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PRESTO
November 22, 1924.
PIANO FOR
NEW POWER HOUSE FOR PLANT MATHUSHEK
HOUSTON MODEL HOME
A new $40,000 powerhouse for the Hamilton piano
factories in Chicago has just been completed. The
chimney of this powerhouse is the tallest chimney
in Chicago Heights, and the following data in re-
gard 1o the new plant are particularly interesting:
Size of house, 53' ft. by 51 ft., 44 ft. high. Three
Eric City vertical boilers of 200 h.p. each. Number
of tubes, 504; diameter, 3 inches. Combined length
which will deliver pure water to the boilers, prevent-
ing the formation of scale; also with the most modern
devices for securing economy and safety. Shavings
from the wood-working departments will be fed
directly to the furnaces by appliances automatic in
their action.
Windows in the wall of the powerhouse admit light,
and when open also admit air. The doors on ground
Big Building Company Selects Bungalow Upright
Style as Most Suitable for Purpose.
A model home exhibited by the Fain Carter Home
Building Company, Houston, Tex., has been equipped
with a Mathushek piano by the Carter Music Co., of
that city. The Fain Carter Home Beautiful is a lead-
ing argument in the successful "Own Your Own
Home" campaign now in progress there, and the
piano is a "bungalow upright" style, a very popular
type in Houston.
In reporting the home demonstration the Houston
Dispatch says:
The Fain Carter Home Building Company, in fur-
nishing their Home Beautiful, knew that no home
would be complete without a piano and selected the
Carter Music Company to furnish this instrument.
The Carter Music Company has established an en-
viable reputation among business concerns of the
city for the quality of their instruments and their
service, which is without equal. They at all times
keep apace of market conditions and are thereby en-
abled to render to their customers a valuable service
in pointing out to them the most economical manner
in which to purchase musical instruments.
NEW INCORPORATIONS
IN MUSIC GOODS TRADE
New and Old Concerns Secure Charters in Various
Places.
T>AST WORD IN POWER HOUSE CONSTRUCTION.
of tubes about \Yi miles. Steam-pressure, 160 lbs.
per square inch equal to 642,318,336,000 lbs. per square
mile. Chimney, 130 ft. high, A l / 2 ft. inside diameter
at top, 11 feet outside diameter at bottom—made of
ra*dial brick. Quantity of hot air discharged by
chimney at full capacity 1,000 lbs. per minute, or
!
about 20,000 cubic feet.
The plant is equipped with zeolite water-softener
The LEADING LINE
WEAVER PIANOS
floor give access from the inside to the outside and
also from the outside to the inside.
All bricks are laid in mortar and there is a floor
covering the entire area of the building. Number of
bricks in the building, 100,000.
QUALITY
Qrandu, Uprights and Playara
in Name and in Fact
Finest and most artistic
piano in design, tone and
construction that can be
made.
YORK PIANOS
TONE, MATERIALS, CONSTRUCTION,
WORKMANSHIP, DESIQN—all in ac-
cord with the broadest experience— are
the elements which give character to
Bush & Lane Products.
Uprights and Player Planoi
A high grade piano of great
vaiue and with charming tone quality.
Livingston Pianos— Uprights and Player Planot
A popular piano at a popular price.
Over 70,000 instruments made by this company •re
•• •Ing-
Ing their own praises in all parts of the civilised world.
Write tor catalogues and state on what terms you would
like to deal, and we will make you a proposition if yen are
located in open territory.
WEAVER PIANO CO., Inc.
Factory: YORK, P \ .
Established 1870
BUSH&LANE PIANOS
BUSH ft LANE CECIUAN 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
and value.
BUSH ft LANE PIANO CO.
The William Wood Pipe Organ Co., Inc., Hills-
boro, Ore.; $25,000; to deal in organs, pianos, phono-
graphs, etc.; William Wood, R. L. Dunlap and L. B.
Sandblast, all of Portland, Ore.
The Washington Musical Merchandise Co., Inc.,
Baltimore, Md.; $50,000; to deal in musical instru-
ments; care of John Racusin.
Philharmonic Banjo Co., Inc.; $12,500; musical in-
struments; care of William Place, Jr., 15 Arcade,
Providence, R. I.
ENCOURAGING MUSIC.
