PRESTO
ALEXANDER STEINERT, JR.,
IN SERIES OF CONCERTS
Gifted Young Pianist, Son of Boston Piano
Manufacturer, Comes from Paris to Make
His Debut with Symphony Orchestra.
Alexander Steinert, Jr., came over from Paris re-
cently, where he has been residing for the past year
or more, to play with the Boston Symphony Orches-
tra at its concerts in Boston, New York and Brook-
lyn. The first of this series of five concerts, at
Symphony Hall, Boston, this week, Friday afternoon
and Saturday evening.
The work is "Prometheus, a Poem of Fire," for or-
chestra and piano, with organ and chorus, by the
Russian composer, Scriabin. The chorus will be sung
by the Cecilia Society of Boston. The next appear-
ance will be at Carnegie Hall, New York, April 9;
then at Brooklyn, for a matinee, and again at Car-
negie HalJ the evening of April 10.
Alexander Steinert, Sr., who has been in Florida
for several weeks, returned to Boston Thursday after-
noon of this week to be present at this great event of
his young and talented son. A little later on young
Steinert will return to Paris to continue his studies
in piano and orchestral composition. The Steinway
is the piano to be used at these concerts.
JACOB BECKER DIED
AFTER BRIEF ILLNESS
Head of the Long Established New York In-
dustry, Cause of Deep Regret in
Wide Circle.
Jacob H. Becker, head and founder of the piano
industry of Becker Bros., Fifty-second street and
Tenth avenue, New York, died on Tuesday evening
of this week. Mr. Becker was seemingly in good
health until two weeks ago, at which time he was
taken ill. On the day of his death he had held con-
versation by phone with his office.
Jacob Becker was a thorough piano maker. He
understood every branch of the industry, and he was
an earnest, conscientious business man, who had built
up a profitable industry by the force of his own will
and character. The factory of Becker Bros., at Tenth
avenue and Fifty-second street, New York, is a large
one and its products are of the kind that win respect
and hold trade.
Mr. Becker was in the fifty-eighth year of his age.
TRADE HAPPENINGS
RELATED IN BRIEF
Views and Beliefs of Live Piano Merchants Are
Presented.
The B. & B. Music Shop, Palatka, Fla., has been
formed by G. D. Bogue and L. R. Bigewet.
Cohen Bros., Jacksonville, Fla., has removed its
Victrola and radio departments to a store on Duval
street.
Virgil Lewis has succeeded Ralph Hervey as man-
ager of the Adams Music Co., Canton, 111.
A charter has been granted to the Decatur Music
Shop, Decatur, 111., which will operate with a capital
of $1,000.
C. W. Strawn has been appointed manager of the
Duo-Art reproducing and playerpiano departments of
the Lyon & Healy, Inc., Chicago, 111.
Gunkler's Music Shop, Oak Park, 111., has been
opened by H. C. Gunkler at Lake and Marion street.
The E. E. Forbes Piano Co., Birmingham, Ala., re-
cently made Maurice D. Manning general manager of
the store.
The Kerr Music Co., 27 South Central avenue,
Phoenix, Ariz., formally opened its new warerooms
recently.
BALDWIN FOR SCHOOL.
The Baldwin Piano Co., Cincinnati, is particularly
proud of the selection of the Baldwin piano as the
official instrument of the well-known Bradbury
School of Music in Duluth, Minn., which was estab-
lished in 1900, and is both the oldest and largest
school of music in northern Minnesota. The Brad-
bury School employs twenty-five instructors and
every branch of musical learning is included in the
curriculum. Each year a Baldwin-made grand is pre-
sented as a prize to the student in the piano depart-
ment who makes the greatest progress during the
school year.
FEATURE GRANDS IN MILWAUKEE.
Grand pianos of the Baldwin line are being featured
in an effective way by the Wm. A. Kaun Music Co.,
Milwaukee, and excellent results are pointed out by
Ralph L. Pettit, manager. "Our business continues
to run mostly to grands and reproducing grands,"
said Mr. Pettit this week. Two large Baldwin con-
cert grands were selected for the studio of WHAD,
the Marquette University-Milwaukee Journal broad-
casting station, and they were recently used in an
evening's program from this station.
