Presto
Issue: 1925 2023 - Page 7
May 2, 1925.
PRESTO
HOLD CONFERENCE
ON PERKINS BILL
EEBURG
Representatives of Playerpiano, Music Roll
and Record Manufacturing Companies Con-
fer with Composing and Publishing Inter-
ests and For Informal Organization.
MAKE EFFORTS TO AGREE
TYLE"L"
But Owing to Publishers' Opposition to Mechanical
License Feature of Bill, Success of Conference
Is Considered Problematical.
The mechanical companies belonging to the Music
Industries Chamber of Commerce were represented
at an open discussion of the Perkins Copyright Bill
held in the rooms of the New York Bar Association
on Wednesday, April 22, by Alfred L. Smith, general
manager of the Chamber, George Beattys, attorney
of the Aeolian Company, John G. Paine of the legal
department, Victor Talking Machine Company, Ar-
thur Garmaize, copyright attorney of the Columbia
Phonograph Company, Henry Lanahan, general
counsel of Thomas A. Edison, Inc., and David Gold-
man, treasurer, General Phonograph Company.
Called by Congressman.
This conference was called by Congressman Sol
Bloom, a member of the Committee on Patents, in
the hopes of arriving at some procedure which would
result in an adjustment of the differences of opinion
among the many conflicting elements interested in
the copyright bill, to the end that the committee on
patents at the next Congress may have a bill in which
there will be substantial agreement.
Heads Informal Organization.
Frederick W. Hume, secretary of the National
Publishers' Association, was elected president of an
informal organization to be made up of representa-
tives of the various lines of industry interested in
copyright. The idea is to have separate conferences
on each controversial subject to be attended by rep-
resentatives of those industries interested in those
particular subjects. Mr. Hume will then be notified
of the success or failure in adjusting their differences,
and a final consolidated report will be sent to the
committee on patents.
The KEY to
OSITIVE
ROFITS
What It Means.
This means, in effect, that representatives of the
Authors', Composers' and Publishers' Society and
the Music Publishers' Protective Association will
confer with representatives of the Music Industries
Chamber of Commerce on that part of the bill hav-
ing to do with mechanical license. The publishers
have announced that they are unalterably opposed to
the continuation of the mechanical license and it is
quite apparent that the mechanical companies repre-
sented by the Music Industries Chamber of Com-
merce are insistent upon its retention and prepared to
fight the thing to a conclusion in the next Congress.
The success of these conferences is therefore very
problematical.
OREGON MEN AT
LOS ANGELES MEETING
Strong Representation from Northwest Is
Promised for Convention of Western Music
Trades Assn.—Other News of Section.
MANUFACTURED ONLY BY
J. P, Seeburg
Piano Co.
"Leaders in the
Automatic Field"
1510 Dayton St.
Chicago
Address Department "E"
B. R. Brassfield, manager of the Portland, Ore-
gon, branch of the Wiley B. Allen Co., has been
appointed Pacific Northwest chairman of the attend-
ance committee of western Oregon for the conven-
tion of the Western Music Trades Association to be
held in Los Angeles June 23, 24, 25 and 26. Harry
L. Nolder of the Starr Piano Co., Los Angeles house,
is chairman of the general committee and he has an-
nounced that a handsome trophy will be awarded to
the section that has the greatest mileage in attend-
ance at the convention. This plan was suggested by
C. F. Cowan of the Hockett-Cowan Music Co. of
Fresno, Cal., and immediately adopted by the direc-
tors of the Western Music Trades Association. Mr.
Brassfield says: "We are going after that trophy,"
and anticipates a large attendance from his district.
Jack Dundore, who for several years has been con-
nected with the piano department of Sherman, Clay
& Co. of Portland, Ore., has resigned and joined the
sales force of the G. F. Johnson Piano Co. of Port-
land, while Lon Dockstader and V. D. Ghisolphy
have resigned from the piano department of Wiley
B. Allen and joined the piano sales force of Sherman,
Clay & Co. of that city.
