The talking machine world (Jan-June 1920)

76 THE TALKING MACHINE WORLD May IS, 1920 YIOLmPHOAE PHONOGRAPH NEEDLES EACH NEEDLE WILL PLAY 10 RECORDS "• ' szfcs^? canECSg aniss^ EACH NEEOLEWILLPLAY lO RECORDS The Best Talking Machine Needle on the Market PACKED IN COUNTER SALESMEN 50 Needles to a box and they retail at 10 cents per box. 60 boxes to a package, $6.00. This package costs you $3.90 net. Your profit is $2.10 and your customer gets a needle that will give satisfaction. THE FRED. GRETSCH MANUFACTURING COMPANY 60 Broadway Manufacturers of Musical Instruments BROOKLYN, N. Y Canadian Wholesale Agent, H. A. BEMISTER, 10 Victoria Street, Montreal, Can. Weitern Distributor: WALTER S. GRAY, 530 Chronicle Building, San Francisco. Cal. VICE=PRESIDENT OF CANTON ASSN. R. W. Kincaid, Manager of Kenny Bros. Co. Piano Department, Honored by Trade Associates With Office in Organization A VISITOR FROM LONDON R. Gordon Willis, of British Polyphon Co., Studying Retail Trade in This Country Canton, O., April 27. — R. W. Kincaid, manager of the Kenny Bros. Co. piano and music department, has been elected vice-president of the Canton Music Trades Association. He boasts of being head of one of the most complete piano and phonograph departments of any Canton store. The leaders are the Brinkerhoff piano and Brunswick phonograph. The piano department is located on the fourth floor, adjacent the main offices of the company. Mr. Kincaid has four independent booths, one for pianos, one for phonographs, another for music rolls and the fourth for phonograph records. Almost 500 square feet of floor space on the fourth floor is devoted to the display of pianos and playerpianos. L. A. Murray, exclusive Victor dealer, Davenport, Iowa, recently sold a Jap Lac Period Victrola to one of the prominent officials of the town. A photo was taken of the instrument in the home and all of Mr. Murray's salesmen carry a copy of it in their sales outfit. An interesting visitor to the United States just now is R. Gordon Willis, of the British Polyphon Co. of London, who is touring the country with a view to studying conditions in the retail talking machine trade and particularly the details of store arrangement and store management with a view to the adoption of many of those ideas in the conduct of the business of his company. Mr. Willis stated that the talking machine business in England was making progress, although under some handicaps, and that the full cabinet machine, or "floor model," was just beginning to come into its own with the British buying public. He stated that record prices had been increased recently and that business generally was on a much higher level than heretofore. Before returning home early in August, Mr. Willis plans to visit Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and other cities in the_ Middle West. H. N. Duff is now with the Wells Music Co., in Ottawa, Kan. 1 & eon T A4Lc if incomparable It is worth your while to have a Delpheon, in order to know its surpassingly rich tone and beautiful cabinet Delpheon Model C THE DELPHEON COMPANY Bay City, Michigan New York Office, 25 Church Street Rosen Phono. Sale* Co., 27-28 Court Street, Boston, Mais. Delpheon Shop, Peachtree Arcade, Atlarta, Ga. Walter Verhalen Co., 703 Butch Building, Dallas, Texas Verbeck Musical Sales Co., Buffalo, N. Y. LATEST MOVING PICTURE SLIDES Prepared by Advertising Department of Sonora Phonograph Co. of Interest to Dealers A new set of moving picture slides has just been prepared by the advertising department of the Sonora Phonograph Co. for the use of Some of New Set of Sonora Slides its dealers. There are six slides in this set, and the designs utilized in the preparation of these slides emphasize the attractiveness of Sonora cabinets. The use of moving picture slides by progressive dealers is becoming more general day by day, and many dealers have reported the consummation of important sales as a direct result of this timely publicity. MISS CARROLL RESIGNS Miss Mary Carroll, for a number of years connected with several of the prominent Victor dealers, and lately of Baxter Piano Co., Davenport, la., has tendered her resignation, which took effect May 1. Miss Carroll will go West for her health. ACME-DIE ■CASTINGS ALUMINUM ZINC-TIN 8 LEAD ALLPYS Acme Die-Cajstin$ Corp Benton Bodmtn BroollynN.Y. Detroit Chicago