Music Trade Review
Issue: 1952 Vol. 111 N. 6 - Page 22
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Selmer Marks Music Week
With "Silver Dollar" Payday
Manual Arts Has 100 Styles
Of Fabric Top Benches
Music Week in Elkhart, Ind. this year
was marked by the merry jingle of sil-
ver due to the "Silver Dollar Payday"
The Manual Arts Furniture Co., Cin-
cinnati, Ohio, has for a number of years
furnished piano benches that carefully
duplicate styling and color of all pop-
ular makes of pianos. A line of gen-
eral use benches, with individually
styled legs, has also been manufactured.
The #^9 Series Bench of this group
has proven to be so popular that it is
now added to the Manual Arts standard
line. This decorative fabric top bench
is now available with over 100 styles
of piano matching bench legs.
Manual Arts, has designed a smart
fabric selection display to assist cus-
tomers in making a choice of fabric that
will match their color scheme in the
and Miss Mildred Patschke, both of
Chicago.
Mr. Palma is the famed Chicago in-
dustrial designer who is best-known in
the music industry for his many artistic
Story & Clark cases.
Mr. Palma is a partner in the firm of
J. M. GROLIMUND SUPERVISES
MOVING OF "SILVER DOLLAR PAYROLL"
of H. & A. Selmer, Inc. of which Jesse
French Sons is a division.
J. M. Grolimund, president of the
company, thought the annual Music
Week merited more than casual observ-
ance by Elkhartans with the result
that all Selmer employees on Wednes-
day, May 7th, were paid in silver dol-
lars.
The result was that the heavy silver
coins caused talk and the "Elkhart
Truth" publicized the event both in its
editorial and news columns.
Through the cooperation of the St.
Joseph Valley Bank, arrangements were
made to have 8,000 of the big coins
shipped to Elkhart in sacks of 1,000,
each weighing over 60 pounds. The
Elkhart police department sent out a
squad car with an armed guard to con-
voy Selmer officials to the bank and
back.
It took the better part of a day's time
for members of the payroll department
with some of the firm's officers pitching
in to get the counting job done.
i;ii
PIANO
JOSEPH PALMA, Jr.
Palma-Knapp Associate. In addition to
Story & Clark, the firm serves such
clients as Cory Corp., Johnson's Wax,
Admiral Radio and Television, Scott
Radio, Teletype Ditto, etc.
NEW
MANUAL ARTS
TOP BENCH
FABRIC
home, concert hall or school. The fab-
ric sample display and company cata-
log provide the dealer with an effective
sales tool. Dealers are furnished the
new fabric display free upon request.
The fabric display shows four leath-
erette swatches and 20 fabric swatches.
Students of Story & Clark
Piano Designer Win Awards
Two students of Joseph Palma, Jr.
were recently awarded $300 in prizes in
a nationwide furniture-designing com-
petition. They are Mr. Howard Sersen
VNE of the few pianos now on
the market that is made, owned
and operated by the same family
that created it.
I OUR generations of the Kra-
kauer family have produced the
Krakauer piano—over 75 years
in the same family.
I HE Krakauer is the best piano
for "Tone," "Responsiveness" and
"Case Design."
Established 1869
K R A K A U E R
Factory:
401 WEST 124th STREET
BROS.
Retail Warerooms:
25 WEST 57th STREET
NEW YORK
Mrs. Nin to Play on
"Piano Playhouse" July 27th
Mrs. Rosita E. Nin, wife of Salvador
R. Nin, head of Salvador R. Nin, Inc.,
San Juan, Puerto Rico, teacher and con-
cert pianist will appear on Maggy
Fisher's "Piano Playhouse" program on
Sunday, July 27th, over the ABC net-
work. This is the Sunday preceding the
opening of the Convention of the Na-
tional Association of Music Merchants,
which takes place in New York at the
Hotel New Yorker.
In view of Mrs. Nin having been
chosen to play on the "Piano Play-
house " program. "El Mundo", the San
juan paper, published a column ar-
ticle regarding Mrs. Nin, reproducing
her photograph, on May 31st.
BEACH
CARILLONETTE CHIMES
TOWER BELL REPRODUCER
and the
MINI-CHIMES
"Nothing But a Bell Rings Like a Bell"
SEND FOR CATALOGS
BEACH INSTRUMENT CORP.
165 Oraton St.
22
Newark 4, N. J.
