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Presto

Issue: 1925 2027

May 30, 1925.
PRESTO
BAND INSTRUMENT MFRS.
Growing and Progressive National Organiza-
tion of Makers of Brass and Reed Goods,
Drums and Accessories to Convene.
The Band Instrument Manufacturers' Association
will meet at the Drake Hotel, Chicago, June 9 and
again strengthen its purposes to stimulate band in-
strument sales by making band music more popular.
The association is one of the growing ones and is
actuated by a spirit that makes for further growth.
The meeting at the Drake June 9 will provide fur-
ther proof of the association's liveliness in the matters
affecting the manufacturing and retailing of band
and orchestra instruments. From reports of Presi-
dent Greenleaf and other officers the 1925 convention
will be a record one in point of numbers and enthusi-
asm.
Officers of the Band Instrument Manufacturers'
Association, 1924-25, elected at the convention in
New York:
President—C. D. Greenleaf.
Vice-President—James W. Duffy.
Secretary-Treasurer—C. H. Flint.
FEATURING BAND GOODS LINE.
The Dwight Johnson Strollers, an exclusive
Buescher organization, are being featured at the
Liberty Theater in Portland, Ore. This organiza-
tion is very popular in the "Rose City," having for-
merly been playing at the Indian Grill of the Hotel
Multnomah. Among the numbers used by the or-
chestra are "Poor Little Me," "Nobody Knows What
a Red-Headed Mamma Can Do," "Honolulu Blues,"
"Who Takes Care of the Caretaker's Daughter?" and
a Beuscherphone solo "Alseep in the Deep."
EXPANDS IN CALIFORNIA.
A branch store of Sherman, Clay & Co. has been
established at Watsonville, Cal., for some time, but
the steady expansion of business necessitated larger
quarters. The new store is featuring a representa-
tive line of band instruments, which latter are given
a prominent place.
C. D. GREENLEAF,
1'resilient, Band Instrument Manufacturers' Association
The organization can point to an excellent record
since it was established and more satisfactory proc-
esses in sales have been effected by the observance of
its wise policies.
SHOWING U. S. ROLLS.
Stout's Music House, Kirksville, Mo., recently
made one of the most effective window displays seen
in this territory in recent months, a feature in which
the U. S. roll "Peter Pan" was used. The Stout
Music House arranged a fairy scene as a back-
ground for the rolls, which were set in the center of
the window and on one side. While the display was
made principally to attract the attention of prospec-
tive roll buyers, the originality of its appeal drew
many into the store who ultimately were purchasers
of other musical merchandise handled by this house.
FAIRBANKS
MAHOGAHY ASSCIATION MEETS
Big National Organization Holds Fourth Annual
Convention at Hotel Somerset, Boston.
Much constructive business was inacted at the con-
vention of the Mahogany Association, Inc., which
completed its fourth annual convention in Boston re-
cently with a banquet and entertainment at the Hotel
Somerset. Covers were laid for seventy-eight, which
included visiting delegates and their guests.
The following board of officers were elected to
serve for the ensuing year: Stewart Smythe, presi-
dent; C. C. Mengel, Jr., first vice-president; W. B.
Martin, second vice-president; F. C. Leary, treasurer;
J. C. Wicklifle, assistant treasurer, and F. C. Schmitz,
secretary. Atlantic City, N. J., was selected for the
annual meeting in 1926.
The convention was brought to a most successful
close in the Somerset's Grill Room, where the dinner
and entertainment was held. F. D. Sawyer, of the
Palmer Parker Co., the association's retiring presi-
dent, congratulated the association upon the progress
it had made in maintaining the place of mahogany
as the ideal wood in all its artistic usages.
Samuel J, Record, M. A. M. F., professor of forest
products, Yale University, praised the association in
its endeavor to maintain the place of mahogany
among woods. He told of about 500 woods which
have been entered as substitutes for mahogany, with
poor results. He and his department at Yale Uni-
versity are waging constant warfare against these
substitutes, and he was glad to know about the efforts
of the National Mahogany Association, Inc., to pro-
cure for mahogany its proper place.
Gordon Parker, of Palmer Parker Co., gave an in-
teresting and instructive talk upon African mahogany.
Lantern slides were used. The address with pictures
was a revelation to many, showing as it did the
hazards encountered and the privation experienced in
bringing mahogany logs from Africa.
Herman Straus & Sons Co., Louisville, Ky., which
operates a music department, recently purchased
property at 412-414 West Market street, adjoining
the property now occupied on the Market street side
of its department store.
DEALERS and TUNERS!
Keys Recovered and Rebushed
THE FAIRBANKS CO., Springfield, Ohio
"SUPERIOR" PIANO PLATES
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
Express or Parcel Post to
FRIELD MILLER & CO.