The Portland, Ore., music trade was visited re-
cently by John A. Krumme, western sales manager
of the Hardman, Peck & Company of New York.
He was accompanied by his wife.
H. M. Hume, the Pacific Northwest representative
of the Packard Piano Company, of Fort Wayne,
Ind., was a recent Portland, Ore., visitor. Mr. Hume
said that he found business conditions fairly good
with excellent prospects for future business.
SERGE HALMAN RETURNS
TO AEOLIAN COMPANY
Associates in Sherman, Clay & Co. Tender
Dinner on His Leaving to Represent
Duo-Art in Field.
Announcement is made of the return to the Aeolian
Company, New York, of Serge Halman, who is to
represent the Duo-Art in the field, his release from
Sherman, Clay & Co., San Francisco, having been
arranged by Philip Clay, of the latter, and Frank
Edgar, of the Aeolian Company.
Mr. Halman is particularly well equipped to repre-
sent the Aeolian line, Duo-Art pianos, Aeolian resi-
dence pipe organs and orchestrelles, having been for
so many years in the active service of the Aeolian
' Company and its representative dealers. In a sense,
Serge Halman has never left the Aeolian organiza-
tion. He joined the company in 1906 at Indianapolis
and went to St. Louis in 1910.
At the request of Sherman, Clay & Company he
joined that organization on the Pacific Coast in 1919
and for six years he has covered territory as special
Duo-Art representative, and has been a "pinchhitter,"
bringing his talents to many opportunities and mak-
ing a legion of friends on the Coast.
A farewell dinner was tendered Mr. Halman last
week by his Sherman, Clay & Co. associates, from
whom the guest of honor listened to enthusiastic
eulogies of appreciation, while Frank Edgar, manager
of the wholesale piano department of the Aeolian
Company, then in San Francisco, spoke the com-
pany's pleasure in the guest's return to the Aeolian's
wholesale department.
PIANO CLUB MEMBERSHIP
DRIVE PROVES SUCCESSFUL
But President Schoenwald Points Out Duty of Mem-
bers to Keep Up Good Work.
Jack Kapp was in charge of the program of the
Piano Club of Chicago Monday, April 27, at the
Illinois Athletic Club. At the several programs he
had given previously the attendance broke records.
His name is the guarantee of a good show. So
naturally the attendance at the luncheon this week
was above the average.
The membership drive of the club is making good
progress. "If you have not secured a new member
it is your duty to help us promote music by signing
up that man whom you know to be eligible. This
drive is not a one-man idea; the success of the Piano
Club is due solely to the efforts and co-operation of
all," is the exhortation of Harry D. Schoenwald,
president.
"Get behind good old Hank Hewitt, fellows, and
sign up a new member. Think of the value that we
give a new member for $5 during the next six months.
We ought to charge a hundred dollars to get into
this club," adds Gordon Laughead.
INDIANAPOLIS ASSOCIATION MEETS.
At the April meeting of the Indianapolis Music
Dealers' Association held recently at the Atheneum,
Herbert J. Teaguc, president of the Christena-Teague
Piano Company, was named second vice president,
and Alfred T. Rapp, secretary-treasurer of Rapp &
Lennox Piano Company, secretary of the association.
Meeting nights were fixed as the second Wednesday
of each month. The membership of the association is
open to all persons engaged in the music business in
Indianapolis.
UTICA, N. Y., DEALER KILLED.
Thomas Matthews, head of the Matthews Piano
Co., Utica, N. Y., was killed April 20 when the auto-
mobile he was driving collided with the fence of
Huntington avenue bridge in Boston, and dropped
twenty-five feet to the tracks of the Boston & Albany
Railroad. Mr. Matthews had just registered at the
Hotel Lenox where he had left Mrs. Matthews, to
put his car in a garage.
The Wright Music Co. last week held a formal
opening of its new store at 10110 Euclid avenue,
Cleveland, Ohio.