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW. JUNE, 1952
Selmer Marks Music Week
With "Silver Dollar" Payday
Manual Arts Has 100 Styles
Of Fabric Top Benches
Music Week in Elkhart, Ind. this year
was marked by the merry jingle of sil-
ver due to the "Silver Dollar Payday"
The Manual Arts Furniture Co., Cin-
cinnati, Ohio, has for a number of years
furnished piano benches that carefully
duplicate styling and color of all pop-
ular makes of pianos. A line of gen-
eral use benches, with individually
styled legs, has also been manufactured.
The #^9 Series Bench of this group
has proven to be so popular that it is
now added to the Manual Arts standard
line. This decorative fabric top bench
is now available with over 100 styles
of piano matching bench legs.
Manual Arts, has designed a smart
fabric selection display to assist cus-
tomers in making a choice of fabric that
will match their color scheme in the
and Miss Mildred Patschke, both of
Chicago.
Mr. Palma is the famed Chicago in-
dustrial designer who is best-known in
the music industry for his many artistic
Story & Clark cases.
Mr. Palma is a partner in the firm of
J. M. GROLIMUND SUPERVISES
MOVING OF "SILVER DOLLAR PAYROLL"
of H. & A. Selmer, Inc. of which Jesse
French Sons is a division.
J. M. Grolimund, president of the
company, thought the annual Music
Week merited more than casual observ-
ance by Elkhartans with the result
that all Selmer employees on Wednes-
day, May 7th, were paid in silver dol-
lars.
The result was that the heavy silver
coins caused talk and the "Elkhart
Truth" publicized the event both in its
editorial and news columns.
Through the cooperation of the St.
Joseph Valley Bank, arrangements were
made to have 8,000 of the big coins
shipped to Elkhart in sacks of 1,000,
each weighing over 60 pounds. The
Elkhart police department sent out a
squad car with an armed guard to con-
voy Selmer officials to the bank and
back.
It took the better part of a day's time
for members of the payroll department
with some of the firm's officers pitching
in to get the counting job done.
i;ii
PIANO
JOSEPH PALMA, Jr.
Palma-Knapp Associate. In addition to
Story & Clark, the firm serves such
clients as Cory Corp., Johnson's Wax,
Admiral Radio and Television, Scott
Radio, Teletype Ditto, etc.
NEW
MANUAL ARTS
TOP BENCH
FABRIC
home, concert hall or school. The fab-
ric sample display and company cata-
log provide the dealer with an effective
sales tool. Dealers are furnished the
new fabric display free upon request.
The fabric display shows four leath-
erette swatches and 20 fabric swatches.
Students of Story & Clark
Piano Designer Win Awards
Two students of Joseph Palma, Jr.
were recently awarded $300 in prizes in
a nationwide furniture-designing com-
petition. They are Mr. Howard Sersen
VNE of the few pianos now on
the market that is made, owned
and operated by the same family
that created it.
I OUR generations of the Kra-
kauer family have produced the
Krakauer piano—over 75 years
in the same family.
I HE Krakauer is the best piano
for "Tone," "Responsiveness" and
"Case Design."
Established 1869
K R A K A U E R
Factory:
401 WEST 124th STREET
BROS.
Retail Warerooms:
25 WEST 57th STREET
NEW YORK
Mrs. Nin to Play on
"Piano Playhouse" July 27th
Mrs. Rosita E. Nin, wife of Salvador
R. Nin, head of Salvador R. Nin, Inc.,
San Juan, Puerto Rico, teacher and con-
cert pianist will appear on Maggy
Fisher's "Piano Playhouse" program on
Sunday, July 27th, over the ABC net-
work. This is the Sunday preceding the
opening of the Convention of the Na-
tional Association of Music Merchants,
which takes place in New York at the
Hotel New Yorker.
In view of Mrs. Nin having been
chosen to play on the "Piano Play-
house " program. "El Mundo", the San
juan paper, published a column ar-
ticle regarding Mrs. Nin, reproducing
her photograph, on May 31st.
BEACH
CARILLONETTE CHIMES
TOWER BELL REPRODUCER
and the
MINI-CHIMES
"Nothing But a Bell Rings Like a Bell"
SEND FOR CATALOGS
BEACH INSTRUMENT CORP.
165 Oraton St.
22
Newark 4, N. J.
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW. JUNE, 1952
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