Presto

August 18, 1928
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PRESTO-TIMES
PLAYING CONTESTS GOING STRAUBE PIANO CO. RE=
PROGRAM OF THE OHIO
AHEAD IN FINE SHAPE
GOLF TOURNAMENT
PORTS IMPROVEMENT
Details of the Series of Games at Highland
Meadow Country Club During Con-
vention Week at Toledo.
With a Pusher Like W. L. Bush Behind,
Them, Thousands of Children Will
Take an Interest.
Much interest and considerable action is in evi-
The program of the golf tournament to be held in
connection with the 19th annual meeting of the Music dence at Chicago in connection with piano-playing
Merchants' Association of Ohio in Toledo on Sep- contests and the teaching of piano lessons to the
young. William Lincoln Bush, promoter of this line
tember 10, 11 and 12 is an invitation to golfers.
The official program of the convention will be ready of effort and enthusiast in his work, feels much elated
for announcement on August 20. . Any member wish- over results and prospects.
ing a copy of this should write to Rexford C. Hyre,
Among Chicago houses that are preparing for les-
Secretary.
son-giving and contests per se is the enterprising
retail concern of the Reichardt Piano Company, 1311
PROGRAM.
The tournament will be held in connection with the Milwaukee avenue, which is getting out a circular
convention and be conducted by and under the aus- announcing that lessons will be given in its fine
pices of the Ohio Music Merchants' Golf Association recital hall, where also final tests and try-outs can be
of which Wm. R. Graul is president, Gordon executed.
Laughead vice-president, Chester D. Anderson treas-
The United Piano Company, 2850 West 22nd street,
urer, and Jos. F. Voltz secretary. The location will is another house that is taking a keen interest in sim-
be Highland Meadows Country Club, Sylvania, Ohio. ilar playing promotion, under the capable manage-
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The Toledo Golf Committee is composed of Henry ment of R. J. Kajawski, head of the house, w ho is
C. Wildermulh, chairman; Carl S. Landgraf, Henry an experienced music teacher himself. By the way,
F. Slucke, Chas. H. Yardling, Henry Dreher and Mr. Kajowski's establishment is now handling the
Baldwin, the Bush & Lane and the Straube pianos,
Wm. R. Graul.
Every contestant must be a member of the Music and his recent sales in those lines mark him as a
Merchants' Association of Ohio, the Golf Association most successful dealer.
or affiliated with the music trade. The Highland
Meadows Club is located in the Village of Sylvania,
eleven miles from Toledo. Busses, which take one
directly to the club, leave Toledo every half hour all
day from 6:45 a. m. on. Those driving their own
cars go straight out Monroe street.
Bryant Will Makes Provision for Alleviation of
Events.
Sufferers from Paralysis.
First flight at 9:30 a. m. (Toledo time). Morning
Play—Active members' division. Nine-hole event
The Ladies' Aid Society of the Trinity Methodist
medal play. One prize for low net score against Episcopal Church in Evansville was bequeathed the
home club handicap; also prize for runner-up. Asso- $26,000 estate of the late Nathan W. Bryant, for
ciate members' division. Nine-hole event medal play. many years head of the N. W r . Bryant Piano Com-
Prize for low gross no handicap, and prize for low pany at Evansville, according to the provision of his
net against home handicap.
will, that has just been filed in the Vanderburgh
Afternoon Play—Active members' d i v i s i o n . county probate court at Evansville.
Matched play eighteen holes; foursome made up ac-
The will stipulates that the society first erect a
cording to morning play. Players with two closest suitable memorial for his wife, who was an active
gross scores to play matched first nine holes. Win- worker in the church and society and the remainder of
ners of first nine holes are eligible for first prize, and the money shall be used to alleviate the sufferings of
losers for runners-up prize, to be decided in play-off
any church member, or member of a family belonging
of second nine holes in each flight.
to the church who may be suffering from paralysis.
Associate Members' Division—Matched play eight-
Mr. Bryant has been engaged in the piano and
een holes; foursome made up according to gross musical instrument business in Evansville for a num-
scores in morning play. Players with two closest ber of years and was widely known to the trade in
gross scores to be matched for the eighteen-hole play. southern Indiana.
Winner of the greatest number of holes in each flight
to receive first prize for the flight. Consolation prizes
A NORTHERN MICHIGAN ENTERPRISE
for runner-up.
Charles H. Weidelman, Calumet, Mich., announces
No prize winner to receive more than one prize.
Every player must turn in his present home club that he has purchased the business and goodwill of
handicap, and his five best scores for the current sea- the McLogan-Pearce Music Company at Calumet,
Mich., and that he will continue to carry the same
son. Cards will be furnished for this purpose.
w r ell-known high-grade lines in pianos, Victrolas,
The officers of the Ohio Music Merchants' Golf
Association reserve the right to change the manner radios and sheet music which built up and held the
of play if found necessary, depending upon the num- business of the Calumet store, with which business
ber of prizes and the attendance of both active and the new owner has been so long and actively engaged
and associated.
associate members.
