Presto

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PRESTO
April 26, 1924.
COINOLAS
FOR
RESTAURANTS, CAFES and
A M U S E M E N T CENTERS
Style C-2
FROM THE BIGGEST
ORCHESTRION
FINE RADIO CABINETS
Now Made by Perfection Piano Bench Co.,
Chicago, in Addition to Benches and
Player Roll Cabinets.
The activity of the Perfection Piano Bench Mfg.
Co., 1516-1520 Blue Island avenue, Chicago, has been
noticeable in the trade from time to time. Its fine
piano benches and player rolls cabinets have been a
source of satisfaction and profit to the dealer and
pleasure and service to the ultimate customer and the
fact that the trade appreciated its products has been
very gratifying to the company.
The Perfection Piano Bench Co. now announces a
new radio cabinet for the trade, made in two styles to
fit standard radio sets. The cabinets are twenty-six
and thirty-two inches long and beautifully finished in
mahogany and walnut.
The perfection radio cabinet is designed to give the
utmost convenience. It has exclusive features that
will interest the most discriminating buyer, the most
prominent one being the concealment of the loud
speaker by a unique arrangement, which produces
the same effect as any other loud speaker and is far
more convenient.
The demand for the radio cabinet has been in ac-
cord with that of the piano bench and player roll
cabinet, which has been of such nature as to necessi-
tate the installation of new machinery which will
efficiently increase the producing capacity.
THE CONN EB CONTRA=BASS
Leaders of U. S. Army Bands and Conductors Every-
where Pleased with Sarrusphone.
The sarrusphones made by E. G. Conn, Ltd., Elk-
hart, Ind., belong to the saxophone family and the
most important is the contra-bass built in Eb. Its
uses are recognized by band conductors everywhere
and it is now in the equipment of all U. S. army and
state guard bands.
"The U. S. inspectors are highly pleased with the
Conn product, and we have received congratulatory
letters to that effect. C. G. Conn, Ltd., sustains
its reputation as pioneers of America in the manufac-
ture of band instruments. The first saxophones built
in America were built by Conn and the first' sarrus-
phone was built by Conn," says the Elkhart company
in an interesting booklet.
The fingering system of this new instrument is
almost identical with that of the saxophone. Any
saxophonist can readily play it. It is played with
a double reed mouthpiece, but C. G. Conn Ltd. has
again shown its progressiveness by manufacturing
TUNERS"
Here are
a mouthpiece similar to the soprano saxophone
mouthpiece, which can be used with equally effective
results. The sarrusphone is much easier to play than
the bass saxophone and a full strain may be played
with a single breath. Its lightness in weight permits
of an easy carriage, and its tone volume is unusually
great. It will supplant brass basses as well as bass
saxophones.
The popularity of the sarrusophone has already been
demonstrated.
C. G. Conn Ltd. builds the entire
sarrusphone family^ but predicts the contra-bass
as the most popular seller of the group.
PATRICOLA PLAYS WASHBURN
Mandolin of Famous Name, Made by Lyon & Healy,
Prized by-Star.
Patricola. the featured hit of the stage success,
"George White's Scandals," now playing in Chicago,
comes from a musical family. His father is an accom-
plished musician, and his sister Isabelle Patricola is a
well known vocal artist, now recording for various
phonograph companies. His uncle is the widely
known pianist, Patricolo.
The antics of the star as "Romeo" in the "Scandals"
are extremely clever and the audiences of New York,
Boston, Chicago, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, have
turned out in large numbers to see him. The famous
Chicago critic, Ashton Stevens, says of him, "Patri-
cola dances like a demon, he has a gorgeously gro-
tesque personality, and he pkiys one mandolin to
sound like four."
Patricola plays a Lyon & Healy Washburn man-
dolin, and is a very enthusiastic booster for it. He is
an accomplished artist and attributes no little part
of his success to his instrument.
GERMAN RADIO ACTIVITIES.
Amateur radio apparatus and parts are being manu-
factured by about 160 German firms, according to
Kurt Hiklesheimer, clerk to commercial attache.
About 100 of these firms are located in Berlin and the
rest throughout Germany. Considerable interest in
radio was shown at the recent spring fair at Leipzig,
about 80 manufacturers exhibiting their goods. An
additional broadcasting station in that city located in
the "Johannishospital" began operation during the
fair. This Leipzig broadcasting station will be the
second in Germany, and others are being constructed
in Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart, Frankfurt a. Main,
Nuernberg, Breslau, and Koenigsberg.
SHOW JAPANESE INSTRUMENTS.
The latest show window of Lyon & Healy, Chicago,
of general interest to the trade, was one showing the
quaint instruments of the Orient. The Japanese Koto
came in for a good deal of comment, as did also
the Samisen. Mr. Stewart, the window dresser of
Lyon & Healy, made a special study of grouping these
odd instruments so that a lively effect was given by
the whole exhibition.
BASS STRINGS
Special attention given to the needs of the toner and
the dealer
OTTO R. TREFZ, Jr.
2110 Fairmotint Avenue
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
LEATHER
FOR
PLAYERS
ORGANS
PIANOS
Tiny Coinola
THE SMALLEST
KEYLESS
PNEUMATIC LEATHERS A SPECIALTY
Packing, Valves, All Special Tanned
Bellows Leather
T. L. LUTKINS, Inc.
40 Spruce Street
NEW YORK
Established 1867
Strauch Bros.
All Well-poste 1 Piano Dealers, Sales-
men, and the Piano Buying Public
recognize the i ilue of this name on a
Piano Action*
For more than £ 5 years it has been associ-
ated with the bust products of the Piano
industry. It haj always represented
Quality and Merit
When a Piano Action bears the name of
Strauch Bros. 1:1 is an additional guarantee
of the quality of the instrument containing it.
STRAUCH BROS.,Inc.
Piano Actiof,; Hammer* and Repairs
327 to 347 Walnut Ave., at 141*t Street
NEW YORK
Manufactured by
The Operators Piano Co.
715-721 N. Kedzie Ave.
CHICAGO
FAIRBANKS
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THE FAIRBANKS CO., Springfield, Ohio
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