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CHICAGO AND THE MIDDLE WEST
Frank W. Kirk, Manager, 333 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago
New Starr Small Grand
Is Announced by Firm
and in addition to the conferences which lasted
three days, there were interesting dinners and
golfing.
Further Discussion of
National Piano Tournament
Instrument Holds Center of Attention at Con-
ference of Starr Piano Co.'s Travelers and
Retail Store Branch
Matt J. Kennedy Opens
Branch Retail Store
Chicago Piano Playing Tournament Hopes to
Have National Movement Well Under Way
for Next Year
RICHMOND, IND., August 11.—A special sales
conference was held last week by the Starr
Piano Co., of this city, for the wholesale travel-
Matt J. Kennedy, who has maintained head-
quarters in the Republic Building, Chicago, for
a number of years and recently entered the
retail music field, has opened a branch store at
335 South Wabash avenue, where both pianos
and radios will be featured. Mr. Kennedy
represents the Behning, Bacon, Bradbury, Mc-
Phail and Stultz & Bauer lines of pianos in addi-
tion to the Majestic, Atwater Kent, Bosch and
Sonora radio lines. The opening of the new
branch on Wabash avenue was marked with
large display announcements in the local papers
featuring the new Bosch radio.
At a meeting held at the Great Northern
Hotel, Chicago, Friday, August 10, further steps
were taken to bring a national piano playing
tournament to a realization next year, linking
it up probably with the Music Trades Conven-
tion to be held in Chicago next June.
The meeting of the Piano Playing Tourna-
ment Committee was devoted to a discussion
of ways and means for bringing about a na-
tional tournament and among those present was
Delbert L. Loomis, executive secretary of the
National Association of Music Merchants, who
pledged the support of that organization to the
movement.
"Wherever I have traveled in connection
with my duties," said Mr. Loomis, "I have
found the National Piano Playing Tournament
a subject of discussion with piano men. The
news of the step taken by the Chicago com-
mittee has spread throughout the trade, and the
national tournament will have widespread sup-
port.
"It seems to be recognized that the Chicago
Committee has done an outstanding job in put-
ting on its local tournaments in two successive
years. A National Tournament is the next
logical undertaking. President Roberts of the
Merchants' Association has taken a very deep
personal interest in the work done and the
proposed plans."
The committee decided to feature the educa-
tional side of the tournament and to that end
the support of C. M. Tremaine, Director of
the National Bureau for the Advancement of
Music, will be sought. The plans for the na-
tional tournament have already received wide
publicity, not only throughout the trade but
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E. H. Uhl a Visitor
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New Starr Grand
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ing men and retail store managers, when the
company introduced for the first time the Starr
new style 40, small grand piano and two new
uprights.
These instruments were displayed with over
fifty pianos and phonographs embracing a com-
plete line of Starr instruments so that the
representatives could visualize the entire line
E. H. Uhl, president of the Southern Cali-
fornia Music Co., Los Angeles, Cal., and past
president of the National Association of Music
Merchants, stopped off in Chicago several days
last week on his return to the West Coast from
an Eastern trip. Other recent visitors to the
city were Hugh Randall, Bradford Music Co.,
Milwaukee, Wis.; J. M. Dwyer of the Dwyer
Music Co., New Orleans, La., and A. M. Zer-
wick, accompanied by Mrs. Zerwick, of East
St. Louis, 111.
Opens Branch in Joliet
JOLIET, III., August 13.—Frank Coppotelli, part-
ner in the Coppotelli Bros. Music House, Chi-
cago Heights, has just moved to this city to
open a branch store on Van Buren street. The
main store on Illinois street, Chicago Heights,
will continue under the direction of Carl Cop-
potelli. Both firms will handle the same lines
of pianos, phonographs and other music goods.
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and note the various features of each individual
instrument. The styles were shown in various
woods and finishes.
The feature of the display was the new style 40
grand, which is the smallest grand that the com-
pany has made. It is thirty-eight and one-half
inches in height, fifty-seven inches in width and
fifty-eight inches deep. It is made in mahogany
and walnut. There is every indication that the
The New Geneva Residence
Pipe Organ
Opens a new sales field to the Piano Dealer
I
T can be installed in the average home at a price the average man can pay
—and we sell it to the piano merchant at a price which will yield him a
handsome profit.
The new Geneva Home Organ is built by pipe organ specialists of many
years experience.
It is a real pipe organ, not an instrument with one or two wheezy sets of
pipes added to a piano.
All models are equipped with a real 16-foot pedal organ.
It can be played either by the manuals or by rolls, and the roll library is
unlimited.
Ask for specifications.
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new small uprights, which are four-foot pianos,
which the company announced recently, will be
very popular, for the trade has responded
immediately in ordering these instruments.
Among the phonograph styles displayed was
the new Starr XXXVI which represents the
latest development in its phonograph line and
is expected to be a popular-priced seller.
The sales meeting was unusually enthusiastic,
GENEVA ORGAN CO.
Builders of the highest grade pipe organs for
churches, theatres, public auditoriums and homes.
GENEVA, ILLINOIS
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