Presto

August 15, 1925.
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PRESTO
TELLS REPORTER SMALL MESSAGE FROM THE
GRAND IS "BEST BET"
ARCTIC EXPOSITION
The ^Hardman £
is a complete line
It comprises a range of artisti-
cally worthy instruments to
please practically every purse:
The Hardman, official piano of
the Metropolitan Opera House;
the Harrington and the Hensel
Pianos in which is found that in-
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all Hardman-made instruments;
the wonderful Hardman Repro-
ducing Piano; the Hardman
Autotone (the perfect player-
piano); and the popular Playo-
tone.
Head of Graul Piano Co., Cincinnati, Says In-
strument That "Folds Up Like Card
Table" Is Winner.
T. M. Pletcher, of Q R S Music Co., Hears
Direct from McDonald, Jr., of MacMillan
Party in Far North.
William Graul of the William Graul Piano Co., 119
East Fifth street, Cincinnati, told a local newspaper
reporter that the small grand will be the most popu-
lar piano made from now on.
"I don't say that the upright will lose all of its
popularity, for it won't. It will be sold in great
numbers. But the small grand has come to stay.
It avoids all of the objectionable features of the large
grand. The upright was produced because it occu-
pied little space and was easy to move.
"The small grand, placed in a corner, takes up no
more space than an upright. It can be folded up like
a card table and moved without any great trouble.
"Hallet & Davis and the Kurtzmann companies
report that 25 per cent of their output now is devoted
to small grands.
"Our company is featuring at present a small
grand at popular price. We have been delighted at
the favorable response it has met from all purchas-
ers.
"One of the factories which we represent is turning
out a small grand made in Florentine style. This in-
strument is artistic; it has a gorgeous finish and its
tone is beautiful."
To stmport his contention that grands are "the
best bet," Graul points out that grands will consti-
T. M. Pletcher, president of the Q R S Music Co.,
Chicago, received a message from E. F. McDonald,
Jr., who is with the MacMillan Arctic Expedition,
sent by way of the Zenith and through the Radio
Sales Corporation of Seattle, Wash., who picked the
message up. The message is as follows:
"Mr. Pletcher,
"Q R S Music Co., Kimball Bldg., Chicago, 111.
"Some life all the time; one never wants to retire.
Hunting fine, walrus, seal all around us. Tempera-
ture below freezing, but delightful. We are well
dressed as Eskimos. I handle a kayak like a native.
Wish you were along.
"(Signed) GENE."
The message came from the S. S. Peary.
BOUND TO QUIT.
"Going out of business. Room for rent. No rea-
sonable offer refused on Pianos, Players and Grands,"
is the way the Robertson Music House, 235 North
Pennsylvania street, Indianapolis, is advertising. It
is plainly a case of quitting the best business on earth.
tute most of the exhibits to be seen at the State
Music Merchants' Association convention in Cincin-
nati, Sept. 15-16.
UNIQUE ACCIDENT IN BIG PIANO FACTORY
Flywheel in Engine Room of the Jesse
French & Sons Piano Co. Plant Bursts
with Disastrous Results.
A look at the photographs herewith will tell the
story of a very unique accident. It looks as if a
German Zeppelin had dropped a bomb on the roof
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eral hours. But the boys jumped in with a will and
moved pianos and supplies so fast that the damage
was not one-tenth what it might have been. It was
bad enough, at that, but will not interfere with busi-
ness at all, except that it will slow up production of
some of the most popular styles for a little while. In
the words of H. Edgar French, a bad feature of it—
and also in a sense a good one—is that there actually
are styles in the catalog which are so popular that
the stock was short, "and of course—piano man's
luck—these were the styles that will be interfered
with most."
Nevertheless, considering what might have hap-
pened and the actual damage, the factory is really in
great luck. Had the accident happened in the winter
time, it would have caused a very heavy loss. As it
was, the wheel gave out shortly after two o'clock,
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A QUALITY PROOUCT
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QUARTER Or A CENTURY
THE WRECKKI> ENGINE ROOM.
of the Jesse French & Sons Piano Co. factory, at
New Castle, Ind. The accident happened at 2:15
Wednesday, July 29, when the governor broke on
No. 2 engine, which ran away, and the 12-foot fly-
wheel exploded before the engineer could get to the
throttle to turn it off.
The fly-wheel broke up into pieces weighing all
the way from 50 to 500 pounds, and went in all direc-
tions—straight up, straight down, north, south, entire-
ly over the factory building, across the street beyond,
and over the kiln 1,000 feet away to the south, knock-
ing holes through brick walls, like cardboard. And
yet there wasn't any one hurt, with the exception of
a young man who was knocked down in the scramble
to get away, and he was back at the plant the next
day.
One piece of fly-wheel, going up, hit a \%-'m. line
in the sprinkler system, knocking it off; another
piece coming straight down, knocked a \ l / 2 -\n. line
apart, one hundred feet from the other break and,
of course, the employes were fighting water for sev-
POOLE
BOSTON
ROOF THROUGH WHICH METAL FLEW.
and at around four the water damage had been
plugged off, and all moveable stock out of the way.
By ten o'clock Saturday night the Hartford Steam
Boiler Insurance Company had given the company a
draft to cover the damage to the engine and build-
ing, and on the following Monday morning the big
factory was at work again, full force.
A contractor is replacing the damaged buildings
and it is the intention to replace the wrecked engine
with a larger one so that the Jesse French & Sons
Piano Company will be in better shape than ever
when the debris is all cleared away.
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