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Presto

Issue: 1924 1978

PRESTO
June 21, 1924.
SMALL GOODS, SUPPLIES AND RADIO
VACATION WITH A PORTABLE
Lyon & Healy, in Featuring Portable Phonograph in
Window, Makes Suggestion for Vacation Time.
Enjoy your vacation more with a portable phono-
graph is the thought Lyon & Healy, Wabash & Jack-
son, Chicago, have exemplified in a unique window
display this week, featuring the Brunswick and Vic-
tor portable phonographs.
In order to satisfy the most particular customer a
wide variety in price and style is shown in such man-
ner as to create a desire on the part of those who are
contemplating a vacation in the woods, a fishing trip,
picnics or other forms of outdoor sport in which good
phonograph music would add to the pleasure of the
individual or party.
The portable phonograph is set in a leather case
and is complete, having a place to carry records
safely and two metal containers for new and used
needles. It is also waterproof and will stand the
rough usage of a long trip.
EXPORTING PHONOGRAPH SUPPLIES.
Large orders for mica for phonograph reproducers
from Japan and New Zealand, which formerly were
given to British and German concerns, are now being
placed in the United States, according to informa-
tion given out by the Department of Commerce.
L. E. Gillingham, chief engineer of the Nipponophone
Co., Ltd., of Japan, and W. E. Wade, president of
the Wade Phonograph Co., Auckland, New Zealand,
recently in the United States, placed extensive orders
with the International Mica Co., Philadelphia, Pa.,
for these supplies. It is understood that additional
supplies and accessories for talking machine manu-
facture will be purchased in considerable quantity by
the parties named while in this country.
GOOD OKLAHOMA BUSINESS.
The musical merchandise business is good in Okla-
homa and is getting better all the time, according to
O. H. Zimmermann of the Zimmermann & Bennett
Band House, 307 West Grand street, Oklahoma City.
Mr. Zimmerman, who has been a professional drum-
mer for years, has an orchestra of his own in Okla-
homa City. His company has equipped a great many
bands and orchestras and just recently furnished
twenty-four of the latest model Ludwig drums to the
Shrine Drum Corps in that city. "We are having
excellent success with the Martin line of Handcraft
band instruments."
Manufacturers of
PIANO ACTIONS
ONE GRADE ONLY
The Wessell, Nickel & Gross action is a
guarantee of the grade of the instrument
in which it is found.
FACTORIES:
46* St
YORK
Joie Lichter's Orchestra Played Numbers Previously
Recorded for Starr Piano Co.
Gennett records made by the Starr Piano Co., Rich-
mond, Ind., were made a feature in the program of
EXHIBIT AT BAND CONTEST.
the Strand Theater, Milwaukee, for a week recently.
A fine display of the band instruments of C. G. The orchestra of which Joie Lichter is the leader, had
Conn, Ltd., Elkhart, Ind., was placed on display at recorded six numbers for Gennett records, and the
the Music Shop, Lake Geneva, Wis., during the an- numbers were played as part of the program.
nual contest of school bands held by the Wisconsin
Following motion pictures of the Starr phonograph,
Boys' Band Association. The comprehensive show- an announcement was made stating that the orchestra
ing of Conn instruments was made by the Flanner- would render the selections which had been recorded
Hafsoos Music Co., Milwaukee. Thirty-five school for the records. Names of the different numbers
and other juvenile bands competed in the contest.
were announced by Hashing on the screen an en-
larged record bearing the name as it is stated on the
Gennett records. The curtain was then drawn back,
FLIES HIGH IN KANSAS CITY.
"Bob" Shackleton, while attending the recent con- showing the orchestra sitting in front of one large
vention of the Shriners in Kansas City in the inter- Gennett record about eight feet in diameter and three
est of Lyon & Healy, Chicago, took advantage of the smaller ones from two and a half to four and a half
occasion to go up in the airplane "Liberty-Lincoln" feet in diameter.
As the orchestra played, lighting effects on the
at Richard Flying Fields and while up in the air,
snapped a number of unique kodaks of Kansas City. large record gave the appearance of making it re-
The Shriners Convention was the occasion of the volve. Special spotlights were used as each member
gathering of a number of the finest Masonic Bands of the orchestra was featured and other attractive
lighting arrangements added to the program. The
in the country.
numbers presented by the orchestra and recorded for
Gennett records were "I'm in a Fool's Paradise,"
UNIQUE DISPLAY OF INSTRUMENTS.
