Classic Mode

Presto

Issue: 1925 2040

10
August 29, 1925.
PRESTO
SPENCER
The Intrinsic Qualities of This
Piano Command Attention
A High Grade Instrument at a
Moderate Price
First Class Factory and Equipment
Ample Production and Service
SPENCER PIANO COMPANY, Inc.
FACTORY: Thirty-First St. and First Are.
OFFICES: 338 East 31st Street, New York N. Y.
E. Leins Piano Co.
Makers of Pianos and
Player Pianos That Are
Established L e a d e r s
Correspondence from Reliable
Dealers Invited
Factory and Offices, 304 W. 42nd St.
NEW YORK
"Built on Family Pride"
Doll & Sons
NEW INVENTIONS IN
THE MUSIC TRADE
Pianos, Players and Accessories for the Piano
and Organ Industry Included in
Latest.
1,492,982. Diaphragm for sound-reproducing in-
struments. G. F. C. Houghton, New York, N. Y.
1,493,056. Piano attachment. George F. Usbeck,
New York, N. Y.
1,494,967. Music leaf turning device. Albano
Valeri, Detroit, Mich.
1,494,227. Music leaf turner. James F. Elliott,
Kellerman, Ala.
1,493,566. Hammer-tail trimmer for piano actions.
Edwin S. Rauworth, De Kalb, 111.
1.495,131. Street music rack. William B. Griffith,
Philadelphia, Pa.
1,494,799. Tailpiece for banjos. Robert R. Page,
New York, N. Y.
1,494,811. Reproducing piano playing. Henry K.
Sandell, Chicago, 111.
1,494,514. Producing motion pictures and sound
synchronized therewith. Allen Stowers, Laredo, and
L. De Hymel, San Antonio, Texas.
1,495,322. Protector for mouthpieces of musical
instruments. Joseph Greene and G. M. Keach, Phila-
delphia, Pa.
1,496,617. Electrical piano player. Elbridge F.
Riggs, Frederick, Md.
1,496,563. Felt for piano hammers. Edmund Syhre,
Dresden, Germany.
1,496,750. Music-leaf turner. Charles H. Weber,
Columbus, Ohio.
1,497,471. Apparatus for synchronizing projections
with music, singing, or the like. Jean E. Andreau,
Paris, France.
1,497,289. Musical instrument. David Brown, New
York, N. Y.
1,496,873. Music roll cabinet. Thomas I. Dean,
Buffalo, N. Y.
1,497,521. Playerpiano action. Alfred Lillianstrom,
Chicago, 111.
1,498,280. Toy musical instrument. Andrew Izold,
Camp Meade, Md.
1,498,187. Sheet music leaf turner. John W. Meg-
gers, Sheboygan, Wis.
1,497,939. Musical instrument. Carl Reiffel, Chi-
cago, 111.
1,498,955. Piano-desk support. Alton F. Dins-
more, Ncedham, Mass.
1,498,667. Adjustable hanger for sostenuto devices
in pianos. Gaetano Marco, Dorchester, Mass.
Represent the Artistic
in Piano and Player Piano
Construction
LATE TRADE NEWS
FROM INDIANAPOLIS
JACOB DOLL & SONS
STODART
WELLSMORE
Prompt Delivery of Jesse French Piano by
Truck from New Castle Among Recent
Interesting Incidents.
Jacob Doll & Sons, Inc.
Southern Boulevard, E. 138rd St.
E. 134th St. and Cypress Ave.
NEW YORK
BY H. M. RUDEAUX.
The Wilking Music Company, Indianapolis, reports
an excellent trade in the Studio Style Melville-Clark
pianos, and one of the recent sales was eleven placed
in the public schools of that city. They were of
fumed oak and beautifully finished.
Mr. Wilking is very well pleased with the rapid
delivery of a special style Jesse French piano from
New Castle via truck. He called the factory in the
evening and ordered the special style not in stock and
next morning bright and early it was delivered at
the store. Had it not been for the prompt delivery
by truck, the sale might have been lost.
Rapp & Lennox is elated over the sale of two
style "B" Knabe Grands to the new Columbia Club
finished in English brown mahogany. One of these
QUALITY DECKER
in Name and in Fact
TONE, MATERIALS, CONSTRUCTION,
WORKMANSHIP, DESIGN—all in ac-
cord with the broadest experience—are
the elements which give character to
Bush & Lane Products.
BUSH&LANE PIANOS
BUSH ft LANE CEGILJAN PLAYER PIANOS
take high place, therefore, in any com- -
parison of high grade pianos because of
the individuality of character which dis-
tinguishes them in all essentials of merit
and value.
•USH t LANE PIANO CO.
HoMM, MUl
mJ
pianos will be placed in the main dining room and
the other in the ball room. The pianos were ordered
direct from the factory as they are not kept in stock.
Hal Shearer of the Indianapolis Music House has
resigned his office as president and manager and is
succeeded by William Gage Hoag, who was formerly
connected with the Indianapolis Talking Machine
Company. Mr. Shearer has not decided on any fu-
ture plans. Mr. Hoag is anticipating some changes
in the way of decorations, and on altering the front
of the store. There will be no changes made in the
line of pianos handled at present, however.
The Pearson Piano Company reports business fair for
the summer months. Mr. Stockdale, manager of the
piano department, is spending his two weeks' vaca-
