October 4, 1924.
17
PRESTO
LATE PATENTS OF INTEREST
1,440,763, Automatic musical instruments, Heinrich
Bockisch, Pbughkeepsie, N. Y.
1,440,667, Metal sounding board for pianos, Fridolf
Frankel, Stockholm, Sweden.
1,441,155, Piano bench and dot combination, Oscar
S. Johnson, New Britain, Conn.
1,440,746, Musical instrument operated by air, under
control of perforated tune sheets, Reginald Reynolds,
Barnes, London, England.
1,441,824, Music roll supporting clamp, F. S. Bil-
lings, Milwaukee, Wis.
1,442,010, Music rolls for automatic music-playing
instruments, Noel R. Stiles, London, England.
1,442,442, Piano guard, John J. Schlumbrecht, Chi-
cago, 111.
1,442,507, Pumping device for playerpianos, August
Young, New York, N. Y.
1,443,768, Automatic tracking device, Joseph M.
Chase, New York, N. Y.
1,443,665, Mounting for operating parts of player-
pianos, Edwin S. Werolin, New York, N. Y.
1,444,722, Musical instrument, William Bartholo-
mae, New York, N. Y.
1,444,651, Crate for piano benches and the like,
Henry G. Behrens, Chicago, 111.
1,443,961, Musical instrument. Joseph Matyas, As-
toria, N. Y.
There's Money
for the Dealer in
Automatic Pianos
Fine Electric Self-Players of eye-
catching design and perfect perform-
ance. Also
COIN OPERATED
for places of entertainment, Theatres,
Movies, Ice Cream Parlors, Etc., Etc.
The best line including the famous
"PIAN-O-GRAND"
"BANJ-O-GRAND"
and "HARP-O-GRAND"
Wide-awake Piano D e a l e r s find
them easy sellers in every community.
Send for illustrated
descriptive circulars.
Nelson - Wiggen Piano Co.
1731 Belmont Ave.,
CHICAGO
ESTABLISHED 1854
THE
BRADBURY PIANO
FOR ITS
ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE
FOR ITS
INESTIMABLE AGENCY VALUE
THE CHOICE OF
Representative Dealers the World Over
Now Produced in Several
New Models
WRITE FOR TERRITORY
Factory
Leominster,
Matt.
Executive Offices
138th St. and Walton Ave.
New York
Division W. P. HAINES & CO., Inc.
1,444,364, Automatic music roll carrier and center-
ing device for pneumatic musical instruments, W. G.
Betz, Hammond, Ind.
1,444,832, Automatic musical instrument, Joseph M.
Dickinson, Larchmont, N. Y.
1,445,426, Carton for music reels, John J. M. Wie-
gand, Bellevue, Ky.
1,446,116, Expression device for self-playing pianos,
Oscar A. Ericson, Chicago, 111.
1,445,807, Piano-playing pneumatic action, Herschel
E. Tower, Cincinnati, Ohio.
1,445,983, Motor for player pianos, Walter W. Wei-
ser, Chicago, and G. A. Forsberg, Cicero, 111.
1,446,911, Mounting for diaphragms for acoustical
instruments, Austin C. Lescarboura, New York, N. Y.,
and A. R. Bond, Plainfield, N. J.
REPRO=PHRASO EXHIBIT
FOR SPRINGFIELD MEET
R. A. Burke and Stil Harcourt to Personally Repre-
sent the Story & Clark Co. There.
A fine display of the Repro-Phraso instrument by
the Story & Clark Co., 315 South Wabash avenue,
Chicago, will be awaiting merchants who attend
the Illinois Music Merchants' convention at Hotel
Leland, Springfield, on Monday and Tuesday of next
week. The display to be put on by the company
will be elaborate and well arranged and the invitation
is extended by the Story & Clark Co. to all dealers
to visit the showroom and inspect the instrument
which has been a sensation in the trade.
