IMPORTANT CHANGE IN C.C.BAKER QRS ROLL …

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PRESTO

April 24, 1920.

IMPORTANT CHANGE IN C.C.BAKER Q R S ROLL DISPLAY,COLUMBUS,0.

THE MILWAUKEE TRADE

Jackson Piano Co. Sells Retail Store to R. H.

Zinke Music Co., Which Will Handle Miessner Piano and Player.

The public of Milwaukee and vicinity was apprised of the change in the retail store of the Jackson Piano Co., at 425 Milwaukee street, to the ownership of R. H. Zinke Music Co., a new? $50,000 corporation, by'display advertisements published in all of the local newspapers Friday evening, May 16, and on Sunday morning, April 18. The first a'nnouncement was made over the signature of the Jackson Piano Co., which said:

"The widespread popularity accorded the Miessner piano, the steadily increasing demand for it, have made it necessary for us to devote our entire time to manufacture and greater factory output.

"For this reason, after giving the matter careful consideration, we decided that Mr.. R. H. Zinke, who for many years has been prominently identified with the musical industries in the city and state, was the logical man to succeed us in our store at 425Milwaukee street. Therefore, we have sold to him the exclusive right to distribute Miessner pianos in the state of Wisconsin.

"You will have at your selection in Mr. Zinke's store the Miessner piano, a complete stock of Victrolas, Victor records, and Rythmodik player rolls, backed by a courteous, intelligent service that will make your purchase a lasting pleasure."

The new Zinke company's announcement was introduced with the phrase, "Back in the Victrola Business--R. H. Zinke." It was a personal invitation to his wide circle of friends to visit the new store, the formal opening of which will be held somewhat later. In detail it told about the lines which will be featured, namely, the Miessner piano and player, known as the little piano with the big tone; the Kurtzmann piano, player and grand, Victrolas and records, and the complete line of Rythmodik player rolls. It also called attention to the expert repair departments for Victrolas and other makes of phonographs and talking machines, expert repair and tuning for all makes of pianos, players and grands.

NOTABLE EXAMPLE OF A

STORE WITHIN A STORE

Music Department of the D. H. Holmes Co., Ltd.,

New Orleans, Grows Under R. E. Ching.

The music goods department of the D. H. Holmes Co., Ltd., New Orleans, La., is a notable example of the store within a store. The Holmes department store is known throughout a vast territory in the South, and of course the fine music department so ably managed by R. E. Ching stands in a position of enviable prominence.

The music department in the store of the D. H. Holmes Co., Ltd., is in a measure distinct from the other departments of the big institution, in that it occupies a wing all to itself. The music department is complete with a demonstration room, a repair department and facilitities for storing stock. The center aisle is devoted to upright and grand pianos. At either side are the playerpianos and the talking machines. Both the music roll and record stocks are well cared- for, and are given space and prominence commensurate with the importance the goods have reached in the Holmes music section.

W. M. PLAISTED NOW

HAZELTON BROS.' PRESIDENT

Board of Directors Chooses Popular Executive for

New Position as Chief Official.

William M. Plaisted has been appointed president of Hazleton Brothers, Inc., New York. This announcement has just come through the Hazelton board of directors and has been confirmed by the new president.

Mr. Plaisted has been identified with the Kohler Industries since February, 1913, and for the past three and one-half years has confined his attention exclusively to the Hazelton Brothers' upright piayerpiahos and grands.

Since 1917, when Mr. Plaisted was appointed vicepresident of Hazelton Brothers, the company's affairs have gone forward with great strides. It will be remembered that less than a year ago the company moved to its spacious building on West 40th St., New York City, where are located the general offices and the manufacturing plant itself.