"Patricia
Mine/' "Mother's Boy," "You'll Find There
Lyon & Healy, Chicago, has on display a unique
collection of instruments of great interest to musi- Isn't Loving Like Mine," "I'm All Broke Out with
cians. Notable among them are the oboe d'amore, Blues" and "Orange Blossom Time."
heckelfon or bass oboe, and the octavin. The octavin,
HIGHER LEATHER PRICES.
while not a new instrument, is new to this country.
Animal epidemics in the western states which tend
It is being rapidly adopted by leading bands. It is
an instrument midway between a clarinet and a saxo- to curtail the supply of leather materials are not the
only circumstances that may have an influence on
phone.
pneumatic leather prices. A similar condition in
England and Scotland is reported where disease is
INSTRUMENTS FOR GIRLS' BAND.
The Renier Music Store, Dubuque, la., has fur- fast decreasing the flocks of sheep.
nished the outfit of instruments for the Girls' Band in
AUSTRALIA AS ROLL BUYER.
Manchester, la., which has been organized along
the same lines as the Girls' Band of Dyersville, now
Australia bought $7,268 worth of American music
a popular organization in the state. Forty girls have rolls during March. The next best roll customers
joined and F. DiTella is the director.
in the order named were Mexico, Cuba and Canada.
WESSELL, NICKEL & GROSS
HIGHEST GRADE
GENNETTS' THEATER FEATURE
OFFICE:
457 W. 45th Stn«t
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handle the Edison Chippendale, Victor No. 17, Cheney No. 6 Queen
Anne, and other large makes, from show-room to any apartment
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J. BRECKWOLDT. Pres.
Chicago, III.
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PRESTO
NEW TALKING MACHINE PATENTS
1,435,095. Sound-reproducing machine. George
D. Adams, Omaha, Nebr.
1,434,526. Combined talking and picture exhibiting
machine. John L. Boyle, Boston, Mass.
1,434,366. Graphophone stop. Frank L. Casper,
Howes Cave, N. Y.
1,434,890. Pneumatic sounding device. Frank Hall,
Victoria, Can.
1,434,666. Repeater device for phonographs. Wil-
liam A. Sharp, Des Moines, Iowa.
1,434,412. Automatic stop for phonographs. Hugo
F. Spengler, Chicago, 111.
1,435,036. Filing device for talking machine rec-
ords. Andrew L. Weis, Monroe, Michigan.
1,435,697. Automatic stop for talking machines,
Forest Cheney, Chicago, 111.
1,435,645. Phonograph record cleaner. Arthur B.
Kidder and H. Miller, Canton, Ohio.
1,435,719. Microphone. David G. McCaa, Lan-
caster, Pa.
61,636. Design. Talking machine cabinet. Joseph
F. Biggs, Richmond, Va.
1,436,561. Stop for talking machines. Frank D.
Appleton, Philadelphia, Pa.
1,436,004. Continuous player for talking machines.
Adrian C. Balson, Philadelphia, Pa.
1,436,080. Sound amplifying and reproducing ap-
paratus. Charles Blieberger, New York, N. Y.
1,436,085. Quick-change valve for musical instru-
ments. Ernst A. Couturier, Laporte, Ind.
1,436,625. Record cabinet. Harry Ferge and A.
Wuchterl, Milwaukee, Wis.
1.436.160.
Magazine for phonograph needles.
C. O. and R. J. Foedisch, Chicago, 111.
1.436.161.
Magazine for phonograph needles.
C. O. and R. J. Foedisch, Chicago, 111.
1,436,496.
Quick-changing needle plate holder.
Robert E. Gosney, Bishop, Cal.
1,436,510. Phonograph. Walter F. Luhnow, Oak
Park, 111.
1,436,129. Phonograph. Edwin A. Watson, Mill
Valley, Calif.
1,436,790.
Phonograph.
Allan K. Bowman,
Wilkinsburg, Pa.
1,436,796. Stylus-bar mounting for sound boxes.
Harry J. Durborow,.Philadelphia, Pa.
1,436,879. Driving device for the music bands or
strips of pneumatic music machines. Carl Hitzegrad,
Bremen, Germany.
