Presto

June 4, 1927.
PRESTO-TIMES
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EXHIBITORS AT BIG ANNUAL CONVENTION
Imposing List of Piano and Other Displays of the Music Industry to Be Seen
at Hotel Stevens and Elsewhere in Chicago During Next Week
Packard Piano Company.
The Packard Piano Co., Et. Wayne, Ind., will ex-
hibit in Rooms 1605-1606. The display includes
period art grands, grands and uprrght models, and
will be in charge of A. S. Bond, president; R. W. E.
Sperry, W. B. Marshall, A. A. Buenning, J. J. But-
tell, H. B. Harris, R. S. Hill and H. M. Hulme.
Poole Piano Company.
The Poole Piano Co., Boston, Mass., will exhibit
in Room 1701, Hotel Stevens. Grands and uprights
of the latest designs will be featured.
Schumann Piano Company.
The Schumann Piano Co., Rockford, 111., will show
its impressive line in Rooms 412-413, Stevens Hotel.
The exhibit will be featured by the popular Schumann
periods in grands and uprights. The "Baccio" in
Lester Piano Company.
Italian will be shown for the first time. W. N. Van
Ampico Corporation.
Matre, chairman; W. N. Van Matre, president, and
The Ampico Corporation, 29 West 57th street, New
The Lester Piano Co., Philadelphia, will display
York, will have an imposing display in rooms 2000- the leaders of its line in Room 517A. Representatives other officers of the company will be present.
United Piano Corporation.
2001-2002-2001A-2002A. The Ampico line, Ampico of the company will be on hand to greet dealers. The
recordings and cabinet display will be a big feature new style Louis XVI Grand and the Lester Repro-
The United Piano Corporation, Norwalk, Ohio, will
for visiting dealers. The following representatives of
exhibit the A. B. Chase, Emerson and Lindeman &
ducing Grand will be featured.
the Ampico Corporation will be present: J. M. Del-
Sons grand pianos, in Rooms 61A-63A-64A, Hotel
Ludwig & Co.
camp, James White, Henry DeVerner and J. J. Davin.
Stevens. Straight and reproducing grand and up-
Ludwig grand and upright pianos in plain and rights, plain and period models in both grands and
Continental Piano Company.
period designs will be shown in Room 606. The dis-
In rooms 1704-1705-1706, the complete line of the play of the active New York industry will be in uprights will be featured. E. S. Williams, W. R.
Continental Piano Co., Boston, Mass., will be shown. charge of C. A. Errickson, president; L. D. Perry, Richardson and S. H. Perry will be present.
Foster-Armstrong Co.
Those in charge will be G. Wilson McDow, Frederick J. J. Ryan, and R. E. Briggs.
The Foster-Armstrong exhibit of pianos will be at
A. Allen, George H. Hill and John E. Carter.
B. K. Settergren Company.
the Hotel Stevens during the convention and will
Kohler Industries
The B. K. Settergren Piano Co., Bluffton, Ind., embrace several of their new period models. The
The Kohler Industries, New York, will show a line
Italian, Latin, Florentine, together with decorated
of straight and reproducing 1 pianos and also period makers of baby grands exclusively, will present a big
art models on the fifth floor of the Stevens Hotel. line of plain and period grands at Hotel Stevens, upright Ampicos, will be featured in the J. A. C.
Rooms 450-451-453. B. K. Settergren, president, will Fischer, Haines Bros, and Marshall & Wendell. They
George W. Allen, president, will be in charge.
plan on having a total of fourteen pianos on display.
be in charge.
Hazelton Bros., Inc.
J. B. Schwarz and H. B. Pattison, will be in charge
of the Hazelton Bros.' display, which will include
grands, reproducers and period art models.
Ivers & Pond Pianos.
The Ivers & Pond Piano Co., Boston, Mass., will
exhibit in room 1700. A general line of pianos will
be shown which includes new period models. C. H.
Pond, president; Shepard Pond, treasurer, will be in
charge.
Baldwin Piano Company.
The Baldwin Piano Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, will
occupy rooms 50O-501-501A, Stevens Hotel, with a
line of pianos, reproducing pianos, grands and repro-
ducing grands. Philip Weyman, E. P. Williams and
George Lawrence will be in charge.
Autopiano Company.
The Autopiano Co., New York, N. Y., will have an
attractive display of the leaders of its line in room 7A.
Corley Gibson will be in charge.
The Hobart M. Cable Line.
One of the convention's attractions will be the dis-
plays of the Hobart M. Cable Piano Company, of
La" Porte, Ind., in room 905A-906A, Hotel Stevens.
The Blue Ribbon line will be featured and will be
in charge of H. B. Morenus, P. A. Tennis and C. E.
Snell.
Bush & Lane Piano Company.
