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Presto

Issue: 1923 1927

PRESTO
June 30, 1923
Q R S PACIFIC COAST PLANT
New Factory for Producing Music Rolls Nearing
Completion in San Francisco.
By July 15 the new Pacific Coast factory of the
Q R S Music Co., in course of erection in San Fran-
cisco, will be ready for occupation. It was the as-
surance conveyed by A. L. Quinn, manager of the
Pacific Coast division before his departure last week
for a business trip which will cover the southern
portion of the state.
Mr. Quinn is very much pleased with the prog-
ress of the work and the certainties of the desired
facilities in the new structure. Every phase of the
work has been designed and carried out with the pur-
pose of providing a player roll factory with every
convenience for manufacturing, stocking and ship^
ping. The factory is conveniently located for ship-
ping purposes on the property bounded by Folsom,
Seventh, Sheridan and Decker streets. The plans
call for a one-story structure of concrete with a mez-
zanine floor. Glass will enter largely into the con-
struction both in the sides and the skylights, thus
providing the maximum of light.
SFTUATION IN SUPPLIES
Facts in Various Lines of Commodities Which Enter
Into Musical Instrument Manufacture.
Wire production has been curtailed about five per
cent. Mills of the leading interest are utilizing about
70 or 75 per cent of capacity as compared with 80
per cent a short time ago.
Piano hardware interests were represented in the
third annual convention of the trade which was held
in the Coliseum, Chicago, this week. Secretary of
Labor James J. Davis addressed a meeting number-
ing more than 3,000 delegates.
Production of steel, which reached a record point
in May, is decreasing in all parts of the country. The
warm weather, labor shortage ami less activity on the
part of buyers has resulted in a curtailment both by
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the corporation subsidiaries and independent pro-
ducers.
Further reductions were noted in the crude rubber
market in New York last week.
Ribbed smoked
sheets and first latex spot were offered at 25^4 cents,
a new low for the year. Brown crepe thin clean was
obtainable at 24y 2 cents, amber No. 1 2A l / 2 cents, and
fine up river para 24^4 cents.
Covers for piano benches are a new line of supplies
to be manufactured by the Lansing Sales Co., Bos-
ton. Velours, cretonnes, tapestries and other ma-
terials will be used.
The hide market, which governs the supply and
prices of pneumatic leathers, shows signs of renewed
activity in the western states.
COINOLAS
FOR
RESTAURANTS, CAFES and
AMUSEMENT CENTERS
FOR LUMBER STANDARDS.
Members of the Central Committee on Lumber
Standards were in conference last week at the Con-
gress Hotel, Chicago, considering recommendations
for changes of names, grades and sizes which in final
adoption will bring about simplified practice in the
industry. John VV. Blodgett, of Grand Rapids, Mich.,
president of the National Lumber Manufacturers' As-
sociation, was chairman of the committee. The most
important work taken up at this meeting was the con-
sideration of the recommendations of the Consulting
Committee on Lumber Standards, of which Dr. Wil-
son Compton, secretary of the National Lumber
Manufacturers' Association, is chairman. Members
of which have made much progress toward working
out standard sizes for timbers, boards and other
items of yard and shed stocks.
MISS C. F. BROWNE DIES.
Miss Cora F. Browne, secretary and treasurer of
T. L. Lutkins, Inc., 40 Spruce street, New York,
who died recently following an operation, was well
known in the supply trade in which she had taken
an active part for the past sixteen years. In every
detail of the special leather business of T. L. Lutkins,
Inc., she was markedly efficient.
Style SO
FROM THE BIGGEST
ORCHESTRION
INDORSED BY ASSOCIATION.
The Talking Machine Men, Inc., the association of
the trade for the states of New York, New Jersey and
Connecticut, has indorsed the proposed ordinance for
New York City which would prevent the playing of
phonographs and radio apparatus equipped with
sound amplifying devices in order to attract trade to
stores.
The Piano Repair Shop
Pianos and Phonographs Rebuilt by
Expert Workmen
PRACTICAL PIANO MOVING SUPPLIES
INCREASE SELLING POWER
One-Man Steel Cable Hoist; Two-in-One
Loaders, Trucks, Covers, etc.
Get Our New Clrc ulara and Prim*
PIANO MOVERS SUPPLY COMPANY
BUCKINGHAM, PA.
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
FAIRBANKS
THE FAIRBANKS CO., Springfield, Ohio
PERFECTION
PLAYER ROLL CABINET
THE SMALLEST
KEYLESS
Designed and Manufactured
By
Manufactured by
The Operators Piano Co.
Perfection Piano Bench Mfg, Co.
Capacity, 150 Rolls
Tiny Coinola
Furnished in 5 ply veneered 13/16 stock in
Mahogany, Oak and Walnut
614-618 So. Canal St.
