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PRESTO-TIMES
March 19, 1927.
CHURCH BUYS FIVE JESSE FRENCH PIANOS
The Luverne M. E. Church at Luverne, Ala., has
bought five Jesse French pianos, having purchased
one in 1921, three in 1924 and the last purchase, a
Boudoir, this year. The congregation is small, con-
sisting of possibly 600 members and the town is
proportionately small, the population not being over
1,500 inhabitants.
The Jesse French piano has gained a strong place
in the heart of the music loving South. In fact, it
may be claimed that the instruments from the big
industry at New Castle, Ind., now stand more prom-
inently forth in many of the southern states than
other instruments. The incident just referred to
of a small church buying five Jesse French pianos
within three years, and all in satisfactory use, is so
unusual as to deserve comment. It is an evidence
of the kind of commendation that builds business for
good pianos in any community.
TRADE HAPPENINGS
RELATED IN BRIEF
valorem, according to the United States Customs
Court in Washington upholding claims of importers.
The collection of rare old violins, the property of
Emil Hermann, dealer of Berlin and New York, was
exhibited in Portland, Ore., last week and created
great interest among dealers and musicians. The
value of the fifty instruments is said to be $350,000.
Lyon & Healy, Inc., Chicago, has applied for regis-
tration of the name "American Conservatory" as a
trade mark for banjos, tenor-banjos and other
stringed instruments.
The name "Sweetheart" and a trade-mark design
has been registered in the United Sta»tes Patent Office
by the Richter Mfg. Co., Chicago, to be applied to a
line of stringed instruments.
NEW INCORPORATIONS
IN MUSIC fiOODS TRADt
Views and Beliefs of Live Piano Merchants Are
Presented.
The Cliisholm Music Co., formerly located at Cen-
ter and Oxford street, Berkeley, Cal., has moved to
20JH5 University avenue, which is in the center of a
new and desirable retail district.
Robert Daly has opened a new piano business in
the Capitol Theater Building, Waverly, N. Y.
Philip Werlein, Ltd., New Orleans, has established
an agency in McComb, Miss., under the management
of M. Mat La Vail.
The Baldwin piano is used in the new radio broad-
casting station WF1W, operated by the Acme Mills,
Hopkinsville, Ky. The piano was sold to the studio
by McLaughlins, Inc., of that city.
George Kuhn, formerly with the Hobart M. Cable
Company, has been appointed manager of the Terre
Haute, Ind., branch of the company.
The Paul Winters Piano Co., New Philadelphia,
O., has opened an annex to its store and named it
the "Grand Piano Salon."
During Music Week, May 1-8, a musical contest,
between high school students, is to be held in Den-
ver, Colo. Last year there were eighty-three entries.
The great number of bands being organized in
Southern Illinois and Western and Northern Ken-
tucky promises a big business for dealers in Evans-
ville, Ind., and other towns in that section.
Small trombones and cornets capable of producing
a tune are not taxable as toys at 70 per cent ad
MOVES IN ROCHESTER.
Campbell & Menzer, band instrument dealers,
Rochester, N. Y., has moved into its new store at 100
Clinton avenue, South. The principals in the firm are
Leonard Campbell and Fred Menzer, who also con-
duct a studio for the teaching of various instruments
in the building. A repair department is operated by
experts.
ELGIN QUALITY CABINETS.
The Elgin Phonograph & Novelty Co., Elgin, 111.,
announces a new line of radio consoles manufactured
by the Elgin Cabinet Corporation, in the same city.
The company has issued a special booklet picturing
and describing the "Elgin Quality Radio Cabinets,"
the latest models in consoles, consolets, tables and
cabinets.
New and Old Concerns Secure Charters in Various
Places.
The Fitzgerald Piano Co., Grand Rapids, Mich.;
$10,000; C. Z. Fitzgerald, L. M. Harrington, and Earl
Eifert.
The Lincoln-Worth Piano Co., Tampa, Fla.,
$10,000; W. B. Lincoln, Walker Y. Worth and B. H.
Meadows.
The Harry Brooks Music Co., 335 South Wabash
avenue, Chicago, $75,000. Harry H. Brooks, Mary
L. Brooks and William T. Pridmore.
The Cline Music Co., Dallas, Tex., $10,000; Durand
and Ula J. Cline.
The Tamburitza Manufacturing Co., Fort Recov-
ery, O., $50,000. H. W. Long is president.
The Everthe Radio & Phonograph Corp., New
York City; $5,000.
WOULD ELIMINATE WASTE.
Negotiations between the veneer and plywood sub-
committee of the National Committee on Wood Utili-
ization and the radio committee of the Radio Manu-
facturers' Association are now being carried on, the
object being the standardization of panels, etc. It
is considered an important effort to eliminate waste
both in the musical instrument and radio cabinet
manufacturing industries.
The new French tariff law reduces the levy on talk-
ing machines and records 20 per cent.
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