Music Trade Review
Issue: 1954 Vol. 113 N. 3 - Page 47
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Earl Payton, NAAAM Convention Chairman;
Association Hires Expert Piano Movers
Earl C. Payton, vice-president and
manager of the retail stores division
of Rudolph Wurlitzer Co., Chicago, has
been appointed chairman of the con-
vention cimmittee for the 1954 Music
Industry Trade Show and Convention.
Russell B. Wells, president of the Na-
tional Association of Music Merchants,
has announced. The annual event is
scheduled to take place at the Palmer
House in Chicago July 12 through 15.
Mr. Payton has been in the music
business with Wurlitzer for 32 years,
occupying positions in Los Angeles.
Rochester, N. Y., and Philadelphia,
before coming to Chicago in 1945. Be-
sides his NAMM activities, he serves
on the class piano committee of the
American Music Conference.
Since accepting his new responsi-
bility, Mr. Payton has announced a
major improvement in plans for this
year's trade show. In cooperation with
William R. Card. NAMM executive
secretary, a method has been worked
out to relieve congestion at the hotel's
loading docks as pianos and organs
arrive. This heavy and bulky merchan-
dise has always caused a bottleneck as
moving crews parked their trucks in
the alleyway while they delivered their
loads to the eighth floor exhibit rooms.
EARL C. PAYTON
no exhibitor will have to pa^~ a premi-
um for this normal service. Mr. Payton
explained.
Piano or orgrn companies not using
Pickett-Kane will have to take their
place in line and rwait their turn at
moving into the loading dock. However,
these companies will be specifically
Piano Movers On Contract
This year for the first time, the trade
show management has hired two crews
of piano movers by contract with the
Pickett-Kane Storage Warehouse. 2034
Lincoln Avenue, Chicago 14. One crew
will be stationed at the loading dock
and the other on the eighth floor. Pi-
anos and organs will be unloaded
from delivery trucks as fast they ar-
rive, handled by the loading dock crew
to the elevators, and by the eighth
floor crew into the designated exhibit
rooms. This service will be furnished
to piano and organ exhibitors at no
additional cost to them. Mr. Payton
said.
The committee chairman suggested
that all pianos and organ exhibitors
use facilities of the Pickett-Kane Com-
pany in moving their merchandise to
the Palmer House, since this will
achieve a reduction in number of trucks
to be handled. Pickett-Kane will be
given priority over all others beginning
at 6 P.M. Friday, July 9. This will
reduce charges for waiting time to an
absolute minimum. The Picket-Kane
price for moving and handling of pi-
anos is the standard Chicago rate, and
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW, MARCH, 1954
requested to allow the piano moving
crew on the dock to take loads from
trucks and move them to the designated
exhibit rooms. This will preclude any
truck from standing at the dock while
the truck crew takes pianos or organs
up to the room the company has en-
gaged.
As a further convenience to exhibi-
tors, Mr. Payton said, all piano and
organ companies will be asked to sup-
ply the show management with a floor
plan of their exhibit rooms, designating
the position in which each item of mer-
chandise is to be spotted by the eighth
floor crew. Those not furnishing this
plan will have to rearrange their own
exhibits, he stated.
"This is an experimental effort to
see if we cannot facilitate shipments
in and out of the Palmer House of all
pianos and organs," Mr. Payton de-
clared.
Finnegan Back With Barker Bros.
W. R. Pierce, manager of the piano
and organ department of Barker Bros.,
Los Angeles, has announced that Bill
Finnegan, formerly with the piano de-
partment, has again returned and will
assume his activities as floor salesman.
Several years ago. Mr. Finnegan left
Barker Bros, to become manager of
the piano department of Birkel-Rich-
ardson Music Co., in the same citv.
FAST BECOMING STANDARD EQUIPMENT
O N EVERY P I A N O SOLD
L
PIANO PROTECTO PAD
Enterprising piano dealers are stim-
ulating sales throughout the coun-
try by selling the new Piano Protecto
Pad as standard equipment on every
sale. Home owners thrill at this new
protection for carpeting and their
instruments. Pianists are demand-
ing Protecto Pad for the home.
STOPS
Big Promotion Item
THIS
Cash in on this popularity swing today and
create Extra Good Will among YOUR Cus-
tomers. Send your check for a'liberal stock
today and remember—the Clear Pad is pre-
ferred 10 to 1 by women everywhere. Free
Literature with each order.
SELLS FOR ONLY
Regular Dealer Discount
Order N O W !