CHICAGO
16 to 22 South Peoria St.
CHICAGO
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PRESTO
JULY QENNETT LIST OUT
Band Which Played at Convention Frolic
Records Three New Dance Numbers
and Other New Hits Included.
Gennett records for July have been announced by
the record department of the Starr Piano Co., Rich-
mond, Ind. Special Gennetts, just out this week, in-
clude some of the very latest hits.
The regular July bulletin includes several played by
King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, which played at the
Midnight Frolic of the Convention, June 6th. The
popular "Mandy Lee Blues" and "I'm Going Away
to Wear You Off My Mind" is one record played by
King Oliver's band.
"Dipper Mouth Blues" and
"Weather Bird Rag" is another, and "Just Gone" and
"Canal Street Blues," and "Froggie Moore" and
"Chimes Blues" are also played by the Creole Band
for Gennett records.
"Tin Roof Blues" has been a Gennett best-seller
for a month and still going strong. It is on the
July list with "That's a Plenty" on the reverse side.
Popular song hits for July include "River Shannon
Moon" and "No One Loves You Better Than Your
M-A Double M-Y"; "Faded Love Letters" and
"Who's Sorry Now"; "Midnight Blues" and "Trifln'
Blues (Daddy, Don't You Triffe with Me)."
Among the latest Gennett dance numbers, besides
those played by the King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band,
are ''Sweet Lovin' Man" and "Maple Leaf Rag";
"Shimmeshawabble" and "Da Da Strain"; "Babbling
Brook" and "Gone (But Still in My Heart)."
Latest dance numbers: Made a Monkev Out of
Pian-O-Grand
Beautiful Piano Case
Design and Construction
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Nothing in the Automatic field to com-
pare with it.
Biggest money maker and most effective
expression coin control instrument on the
market.
Plays Standard 65-Note Rolls
Whether for public places, theatres or
private parlors, it is all that its name
suggests—Pian-O-Grand.
Send for Descriptive Circular
NELSON-WIGGEN PIANO CO.
CHICAGO, ILL.
Me (Meyers-Black-Schoebel) and Wonderful Dream
(Snyder-Schoebel).
Who's Sorry Now, fox-trot
(Snyder) and That Red Head Gal, Green Bros. Xylo-
phone Orchestra. Bambalina, fox-trot, Gennett Nov-
elty Players, and Blue Hoosier Blues, fox-trot, Smilin'
Sam's Dixie Strutters. I'm a Harmony Baby (Mer-
rill-DeCosta-Jerome) and If Your Man Is Like My
Man, Mandy Lee and Ladd's Black Aces.
Papa
Blues, fox-trot (Leslie-Windling-Kortlander), and
Louisville Lou (the Vampin' Lady), (fox-trot), Ladd's
Black Aces. Japanese Lullaby, Justin Huber's Hotel
Bibson Dance Orchestra, and Rose of the Rio Grande,
Albert Kat's Hotel Sinton Dance Orchestra. Dip-
per Mouth Blues and Weather Bird Rag, King
Oliver's Creole Jazz Band. Just Gone (Oliver-John-
son) and Canal Street Blues, King Oliver's Creole
Jazz Band. Mandy Lee Blues and I'm Going Away
to W r ear You Off My Mind, King Oliver's Creole
Jazz Band. Froggie Moore and Chimes Blues
(Oliver), King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band.
Popular Gennett records of the day. Wolverine
Blues and Weary Blues, New Orleans Rythm Kings,
formerly Friar's Society Orchestra. Marcheta and
La Nome Tango, fox-trot tango, Nathan Glantz and
His Orchestra. Babbling Brook, fox-trot, and Gone
(But Still in My Heart), Lanin's Famous Players.
Tin Roof Blues, New Orleans Rythm Kings, and
That's a Plenty, New Orleans Rythm Kings. Snakes'
Hips, fox-trot (Williams), and Down Among the
Sleepy Hills of Tennessee, fox-trot, Bailey's Lucky
Seven. Gypsy Lady (Ahlheim) and Pay Day Blues
(Ahlheim), Bailey's Lucky Seven. You've Got to
See Your Mamma Every Night, fox-trot, and Runnin'
Wild, fox-trot, Ladd's Black Aces. If You Want to
Keep Your Daddy Home (Gainger-Ricketts-Paisley)
and Laughin' Cryin' Blues, Viola McCoy, piano ac-
companiment by Porter Grainger.
Honeymoon
Chimes, waltz, and One Little Smile, waltz, the
Hawaiian Entertainers. You Know You Belong to
Somebody Else, Irving Kaufman, tenor, and Out
Where the Blue Begins, Charles Hart, tenor.
