Presto

Issue: 1925 2011

February 7, 1925.
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LATEST GENNETT RECORDS
Dancing, Vocal, Foreign and Specialty Numbers in
Attractive New List.
In the new leaflet issued this week by the Starr,
Piano Co., Richmond, Ind., are the following latest
Gennett Record hits for dancing:
Honest and Truly (Rose) and Doo Wacka Doo
(Gaskill-Donaldson-Horther), Marion McKay and
His Orchestra; Pleasure Mad (Bechet-Simons) and
Pickin' 'Em Up and Layin' 'Em Down (Kahn-
Panico), Eddie Mitchell and His Orchestra; Prince
of Wails, fox trot (Elmer Schoebel), and When My
Sugar Walks Down the Street, fox trot (Austin-
McHugh), Wolverine Orchestra, Dave Harman,
Vocal Chorus; Creole (Luke), and Pippin (Luke),
Ross Reynolds Palais Garden Orchestra.
Popular Vocal Duet: At the End of the Road
(MacDonald-Hanley), Tremaine Brothers, Duet,
Orchestra Accompaniment, and Because They All
Love You (Malie-Little), Shaw and Baur, Duet, Or-
chestra Accompaniment.
Irish Flute: Hard Road to Travel (Chief O'Neill),
and The Maid on the Green (Chief O'Neill), Patrick
Doran, Flute Solo, Kathleen Kearney, Piano Accom-
paniment.
Colored Vocal: Black Bottom Blues (Bomburyero),
Baby Bonnie, Lovell Bolan, Piano Accompaniment,
Theodore Carpenter, Cornet Accompaniment, and
Backbiting Moan (Bolan), Baby Bonnie, Lovell Bo-
lan, Piano Accompaniment.
Foreign (Spanish): El Templo De Venus (Shim-
my), and Perla Falsa (Tango), Orquesta Miraflores.
HOTEL ADVERTISES BY RADIO
Programs at Congress in Chicago Picked Up by
Station KYW Considered Good Publicity.
The Congress Hotel, Chicago, gets very valuable
advertising from the radio programs picked up there
and broadcasted by Westinghouse Station KYW.
And the guests brought there through the radio pub-
licity are naturally interested in the broadcasting
procedure.
In the "little red studio" on the top floor of the
Congress, known as Room 2066, is located the con-
trol booth which takes care of the studio programs
in that room as well as the five other rooms in the
Congress from which KYW takes its programs and
sends them out over the air. From this booth stretch
out a trio of wires for the sensitive microphone cir-
cuit to each of the rooms from which it is desired to
relay voice or music.
In the Pompeian Room, located on the main floor
of the Congress, a microphone is placed on an ele-
vated stand near the piano. It is from this room that
you hear the Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawk Or-
chestra every evening between 7:10 and 7:20 o'clock.
On the main floor you will also find the Louis
XVI Room, in which the radio audience will find
Joska De Barbary and his Continental stringed quar-
tet playing every evening for the benefit of thousands
of unseen listeners. A microphone circuit and a talk-
ing circuit similar to that in the Pompeian Room is
likewise installed in the Louis XVI Room. From
this room mainly are to be heard the classic numbers,
the first being at 7 every evening and the second at
7:20.
The third and most imposing room of all is the
new Balloon Room on the main floor of the Congress,
near the end of Peacock Alley. The microphone
hangs from the canopy which has been erected over
the'orchestra stand. Here the Coon-Sanders Night-
hawk Orchestra is to be found at its best.
SITUATION IN SUPPLIES
Facts in Various Lines of Commodities Which Enter
Into Musical Instrument Manufacture.
Paper for music roll manufacturers is among the
varieties now produced by the Netherlands paper
mills.
Demands of Scandinavian users of hardwood lum-
ber have helped to increase prices of American hard-
wood lumber within the past few years. The Danish
market gained less in point of consumption than
Norway and Sweden during 1924. Swedish consump-
tion has gone up considerably, and American oak has
replaced German oak in the Swedish market. The
Norwegian market has also consumed appreciably
larger quantities than in 1923.
SECOND NATIONAL MUSIC WEEK.
At the invitation of its chairman. Otto H. Kahn, a
luncheon meeting of the National Music Week Com-
mittee was held at the Midday Club, 25 Broad street,
New York, on January 27. Representatives from
fourteen of the national organizations were present
and the reports and speeches aroused surprises at
what had been accomplished last year. Richard W.
Lawrence, president of the Music Industries Cham-
ber of Commerce, speaking for the trade, said that it
would stand behind the movement as it had done in
the past, but tht he hoped wider financial support
would be secured from the public.
"SUPERIOR" PIANO PLATES
THE "BILGER" LOADER
Simple Guaranteed
Satisfactory
$75 15 days' approval to reliable parties
The "BILGER" Hoist—puts it up
with a smile
Light—"BILGER JR." Trucks—Strong
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Piano Movers Supply Co.
HARRISONBURG
VIRGINIA
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
Manufactured by
SUPERIOR FOUNDRY CO.
Cleveland, Ohio
Express or Parcel Post to
FRIELD MILLER & CO.
FAIRBANKS
PIANO PLATES
THE FAIRBANKS CO., Springfield, Ohio
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.
