Classic Mode

Presto

Issue: 1923 1913

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PRESTO
AMERICAN
PIANO SUPPLY
COMPANY
Felts, Cloths, Hammers,Punchings,
Music Wire, Tuning Pins, Player
Parts, Hinges, Casters
A FULL LINE OF MATERIALS for PIANOS and ORGAN
IVhen in Need of
SUPPLIES
Communicate with Us
March 24,
U. S. Music Co.'s Eastern Branch Finds No Surplus
Floor Space After Recent Move.
The eastern branch of the U. S. Music Co., Chi-
cago, recently moved its quarters, occupying three
times as much space at the present location at 122
Fifth Avenue, New York, as at the former place.
This caused no excess of space, however, since every
foot was needed urgently, according to George H.
"Jack" Bliss, manager of the eastern branch.
The U. S. Music Co. has built up an extensive and
profitable branch in New York, since placing Mr.
Bliss in New York with a small staff. This staff
meanwhile has grown in one year (it was February
IS, 1922, that Mr. Bliss opened the New York office)
from five to thirty persons.
Reports from Mr. Bliss are that prospects are
bright, and that indications foretell a continued in-
crease in sales. Mr. Bliss and the home office in
Chicago are co-operating in some high class trade
paper advertising, which to a large degree accounts
for the activity of the branch.
DRUMS IN PHONOGRAPH SHOPS
110-112 E. 13th St.
Talking Machine Dealers Adding Line of Wilson
Drums and Other Small Goods.
An unusual movement among phonograph dealers
to add small goods departments
to their stores is no-
ticed by the Wilson Bros. 1 Mfg. Co., Chicago, which
has been supplying a number of such retail stores
with drums and drum accessories. The largest part
of these dealers are concerns which have never car-
ried any small goods in connection with the phono-
graph line, so that the ordering of small goods indi-
cates a noteworthy extension of interests in the retail
trade.
Three such orders were received from one city
aionc within the last few weeks, according to Tom
Wilson, president and general manager of the Wilson
Bros. Mfg. Co. In these three cases, as well as in
isolated cases, the phonograph dealers had never be-
fore carried the small goods line, so that the Wilson
Bros, drums, traps, xylophones, cymbals, and fifes
will be entirely new ventures.
The interest of the trade in the Wilson Bros, line
is ascribed to trade paper advertising and to .the great
amount of circularizing which has been done. A
number of new instruments in the "Acme" line have
recently been perfected, and a circular prepared to
advertise their qualities and their reasonable prices.
The drums have taken so well that some of the stores
which took the Wilson goods for the first time have
already sent in increased re-orders.
New York
SCHAFF
Piano String Co.
Manufacturers of
Piano Bass Strings
2009-2021 CLYBOURN AVENUE
Cor er Lewis Street
CHICAGO
ing investigation the fundamentals of a great dimen-
sion program—dimensions in the piece. The pro-
oosed basic grades for hardwoods and other factory
lumber will define cut-up dimensions within the
board. These determining size factors must be the
ordinary size factors encountered in factory
utilization."
CAN FILL TRIPLED SPACE
American Piano Supply Co.
MAKING OVER TRADE-INS.
Many dealers over a wide territory are finding the
Piano Repair Shop, 425 S. Wabash avenue, Chicago,
a reliable aid to solving their trade-in problems. Sales
of pianos and players are becoming more numerous
and the trade-in instruments are often in equal ratio
to the sales. Collecting them in back rooms to oc-
cupy valuable space and gather dust is not a sensible
or business-like proceeding. Scrapping them is fool-
ish, while there is a means to make over the instru-
ments and give them a new value. The Piano Repair
Shop installs actions, repairs keys, and remodels and
refinishes all makes of pianos or players. Write for
details and terms.
A NEW Q R S ROLL.
Pete Wendling has made a wonderful Q R S player
roll of "Sweet Lovin' Mamma," a Phil Ponce publi-
cation, and a special release on the Q R S list this
month.
Favish's Novelty and Sporting Goods Store, re-
cently established at 167 Main street, New Martins-
ville, W, Va., carries a line of musical instruments.
A QUARTER CENTURY OF
Quality, Service and Value
TUNING PIN MANUFACTURING MEANS
Used in the World's Finest Pianos
AMERICAN MUSICAL SUPPLY CO.
451 Communipaw Ave.
AT
C.F. GOEPEL&CO
137 EAST
I3 T -£ ST.
NEWYORK
Strauch Bros,
All Well-posted Piano Dealers, Sales-
men, and the Piano Buying Public
recognize the value of this name on a
Piano Action,
For more than 55 years it has been associ-
ated with the best products of the Piano
industry. It has always represented
Hardwood Manufacturers' Institute Collecting Data
to Form Lists of Preferable Standards.
In its effort to further the standardization policy
of the lumber business the Hardwood Manufacturers'
Institute, with offices in Chicago, is collecting data
about the cut-up requirements of the various indus-
tries. The music goods manufacturers, among others,
have been asked to state their wants in cut lengths of
lumber in order to aid the Institute in forming its
lists of preferable standard requirements. In the an-
nouncement about the collection of data this is said:
"The sort of data upon which to base factory
grades, fundamentally involves dimensions of pre-
vailing cut-up sizes and the quality of lumber required
in those sizes. In this respect the data from a can-
vass of hardwood factory requirements will be radi-
cally different from anything fornd in the yard lum-
ber and structural timbers already made.
