Music Trade Review
Issue: 1928 Vol. 86 N. 18 - Page 10
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The Music Trade Review
3,000 in Columbus Hear
Finalists in Melody Way
1,500 Students Complete Course in Melody Way Club Held by
the Columbus "Citizen"—Event Marked Completion of
Twelve Weeks' Course Held in That City
MAY 5, 1928
the Department of Labor, which showed a drop
of 2.9 per cent in employment as compared with
February, accompanied by an increase of 2.6
per cent in the aggregate payroll.
Returns to the bureau from forty manufac-
turing establishments show 6,417 persons em-
ployed in March, against 6,609 in February, and
an aggregate weekly payroll of $187,650, against
$182,979. As compared with March of last year,
employment showed a decline of 15.2 per cent
and payroll totals a drop of 15.5 per cent. Per
capita earnings of workers in the industry in
March, however, showed the greatest increase
over February of any industry surveyed, or 5.6
per cent, although 0.4 per cent below March
of 1927.
OLUMBUS, O., April 30.—Some 3,000 persons filed into Memorial Hall Wednesday night,
April 25, to sec the performance of the record-breaking ensembles, the contest for prizes
and the graduation of 1,500 students in the Citizens' Melody Way Course. The affair
marked the conclusion of the newspaper's twelve free lessons in piano.
When the curtains parted the audience saw twenty-five pianos placed in a semicircle on the
stage with two pupils at each piano. At a signal from Miss Bertha Albaugh, director, the
pupils clapped their first selection. Another
swing of her baton and fifty pairs of hands
Those who didn't have pianos wtre provided
made the twenty-five pianos resound through-
with paper keyboards. Five Columbus music
dealers co-operated with the newspaper by
out the hall in the favorite Melody Way selec-
offering free classroom instruction, where pupils
tion, "Magic Music."
In the contest which was next on the pro- attended once a week. The stores which co-
gram the audience witnessed demonstrations of
operated are: The Heaton Co., Wurlitzer Co.,
Wilkin-Redman Co., Win. V. Crowe Store and
the all-around ability of Melody Way pupils.
Hoermle's Music Shoppe.
The nine contestants, chosen after a long series
Dr. Otto Mees, president of Capital Univer-
of eliminations, played selections as written,
transposed them in various keys, played chords
sity, who delivered the commencement address,
in various keys, clapped rhythm patterns and
praised the graduates for their proficiency and
named musical symbols. The three winners,
their ambition. "This course has done much to
representing the junior, intermediate and adult
stimulate interest in music throughout Colum-
classes, were awarded a free scholarship at the
bus," said Dr. Mees. "Not only you pupils
Capitol College of Music in addition to other
w } l o have had the privilege of taking this free
prizes. ,
course, but others whose interest in the piano
For twelve weeks, the Citizen printed a
h a s been reawakened or stimulated, have bene-
lesson each Saturday. Students clipped the les- fited. The Citizen and the music stores are to
son from the paper and studied it at home.
be congratulated upon this splendid step."
C
Piano and Organ Show
March Falling Off
WHEN CHANGING AGENCIES
Consider the Old Reliable
BOARDMAN 6c GRAY
PIANOS FOR YOUR LEADER
Strictly First Class Since 1837
Full Protection
Albany, N.
Given Agents
WASHINGTON, 1). C, May 1.—A decline in ac-
Y.
tivity in the piano and organ manufacturing in-
dustry in March is indicated by a survey just
completed by the I'ureau of Labor Statistics of
Becker Bros.
High Grade Pianos and Player-Pianos
Factory and
Warerooms:
767-769
10th Ave.
NEW YORK
Winnipeg Go. and
Mason & Risch Merge
MONTRKAI., April 30.—Amalgamation of the
Mason & Risch Piano Co., 346 Portage avenue,
Winnipeg, with the Winnipeg Piano Co., 333
Portage avenue, was announced last week by
A. R. Grassby, manager of the Winnipeg Piano
Co. The amalgamation will take place immedi-
ately and the Mason & Risch business will be
moved to the present store of the Winnipeg
Piano Co. as soon as that company can dis-
pose of a number of musical instruments in
stock, he announced.
Most members of the city and district staff
of the Mason & Risch Co. at Winnipeg will
enter the service of the Winnipeg Piano Co.,
under the new arrangements, it is reported.
Co.
BARBERTON, O., April 30.—The Wciscnbcrgcr Co.,
largest department store here, has moved into
its new building in the down town section and
will maintain one of the most complete music
departments in this section. A larger stock of
pianos, talking machines and radios will be car-
ried in the new store. All fixtures and appoint-
ments are new.
Consult the Universal
The Review.
Want
Directory of
KURTZMANN
PIANOS
Win Friends for the Dealer
Makers tine* 1891
Grand and Upright Pianos
Player and Reproducing Pianos
High Quality—Greatest Value
in the market today
W. A. Stack fciwr
C. KURTZMANN & CO.
FACTORY
526-536 Niagara St., Buffalo, N. Y.
Executive Offices:
228-230 So. Wabash Ave., Chicago
Factory: 38S9 So. Ashland Ave.
Pianos and Player-Pianot
of Superior Quality
Grands
Uprights
Player-Pianos
KRAKAUER BROS., Cypress Avenue, 136ft and 137th Streets
1312-14 Of ESTNlff' ST
PHILADELPHIA . PA
NEW YORK
Moderately Priced and Easy to Sell
Don't fail to (nHiriftli
402-410 Went 14th St.
New York
More Cunningham pianos are found in Philadelphia homes than
any other and you can accomplish the same results in your
city.
