Presto
Issue: 1929 2227 - Page 7
May 15, 1929
PREST O-T IMES
IR1ON TELLS WORK
OF MUSIC C. OF C.
President of Music Industries Chamber of
Commerce Describes Its Methods of
Promoting Cultural Development
of the American People.
In his address to the New York State Music Mer-
chants' Association at their convention at Bingham-
ton. N. Y., on May 2, Hermann lrion of Steinway
& Sons, president of the Music Industries Cham-
ber of Commerce, said in part:
The Music Industries Chamber of Commerce, an
organization of vast importance to our industry, has
some real achievements to its credit—achievements
benefiting all who derive a livelihood from the mu-
sic industry.
Its first service came in the stress of wartime, when
the newly organized body prevailed upon the War
Industries Board to recognize the music trade as one
erate the growth of the list if our funds were not
limited.
The results of this work may eventually be com-
puted in dollars and cents, but monetary satisfac-
tion will not be the only one, for when there is a
piano in every American home, not only as decora-
tive furniture, but as an instrument to be played on,
our industry will have solved not merely a problem
of gain, but an aesthetic one.
We shall be well on the road to that goal when
our nation becomes music-minded, and we shall reach
it sooner if every one who loves the industry con-
tributes a small share of his mental and physical abil-
ities to this work of education. The Chamber is the
most powerful aid we have because it can exert the
collective brain and brawn of the industry.
RADIO-VICTOR CORP.
FORMED FOR SALES
World-Wide Sales Organizations of Recently
Merged Concerns to Be Under
One Management.
The Radio-Victor Corporation of America, a wholly
owned subsidiary of the Radio Corporation ci Amer-
ica, has been incorporated in Maryland to take over
sales activities of the Radio Corporation of America
and the Victor Talking Machine Company. This
step makes the Radio Corporation of America a hold-
ing company for a group of operating companies en-
gaged in the radio and allied fields.
BALDWIN PIANO SHOWS GAINS
HERMANN 1KION.
essential to the prosecution of the war. Had we not
united, we might all have been put out of business for
the duration of the war.
As Useful in Peace.
When peace came, the Chamber's task seemed
finished: but we had come to realize that such an in-
stitution could wage constructive campaigns in peace-
time as well as fight defensive actions in wartime;
so its existence was continued. One of the Cham-
ber's first post-bellum efforts was the securing of the
removal of taxes on musical products.
The Chamber embraces various independent as-
sociations in one body for the advancement of com-
mon interests: but each component association oper-
ates also in its individual capacity in affairs that it can
best handle independently.
Developing Musical Culture.
Of the Chamber's departments, the most important
at this time is the National Bureau for the Advance-
ment of Music, whose aim is to develop the musical
culture of our people. This department has estab-
lished contacts with every musical activity in the
United States and has enlisted in music's behalf
thousands of volunteer workers through whom it
disseminates musical interest to all. It issues pub-
lications on every conceivable kind of musical ac-
tivity, and offers advice on the musical problems of a
community. The Bureau, fortunately, has been able
to keep the commercial nature of its work in the
background, so that educators do not object to being
led by it. but would miss its guidance in musical af-
fairs should it cease to exist.
The music industry—the piano trade in particular—
must expand on an educational basis. Music, espe-
cially, must become a possession of every child, espe-
cially that kind furnishing keenest personal satisfac-
tion—self-expressed music. Toward this end we must
work through the medium of the National Bureau for
the Advancement of Music.
We have already made considerable strides forward.
An outstanding accomplishment last year was our
obtaining from the music supervisors of over six hun-
dred cities and towns an endorsement of group piano
instruction in the public schools.
We could accel-
WHEN TONE
IS DESIRED THE
F. RADLE
FULFILS THE
REQUIREMENTS
The piano is the result of long ex-
perience and ambition to attain a
position of eminence.
CLEAR, BEAUTIFUL TONE
is a distinctive feature of F. Radle
Pianos and the case designs are
always original.
F. RADLE, Inc.
ESTABLISHED 1850
609 - 611 W. 30TH STREET
NEW YORK, U. S. A.
More "straight" pianos, both in grands and up-
rights, were sold in 1928 by the Baldwin Company,
Cincinnati, than at any time in its history, according
to the annual report of the company filed recently
with the Stock Exchange.
The total volume of business done for the year,
exclusive of small goods sales, amounted to $13,-
312,972 and the profits for the year were $422,477.18,
after deducting taxes and interest and making ample
provision for depreciation and obsolescence in re-
ceivables, inventories, manufacturing plants, machin-
ery and equipment.
The current assets shown by the statement as of
December 31 were $14,134,749, of which $9,524,840
were bills and accounts receivable, exclusive of agents'
equities, and $4,275,241 were inventories. The total
of current liabilities amounted to $1,360,436, including
bills payable, accounts payable and reserve for taxes.
The surplus is shown to be $4,170,831, with reserves
of $3,202,824.