Last week Mr. Plaisted's many friends in the

One of the odd decorations of Q R S music rolls can be seen at Columbus, Ohio, where the C. C. Baker establishment has fixed up a parrakeet that is holding nine ribbons in its bill, each ribbon attached to a music roll on the floor. It is also seemingly holding the handle of a large basket of growing potted flowers, the basket standing on a wicker base. Simple! suggests some reader. Yes simple as art itself, and all the more artistic for being so simple. That was what Christ meant when he exhibited a lily and told the curious onlookers that

trade deluged him with congratulations and good wishes for his continued success in his enlarged field of jurisdiction.

PIANO DEALERS ADVISED

NOT TO UNDER=BUY

Prices of Materials Are Still Going Up and Completed Instruments Must Cost More.

Most dealers are buying lightly now, says Gulbransen-Dickinson Co.'s Bulletin. The feeling seems to be general that prices may recede soon. Some commodities have reached the peak and started back. But certain others are higher than ever. Lumber, for instance.

Most manufacturers in the musical instrument line don't need orders and are not urging the dealers to buy. For that reason, some dealers are in danger of being over-conservative. There is more danger that they will be caught without goods than with too many.

Look up the market reports and you will find that most of the basic materials for players and talking machines are still going up, not down.

TAKES ON PRICE & TEEPLE.

E. J. Vickre, proprietor of the Vickre Piano Company. Crystal, N. D., was in Chicago last week arranging for various lines of pianos, and phonographs which he handles. He added the Price & Teeple line of pianos and playerpianos to his agency and ordered, as he puts it, "all he could get." Mr. Vickre has been having remarkably excellent trade for several months past, particularly .since last October. He sold upwards of 45 phonographs since October, which he says is a great many for a town the size of Crystal, but his piano sales were more restricted, because he could not get the goods.

NEW STORE FOR TIPTON, IOWA.

Messrs. Lineau and Hoepner have made arrangements, to open a new piano and filayerpiano sttfre at Trpton, tpwa, on May 1. .^hese two enterprising gentlemen were -in Chicago late last week selecting stock'for their new-retail establishment.

Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed as was that simple-looking plant. Botanists have marveled long since over the complex beauties of corolla, stamens, perianth, sporophylls, petals, styles and stigmas of lilies and other flowers. Ornithologists might rave over the beauties of the parrot family, for all of the zygodactyl birds of the order psittaci are beautiful. But the Q R S music rolls open another world of beauty--the songs of the heavenly maids of music.

GEORGE R. HUGHES' LECTURE * CONVINCED SCHOOL TEACHERS

Piano Man Showed How Playerpiano Is Beneficent Except When Loaded for Mischief.

The part of music in the scheme of teaching was discussed recently by the Music Teachers' Association of Sacramento, Cal., and to provide illustrations for the subject, the officials of the association invited Mgr. Geo. R. Hughes of the Wiley B. Allen Co., San Francisco, to come and talk. The teachers gave him an open order, trusting in the well-known piano man to relate some facts helpful to pedagogics.

Mr. Hughes did not disappoint his hearers. He told about the mission of the playerpiano in schools and the effect of its music on the ordinary pupil as well as on the music student. It was a scientific discourse understood and appreciated by members of the Music Teachers' Association.

The lecture was the reverse of dry. Mr. Hughes diluted his ? science with charming sentiment with the aid of a playerpiano and a choice collection of rolls. He showed how the pleasure from a playerpiano in or out of- school was always in equal ratio to the intelligence of the operator. It was good teacher meeting talk. Tt also was excellent piano wareroom spieling.

But Mr. Hughes' interesting talk to the teachers had the effect he desired--the driving home of two facts: That the playerpiano is a potent aid to school work but that its potency is weakened when the operator does not understand the use of the instrument.

VERSATILITY OF WORKERS.

Often the versatility of skilled workers presents one reason for the progress of the piano development. Here is an incident told of a cabinet maker. It is about Charlie Holland, one of the;.most expert cabinet men in fhe U. S. A., who left the- El P. Johnson Piano Co. a_nd for two years, during the war, wo.rked for The Elgin Watch Co. at war cabinet work. He dropped it -at end end. of-the"war and is now working for S. N. Swan & Sons, of Freeport, 111., on a two years' contract.

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