Ask for our plan of selling Cunningham pianos.
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The Music Trade Review
3,000 in Columbus Hear
Finalists in Melody Way
1,500 Students Complete Course in Melody Way Club Held by
the Columbus "Citizen"—Event Marked Completion of
Twelve Weeks' Course Held in That City
MAY 5, 1928
the Department of Labor, which showed a drop
of 2.9 per cent in employment as compared with
February, accompanied by an increase of 2.6
per cent in the aggregate payroll.
Returns to the bureau from forty manufac-
turing establishments show 6,417 persons em-
ployed in March, against 6,609 in February, and
an aggregate weekly payroll of $187,650, against
$182,979. As compared with March of last year,
employment showed a decline of 15.2 per cent
and payroll totals a drop of 15.5 per cent. Per
capita earnings of workers in the industry in
March, however, showed the greatest increase
over February of any industry surveyed, or 5.6
per cent, although 0.4 per cent below March
of 1927.
OLUMBUS, O., April 30.—Some 3,000 persons filed into Memorial Hall Wednesday night,
April 25, to sec the performance of the record-breaking ensembles, the contest for prizes
and the graduation of 1,500 students in the Citizens' Melody Way Course. The affair
marked the conclusion of the newspaper's twelve free lessons in piano.
When the curtains parted the audience saw twenty-five pianos placed in a semicircle on the
stage with two pupils at each piano. At a signal from Miss Bertha Albaugh, director, the
pupils clapped their first selection. Another
swing of her baton and fifty pairs of hands
Those who didn't have pianos wtre provided
made the twenty-five pianos resound through-
with paper keyboards. Five Columbus music
dealers co-operated with the newspaper by
out the hall in the favorite Melody Way selec-
offering free classroom instruction, where pupils
tion, "Magic Music."
In the contest which was next on the pro- attended once a week. The stores which co-
gram the audience witnessed demonstrations of
operated are: The Heaton Co., Wurlitzer Co.,
Wilkin-Redman Co., Win. V. Crowe Store and
the all-around ability of Melody Way pupils.
Hoermle's Music Shoppe.
The nine contestants, chosen after a long series
Dr. Otto Mees, president of Capital Univer-
of eliminations, played selections as written,
transposed them in various keys, played chords
sity, who delivered the commencement address,
in various keys, clapped rhythm patterns and
praised the graduates for their proficiency and
named musical symbols. The three winners,
their ambition. "This course has done much to
representing the junior, intermediate and adult
stimulate interest in music throughout Colum-
classes, were awarded a free scholarship at the
bus," said Dr. Mees. "Not only you pupils
Capitol College of Music in addition to other
w } l o have had the privilege of taking this free
prizes. ,
course, but others whose interest in the piano
For twelve weeks, the Citizen printed a
h a s been reawakened or stimulated, have bene-
lesson each Saturday. Students clipped the les- fited. The Citizen and the music stores are to
son from the paper and studied it at home.
be congratulated upon this splendid step."
C
Piano and Organ Show
March Falling Off
WHEN CHANGING AGENCIES
Consider the Old Reliable
BOARDMAN 6c GRAY
PIANOS FOR YOUR LEADER
Strictly First Class Since 1837
Full Protection
Albany, N.
Given Agents
WASHINGTON, 1). C, May 1.—A decline in ac-
Y.
tivity in the piano and organ manufacturing in-
dustry in March is indicated by a survey just
completed by the I'ureau of Labor Statistics of
Becker Bros.
High Grade Pianos and Player-Pianos
Factory and
Warerooms:
767-769
10th Ave.
NEW YORK
Winnipeg Go. and
Mason & Risch Merge
MONTRKAI., April 30.—Amalgamation of the
Mason & Risch Piano Co., 346 Portage avenue,
Winnipeg, with the Winnipeg Piano Co., 333
Portage avenue, was announced last week by
A. R. Grassby, manager of the Winnipeg Piano
Co. The amalgamation will take place immedi-
ately and the Mason & Risch business will be
moved to the present store of the Winnipeg
Piano Co. as soon as that company can dis-
pose of a number of musical instruments in
stock, he announced.
Most members of the city and district staff
of the Mason & Risch Co. at Winnipeg will
enter the service of the Winnipeg Piano Co.,
under the new arrangements, it is reported.
Co.
BARBERTON, O., April 30.—The Wciscnbcrgcr Co.,
largest department store here, has moved into
its new building in the down town section and
will maintain one of the most complete music
departments in this section. A larger stock of
pianos, talking machines and radios will be car-
ried in the new store. All fixtures and appoint-
ments are new.
Consult the Universal
The Review.
Want
Directory of
KURTZMANN
PIANOS
Win Friends for the Dealer
Makers tine* 1891
Grand and Upright Pianos
Player and Reproducing Pianos
High Quality—Greatest Value
in the market today
W. A. Stack fciwr
C. KURTZMANN & CO.
FACTORY
526-536 Niagara St., Buffalo, N. Y.
Executive Offices:
228-230 So. Wabash Ave., Chicago
Factory: 38S9 So. Ashland Ave.
Pianos and Player-Pianot
of Superior Quality
Grands
Uprights
Player-Pianos
KRAKAUER BROS., Cypress Avenue, 136ft and 137th Streets
1312-14 Of ESTNlff' ST
PHILADELPHIA . PA
NEW YORK
Moderately Priced and Easy to Sell
Don't fail to (nHiriftli
402-410 Went 14th St.
New York
More Cunningham pianos are found in Philadelphia homes than
any other and you can accomplish the same results in your
city.
Ask for our plan of selling Cunningham pianos.
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