Presto
Issue: 1928 2166 - Page 12
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February 4, 1928
PRESTO-TIMES
FRANK J. BAYLEY IS
REELECTED PRESIDENT
Energetic Piano Playing Contest Promoter
Again Made Head of Detroit Music
Trades Association.
At the annual meeting of the Detroit Music Trades
Association, held in the Detroit Athletic Club on the
evening of January 23, with an attendance of thirty,
the following officers for the year 1928 were elected
without a dissenting vote:
President, Frank J. Bayley, Bayley Music House;
1st vice-president, George W. Bourke, Kimball Piano
Co.; 2nd vice-president, Walter W. Jenkins, Cable
Piano Co.; 3rd vice-president, Jay Grinnell, Grinnell
Bros.; secretary-treasurer, Arthur H. Howes, Grin-
nell Bros.
Board of directors: Officers and George Sundberg,
QRS Rolls, and Herman C. Schulz, Sonora Phono-
graph-Radio.
Among the guests present were Thomas Chilvers,
director of music in Detroit public schools; Corley
Kirby, announcer and manager of W G H P ; Charlie
drier, president of Detroit Radio Association, and
Harry Hogan, secretary of Detroit Retail Merchants'
Association.
' The piano, "the basic instrument" (a phrase first
used by President Bayley two years ago), and the
promotion work of the association the past two years
furnished the subject of discussion.
Mr. Bayley Speaks.
"The Detroit Music Trades Association, during
the past two years under my administration, has been
actively engaged in large scale piano promotion work,
in which time I have successively organized and
supervised two city-wide school piano playing con-
tests, the last climaxed with a great civic music car-
nival.
"However, the fact stares us in the face that the
volume of piano business in the meantime has
slumped off 50 per cent. What then is wrong? Are
we on the wrong track? Is the piano doomed as the
bicycle, the horse and the hand-loom? Shall we get
out of the business or can we bring the piano back?
Many are the answers and diversified the opinions.
"Personally I am going to remain in the music
business; I think there is none better. Music in the
home might have been a luxury, but today is a
necessity. Twenty years ago. pianos constituted 10,0
per cent of my business. With the advent of the
phonograph it slumped off to 50 per cent, ten years
ago, but today the radio is the big end and pianos
have dropped to a 20 per cent by volume. Radio is
a musical instrument—why fight it? Let's annex it
where it belongs.
"Today I stand as I did two years ago. I do not
consider our efforts worthless nor even fruitless;
we have sold some pianos as a direct result. There-
fore, I repeat my platform:
"(1) Piano Playing Contest; (2) School Group In-
struction; (3) Publicity."
GOOD TRADE REPORTS
FROM BALTIMORE
street, local retailers of Conn band instruments. Mr.
Soistman is also instructor of the Drum and Bugle
Corps of the American Legion. Boumi Temple Shrine
and South Baltimore High School. In his instructive
work Mr. Soistman uses Leedy drums, xylophones,
tympani and bells. In addition to his group instruc-
tive work, Mr. Soistman also gives private instruc-
tions in drums, bells and xylophones.
Fine Pianos at Station WFBM, Indianapolis,
Great Aid to Artists Before the
Microphone.
W. M. SHAILER'S CHEERFUL
ANTICIPATIONS FOR PIANOS
The accompanying picture shows Miss Bernadine,
a favorite artist whose delightful voice is heard by
radio listeners over WFBM studio of the Carr Tire
Company, Indianapolis.
Wide Traveler for Famous Felt Goods Sees Relation
of Hammer Orders to Piano Sales.
W. M. Shailer, secretary of Philip W. Oetting &
Son, Inc., 213 East 19th street, New York, is in
Chicago this week, visiting his brother, Lawrence
Shailer, 4452 Monticello avenue. He will make that
address his base for a number of calls on industries
in this section.
Mr. Shailer's company is sole agent for the cele-
brated Weickert hammer and damper felts and grand
and upright piano hammers made of the famous felt
and the fine quality of the products assures the com-
pany a great number of satisfied customers.
Mr. Shailer is a keen observer of conditions and
ably points out the significence of certain features in
the situation. Certain pleasant indications in the
hammer felt business have a satisfactory relation to
the piano situation. They evoke in him very cheer-
ful anticipations for the piano trade and industry.
KRAKAUER BROS. TRAVELER
ON SUCCESSFUL TRIP WEST
A. L. Zeisler Talks Enthusiastically of Sales Success
on Visit to Ralph B. Waite Piano Co.
A. L. Zeisler, traveler for Krakauer Bros., New
York, who is now on a western trip, visited the ware-
rooms of the Ralph B. Waite Piano Co., 218 South
Wabash avenue, Chicago, this week. The firm named
is one of the most enthusiastic and successful dis-
tributors of the fine Krakauer line.
Mr. Zeisler, who formerly was with the Aeolian
Company, joined the Krakauer Bros, road forces the
first of the year and his present trip is his initial one
for the Krakauer Bros. line. He gives a very cheering
report of his sales successes and is 4 particularly
pleased at the attitude of the trade towards the Kra-
kauer grands.
