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Sept.-Oct, 1936.
South California street, Stockton, Calif., is a big man
in many ways outside if his extensive music business.
Lee Roberts, who went from Chicago to San Fran- He is the proprietor of the Peffer Farms where Bel-
cisco, to take charge of a piano business in that city gian horses, Jersey cattle and Romney sheep are bred,
raised and marketed. Gordon Laughead, sales man-
and later became program and production manager of
the San Francisco Examiner broadcasting station, ager of the Story & Clark Piano Company, who has
KYA, has given up that position to devote his time recently been on the Pacific coast, visited the Peffer
ranch and farm, but aside from this breeding indus-
to music proper. 1 He joins the New York crowd of
bohemianites that make up "Tin Pan Alley." Lee try at the farms Mr. Peffer runs a broadcasting station
brings first class composer's credentials; his "Smiles," (KGDM) with studios in the main Peffer store and
alone, will place him along with the highlights. a transmitting station three miles south of Stockton
"Patches," "Lonesome," "A Little Birch Canoe," wili
Jerome Murphy, president of the M. Steinert & Sons
supplement his record in the field of ballads, but
Company, Boston, was recently interviewed by a
Lee is versatile and we will keep hearing from him. Boston newspaper and among other things, said:
W. H. A very of the A very Music House, Concord, "Our business in New England is almost on a par
N. H., travels far to take his part at the music trade with the business of boom days and we are con-
conventions. He was on hand a year ago and again fidently looking forward to even greater results than
this year at the Music Merchants' Convention and we have achieved in the past. Piano manufacturers
was one of the charter members of the National Retail are supplying better and easier selling instruments
Music Dealers' Association which was formed in Chi- than they have ever done before."
Earl G. Kallen, who has rendered very satisfactory
cago in 1934.
Chicago music trade people particularly well re- service for clients in association with the music trades
member Mr. Allen D. Albert, who spoke at various and industries, is now located in the Harris Trust
music trade functions in behalf of the proposed Cen- building. 111 West Monroe street, suite 1502. His
tury of Progress Exposition two years and more telephone number is Franklin 0068.
Mr. Forrest Wilking carries on the Marion Music
before the opening of that exposition. Mr. Albert
broadcasts news and special matter from the Illinois Company at Indianapolis, Ind., and in the city of
Marion, Ind.. the Marion Music Company operates.
State Capital and is heard through Chicago station
While Mr. Kellerman. the president of the Berg-
WBBM Sundays at 12:30 noon.
Mr. S. A. Morrow, the executive secretary of the strom Music Co., Honolulu, was visiting the mainland
Chicago Piano and Organ Association, had to hustle a few weeks ago he became particularly interested in
a good bit and keep his Oldsmobile well tuned to the new Story & Clark consoles and said that he
make the Canadian tour which he had promised him- believed they would become exceedingly popular with
self last year he would do for a vacation lay-off this his trade in the Hawiian Islands as these are the type
summer. Leaving Chicago on a Saturday noon the of pianos that would appeal to the native population
Morrow party had a scant 8^-day-week of outing as well as the permanent foreign residents.
Warren Whitney, son of the late Calvin Whitney,
before rounding up at the starting point, a week from
the following Monday morning at 9 a. m., which he still resides at Denver, Colo. Calvin Whitney made
a fine piano with a market almost unequalled for a fine
did, promptly to the minute.
grade instrument. One friend of Mr. Whitney has
E. A. Kieselhorst, at one time head of a prominent
music house at St. Louis and for many years repre- said: "Calvin Whitney was like a Bible to the music
sentative of the W. W. Kimball line of instruments, industry, for he disbursed his character and work in
gave no encouragement during his stay at the music the building of the A. B. Chase piano as b lit few,
trade convention that he would get back into the piano alas, other manufacturers did."
business again, reports to the contrary notwithstand-
ing. Mr. Kieselhorst says he is pretty well satisfied
MR. LUFKIN KNOWS HOW TO VISIT
with selling and loaning money which he finds to be
Mr. W. W. Lufkin, president, W. W. Kimball Co.,
a business of seeing payments made instead of wait- on his customary visit to the state of Maine this year,
ing and praying for people to pay.
did quite a little motoring around in the vicinity of
Mr. Julius Breckwoldt. head of the Breckwoldt the Kimball and Lufkin home town of Rumford. One
piano accessories industry at Dolgeville, N. Y., was of these visits was to his older brother, Edward,
detained at the last moment from making the trip to whose home near the New Hampshire-Vermont state
Chicago in July, but he informs his friends that he line on the Connecticut river, about 200 miles almost
will make the Chicago and vicinity trip a little later on due west of Rumford, Maine, which town is near to
this coming autumn. Mr. Breckwoldt is a magnificent the Maine-New Hampshire state line. His brother,
man of the world and of the piano industries and he
Edward, is a member of the New Hampshire state
will have a warm welcome.
legislature. However, Mr. Lufkin's real place of
Friends of Adam Schneider who suffered severe in- rest and recreation was at the home of his sister, who
juries in a fall at his summer home, at Lake Beulah, lives on the old Lufkin. homestead at Rumford. Mr.