The statement showed a decrease in both sales and
production of player pianos.
ACTIVE DALLAS DEALER
The Will A. Watkin Company, Dallas, Tex., re-
cently presented a list of Texas institutions to which
it had sold Chickering, Knabe, Mason & Hamlin and
Marshall & Wendell pianos. The Chickering was
placed in Dallas Woman's Club, The University Club,
New Bell Telephone Bldg., Stoneleigh Court, Cliff
Temple Baptist Church, The Hockaday School, etc.,
etc. Knabe: City Club, Columbian Club, Baker Ho-
tel, Palace Theater and all Publix Shows, Melba
Theater, etc., etc. Mason & Hamlin: Southern Metho-
dist University, Highland Park Town Hall, Majestic
Theater, etc. Marshall & Wendell: First Presbyter-
ian Church, Highland Park Presbyterian Church,
East Dallas Baptist Church, etc.
ALWAYS
a p r o d u c t w o r t h y of
"A Name Well Known Since
1875"
JESSE FRENCH & SONS PIANO CO.
NEW CASTLE, INDIANA
GULBRANSENS SHOWN IN WEST
At the Convention of the Western Music and Radio
Trades to be held in Salt Lake City, June 10-13,
the Gulbransen line of pianos will be displayed
by the Glen Brothers Roberts Piano Co. Gler.
Brothers have for years sold Gulbransen products in
Salt Lake. Ogden and the surrounding community.
The Gulbransen Company will be represented at
the Convention by John S. Gorman, vice-president,
and G. E. Corson and Louis Matson, salesmen, re-
spectively, for the west coast and the intermediate
states of Idaho. Montana, Utah and the Dakotas.
The Gulbransen Company is looking forward not
only to the opportunity of having a large number of
western dealers become better acquainted with the
Gulbransen line of instruments but to the opportunity
of presenting some important new sales material.
The CABLE COMPANY
Makers of Grand, Upright
and Inner-Player Pianos,
including Conover, Cable,
Kingsbury, Wellington and
Euphona.
Chicago
ERNEST VOGET'S SALES RECORD.
Considering that Wayne, Nebraska, the town he
serves, has a population of only 2,400, Ernest Voget's
sales record for a 36-day period during 1928, is. to
say the least remarkable. During those three months.
Mr. Voget sold 4 grands, 4 uprights and 4 second-
hand pianos he had taken in trade.
Refer to Presto Buyers' Guide for in-
formation about all Pianos, Players and
Reproducing Pianos.
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PREST O-T IMES
IR1ON TELLS WORK
OF MUSIC C. OF C.
President of Music Industries Chamber of
Commerce Describes Its Methods of
Promoting Cultural Development
of the American People.
In his address to the New York State Music Mer-
chants' Association at their convention at Bingham-
ton. N. Y., on May 2, Hermann lrion of Steinway
& Sons, president of the Music Industries Cham-
ber of Commerce, said in part:
The Music Industries Chamber of Commerce, an
organization of vast importance to our industry, has
some real achievements to its credit—achievements
benefiting all who derive a livelihood from the mu-
sic industry.
Its first service came in the stress of wartime, when
the newly organized body prevailed upon the War
Industries Board to recognize the music trade as one
erate the growth of the list if our funds were not
limited.
The results of this work may eventually be com-
puted in dollars and cents, but monetary satisfac-
tion will not be the only one, for when there is a
piano in every American home, not only as decora-
tive furniture, but as an instrument to be played on,
our industry will have solved not merely a problem
of gain, but an aesthetic one.
We shall be well on the road to that goal when
our nation becomes music-minded, and we shall reach
it sooner if every one who loves the industry con-
tributes a small share of his mental and physical abil-
ities to this work of education. The Chamber is the
most powerful aid we have because it can exert the
collective brain and brawn of the industry.
RADIO-VICTOR CORP.
FORMED FOR SALES
World-Wide Sales Organizations of Recently
Merged Concerns to Be Under
One Management.
The Radio-Victor Corporation of America, a wholly
owned subsidiary of the Radio Corporation ci Amer-
ica, has been incorporated in Maryland to take over
sales activities of the Radio Corporation of America
and the Victor Talking Machine Company. This
step makes the Radio Corporation of America a hold-
ing company for a group of operating companies en-
gaged in the radio and allied fields.
BALDWIN PIANO SHOWS GAINS
HERMANN 1KION.
essential to the prosecution of the war. Had we not
united, we might all have been put out of business for
the duration of the war.
As Useful in Peace.
When peace came, the Chamber's task seemed
finished: but we had come to realize that such an in-
stitution could wage constructive campaigns in peace-
time as well as fight defensive actions in wartime;
so its existence was continued. One of the Cham-
ber's first post-bellum efforts was the securing of the
removal of taxes on musical products.
The Chamber embraces various independent as-
sociations in one body for the advancement of com-
mon interests: but each component association oper-
ates also in its individual capacity in affairs that it can
best handle independently.
