Presto
Issue: 1924 1975 - Page 9
May 31, 1924.
PRESTO
Morning and Afternoon Sessions of Two Days
of Convention Filled with Scheduled Events
of Pleasurable Interest for All Men
in the Trade.
Study Committee; Recommendation of "Co-operative
Advertising Campaigns"; "Elimination of Waste in
Retailing," F. B. T. Hollenberg; "Membership
Pledges or Certificates of Business Character for In-
dividual M embership," P. E. Conroy; "Code of
Ethics," John A. Turner; "Possibility of Installing
Standard Courses in Piano and Phonograph Sales-
manship in Y. M. C. A., K. of C, etc., Throughout
the Country," Royal W. Daynes, Chairman Educa-
tional Committee; "Proper Home Space for Pianos,"
George I. Chase; "Trade-Ins/' Fred Carberry; "Co-
operative Fire Insurance," Fred P. Watson.
EDUCATIONAL FEATURES
The following is the list of officers, executive board,
directors and advisory board of the National Associa-
tion of Music Merchants:
ALL SET FOR THE
MUSIC MERCHANTS
OFFICERS.
Some of the Most Prominent Men in the Music Busi-
ness Listed for Addresses on Topics of
Interest.
From the call to order on Tuesday morning to the
motion to adjourn on the evening of Wednesday the
business sessions of the National Association of Music
Merchants at the Waldorf-Astoria, will include thirty-
eight items of program. Twenty-two are scheduled
for Tuesday and sixteen for Wednesday and in
them are comprised reports, addresses, nominations
and elections. Both morning and afternoon sessions
will be occasions of interest to all men of the music
trade.
Enlarging Its Scope.
The spirit to enlarge the scope of the national asso-
ciation is seen in the fraternal movement to urge
state and local associations to affiliate with the na-
tional body. To effect this has been one of the most
notable ambitions of President Watkin during his
term of office. Three important associations, the
Texas Music Merchants Association, the Illinois Mu-
sic Merchants' Association and the Dallas Music In-
dustries Association, have already been affiliated and
at the convention on June 3 and 4 the applications for
affiliation of the following will be acted upon:
Music Merchants Association of Denver, The Cleve-
land Music Trades Association, Music Merchants As-
sociation of Ohio, The New York Piano Merchants
Association, the Oregon Music Trades Association,
Piano Merchants of Pittsburgh, Music Trades Asso-
ciation of Southern California, Music Dealers' Asso-
ciation of Charleston, W. Va.
Educational Feature.
Possibly never before has the educational charac-
ter of the convention addresses been so marked. The
ethics of the trade, the methods of selling, advertising
suggestions and other topics are promising of keen
listeners.
The themes, too, are handled by men who have
had experiences assuring facts to make the talks al-
luring to the convention. F. B. T. Hollenberg, for
instance, is highly capable of telling how to eliminate
waste in retailing. The relation of character to mem-
bership in the association is certain to be a well
argued topic at the hands of P. E. Conroy. Few
could better tell about the work of the tuner than
H. H. Holmes, and it is generally admitted that Fred
Carberry can give a long or a short talk on "Trade-
ins" in the same pleasantly positive way he can lead a
lusty chorus.
The entire program of addresses provided by the
music merchants for music merchants is filled with
interesting numbers. For instance: "Affiliated As-
sociations," M. J. Kennedy; "A Standard Program for
Local Association," Burt Wells, Chairman Course of
Robert N. Watkin, president, Will A. Watkin Co.,
1207 Efm street, Dallas, Texas.
Win. C. Hamilton, first vice-president, S. Hamilton
Co., 815 Liberty avenue. Pittsburgh, Pa.
George R. Hughes, second vice-president, Wiley B.
Allen Co., 135 Kearney street, San Francisco, Cal.
Matt J. Kennedy, secretary, 532 Republic Building,
Chicago, 111.
Carl A. Droop, treasurer, E. F. Droop & Sons Co.,
1300 "G" street, X. W.. Washington, D. C.
DIRECTORS.
W. W. Smith, J. W. Greene Co., 801 Jefferson ave-
nue, Toledo, Ohio.
Alex. McDonald, Sohmer & Co., 31 W. 57th street,
New York City.
John W. Boothe, Barker Bros., 724 S. Broadway,
Los Angeles, Cal.
Henry E. Weisert, Bissell-Weisert Co., 26 South
Michigan avenue, Chicago, 111.
ADVISORY BOARD.
(PAST PRESIDENTS.)
J. Edwin Butler, chairman, Butler Music House,
Marion, Ind.
M. V. DeForeest, DeForeest Pioneer Music House,
Sharon, Pa.
E. Paul Hamilton, Chickering Warerooms, 422
North Howard street, Baltimore, Aid.
