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Presto

Issue: 1924 1956

PRESTO
January-19, 1924.
whether exhibits should be permitted at headquarters
hotel.
The various committees announced by President
Watson are:
Better Business Bureau—James P. Lacey, Lacey's,
January Orders Are Good and Fact Is Considered Inc., Peoria, chairman; E. J. Joosten, Jansen & Joos-
ten, Minonk; J. C. Mulvaney, J. C. Mulvaney & Co., Alexander B. Kennedy Takes Sudden Leave of
Forecaster of Excellent Trade.
Peoria; and M. G. Ogle, The Ogle Co., Galesburg.
His Responsibilities in Piano Store, Carry-
The supposedly slack month of January means . Legislative Committee—O. F. Anderson, Anderson
ing Off Considerable Sum of Cash.
nothing to the Goldsmith Piano Co., 1229-1233 Miller Piano Co., Springfield, chairman; E. E. Hanger,
street, Chicago, which is doing an excellent business Hanger Brothers, Lincoln; Alex S. Nelson, Sr., Tri
Alexander B. Kennedy, the 25-year-old bookkeeper
with its player and grand pianos. Orders for the City Piano Co., Moline; and R. L. Berry, R. L. Berry
of
the Baldwin Piano Company's Louisville store, 521
popular Chicago instruments have been arriving in a Music Co., Springfield.
South Fourth street, failed to appear at his place of
consistent manner and conditions everywhere are fa-
Bureau for Advancement of Music—Oscar Kauf- employment on Monday morning of this week, and
vorable, according to the report made by the com- man, Seibert & Kaufman, Danville, chairman; C. A.
then the startling discovery was made that $1,395
pany this week.
Moorehouse, Lloyde's, Champaign; and C. H. Von which he was supposed to have locked up in the safe
The player trade is above the ordinary with the Fossen, Von Fossen Music Co., Jacksonville.
of the establishment at 10:30 Saturday night also was
Goldsmith Piano Company. A brisk business was
Press Committee—F. M. Leslie, Leslie's Music missing. R. A. Gaul, cashier of the Louisville store,
had last year and there is every indication of the same Store, Urbana, chairman; T. M. Morgan, Morgan missed
the currency when he brought out the empty
condition being repeated this year. The demand for Music Co., Murphysboro; H. E. Rose, J. F. Belue Co., boxes—-empty
except for a small sum in silver which
the Goldsmith instruments may be attributed to the Fairview; and C. E. Heuter, Greenville Music Store, was intact.
excellent tone quality and features of construction, Greenville.
The police were called into service and discovered
which have long characterized the active industry.
Membership Committee—J. E. Rice, The Music
"We have succeeded in producing a player for the Shop, Mount Olive, chairman; Walter L. Rhein, that Kennedy had not been seen by acquaintances
trade that is as near perfect as it can possibly be Walter L. Rhein Piano Co., Belleville; Fred S. Lovell, since 11:30 Saturday night, when at his boarding
made," said President A. Goldsmith, early this week. Benjamin Temple of Music, Danville; and J. H. house, 210 St. Joseph place, he told his landlady, Mrs.
Ella C. Schweitzer, that he had been "called out of
Rhodes, Rhodes Music House, Hillsboro.
Executive Committee—J. Barth Johnson, J. Barth the city and would be away for three or four days."
Johnson Co., Jacksonville, chairman; J. F. McDer- And he called to her from outside her room, she said:
mott, Emerson Piano House, Decatur; Charles C. "Mrs. Schweitzer, I am leaving your money on the
Oldendorf, Oldendorf's Music House, Mount Carmel; dresser upstairs." Later she found the money at the
and George P. Cheatle, The Music Shop, Springfield. place he indicated. She says that all he left at the
Advisory Council—Past President Charles C. house was a pair of old shoes.
Efforts of Officials to Add to List of Members Is
He had been in the Baldwin service for five months.
Adams, Charles C. Adams & Co., Peoria.
Highly Successful.
His description is five feet nine and one-half inches
in height; about 145 pounds in weight. When last
NEW CHATTANOOGA STORE.
