Presto

July, 1930
PRESTO-TIMES
Chicago Musical Inst. Co.; treasurer, Arthur J. Neu-
mann, New York Band Inst. Co.; secretary, Harry
Meixell, general manager, Music Industries Chamber
of Commerce.
This resolution was passed:
"The president is hereby authorized and instructed
to appoint a committee of three with the president
and vice-president members ex-officio to prepare a
program of activities for the National Musical Mer-
chandise Association of the United States for the
fiscal year ending May 31, 1931; determine the cost of
such program not to exceed $10,000, and pro-rate said
cost on a sound and equitable basis among the mem-
bership."
The president appointed this committee: Fred
Gretsch, Fred Gretsch Mfg. Co.; Samuel Buegeleisen,
Buegeleisen & Jacobson; Harry Simson, Simson &
Frey.
For the proposed renewal and reorganization of
the association it was found that these firms should
be counted upon: C. Bruno & Sons, Inc., Buegeleisen
& Jacobson, Chicago Musical Instrument Co., Con-
tinental Music Co., Fred Gretsch Mfg. Co., Gretsch
& Brenner, Inc., J. W. Jenkins Sons Music Co., New
York Band Instrument Co., J. Schwartz Music Co.,
H. & A. Selmer, Inc., Simson & Frey, Inc., Henry
Stadlmair Co., Tonk Brothers Co.
The association expects to get under way aggres-
sively during the course of the month.
The
M. SCHULZ
CO.
Piano enjoys a
Popularity That
is Unfailing.
MANUFACTURERS CHOOSE
NEW HEADQUARTERS
At the recent meetings of members of National
Piano Manufacturers' Association held during Music
Industries Convention at the Hotel New Yorker, New
York, it was decided that henceforth the headquarters
of the association should be in the offices of Music
Industries Chamber of Commerce, 45 West 45th street,
New York. The official records and files of the asso-
ciation have just been transferred to this new location.
It was also decided that Herbert Hill, who for
twenty-nine years has been the secretary of the asso-
ciation and successfully conducted its affairs should
be made honorary secretary for life and that the
active conduct of the secretarial affairs of the asso-
ciation should be taken care of by Harry Meixell, gen-
eral manager of Music Industries Chamber of Com-
merce.
Following is a list of those companies who now con-
stitute the roster of -members of the National Piano
Manufacturers' Association:
The Aeolian Co., American Piano Co., Bogart Piano
Co., Cable Co., Everett Piano Co., Gulbransen Co.,
Hardman, Peck & Co., Ivers & Pond Piano Co., Jacob
Brothers, Jewett Piano Co., E. P. Johnson Piano Co.,
Kohler-Brambach Piano Co., Inc., Krakauer Brothers,
C. Kurtzmann & Co., Lester Piano Co., Mason &
Hamlin Co.,
Mathushek Piano Mfg. Co., Paul G. Mehlin & Sons,
Operators Piano Co., Poole Piano Co., Ricca & Son,
M. Schulz Co., J. P. Seeburg Piano Co., B. K. Setter-
gren Co., Charles Frederick Stein, Steinway & Sons,
Charles M. StiefT, Inc., Straube Piano Co.. Vose &
Sons Piano Co., Weaver Piano Co., Weser Brothers.
Inc., P. S. Wick Co., Winter & Co., Wurlitzer Grand
Piano Co., Rudolph Wurlitzer Mfg. Co.
PIANO MARKET OF NEW YORK.
A new booklet that has just been issued by The
Merchants' Association of New York, entitled "New
York-America's Style and Buying Center," has
served to call attention to the preeminent position that
New York holds as a market for musical instruments.
The little book points out that the city of New York,
as a matter of fact, produces more than one-fourth
of the pianos manufactured in the United States, and
almost one-fourth of the piano and organ materials.
The quality of the instruments available ranges from
the more moderate priced articles to the finest and
most expensive products of the instrument maker's
art.