American concert numbers: Intermezzo—Caval-
leria Rusticana and In a Monastery Garden, Gennett
Symphony Orchestra—P. Floridia, director. Trau-
merci and Souvenir (Drdla,), Scipione Guidi, violin—
piano accompaniment, Alice Shaw. Poet and Peasant
Overture—Part I (Von Suppe) and Poe and Peasant
Overture—Part II (Von Suppe), Knights of Colum-
bus Band.
Stars and Stripes Forever March
(Sousa) and National Emblem March (Bagley),
Knights of Columbus Band. Serenade (Schubert)
and Ave Maria (Gounod), Scipione Guidi, violin—
piano accompaniment, Leslie Abbott. The Forge in
the Forest and Anvil Chous, Knights of Columbus
Band. Dolores Waltz and Blue Danube Waltz,
Capodiferro's Band. Evening Chimes and Love's
Old Sweet Song, Venetian Ensemble—Lew Rader-
man, director. Symphony in E Flat Major—Menu-
etto (3rd Movement), (Mozart), and Prelude of 3rd
Act—Traviata, Gennett Symphony Orchestra. Car-
men. Prelude (Bizet); L'Arlesienne, Second Suite
(Bizet) (4th Movement), (Farandole), Gennett Sym-
phony Orchestra—P. Floridia, conductor.
Green Label Gennets: Drink to Me Only with
Thine Eyes (Johnson) and Believe Me, If All Those
\ Endearing Young Charms (Moore), Henry Moeller,
tenor.
Standard Selections: Mighty Lak' a Rose (Stan-
ton-Nevin), Alice Louise Mertens—orcheestra accom-
paniment, and The Sweetest Story Ever Told (Stutz),
Estelle Carey, soprano; violin Ob., Drasein; piano
T. Grissell. Souvenir (Drdla) and Spring Song and
Glow Worm, the Golden Bird (actual canary solo),
violin accompaniment, Lorraine Evon; piano accom-
paniment, Norman Brown. Long, Long Ago
(Bayly), Criterion Quartette—accompanied by piano
and violin, and The Old Oaken Bucket (Geibel),
Criterion Quartette, unaccompanied.
TUNERS'
Here are
BASS STRINGS
Special attention given to the needs of the tuner and
the dealer
OTTO R. TREFZ, Jr.
SI 10 Fail-mount Avenue
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
C. G. CONN, Ltd., Elkhart, Ind.
C. D. GREENLEAF, Pre..
J. E. BOYER, S«c'y
World's largMt manufeetaran of Hiffh Grmd* Band and Orchestra Instruments. Employs l,#ti
•xpert workmen.
All of the most celebrated Artists use and endorse Conn Instruments.
Famous Bandmasters and Orchestra Directors highly endorse and recommend the uee of the
Conn Instruments in their organizations.
Conn Instruments are noted for their ease of playing, light and reliable Talve or key ae quick response, rich tonal quality, perfect intonation, tone carrying quality, artisticness el oeetjrn,
beautiful finish and reliable constrvethm.
Conn Instruments are sent to way point in tk - U. S. subject to ten days free trial. Bmneh store
or agencies will be found in all kurg* cities. Write for catalogues, prices, etc.
C. G. CONN, Ltd.
DEPT. MS.
ELKHART, IND.
June 30, 1923
The Background
A BUSY ROLL
DEPARTMENT
COLUMBIA
WORD ROLLS
JULY—Advance
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Title
Choo Choo Blues
Faded Love Letters
A Kiss in the Dark
I Never Miss the
Sunshine
Keep Off My Shoes
That Red Head Gal
Wolverine Blues
Tell Me Gypsy-
Gulf Coast Blues
Every Step Brings Me
Closer to By Lovin'
Honey Lamb
Look for the Silver
Lining
Dreamy Melody
In June
Snake's Hips
I Love Me
I Dream of a Castle
in Spain
Yes! We Have No
Bananas
Pappa Better Watch
Your Step
Played by:
Clarence Johnson
Nell Morrison
Nell Morrison
Florence Sanger
James Blythe
Florence Sanger
James Blythe
Wayne Love
James Blythe
Blues
Waltz
Ballad
Fox Trot
Fox Trot
Fox Trot
Blues
Fox Trot
Blues
Florence Sanger Fox Trot
Wayne Love
Nell Morrison
Wayne Love
Paul Jones
Florence Sanger
Fox Trot
Waltz
Fox Trot
Fox Trot
One Step
Wayne Love
Fox Trot
Gladys Baywill
Fox Trot
Paul Jones
Fox Trot
To Retail at
Why Pay More?
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None Better.
Made of the best materials
obtainable.
Will please your trade and
double your sales.
Quality and price make
Columbia rolls the deal-
er's best profit producer
in a roll department.
A trial order will con-
vince you.
Columbia Music Roll Co.
22 S. Peoria St.
CHICAGO
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