The National Bureau for the Advancement of
Music has just issued two interesting and important
new booklets on the Music Memory Contest. The
first of the booklets is in a general way a reprint of
the interesting descriptive booklet on the Music
Memory Contest issued by the Bureau some time
ago, which tells how the contest may be operated.
The new addition includes, however, a list of a hun-
dred selections found to be most generally used in
music memory contests, and based on the programs
of 350 such contests. The second booklet is entitled
"Some Results of the Music Memory Contest," and
gives the opinions of representative music supervisors
from over 100 cities and towns.
Jflorep
MAKERS OF
SUPERIOR QUALITY
<@>ranb
WASHINGTON, NEW JERSEY
Holland, Mich.
KURTZMANN
The True Test
Grands—Players
Compare the new Jesse French & Sons Piano
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.
Manufactured by
C. KURTZMANN & CO.
Factories and General Offices
526-536 Niagara Street
BUFFALO, N. Y.
Jesse French 8L Son* Style BB
Write today /«» catalog and prices
'They are the one best buy on the market"
JESSE FRENCH & SONS PIANO CO.
NEW CASTLE,
INDIANA
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November 22, 1924.
P R E S T O
DECEMBER Q R S ROLLS
HELP PLAYER SALES
Great Variety Characterizes New List of
Playerpiano Music Issued This Week by
Q R S Music Roll Co.
Specially Released Rolls Not Previously Listed:
I'm Someone Who's No-One to You, marimba waltz
(1124); That's Georgia, fox trot (1124); When the
shadows Fall., waltz (1224); There Is a Fountain,
Bluebird hymn; Though Your Sins Be as Scarlet,
Bluebird hymn; What Shall the Harvest Be? Blue-
bird hymn; Whosoever Will, Bluebird hymn; Yield
Not to Temptation, Bluebird Gospel hymn; Toreador
Song (from "Carmen") (French and English words).
CANADA'S MUSICAL
INSTRUMENT INDUSTRY
The December bulletin of the Q R S Music Co.,
Chicago, with cover gay in seasonable holiday tints,
has been issued to the trade. The new list justifies
the slogan, "Q R S Player Rolls Are Better." It is
a long and varied list of word rolls, concert series Pianos Take First Place, with Showing, of Nearly
Fifty Per Cent of Total.
rolls, hand played rolls and foreign rolls. The fol-
lowing are the presentations in new Word Rolls for
There
are
68
establishments in the musical instru-
December. The name of the recording artist follows
ment industry in Canada, according to a report for
the title:
All Alone, waltz, Phil Ohman; Back Where the 1922 just issued by the Dominion Bureau of Statis-
Daffodils Grow, fox trot, Pete Wendling; Blue Eyed tics, of which Ontario has 46, Quebec 17, Manitoba
Sally, fox trot, Russel Robinson; Choo-Choo, fox 2, Alberta 1, British Columbia 1, and Nova Scotia 1.
Pianos and playerpianos take first place, having a
trot, Pete Wendling; Dear One, fox trot, Arden and
Kortlander; Dixie, I'm Lonesome, marimba waltz, total value of $4,351,956, or 43.8 per cent of the entire
Osborne and Howe; Doo Wacka Doo, fox trot, Pete production. Phonographs take second place, with a
Wendling; Down in Honolulu Town, Hawaiian ma- total value of $1,555,786, or 15.6 per cent of the entire
rimba waltz, Scott and Watters; Haunting Melody, output. Piano actions, keys, hammers, and other
waltz, Harold Scott; Jefferson Davis, fox trot-one- parts and materials account for $1,160,155.
step, Pete Wendling; Lullaby of Long Ago, waltz,
There was a decrease in the value of production in
Harold Scott; My Best Girl, fox trot and one-step,
J. Lawrence Cook; My Twilight Rose, fox trot, Vic- 1922 from 1921 of $529,699. A total capital invest-
tor Arden; No One Knows What It's All About, ment of $13,776,790 was made, which was a decrease
fox trot, Pete Wendling; Rose Marie, fox trot, Arden of $38,585 over the total for 1921. Of this total
and Kortlander; Southern Rose, fox trot, Arden and Quebec contributed 26.5 per cent and Ontario 71
Kortlander; A Sun-Kist Cottage, fox trot, Victor per cent.