"The advocates of dimension stock production at
the sawmill recognize in th'-s hardwood data gather-
Comstock, Cheney & Co.
Quality and Merit
When a Piano Action bears the name of
Strauch Bros, it is an additional guarantee
of the quality of the instrument containing it.
STRAUCH BROS.,Inc.
Piano Actions, Hammers and Repairs
327 to 347 Walnut Ave., at 141?t Street
NEW YORK
WESSELL, NICKEL & GROSS
Ivory Cutters and Manufacturers
Piano Keys, Actions and Hammers
IVORY AND COMPOSITION-COVERED ORGAN KEYS
The only Company Furnishing the Keys, Actions, Hammers and Brackets Complete
Telegraph and R. R. Station: Essex, Conn.
Office and Factories: Ivoryton, Conn.
JERSEY CITY, N. J.
Established 1867
ASKS FOR CUT UP DIMENSIONS
PERFECT PUNCHINGS
1923
Manufacturers of
PIANO ACTIONS
HIGHEST GRADE
ONE GRADE ONLY
The Wesseli, Nickel & Gross action is a
guarantee of the grade of the instrument
in which it is found.
FACTORIES:
MCW
45th St.,
46th
IK. 10th
toth Ave.
A™. &W
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l^l l-i VV
YORK"
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OFFICE:
457 W. 45th Street
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PRESTO
March 24, 1923
Knees, Blowing Bubbles All Day Long, Bobbsy,
Burning Sands, Sweetheart Lane, Sweet Lovin'
Mama, Sweet Man o' Mine, That Da-Da Strain, The
Fox-Trots, Waltzes in Word Rolls and Fine List of Thief, Teddy Bear Blues, 'Till My Luck Comes
Rolling Along.
Ballads in New Presentations.
The Bluebird Ballads are: Believe Me If All Those
The following Word Roll waltzes arc included in Endearing Young Charms, Blest Christmas Morn,
the April bulletin of the Q R S Music Co., Chicago: Day by Day the Manna Fell, Eternal Mind the Pot-
Faded Love Letters, The First Waltz Belong to Me, ter Is, God Is the Life, the Truth, the Way, He
Honolulu Lullaby, I'll Take You Home Again, Pal That Has God His Guardian Made, I'm a Pilgrim
O' Mine, I'm Just a Little Blue For You, Let Me and I'm a Stranger, Imp-March, In a Monastery Gar-
Call You Sweetheart, Lovely Lucerne, Mother's Love, den, In Atmosphere of Love Divine, In Heavenly
My Old Hawaiian Home, Panorama Bay, Red Moon, Love Abiding, I Passed by Your Window, I Wor-
Sweet Anabel, Waltzing the Blues, You Ask Me ship Thee Sweet Will of God, Little Town in Our
Why I Love You, You Know You Belong to Some- Country Down, Love Sends a Little Gift of Roses,
body Else.
O'er Waiting Harpstrings of the Mind, O Gentle
The following Word Roll fox-trots are included in Presence, 'O Sole Mio! Plume of Purity, Sally Roses,
the April bulletin: Falling, Fate, Four o'Clock Blues, Saw Ye My Saviour? Shepherd, Still, Still With Thee
Gee! I'll Miss You When You're Gone, Georgia When Purple Morning Breaketh, That Tumble-Down
Cabin Door, Got to Cool My Doggies Now, Haunting Shack in Athlone, That Song of Songs, What Is Thy
Blues, I've Got Another Lovin' Mama, Ivy, Journey's Birthright, Man.
End, Just a Breath of Hawaii, Just as Long As You
Hand Played Rolls—Spanish Memories, Greenwich
Have Me, A Kiss in the Dark, Kiss Mama, Kiss Witch, one-step; Trinidad Carnival—1922, The
Papa, Lady of the Evening, LesfYou Forget, Little O'Brien Girl.
Rover, Liza, Lost, Louisian', Mister Gallagher and
An arranged roll is Top-Notch—March.
Mister Shean, My Serenade, Navajo Joe, Oh Harold,
One Night in June, Open Your Arms My Alabamy,
Pack Up Your Sins and Go to the Devil, Rose of
SITUATION IN SUPPLIES
the Rio Grande, Runnin' Wild, Silver Swanee, Some
Day the Sun Will Shine, Again, Sugar Blues, Swanee
Smiles, When Your Castles Come Tumbling Down, Facts in Various Lines of Commodities Which Enter
When Hearts Are Young, When the Leaves Come
Into Musical Instrument Manufacture.
Tumbling Down, When You and I Were Young
The Waverly Musical Products Co., New York,
Maggie, Who Cares, Who Did You Fool After All,
You've Got to See Mama Every Night, Carry manufacturers of metal hardware for string instru-
Me Back to My Carolina H o m e , C h a n s o n - ments and drums, has withdrawn present prices for
nette, Choo-Choo Blues, Crinoline Days, Don't Be products in a letter sent to the trade.
