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MUSICAL
TIMES
PRESTO
Established
1881
Established
1884
THE AMERICAN MUSIC TRADE WEEKLY
10 Cents a Copy
CHICAGO, SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1927
NEW YORK STATE
CONVENTION PLANS
Arrangements for the Meeting of .Empire State
Music Merchants Are Nearly Completed
and Great Time Is Anticipated with
a Large Attendance Assured.
AT SYRACUSE APRIL 26=27
Committees for Both State and Local Display List
of Representative and Influential Members
from All Sections.
The approaching convention of the music trade
merchants of New York, which will open on April
26 and continue for two days, is arousing great in-
terest throughout the Empire state. The latest
announcement, which comes from Charles P. Morse,
the wide-awake head of the publicity committee, reads
as follows:
"Object: This convention has been called to or-
ganize a long needed state music merchants' asso-
ciation, to co-ordinate our activities in the promotion
of the music business and to discuss for mutual
benefit such subjects as—
"The carrying charge on installments; promotion
of the piano classes and contests; New York state
legislation; school music and credits for music study;
advertising.
"Date: April 26 and 27, 1927—set it aside now.
"Place: Hotel Syracuse, Syracuse, N. Y.
"Other information: All gatherings informal; fine
program of entertainment; registration fee will be
moderate; be sure to come and talk over the music-
business with your fellow merchants."
Leaders of the Movement.
The Syracuse committee on arrangements consists
of the following gentlemen: S. H. Morecroft, chair-
man; G. L. Chesbro, secretary; C. L. Dennis, secre-
tary, National association; Burton Michaels, J. H.
Ciodard, Melville Clark, Harry Leiter, R. Cady, L. A.
Godard, L. C. Gage, Jas. Persse, Chas. P. Morse,
D. W. Greenleaf, S. H. Stone.
The occasion will be the first systematic effort to
found an organization of the New York state music
trade. And it is to the credit of the members of
the music merchants of Syracuse that they have
given to their city the distinction of which their
initiative is evidence.
An Attractive City.
Syracuse is one of the most attractive cities in
New York state, or any other state for that matter.
It possesses many special advantages and is amply
provided with the kind of objects of social and
mercantile allurement that usually draw visitors from
a distance. And the gentlemen who have assumed
the responsibilities of organization are competent to
demonstrate the need of a trade organization and
their ability to meet that need and establish what
may prove to be a permanent association for the
good of all who participate.
So far as has been announced, there will not at
present be any attempt at piano-playing contest?
such as are stirring Detroit and Chicago. But that
is not to be expected at the initial meeting of the
music men. It will follow in the future. A glance
at the New York state and Syracuse city committees
will afford ample evidence that the New York state
music merchants' convention will be an event of im-
portance not alone to Syracuse and of state-wide
interest, but another proof of the determination on
the part of the trade to sustain its reputation as an
enterprising and progressive department of the Amer-
ican industries.
The Complete Committees.
The complete lists of the committees follow:
State committee: John J. Glynn, president, L.
Schoenwald, chairman, Milton Weil, Calvin T. Purdy,
New York City. Talking Machine and Radio Men,
Inc.:
Irwin Kurtz, president, Joseph H. Mayer,
chairman, New York City; Louis H. Schutter, Al-
bany; George F. Schaefer, Batavia; Read A. Dim-
mock, Binghamton; V. Amesbury Goold, H. B. Me-
Clellan, B. E. Neal, Buffalo; H. "Gerald Hyde, Cort-
land; George H. Graf, Dunkirk; M. Doyle Marks,
Elmira; M. J. Slason, Malone; F. W. Baumer, New
Rochelle; Jerome W. Ackerly, Patchogue; William
H. Levis, Rochester; W. H. Retallick, Troy; Chas.
H. Sambalino, Utica.
Syracuse committee: S. H. Morecroft, 333 South
Salina street, chairman; G. L. Chesbro, 416 South
Salina street, secretary; L. A. Godard, Harry Leiter,
C- L. Stone, R. Cady, program; J. H. Godard, D. W.