P. E. Conroy, Conroy Piano Co., 1100 Olive street,
St. Louis, Mo.
Edmund Gram, Edmund Gram, Inc., 414 Milwau-
kee street, Milwaukee, Wis.
J. A. Turner, Jr., Turner Music Co., 604 Franklin
street, Tampa, Florida.
John G. Corley, The Corley Co., 213 East Broad
street, Richmond, Va.
P. T. Clay, Sherman, Clay & Co., Kearney and
Sutter streets, San Francisco, Cal.
O. A. Field, Field, Lippmann Piano Stores, 1120
Olive street, St. Louis, Mo.
W. H. Daniels, Denton, Cottier & Daniels, 32 Court
street, Buffalo, New York.
R. O. Foster, Foster & Waldo, 811 Nicollet ave-
nue, Minneapolis, Minn.
E. H. Droop, E. F. Droop & Sons Co., 1300 "G"
street, N. W., Washington, D. C.
C. A. Grinnell, Grinnell Bios., 1515 Woodward ave-
nue, Detroit, Mich.
Henry Dreher, Dreher Piano Co., 1226 Huron road,
Cleveland, Ohio.
F. B. T. Hollenberg, Hollenberg Music Co., 415
Main street, Little Rock, Ark.
The Acme Sales Co., Greenville, 111., has rented a
room in the Hentz Building and opened a music
store there.
ADAM SCHAAF PLAYER
SURVIVES BAD CYCLONE
Instrument Shipped to Manufacturers from
Maynor Piano Co., Texarkana, for Re-
pairs Proves Admirable Construction.
During the wind storms that swept the South the
latter part of April, the town of Texarkana, Ark.-
Tex., was hit unusually hard and suffered severe
losses. One of the incidents of the storm happened
at the home of a Mr. Richardson, owner of an Adam
Schaaf Style S player piano, purchased from the
Maynor Piano Company. On April 29, the Rich-
ardson home was blown 300 feet and the piano with it.
Morris Maynor, president of the Maynor Piano
Company, examined the Schaaf instrument shortly
after the storm and was surprised at its wonderful
durable qualities, which had withstood the most ter-
rific knocks. In a letter to the Adam Schaaf Co.,
Inc., 315-319 S. Wabash avenue, Chicago, Mr. May-
nor said:
"The playerpiano we sold Mr. Richardson was in a
cyclone yesterday and it was blown several hundred
feet into an adjoining field and stood on one end.
The top was smashed all to pieces and one leg was
broken off and mud was splattered all over it.
"The tone of the piano is good, but the player
action is shaken up some, the fall board is ruined, but
I do not believe the sounding board is hurt very
much, or the back, but it will have to have new
sides and ends put in.
"We want to know if it would be profitable to
send the piano to you to be fixed."
Later when the player was received for repairs
by Adam Schaaf, Inc., the Texarkana firm wrote:
"We are certainly, pleased that you will fix this
piano at absolute cost, as the man had no insurance
and lost his home and all personal belongings. The
house was blown 300 feet in the air and the piano
with it. The piano was carried quite a distance.
This certainly speaks well for the Adam Schaaf piano,
that it was not torn all to pieces."
REMODELS INDIANA STORE.
The Steinway, Lyon & Healy and Jesse French &
Sons pianos are carried by the Lyons Music Co.,
Crawfordsville, Ind., which firm recently enlarged
its store at 110 South Green street by the addition of
a store just leased which wiil double the old space
occupied and give the company the desired oppor-
tunity to not only enlarge its stock, but to present it
in a more satisfactory manner. The addition of the
new space called for remodeling plans. Two spacious
warerooms are now used to advantage in which the
stocks of pianos and musical merchandise will be
increased. L. T. Lyons is president of the company.
MUSIC SECTION BUSY.
The Burgess-Nash Co., Omaha, Neb., one of
Omaha's largest department stores and one of the
most artistic stores in the Middle West as well, re-
ports a remarkable sales increase in its music depart-
ment, which, together with the auditorium, occupies
the entire fifth floor of the store building. The trade
in grands has been exceptionally good, as well as a
steady demand for uprights.
F. B. Bernhard is proprietor of the Bernhard
Music Co., recently established at 29 Center street,
Ashtabula, Ohio.
TAKE IT TO THE PROSPECT'S HOME AND SELL IT
With a BOWEN LOADER it's as easy as any other pleasure trip into the country, and a sale is almost sure to result—and it
will advertise your store while doing it.
Shipped on approval to responsible dealers.
Price $110.00 for the Loader complete, including springs and rover.
BOWEN PIANO LOADER CO.,
Winston-Salem, N. C
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PRESTO
Morning and Afternoon Sessions of Two Days
of Convention Filled with Scheduled Events
of Pleasurable Interest for All Men
in the Trade.