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PRESTO
HOLD CONFERENCE
ON PERKINS BILL
EEBURG
Representatives of Playerpiano, Music Roll
and Record Manufacturing Companies Con-
fer with Composing and Publishing Inter-
ests and For Informal Organization.
MAKE EFFORTS TO AGREE
TYLE"L"
But Owing to Publishers' Opposition to Mechanical
License Feature of Bill, Success of Conference
Is Considered Problematical.
The mechanical companies belonging to the Music
Industries Chamber of Commerce were represented
at an open discussion of the Perkins Copyright Bill
held in the rooms of the New York Bar Association
on Wednesday, April 22, by Alfred L. Smith, general
manager of the Chamber, George Beattys, attorney
of the Aeolian Company, John G. Paine of the legal
department, Victor Talking Machine Company, Ar-
thur Garmaize, copyright attorney of the Columbia
Phonograph Company, Henry Lanahan, general
counsel of Thomas A. Edison, Inc., and David Gold-
man, treasurer, General Phonograph Company.
Called by Congressman.
This conference was called by Congressman Sol
Bloom, a member of the Committee on Patents, in
the hopes of arriving at some procedure which would
result in an adjustment of the differences of opinion
among the many conflicting elements interested in
the copyright bill, to the end that the committee on
patents at the next Congress may have a bill in which
there will be substantial agreement.
Heads Informal Organization.
Frederick W. Hume, secretary of the National
Publishers' Association, was elected president of an
informal organization to be made up of representa-
tives of the various lines of industry interested in
copyright. The idea is to have separate conferences
on each controversial subject to be attended by rep-
resentatives of those industries interested in those
particular subjects. Mr. Hume will then be notified
of the success or failure in adjusting their differences,
and a final consolidated report will be sent to the
committee on patents.
The KEY to
OSITIVE
ROFITS
What It Means.
This means, in effect, that representatives of the
Authors', Composers' and Publishers' Society and
the Music Publishers' Protective Association will
confer with representatives of the Music Industries
Chamber of Commerce on that part of the bill hav-
ing to do with mechanical license. The publishers
have announced that they are unalterably opposed to
the continuation of the mechanical license and it is
quite apparent that the mechanical companies repre-
sented by the Music Industries Chamber of Com-
merce are insistent upon its retention and prepared to
fight the thing to a conclusion in the next Congress.
The success of these conferences is therefore very
problematical.
OREGON MEN AT
LOS ANGELES MEETING
Strong Representation from Northwest Is
Promised for Convention of Western Music
Trades Assn.—Other News of Section.
MANUFACTURED ONLY BY
J. P, Seeburg
Piano Co.
"Leaders in the
Automatic Field"
1510 Dayton St.
Chicago
Address Department "E"
B. R. Brassfield, manager of the Portland, Ore-
gon, branch of the Wiley B. Allen Co., has been
appointed Pacific Northwest chairman of the attend-
ance committee of western Oregon for the conven-
tion of the Western Music Trades Association to be
held in Los Angeles June 23, 24, 25 and 26. Harry
L. Nolder of the Starr Piano Co., Los Angeles house,
is chairman of the general committee and he has an-
nounced that a handsome trophy will be awarded to
the section that has the greatest mileage in attend-
ance at the convention. This plan was suggested by
C. F. Cowan of the Hockett-Cowan Music Co. of
Fresno, Cal., and immediately adopted by the direc-
tors of the Western Music Trades Association. Mr.
Brassfield says: "We are going after that trophy,"
and anticipates a large attendance from his district.
Jack Dundore, who for several years has been con-
nected with the piano department of Sherman, Clay
& Co. of Portland, Ore., has resigned and joined the
sales force of the G. F. Johnson Piano Co. of Port-
land, while Lon Dockstader and V. D. Ghisolphy
have resigned from the piano department of Wiley
B. Allen and joined the piano sales force of Sherman,
Clay & Co. of that city.
