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APRIL 16,
THE
1921
FULL MIESSNER LINE NOW READY
Miniature Piano, as Well as Player and Repro-
ducing Piano, Ready for Full Distribution—
Clark Expression Device the Latest Product
Being Marketed by the Jackson Piano Co.
April 7.—A stranger who
goes into Milwaukee to-day is likely, before he
has gone very far, to say: "This Jackson Piano
Co. must be quite a concern." Everywhere you
go in this town you find a Jackson Piano Co.
plant or offshoot. There is the main factory at
100 Reed street. The case factory is on the
North Side; the action plant,, under the name of
Jackson Piano Co., is on Prairie street, and over
on Third street is the Miessner Jackson Co.,
which has the sales representation for the com-
pany's product for a large territory. Ultimately,
no doubt, the three plants will be concentrated
under one roof, but even at the present time
manufacturing is going on very efficiently and
with steadily increasing capacity.
Some day we will tell the complete story of the
development of the Miessner piano in this paper.
The trade knows something of it, but not all.
It is interesting. Now, however, let us empha-
size the fact that the Miessner piano, Miessner
player-piano and the Miessner reproducing piano
are all now ready for delivery through the dealers
to the homes of the people.
The little piano had its inception in the need
for a small piano which teachers, especially in
schools, could use in class instruction, being able
to look over the top of the piano at the pupils
while illustrating their lecture on the keyboard at
the same time. To-day the factory capacity has
been increased so that not only can the school
and conservatory demand be satisfied, but it is
possible to go before the general piano trade in a
regular way. The little instrument is a wonder.
It has the usual, and even an unusual, tonal vol-
ume, and yet it is only three feet seven inches
high—waist high. It has an eighty-five note
scale, simply eliminating the top two treble notes
and the bottom bass notes that are entirely su-
perfluous.
The Miessner home foot-power player-piano is
also now ready for the market. It is a full
eighty-eight note scale to provide for the exi-
gencies of symphonic selections.
Now for the real news. The Clark expression
device is now ready. By this feature not only the
Miessner but any player-piano can be, at small
cost, converted into a reproducing piano, playing
expression rolls. This is done simply by the
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installation of a neat, fully enclosed motor in the
lower part of the piano and a supplementary bel-
lows in the superstructure of the piano to the
left of the tracker bar. From this bellows extend
pneumatic tubes to the tracker, feeding into the
marginal expression slits. A special tracker bar,
of course, is provided for the reproducing piano.
The interpretative effects obtained are certainly
remarkable. The merchant will be able not only
to purchase a Miessner reproducing or other
player-piano, with the Clark expression device
originally installed, but he can install this device
and motor in player-pianos in the home, con-
verting them into reproducing instruments. The
company has a remarkable organization and has
produced some most interesting dealers' helps,
with others now in the course of production
for use in the near future.
WANTS MUSIC TO OPEN CONGRESS
M. Philips, Music Dealer of Washington, D. C,
Makes Suggestion to President Harding
WASHINGTON, D. C, April 11.—Music, with its
power, will make statesmen gain their aspira-
tions, surrender their monotonous feeling and
supplant it with braveness and responsibility.
So believes M. Philips, secretary of the Colum-
bia Grafonola Retail Dealers' Association of
Washington, who has written to President Har-
ding urging him to have the Senate and House
and the State legislatures open their sessions
with the strains of music.
"This will create a new institution for the
betterment of our people in harmony in life—•
a new spiritual atmosphere will be born as a
useful, beneficial factor in our daily life," said
Mr. Philips in his communication to the Presi-
dent.
Mr. Philips has written to Miss Cecil B. Nor-
ton, general secretary of the community center
department of the public schools, commending
her organization for its proposal to have a "Mu-
sic Week" in Washington the latter part of May.
