Presto

Issue: 1925 2017

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P R E S T O
LYON & HEALY STRING SECTION
March 21, 1925.
the largest of its kind in America, is in charge of
Miss K. Kosmella.
This move has given the retail band instrument,
harp and violin departments considerably more space
on the fifth floor, allowing for very necessary expan-
MORE DATA ON BRASS GOODS
Useful Booklet of Bridgeport Brass Company,
Bridgeport, Conn., Gives Prices, Weights, Etc.
The Bridgeport Brass Company, Bridgeport, Conn.,
has issued a new data book containing prices and
weights of sheet brass, brass rod, wire, condenser
tubes, and seamless brass and copper tubes. It is a
useful addition to new trade literature. Copies may
be obtained free on application to the Bridgeport
Brass Company.
The company was first to realize the limitations of
the age-old pit-fire casting methods, and to secure
freedom from these limitations by the development
and installation of an electric furnace casting shop.
All "Bridgeport" brass is now electric furnace brass.
Closer temperature control, closer mixture control
and much more intimate mixing, made possible and
easy by the use of the electric furnace, assure a uni-
form and dependable product.
J. T. BOWERS' NEW DUTIES.
T. T. Bowers, former manager of the Duo-Art and
playerpiano departments of Lyon & Healy, Chicago,
has been assigned to other important duties with
Lyon & Healy. Mr. Bowers recently underwent a
serious operation and has not yet been able to resume
his former activities.
In transferring the stringed instrument, accordion
The stringed instrument room, in charge of Wayne
and accessory sales departments from the fifth to
Wadhams, a widely known banjoist, cointains a re-
the first floor of Lyon & Healy's Chicago retail store,
markable assortment of Washburn banjos, guitars,
attractive new display rooms and counters were in- and mandolins, made in Lyon & Healy's Chicago fac-
stalled. Without doubt the Lyon & Healy store now
tory. The accordion and concertina department,
has one of the most elaborate and comprehensive
managed by Albert Buccieri, has a complete display
displays of small instruments to be found anywhere.
of Maraviglia accordions. The accessories counter,
"SUPERIOR" PIANO PLATES
NEW YORK CONN EXPANDS.
The C. G. Conn Co.'s salesrooms in New York City,
at 233-235 West 47th stret, and known as the New
York Conn Co., Inc., are undergoing some changes
and alterations giving them more display space, which,
as William Shine, the manager of the New York
business, says, "is badly needed to take proper care
of our increasing trade in this section."
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.
Manufactured by
SUPERIOR FOUNDRY CO.
Cleveland, Ohio
PRICES FOR PYRALIN IVORY
52 heads and tails
$8.00
52 fronts
2.50
88 keys rebushed
4.00
Express or Parcel Post to
FRIELD MILLER & CO.
FAIRBANKS
3767 N. Illinois Street
PIANO PLATES
THE FAIRBANKS CO., Springfield, Ohio
INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
HOW TO SEND
Remove from frame, number plainly near Capstan,
wrap or bos 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
Send for catalog and price list
Nationally Priced
Size 14x30, in all
finishes
Full size Bench 15x36
Packed two henches in one crate.
$6.00
7.50
PERFECTION PIANO BENCH MFG. COMPANY
1514-1520 Blue Island Ave.
Chicago, 111.
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PRESTO
March 21, 1925.
COINOLAS
FOR
RESTAURANTS, CAFES and
A M U S E M E N T CENTERS
NEW Q R S RECORDING ARTIST
Harry M. Snodgrass, Voted by Fans As Radio's
Best Entertainer, Records for Q R S .
Harry M. Snodgrass, who has the distinction of
being radio's most popular entertainer, winning the
title of "King of the Ivories," records player rolls
exclusively for the Q R S Co. The latest numbers
of Mr. Snodgrass' recording are as follows:
Word Roll No. 3115—Three o'Clock in the Morn-
Style C-2
FROM THE BIGGEST
ORCHESTRION
HARRY M. SXODGRASS.
create sound. The horn serves to amplify these air
vibrations to create louder sounds.
The loud speaker unit and the single headphone
are fundamentally the same. The headphone is de-
signed to give slight impulse to the diaphragm and
the loud speaker unit is constructed to give as strong
an impulse as possible and to handle violent vibrations
faithfully.
MEMBERSHIP DRIVE ON
Enthusiastic Effort to Make National Associa-
tion of Musical Instrument and Accessories
Manufacturers Stronger Launched.
A strenuous drive for new members for the Na-
tional Association of Musical Instrument and Ac-
cessories Manufacturers, which held a meeting in the
Hotel Statler, Cleveland, last week, is one of the
results of the gathering. Plans of the membership
committee will be published next week.
Standardization, collections and credits were topics
that provided interest to the business sessions. It
was agreed that the reduction in the number of some
of the types of small instruments was one of the
grave problems of the industry. The following com-
mittee on credits and collections was appointed, with
instructions to report at the meeting of the associa-
tion to be held in Chicago in June during the week
of the big gathering of music industries associations
at the Drake Hotel.
George F. Chapin, Standard Musical String Co.,
Brooklyn, N. Y.; Walter Grover of A. D. Grover &
Son, Long Island, City, N. Y.; Maurice Lifton, Lif-
ton Mfg. Co., New York, and Henry C. Lomb, Wa-
verly Musical Products Co., New York.
For concerns doing a business over $250,000 a year
dues of $50 a year were fixed; houses with sales ex-
ceeding that figure will pay $100.
ing, the novelty number that made Snodgrass fam-
J. R. Emery, Baldwin Park, Cal., recently opened
ous. $1.00.
a new general music store, called the Emery Radio
Word Roll No. 3114—Land of My Sunset Dreams,
Music Co., in a choice location on Covina boulevard.
waltz; played in an entrancing way, $1.00.
Word Roll No. 3092—1 Found a Way to Love
You. Hear Snodgrass play this number the way
you like it. $1.00.
Word Roll No. 3113—Farewell. A beautiful Ma-
rimba waltz. A surprise in Marimba recording, $1.00.
FUNCTIONS OF LOUD SPEAKER
Facts Seen and Marveled at Cannot Be Explained
by Many Radio Users.
The featuring of phonographs by music firms in
projecting the sounds from the operated record to
the outside of the store made the loud speaker more
or less familiar. But even today when radio sets are
in common use the functions of the loud speaker are
puzzling to many.
A radio loud speaker consists essentially of two
parts, the "unit" and the "horn." The unit consists
of an electro-magnet, with a vibrator arrangement
and a diaphragm.
The electro-magnet, acting either through a vibra-
tor or directly on the diaphragm, causes the dia-
phragm to vibrate. The motion causes the air to
vibrate, and these impulses, when they strike the ear,
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