Music Trade Review
Issue: 1928 Vol. 87 N. 9 - Page 16
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The Music Trade Review
16
Chicago and Middle West
(Continued from page 15)
Graemere Hotel in Chicago on Thursday,
August 23, where an exhibition and demonstra-
tion of the Splitdorf line took place. A great
deal of enthusiasm was shown among the music
dealers for the possibilities that radio offers,
and several of the leading local piano men
stated that they have found that the radio is
the dealers' best friend instead of enemy.
Percy Kimberly Dies
From Injury in Accident
Percy Kimberly, president of the Kimberly
Radio Corp., 154 East Erie street, died early
Tuesday morning, August 28. Mr. Kimberly
has a farm near Barrington, Cook County, and
on Monday night left his office at the usual
hour to be met at the train by his car. Soon
after a heavily laden truck ran into the Kimb-
erly automobile, demolished it, and inflicted
such injuries on Mr. Kimberly that he died
without regaining consciousness the next'morn-
ing at 3.00 o'clock in an Elgin hospital. Mrs.
Kimberly was also hurt, but not seriously. The
Kimberly Radio Corp. is a regional distributor
for the Zenith radio. Before going into the
radio business Mr. Kimberly for fifteen years
was associated with the Cable Piano Co.
SEPTEMBER 1, 1928
the dealer can use by merely adding his own
signature and address, a service which the W.
W. Kimball Co. has provided for several years.
Sonora Signs Contract
for Film Bible Stories
Chicago Stores Plan
Glass Piano Teaching
To Supply Non-Synchronized Records to Go
With Religious Films for Use in the Churches
of the Country—Many Millions Involved
Announcement was made on Wednesday of
this week by P. L. Deutsch, president of the
Acoustic Products Co., and the Sonora Phono-
graph Co., that a contract had been signed in
Wm. L. Bush, director of the educational de- behalf of the latter company with the Religious
partment of the Bush & Lane Piano Co., an- Film Trust, to supply all the equipment and
nounces that a number of Chicago stores will records necessary for the presentation of sound
conduct group piano instruction this Fall in and pictures of Biblical stories in thousands of
connection with the nation-wide promotional churches and other religious institutions during
campaign in behalf of piano class instruction the next ten years.
At the outset, the films will be shown with
recently launched by the Bush & Lane Piano
non-synchronized Sonora records reproduced
Co.
The instruction system to be employed by on the Sonora Melodons and keyed to the speed
the Chicago dealers will be the Curtis plan of the picture. The cost of this type of presen-
which has been used by William Gross, dealer, tation will make it available to even the small-
at 3940 North Kedzie avenue, for the past two est of churches at a cost they can well afford.
years with a great deal of success. An initial Later synchronized combinations of sound and
enrollment of 240 pupils has already been ob- film, or talking movies featuring Biblical sub-
tained for the class to be held this season at jects, will 'be made available to larger churches.
the Gross piano store. Large enrollments are The project is non-sectarian, and the films will
anticipated by the following houses which are be made in the heart of the Holy Land with
adopting this system: The Reichardt Piano Co., natives employed for all but the leading parts.
1311 Milwaukee avenue; Central Piano Co., It is declared that the entire undertaking may
2424 West Fullerton avenue, Raieff Piano Co., involve the sum of $200,000,000 over the ten-
401 South Michigan avenue, and the United year period.
The work is under the direction of an ad-
Piano Co., 2858 West Twenty-second street.
visory board of thirty-six members, including
clergymen and prominent laymen, among th'em
Rev. Randolph Ray, Rabbi Nathan Krass,
Samuel Untermeyer, Hon. James J. Davis,
Donald Brian and James W. Gerard.
Bush & Lane Educational Department, Wm. L.
Bush, Director, Supervising Extensive Cam-
paign in That City
New Kimball Ads
for the Use of Dealers White to Appear Before
The W. W. Kimball Co. has issued a new
Iron & Steel Institute
series of twenty-eight dealer advertisements of
several sizes. It is announced by the advertis-
ing department that the purpose of this particu-
lar series is td provide copy for rather small
space that is at the same time effective and to
emphasize the upright piano as well as the
grand. Copy is prepared in matrix form which
American
PIANO WIRE
"Perfected"
•
"Crown"
American Steel 6c Wire
Chicago —New York
Company
Supply Line Wanted
Experienced supply salesman now
selling piano hardware and punch-
ings in New York, desires to take
on another line. Address Box 3272,
The Music Trade Review, 420 Lex-
ington Avenue, New York City.
