Presto

Everett Piano Company - South Haven, Mich,
"The Most Complete Merchandising Set-Up in the Trade"
STATE OF THE TRADE
Bulletins from all fronts show that the music business is
improving. Hardman P'eck's success with its new Electronic
"Minipiano," now available with a built-in radio and an auto
matic record-changing phonograph concealed in the piano
bench, is proved by reports from all over the country.
Cyril Farny, vice-president of the Rudolph Wurlitzer Com-
pany, said that January, 1939, broke all records for his com-
pany, and that January, 1939, was 167 per cent ahead of
January, 1938.
''The broad gains in Wurlitzer sales the past two months,"
Mr. Farny said, "are the result of the new pianos which we
have recently developed.
This means that there is plenty of business for organiza-
tions which offer merchandise styled and otherwise fitted to
these times.
HARDMAN-PECK'S
ANNUAL MEETING
At the annual meeting of the stockholders of Hardman,
Peck & Company, Mr. Harold F. Hagemeyer, well known
throughout the trade, was elected a director of the company,
filling the vacancy left through the death of his father, Mr.
August Hagemeyer, who died August 30th and who had been
treasurer of the Company since 1921.
At the director's meeting on the same day Mr. Hagemeyer
was elected assistant secretary. Mr. Michael Barile, wlu>
has been with the Company since 1911 and who in recent
years was cashier and office manager, was elected treasurer to
till the vacancy created by Mr. August Hagemeyer's death.
Mr. Barile started at the bottom and worked his way up faith-
fully to the position he now occupies.
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A. A. Klamer, General Manager of Harding & Miller Music
Company, Evansville, Indiana, recently entertained Gordon
Laughead, Sales Manager of Story & Clark, at Harding &
Miller's special radio broadcast which takes place daily at
10:40 A. M. over the leading NBC outlet in Evansville, In-
diana.
This program is conducted by Mr. A. F. Gilmore, Manager
of the Harding & Miller Piano Department. The broadcast
is of ten minutes' duration, featuring church and school news
items. Interspersed with this news are some logical reasons
why children should be given an opportunity to learn to play
the piano. The program is strictly institutional. Mr. Klamer
states that the results are constant and beneficial.
Mr. Klamer further reports a good first quarter for pianos
in the territory served by Harding & Miller, which is south-
ern Indiana and northern Kentucky. The pianos sold by
Harding & Miller include the Steinway, Kimball, Aeolian-
American, Story & Clark and Gulbransen.
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