The talking machine world (Jan-June 1925)

66d THE TALKING MACHINE WORLD May 15, 1925 Oregon Music Trades Association Is Reorganized at Portland DinnerMeeting G. F. Johnson Elected President — Dealers Vote on Return to 5 Per Cent Carrying Charge on Instalment Sales — Atwater Kent Distributor Stages Music Memory Contest — The News Portland, Ore., May 5. — After almost a year of inactivity the Oregon Music Trades Association reorganized April 30 at a dinner held at the Portland Chamber of Commerce. Seventysix dealers, salesmen and saleswomen attended, and greeted with enthusiasm the effort made to put the Oregon Association on a firm foundation. E, P. Kelly, of Hopper-Kelly Music Co., of Seattle, and first vice-president of the Western Trades Association, and Charles Corbin, manager of Bush & Lane Piano Co., of Seattle, were invited by the local dealers to come to Portland and help in the reorganization plans. New officers were elected as follows: G. F. 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Collins, of Collins & Erwin Piano Co., treasurer, and Elmer Hunt, manager Sherman, Clay & Co., wholesale, secretary. A board of trustees was elected as follows: B. R. Brassfield, manager Wiley B. Allen Co.; Julius Meier, of the Meier & Frank Co.; E. B. Hyatt, of the Hyatt Music Co., and L. D. Heater, of the L. D. Heater Co. The by-laws of the Washington Association were adopted unanimously. Another drastic measure voted on was a return to a 5 per cent carrying charge on phonographs and radio to go into effect May 15. Unique Music Memory Contest Portland did not officially celebrate National Music Week this year or hold a music memory contest in its public schools, but the Sunset Electric Co., local Atwater Kent distributor, is featuring a unique music memory contest over The Oregonian, KGW, radio broadcasting station. A series of three concerts is being presented one week apart, the first April 23. Julius Walter, KGW pianist, plays from memory approximately 200 popular and semi-popular airs and has picked forty-five of these to be played. He will play fifteen pieces in each program, which, instead of being announced by title, are played in numerical order. Listeners-in will identify the numbers as played, and at the termination of the contest will send in the titles. To the listener having the most correct list will be awarded a model 10 Atwater Kent five-tube receiver, complete with loud speaker, tubes arid batteries; second prize will be a model 9 Atwater Kent four-tube receiving set; third prize, a model M Atwater Kent de luxe loud speaker; fourth prize, a model L loud speaker; fifth prize, a model R loud speaker; sixth prize, a set of five Cunningham tubes to fit the set of the listener. These have been donated by the local Atwater Kent dealers, among them Hyatt Music Co., McCormick Music Co. and the G. F. Johnson Piano Co. Special printed contest forms containing instructions have been distributed from these stores and a great deal of interest is being shown in the event. Doing Excellent Business H. J. Ebert, manager of the talking machine department of Sherman, Clay & Co., reports excellent business for April with the report of his department having sold twice as many instruments in April than in March. Mr. Ebert says the sale of portable machines started very early this Spring and he predicts a larger sale of these little vacation machines than ever before. Columbia Portables Popular Randall Bargelt, district manager of the Columbia Phonograph Co., reports the portable as meeting with hearty approval of the local dealers, who are pushing the sales as never before. Exhibits at Home Beautiful Week The annual Home Beautiful Week was held the week of April 19 at the Municipal Auditorium, under the auspices of the Portland Realty Board. The G. F. Johnson Piano Co. had an attractive display featuring the Chickering Ampice, the Marshall & Wendell Ampico and the Cheney phonograph. Sherman, Clay & Co. displayed the RCA line, and the Grand Electric Co. featured an attractive Atwater Kent display. Art Gillham, Columbia Artist, Scores Art Gillham, "The Whispering Pianist," exclusive Columbia artist, appeared in Portland May 1 to 4, under the auspices of the Columbia Phonograph Co. and under the local supervision of Randall Bargelt, district manager of the Columbia Co. Mr. Gillham was presented in concert at the larger stores handling Columbia rec ords, among them the Meier & Frank Co., Hyatt Music Co. and the McCormick Music Co. Mr. Gillham played to great throngs and autographed scores of records for customers. Annual Banquet of Radio Ass'n. The Radio Trades Association of Oregon held its first annual banquet April 25 at the Hotel Multnomah with 400 radio manufacturers, jobbers and dealers and their families and friends present. The event was labeled "A Night in Radioland" and the entertainment consisted of a varied program of musical features, talks and novelty features, all of which were sent out into the air for the entertainment of radio fans listening in to The Oregonian KGW. Record Artists in Local Concerts Many noted artists appeared in concert during the month of April, all singing and playing before capacity audiences. Georges Euesco, violinist and Columbia artist; Rosa Ponselle, celebrated prima-donna and Columbia artist; the London String Quartet, also Columbia artists, also appeared locally. Here and There in the Trade Leita Hayes, for eight years in charge of the record department of the G. F. Johnson Piano Co., is now manager of the record department of the Seattle branch of the Bush & Lane Piano Co. Kathrvn McCarthy is her successor. Gusteloid Loud Speaker Line The marked development of radio sets along artistic lines has led the Custeloid Co., of Ozone Park, N. Y., to present to the talking machine trade its line of loud speakers. The Custeloid line is distinctive in design and consists of three models, one in the form of a flower vase and two in small cabinet form which might be likened to an enlarged jewel case. The cabinet models are produced in Colonial model at a popular price and the cabinet model deLuxe at a slightly higher price. These models are made of Custeloid and another material, both carefully developed for. this specific purpose, and which composition seems to materially add to the tone of the speaker. • The initial presentation of this line at the Spring radio show in New York City caused considerable comment and developed an opening market for it. The company under the general managership of J. Lefkowitz has found the reception of the line has proved so enthusiastic that he is placing behind it an energetic campaign for the months to come and is making intensive plans for its sales distribution. 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