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PRESTO
May 19, 1923
SMALL GOODS AND SUPPLIES
technical requirements for producing the high qual-
ity drums and drummers' supplies. A walk through
the factory is a revelation in drum-making methods
and a delightful source of education for the music
dealer.
HOW WILSON DRUMS ARE MADE
Visitors to Convention May Celebrate Fifteenth Anni-
versary by Viewing Factory Processes.
Fifteen years ago Tom Wilson, head of Wilson
Hros. Mfg. Co., Chicago, began the realization of his
ideals relating to the manufacture of drums. The
origination of the slogan "Better drums at better
prices" and the founding of the Wilson-Jacobs Drum
Mfg. Co., were practically simultaneous. That was
the name of the first effort of Mr. Wilson, and for
ten years from the date of its formation in 1907 to
1917 the Wilson-Jacobs Drum Co. manufactured
drums exclusively for jobbers of the large kind in
the United States and Canada.
In 1917 there was a change of name to the Wilson
Bros. Mfg. Co., and with the new title came new
policies. Dealers as well as jobbers were included in
its scheme of sales. But ideals remained the same
and "Better drums at better prices" is more repre-
sentative of the ambitions of the industry than ever.
A Wilson drum is a standard of drum values, and
everything required by the drummer that comes from
the factory at 218-220 X. May street, Chicago, carries
the guarantee of high quality and satisfaction.
One of the interesting places for the music dealer
coming to the convention to include in his "sight to
see" is the plant of the Wilson Bros. Mfg. Co. an.d
the visiting dealer cannot meet anywhere at the con-
vention a more interesting person than Tom Wilson
himself. Mr. Wilson is well qualified to show the
JOHN HUBMANN, DRUMMER.
A feature story in the St. Louis Times recently
described the Hubmann Drum Shop, said to be the
rendezvous for the drummers of the Missouri city.
The proprietor is John Hubmann, a well-known drum
teacher and professional performer on the drums and
traps. He has shown St. Louis the relation of the
drums and traps to modern dance music, the decorous
uses of drums in the highest classical music and the
extreme jazzification of the drummer, in response to
the popular demand.
AND
ACCESSORIES
The Recognized Standard
Drums of distinctive design to retail at a
very moderate price. Each is the fin-
ished result of expert craftsmen work-
ing towards an ideal. Piano dealers find
that the addition of WILSON products
means new customers, greater profits and
more sales.
NEW BELLINGHAM STORE.
A branch of Miller & Bauer, Seattle, Spokane and
Vancouver, B. C, dealers in musical merchandise will
open a branch store in Bellingham, Wash., early in
June. It will be located in the new Fine Arts build-
ing, now in course of construction, and only band
instruments and musical merchandise will be carried.
The manager will be Philip Bauer.
Send for New 96 Page Catalog
WILSON BROS. MFG. CO.
Makers oj Fine Drums and Accessories
CHICAGO, ILL.
THE CELEBRATED
The result of the recent trip abroad of T. L.
Lutkins and his son, T. L. Lutkins, Jr., of T. L.
Lutkins, Inc., 40 Spruce street, Xew York, will mean
more satisfaction for the music trade customers of
this line leather specialties house. They returned
last week from a visit to foreign points where fine
leathers suitable for pianos, organs, playerpianos and
player actions are available.
That Mr. Lutkins and his son were successful in
their quest is interesting news for the buyers of
leather supplies in the music industry. They were
fortunate in locating and purchasing large stocks of
the finest leathers obtainable and that too at the most
desirable prices. The meaning of this latter fact
is obvious to the customers of T. L. Lutkins, Inc.
The company always shares the advantages of good
buying with its customers.
The company is renowned for its leather stocks
suitable for players, organs and pianos and pneu-
matic leathers are a specialty of the company. It
carries big stocks of packing, valve, and specially
tanned bellows leather. The results of the recent
trip of the heads of the company assure a continu-
ance of quality in the commodities. All the skins
purchased have been most carefully selected. They
are clean and perfect in every particular.
Paragon Foundries
Company
Manufacturers of
Paragon Piano Plates
Oregon, Illinois
TRUCKS
(Faitan & Guilleaum*)
IMPORTED
MUSIC WIRE
In Black, Red and Green
Label Brands :s
UNEXCELLED
The "F & G" Blue Label Brand is
again being used by Rudolph C.
Koch in the manufacture of the
Reinwarth Covered Base Strings.
HAMMACHER, SCHLEMMER & CO.
PIANO and PLAYER, HARDWARE. FELTS and TOOLS
NEW YORK, SINCE 1848
In Recent Trip Abroad T. L. Lutkin and His Son
Made Some Advantageous Purchases.
A small goods department will soon be added in
the branch store in Sacramento, Cal., of Sherman,
NEW CHICAGO CORPORATION.
The Capitol Phonograph & Radio Corpn., 10 S. Clay & Co., San Francisco.
La Salle street, Chicago, has been formed with a
capital of $150,000. The purpose, is to manufacture
and deal in phonograph and radio devices. The
iucorporators are Morris Side, S. J. Blumenthal, John
R. Little, • Garnet Ballou, Charlotte Mills., Corres-
pondents, Mergentheim, Altheimer & Mayer, 10 S.
La Salle street.
WILSON DRUMS
218-20-22 N. May St.
MAKES ARBITRATION COMPULSORY.
Arbitration of commercial disputes has been made
compulsory in the lumber industry, so far as the 700
wholesale firms making up the membership of the
Xational-American Wholesale Lumber Association are
concerned. A form of procedure has been provided
that is expected to save large sutns annually to the
members of the organization. Compulsory arbitration
is a membership requirement, and the members are
not only compelled to arbitrate disputes with other
members of the association, but also with members
of any other recognized lumber or other trade organ-
izations. The association has offices at 41 East Forty-
second street, Xew York, as well as in Chicago, and
about seventy-five of the leading wholesale lumber
concerns here are members of it.
FINE SKINS FOR LUTKINS
4th Aw. and 13th St.
That Are Labor Savers
Your equipment is not complete without our TRUCKS for handling
Pianos and Talking Machines.
Sill Trucks and End Trucks
for Pianos
With the LEA TALKING MACHINE TRUCK, one man can
handle the Edison Chippendale, Victor No. 17, Cheney No. 6 Queen
Anne, and other large makes, from show-room to any apartment
floor.
Atk for Circular
JULIUS BRECKWOLDT & 60.
Manufacturers of
MADE ONLY BY
and
SELF-LIFTING PIANO TRUCK CO.
Tupper Lake
FINDLAV, OHIO
Piano Backs, Boards, Bridges, Bars*
Traplevers and Mouldings
SOLE AGENTS FOR RUDOLF GSESE WIRE
WESTERN REPRESENTATIVE:
CENTRAL STEEL & WIRE CO.,
119-127 N. Pcorla Street*
Fsm*.
W« A. BMSCEWOLDT,
THE
O S. KELLY
Manufacturers
of
High
CO
Orao*
PIANO 'PLATES
SPRINGFHELD
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OHIO
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