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FEBRUARY 25, 1928
The Music Trade Review
Schumann-Heink Recital
Is Featured in Windows
necessary for piano owners to employ a legiti-
mate tuner to repair the damage done. "Our
suggestion," said Secretary Vaughn, of the
Mansfield Chamber of Commerce, "is to have
a regular piano tuner, known to music stores
and others, do your tuning. The fakers not
only fail to tune your instrument, but they
make it costly when a real tuner arrives after
the damage is done."
Famous Contralto's Appearance in San Francisco Made Basis of
Art Gillham Makes New
Special Window Display by Sherman-Clay — G. H.
Type of Continuity Record
Leathurby Co. Features the Full Seeburg Lines
AN FRANCISCO, CAL., February 18.—When that famous Steinway artist, Mme. Ernestine
Schumann-Heink, gives her farewell concert here next Sunday afternoon in the Civic
Auditorium, Sherman, Clay & Co. have devoted an entire window in the main store here
to featuring the concert. There are pictures of the singer in some of her famous roles from
the time when she appeared, forty-nine years ago, at the Dresden Opera as "Arda" and earned $5 for
the performance. As Schumann-Heink concerts are all identified with the Steinway piano,
it is very interesting to see in this window a
photograph of fourteen members of the Stein- concerts were a great success and caused no
way family, recently received by Fred R. Sher- little degree of interest in the teaching of music
man, vice-president of Sherman, Clay & Co. and also in the new development of the small
The photo shows members of the Steinway piano, as sponsored by the Bacon Piano Co.,
family, now engaged in manufacturing the New York.
The demonstrations at the J. R. Rccd Music
Steinway & Sons pianos, and their sons, still
in school—no doubt, Steinway manufacturers of Co. were given to show the unusual progress
made by Miss Lorene, with only six months of
the future.
instruction. After each performance, which was
Big Firm Adds Another Radio Set
well
attended, the J. R. Reed Music Co. out-
Sherman, Clay & Co., who have been fea-
turing the Kolster radio in connection with the lined important details to impress the visiting
Columbia phonograph, will to-morrow make mothers with the importance of starting their
the announcement that they have taken over child on the right road to a finished musical
Kolster radio sets. I.. W. Sturdevent, manager career.
of the phonograph and radio departments of the
firm, says they are taking over this line on its
Two Steinway Duo-Arts
merits and popularity.
Leathurby Co. Displays Seeburg Lines
Bought by W. K. Kellogg
G. H. Leathurby Co., of 183 Golden Gate
avenue, distributors of J. P. Seeburg pianos Prominent Manufacturer of Food Products
and organs, recently received shipments con-
Purchases Instrument of That Type for Both
taining a complete line of coin-operated pianos
Battle Creek and California Homes
and also the new Seeburg reproducing pipe
organ. These instruments are installed on the
DETROIT, MICH., February 20.—One of the ad-
main floor of the Leathurby Co. for the inspec- mirers of the Steinway Grand Duo-Art Repro-
tion of all dealers interested.
ducing piano is W. K. Kellogg, the highly
Makes Dancing Teacher More Independent
successful and nationally known manufacturer
L. F. Goelzlin, of the Pacific Music Co., is of food products, who some time ago purchased
quite enthusiastic regarding the De Luxe Welte from Grinnell Bros, and installed in his mag-
Mignon reproducing rolls in the new library of nificent home in Battle Creek an instrument
special dance studies for use in studio, classic of that type. More recently the Grinnell
and ballet dancing. It is a small library, but organization also sold to Mr. Kellogg a second
it includes music for bar work, center practice, Steinway Grand Duo-Art in special Spanish
fundamental steps and step combinations. design for his home in Pomona, Cal. The
Equipped with this library and a piano contain- accompanying illustration shows the Steinway
ing the Welte Mignon (Licensee) reproducing Duo-Art in the Kellogg home in Battle Creek.
action, the dancing teacher can give a lesson at
any hour of the day or night, even if the human
Go.
accompanist is not present. Mr. Goelzlin is
Coast distributor for the rolls and he sees a
Leases New Quarters
bright future for the new album.
Manufacturers Increased Amount of Benches
DETROIT, MICH., February 21.—The Finsterwald
G. O. Heine, of the Heine Piano Co., is be- Furniture Co. has leased property on Michigan
ginning to increase his output of piano benches, avenue, near Shelby street, and already work
made according to his own original design. has started on a ten-story building. When
These benches have movable legs and can be completed it is reported considerable space will
taken to pieces and put up again in a few mo- be devoted to pianos, talking machines and
ments. Mr. Heine has already manufactured radios. At present the firm is doing business
about 2,000 of these benches.
at the corner of Washington Boulevard and
Michigan.
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Gives Recital After
Six Months' Teaching Mansfield, O., Complains
of Incompetent Tuners
Using Bacon Piano, Texas Child Shows Re-
markable Results in J. R. Reed Co. Ware-
rooms
A charming little miss, just six years old,
of the Lone Star State, is Miss Lorene Butcher,
a piano prodigy, who has just completed a
series of concerts at the J. R. Reed Co. ware-
rooms at 805 Congress avenue, Austin, Texas.
This little miss performed exclusively on one
of the Francis Bacon baby upright pianos, and
reports coming from Austin indicate that her
MANSFIELD. O., February 20.—As a result of
many complaints made to the Chamber of
Commerce by local residents, who have been
swindled by certain itinerant piano tuners, the
Chamber has warned the public to examine
closely the credentials of tuners employed in
the future. During the holiday period particu-
larly, one or two men operated in Mansfield,
stating that they had forty years' experience
in the tuning business, but actually did more
harm to the instruments than good, making it
Art Gillham's recent double-disc record for
Columbia entitled "So Tired" and "You'd
Rather Forget Than Forgive" is the first in-
stance Gillham claims of putting out a con-
tinuity record with separate titles for the in-
dividual sides. "Two Black Crows," Parts 1, 2,
3, 4, 5 and 6, are familiar to the public from
bankers to icemen, but Art's stunt is new. His
two selections form parts of a continued story
of a jilted lover. Another novel feature of
the record is the remarkable clearness with
which a sigh that seems to come from Art's
boots is recorded.
Wm. Merriam on Trip
SOUTH ACTON, MASS., February 20.—William
Merriam, of the A. Merriam Co., of this city,
lias left on a business trip which will carry
him through the States of Pennsylvania and
New York and as far as Washington, D. C.
The Merriam Co. placed on the market several
new patterns in upholstered tops early in the
new year which have made an immediate
appeal.
Pratt Read
Products
keys actions
players
are shipped on time.
When we make a
promise you can
count on it.
When you w a n t
quick s e r v i c e you
can get it.
We have over
200,000 sq. ft.
of manufacturing
space to back you
up with.
Write us at the
first opportunity.
PRATT, READ & CO.
Established in 1806
Hie PRATT READ PLAYER ACTION CO.
Deep River, Conn.