Too Sure, Don't Forget Me When You're Gone,
For the purpose of exporting manufactures of rub-
Don't Say Good-Bye, Down in Maryland, Every- ber and commodities allied with the rubber industry,
body Likes the Same Sweet Girl, Aggravatin' Papa, the U. S. Rubber Export Company of New York, the
All Muddled Up, Any Place Where I Make Money, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Akron, O., and
Away Down East in Maine, Baby Blue Eyes, Bees the Miller Rubber Export Company, New York, have
organized the Rubber Export Association, and filed
papers with the Federal Trade Commission for in-
corporation under the Webb-Pomerene export trade
act.
A by-product of corncobs will be available for the
manufacture of talking machine records, according to
an announcement of the U. S. Department of Agri-
Special attention given to the needs of the tuner and
culture. Government chemists have succeeded in ex-
the dealer
tracting furfural, a highly expensive resinous sub-
OTTO R. TREFZ, Jr.
stance useful in record-making, from the cobs.
Q R S APRIL BULLETIN
TUNERS"—
BASS STRINGS
2110 Full-mount Avenue
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
RIVIERA PHONOGRAPH DESTROYED.
Last Friday morning fire destroyed the factory of
the Riviera Talking Machine Company at 124 North
Halstcd street, Chicago. Officials of the concern re-
ported stock and plant a total loss.
The Piano Repair Shop
PRACTICAL PIANO MO ING SUPPLIES
INCREASE SELLING POWER
One-Man Steel Cable Hoist; Two-in-One
Loaders, Trucks, Covers, etc.
,
Get Our New Circulars and Price*
PIANO MOVERS SUPPLY COMPANY
BUCKINGHAM, PA.
Pianos and Phonographs Rebuilt by
Expert Workmen
Player-actions installed. Instruments
refinished or remodeled and actions and
keys repaired. Work guaranteed. Prices
reasonable.
Our-of-town dealers' repair work solic-
ited. Write for details and terms.
THE PIANO REPAIR SHOP
425 South Wabash Ave.
Chicago
PRIDE IN STRING PRODUCT
Spirit of the Schaff Piano String Co., Chicago, Results
in Manufacture of Reliable Product.
A piano manufacturer, in selecting the materials
and parts from which he will make his finished prod-
uct, has in mind the realization that a piano is no
stronger than its weakest part, nor no better than its
poorest part. It is for this reason that he takes care
that strings should be of the best quality obtainable.
This accounts for the demand for strings from the
Schaff Piano String Co., Chicago, which is increasing
in business by leaps and bounds. The Schaff Piano
String Co. specializes in bass strings, and is turning
out a serviceable, high-class product.
The manufacture of a specialty creates a corps of
specialists in any plant. The Schaff Piano String Co.
is an interesting instance. Most of the men who
make the strings in the factory at 2009-2021 Lewis
street learned their craft there. They inbibed the
spirit of the place—pride in the product, love of per-
fection in the materials that piano manufacturers con-
sider of such vital importance. Most of the em-
ployees of the Schaff Piano String Co. are master
craftsmen and not a few have worked in the factory
since it was established. New men are selected with
care and constantly impressed with the fact that only
the most careful work is accepted.
Mrs. W. B. Almen is the proprietor of a new music
store at 244 Cabot street, Beverly, Mass.
LEATHER
FOR
PLAYERS
ORGANS
PIANOS
PNEUMATIC LEATHERS A SPECIALTY
Packing, Valves, All Special Tanned
Bellows Leather
T. L. LUTKINS, Inc.
40 Spruce Street
NEW YORK
DEALERS AND TUNERS!
Big Cut in Prices Piano Key Repairing
Celluloid, Complete Tops, Set Keys
$7.00
Ivorine (grained), Complete Tops, Set Keys 8.00
Composition, Complete Tops, Set Keys... 10.00
Sole manufacturers and distributors of H. P.
& O. K. Co. famous Ivory White Glue. Needs
no Heating. Applied Cold. Sent anywhere in
U. S. P. P. $1.00 can.
HARLEM PIANO & ORGAN KEY CO.
121-123 E. 126th St.
New York City, N. Y.
MAGOSY & 6USCHER
PERFECTION
PLAYER ROLL CABINET
Furnished in 5 ply veneered 13/16 stock in
Mahogany, Oak and Walnut
Designed and Manufactured
By
Capacity, 150 Rolls
First Class
OVAL AND ROUND METAL
SPINNERS
Makers of high-grade hammered Cym-,
bals in Brass and German Silver, from 2
to 18 inches; Brass Mutes for Cornets,
Trombones, French Horns.
Our Hammered Cymbals are as Good as Turk-
ish Cymbals in Sound, and they don't cost as
much.
Drum Major Batons in Wood and Metal.
Perfection Piano Bench Mfg. Co.
Makers of the BESTONE Banjo Reso-
nators
We Can Manufacture Any Specialty in
Our Line to Order.
614-618 So. Canal St.
232 Canal St. and 118 Walker St., NEW YORK
CHICAGO
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