Wm. Braid White, technical editor of the Re-
view, and consulting acoustic engineer for the
American Steel & Wire Co., will deliver a
HUNTINGTON, IND., August 28.—Curtis S. Miller,
paper before the Iron & Steel Institute in New
York City on October 26 during the regular a veteran of the piano trade, and for some
Fall session. The subject is an "An Acoustical years vice-president of the Schaff Piano Co.,
died at the home of his parents in Warren, O.,
Laboratory for the Analysis of Music Wire."
last week, after a lengthy illness. A'bout three
years ago he became secretary of the Chamber
of Commerce of Washington Court House, O.,
after some time spent in the West. Mr. Miller
Chas. E. Howe and Gordon Laughead, of the was forty-eight years old and is survived by
Wurlitzer Grand Piano Co., are in Indianapolis, a widow and two sons. The funeral was held
Ind., at the invitation of Frank Wilking, presi- in this city.
dent of the Wilking Music Co., inspecting the
new Wilking store, which now fronts 31 East
Ohio street. The Wilking Music Co. will be
six years old next October, and is to-day one
of Indianapolis' leading and most beautiful
BOSTON, MASS., August 29.—The Rosen Talking
stores. Wurlitzer and Apollo pianos and re- Machine Co., which for some years has operated
producing pianos are featured.
a store at 11 School street in the business sec-
tion, is starting a branch store at 9 Boylston
The Wewoka Music Store, of Wewoka, Okla., street. While this was at one time one of the
has opened a branch in Weleetka, that state, leading talking machine warerooms, of late it
under the management of Chubby Watson.
has developed into a radio store.
Death of Curtis S. Miller
Visiting Wilking Go.
Rosen Co. Opens Branch
THE REVIEW'S UNIVERSAL "WANT" DIRECTORY
A N Y member of the music trade may
/ • A forward to this office a "position
"*"
wanted" advertisement intended
for this Department, to occupy four
lines agate measure, and it will be in-
serted free. Replies will also be for-
warded without cost. Additional space
charged at the rate of 25c per line. If
bold-faced type is desired, the cost for
same will be 25c a line, 7 words to a line.
"Help Wanted" advertisements will be
charged for at the rate of 25c per line.
Cash must accompany order.
Business Opportunities and For Sale
advertisements inserted as display space
only at $7.00 per single column inch.
All advertisements intended for this
department must be in hand on the Sat-
urday preceding date of issue.
WANTED—Will take a first class player, re-
pairman and tuner into a thriving business.
Good opportunity, but it will take a good man
to get it. More business than we can take care
of. None but an ambitious and reliable man
need apply. Marianna Music Co., Marianna,
Fla.
POSITION WANTED—An exceptional, ca-
pable piano man of proven ability and success,
well versed in every detail of piano and radio
business. A closer, organizer, good musician
and hard worker, no chairwarmer, will be open
for position September 1. Address Box 3273,
Music Trade Review, 420 Lexington Avenue,
New York City.
WANTED—A real salesman who can sell
$25,000 per year. Living wages and interest in
old established music business. Address Box
3270, Music Trade Review, 420 Lexington
Avenue, New York City.
ATTENTION PIANO DEALERS of the
South—Successful piano salesman available
September 15. Employed two years in one of
the oldest piano houses in New York as floor
salesman. Desires permanent location in South.
Have had previous selling experience in South.
Christian, age 34, married. References. Ad-
dress Box 3266, Music Trade Review, 420 Lex-
ington Avenue, New York City.
INDEPENDENT TUNER, REPAIRER, PLAYER
MECHANIC, with over 20 years' experience, can spare
part time for dealers or music schools. Day work, or
commission basis—New York City and Long Island. Ad-
dress Box 3274, care The Music Trade Review, 420 Lex-
ington Avenue, New York City.
POSITION WANTED—By manager-sales manager, piano
department or store. Hae had extensive experience cre-
ating new business with outside sales force. Will furnish
A-l references. Address Box 3271, care The Music Trade
Review, 420 Lexington Avenue, New York City.
POSITION WANTED—High-class store and salesman-
ager desires position with reliable piano dealer in New
Jersey, Pennsylvania or New York State. Address A.
