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W . W . Kimball Sales Staff Preview
New Type Piano to Be Announced Soon
The factory of the W. W. Kimball
Co., Chicago, 111. was the scene of a
three day meeting, recently of all key
men in the Sales Division and the en-
and District Sales Managers Gene E.
Strange, Roy S. Johnson, A. V. Hors-
man, Trice W. Burger, E. F. Roller.
F. W .Grosser, George J. Rest, and Wm.
Garfield Chalmers, Kimball Factory Manager addresses front row—L. to R.: T. H. Krum-
wiede, Ass't. Wholesale Mgr.; W. W. Kimball Jr., Production Control Mgr.; R. A. Burke,
Chicago Retail Store Mgr.; Wm. D. Parsons Jr., Ass't. Whoesale Mgr.; Jack B. Strange,
Ass't. Wholesale Mgr.; Gene E. Strange, District Repr.; Torbin Yates, Chief Engineer;
Ben F. Duvall, Vice-President and General Mgr.
Back Row—L. to R.: F. W. Grosser,
District Repr.; Roy S. Johnson, District Repr.; A. V. Horsman, District Repr.; George J.
Rest, District Repr.; Trice W. Burger, District Repr.; Curtis P. Kimball, Ass't. Wholesale
Mgr.; E. F. Roller, District Repr.; Wm. E. Day, President of Kimball Pianos Inc. of Calif.
gineering and design department. All
nine Kimball travelers, from New Eng-
land to California, attended.
At this meeting there was revealed
very extensive plans and new develop-
ments scheduled to take place within
the the next six months.
Each new product development "un-
veiled" at this meeting will be publicly
announced as soon as it is in produc-
tion and available. Each one is an in-
tegral part of the long-range six
months Kimball plan which includes
styling, product advancement, engin-
eering and design.
Included in the preview of the "new
look" is an entirely new type of piano
that will be announced formally in the
near future. The new program also
involves greatly increased appropria-
tions for the Engineering Department.
New Merchandising ideas, and engin-
eering developments, will be released
to the trade in the course of the six
months plan, and during each year sub-
sequently until Kimball's lOOth-year
is reached in 1957.
All parts of the country were repre-
sented with William E. Day, President
of Kimball Pianos Inc., (Los Angeles),
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW, MARCH, 1954
D. Parsons, in attendance. Also present
were Curtis P. Kimball, T. H. Krum-
wiede and Jack Strange Assistant Man-
agers of the Wholesale Sales Division,
and R. A. Burke, Chicago Retail Divi-
sion Manager.
Speakers at this semi-annual sales
conclave in addition to G. Chalmers,
Factory Manager, and Torbin Yates,
Chief Engineer were: W. W. Kimball,
President; Ben F. Duvall, Vice-Presi-
dent and General Manager; A. Witter-
raan. Factory Technical Specialist; Os-
car Steinhauser, Designer; and all
members of the Wholesale Division
Sales Department. After three very full
days at the Kimball factory, the men
took time out for a special wind-up
dinner at the Union League Club in
Chicago's Loop, with W. W. Kimball
as host.
In the words of Vice-president Du-
vall: "This new program was the
most enthusiastically received of any
in my almost thirty years of associa-
tion with the Kimball Company! It is
not just a collection of several isolated
new ideas. It is a well integrated,
broad project of many facets to be
brought together into a comprehensive
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