The action of the Repro-Phraso will be shown to
the visiting music men by Stil Harcourt, the creator
of the instrument, and a prominent figure at conven-
tions.
R. A. Burke, widely known traveler of the Story &
Clark Piano Co., will also be on hand at convention
headquarters and will be pleased to meet the attend-
ing music merchants and give information of the
prominent line of Story & Clark instruments.
EDWARD A. JOLL, VETERAN
TUNER ON RETIRED LIST
"Grand Old Man" Leaves Lyon & Healy After Forty-
Six Years of Service.
Forty-six years ago, Edward A. Joll started to
work for Lyon & Healy, Chicago, as an outside
piano tuner, and with the exception of a slight in-
terval, has continued in the same capacity until now.
Mr. Joll was 79 years old on September 11, and was
then retired on a pension. He is justly entitled to
this rest after so many years of activity, but it is
with considerable regret that his associates lose the
daily contact with the "Grand Old Man" of Lyon &
Healy's piano tuning department.
It is doubtful if the equal of jYIr. Joll's record
exists. Until the last day of his employment he
"carried on" with young men, on the job every morn-
ing before 7:30. He has been a pacemaker to the
finish and an example of industry, strength and
inspiration to be envied by every young man. He
attributes it all to his mode of living, vegetarian diet,
two quarts of milk a day, no tobacco, and "early to
bed and early to rise."
While on a visit recently at his daughter's summer
home in the Ozark mountains, Mr. Joll met with an
accident through a fall, which lamed him.
400 MILES BY AUTO.
J. J. Krall of Tyndall, S. D., is a Chicago visitor.
Mr. Krall drove to Chicago in his machine, following
a 400-mile auto trip from Tyndall to serve on the
United States grand jury.
NEW ALLIANCE, O., STORE.
R. R. Roath has opened a piano and talking ma-
chine store in Alliance, O. It is at 27 East Main
street and is known as the Roath Piano Company.
A. B. Chase, Hallett & Davis, and Emerson pianos,
phonographs, Q R S and Imperial player rolls are
handled.
The new store of the Roath Piano Co., Alliance,
Ohio, was opened recently.
QUALITY
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The best exponent of the present Baby Grand Age.
I$8 tone — its tinea — its restricted space requirement and
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WALTER C. HEPPERLA
President
JUSTUS HATTEMER
Viea-Pmidtnt
510-532 West ^3rd Street
NEW YORK
in Name and in Fact
TONE, MATERIALS, CONSTRUCTION,
WORKMANSHIP, DESIGN—all in ac-
cord with the broadest experience—are
the elements which give character to
Bush & Lane Products.
BUSH&LANE PIANOS
BUSH & LANE CECILIAN PLAYER PIANOS
take high place, therefore, in any com-
parison of high grade pianos because of
the individuality of character which dis-
tinguishes them in all essentials of merit
ana value.
BUSH & LANE PIANO CO.
Holland, Mich.
HIGH GRADE
Folding Organs
School Organs
Practice Keyboards
Dul.ra' Attention Solicited
A- L. WHITE MFG. CO.
215 En*i«wood Av*., CHICAGO, ILL.
Schumann
PIANOS and PLAYER PIANOS
GRANDS and UPRIGHTS
Have no superiors in appearance, tone
power or other essentials of strictly
leaders in the trade.
Warning to Infringers
This Trade Mark la cast
in the plate and also ap-
pears upon the fall board
of all genuine Schumann
Pianos, and all Infringers
will be prosecuted. Beware
of imitations such as Schu-
mann & Company. Schu-
mann & Son, and also
Shuman, as all atencll
shops, dealers and users of
pianos bearing a name in
imitation of the name
Schumann with the Inten-
tion of deceiving: the public
will be prosecuted to the
fullest extent of the law.
New Catalogue on Request.
Schumann Piano Co.
W, N. VAN MATRE, President
Rockford, III.
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