C. H., Box 634, Greene, N. Y.
POSITION WANTED—An aggressive,, educated young
man, thoroughly experienced, desires position as bill ana
charge clerk, preferably with established jobber. Best
references. Address Box No. 3265, Music Trade Review,
420 Lexington Ave., New York City.
The Music Trade Review
16
Chicago and Middle West
(Continued from page 15)
Graemere Hotel in Chicago on Thursday,
August 23, where an exhibition and demonstra-
tion of the Splitdorf line took place. A great
deal of enthusiasm was shown among the music
dealers for the possibilities that radio offers,
and several of the leading local piano men
stated that they have found that the radio is
the dealers' best friend instead of enemy.
Percy Kimberly Dies
From Injury in Accident
Percy Kimberly, president of the Kimberly
Radio Corp., 154 East Erie street, died early
Tuesday morning, August 28. Mr. Kimberly
has a farm near Barrington, Cook County, and
on Monday night left his office at the usual
hour to be met at the train by his car. Soon
after a heavily laden truck ran into the Kimb-
erly automobile, demolished it, and inflicted
such injuries on Mr. Kimberly that he died
without regaining consciousness the next'morn-
ing at 3.00 o'clock in an Elgin hospital. Mrs.
Kimberly was also hurt, but not seriously. The
Kimberly Radio Corp. is a regional distributor
for the Zenith radio. Before going into the
radio business Mr. Kimberly for fifteen years
was associated with the Cable Piano Co.
SEPTEMBER 1, 1928
the dealer can use by merely adding his own
signature and address, a service which the W.
W. Kimball Co. has provided for several years.
Sonora Signs Contract
for Film Bible Stories
Chicago Stores Plan
Glass Piano Teaching
To Supply Non-Synchronized Records to Go
With Religious Films for Use in the Churches
of the Country—Many Millions Involved
Announcement was made on Wednesday of
this week by P. L. Deutsch, president of the
Acoustic Products Co., and the Sonora Phono-
graph Co., that a contract had been signed in
Wm. L. Bush, director of the educational de- behalf of the latter company with the Religious
partment of the Bush & Lane Piano Co., an- Film Trust, to supply all the equipment and
nounces that a number of Chicago stores will records necessary for the presentation of sound
conduct group piano instruction this Fall in and pictures of Biblical stories in thousands of
connection with the nation-wide promotional churches and other religious institutions during
campaign in behalf of piano class instruction the next ten years.
At the outset, the films will be shown with
recently launched by the Bush & Lane Piano
non-synchronized Sonora records reproduced
Co.
The instruction system to be employed by on the Sonora Melodons and keyed to the speed
the Chicago dealers will be the Curtis plan of the picture. The cost of this type of presen-
which has been used by William Gross, dealer, tation will make it available to even the small-
at 3940 North Kedzie avenue, for the past two est of churches at a cost they can well afford.
years with a great deal of success. An initial Later synchronized combinations of sound and
enrollment of 240 pupils has already been ob- film, or talking movies featuring Biblical sub-
tained for the class to be held this season at jects, will 'be made available to larger churches.
the Gross piano store. Large enrollments are The project is non-sectarian, and the films will
anticipated by the following houses which are be made in the heart of the Holy Land with
adopting this system: The Reichardt Piano Co., natives employed for all but the leading parts.
1311 Milwaukee avenue; Central Piano Co., It is declared that the entire undertaking may
2424 West Fullerton avenue, Raieff Piano Co., involve the sum of $200,000,000 over the ten-
401 South Michigan avenue, and the United year period.
The work is under the direction of an ad-
Piano Co., 2858 West Twenty-second street.
visory board of thirty-six members, including
clergymen and prominent laymen, among th'em
Rev. Randolph Ray, Rabbi Nathan Krass,
Samuel Untermeyer, Hon. James J. Davis,
Donald Brian and James W. Gerard.
Bush & Lane Educational Department, Wm. L.
Bush, Director, Supervising Extensive Cam-
paign in That City
New Kimball Ads
for the Use of Dealers White to Appear Before
The W. W. Kimball Co. has issued a new
Iron & Steel Institute
series of twenty-eight dealer advertisements of
several sizes. It is announced by the advertis-
ing department that the purpose of this particu-
lar series is td provide copy for rather small
space that is at the same time effective and to
emphasize the upright piano as well as the
grand. Copy is prepared in matrix form which
American
PIANO WIRE
"Perfected"
•
"Crown"
American Steel 6c Wire
Chicago —New York
Company
Supply Line Wanted
Experienced supply salesman now
selling piano hardware and punch-
ings in New York, desires to take
on another line. Address Box 3272,
The Music Trade Review, 420 Lex-
ington Avenue, New York City.