The Portland, Ore., music trade was visited re-
cently by John A. Krumme, western sales manager
of the Hardman, Peck & Company of New York.
He was accompanied by his wife.
H. M. Hume, the Pacific Northwest representative
of the Packard Piano Company, of Fort Wayne,
Ind., was a recent Portland, Ore., visitor. Mr. Hume
said that he found business conditions fairly good
with excellent prospects for future business.
SERGE HALMAN RETURNS
TO AEOLIAN COMPANY
Associates in Sherman, Clay & Co. Tender
Dinner on His Leaving to Represent
Duo-Art in Field.
Announcement is made of the return to the Aeolian
Company, New York, of Serge Halman, who is to
represent the Duo-Art in the field, his release from
Sherman, Clay & Co., San Francisco, having been
arranged by Philip Clay, of the latter, and Frank
Edgar, of the Aeolian Company.
Mr. Halman is particularly well equipped to repre-
sent the Aeolian line, Duo-Art pianos, Aeolian resi-
dence pipe organs and orchestrelles, having been for
so many years in the active service of the Aeolian
' Company and its representative dealers. In a sense,
Serge Halman has never left the Aeolian organiza-
tion. He joined the company in 1906 at Indianapolis
and went to St. Louis in 1910.
At the request of Sherman, Clay & Company he
joined that organization on the Pacific Coast in 1919
and for six years he has covered territory as special
Duo-Art representative, and has been a "pinchhitter,"
bringing his talents to many opportunities and mak-
ing a legion of friends on the Coast.
A farewell dinner was tendered Mr. Halman last
week by his Sherman, Clay & Co. associates, from
whom the guest of honor listened to enthusiastic
eulogies of appreciation, while Frank Edgar, manager
of the wholesale piano department of the Aeolian
Company, then in San Francisco, spoke the com-
pany's pleasure in the guest's return to the Aeolian's
wholesale department.
PIANO CLUB MEMBERSHIP
DRIVE PROVES SUCCESSFUL
But President Schoenwald Points Out Duty of Mem-
bers to Keep Up Good Work.
Jack Kapp was in charge of the program of the
Piano Club of Chicago Monday, April 27, at the
Illinois Athletic Club. At the several programs he
had given previously the attendance broke records.
His name is the guarantee of a good show. So
naturally the attendance at the luncheon this week
was above the average.
The membership drive of the club is making good
progress. "If you have not secured a new member
it is your duty to help us promote music by signing
up that man whom you know to be eligible. This
drive is not a one-man idea; the success of the Piano
Club is due solely to the efforts and co-operation of
all," is the exhortation of Harry D. Schoenwald,
president.
"Get behind good old Hank Hewitt, fellows, and
sign up a new member. Think of the value that we
give a new member for $5 during the next six months.
We ought to charge a hundred dollars to get into
this club," adds Gordon Laughead.
INDIANAPOLIS ASSOCIATION MEETS.
At the April meeting of the Indianapolis Music
Dealers' Association held recently at the Atheneum,
Herbert J. Teaguc, president of the Christena-Teague
Piano Company, was named second vice president,
and Alfred T. Rapp, secretary-treasurer of Rapp &
Lennox Piano Company, secretary of the association.
Meeting nights were fixed as the second Wednesday
of each month. The membership of the association is
open to all persons engaged in the music business in
Indianapolis.
UTICA, N. Y., DEALER KILLED.
Thomas Matthews, head of the Matthews Piano
Co., Utica, N. Y., was killed April 20 when the auto-
mobile he was driving collided with the fence of
Huntington avenue bridge in Boston, and dropped
twenty-five feet to the tracks of the Boston & Albany
Railroad. Mr. Matthews had just registered at the
Hotel Lenox where he had left Mrs. Matthews, to
put his car in a garage.
The Wright Music Co. last week held a formal
opening of its new store at 10110 Euclid avenue,
Cleveland, Ohio.
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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).
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