23
PRESTO
September 8, 1923
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^MIESSNER
The Little Piano with the Bit Tone
MIESSNER PIANO CO.
General Offices & Factory, 126 Reed St.
MILWAUKEE, WIS.
STRICH & ZEIDLER, Inc
GRAND, UPRIGHT and PLAYER
AND
HOMER PIANOS
740-742 East 136th Street
NEW YORK
crease of the music spirit with its consequent advan-
tages, the town is a gainer in a great many ways.
The town band is often the best evidence of the
music spirit in the smaller communities. And there
the objects and results are similar to those of the
bigger places. Chicago finances grand opera during
the winter with lots of symphony orchestra music
on the side and sends the Chicago Band to bring
music to the people in the summer. The big business
men of the city believe the band is a potent way to
advertise its greatness.
If a band is a good thing for advertising Chicago,
it is of infinitely more use for advertising the small
town. The small town dealer should be the first to
see the value of a band—to himself and to the com-
munity. Apart from the uses of the band for public
occasions requiring music, it improves the musical
taste of the people and encourages the playing of
music in all forms. The service to the man who sells
musical instruments and sheet music is obvious.
NEWS OF SMALL GOODS FIELD
Many New Names Appear in Musical Instrument
Business and Old Ones Continue in Activities.
The C. C. Barker Co., Columbus, Ohio, believes in
the effectiveness of theatre program advertising.
The company says it proves it every week.
George Grad, manager of the music roll department
of the Otto Grau Music Co., Cincinnati, was married
recently to Miss Amanda Grau, daughter of Otto
Grau, head of the Otto Grau Piano Co.
The Staffnote Player Roll Co., Milwaukee, has a
fine and constantly growing list of standard and
classical numbers. The September releases provide
an excellent opportunity for roll sales to the active
dealer.
June and July business in music rolls was excellent
in the Player Roll Shops, Louisville, Ky. The shops,
one on Walnut and one on Fourth avenue, are owned
and managed by Bruner Greenup.
G. Todd Taylor, formerly manager of the player
roll department of the Daynes-Beebe Music Co., Salt
Lake City, Utah, has been made manager of the talk-
ing machine department.
Two ten-turn rolls of the Clark Orchestra Roll Co.,
DeKalb, 111., in the August releases have achieved a
record in sales. Roll No. 389 is for rewind pianos and
Roll No. O-2138 is for eighty-eight note orchestrions.
MUSICAL
THE C. G. CONN PICNIC.
The annual picnic of employes of C. G. Conn.,
Ltd., Elkhart, Ind., manufacturers of Conn saxo-
phones and band instruments, was held recently at
Christiana Lake. A mammoth street paradie in
which several Conn bands participated was the mu-
sical event of the day. Track and field athletics,
baseball games, boxing matches and many other
sporting events were held. There were many band
concerts during the day and special vaudeville ar-
tists gave a program at intervals. James F. Boyer,
secretary of the company, was general chairman of
the committee.
MERCHANDISE SALES
Value of Town Band for Purposes of the Dealer Is
Not Easily Exaggerated.
NO VENEER FACTORIES IN MEXICO.
There are no veneer factories in the Republic of
Mexico, according to the Chief of Commerce De-
It is a wise music goods dealer who makes his own partment, Ministry of Commerce, Industry, and La-
market or increases the extent of that already made. bor, Mexico City, writes Vice Consul Ernest E.
The dealer performs these things when he encour- Evans, Mexico City, Mexico, July 6. The production
ages the use of music because the use of music in- of this material is limited to a few carpenters and
volves the purchase of musical instruments and sheet joiners, who make such small quantities of veneer as
music. So it is clearly the duty of the music dealer may be necessary to cover the surface of articles of
to encourage his neighbors to sing and play music. furniture under construction by isolated artisans
And apart from the personal advantages of an in- throughout the country.
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