PERFECTION
Benches and Cabinets
The line that sells on sight and satisfies always.
The only solid walnut benches built and sold at
regular prices.
Send for catalog and price list,
No. 25
Perfection Benches with Smith's Patented Interlock*
ing mitre joint.
PERFECTION PIANO BENCH MFG. COMPANY
1514-1520 Blue Island Ave.
Chicago, I1L
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PRESTO
COINOLAS
FOR
RESTAURANTS, CAFES and
A M U S E M E N T CENTERS
Style C-2
FROM THE BIGGEST
ORCHESTRION
IN SMALL GOODS DEPARTMENT
accessories. The store now is twice the size of its
original quarters. A radio section handling the De
Forest, R. C. A. and other sets has also been added.
Greater Interest in Musical Merchandise Shows in
CONN MANAGER'S PLANS.
New Stores and Old Ones.
The wholesale department of the Chicago Conn
The Metal Crafters Corp., East Stroudsburg, Pa., Co., Chicago, is under the management of J. L.
has purchased the plant of the New York Piano Luellen, and now occupies the entire fourth floor of
Stool & Mfg. Co. in the same city.
the building" at 339 South Wabash avenue. The
Harry C. Reid is the new manager of the small wholesale department has also found it necessary to
goods department of Schmoller & Mueller, Omaha, add six more employes to its staff, according to Mr.
Neb.
Luellen, who plans to make this year a record-
W. J. Fiynn's music store on main street, Trinidad, breaker.
Colo., was damaged by fire recently.
The Kurtzmann Piano Co., Lockport, N. Y., will
NEW BRANCH PROSPEROUS.
move this week to new quarters at 89 Main street.
The Corley Co., Petersburg, Va,, established in
The Flanders Music Co. is the successor to the the fall, is located at 23 West Washington street. The
McCuster Piano Co. at Rapid City, S. D.
branch handles the same general music lines as are
The Pope Piano House has succeeded C. H. Smith handled at the retail headquarters of the Corley Co.
at Blytheville, Ark.
in Richmond, Va. A big volume of business is being
Bush & Lane Piano Co., Portland, Ore., has moved done under the able management of J. K. Fletcher.
to the Royal Annex Building, Park and Morrison
streets, for which a five-year lease on quarters in
EXPANDS IN WHITTIER, CALIF.
that building was recently signed.
The Whittier Music Co., 125 South Greenleaf ave-
At a recent meeting of the stockholders of the Will
A. Watkin Music Co., Dallas, Tex., the officers and nue, Whittier, Cal., has enlarged its radio depart-
ment. At the same time several other departments
directors were re-elected.
in the store will be increased in size to take care of
An announcement of a general cut in the prices of
all British radio tubes was made this week in Lon- the growing business, according to L. J. Sims, the
don. The reduction goes into effect on Monday, manager.
February 9, and covers the entire range of tubes
from the cheapest to the most expensive. The move
CONNS FOR ORCHESTRA.
was made at the initiative of three of the largest radio
The Homer L. Kitt Co., 1330 G street, Washington,
supply firms in England as a stimulus to purchasers, D. C, has supplied a full outfit of Conn instruments
many of whom hitherto have contented themselves for the La Java Orchestra, the well-known organiza-
with crystal reception instead of tube amplifiers and tion which supplies music for the La Java Salon.
tube sets.
The Homer L. Kitt Co. is the energetic representa-
tive of C. G. Conn, Ltd., Elkhart, Ind.
CANADA'S RADIO WEEK.
ENLARGES DEPARTMENT.
The Canadian Radio Trades Association, whose
The Platt Music Co., Los Angeles, Cal., has found
membersship is made up of the leaders in the Cana-
dian radio industry, was observed this week as it necessary to enlarge its band instrument and saxo-
Canada's Second Annual Radio Week. The event phone department. Ralph Kenney is manager of the
was given a great deal of publicity in newspapers, department.
radio publications, and wholesale and retail stores.
Manufacturers of radio apparatus, distributers, and
The new radio broadcasting station at Varberg is
dealers throughout the Dominion cooperated to make completed, making direct radio communication be-
this year's radio week an unqualified success. Every tween Sweden and the United States possible for
evening during the week special addresses and en- the first time.
tertainment were broadcasted from Dominion sta-
tions.
A Pneumatic Action bearing the name
PRESIDENT SLINGERLAND'S PLANS.
H. H. Slingerland, president of the Slingerland
Banjo Co., Chicago, and recently elected president of
the. Association of Musical Merchandise Manufac-
turers of the Chicago zone, has ambitious plans for
is your guide for unfailing quality.
the association during the coming year. The organ-
ization will be active in the convention of national
associations of the music industries in Chicago early
The high quality which has characterized
this summer. In this connection the first steps to
the Strauch Bros. Piano Actions and Ham-
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tion with the National Association of Musical Instru-
mers for almost sixty years, distinguishes
ment & Accessory Manufacturers.
our latest product, the
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Myer T. Hall, Inc., 2626 Germantown avenue,
Philadelphia, has added a musical merchandise divi-
sion with a full line of string and band instruments.
In the recently remodeled and enlarged store on Ger-
mantown avenue is now shown a complete assort-
ment of band instruments, string instruments and
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