Presto

PRESTO
April 21, 1923
made to accentuate the situations. When Jiggs sits
down to a surreptitious dinner of corned beef and
cabbage the man at the organ fills the house with an
odor to madden with longing other k&k hounds.
Or with cruel ease the organist effects the correct
Accompanied by Mrs. Gulbransen, Chicago Manufac- smell simulation when the comedy golfers at the
nineteenth hole exchange hip-pocket courtesies.
turer Extends Trip to Havana, Cuba.
Anyway with Mr. Taylor's organ and a good chem-
Leaving behind them the balmy breeezs of the
South, straw-hat weather and the scene of many a ist there are many joys and pains for movie fans. Ac-
pleasant fishing- trip and other recreation, Mr. and cording to Mr. Taylor the organ will be demonstrated
Mrs. A. G. Gulbransen returned to Chicago Friday this week before theater managers at the store of
of last week from a two months' vacation. Mr. Gul- Lyon & Healy, Inc.
bransen seems to have been greatly benefited by the
trip, judging from his appearance and the renewed ADVERTISING MEN HEAR NOTABLES.
supply of energy he possesses.
The Advertising Council of the Chicago Associa-
Mr. and Mrs. Gulbransen were at Havana, Cuba, tion of Commerce, of which Frank E. Morton, chair-
and Miami, Fla. While in Cuba, Mr. Gulbransen man of the Promotion and Publicity Committee of
called on the Custin Music House, which handles the the Chicago Piano and Organ Association, is chair-
Gulbransen playerpiano there. Here, as well as at man, held its regular Thursday noon meeting and
other points where Mr. Gulbransen visited the mer- luncheon at the Morrison Hotel, April 12. The
chants, he found a very marked appreciation of the speakers were Judge E. Allen Frost and E. T. Mere-
value of the Gulbransen agency and Gulbransen ad- dith, former U. S. Secretary of Agriculture. Frank
vertising and merchandising methods.
Lalor, comedian, was a guest.
A. 0 . GULBRANSEN RETURNS
FROM FLORIDA VACATION
NEW ORGAN DEVICE TO
SIMULATE ALL ODORs
Chicagoan Announces New Instrument to Add Smell
to Aural and Occular Features of Film Shows.
Raymond R. Taylor, 1526 N. Waller avenue, Chi-
cago, has invented a pipe organ which can let loose
any entrancing perfume it wishes at the appropriate
dramatic moment.
The moving picture machine can make observers
visualize the incidents of the film play, and, according
to the scientific journals, Dr. Lee De Forest has
made possible the synchronizing of the sounds that
accompany them. Now along comes Mr. Taylor with
a musical instrument with an added device that gives
our olfactories an opportunity to share in the enjoy-
ment.
When the enraptured swain in the motion picture
drama presents the heroine with an expensive bouquet
of hothouse violets, the organist touches the violet
stop and the theater is sprayed with the delicious
odor of the flowers. And when the ol' black mammy
in the southern play fries a skillet of tender chicken
in the kitchen of the old manse the organist, with
a motion of one finger, gets the audience crazy with
longing for a piece of the white meat.
Even in the comedies the smell element can be
The Portland, Oregon, music dealers were visited
The Reed-French Piano Co., of Portland, Ore., has last week by George J. Dowling, president of The
established a branch store at Hillsboro, Ore., located
Cable Company of Chicago. Mr. Dowling remained
about 20 miles from Portland. They have put in a several days in the city, and while there conferred
complete line of their pianos and the Edison and with Frank M. Case, manager of Wiley B. Allen Co.,
Hallett & Davis phonographs. G. W. Johnson, who who are the Portland representatives of the Cable
recently joined their sales force, has been placed in piano. Mr. Dowling is making his semi-annual trip
charge of the branch.
to the coast and left Portland for San Francisco and
other points in the south.
JOINS BUCKPITT STAFF.
OPENS TEXAS BRANCH.