Wis., are greatly pleased to know that he has entirely
Lufkin is now at his bffifce at Kimball Hall practically
recovered from the mishap, which occurred when aid- every business day of the week. Yes, Mr. Lufkin
ing his grandson to alight from his boat after a late knows how to visit as well as how to make pianos.
return from a fishing trip. Just after the "spill" Adam
jocosely remarked to a friend who had gone up to
A SUCCESSFUL GO-GETTER
the lake to visit him, "this is what one can look for
In the earlier part of this year, George H. Jones,
in a long vacation and I am reconciled to my misfor-
tune; life would be too easy, otherwise." Correct general Western sales manager of the Schiller-Cable
Piano Mfg. Company, was traveling through various
philosophy, that.
parts
of the Southwest territory and during that time
W. (Billy) B. Heaton, who succeeded Otto Heintz-
nian in the wholesale division of the Lauter-Humana learned that the Texas Frontier Centennial Exposi-
Co., Newark, N. J., is no longer at the L.-H. head- tion to open at Fort Worth in July would soon be
ready to give an order for several pianos. Mr. Jones
quarters, as per reports given out.
immediately set about to get this order. Without
Dr. Jos. E. Maddy, head of the summer school for going into details about how, in cooperation with the
musical instruction held at Interlochen, Mich., each
Schiller-Cable representatives in north Texas, the
summer, will conduct a series of Music Participation
Collins Piano Company, he started operations to get
programs in band instrument instruction. These band
this order, need not be stated further than to say that
and orchestra lessons begin October 14 at 2:00 to 2:30 in the first days of July a tentative order was taken
p. in. on the Red Network.
and Mr. Jones sent a 50-word telegram of instructions
Uncle George Morris, proprietor of the Morris to Oregon to get ready a certain number of grands
Music Store. Marietta, Ohio, who has made a great and uprights for shipment so that they would be sure
record as a piano salesman and of late distinguished
to arrive at Fort Worth not a day later than July 20.
himself in handling the Story & Clark line of pianos
Mr. Jones' instructions were that the instruments must
in his territory, is an ardent lover of the race track be in absolutely fine condition, well tuned and in per-
and was at one time one of the best known race track fect tonal condition to pass the severe test of the music
men of the country. Uncle George has driven in committee headed by Paui Whiteman, whose band is
many races and to his credit his friends say that in the attraction at the Frontier Exposition. When the
his "thirty years in the sulky" he has a record of pianos arrived they met every requirement, and so
never having started in a race that he did not get thoroughly tuned was each instrument that Mr.
a part of the purse, and he has won out in several Collins, president of the Collins Piano Company, wrote
events with his famous trotter known as "Comrade," back to the factory at Oregon that his tuners found
whose record is 2:17j4. Yes, Uncle George is a good the instruments in extraordinarily fine condition in
and kindly sport and he sells pianos.
every way.
Mr. E. F. Peffer of the Peffer Music Company, 40
Thus the Schiller pianos have been used in all
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concerts of the Paul Whiteman band attractions and
other musical events of the Frontier Centennial Ex-
position and distinguished rival of the Texas Centen-
nial Exposition going on simultaneously this year at
Dallas—Dallas, the great rival of Fort Worth, and
the two cities only twenty miles apart.
Official Changes: W. W. Kimball
Corporation
President—W. \V. Lufkin.
Vice-President—William Wallace Kimball.
Vice-President—J. V. Sill.
Treasurer—David W. Kimball.
Secretary—F. P. Whitmore.
Mr. W. W. Lufkin. the former vice-president, was
made president following the death of C. N. Kimball
on July 30 last. William Wallace Kimball was elected
immediate vice-president, succeeding Mr. Lufkin. Mr.
Sill continues vice-president in charge of wholesale
and agency distribution.
D. W. Kimball, who remains treasurer, will find the
responsibilities of his office very important today
in the duties devolving upon him. Mr. Whitmore has
been a member of the official family of Kimball for
more than fifteen years and has been associated with
Kimball selling activities for fifteen years before that.
William Wallace Kimball is a devotee of the science
and of the art of building, of construction and of
production. He has gone deeply into the study of
modern organ making and is a known authority on
the varied systems of pipe organ construction, tone
production and pneumatic control systems—studies in-
volving the principles of electric current regulation.
In general Mr. Kimball's vision across the scope of
music and trade eventualities is wide and far ahead,
and he gives great attention to his particular interests
at the Kimball factories.
Mr. Lufkin, to be the president of the W. W. Kim-
ball Co. to succeed C. N. Kimball, was a natural
course of procedure. None of the Kimball concern
officials attaches of the house and management con-
sidered anything else. Mr. Lufkin had long been
like a godfather to all of them and he is loved and
honored by all his co-officials. Mr. Kimball, the
founder, was his uncle; C. N. Kimball was a very
dear nephew. Mr. Lufkin's main duties from the
time he started to work for Mr. Kimball were at the
factory, becoming in due time the general superin-
tendent over the great works with which he had been
associated after Mr. Kimball had purchased the chair
factory, making of it a reed organ manufacturing shop
on the site of the present Kimball plant at Marshall
avenue, Blue Island avenue and 26th street. Latterly
much of the work devolving on W. W. Lufkin was
taken over by his brother, George Lufkin.
It is seen that the dominating cabinet is made up
of a remarkable working force, a corps of individuals
who have come along successively in their work.
David Kimball, some few years ago was assistant
treasurer. Mr. Sill was assistant secretary and also
sales manager and during the time E. B. Bartlett was
vice-president W. W. Lufkin was, with Mr. Bartlett,
the other vice-president.
ADAM SCHNEIDER IS HOME AGAIN
Adam Schneider, ex-sec, plus, of the Chicago P.
& O. Association is back from his country home at
Lake Beulah, Wis., to his city house, Chicago. He
is here for the winter and probably the date for the
October luncheon due the latter part of this month
will soon be named.
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