Greenleaf, Jas. Persse, registration; Melville Clark,
L. C. Gage, entertainment; Burton Michael, finance;
Chas. P. Morse, publicity; C. L. Dennis, secretary,
national association.
The place of the meeting of the Syracuse conven-
tion will be the Hotel Svracuse.
AN UNUSUAL PIANO
FOR PRIVATE LAUNCH
Interesting Display of Uprights in Florentine
Period Design Attracts Attention to
the Cable Company Window.
A window display which attracted a great deal of
attention recently was that of the Cable Piano Co.
in one of its windows on Jackson boulevard. A card
in the center of the window announced the purpose
of the display:
"Cable's now offers a complete line of Cable-made
pianos, including period styles, in any color com-
bination."
On one side was an unfinished Cable-made upright
in the Italian Florentine period. This piano "in the
white," it was stated, had been ordered by Mr. Sor-
enson, general superintendent of the Ford factory
A CABLE PIANO COMPANY'S DISPLAY.
at River Rouge, for use on his private launch "The
Helen" and was to be finished in colors to match
the trimmings of the launch. Mounted nearby was
a color chart with some fifty different color com-
binations suggested for piano finishes.
For several years The Cable Company has been
finishing the small Cable Midget in colored enamels
and these pianos have proved most popular. Any
of the regular models of the extensive Cable line can
be furnished in suitable color combinations for which
the color chart with its numerous color combinations
offers some most attractive suggestions.
GULBRANSEN BULLETIN STATISTICS.
The trade generally showed considerable interest
in the first survey of piano conditions in homes ap-
pearing in the Gulbransen Bulletin for March. There
are some very good additional points in the second
survey appearing in the Bulletin for April. These
definite statistics are of particular value in that they
help focus attention on a condition that is very
creditable to the product.
MRS.
HUDSON SELLS PIANOS.
Mrs. Henry Hudson, wife of the owner of the
Hudson Music House at Boonville, Ind., has returned
from Newcastle, Ind., where she visited the French
piano factories and transacted business with the com-
pany. Mrs. Hudson assists her husband in the busi-
nes, and Mr. Hudson modestly admits she sells more
pianos in the course of a year than he does.
Ernest Duhlen is the new owner of the small goods
section of the S. W\ Goldsmith Music & Furniture
Co., Columbus, O.
$2 The Year
PROGRESS IN PIANO
PLAYING CONTEST
Trade and Industry Thoroughly Aroused to
Importance of the Tournament Designed
to Stimulate the Spread of Music
Practice.
MEDALS REPLACE RINGS
Supervising Committee of Greater Chicago Chil-
dren's Piano Playing Tournament Decides
to Offer More Desirable Awards.
Five hundred gold medals are to be awarded to
the preliminary winners of the great piano playing
tournament now under way in Chicago. These medals
of honor will take the place of rings which were
originally intended for the winners of the various
preliminary piano tests.
The supervising committee of the annual Greater
Chicago Children's Piano Playing Tournament found
upon much investigation that winners of such a
musical event would far prefer the gold medals to
the rings.
Those who do not make a showing in the prelimi-
naries but who actually play will receive gold certifi-
cates of merit, which classify them as qualified con-
testants in the piano tournament.
More Theaters Assist.
Two more Marks Brothers' theaters—the Embassy
and Broadway Strand—have joined the long list of
theaters who are co-operating in the piano playing
tournament.
Hundreds of boys and girls are now receiving
special piano instructions at both of these show
houses, which will help them materially in the pre-
liminaries of the big musical event.
Special lessons are being given to those who appear
at the Embassy theater by its orchestra leader, Nor-
man Stepp, who happens to be a talented pianist.
The preliminary tests were begun in schools in all
parts of the city this week. The pianos in the schools
will be tuned by the tuners of various music houses
in Chicago. A committee of four men, headed by
Gurney R. Brownell, manager of the tuning and
repair departments of Lyon & Healy.