Study Committee; Recommendation of "Co-operative
Advertising Campaigns"; "Elimination of Waste in
Retailing," F. B. T. Hollenberg; "Membership
Pledges or Certificates of Business Character for In-
dividual M embership," P. E. Conroy; "Code of
Ethics," John A. Turner; "Possibility of Installing
Standard Courses in Piano and Phonograph Sales-
manship in Y. M. C. A., K. of C, etc., Throughout
the Country," Royal W. Daynes, Chairman Educa-
tional Committee; "Proper Home Space for Pianos,"
George I. Chase; "Trade-Ins/' Fred Carberry; "Co-
operative Fire Insurance," Fred P. Watson.
EDUCATIONAL FEATURES
The following is the list of officers, executive board,
directors and advisory board of the National Associa-
tion of Music Merchants:
ALL SET FOR THE
MUSIC MERCHANTS
OFFICERS.
Some of the Most Prominent Men in the Music Busi-
ness Listed for Addresses on Topics of
Interest.
From the call to order on Tuesday morning to the
motion to adjourn on the evening of Wednesday the
business sessions of the National Association of Music
Merchants at the Waldorf-Astoria, will include thirty-
eight items of program. Twenty-two are scheduled
for Tuesday and sixteen for Wednesday and in
them are comprised reports, addresses, nominations
and elections. Both morning and afternoon sessions
will be occasions of interest to all men of the music
trade.
Enlarging Its Scope.
The spirit to enlarge the scope of the national asso-
ciation is seen in the fraternal movement to urge
state and local associations to affiliate with the na-
tional body. To effect this has been one of the most
notable ambitions of President Watkin during his
term of office. Three important associations, the
Texas Music Merchants Association, the Illinois Mu-
sic Merchants' Association and the Dallas Music In-
dustries Association, have already been affiliated and
at the convention on June 3 and 4 the applications for
affiliation of the following will be acted upon:
Music Merchants Association of Denver, The Cleve-
land Music Trades Association, Music Merchants As-
sociation of Ohio, The New York Piano Merchants
Association, the Oregon Music Trades Association,
Piano Merchants of Pittsburgh, Music Trades Asso-
ciation of Southern California, Music Dealers' Asso-
ciation of Charleston, W. Va.
Educational Feature.
Possibly never before has the educational charac-
ter of the convention addresses been so marked. The
ethics of the trade, the methods of selling, advertising
suggestions and other topics are promising of keen
listeners.
The themes, too, are handled by men who have
had experiences assuring facts to make the talks al-
luring to the convention. F. B. T. Hollenberg, for
instance, is highly capable of telling how to eliminate
waste in retailing. The relation of character to mem-
bership in the association is certain to be a well
argued topic at the hands of P. E. Conroy. Few
could better tell about the work of the tuner than
H. H. Holmes, and it is generally admitted that Fred
Carberry can give a long or a short talk on "Trade-
ins" in the same pleasantly positive way he can lead a
lusty chorus.
The entire program of addresses provided by the
music merchants for music merchants is filled with
interesting numbers. For instance: "Affiliated As-
sociations," M. J. Kennedy; "A Standard Program for
Local Association," Burt Wells, Chairman Course of
Robert N. Watkin, president, Will A. Watkin Co.,
1207 Efm street, Dallas, Texas.
Win. C. Hamilton, first vice-president, S. Hamilton
Co., 815 Liberty avenue. Pittsburgh, Pa.
George R. Hughes, second vice-president, Wiley B.
Allen Co., 135 Kearney street, San Francisco, Cal.
Matt J. Kennedy, secretary, 532 Republic Building,
Chicago, 111.
Carl A. Droop, treasurer, E. F. Droop & Sons Co.,
1300 "G" street, X. W.. Washington, D. C.
DIRECTORS.
W. W. Smith, J. W. Greene Co., 801 Jefferson ave-
nue, Toledo, Ohio.
Alex. McDonald, Sohmer & Co., 31 W. 57th street,
New York City.
John W. Boothe, Barker Bros., 724 S. Broadway,
Los Angeles, Cal.
Henry E. Weisert, Bissell-Weisert Co., 26 South
Michigan avenue, Chicago, 111.
ADVISORY BOARD.
(PAST PRESIDENTS.)
J. Edwin Butler, chairman, Butler Music House,
Marion, Ind.
M. V. DeForeest, DeForeest Pioneer Music House,
Sharon, Pa.
E. Paul Hamilton, Chickering Warerooms, 422
North Howard street, Baltimore, Aid.
P. E. Conroy, Conroy Piano Co., 1100 Olive street,
St. Louis, Mo.
Edmund Gram, Edmund Gram, Inc., 414 Milwau-
kee street, Milwaukee, Wis.