Harry D. Fean has severed his connections with
the Elmira Arms Company, Elmira, N. Y., and has
J. A. Ward, representing Ross & Heyer Piano Co.,
joined the sales force of the Claude Buckpitt Music
Fort Worth, Tex., has located a permanent sales de-
Store. Mr. Fean is a well known salesman of musical partment in Wichita Falls, Tex., for his company.
instruments and his knowledge in this line will make
The store is at 806 Seventh street. Mr. Ward is ac-
him a valued acquisition to the Buckpitt staff.
companied by John F. Groggan as assistant manager.
SWAN ORGANS
The tremendous superi-
ority of the SWAM Reed
Organs over all others lies
in the absolute mechanism
and scientific perfection iu>
the bellows action and stop
action, making it the best
value in modern o r g a o
building.
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GEO. J. DOWLING IN WEST.
NEW REED-FRENCH BRANCH.
are of the highest grade
t h a t c a n be obtained
through over 50 years of
p r a c t i c a l experience in
piano and organ building.
Illustrations a n d c a t a -
logues of various styles
will be furnished p i a n o
merchants on application.
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Member of the House of Arnold C. Cooke & Co., of
Sydney, on Buying Trip.
One of the interesting visitors in the Chicago piano
industry this week is Arnold C. Cooke, of the old
house of A. C. Cooke & Co., of 4 Dalley street,
Sydney, Australia, with branch house in Brisbane.
Mr. Cooke is on his first visit to this country and he
will make a pretty thorough investigation of Ameri-
can pianos suitable for sale in his own country.
"I have visited only a very few American manu-
factories as yet," Mr. Cooke said to a Presto repre-
sentative, "but I expect to place considerable orders
if I can find what I want and can arrange for repre-
sentation by our house. In Australia there is a
great demand for good pianos, but the German manu-
facturers have been working so hard that their prod-
ucts have the call, especially when the cheaper instru-
ments are acceptable. But we have also a demand
for the better class of instruments, and I hope to
make some connections during my present visit."
PAGE ORGAN CO.'S PLANS.
Mr. Cooke is the kind of man one likes to meet—
It is said that close to two hundred workmen will frank, unostentatious and enterprising. He buys for
be employed in the Page Organ Co.'s factory in De- "spot cash," and his house is one of the leading es-
fiance, O., when the plant begins operations about tablishments in Australia. A. Cooke & Co. handle
the first week in May. Machinery and equipment are everything in the line of music, and is regarded as
being installed as rapidly as the parts arrive. Thea- one of the heaviest in this line of goods in that coun-
ter and church organs and small player organs suit- try. After covering the piano industries of Chicago,
able for the home will be manufactured. A player
Mr. Cooke will go to New York on the same mission,
device for transforming any instrument into a player for his house.
organ will also be made in the Defiance factory.
SWAN PIANOS
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AUSTRALIAN PIANO MAN
SEEKS AMERICAN PIANOS
S. N. SWAN & SONS, « — • • * FREEPORT, ILL
KROEGER
(Established 1352)
The name alone is enough to suggest to dealers the Best
Artistic and Commercial Values.
The New Styl« Players Are F'nest Yet. If you can
get the Agency you ought to 1 z\e it.
KROEGER P 4NO CO.
MEW YORK. N. Y.
and
STAMFORD. CONK,
BRINKERHOFF
Player-Pianos and Pianos
The Line That Sells Easily and Satisfies Always
Quick Sales and
Satisfied Customers
BRINKERHOFF PIANO CO. ""g.SBKy"*- CHICAGO
That's what you want and that's what you get when you self Straube-
made players and pianos.
The constant and growing demand for Straube-made instruments is
due to their high quality which is indicated by the kind of people
who buy them. You can see that they are being selected by those
who choose most carefully.
As a dealer you know the advantage of selling a line of instruments
with a standing of this sort. Let us tell you about our interesting
dealer proposition.
STRAUBE PIANO CO., Hammond, Ind.
For QUALITY, SATISFACTION and PROFIT
NEWMAN BROTHERS PIANOS
NEWMAN BROS. CO.
Established 1870
Factories, 816 DIX ST., Chicago, 11
E. Leins Piano Company,
Makers of Pianos That Are Leaders
in Any Reliable Store
Kindler & Collins
Pianos
520-524 W. 48th S
NEW YORK
NEW FACTORY, 304 W. 42nd St.. NEW YORK
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