PIANO
6900
PLASTIC
Colgate
A
PRODUCTS
C l e v e l a n d
2, Oh
47
Earl Payton, NAAAM Convention Chairman;
Association Hires Expert Piano Movers
Earl C. Payton, vice-president and
manager of the retail stores division
of Rudolph Wurlitzer Co., Chicago, has
been appointed chairman of the con-
vention cimmittee for the 1954 Music
Industry Trade Show and Convention.
Russell B. Wells, president of the Na-
tional Association of Music Merchants,
has announced. The annual event is
scheduled to take place at the Palmer
House in Chicago July 12 through 15.
Mr. Payton has been in the music
business with Wurlitzer for 32 years,
occupying positions in Los Angeles.
Rochester, N. Y., and Philadelphia,
before coming to Chicago in 1945. Be-
sides his NAMM activities, he serves
on the class piano committee of the
American Music Conference.
Since accepting his new responsi-
bility, Mr. Payton has announced a
major improvement in plans for this
year's trade show. In cooperation with
William R. Card. NAMM executive
secretary, a method has been worked
out to relieve congestion at the hotel's
loading docks as pianos and organs
arrive. This heavy and bulky merchan-
dise has always caused a bottleneck as
moving crews parked their trucks in
the alleyway while they delivered their
loads to the eighth floor exhibit rooms.
EARL C. PAYTON
no exhibitor will have to pa^~ a premi-
um for this normal service. Mr. Payton
explained.
Piano or orgrn companies not using
Pickett-Kane will have to take their
place in line and rwait their turn at
moving into the loading dock. However,
these companies will be specifically
Piano Movers On Contract
This year for the first time, the trade
show management has hired two crews
of piano movers by contract with the
Pickett-Kane Storage Warehouse. 2034
Lincoln Avenue, Chicago 14. One crew
will be stationed at the loading dock
and the other on the eighth floor. Pi-
anos and organs will be unloaded
from delivery trucks as fast they ar-
rive, handled by the loading dock crew
to the elevators, and by the eighth
floor crew into the designated exhibit
rooms. This service will be furnished
to piano and organ exhibitors at no
additional cost to them. Mr. Payton
said.
The committee chairman suggested
that all pianos and organ exhibitors
use facilities of the Pickett-Kane Com-
pany in moving their merchandise to
the Palmer House, since this will
achieve a reduction in number of trucks
to be handled. Pickett-Kane will be
given priority over all others beginning
at 6 P.M. Friday, July 9. This will
reduce charges for waiting time to an
absolute minimum. The Picket-Kane
price for moving and handling of pi-
anos is the standard Chicago rate, and
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW, MARCH, 1954
requested to allow the piano moving
crew on the dock to take loads from
trucks and move them to the designated
exhibit rooms. This will preclude any
truck from standing at the dock while
the truck crew takes pianos or organs
up to the room the company has en-
gaged.
As a further convenience to exhibi-
tors, Mr. Payton said, all piano and
organ companies will be asked to sup-
ply the show management with a floor
plan of their exhibit rooms, designating
the position in which each item of mer-
chandise is to be spotted by the eighth
floor crew. Those not furnishing this
plan will have to rearrange their own
exhibits, he stated.
"This is an experimental effort to
see if we cannot facilitate shipments
in and out of the Palmer House of all
pianos and organs," Mr. Payton de-
clared.
Finnegan Back With Barker Bros.
W. R. Pierce, manager of the piano
and organ department of Barker Bros.,
Los Angeles, has announced that Bill
Finnegan, formerly with the piano de-
partment, has again returned and will
assume his activities as floor salesman.
Several years ago. Mr. Finnegan left
Barker Bros, to become manager of
the piano department of Birkel-Rich-
ardson Music Co., in the same citv.
FAST BECOMING STANDARD EQUIPMENT
O N EVERY P I A N O SOLD
L
PIANO PROTECTO PAD
Enterprising piano dealers are stim-
ulating sales throughout the coun-
try by selling the new Piano Protecto
Pad as standard equipment on every
sale. Home owners thrill at this new
protection for carpeting and their
instruments. Pianists are demand-
ing Protecto Pad for the home.
STOPS
Big Promotion Item
THIS
Cash in on this popularity swing today and
create Extra Good Will among YOUR Cus-
tomers. Send your check for a'liberal stock
today and remember—the Clear Pad is pre-
ferred 10 to 1 by women everywhere. Free
Literature with each order.
SELLS FOR ONLY
Regular Dealer Discount
Order N O W !
PIANO
6900
PLASTIC
Colgate
A
PRODUCTS
C l e v e l a n d
2, Oh
47
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