Miss Bernadine is known as "the Ray Samuels of
Radio" and her singing has been a foremost attraction
in the radio programs since her first playing before
the microphone. In the picture she is shown at the
Jesse French & Sons grand piano wfticft was sold to
the studio by Frank O. Wilking of the Wilking Music
Co., Indianapolis.
The Carro Accordion Co., Cleveland, to manufac-
ture and distribute accordions and other musical in-
struments; Jules Eshner, Emery C. Smith and Ruth
Woodrow.
The Anderson-Soward Co., Dayton, Ohio, has
opened a branch store in the new Riverdale Theater
Building on North Main street. A complete line of
pianos, phonographs and radios will be carried.
MISS BERNADINEJ.
THE KOHLERINBUSTRI
of NEW YORK
Effect of Big Christmas Business in Pianos
Now Seen in Lively Special Sales of
Instruments Taken in Trade.
A reecho of the good holiday business experienced
by Baltimore piano dealers is seen in the sales of
used instruments, all of which were taken in as
trade-ins. The larger number than usual indicates
that the piano is still a home-loving musical instru-
ment, in which people take so great pride that many
of them bought new ones to replace the old. The
acceptance of old instruments as part payment on
new pianos indicates that the trade-in phase of the
musical instrument business has been accepted by
local instrument dealers as a necessary evil. In doing
this they are but following in the footsteps of fur
garment merchants, furniture dealers, altomobile
dealers and others, who find it necessary to relieve
the prospective purchasers of old instruments before
they can sell them the new ones.
A novel inducement to buy used pianos has been
successfully inaugurated by the National Piano Com-
pany, 322-324 North Howard street. This is notifying
customers that any instrument bought during the
special January sale will be taken back and full price
allowed within one year on a new piano, grand piano
or player. In this sale uprights and player pianos
were featured.
Joseph W. Soistman, Baltimore, Md., well known
and prominent drummer and instructor ni the drum
and allied instruments is now connected with the
JESSE FRENCH GRAND
IN BROADCASTING WORK
AFFILIATED
COMPANIES
r
anufactoring for the trade
Upright and Grand Pianos
Plaver Pianos
Welte Mignon (Licensee) Repro-
ducing Pianos
De Luxe Player Actions
Standard Player Actions
Welte Mignon (Licensee) Repro-
ducing Actions
Expression Player Actions
Piano Hammers
Bass Strings
Wholesale Chicago Office and Service
San Francisco Office
458 Vhelan building
'Departments
KOHLER INDUSTRIES
1222 KIMBALL B U I L D I N G
CHICAGO
Conn Baltimore Company, Inc., 406 North Howard
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February 4, 1928
PRESTO-TIMES
FRANK J. BAYLEY IS
REELECTED PRESIDENT
Energetic Piano Playing Contest Promoter
Again Made Head of Detroit Music
Trades Association.
At the annual meeting of the Detroit Music Trades
Association, held in the Detroit Athletic Club on the
evening of January 23, with an attendance of thirty,
the following officers for the year 1928 were elected
without a dissenting vote:
President, Frank J. Bayley, Bayley Music House;
1st vice-president, George W. Bourke, Kimball Piano
Co.; 2nd vice-president, Walter W. Jenkins, Cable
Piano Co.; 3rd vice-president, Jay Grinnell, Grinnell
Bros.; secretary-treasurer, Arthur H. Howes, Grin-
nell Bros.
Board of directors: Officers and George Sundberg,
QRS Rolls, and Herman C. Schulz, Sonora Phono-
graph-Radio.
Among the guests present were Thomas Chilvers,
director of music in Detroit public schools; Corley
Kirby, announcer and manager of W G H P ; Charlie
drier, president of Detroit Radio Association, and
Harry Hogan, secretary of Detroit Retail Merchants'
Association.
' The piano, "the basic instrument" (a phrase first
used by President Bayley two years ago), and the
promotion work of the association the past two years
furnished the subject of discussion.
Mr. Bayley Speaks.
"The Detroit Music Trades Association, during
the past two years under my administration, has been
actively engaged in large scale piano promotion work,
in which time I have successively organized and
supervised two city-wide school piano playing con-
tests, the last climaxed with a great civic music car-
nival.
"However, the fact stares us in the face that the
volume of piano business in the meantime has
slumped off 50 per cent. What then is wrong? Are
we on the wrong track? Is the piano doomed as the
bicycle, the horse and the hand-loom? Shall we get
out of the business or can we bring the piano back?
Many are the answers and diversified the opinions.
"Personally I am going to remain in the music
business; I think there is none better. Music in the
home might have been a luxury, but today is a
necessity. Twenty years ago. pianos constituted 10,0
per cent of my business. With the advent of the
phonograph it slumped off to 50 per cent, ten years
ago, but today the radio is the big end and pianos
have dropped to a 20 per cent by volume. Radio is
a musical instrument—why fight it? Let's annex it
where it belongs.
"Today I stand as I did two years ago. I do not
consider our efforts worthless nor even fruitless;
we have sold some pianos as a direct result. There-
fore, I repeat my platform:
"(1) Piano Playing Contest; (2) School Group In-
struction; (3) Publicity."