A strong membership campaign has been launched
seen he wore a gabardine raincoat, belted in the back;
by the Illinois Music Merchants' Association, and
Miss Jack Padgett, formerly with Walton & Co., a gray hat and a gray suit. One of his tendencies is
President Fred P. Watson, Mount Vernon, reports in Chattanooga, Tenn., announces the opening of
that the results to date are very satisfactory. A ques- Tack's Music Shop at No. 8 East Ninth street. This said to be a fondness for horse races.
tionnaire mailed to the trade seeks to learn individual shop will be devoted exclusively to the sale of records.
views as to what is most desirable in the features of A stock will be carried that will supply any records
A KANSAS CITY CHANGE.
a state association.
call for at any time and in any number.
The Jones Store Company, of Kansas City, Mo.,
Among the questions asked the members is one
has taken over the Edison Shop, 1209-11 Walnut
relative to the proposed merging of the Illinois Asso-
B. G. Burt, said to hold the world endurance street, and will handle Ampico re-enacting pianos,
ciation with organizations in adjoining states to form record for piano playing, tried to break his own Knabe, Fischer, Franklin, Packard and Bond pianos.
a Mississippi Valley Music Merchants' Association. •. records of 44 hours and 32 minutes, when he appeared Charles R. Lee, manager of the Jones Store company
Other questions relate to the location and time ofj| ( at Robertson's Music House, 234 No. Pennsylvania phonograph department, will be in charge of the
meetings of the general body and the executive, and St., Indianapolis, last Friday.
establishment.
BALDWIN BOOKKEEPER IN
LOUISVILLE ABSCONDS
GOLDSMITH PIANO COMPANY
STARTS YEAR WITH SPIRIT
BIQ MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
OF ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION
CHARACTER
"Admirable Qualityt Acknowledged Reputation"—(Standard Dictionary)
PIANOS and PLAYER-PIANOS
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MANUFACTURED BY
Through Generations
Have Come Ludwig Ideals
= = = = = =
SMITH, BARNES ® STROHBER CO.
Have for 37 years justified their right to be called
PIANOS OF CHARACTER
OFFICE
1872 Clybourn Avenue
Chicago, 111.
FACTORIES
(Ut 1884
North Milwaukee, WIs.
Chicago, 111.
TWO TRADE WINNERS
HARTFORD
T
HE Ludwigs, the Ericssons
and the Perrys created,
nearly a century ago, the stand-
ards to which the Ludwig has
been built. Their ideas and ideals have been car-
ried forward by the present generation and today
the direct descendants of those early builders of artis-
tic pianos are the men directing the destiny of the
Ludwig Piano.
| CHURCHILL
If you want Good Goods at Right Prices, here are two
that will meet your requirements—Players and Pianos.
RELIABLE — FINE TONE — BEAUTIFUL
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Willow Ave, and 136th St.
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Made By
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1223-1227 MILLER STREET, CHICAGO
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M A N U F A C T U R E D BY
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PRESTO
January 19, 1924.
LATE PATENTS OF INTEREST
1,414,342. Piano player action. Edgar H. Dodds,
Stroud Green, England.
1,415,574. Mandolin attachment for pianos. Philip
C. Johnson, Chicago, 111.
1,415,579. Tune sheet for automatic musical in-
struments. Lothar Kohler, Bremen, Germany.
1,415,665. Reed-organ swell. Anders G. Lund-
quist and K. J. A. Johnson, Stockholm, Sweden.
1,415,041. Lighting device for piano players. Rich-
ard C. Morenus, LaPorte, Ind.
1,415,396. Musical notation. Sidney A. Reeve,
New Brighton, N. Y.
1,416,367. Combination organ stop action. Elek
Louis, deceased, F. Louis, administratrix, New York,
N. Y.
1,416,248. Grand piano. James H. Williams, Bal-
timore, Md.
1,417,191. Piano. Charles N. Mangold, Pitts-
burgh, Pa. Cut-off valve for pneumatically operated
1.415,894.
musical instruments. M. W. Obermiller, New York,
N. Y.
LEAVES THE PIANO TRADE
TO PROMOTE COCA-COLA
1,416,759. Music roll printing machine. T. H.
Spence and J. A. Turnell, Chicago, 111.
1,416,903. Portfolio for sheet music. Carl W. Stall-
ing, Kansas City, Mo.
1,419,486. Resonator for reed pipes. John T. Aus-
tin, Hartford, Conn.
1,419,349. Playerpiano action. George Bedford,
Toronto, Canada.
