Lamb and is a ten-story structure,
During the broadcast of the Two Black Crows
in the Columbia Phonograph Co. Hour recently,
Part 6 of their latest record was played on the
Columbia-Kolster Viva-tonal electric phono-
graph, as a comparison test with the artists
themselves, who had just been entertaining in
person. From far-distant points came compli-
ments on the lifelike reproduction, which many
hearers mistook for the Crows' own broadcast.
Clarence E. Weissner, was recently appointed
manager of the musical merchandise department
of the Schmoller & Mueller Piano Co. in
Omaha, Nebr. He is well-known as a saxo-
phone soloist and orchestra director.
Huffman Road Sign
I'ianos In the World," and on the lower panel
"Sold By V. W. Huffman Co., Herington." The
sign has attracted wide attention, and, although
a considerable distance from the Huffman store,
is credited with bringing in actual sales. Mr.
Huffman has been in the music business in
Herington for twenty-seven years and has fea-
tured the Kimball piano for eighteen years of
that period.
Gus' Phonograph and Radio Shop, 616 South
Gay street, Knoxville, Tenn., has been incor-
porated with capital stock of $15,000.
and speaking of
TALKING POINT
the new Jesse French & Sons Period Grands have them—and they speak for
themselves. To the person who is buying a piano with two purposes in view,
to beautify a home as well as to brighten it with music, the new Period Grands
speak for themselves, eloquently through the two most impressionable senses—
THEIR BEAUTY APPEALS TO THE EYE
THEIR MUSIC APPEALS TO THE EAR!
The correspondence of established dealers is solicited
The JESSE FRENCH & SONS PIANO CO
NEWCASTLE, INDIANA
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