1.436.969. Phonograph. John A. Lunden, Chicago,
111.
1.436.970. Sound box. John A. Lunden, Chicago,
111.
1,437,264. Speed-regulator for phonographs. Mar-
tin Nystrom and J. Spring, Chicago, 111.
1,437,192. Talking machine. Joseph N. Pepin,
Chicago, 111.
1,436,689. Talking machine. Bagster R. Seabrook,
Winnipeg, Canada.
1,437,391. Reproducer for phonographs. Burr B.
Blood, Chicago, 111.
1,437,959. Graphophone stop mechanism. Clifford
C. Brooks and E. O. Klemm, Fenton, Michigan.
1,437,799.
Phonograph sound box.
Bernhard
Fritzsch, Cincinnati, Ohio.
1,438,116. Repeating attachment for disk-record
phonographs. Stanley S. Johns, Baltimore, Md.
1,437,472. Phonograph game. Clarence H. Maier,
New York, N. Y.
1,437,608. Phonograph-record holder. Albert E.
Neely, Chicago, 111.
1,437,673. Supporting structure for phonograph
motors. Martin Nystrom, Chicago, 111.
1,437,677. Sound amplifier for talking machines.
Lena B. Prout, Morland, Kansas.
DEALERS and TUNERS!
Keys Recovered and Rebushed
All work is done by expert workmen
and modern machinery and you are
assured of correct spacing which is so
important. When keys are replaced they
will appear exactly as when the instru-
ment left the factory.
PRICES FOR PYRALIN IVORY
52 heads and tails
$8.00
52 fronts
2.50
88 keys rebushed
4.00
Express or Parcel Post to
1.437.915. Rewinder. Camille A. Sentou and E.
Jacquet, Fort Lee, N. J.
1,438,000.
Phonograph, George H. Underhill,
Philadelphia, Pa.
1,438,078. Phonograph disk or record. John P.
Wright, Newark, Del.
1,437,700. Brake mechanism for talking machines.
Henry W. Youngquist, Manchester, N. H.
1,438,893. Music leaf turner. Paul P. Brock,
Gillespie, 111.
1,438,631. Combined lamp and phonograph. An-
thony J. Burns, Indiana Harbor, Ind.
1,438,433. Thief-proof record holder. Wm. A.
Faith, Murdock, 111.
1,438,524. Cabinet for holding phonograph records
and similar articles. Gustav A. Fellmann and J. L.
Sinning, Brooklyn, N. Y.
1,438,642. Polyphone sound box and mounting
therefor. John Graham, Stratford, Conn.
1,433,765. Turntable for talking machines. John
Kralund, Brooklyn, N. Y.
1.438,386. Violin body. Wm. J. Lucas, San Jose,
Calif.
1,438,712. Sound reproducing machine. Reinhard
Mosmann, St. Gallen, Switzerland.
1,438,392. Record file for phonographs. Martin
Nystrom, Chicago, 111.
1,438,277. Combined phonograph and lamp. Solo-
mon Trustman, Detroit, Mich.
1.439.496. Phonograph or like cabinet. Wilhelm
G. Aldeen, Rockford. 111.
1.439.497. Phonograph or like cabinet. Wilhelm
G. Aldeen, Rockford, 111.
1,439,358. Device for marking phonograph records.
Wm. R. Duncan, Chicago, 111.
1,439,441. Phonograph record cabinet. Eugene G.
Ouellette, Lebanon, N. H.
1,439,533. Talking machine. James F. Smith, St.
Louis, Mo.
1,439,725. Disk-record cabinet. G. M. Boumphrey,
Baycliffe, England.
1,440,276. Record lifting device for sound-repro-
ducing machines. Emil F. Cerveny, Chicago, 111.
1,440,134. Phonographic apparatus. Matthew A.
Clark, Brooklyn, N. Y.
1,440,294. Sound box for phonographs. Robert
Head, Yonkers, N. Y.
1,440,097.
Sound record.
Emil E. Novetny,
Logan. Pa.
1,440,180. Sound reproducing machine. Henry T.
Schiff. Chicago, 111.
1.439.916. Sound box. Louis K. Scotford, Chi-
cago, 111.
1,439,981. Sound box. Charles H. Shaw, Baby-
lon. N. Y.