3767 N. Illinois Street
Manufactured by
SUPERIOR FOUNDRY CO.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
HOW TO SEND
Remove from frame, number plainly near Capstan,
wrap or bo* securely, and *hip Parcel Post or Express.
Cleveland, Ohio
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 benches in one crate.
$6.00
7.50
PERFECTION PIANO BENCH MFG. COMPANY
1514-1520 Blue Island Ave.
Chicago, 111.
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PRESTO
JUNE AMPICO BULLETIN
Fine List of Music Rolls Includes Dance
Music, Ballads, Accompaniment Rolls
and Classic Numbers.
The following admirable variety of music rolls is
found in the June Ampico Bulletin, the names of the
recording artists being printed in parentheses:
Brilliant Selections—Improvisation (on a Nor-
wegian folk song), Op 29, No. 1, A minor, Grieg
(Ornstein). Polacca Brillante, Op. 72, E, von Wever
(Schnitzer). Ballade, Op. 8, E flat, Cleve
(Nyiregyhazi). Etude, Op. 25, No. 10, B minor,
Chopin (Chiapusso).
Characteristic
Selections—Ruralia
Hungarica,
"Rural Hungary," Op. 32, a, No. 6, F minor, Doh-
nanyi (Dohnanyi). Vesperale, Op. 40, No. 2, F, scott
(Browning). Moon Dreams, Roberts (Roberts).
Fairyland, E flat, Huerter (Fairchikl).
Melodious Selections—Das Waudern (Wandering),
B flat, Schubert-Liszt (Rachmaninoff).
Dinner
Music, Series No. 4 (Delcamp)—(1) Give My Re-
gards to Broadway, (2) Every Little Movement, (3)
I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now, (4) I Might Be
Your Once-in-a-While. (4) My Hero, (6) Goodbye,
Girl's, I'm Through.
Accompaniment Recordings (with words)—The
Star, D flat, soprano, Rogers (Browning). The Star,
B flat, mezzo soprano, Rogers (Browning). Ma Little
Banjo, G flat, tenor or baritone, Dichmont (Brown-
ing).
Recordings with Descriptive Story—Italian Nights,
Roberts (Roberts).
Ballad (with words)—West of the Great Divide,
E flat, Ball (De Bert).
Recordings with Words for Singing—Je Vous
Aime (I Love You), "Puzzles of 1925," Ballad, B
flat, Beiner (Carroll).
Recordings without Words for Dancing—Musical
Comedy Favorites, No. 5, Fox-trot (Carroll).
Recordings with Words for Singing and D a n c i n g -
All Aboard for Heaven, Fox-trot, Meyer (Delcamp).
Let It Rain, "Sky High," Fox-Trot, G (Delcamp).
Cheatin' on Me, Fox-Trot, G, Pollack (Confrey).
Why Couldn't It Be Poor Little Me (F. T. Confrey).
Swanee Butterfly, Fox-Trot, F, Donaldson (Fair-
child).
The Midnight Waltz, E flat, Donald-
son (Shipman). Oh! Those Eyes, Fox-Trot, B flat
(Grofe Asst.). The Melody that Made You Mine,
May 30, 1925.
Waltz. E flat, Polla (Lopez Asst.)- Can't Your
Friend Get a Friend for Me?, Fox-Trot, F, Handman
(Lane). Where Is My Rose of Waikiki? Hawaiian
Fox-Trot, G, Whiting (Lane).
ONE OF THE SIDE SHOWS
Leedy Manufacturing Co., of Indianapolis, Invites
Dealers to Stop and Chat and Look.
Dealers in musical instruments generally, and espe-
cially all who carry drums, will find something of
interest to jot down in their note books that remind
them what not to miss at the Convention, in the fol-
lowing from G. H. Way, sales manager of the Leedy
Manufacturing Co., of Indianapolis, Ind.:
We know you'll want to see everything in the
"Big Show" at the Drake Hotel in Chicago during
the week of June 8th, so don't fail to stop in at the
"Leedy Tent" and have a chat.
There are some real new and good numbers for
your Drum Department that will give you the chance
to pick up many additional dollars this summer and
fall.
Kvery drummer in the country is now talking
about the new Leedy "Professional" (floating head)
Snare Drum.
Come around to Room 338 and have a chat with
our Mr. A. W. Kuerst and Mr. Charles Seibert. Ours
will be one of the most interesting "side shows" on
the lot.
MAY Q R S WINNERS.
