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Presto

Issue: 1924 1958

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PRESTO
February 2, 1924.
SEEK WOOD COATINGS
TO RESIST MOISTURE
Perfect Protection for Pianos or Other Fine
Finish Against Change in the Atmosphere
Not Yet Found.
rubbing varnish. A mixture composed of aluminum
powder and a cheap gloss oil which is called a
"bronze" coating is very fast drying; three coats can
be applied within half an hour. This mixture was
proved in test to be superior in moisture resistance to
any of the coatings already mentioned.
A practical, temporary protection is a heavy coat
of paraffin. Another is formed by vaseline smeared
over varnish. This is one of the most moisture-
resisting coatings yet found. Neither of these two
coatings, however, can be used on surfaces subjected
to hard usage. It is believed that the findings of the
United States Forest Service will be of inestimable
value to the industrial world.
The United States Forest Service is conducting a
series of tests in the Forest Products Laboratory at
Madison, Wis., in order to determine what protection
against moisture is afforded by various coatings ap-
plied on wood. Internal stresses that cause wood to
shrink and swell, warp and check are due to changes
INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT.
in the moisture content.
An analysis showing for the first time the exact
When wood is exposed to changing atmospheric degree of seriousness of each of the principal causes
conditions, such internal stresses occur continually. of industrial accidents was recently completed by the
The only way to retard or prevent them is to protect National Bureau of Casualty and Surety Underwriters
the wood from the air with some moisture-resisting which makes known the results of the study. The
finish or coating. No coating has yet been discov- analysis included 350,000 industrial accidents and fur-
ered which is entirely moisture-proof, but several have nished the basis for the new industrial compensation
been found which are very effective.
rating schedule which went into effect July 1. The
Oil paints form a film over wood which is very ratings formerly were based on estimates which were
durable even in exterior locations. However, such largely the result of personal judgment, according to
a film, although it may be continuous, does not pre- the announcement.
The analysts recognized that
vent moisture changes in wood, as shown by labora- there is a constant tendency in industry to substitute
tory tests. Linseed oil was found in the absorption mechanical for manual operations, and as a result
experiments to be quite ineffective, although it is rec- machine accidents are bound to cause an increasing
ommended much more frequently than most of the proportion of the total number of accidents.
other materials for moisture-proofing wood. It was
also found that two coats of floor-wax preceded by
MARKING PIANO CASES.
five coats of hot oil failed to give any great protection.
Musique et Instruments, Paris, calls attention to the
The cellulose lacquers have the advantages of being
fast drying and forming a very elastic film over the great importance of designs on piano packing cases,
wood. They rank somewhat higher than the oil say of a man standing, in place of the words "top,"
paints in moisture resistance, and considerable im- "bottom," for shipment, particularly for foreign parts
provement can probably be made in them by the where natives who cannot read handle the packing
cases. Otherwise the cases may easily be put upside
addition of solid bases.
The larger amount of gum solids present in rub- down with serious damage to the contents.
bing varnish possibly accounts for the fact that they
furnish greater moisture resistance than do spar or
The piano department of Lipman, Wolfe & Co.,
long oil varnishes. Enamel coatings which are made Portland, Ore., Warren Erwin, manager, is actively
by the addition of pigments such as barytes to ordi- featuring baby grands. Mr. Erwin reports a splen-
nary varnish have practically the same efficiency as did volume of business.
MARIMPIANO DESCRIBED
BY ITS INVENTOR
Celso Urtado, a Guatemalian, Is Inventor of Instru-
ment Similar to Marimba and Xylophone.
Celso Urtado is the inventor of the marimpiano, a
new instrument recently introduced. In construction
this new instrument is similar to the marimba and
the xylophone, and its tone resembles both. The
marimpiano, however, produces other tones which are
similar to those of the piano, violin, cornet, clarinet
and flute. Mr. Urtado intends to make arrangements
for manufacturing his marimpiano and placing it on
the market. Before doing that he plans making a
tour of the country in order to demonstrate his
invention.
The top and bottom of the marimpiano are shaped
like trapezoids. The top is covered with narrow strips
of metal varying in length which produce the music
when struck by the four hammers in the hands of the
player. The instrument is about three feet high.
The body or case is about two feet deep. Within it
there are a number of chambers which act as reson-
ators, and through which the sound is carried from
the instrument into the auditorium.
The pedal arrangement of the marimpiano was de-
vised for controlling the tones. There are two pedals.
One gives added power to the sounds produced by
striking the keys, the other decrescendo effects. The
player of this instrument can produce a wide range
of tones by skillfully operating these pedals while
playing upon the keys with the hammers.
Mr. Urtado, who is a Guatemalian by birth, has
devoted two years in constructing and perfecting the
marimpiano.
TRADEMARK REGISTERED.
The U. S. Patent Office reports having granted
trademark registration to the Circle Music Publish-
ing Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, for a trademark to be used
in merchandising sheet music, compositions for or-
chestras, brass bands, pianos and vocalists. Applica-
tion for the trademark has been pending for six
months.