SIPE'S TRIP FOR SCHAAF.
Harry T. Sipe, general wholesale traveler for Adam
Schaaf, Inc., is making an extensive trip into the
Northwest in the interests of that Chicago house. He
is covering North and South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska
and Wisconsin on this trip. Mr. Sipe told a Presto-
Times representative before starting that if times get
better this coming fall, dealers will be apt to find
themselves short of pianos, as manufacturers are not
making many instruments for a surplus to be bought
on call.
COL. HOLLENBERG IN MICHIGAN
Col. F. B. T. Hollenberg, late head of the Hollen-
berg Music House, Little Rock, Ark., is now largely
engaged in investments for his customers for summer
homes at Epworth Heights, near Lansing, Mich. His
place of business is the Hollenberg Cottage, Epworth
Heights.
EVERYTHING IS ADVERTISED
EXCEPT MUSIC ALONE
Lack of Advertising Is Killing the Music Business
and Sheet Music Men Say So.
The National Association of Sheet Music Dealers
maintains headquarters at 325 West 75th street, New
York. In a recent circular sent out from the main
offices of the association, the following argumentative
comments are made:
"Music is too great an achievement to perish be-
cause of the advent of motor-cars, talking pictures,
radio and prohibition. It goes back to the dawn of
civilization. In ancient Greece music was an impor-
tant part of everyone's education. Down through
the ages it played a leading role in religious worship.
Side by side with music in the churches arose the
music of the people, folk-music, on which has been
reared the splendid edifice of the classic, romantic and
modern schools.
"Why has music been temporarily eclipsed? Why
do the musical instruments in the homes throughout
the land remain silent and those in the factories and
stores unsold? Why do people no longer sing and
teachers teach? These are the questions that demand
an answer.
"Each music dealer may find an answer himself. It
is probable that the answer will be found more quickly
by the combined efforts of all the dealers. There is
great power in organization. It is almost the only
source of power in any field of human endeavor. The
music industry is competing for a share of the pub-
lic's spending money with a thousand other organized
industries. In the newspapers and periodicals and on
the billboards are advertised everything under the sun
excepting music."
HARRY HAMILTON, EXPERT
TESTER OF CLARK ROLLS
Graceful in Style, Rich
in Tone, Reasonable in
Price, and Every Instru-
ment Made with a Final
Touch of Quality.
When you s e e This
Piano you will Want
the Agency for it. Every
Instrument Made in the
Reliable M. Schulz Co.
way.
Picture Here Shows Him Seated at One of the
Large Organs Where Orchestra Rolls
Are Tested
Here is a picture of Harry Hamilton seated at one
of the large organs used in the testing of the Clark
Orchestra Rolls at DeKalb, 111. He is shown in the
particular act of testing one now.
Each style of the Clark rolls is tested on the par-
ticular type of piano, orchestrion or organ to which
it is to be adapted.
The Clark Orchestra Roll Co.'s testing rooms at
DeKalb contain a veritable fortune in automatic
Address the
M. Schulz
Company
711 Milwaukee
Avenue
Chicago, 111.
HAltUY HAMILTON TKSTINO CLARK ROLLS.
musical instruments, comprising nearly every type of
player, from the smallest 65-uote piano to the mam-
moth theatre organs and concert orchestrions. In one
room an arranger may be "trying out" a sacred pro-
gram on the late type Mortuary organ, while in an
adjacent room one may hear the most popular tunes
being tested on a large orchestrian.
There are other styles of pianos, some of which
feature the xylophone, others the banjo, etc., and
each type requires special arrangement of the rolls
to properly "bring out" the various instrumentation.
Mr. Hamilton is an expert at testing and adaptation
of the rolls to be used on the various types of in-
struments. In other words his musical talent goes
into the rolls before the rolls go out to the critical
public.
New York and other points east speak of a pos-
sible merger of two large piano interests in Chicago—
at least interests directly engaged in the music busi-
ness. It will be time enough to announce it if they
do merge.
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