The talking machine world (Jan-June 1922)

50 THE TALKING MACHINE WORLD March 15, 192.-.' THE Playing position Kent Special Plays all lateral records AT THEIR BEST on the EDISON DISC PHONOGRAPH Reg. U. S. Pat. Off. Write for catalog of complete line F. C. KENT COMPANY IRVINGTON, N. J., U. S. A. KENT PRODUCTS "Win their way by their play" Insertion of needle position PEARSON PIANO CO. IN NEW HOME Prominent Music House of Worcester, Mass., in Commodious New Quarters — A. J. Pearson, Head of Concern, Well Known in Trade Worcester, Mass., March 6. — The Pearson Piano Co., Alfred J. Pearson, treasurer, whicn has been doing business at 235 Main street for Alfred J. Pearson more than ten years, moved recently into a larger and especially attractive new home at 238 Ma n street. The change was marked by an open house, with concerts afternoon and evening by WHITSIT cooperation and service to the Victor dealer has been enhanced by the exceptional facilities afforded us in our new home. Visit us on your next trip to Columbus. prominent local talent, and many friends of the long-established music house attended the opening and inspected the spacious new rooms. The large floor space of the new store permits pleasing displays of the various makes of pianos and the Brunswick phonographs carried by the Pearson Piano Co. The excellently situated windows are full-length plate, allowing an attractive display arrangement. Features are the spacious, sound-proof talking machine rooms. They are large and attractively furnished, permitting prospective purchasers to listen to records in absolute quiet and in artistic surroundings. A private room, richly finished with black and gold as the color scheme, is called the Art Echo Room. Its main decoration is the A. B. Chase reproducing grand piano. An innovation is the addition of a repair department, especially equipped for player instruments. This department has been placed in WHY HE CONTINUES A CLASSICIST Neighbors Supply All the Popular Records and Thus High-class Records Are Accumulated Judging from Smith's cabinet of phonograph records, he is what might be called a classicist. Outside of about a dozen dance records which he kept on hand for purely social reasons to entertain company, the collection was classical. His friends found this strange in view of his fondness for popular music, especially jazzy and Oriental strains. However, the mystery was cleared up the other evening by a friend whose long standing made it not impolite to put blunt questions. "Well," Smith admitted, "whatever taste foi the classics I have developed, I owe it entirely to our next-door neighbors. Besides, they have saved me money. As soon as a new record comes out they buy it immediately and for the next couple of days I hear nothing else. "Of course, by that time the song which ha; become the rage has been murdered and buried as far as I am concerned. Therefore, the money which I would spend on popular music which rarely lives beyond a few months I use on classical music which helps to cultivate a genuine tastt for music." — The New York Sun. TRAFFIC COP MAKES RECORDS Patrolman Qu'nn, o: New York Police, Records Two Live Accordion Solos New Headquarters of Pearson Co. charge of Carl S. Eckberg, who for fifteen years was an inspector for the Simplex Player Action Co., of this city. The new quarters are very artistically arranged throughout and do credit to Mr. Pearson's good taste. It is seemingly a far cry from regulating traffic at one of New York's busiest corners on Fifth avenue to playing an accordion for phonograph records, but Patrolman Frank Quinn, of the Traffic Squad of the New York Police Department, has done that little thing for the Vocalion records, the first appearing in the March list. Patrolman Quinn proves that the hand that stems traffic on Fifth avenue can draw some mighty fine music out of the accordion. His first record has on one side "The Cherry Blossom" and on the other "The Swallow's Tale." The Yetter Investment Co. has been granted a charter of incorporation in Delaware to handle musical instruments, with a capital of $1,000,000. Do You Throw Money Away? It is not a popular pastime — but still it is unconsciously done by many who just don't know that Repair Parts can be bought for less RENE MADE SPRINGS AND PARTS ARE BETTER COST LESS RENE MFG. CO. Montvale, N. J.