ORGAN COMPANY TO BUILD
A considerable addition to their present plant
will soon be put under way by the Marr &
Colton Organ Co., of Warsaw, N. Y. Plans
call for a structure fifty by one hundred and
fifty feet and at least two stories in height, made
of concrete and tile. The company is builder of
organs of from $5,000 to $15,000 and upwards in
value.
Over 100,000
Ludwig Salesmen
Everyone of the more than 100,000 Ludwig Pianos
and Players that have been sold is itself an active Lud-
wig salesman. From Atlantic to Pacific they have
been distributed, in every section.
Sell one Ludwig in a neighborhood and watch it make
friends. It's the tone, the case-beauty, the perfect
construction—the price. Gladly tell you all about it—
write.
Ludwig & Co.
Willow Avenue and 136th Street
New York
The Ludwig Reproducing Piano
Grands
Uprights
Players
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MARY GARDEN TO BE AT BANOUET
Famous Prima Donna and Grand Opera Man-
ager to Appear at Merchants' Banquet,
Where She Will Make a Brief Address
CHICAGO, III., April 11.—Members of the National
Association of Piano Merchants will rejoice
at the news that Mary Garden, directoress of the
Chicago Opera Co., is to be present at their an-
nual banquet at the Drake Hotel, Wednesday,
May 11. Miss Garden is to appear unprofes-
sionally and will be a guest of honor. She will
make a brief address on a subject to be an-
nounced. It is through the work of the com-
mittee on entertainment that Miss Garden was
secured for the banquet. The glory and achieve-
ments of Miss Garden are well known and it
would be useless to dwell upon her remarkable
genius. She is without question one of the
most talked-about figures in the operatic world
to-day and a singer of great interest to men of
the business world as well as people of the
music profession. She is a personality of in-
terest to the business world, as well as to the
profession in which she excels.
Miss Garden is understood to have an inter-
esting message to bring before the piano men.
What she has to say will surprise and please
them. Music will be the dominating factor of
the whole convention and Miss Garden's mes-
sage, it is said, will be replete with the real
spirit of music.
No full list of attractions has been given out
as yet, but it is known that in addition to Mary
Garden and Mayor Frank W. Wosencraft,
Douglas Malloch, the poet, who is one of the
wittiest after-dinner speakers in the country, will
dispense mirth and jollity to the assembled piano
men. Mr. Malloch is author of "Tote Road and
Trail," "The Woods," "Gurgles," "In Wood-
land" and "Re-sawed Fables." He has written
scores of humorous articles and pamphlets on
every subject associated with mirth—which is
saying something. Mr. Malloch's humor is
clean, broad-sweeping and infectious and is re-
puted to be of the quality which would bring
laughter from the lips of mourners at a funeral.
H. C. CHURCHILL DIES ON COAST
Pacific Coast Agent for Poole and Schaff Bros.
Lines a Victim of Dropsy
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., April 4.—111 since last
October from dropsy, H. C. Churchill, for some
years Pacific Coast agent for the Poole Piano
Co. and the Schaff Bros. Co. pianos, passed
away at his home, 831 Brent avenue, South
Pasadena, Cal., on March 28, last, the funeral
taking place two days later. Mr. Churchill's
place of business in San Francisco was at 269
Market street. Besides being agent for the
above makes of well-known pianos, Mr. Church-
ill represented the Charles Parker Co. products
on the Pacific Coast. He is survived by a
widow.
CITIZENSHIP FOR GABR1L0WITSCH
Celebrated Symphony Director and Pianist Given
Final Papers in Detroit, Mich.
DETROIT, MICH., April 11.-—Following a hearing
here, today before United States Judge Arthur
J. Tuttle, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, director of the
Detroit Symphony Orchestra and nationally
known as a pianist and composer, was admitted
to final citizenship. This celebrated musician,
who was born in Russia in 1879, and came to this
country in October, 1914, is a great admirer of
the Mason & Hamlin piano, and through the
medium of this artistic product his talents have
won national recognition.
Samuel Clemens
(Mark Twain) was Mr. Gabrilowitsch's father-
in-law.
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