The Supervising Committee.
The supervising committee of the piano playing
tournament which is directly responsible for the va-
rious details and the success of the event, consists
of eighteen men well known in the piano and musical
world. They are as follows: C. G. Steger and
Charles E. Byrne of Steger & Sons Piano Co.; Henry
E. Weisert of Bissell-Weisert Piano Co.; Henry D.
Hewitt of M. Schulz Co.; Herman H. Fleer and
George R. Brownell of Lyon & Healy; Gordon
Laughead and Eugene R. Farny of Rudolph Wur-
litzer Co.; Matt J. Kennedy of National Piano
Travels' Association; Harry B. Bibb of Brunswick-
Balke-Collender Co.; Walter Kiehn of the Gulbran-
sen Co.; Elmer C- Hill of the Baldwin Piano Co.;
Roger O'Connor of Kranich & Bach; Fred Ryder
of Cable Piano Co.; Eugene Whelan of W. W. Kim-
ball Co.; Adam Schneider of Adam Schaaf; James
T. Bristol of the James T. Bristol Co., and Peter F.
Meyer.
Ever since March 25 entries have been pouring
in on an average of between 250 and 300 a day, and
on Friday, April 1, there were 12,876 applications
for entry.
Mr. McElroy, advertising manager of the Straube
Piano Company, Hammond, Ind., will have charge
of the preliminary and semi-final tests for the chil-
dren entered in Hammond and vicinity, these tests
to take place in Hammond. Frank Justin, of Justin
Bros., Cicero, 111., will have charge of the prelim-
inary tests for the children of Cicero and seven other
suburban townships, these tests to be held in the
Justin Brothers' big store in Cicero. Members of
the Piano Club of Chicago, the Chicago Piano &
Organ Association and the Chicago Piano Manufac-
turers' Association will act as ushers and "masters
of ceremonies" at all these preliminary and semi-
final tests.
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TIMES
PRESTO
Established
1881
Established
1884
THE AMERICAN MUSIC TRADE WEEKLY
10 Cents a Copy
CHICAGO, SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1927
NEW YORK STATE
CONVENTION PLANS
Arrangements for the Meeting of .Empire State
Music Merchants Are Nearly Completed
and Great Time Is Anticipated with
a Large Attendance Assured.
AT SYRACUSE APRIL 26=27
Committees for Both State and Local Display List
of Representative and Influential Members
from All Sections.
The approaching convention of the music trade
merchants of New York, which will open on April
26 and continue for two days, is arousing great in-
terest throughout the Empire state. The latest
announcement, which comes from Charles P. Morse,
the wide-awake head of the publicity committee, reads
as follows:
"Object: This convention has been called to or-
ganize a long needed state music merchants' asso-
ciation, to co-ordinate our activities in the promotion
of the music business and to discuss for mutual
benefit such subjects as—
"The carrying charge on installments; promotion
of the piano classes and contests; New York state
legislation; school music and credits for music study;
advertising.
"Date: April 26 and 27, 1927—set it aside now.
"Place: Hotel Syracuse, Syracuse, N. Y.
"Other information: All gatherings informal; fine
program of entertainment; registration fee will be
moderate; be sure to come and talk over the music-
business with your fellow merchants."
Leaders of the Movement.
The Syracuse committee on arrangements consists
of the following gentlemen: S. H. Morecroft, chair-
man; G. L. Chesbro, secretary; C. L. Dennis, secre-
tary, National association; Burton Michaels, J. H.
Ciodard, Melville Clark, Harry Leiter, R. Cady, L. A.
Godard, L. C. Gage, Jas. Persse, Chas. P. Morse,
D. W. Greenleaf, S. H. Stone.
The occasion will be the first systematic effort to
found an organization of the New York state music
trade. And it is to the credit of the members of
the music merchants of Syracuse that they have
given to their city the distinction of which their
initiative is evidence.
An Attractive City.
Syracuse is one of the most attractive cities in
New York state, or any other state for that matter.