Wm. Braid White, technical editor of the Re-
view, and consulting acoustic engineer for the
American Steel & Wire Co., will deliver a
HUNTINGTON, IND., August 28.—Curtis S. Miller,
paper before the Iron & Steel Institute in New
York City on October 26 during the regular a veteran of the piano trade, and for some
Fall session. The subject is an "An Acoustical years vice-president of the Schaff Piano Co.,
died at the home of his parents in Warren, O.,
Laboratory for the Analysis of Music Wire."
last week, after a lengthy illness. A'bout three
years ago he became secretary of the Chamber
of Commerce of Washington Court House, O.,
after some time spent in the West. Mr. Miller
Chas. E. Howe and Gordon Laughead, of the was forty-eight years old and is survived by
Wurlitzer Grand Piano Co., are in Indianapolis, a widow and two sons. The funeral was held
Ind., at the invitation of Frank Wilking, presi- in this city.
dent of the Wilking Music Co., inspecting the
new Wilking store, which now fronts 31 East
Ohio street. The Wilking Music Co. will be
six years old next October, and is to-day one
of Indianapolis' leading and most beautiful
BOSTON, MASS., August 29.—The Rosen Talking
stores. Wurlitzer and Apollo pianos and re- Machine Co., which for some years has operated
producing pianos are featured.
a store at 11 School street in the business sec-
tion, is starting a branch store at 9 Boylston
The Wewoka Music Store, of Wewoka, Okla., street. While this was at one time one of the
has opened a branch in Weleetka, that state, leading talking machine warerooms, of late it
under the management of Chubby Watson.
has developed into a radio store.
Death of Curtis S. Miller
Visiting Wilking Go.
Rosen Co. Opens Branch
THE REVIEW'S UNIVERSAL "WANT" DIRECTORY
A N Y member of the music trade may
/ • A forward to this office a "position
"*"
wanted" advertisement intended
for this Department, to occupy four
lines agate measure, and it will be in-
serted free. Replies will also be for-
warded without cost. Additional space
charged at the rate of 25c per line. If
bold-faced type is desired, the cost for
same will be 25c a line, 7 words to a line.
"Help Wanted" advertisements will be
charged for at the rate of 25c per line.
Cash must accompany order.
Business Opportunities and For Sale
advertisements inserted as display space
only at $7.00 per single column inch.
All advertisements intended for this
department must be in hand on the Sat-
urday preceding date of issue.
WANTED—Will take a first class player, re-
pairman and tuner into a thriving business.
Good opportunity, but it will take a good man
to get it. More business than we can take care
of. None but an ambitious and reliable man
need apply. Marianna Music Co., Marianna,
Fla.
POSITION WANTED—An exceptional, ca-
pable piano man of proven ability and success,
well versed in every detail of piano and radio
business. A closer, organizer, good musician
and hard worker, no chairwarmer, will be open
for position September 1. Address Box 3273,
Music Trade Review, 420 Lexington Avenue,
New York City.
WANTED—A real salesman who can sell
$25,000 per year. Living wages and interest in
old established music business. Address Box
3270, Music Trade Review, 420 Lexington
Avenue, New York City.
ATTENTION PIANO DEALERS of the
South—Successful piano salesman available
September 15. Employed two years in one of
the oldest piano houses in New York as floor
salesman. Desires permanent location in South.
Have had previous selling experience in South.
Christian, age 34, married. References. Ad-
dress Box 3266, Music Trade Review, 420 Lex-
ington Avenue, New York City.
INDEPENDENT TUNER, REPAIRER, PLAYER
MECHANIC, with over 20 years' experience, can spare
part time for dealers or music schools. Day work, or
commission basis—New York City and Long Island. Ad-
dress Box 3274, care The Music Trade Review, 420 Lex-
ington Avenue, New York City.
POSITION WANTED—By manager-sales manager, piano
department or store. Hae had extensive experience cre-
ating new business with outside sales force. Will furnish
A-l references. Address Box 3271, care The Music Trade
Review, 420 Lexington Avenue, New York City.
POSITION WANTED—High-class store and salesman-
ager desires position with reliable piano dealer in New
Jersey, Pennsylvania or New York State. Address A.
C. H., Box 634, Greene, N. Y.
POSITION WANTED—An aggressive,, educated young
man, thoroughly experienced, desires position as bill ana
charge clerk, preferably with established jobber. Best
references. Address Box No. 3265, Music Trade Review,
420 Lexington Ave., New York City.
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