The talking machine world (Jan-June 1928)

76 H. Curtiss Abbott Crosley Executive New General Sales Manager Was Formerly With Lyon & Healy, Inc., and the Kellogg Switchboard & Supply Co. H. Curtiss Abbott, of Chicago, nationally known in the fields of radio and music, has accepted the position of general sales manager of the Crosley Radio Corp. Mr. Abbott, a \ ale graduate, has had many years of experi bright for this product. It has been on the market long enough to have proved its worth, and there is no reason why a company with the reputation of the Crosley Radio Corp. for manufacturing the best radio sets at the lowest possible price should not do a tremendous business throughout 1928." The Talking Machine World, New York, March, 1928 New Portables With Electrical Pick-Up H. Curtiss Abbott ence in the radio business, and has made an enviable record in the selling .end of the industry. For a number of years he was an executive of Lyon & Healy, Inc., Chicago, one of the foremost music concerns of the country, and as one of the sales executives of the Kellogg Switchboard & Supply Co., Chicago, for the past two years he became widely known in the radio distribution field. With the Crosley Radio Corp., Mr. Abbott has a working organization of 166 distributors and more than 18,000 dealers, representing every community in the United States. "While there probably will be an ever-present demand for battery-operated sets, the public is being thoroughly sold on the advantages of the oneunit sets, which are operated from light sockets," Mr. Abbott said, "and the future is very Proves Phonograph Quality by a Test W. W. Kimball Co. Encourages Comparison Demonstration to Prove Quality of Its Reproducing Phonograph Proving by actual test instead of by argument is the method chosen by the W. W. Kimball Co., Chicago, for demonstrating its new Reproducing phonograph. The W. W. Kimball Co. fo und, by carefully checking over records made by all of the leading manufacturers, that there are a number which appear to be difficult for perfect reproduction on any type of a phonograph. Five were found which appear to be most difficult and these, made by three different companies, have been selected with the idea that they will reveal the weakness in any phonograph. One of the records is a piano solo which runs the entire keyboard, another is an orchestra and chorus ensemble of tremendous proportions, and another, a vocal solo, etc. The W. W. Kimball Co. not only encourages the use of these difficult records in demonstrating its new machine, but includes the set of records with the initial shipment of Kimball Reproducing phonographs to each new dealer to prove to him beyond any question that the new Kimball instrument will play each of these unusually difficult records with perfect results. The most enthusiastic comments from the dealers have followed this demonstration together with a volume of repeat orders which is very gratifying. The new Kimball phonograph, Style 275, introduced in the February issue of The Talking Machine World, has met with a tremendous following among the dealers. The Kimball sales headquarters in Chicago have received countless letters from dealers who have received shipments of the new instrument and have enthusiastically praised its design and reproducing qualities. Growing sales are indicated by repeat orders. For Talking Machines It's only first-quality felt, properly and particularly made, that keeps on the job longer . . . that always proves most economical in the final test. You can look to American Felt Company's Felts for these "built-in" qualities— and get them! For Americsn Felt Company's Felts are made by an organization as particular as its most exacting customers — an organization backed by many years of sound experience in advising talking machine manufacturers ... in recommending the grade of felt best suited to each requirement. Our customers profit by all this. Write us for quotations. AMERICAN FELT COMPANY 114 E. 13th St., New York City 211 Congress St., Boston 325 So. Market Street, Chicago Two New Models Announced by the Berg A. T. & S. Co.— E. R. Manning on Trip — Business Outlook Is Bright The Berg A. T. & S. Co., Long Island City, N. Y., has placed oji the market two models of the Artone portable which are equipped with an electrical pick-up whereby a radio set may be used to electrically amplify the record which is being played on the portable. The device is very simple, consisting of only three parts, two of which are attached to the PLUG 'GOES It* DETECTOR TUBE SOCKET Berg Portable and Electrical Pick-up portable and one plugged into the radio set. These three parts are a pick-up reproducer, which is attached to the regular phonograph tone arm, a volume control and a plug which may be inserted in the detector tube of any radio set. Thus th"e audio division of the radio set electrically amplifies the sound reproduced from the record. E. R. Manning, treasurer and general manager of the company, left during the early part of the month on a business trip which is expected to carry him as far as the Pacific Coast. Mr. Manning will stop at Chicago en route and spend some time in the Middle West. Good business is reported at the Berg factory, and the first few months of the new year have begun in a very auspicious manner. Brunswick Artist Opens Station KOA Allen McQuhae, Record Artist and Radio Favorite, Officially Opens New Denver Broadcasting Station on Tour According to advices received from the offices of the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co., Chicago, Allen McQuhae, the popular Brunswick recording artist and radio broadcast favorite, had the honor of officially opening the new radio station KOA at Denver, Colorado, on March 9. While on his Western tour, Mr. McQuhae will sing eight recitals during March, and opened the new station between his recitals at Boulder and Provo. Mr. McQuhae is becoming even more popular through his extensive concert tours and radio broadcasts. He is adding to his record repertoire a number of the new popular songs of the day, including such favorites as "Charmaine," "To-morrow," "Girl of My Dreams," "Sweetheart of Sigma Chi" and others. Radio Ass'n Elects Buffalo, N. Y., March 5. — Buffalo Radio Trades Association announces the election of the following directors to serve two year terms: Elmer Metzger, Benjamin Neal and Edward Young. They succeed Edward T. Ball, Emil Sommer and Thomas A. White.