It possesses many special advantages and is amply
provided with the kind of objects of social and
mercantile allurement that usually draw visitors from
a distance. And the gentlemen who have assumed
the responsibilities of organization are competent to
demonstrate the need of a trade organization and
their ability to meet that need and establish what
may prove to be a permanent association for the
good of all who participate.
So far as has been announced, there will not at
present be any attempt at piano-playing contest?
such as are stirring Detroit and Chicago. But that
is not to be expected at the initial meeting of the
music men. It will follow in the future. A glance
at the New York state and Syracuse city committees
will afford ample evidence that the New York state
music merchants' convention will be an event of im-
portance not alone to Syracuse and of state-wide
interest, but another proof of the determination on
the part of the trade to sustain its reputation as an
enterprising and progressive department of the Amer-
ican industries.
The Complete Committees.
The complete lists of the committees follow:
State committee: John J. Glynn, president, L.
Schoenwald, chairman, Milton Weil, Calvin T. Purdy,
New York City. Talking Machine and Radio Men,
Inc.:
Irwin Kurtz, president, Joseph H. Mayer,
chairman, New York City; Louis H. Schutter, Al-
bany; George F. Schaefer, Batavia; Read A. Dim-
mock, Binghamton; V. Amesbury Goold, H. B. Me-
Clellan, B. E. Neal, Buffalo; H. "Gerald Hyde, Cort-
land; George H. Graf, Dunkirk; M. Doyle Marks,
Elmira; M. J. Slason, Malone; F. W. Baumer, New
Rochelle; Jerome W. Ackerly, Patchogue; William
H. Levis, Rochester; W. H. Retallick, Troy; Chas.
H. Sambalino, Utica.
Syracuse committee: S. H. Morecroft, 333 South
Salina street, chairman; G. L. Chesbro, 416 South
Salina street, secretary; L. A. Godard, Harry Leiter,
C- L. Stone, R. Cady, program; J. H. Godard, D. W.
Greenleaf, Jas. Persse, registration; Melville Clark,
L. C. Gage, entertainment; Burton Michael, finance;
Chas. P. Morse, publicity; C. L. Dennis, secretary,
national association.
The place of the meeting of the Syracuse conven-
tion will be the Hotel Svracuse.
AN UNUSUAL PIANO
FOR PRIVATE LAUNCH
Interesting Display of Uprights in Florentine
Period Design Attracts Attention to
the Cable Company Window.
A window display which attracted a great deal of
attention recently was that of the Cable Piano Co.
in one of its windows on Jackson boulevard. A card
in the center of the window announced the purpose
of the display:
"Cable's now offers a complete line of Cable-made
pianos, including period styles, in any color com-
bination."
On one side was an unfinished Cable-made upright
in the Italian Florentine period. This piano "in the
white," it was stated, had been ordered by Mr. Sor-
enson, general superintendent of the Ford factory
A CABLE PIANO COMPANY'S DISPLAY.
at River Rouge, for use on his private launch "The
Helen" and was to be finished in colors to match
the trimmings of the launch. Mounted nearby was
a color chart with some fifty different color com-
binations suggested for piano finishes.
For several years The Cable Company has been
finishing the small Cable Midget in colored enamels
and these pianos have proved most popular. Any
of the regular models of the extensive Cable line can
be furnished in suitable color combinations for which
the color chart with its numerous color combinations
offers some most attractive suggestions.
GULBRANSEN BULLETIN STATISTICS.
The trade generally showed considerable interest
in the first survey of piano conditions in homes ap-
pearing in the Gulbransen Bulletin for March. There
are some very good additional points in the second
survey appearing in the Bulletin for April. These
definite statistics are of particular value in that they
help focus attention on a condition that is very
creditable to the product.
MRS.
HUDSON SELLS PIANOS.
Mrs. Henry Hudson, wife of the owner of the
Hudson Music House at Boonville, Ind., has returned
from Newcastle, Ind., where she visited the French
piano factories and transacted business with the com-
pany. Mrs. Hudson assists her husband in the busi-
nes, and Mr. Hudson modestly admits she sells more
pianos in the course of a year than he does.