IMPROVES HARTFORD STORE.
McCoys, Inc , Hartford, Conn., is stimulating busi-
ness by strong advertising in the newspapers. The
company recently purchased from Silver Bros, the
building at 87-91 Asylum street, and since taking pos-
session of this building the music store management
has made a number of improvements, including the
installation of a new front, a battery of elevators, and
a new fire protection system. The structure is four
stories high, has a frontage of 30 feet on Asylum
street and a depth of 101 feet.
PORTLAND PREPARES FOR ELKS.
Plans are already being made in Portland, Ore.,
for the national convention of the Elks, which is set
for July 13 to 18, inclusive, at which time, it has been
announced, between sixty and seventy bands will be
in the city. W. A. McDougall, of the McDougall-
Conn Music Co., and the leader of the Portland Elks'
band, has its store in the new million-dollar Elks
building, which will be the headquarters of all of the
visiting bandsmen while in the city.
March 28, 1925.
WHAT IS HAPPENING
IN INDIANAPOLIS
Indiana's State Capital Affords Some Interest-
ing Items of General Concern and Suggest-
ing Trade Improvement.
The Wilking Music Company, local representatives
of the Jesse French & Sons pianos, reports some good
sales in the style G grand, the style A upright, and
new style H. H. Business in this line has been good,
and the Melville Clark special school piano has also
enjoyed a very good business. The company reports
the sale of eight of these special school pianos to the
public schools recently.
Rapp & Lennox are doing some spring house clean-
ing. A special sale of second-hands has been very
successful, and outlook for business is promising.
The Pearson Piano Company is planning an elab-
orate display at the Home Complete Exposition to be
held at the State Fair Grounds the first part of April.
Curtis S. Miller, of the Schaff Bros. Piano Company,
Huntington, Indiana, was a recent visitor.
The Christena Teague Company is also busy mak-
ing preparations for a display at the Home Complete
Exposition. Mr. Christene says: "Unless we have
a few quiet weeks occasionally we don't appreciate
the good ones." Frank Edgar, sales manager of the
Aeolian Company, was a recent visitor.
The Fuller Ryde Music Company, representatives
of the Conn band instruments at Indianapolis, is dis-
playing the line in a novel manner. The window is
arranged with an arch in the background, and a scenic
effect, while embedded in triple silk plush are several
of the popular instruments. The arrangement of the
instruments could not be improved. The company
report business very good and, since they have taken
on the famous Conn line, they have derived much
benefit from its national reputation.
The new Baldwin building is described elsewhere in
this issue of Presto.
WAR AGAINST HOUSE SALES.
The Better Business Bureau is continuing its cam-
paign against dealers advertising furniture at private
houses in St. Louis. Several dealers are to be pro-
ceeded against as a result of the Bureau's vigilance.
Karl Bensinger, 1129A Walton avenue, was let off by
Judge Matthews with the payment of costs recently
when he claimed that he did not know he was violat-
ing the law.
C. N. KIMBALL LEAVES FOR FLORIDA.
C. N. Kimball, president of the W. W. Kimball
Co., Chicago, departed this week for the sunny cli-
mate of Florida, where he will spend the remaining
days of March and the month of April. While in the
famous winter resort state Mr. Kimball will visit old
friends in the trade and will not overlook one of his
favorite pastimes—golfing.
Q R S WINDOW SHOWS.
Windows featuring Q R S music rolls are frequent
sights that make the stores of San Francisco attrac-
tive. Out of compliment to the Q R S Girl, Sherman,
Clay & Co. recently had a "Girl" window, showing
Q R S rolls and the sheet music of the numbers re-
produced by the Q R S Music Co. To carry out the
motif the sheet music shown had girls on the title
pages, one being Sherman, Clay & Co.'s song success,
"That's My Girl."
OPENS PROGRAM WITH ROLL.
A special Q R S music roll was recently used to
open and close the programs sent out from the local
School of Engineering broadcasting station WSOE,
Milwaukee. Officials of the station have adopted
"The Land of the Sky Blue Waters," and through
arrangement with the Q R S Music Co. a special roll
of this selection, suitable for use at the beginning and
end of the programs, was made.
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