May 1, 1929
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And Another Small Grand
Minos
Style R Grand—4 feet,
7 inches long. Popular
size, beautiful case.
Real Packard Quality.
Finished in mahogany.
by a Real Sales Plan/
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•tx. sales. The Style R Small Grand, at a particularly low price, offers
Packard dealers unusual sales advantages that can be used to develop
new business. It is in the extremely popular 4 foot 7 inch size but
with all the full rounded tone beauty and volume you expect of Packard
instruments. The mahogany case is splendidly built, beautifully finished.
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EXHIBITS.
Trade Show Hours—Blackstone, Stevens and Con-
gress:
Monday, June 3—1:00 P. M. to 10:00 P. M.
Tuesday, June 4—1:00 P. M. to 10:00 P. M.
^Wednesday, June 5—1:00 P. M. to 5 P. M.
Thursday, June 6—1:00 P. M. to 10:00 P. M.
Friday, June 7—1:00 P. M. to 6:00 P. M.
*Note: All Demonstration Rooms will be closed
Wednesday evening, June 5, at 5:00 P. M. on account
of the RMA Annual Banquet.
MEETINGS.
Monday, June 3-10:00 A. M.—Registration for
Trade Show of Dealers and Jobbers, Press and others.
10:00 A. M—Meeting RMA Board of Directors.
Committee Meetings (to be scheduled). 10:00 A. M.
—Meeting Radio Wholesalers' Association's Board of
Directors. 2:00 P. M.— Meeting Federated Radio
Trade Association's Board of Directors. 2:00 P. M.
—-Committee Meeting FRTA (to be scheduled).
Tuesday, June 4—10:00 A. M.—Joint Meeting.
Drake Hotel (for all members of the radio and music
industries). 2:00 P. M.—Committee meetings of RMA
and ERTA (to be scheduled).
Wednesday. June 5—10:00 A. M.—RMA closed
membership meeting. (Delegates and alternates only.)
10:00 A. M.—Open meeting Federated Radio Trade
Association (all radio tradesmen invited). 10:30 A-
M.—Meeting National Association of Broadcasters'
Board of Directors. 7:00 P. M— RMA Annual Ban-
quet, Stevens Hotel Grand Ballroom.
Thursday, June 6—10:00 A. M.—RMA closed mem-
bership meeting. 10:00 A. M.—Radio Wholesalers'
Association Closed Meeting. 10:00 A. M.—Meeting
of Radio Retailers. 10:00 A. M—Meeting of Radio
Manufacturers' Representatives. 7:00 P. M.—Annual
Banquet, National Association of Music Merchants,
Drake Hotel.
Friday, June 7—10:00 A. M.—Meeting RMA Board
of Directors. 12:30 P. M. Joint Luncheon meeting
Boards of Directors RMA, FRTA, NAB and Music
Industries Chamber of Commerce.
Fort Wayne, Indiana
BALDWINS FOR MUSIC COLLEGE
UPPER LEFT: LAMONT SCHOOL OF MUSIC, 1170 SHERMAN STREET, DENVER; UPPER
RTOHT: RECEPTION ROOM; LOWER LEFT: PIANO STUDIO OF ALPHEUS ELDER, HEAD
OF PIANO DEPARTMENT; LOWER RIGHT: INTERIOR OF LAMONT PLAYHOUSE.
The Baldwin Piano Company, Denver division, re- former president of the Denver Conservatory, be-
cently closed a sale for the Lamont School of Music comes regional director. Mrs. Hinman, famous as a
in that city, which is an important step to maintain singer and instructor, thus adds more work to her
President Hoover has accepted the honorary chair- Baldwin prestige in Denver. This sale included seven already busy life.
manship of the committee of governors of the Na- Baldwin grands and six uprights.
Florence Lamont Hinman, director of the merged
tional Music Week Committee, according to C. M. The Lammt school has taken space for three ads schools, has written the following letter to the Bald-
Tremaine, director of the National Bureau for the to run in the "Courier" on their summer classes, and win Piano Company, Denver:
Advancement of Music. Mr. Hoover is the second at the foot of the ads there will be a notation: "Bald-
"After playing the magnificent concert grand piano
President to head the committee since the organiza- win pianos used exclusively." In fact, this notation furnished by the Baldwin Piano Company for Mr.
tion of Music Week on a national scale. The com- will accompany every bit of advertising that they do. Gieseking's and Mr. Respighi's Denver concerts, the
mittee of governors is composed of the chief execu- Recently the Denver Conservatory of Music was resonance and tonal qualities so intrigued me, I
tives of forty-three states. Mr. Coolidge, who ac- merged with the Lamont school.
could not be satisfied until 1 owned this particular
cepted the honorary chairmanship in February, 1924,
"Our first connection with the Lamont school that piano.
at the inception of Music Week, continued at the really meant business was gained through our radio
"In order to share this happiness with my faculty
head of the committee until the close of his adminis- broadcasts. The Gieseking and Respighi concerts here I have purchased Baldwin pianos exclusively for our
tration. The committee then requested President were the deciding factors in the sale. This is further school."
Hoover to become his successor, and Mr. Tremaine evidence of the tremendous value of the Baldwin
received word from Lawrence Richey, secretary to radio campaign, and presentation of the Baldwin on
EXIT RADIO HANDY MAN.
the President, that Mr. Hoover was glad to accept.
the concert platform with famous artists," writes C.
"The day of the radio handy man is past," states
M. Pettit, manager of the Denver division.
J. E. Smith, president of the National Radio Institute
The Montpelier, Ind.. lodge of the Knights of
The Lamont School of Music, Denver, Colo., re- of Washington, D. C. "Our recent enrollments in-
Pythias have made arrangements to sponsor a band cently merged with the Denver Conservatory of
clude numerous dealers and their service men who
organization, and the initial meeting of the musicians Music, is one of the best known schools of the West. are anxious to gain a thorough knowledge of the
and a number of the lodge officials was held Monday Mrs. Florence Lamon Hinman has become director of
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