B. K. SETTERGREN CO.
Exclusive Manufacturers
ot
HIGH GRADE SMALL GRANDS
35 Years' Experience in Piano Building
BLUFFTON, IND.
Grandly Upright and Player Pianos
New Haven and New York
For QUALITY, SATISFACTION and PROFIT
NEWMAN BROTHERS PIANOS
Mathushek Piano Manufacturing Co.
132nd St. and Alexander Ave.,
NEW YORK CITY
NEWMAN BROS. CO.
Established 1870
Factories, 816 DIX ST., Chicago, 111.
Kindler & Collins
Jesse French & Sons Style BB
Pianos
SaO-924 W. 48MI S
NEW YORK
# Leins Piano Company,
Makers of Pianos That Are Leaders
in Any Reliable Store
NEW FACTORY. 304 W. 42mt St.. NEW VOKK
The True Test
KREITER
Compare the new Jesse French & Sons Piano
Pianos and Players
with any other strictly high grade piano in tone,
touch and general construction, and you will be
convinced at once that t h e y offer the most
exceptional v a l u e s to be found anywhere.
Have No Competition Where
Beauty of Cases and Tone
Sustain Profit Making Prices.
Everything the Highest but
Write today for catalog and prices
the Price.
"They are the one best buy on the market"
Inspect them Carefully and See.
JESSE FRENCH & SONS PIANO CO.
NEW CASTLE,
INDIANA
Kreiter Mfg. Co., Inc.
320-322 W. Water St., Milwaukee, Wis.
Factory: Marinette, Wis.
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PRESTO
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BIG JANUARY BUSINESS
FOR STRAUBE RETAIL STORE
Admirable Policies and Persistent Advertising
Accountable for Sales Results Announced.
The retail store of the Straube Piano Company,
Hammond, Ind., has just experienced the greatest
January in the history of the institution. The straight-
forward policy of the Straube store, its one price to
everyone, and the character and amount of its news-
paper advertising are given credit for the unusually
large sale. The Straube store carries a 30-inch ad-
vertisement every day in the local newspaper on the
editorial page and backs this up with one of the larg-
est stocks of musical merchandise in the state of
Indiana.
Approximately 50 pianos—players, grands and up-
rights—are kept in stock in the large display room
at all times. Such a stock rivals that of the metro-
politan houses, and is a large factor in the large busi-
ness done by the Straube store. It is an outstanding
example of what can be accomplished by music mer-
chants in medium-sized towns by adopting uniform
policies and keeping ever on the alert.
WAY TO SALES OF
SEEBURG ELECTRIC PIANOS
Alert Dealer Sees the Value of a Regular Roll
Exchange Service.
The owners of automatic instruments do not get
the full value out of them unless they give close at-
tention to the music rolls and see to it that their
music is right up to the minute. This is the opinion
of the J. P. Seeburg Piano Co.
"The automatic piano is no better than the music
that is played," Lee S. Jones, sales manager, said this
week. "The automatic piano is on the market pri-
marily to earn money and one who does not change
rolls every week or every ten days at the most is de-
priving himself and the piano of proper opportunity
to earn.
"The dealer should really have a regular roll ex-
change service. Each time the nickels the instrument
has earned are collected the roll should be changed.
This changing does not mean as great an outlay as ap-
pears on the surface. It is not necessary to purchase
new rolls for all the instruments, but the rolls may
be passed along until each of the instruments con-
trolled by the dealer has used them—a sort of endless
chain of rolls. When the first piano has used the
SWAN PIANOS
February 2, 1924.
roll for a week, put a new one there and pass the
old to the next piano. When the next piano has used
it, let it be passed to the next, and so on. In this
way each instrument is offering new musical selec-
tions to its patrons each week while only one new
roll has to be bought each week.
"Electric piano music has reached a high state of
efficiency. It offers the best of the popular numbers
and the popular classics so that every taste is met.
With such excellent music and instruments that are
really music makers, the popularity of the automatic
is assured."
EDWARD POTJE'S PREFERENCE.
Edward Potjes, Belgian pianist, composer, for
twenty years head of the piano department of the
Royal Belgian Conservatory, and decorated by the
King of Belgium for his interpretation of the great
masters, gave a recital recently at the Garden Meth-
odist Church, under the auspices of the Bellingham
(Wash.) School of Music and Art, at which he used
a Baldwin piano. Mr. Potjes captivated his audience
by his interpretation of Chopin and then presented
three numbers of his own composition. He brought
his program to a climax with his masterful concep-
tion of Liszt's Rhapsody No. 14. Mr. Potjes is not a
spectacular performer, but demonstrated his power
with a dignified ease that seemed uncanny. Mr.
Potjes in selecting a Baldwin for his recital said that
in his many years' experience he had never played
on a piano he enjoyed more fully than the Baldwin
Grand.