Arden; The Ten Commandments of Love, fox trot,
Scott and Watters; Tennessee, fox trot. Max Kort-
lander; You're More Than a Pal to Me, marimba STIMULATING XURTZMANN DEALERS
The special folder introducing an attractive new
waltz, Osborne and Howe; Come, Thou Almighty
King, Bluebird Gospel Hymn, Alfred Parker; The series of advertisement prepared for the use of Kurtz-
End of the Road, Bluebird Sacred Song, Alfred mann dealers in local newspapers, prepared by the C.
Parker; Now the Day Is Over, Bluebird Hymn, Kurtzmann Co., Buffalo, N. Y., has stimulated the
Richard Merton; Sun of My Soul, Bluebird Gospel trade in the desirable manner designed. The adver-
Hymn, Richard Merton.
tisements fit various spaces from one column wide
The new Foreign Rolls for December include two and larger. The outstanding feature of the copy is
Armenian, six Bohemian, one Croatian, one French, the artistic character of the border designs, all of
two German, Five Greek, six Hungarian, five Italian, the mbeing distinctly Egyptian. The series includes
one Jewish, three Lithuanian, eleven Polish, seven advertisements exploiting Kurtzmann grands, up-
Russian, three Slovenian and six Spanish.
rights and playerpianos, and as usual mats are avail-
Concert Series Rolls for December: Mazurka, B able for dealers' use.
Minor, Op. 33, No. 4 (Chopin), Annette Essipoff;
(a) La Fontaine, Op. 6, No. 2 (Nocturne), (b) Petite
AIDS TUNERS' CAMPAIGN.
Valse, Op. 28, No. 1 (A. Henselt) Moissaye Bogus-
Letters from leading manufacturers pledging aid
lawski; Barcarolle (Tschaikowsky), Howard Brock-
way; Alice, Romance (Ascher) Barry Mortimer; in the campaign for a larger membership continue to
Minstrels (Claude Debussy), Moissaye Boguslawski. come to the secretary. A letter from the J. P. See-
New Hand-Played Roll for December: Vesper burg Piano Co., manufacturer of automatic instru-
Chimes, Richard Merton.
ments, located at 1508-16 Dayton street, Chicago,
German Christmas Rolls: Alle Jahre wieder reads as follows: "I am in receipt of yours of Oc-
kommt das Christuskind, Der Christbaum ist der tober 15 and assure you that the J. P. Seeburg Piano
schonste Baum, Der Tannebaum, Ihr Kinderlein Co. heart.il yendorses your instiution. As you re-
Kommet; (1) Morgen, Kinder, Wird't Was Geben!
(2) Morgen Kommt Der Weihnachtsmann; O Du quest, we will this day write the Music Industries
Chamber of Commerce and let us take this oppor-
Frohliche; Stille Nacht! Heilige Nacht!
Polish Christmas Rolls: Aniol Pasterzom Mowil, tunity to wish you success in your drive for
Bog sie rodzi, Gdy sie Chrystus rodzi, Hej w Dzien members."
Narodzenia, Lulajze Jezuniu, Pasterze Mili, Radujcie
Sie, Swieta Noc; (1) Wsrod Nocnej Ciszy, (2)
QUINCY STORE REOPENED.
Przybiezeli Do Betlejem Pasterze; W zlobie lezy.
The Beal & McCarthy Music Co. recently pur-
chased the entire stock and fixtures of the Bahr
Music Co., at 1603 Hancock street, Quincy, Mass.,
and reopened the store. Beal & McCarthy was es-
tablished in 1880 by the late J. Q. Beal and now has
three stores, the others being at Rockland and
Brockton.
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
COINOLAS
FOR
RESTAURANTS, CAFES and
A M U S E M E N T CENTERS
Style C-2
FROM THE BIGGEST
ORCHESTRION
['Built on Family Pride"
Doll & Sons
Represent the Artistic
in Piano and Player Piano
Construction
JACOB DOLL & SONS
STODART
WELLSMORE
Jacob Doll & Sons, Inc.
Southern Boulevard* E. 133rd St.
E. 134th St. and Cypress Ave.
NEW YORK
Tiny Coinola
THE SMALLEST
KEYLESS :)
Manufactured by
The Operators Piano Co.
715-721 N. Kedzie Ave.
•-
CHICAGO
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