J. A. Turner, Jr., Turner Music Co., 604 Franklin
street, Tampa, Florida.
John G. Corley, The Corley Co., 213 East Broad
street, Richmond, Va.
P. T. Clay, Sherman, Clay & Co., Kearney and
Sutter streets, San Francisco, Cal.
O. A. Field, Field, Lippmann Piano Stores, 1120
Olive street, St. Louis, Mo.
W. H. Daniels, Denton, Cottier & Daniels, 32 Court
street, Buffalo, New York.
R. O. Foster, Foster & Waldo, 811 Nicollet ave-
nue, Minneapolis, Minn.
E. H. Droop, E. F. Droop & Sons Co., 1300 "G"
street, N. W., Washington, D. C.
C. A. Grinnell, Grinnell Bios., 1515 Woodward ave-
nue, Detroit, Mich.
Henry Dreher, Dreher Piano Co., 1226 Huron road,
Cleveland, Ohio.
F. B. T. Hollenberg, Hollenberg Music Co., 415
Main street, Little Rock, Ark.
The Acme Sales Co., Greenville, 111., has rented a
room in the Hentz Building and opened a music
store there.
ADAM SCHAAF PLAYER
SURVIVES BAD CYCLONE
Instrument Shipped to Manufacturers from
Maynor Piano Co., Texarkana, for Re-
pairs Proves Admirable Construction.
During the wind storms that swept the South the
latter part of April, the town of Texarkana, Ark.-
Tex., was hit unusually hard and suffered severe
losses. One of the incidents of the storm happened
at the home of a Mr. Richardson, owner of an Adam
Schaaf Style S player piano, purchased from the
Maynor Piano Company. On April 29, the Rich-
ardson home was blown 300 feet and the piano with it.
Morris Maynor, president of the Maynor Piano
Company, examined the Schaaf instrument shortly
after the storm and was surprised at its wonderful
durable qualities, which had withstood the most ter-
rific knocks. In a letter to the Adam Schaaf Co.,
Inc., 315-319 S. Wabash avenue, Chicago, Mr. May-
nor said:
"The playerpiano we sold Mr. Richardson was in a
cyclone yesterday and it was blown several hundred
feet into an adjoining field and stood on one end.
The top was smashed all to pieces and one leg was
broken off and mud was splattered all over it.
"The tone of the piano is good, but the player
action is shaken up some, the fall board is ruined, but
I do not believe the sounding board is hurt very
much, or the back, but it will have to have new
sides and ends put in.
"We want to know if it would be profitable to
send the piano to you to be fixed."
Later when the player was received for repairs
by Adam Schaaf, Inc., the Texarkana firm wrote:
"We are certainly, pleased that you will fix this
piano at absolute cost, as the man had no insurance
and lost his home and all personal belongings. The
house was blown 300 feet in the air and the piano
with it. The piano was carried quite a distance.
This certainly speaks well for the Adam Schaaf piano,
that it was not torn all to pieces."
REMODELS INDIANA STORE.
The Steinway, Lyon & Healy and Jesse French &
Sons pianos are carried by the Lyons Music Co.,
Crawfordsville, Ind., which firm recently enlarged
its store at 110 South Green street by the addition of
a store just leased which wiil double the old space
occupied and give the company the desired oppor-
tunity to not only enlarge its stock, but to present it
in a more satisfactory manner. The addition of the
new space called for remodeling plans. Two spacious
warerooms are now used to advantage in which the
stocks of pianos and musical merchandise will be
increased. L. T. Lyons is president of the company.
MUSIC SECTION BUSY.
The Burgess-Nash Co., Omaha, Neb., one of
Omaha's largest department stores and one of the
most artistic stores in the Middle West as well, re-
ports a remarkable sales increase in its music depart-
ment, which, together with the auditorium, occupies
the entire fifth floor of the store building. The trade
in grands has been exceptionally good, as well as a
steady demand for uprights.
F. B. Bernhard is proprietor of the Bernhard
Music Co., recently established at 29 Center street,
Ashtabula, Ohio.
TAKE IT TO THE PROSPECT'S HOME AND SELL IT
With a BOWEN LOADER it's as easy as any other pleasure trip into the country, and a sale is almost sure to result—and it
will advertise your store while doing it.
Shipped on approval to responsible dealers.
Price $110.00 for the Loader complete, including springs and rover.
BOWEN PIANO LOADER CO.,
Winston-Salem, N. C
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All Rights Reserved. Digitized from the archives of the MBSI with support from NAMM - The International Music Products Association (www.namm.org).
Additional enhancement, optimization, and distribution by the International Arcade Museum. An extensive collection of Presto can be found online at http://www.arcade-museum.com/library/
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