THE ARTISTS CO-OPERATE,
How to get the most out of the appearances of
visitin gartists was well demonstrated by a recent
concert which Lyon & Healy gave in its sales depart-
ment. • The Duncan Sisters, who are playing in
"Topsy and Eva," have taken Chicago by storm. In
their show are featured new songs which they have
recorded for the Victor. These the Duncan Sisters
sang to a delighted audience at Lyon & Healy's as
well as several of their older songs. "Rememb'ring"
is one of the hits of the show and Lyon & Healy feel
that the record of it will have a very great sale.
STIDHAM RECOVERS.
William F. Stidham, manager of the Los Angeles
branch of the Columbia Phonograph Company, has
just recovered from a severe attack of typhoid fever.
He is now convalescing satisfactorily.
The board of public works of Goshen, Ind., recently
gave permission to the Wilbur Templin's Music
Stores, for permission to erect a sign in front of the
new music store, 206 South Main street.
SWAN ORGANS
are of the highest grade
The tremendous superi-
t h a t c a n be obtained *.$.*»• SV ? A * A r ority of the $WAH Reed
through over 50 years of \ ^ ^ K § Organs over all others lies
practical experience in i f c ^ m in the absolute mechanism
piano and organ building. i ^ L j t f $ and scientific perfection la
Illustrations a n d c a t a- KQfgocj&^Z the bellows action and stop
logues of various styles ^ enSo^n*^ 1 action, making it the best
value in modern o r g a n
will be furnished p i a n o
merchants on application,
building.
NEW INCORPORATIONS
IN MUSIC GOODS TRADE
New and Old Concerns Secure Charters in Various
Places.
Musical Products Distributing Co., Manhattan, 750
to 1,500 shares preferred stock, $100 each; 1,000 com-
mon, no par value as heretofore.
The Schooler Record Co., Cleveland, Ohio; $10,000;
to manufacture and sell phonograph records; R. R.
Cheeks, A. K. Schooler, Karl F. Smith, R. Delia
Potter and G. T. Haywood.
Emerson Recording Laboratories, Manhattan;
make phonographs; $30,000; A. H. Cushman, B. and
M. Abrams. Attorney, L. Levy, 277 Broadway.
Rockaway Music Shop, Inc.; $1,000; Anna Silver
and Bessie Silver, 411 Bradford street, and Frances
Moss, 297 Seventeenth stret, Brooklyn, N. Y.
The Compton Music Co., Compton, Calif.; $825,000;
to sell music goods.
World Talking Machine Co., Manhattan, $5,000;
S. Berman, B. B. Weinberg, D. Rubin. (Attorneys,
Koppelman & Weinberg, 144 Rivington St., New
York.)
Schroeder & Gunther, New York; musical com-
positions; $100,000; J. F. Schroeder, E. A. and E. L.
Gunther. Attorney, J. M. Betts, 233 Broadway.
Allied Phonograph and Musical Manufacturers' As-
sociation, New York; 150 shares preferred stock, $100
each; 100 common, no par value; J. D. Neppert, M.
Kahn, F. W. Conrad. Attorney, W. L. Post, 50
Church street.
American Artist Management, New York; concert
managers; $10,000; O. B. Campbell, M. S. Benseger,
E. Morse.
Attorney, E. Pettigor, 233 West 42nd
street.
Ralph J. Harrison; furnishing music for entertain-
ments; $10,000; D. M. Harrison, E. Huttenger, H.
McMahon, Pittsburgh. Capital Trust Co. of Dela-
A FEW NOTES.
The Grimes-Lawing Piano Co. is a new corpora-
tion formed'at Fort Worth, Tex., with a capital stock
of $7,000. The incorporators are B. A. Grimes, J. D.
Lawing and Mrs. W. J. Lawing.
Frank Abe, representing the Baldwin Piano Co!,
has rented the Bushman store building on Chestnut
street, Burlington, Wis., and has put in a full line of
pianos and playerpianos.
Reinhardt's Music Store and the Vesey Piano Com-
pany moved into the Reinhardt-Vesey building at 104
South Main street, Memphis, Tenn., recently.
QUALITY with QUANTITY
S. N. SWAN ft SONS, H - M - = FREEPORT, ILL
Maximum Value in
PLAYERS, REPRODUCERS and GRANDS
GOLDSMITH
Players and Pianos
Have Every Advantage in Quality and Results
to the Dealers
An Investigation Will Prove It
GOLDSMITH
PIANO
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=^=g^ Est. 1893 ^
CHICAGO, ILL.
COMPANY
1223-1227 Miller Street, CHICAGO
A QUALITY PRODUCT
FOR OVER
QUARTER OF A CENTURY
Offices: 802-4 Republic Bldg.
Place That Want Ad in The Presto
POOLE
BOSTON-
GRAND AND UPRIGHT PIANOS *
AND
PLAYER PIANOS
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