Developing Musical Culture.
Of the Chamber's departments, the most important
at this time is the National Bureau for the Advance-
ment of Music, whose aim is to develop the musical
culture of our people. This department has estab-
lished contacts with every musical activity in the
United States and has enlisted in music's behalf
thousands of volunteer workers through whom it
disseminates musical interest to all. It issues pub-
lications on every conceivable kind of musical ac-
tivity, and offers advice on the musical problems of a
community. The Bureau, fortunately, has been able
to keep the commercial nature of its work in the
background, so that educators do not object to being
led by it. but would miss its guidance in musical af-
fairs should it cease to exist.
The music industry—the piano trade in particular—
must expand on an educational basis. Music, espe-
cially, must become a possession of every child, espe-
cially that kind furnishing keenest personal satisfac-
tion—self-expressed music. Toward this end we must
work through the medium of the National Bureau for
the Advancement of Music.
We have already made considerable strides forward.
An outstanding accomplishment last year was our
obtaining from the music supervisors of over six hun-
dred cities and towns an endorsement of group piano
instruction in the public schools.
We could accel-
WHEN TONE
IS DESIRED THE
F. RADLE
FULFILS THE
REQUIREMENTS
The piano is the result of long ex-
perience and ambition to attain a
position of eminence.
CLEAR, BEAUTIFUL TONE
is a distinctive feature of F. Radle
Pianos and the case designs are
always original.
F. RADLE, Inc.
ESTABLISHED 1850
609 - 611 W. 30TH STREET
NEW YORK, U. S. A.
More "straight" pianos, both in grands and up-
rights, were sold in 1928 by the Baldwin Company,
Cincinnati, than at any time in its history, according
to the annual report of the company filed recently
with the Stock Exchange.
The total volume of business done for the year,
exclusive of small goods sales, amounted to $13,-
312,972 and the profits for the year were $422,477.18,
after deducting taxes and interest and making ample
provision for depreciation and obsolescence in re-
ceivables, inventories, manufacturing plants, machin-
ery and equipment.
The current assets shown by the statement as of
December 31 were $14,134,749, of which $9,524,840
were bills and accounts receivable, exclusive of agents'
equities, and $4,275,241 were inventories. The total
of current liabilities amounted to $1,360,436, including
bills payable, accounts payable and reserve for taxes.
The surplus is shown to be $4,170,831, with reserves
of $3,202,824.
The statement showed a decrease in both sales and
production of player pianos.
ACTIVE DALLAS DEALER
The Will A. Watkin Company, Dallas, Tex., re-
cently presented a list of Texas institutions to which
it had sold Chickering, Knabe, Mason & Hamlin and
Marshall & Wendell pianos. The Chickering was
placed in Dallas Woman's Club, The University Club,
New Bell Telephone Bldg., Stoneleigh Court, Cliff
Temple Baptist Church, The Hockaday School, etc.,
etc. Knabe: City Club, Columbian Club, Baker Ho-
tel, Palace Theater and all Publix Shows, Melba
Theater, etc., etc. Mason & Hamlin: Southern Metho-
dist University, Highland Park Town Hall, Majestic
Theater, etc. Marshall & Wendell: First Presbyter-
ian Church, Highland Park Presbyterian Church,
East Dallas Baptist Church, etc.
ALWAYS
a p r o d u c t w o r t h y of
"A Name Well Known Since
1875"
JESSE FRENCH & SONS PIANO CO.
NEW CASTLE, INDIANA
GULBRANSENS SHOWN IN WEST
At the Convention of the Western Music and Radio
Trades to be held in Salt Lake City, June 10-13,
the Gulbransen line of pianos will be displayed
by the Glen Brothers Roberts Piano Co. Gler.
Brothers have for years sold Gulbransen products in
Salt Lake. Ogden and the surrounding community.
The Gulbransen Company will be represented at
the Convention by John S. Gorman, vice-president,
and G. E. Corson and Louis Matson, salesmen, re-
spectively, for the west coast and the intermediate
states of Idaho. Montana, Utah and the Dakotas.
The Gulbransen Company is looking forward not
only to the opportunity of having a large number of
western dealers become better acquainted with the
Gulbransen line of instruments but to the opportunity
of presenting some important new sales material.
The CABLE COMPANY
Makers of Grand, Upright
and Inner-Player Pianos,
including Conover, Cable,
Kingsbury, Wellington and
Euphona.
Chicago
ERNEST VOGET'S SALES RECORD.
Considering that Wayne, Nebraska, the town he
serves, has a population of only 2,400, Ernest Voget's
sales record for a 36-day period during 1928, is. to
say the least remarkable. During those three months.
Mr. Voget sold 4 grands, 4 uprights and 4 second-
hand pianos he had taken in trade.
Refer to Presto Buyers' Guide for in-
formation about all Pianos, Players and
Reproducing Pianos.
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).