The Bush & Lane Piano Co., Holland, Mich., will
Sales personnel and department heads of the M. Steinert & Sons Company at their annual two days'
exhibit uprights, grands and players, in rooms 1005- convention at Steinert Hall, Boston, on May 26 and 27. In the center, arrow points to Alan Steinert, and
1006, Hotel Stevens, during convention week. The to the right are Robert S. Steinert, Jerome F. Murphy, Frederic Victor, of Steinway & Sons; Alexander Stein-
following will be on hand to greet visiting dealers: ert, head of the house of Steinert; Leon Lang, of Sherman, Clay & Co., of Oakland, Calif.; Frank Edgar, of
the Aeolian Company; E. P. Jenks, of Steinert's.
Walter Lane, president; C. L. Beach, secretary, and
Leslie King, sales manager.
The M. Steinert & Sons Company, at Steinert Hall, such great demand all over the country; on the second
Cable-Nelson Piano Company.
Boston, was the host to its branch managers and the day he gave a talk on "The Technic of Pianos," each
The Cable-Nelson Co., South Haven, Mich, will heads of the various sales departments in the Steinert
being followed by discussions and elaborations.
display its line in suits 516-556-557. John H. Parn- stores scattered throughout New England.
Mr. Edgar held his audience with one of his in-
ham will be in charge.
Robert Steinert officiated as the chairman of the structive and entertaining extemporaneous speeches
Krakauer Bros. Display.
two days' meeting. Alexander Steinert, the treasurer dealing with the manufacturing and selling ends of
Krakauer Bros., New York, will exhibit in Room and general manager of the firm, delivered an address piano products, and finally answering questions shot
1206A, Hotel Stevens, and will show its line of grand of welcome, and also took part in the various discus- at him from all sides.
Jerome F. Murphy, assistant treasurer, E. T. P.
pianos, reproducing pianos and uprights. Arthur sions which followed the talks. Invited guests in-
Hahn, vice-president, will be present to welcome visit- cluded Frederic Victor, of Steinway & Sons; Frank Jenks, general branch sales manager, and Arthur
Edgar and Joseph Sayward, of the Aeolian Company, O'Leary, in charge of wholesale business, addressed
ing dealers.
and
Leon Lang, manager of the Oakland branch of
the assembled employees on matters pertaining to
C. Kurtzmann & Co.
the Sherman, Clay Company, the branch which won their own particular spheres. Special speakers from
The C. Kurtzmann & Co., Buffalo, will show repre- the Sherman-Clay cup for the greatest number of
the Victor Company and from Kolster and other
sentative instrument of its entire line in its spacious sales last year.
radio companies, elaborated on their own special prod-
display
rooms,
800-801-802-801A-802A,
Hotel
Mr. Victor gave a deeply interesting talk on the uct and answered questions.
Stevens.
manufacturing of Steinway pianos, taking his audi-
The social functions included luncheon on Thurs-
Paul G. Mehlin & Sons.
ence figuratively along every step of producing that day, May 26, at the Elks Club; dinner at the Uni-
versity Club, theater party at the Wilbur Theater,
The Paul G. Mehlin & Sons line of pianos will be magnificent instrument.
On the first day Mr. Lang delivered his splendid witnessing a performance of "Listen Dearie," and
shown in rooms 1800-1801. H. Paul Mehlin and Paul
lecture on "Salesmanship," a talk which has been in lunch on Friday at the LInity Club.
G. Mehlin, Jr., will be present.
Never before has there been so large and compre-
hensive exhibit of general musical instruments as will
be seen at the Hotel Stevens, Chicago, during the
National Music Trade Convention, which opens on
June 6, continuing through nearly a full week, though
the official dates are from the 5th to the 9th.
It will be a display in which nearly everything
associated with music will be included. The piano
exhibit will be nearly as large as that at the Chicago
Coliseum in May, 1917. And that memorable exhibit
was the first really comprehensive piano display since
the visions of Section I of the Columbian Exposition
of 1893.
Last year's exhibit at the convention held at the
Commodore Hotel, New York, while a -good one,
lacked much of the interest which attached to the
one of 1925, at the Drake Hotel in Chicago. This
year's will put them all in the shade in 'the matter
of variety, because a great number of small instru-
ment exhibits will be made, as well as of novelties,
band instruments and heretofore almost unheard-of
products of industries that have not before 'taken
part in any of the activities of the associations.
What has been said must give added interest to
the June conventions, and to give further emphasis to
the extent of the exhibits in connection with the great
gathering of manufacturers and merchants expected,
a long list of exhibitors is printed in the following
pages and addresses elsewhere, with their room num-
bers in the Hotel Stevens:
M. STEINERT & SONS ENTERTAINS MANAGERS
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