1.439,718. Phonograph. Wm. M. Venable, Pitts-
burgh, Pa.
TO MAKE STRINGS.
The Platt Music Co , Los Angeles, has installed a
violin string and bow manufacturing department
under the management of Ray Gilmer, an expert bow
maker who has had experience in this country and
in Europe. A fine line of silver wound strings for
violins and 'cellos will be made.
June 21, 1924.
ADVERTISING WITH RECORDS
Industry Promises to Grow Faster When New
Process Paper Record Is Perfected.
Radio has had no effect on the making of personal
and advertising records which has grown into a real
industry independent of the entertainment record
makers. The first personal records were made as a
matter of vanity or sentiment, says the Saturday Eve-
ning Post.
But old John W. Business soon saw there was
something more in it than that. New recording con-
cerns sprang up to make such records for less than
the entertainment phonograph companies charged,
and developed possibilities which the big companies
had to neglect for lack of time.
The thing really began as a nuisance. While the
phonograph man is scouting for talent at home and
abroad, other people are hot on his trail—professional
entertainers whose ability and reputation fall below
the standard necessary in phonograph records, and
amateur singers, players and reciters who want to get
into the records to make money or add to their pres-
tige among friends.
Some of the amateurs were so persistent that, large-
ly in self-defense at first, phonograph men said, "We
can make a personal record for your own use if you
want to pay for it."
But it is in countless new forms of advertising that
the professional record is being most actively devel-
oped. The time may come, and soon, when you will
take home a whole evening's entertainment, for the
family in the form of advertising disks from your
morning mail.
Here is the way it works: You get a phonograph
record at the office. It is a novelty. You are going
to find out what it says, and, because your phono-
graph is home, must take it there. Ergo, the adver-
tiser delivers his message at what is considered the
most opportune time—in the home circle, when you
can give him the best attention.
The day when advertising records will be as com-
mon as photographs is just around the corner. The
chief obstacle to be overcome now is cost.
ADDS LINK TO CHAIN.
A. N. Pickerell recently purchased the Weigel Mu-
sic. Store, Coffeyville, Kans., under the direction of
the referee in bankruptcy. This is the fourth link in
the chain stores operated by Mr. Pickerell. The
others are at Independence and Cherryva'le, Kans.,
and Nowat, Okla., all' conducted under the title of the
Pickerell Music House.
A KANSAS PROBLEM.
Attorney General Griffith of Kansas has the prob-
lem of deciding whether interference with radio ser-
mons violates the state law against interference with
religious worship. It was put up by the members of
a little church at Norway, Kansas, when sermons it
received from Omaha were being interfered with
by a closer station.
NEW OAKLAND BRANCH.
The Conn-Oakland Co., has been opened at 531
Sixteenth street, Oakland, Cal., and is operated as a
branch of the Conn-San Francisco Co., which is
serving the entire Pacific Coast. The new Oakland
store was established in response to the growing
interest in band and orchestra instruments in Oak-
land.
PLANS RADIO CONFERENCE.
The league of nations is p'anning another world
conference on radio. To make this effective, how-
ever, the United States and other nations not mem-
bers of the league may have to be called in.
ADVERTISES REPAIR SHOP.
Barbee's Musical Emporium, 159 Taylor street, San
Francisco, features its repair department in an effec-
tive way that advertises this phase of the firm's
business. The repair shop is easily viewed through
the show windows and onlookers can see how the
interesting processes of patching or making over
the various instruments.
LEATHER
OTTO R. TREFZ, Jr.
PIANO BASS STRINGS
PIANO REPAIR SUPPLIES
2110 Fairmount Ave.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
FOR
PLAYERS
ORGANS
PIANOS
PNEUMATIC LEATHERS A SPECIALTY
Packing, Valves, AH Special Tanned
Bellows Leather
T. L. LUTKINS, Inc.
40 Spruce Street
NEW YORK
FRIELD MILLER & CO.
112 W. 30th Street
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA
HOW TO SEND
Remove from frame, number plainly near Capstan,
wrap or box securely, and ship Parcel Post or Express.
Please do not remove the old ivories as
there is danger of the wood being broken.
Ivories will be returned if desired.
FAIRBANKS
PIANO PLATES
THE FAIRBANKS CO., Springfield, Ohio
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