1,419,562. Modulator or detector. R. V. L. Hart-
ley, East Orange, N. J.
1,419,703. Wind chest and valve action for organs.
James Topp, Chicago, 111.
1,420,238. Pedal operated exhaust mechanism for
automatic musical instruments. George P. Brand,
New York, N. Y.
1,420,594. Automatic record rewind and replay
mechanism for pianoplayers. H. A. and B. R. Van
Valkenburg, Oakland, Cal.
1,420,678. Pneumatic action unit. Stephen Batt-
ner, Brooklyn, N. Y.
1,420,860. Player roll. Oscar Peterson, Chicago,
Illinois.
W. M. Brownlee, Active President of Atlanta Branch,
to Manage Coca-Cola Co. of Canada.
William M. Brownlee has resigned as president and
general manager of the Cable Piano Co., Atlanta, Ga.,
and left that city this week to take up his new duties
as managing director of the Coca-Cola Co. of Canada,
Ltd., with headquarters at Toronto.
Mr. Brownlee has been succeeded by Alvin E.
Foster, who has been with the Cable Piano Co. for a
great many years and is thoroughly familiar with all
phases of the music business. Mr. Foster is said to
have a genius for sales, and the success of big efforts
for grands and reproducing pianos in the Atlanta
store is attributed to him.
Mr. Brownlee has been connected with the Cable
Piano Co. in Atlanta for about twenty years, serving
in various capacities from salesman to president. He
was a newspaperman before entering the piano busi-
ness. At his departure this week the officials and
employes of the organization presented him with a
set of silver vases.
The Perfection piano bench has many distinctive
features, one that is being largely advertised is that it
contains no nails, although reliable in every detail.
The Perfection Mfg. Co. has announced an im-
provement on style 22, and also a new bench of the
Large Chicago Factory Has Latest Equipment for
Louis VI style, an artistic bench of a pleasing quality.
' The factory is equipped with the most modern de-
the Efficient Production of Fine Benches.
vices for the efficient production of its products.
The products of the Perfection Piano Bench Mfg. There is an abundance of floor space, ventilation and
Co., 1516-1518 Blue Island avenue, Chicago, have
light and a fine feature is the good appearance of its
made a distinct impression in the trade. A good de-
floors. This cleanliness is a habit with the Perfec-
mand, at a time when trade conditions are supposed
tion Company and has been the subject of comment
to be slack, is an excellent example of the way the of many visitors to the factory.
trade is favoring the Perfection benches and music
The stock of the company has been liquidated and
roll cabinets.
the sole owners are now F. S. Smith and H. J. Fahn.
The output of the roll cabinet has been confined to
the upright style, with 60 and 90 roll capacity. There
has been a good trade for this particular style, but
NEW ESTEY ORGAN CO. WAREROOM.
in order to comply with an insistent demand the com-
The Estey Organ Co. will provide a new special
pany is producing a beautiful console model, finished
demonstration room in the Park Square Building,
in walnut and mahogany, and of 90 roll capacity.
Boston, possibly by the end of February. The in-
The excellent construction and beautiful finish of
crease in business necessitates greater facilities for
this model will make it a most desirable cabinet, and
displaying the line, according to Manager C. E.
from the number of orders already received it will Briggs. J. W. Morris has been transferred from the
undoubtedly be a good profit maker.
Mid-West field to travel in western Massachusetts.
PERFECTION PIANO BENCHES
IMPRESS MUSIC TRADE
TUNING SCHOOL COMMENDED
BY ST. LOUIS MANAGER
St. Louis Piano Tuning and Player Repair Shop Re-
ceives Baldwin Indorsement.
The St. Louis branch of the Baldwin Piano Co. has
written as follows to the now well-established Tuning
and Player Repair School of that city:
"Gentlemen: We are very glad to learn that you
recently started a school in St. Louis to teach piano
tuning and repair.
"We are certain that your school will mean a great
deal to the piano trade in and around St. Louis and
extend to you our heartiest co-operation in making
your establishment a successful one.
"Whenever we are in need of tuners or repair men
we will be glad to call upon you to furnish a man
that can be recommended by you.
"Yours very truly,
"THE BALDWIN PIANO CO.
"E. J. Backer."
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New Adam Schaaf Building.
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