LATE PIANO MAN LEFT
A BENEFICIAL LEGACY
PIANO BUSINESS ON BEST
BASIS IT EVER HAS HAD
Such Is the Conviction of C. H. De Acres, of Lyon
& Healy.
C. H. De Acres, vice-president and general man-
ager of Lyon & Healy, Chicago, has positive views
about the success of the piano now and for all time
to come as an instrument of music.
"The piano business today is on the soundest basis
it has ever enjoyed," said C. H. De Acres, vice-presi-
dent and general manager of Lyon & Healy, Chicago,
in his office on Friday to a Presto-Times representa-
tive. He restricted the statement to cover real pianos,
producers of real music. "The business is better
than it ever was before," according to Mr. De Acres,
because mere noise-making pianos and squawky
player-pianos have been eliminated; the day of the
nickel-in-the-slot, barn-storming machine has passed
by never to return.
We are becoming musically-educated as a people;
we demand and get the best in pianos; it doesn't pay
to manufacture poor ones; the era of the good piano,
producing good music, is with us, and with us to
remain. So that is why the real piano has come into
its Own; it is cultural, pleasing, satisfying.
A NEW BALDWIN STORE.
The Baldwin Piano Company has opened a new-
piano store at Rogers City, Mich., at Erie avenue and
Second street. A sale of pianos and playerpianos is
now going on. R. L. Benham and D. R. McCleery,
both of Indianapolis, are in charge of the store.
TEXAS TRADE WAKING UP.
H. P. Mayer, well-known dealer of Paris, Tex., is
expected in Chicago in a few days to make selections
of instruments for his fall and winter trade. J. R.
Reed, another Texas dealer, is expected in Chicago
any day now, probably next week. He is handling the
American Piano Company's line.
RAIEFF CO. HANDLING BUSH & LANE.
March Seems to Have Been the Month in
Which the Trade Took Turn for Better—
It Gains Right Along.
"For the past several months there has been an
increasingly noticeable improvement in the piano
trade situation," writes H. A. Stewart, sales manager
of the Straube Piano Co., Hammond, Ind. "March
seems to have been the month in which the trend
changed. There has been a consistent upward move-
ment since that time.
"The agricultural districts now show the most pro-
nounced improvement. This is emphatically true in
the wheat belt. The reports from the industrial
regions, however, are also of a favorable nature.
"The reports reaching us from industrial sections
indicate that factories generally are now more active.
More people are employed; the family income is larger
and buying is now showing more liveliness. This
activity is reported on the increase and the industrial
outlook is now brighter. We have been obliged to
increase our own factory activity.
"Our business is increasing and we are making
shipments to localities which have been out of the
piano market for several years. Some of the orders
reaching us now are to take care of immediate re-
quirements, but some of the instruments we think
must be for the purpose of having new stock on hand
for anticipated demand. Many of the orders now
reaching us are by fast mail, telegraph and telephone,
with a request for rush shipment. A situation of this
kind has always heretofore been indicative of a very
busy season to follow.
"If a suggestion from us would be in order we
would recommend each merchant analyze the local
opportunity for Straube sales and then provide suffi-
cient new stock on his floor to take care of condi-
tions as they develop."
WALTER LANE RETURNS.
Walter Lane, of the Bush & Lane Piano Company,
has returned to Holland, Mich., from his trip to
Europe, which covered a period of several weeks.
He got back last Saturday much improved in health
and vigor. As to his future plans Mr. Lane is non-
communicative, notwithstanding several rumors, some
of them emanating from his friends, that he is likely
to get back into the piano business in a major
position.
CHRISTMAN
STUDIO PIANOS
(Reg. U. S. Tat. Off.)
Makers of the Famous
STUDIO GRAND
"The First Touch Tells"
(Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.)
CHRISTMAN PIANO CO.Jnc.
597 East 137th St.
The Bush & Lane Piano Co."s trade is now quite
active for this season of the year. The Herman Raieff
Piano Company in the Fine Arts Building, 410 South
Michigan avenue, Chicago, has added to its regular
representation of Haddorff and other instruments a
line of Bush & Lane grands, uprights, players and
reproducing instruments. Recently the Raieff con-
cern has been quite successful with Bush & Lane
sales.
ORGAN MUSIC ON RADIO.
Pipe organ effects for radio in combination with
the xylophone are produced by the latest musical
instrument creation of Joseph Green, novelty orches-
tra leader. The electric marimba phone, as Green
calls the instrument, has already been constructed
and will soon be heard on the Family Party series
which WGN presents in Chicago each Monday night
as an NBC chain feature.
Cyril Farny, vice-president and general manager
of the Wurlitzer Grand Piano Company, returned this
week from Detroit, Mich., where he inspected the
great Ford properties at the personal invitation of
TheCABLECOMPANY
Makers of Grand, Upright
and Inner'Player Pianos,
including Conover, Cable,
Kmgsbury, Wellington and
Euphona.
Chicago
Henry Ford.
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