The best sellers in Q R S music rolls since the
issuance of the May list are the following word
rolls: Away from You, Be My Pal, Can't Your
Friend Get a Friend for Me? Desert Isle, Don't
Bring Lulu, Florida, Golden Memories, Hot Tamale
Molly, I Can't Realize, If I Only Had My Old-time
Sweethearts, If You See That Gal of Mine, In the
Heart of Hawaii, Isn't She the Sweetest Thing? June
Brought the Roses, Laff It Off, The Melody That
Made You Mine, The Midnight Waltz, Miss You,
The Moonlight, a Waltz and You; Out of the Dusk-
to You, The Sweetest Flower that Blooms, Titina,
Up from Somerset, West of the Great Divide, While
the World Goes Rolling By, Yearning, I'm Afraid to
Care for You, Wondering, and Moonlight Roses.
The Ohio Music Co. is settled in its new home in
Lima, Ohio.
NEW FACTORY PIANO TRUCKS
Self-Lifting Piano Truck Company of Findlay, Ohio,
to Have Larger Building.
Increased business has resulted in the formation of
plans for erection of new building on North Main
street, Findlay, Ohio, as the home of the Self-Lifting
l'iano Truck Company. Frank D. Lea, manager of
the industry, had part of the former home of the
plant razed and construction work will start at once.
Greatly increased floor space will be available. The
office of the company will be in the front part, while
the machine shop will occupy the rear portion. A
building in the rear which is how the home of the
plant during the erection of the new building will
be used for a wareroom and a shipping department.
The two-story frame building which the company
had occupied since 1903 was wholly inadequate for
the expanding business, according to Mr. Lea. The
company moved to Findlay from Lima in 191)3, hav-
ing been organized two years previously.
New equipment and additional machinery will be
installed in the factory and the steadily increasing
demand for Self-Lifting piano trucks will have more
prompt attention than ever before.
NEW DRUM PEDAL.
A patent for a drum pedal has been invented by
Chester E. Heyn, Omaha, and the pedal placed on
the market is considered a winner by its promoters.
The Heyn Drum Pedal Co., consisting of C. E.
Heyn, president and general manager, and E. T.
Gordon, secretary and treasurer, has offices in the
Karbach Block. The pedal is built of bronze and
aluminum and no expense has been spared in the
material or construction.
CAPITOL CABINETS.
The agency for tl-c Capital roll cabinets made by
the Capital Furniture Co., Noblesville, Ind., has been
taken over by Lyon & Healy, Chicago. The- terri-
tory assigned includes the states of Illinois, Wiscon-
sin and Michigan and every state west of the Missis-
sippi. There are twenty-six models in the roll cabinet
line which has been well known to the trade for a
number of years.
HIGH GRADE
SLINGERLAND
Folding Organs
School Organs
May Bell
Practice Keyboards
D M I M V Attention Solicited
A. L. WHITE MFG. CO.
215 En**wood Ave., CHICAGO, ILL.
Slingerland Banjos
VIOLIN, CELLO AND DOUBLE
BASS WOUND STRINGS
OF SUPERIOR QUALITY
Guaranteed for thirty days after they are aold
SEND FOR CATALOG
are sold the country over because
they are Highest quality and sold
at a reasonable price.
Over 40 Styles of Banjos, Banjo Mandolins, Tenor Banjoe
and Banjo Ukuleles, to select from.
Write for Catalogue
S. SIMON
6106 Chappell Avenue,
CHICAGO, ILLS.
SLINGERLAND BANJO CO.
1815 Orchard Street
CHICAGO
The Piano Repair Shop
Pianos and Phonographs Rebuilt by
Expert Workmen
Player-actions installed. Instruments
renmshed or remodeled and actions and
keys repaired. Work guaranteed. Prices
reasonable.
Our-of-town dealers' repair work solic-
ited. Write for details and terras.
THE PIANO REPAIR SHOP
339 South Wabash Ave.
Chicago
C. G. CONN, Ltd., Elkhart, Ind.
C. D. GREENLEAF, Pres.
J. F. BOYER, Sec'y
World's largest manufacturers of High Grade Band and Orchestra Instrument*. Employs 1,600
expert workmen.
All of the moat celebrated Artists use and endorse Conn Instruments.
Famous Bandmasters and Orchestra Directors highly endorse and recommend the use of the
Conn Instruments in their organizations.
Conn Instruments are noted for their ease of playing, light and reliable valve or key action;
quick response, rich tonal quality, perfect intonation, tone carrying quality, artisticness of design,
beautiful finish and reliable construction.
Conn Instruments are sent to any point in th U. S. subject to ten days free trial. Branch store
or agencies will be found in all large cities. Write for catalo.gues, prices, etc.
C. G. CONN, Ltd.
DEPT. MS.
ELKHART, IND.
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