GOOD TRADE REPORTS
FROM BALTIMORE
street, local retailers of Conn band instruments. Mr.
Soistman is also instructor of the Drum and Bugle
Corps of the American Legion. Boumi Temple Shrine
and South Baltimore High School. In his instructive
work Mr. Soistman uses Leedy drums, xylophones,
tympani and bells. In addition to his group instruc-
tive work, Mr. Soistman also gives private instruc-
tions in drums, bells and xylophones.
Fine Pianos at Station WFBM, Indianapolis,
Great Aid to Artists Before the
Microphone.
W. M. SHAILER'S CHEERFUL
ANTICIPATIONS FOR PIANOS
The accompanying picture shows Miss Bernadine,
a favorite artist whose delightful voice is heard by
radio listeners over WFBM studio of the Carr Tire
Company, Indianapolis.
Wide Traveler for Famous Felt Goods Sees Relation
of Hammer Orders to Piano Sales.
W. M. Shailer, secretary of Philip W. Oetting &
Son, Inc., 213 East 19th street, New York, is in
Chicago this week, visiting his brother, Lawrence
Shailer, 4452 Monticello avenue. He will make that
address his base for a number of calls on industries
in this section.
Mr. Shailer's company is sole agent for the cele-
brated Weickert hammer and damper felts and grand
and upright piano hammers made of the famous felt
and the fine quality of the products assures the com-
pany a great number of satisfied customers.
Mr. Shailer is a keen observer of conditions and
ably points out the significence of certain features in
the situation. Certain pleasant indications in the
hammer felt business have a satisfactory relation to
the piano situation. They evoke in him very cheer-
ful anticipations for the piano trade and industry.
KRAKAUER BROS. TRAVELER
ON SUCCESSFUL TRIP WEST
A. L. Zeisler Talks Enthusiastically of Sales Success
on Visit to Ralph B. Waite Piano Co.
A. L. Zeisler, traveler for Krakauer Bros., New
York, who is now on a western trip, visited the ware-
rooms of the Ralph B. Waite Piano Co., 218 South
Wabash avenue, Chicago, this week. The firm named
is one of the most enthusiastic and successful dis-
tributors of the fine Krakauer line.
Mr. Zeisler, who formerly was with the Aeolian
Company, joined the Krakauer Bros, road forces the
first of the year and his present trip is his initial one
for the Krakauer Bros. line. He gives a very cheering
report of his sales successes and is 4 particularly
pleased at the attitude of the trade towards the Kra-
kauer grands.
Miss Bernadine is known as "the Ray Samuels of
Radio" and her singing has been a foremost attraction
in the radio programs since her first playing before
the microphone. In the picture she is shown at the
Jesse French & Sons grand piano wfticft was sold to
the studio by Frank O. Wilking of the Wilking Music
Co., Indianapolis.
The Carro Accordion Co., Cleveland, to manufac-
ture and distribute accordions and other musical in-
struments; Jules Eshner, Emery C. Smith and Ruth
Woodrow.
The Anderson-Soward Co., Dayton, Ohio, has
opened a branch store in the new Riverdale Theater
Building on North Main street. A complete line of
pianos, phonographs and radios will be carried.
MISS BERNADINEJ.
THE KOHLERINBUSTRI
of NEW YORK
Effect of Big Christmas Business in Pianos
Now Seen in Lively Special Sales of
Instruments Taken in Trade.
A reecho of the good holiday business experienced
by Baltimore piano dealers is seen in the sales of
used instruments, all of which were taken in as
trade-ins. The larger number than usual indicates
that the piano is still a home-loving musical instru-
ment, in which people take so great pride that many
of them bought new ones to replace the old. The
acceptance of old instruments as part payment on
new pianos indicates that the trade-in phase of the
musical instrument business has been accepted by
local instrument dealers as a necessary evil. In doing
this they are but following in the footsteps of fur
garment merchants, furniture dealers, altomobile
dealers and others, who find it necessary to relieve
the prospective purchasers of old instruments before
they can sell them the new ones.
A novel inducement to buy used pianos has been
successfully inaugurated by the National Piano Com-
pany, 322-324 North Howard street. This is notifying
customers that any instrument bought during the
special January sale will be taken back and full price
allowed within one year on a new piano, grand piano
or player. In this sale uprights and player pianos
were featured.
Joseph W. Soistman, Baltimore, Md., well known
and prominent drummer and instructor ni the drum
and allied instruments is now connected with the
JESSE FRENCH GRAND
IN BROADCASTING WORK
AFFILIATED
COMPANIES
r
anufactoring for the trade
Upright and Grand Pianos
Plaver Pianos
Welte Mignon (Licensee) Repro-
ducing Pianos
De Luxe Player Actions
Standard Player Actions
Welte Mignon (Licensee) Repro-
ducing Actions
Expression Player Actions
Piano Hammers
Bass Strings
Wholesale Chicago Office and Service
San Francisco Office
458 Vhelan building
'Departments
KOHLER INDUSTRIES
1222 KIMBALL B U I L D I N G
CHICAGO
Conn Baltimore Company, Inc., 406 North Howard
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