Ernest Duhlen is the new owner of the small goods
section of the S. W\ Goldsmith Music & Furniture
Co., Columbus, O.
$2 The Year
PROGRESS IN PIANO
PLAYING CONTEST
Trade and Industry Thoroughly Aroused to
Importance of the Tournament Designed
to Stimulate the Spread of Music
Practice.
MEDALS REPLACE RINGS
Supervising Committee of Greater Chicago Chil-
dren's Piano Playing Tournament Decides
to Offer More Desirable Awards.
Five hundred gold medals are to be awarded to
the preliminary winners of the great piano playing
tournament now under way in Chicago. These medals
of honor will take the place of rings which were
originally intended for the winners of the various
preliminary piano tests.
The supervising committee of the annual Greater
Chicago Children's Piano Playing Tournament found
upon much investigation that winners of such a
musical event would far prefer the gold medals to
the rings.
Those who do not make a showing in the prelimi-
naries but who actually play will receive gold certifi-
cates of merit, which classify them as qualified con-
testants in the piano tournament.
More Theaters Assist.
Two more Marks Brothers' theaters—the Embassy
and Broadway Strand—have joined the long list of
theaters who are co-operating in the piano playing
tournament.
Hundreds of boys and girls are now receiving
special piano instructions at both of these show
houses, which will help them materially in the pre-
liminaries of the big musical event.
Special lessons are being given to those who appear
at the Embassy theater by its orchestra leader, Nor-
man Stepp, who happens to be a talented pianist.
The preliminary tests were begun in schools in all
parts of the city this week. The pianos in the schools
will be tuned by the tuners of various music houses
in Chicago. A committee of four men, headed by
Gurney R. Brownell, manager of the tuning and
repair departments of Lyon & Healy.
The Supervising Committee.
The supervising committee of the piano playing
tournament which is directly responsible for the va-
rious details and the success of the event, consists
of eighteen men well known in the piano and musical
world. They are as follows: C. G. Steger and
Charles E. Byrne of Steger & Sons Piano Co.; Henry
E. Weisert of Bissell-Weisert Piano Co.; Henry D.
Hewitt of M. Schulz Co.; Herman H. Fleer and
George R. Brownell of Lyon & Healy; Gordon
Laughead and Eugene R. Farny of Rudolph Wur-
litzer Co.; Matt J. Kennedy of National Piano
Travels' Association; Harry B. Bibb of Brunswick-
Balke-Collender Co.; Walter Kiehn of the Gulbran-
sen Co.; Elmer C- Hill of the Baldwin Piano Co.;
Roger O'Connor of Kranich & Bach; Fred Ryder
of Cable Piano Co.; Eugene Whelan of W. W. Kim-
ball Co.; Adam Schneider of Adam Schaaf; James
T. Bristol of the James T. Bristol Co., and Peter F.
Meyer.
Ever since March 25 entries have been pouring
in on an average of between 250 and 300 a day, and
on Friday, April 1, there were 12,876 applications
for entry.
Mr. McElroy, advertising manager of the Straube
Piano Company, Hammond, Ind., will have charge
of the preliminary and semi-final tests for the chil-
dren entered in Hammond and vicinity, these tests
to take place in Hammond. Frank Justin, of Justin
Bros., Cicero, 111., will have charge of the prelim-
inary tests for the children of Cicero and seven other
suburban townships, these tests to be held in the
Justin Brothers' big store in Cicero. Members of
the Piano Club of Chicago, the Chicago Piano &
Organ Association and the Chicago Piano Manufac-
turers' Association will act as ushers and "masters
of ceremonies" at all these preliminary and semi-
final tests.
Enhanced content © 2008-2009 and presented by MBSI - The Musical Box Society International (www.mbsi.org) and the International Arcade Museum (www.arcade-museum.com).
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/
Future scanning projects are planned by the International Arcade Museum Library (IAML).