tion at the lakes. The phonograph department has
been moved to the basement, and the space it for-
merly occupied on the first floor is given over to the
radio department.
GEO. H. BLISS ENTERS
REAL ESTATE BUSINESS
Resigned from the United States Music Co. to De-
velop Tracts in Florida.
George H. Bliss who, as was told in last week's
Presto, has resigned as manager of the eastern office
of the United States Music Co., Chicago, will enter
the real estate business in Florida and Westchester
County, New York State.
Few men in the music roll field have such a wide
circle of friends and acquaintances as Mr. Bliss,
whose connections with the roll trade dates back
seventeen years. He was associated in turn with the
Melville Clark Piano Co., promoting rolls, and with
the Consolidated Music Co. In 1922 he established
the eastern division of the United States Music Co.
and through his energy and efficiency made it a
success from the start. President Arthur Friestedt
of the United States Music Roll Co. speaks in high
praise of Mr. Bliss and his work and expects him
to do equally well in his new field of labor.
ALLEGED RADIO MONOPOLY.
It is understood the frequently postponed Federal
Trade Commission hearings of the alleged radio
monopoly may be held in New York City about Sep-
tember 15.
Schumann
PIANOS and PLAYER PIANOS
GRANDS and UPRIGHTS
Have no superiors in appearance, tone
power or other essentials of strictly
leaders in the trade.
Warning to Infringers
Thin Trad* Hark la eaat
In tha plat* and also ap-
pears upon tha fall board
of all canulna Schumann
Pianos, and all Infrlnrars
will bs prosaoutad. Bawara
of Imltatlona auoh aa Schu-
mann & Company, Schu-
mann 4k Son. and alae
Shuman, aa all atanoil
ahopa, d«al«ra and uaara «f
pianos bearing; a u n u In
imitation of tha ns
Schumann with Uxa tat
tion of daaeivlna; tha pui
will ba prosaoutad to V
fullaat axtant of tha law.
Naw Catalogue on Baqnaat.
Schumann Piano Co.
W. N. VAN MATRE, President
Rockford, I1L
EST. 1856 & SON
Grand, Upright
and
Welte-Mignon
(Licentme)
Reproducing
(Electric)
Pianos and Players
of Recognized
Artistic Character
WILLIAMS
PIANOS
The policy of the Williams House is and always
has been to depend upon excellence of product
instead of alluring price. Such m policy does not
attraet bargain hunters. It does, however, win the
hearty approval and support of a very desirable
and substantial patronage.
U/IIIIAMQ Makers of Williams Pianos.
WILLIAMS Epworth Piano, .nd Or«.n.
Made by a Decker Since 1856
699-703 East 135th Street
New York
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August 29, 1925.
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PRESTO
LAST OF OLD PIANO
ROW GLORIES TO GO
KURTZMANN
New York's Famous Academy of Music on
East Fourteenth Street to Be Replaced
by Modern Office Building.
Grands—Players
Manufactured by
C KURTZMANN & CO.
Factories and General Offices
526-536 Niagara Street
BUFFALO, N. Y.
STRICH & ZEIDLER, Inc
GRAND, UPRIGHT and PLAYER
AND
HOMER PIANOS
740-742 East 136th Street
NEW YORK
BRINKERHOFF
Grands - Reproducing Grands
Player-Pianos
a n d Pianos
The Line That Sells Easily
and Satisfies Always
BRINKERHOFF PIANO CO.
OFFICES, REPUBLIC BLDG.
209 State Street
CHICAGO
has been a big factor in the sales of the company and
has been capably represented for a period of forty
years.
The removal to the elaborate quarters in the Pea-
body Hotel is an interesting event in the music circles
of Memphis, and marks the opening of one of the
finest and most progressive music stores in the South.
NOW THE "REPRODUCOGRAM."
At the Muncie, Ind., annual fair the Baldwin Piano
Old Fourteenth street, east of Fifth avenue to Company local store made a large exhibit. It in-
Third avenue, was at one time the very heart of New cluded uprights, players and reproducing pianos.
York's piano interests. Today if is all changed. Representatives of the Brunswick phonographs dis-
From the twin corners where respectively Sohmer played the new Brunswick combination phonograph
& Co. and Decker & Barnes had their factories, and radio. One of the features of the exhibit was
westward to the Fifth avenue corner where the Celu- the "Reproducogram," an instrument which, operated
loid Company started and F. G. Smith had his Brad- by electricity, emphasizes each note "just as the art-
bury warerooms, Fourteenth street used to be ist wrote it."
crowded with piano houses. They included all of
these—some of them now extinct:—
A CLEVELAND CHANGE.
Steinway & Sons, Steck & Co., Behning & Sons,
The
Buescher
Music Co., Huron Road, Cleveland,
The Sterling Company, F. M. Pelton, Horace Waters
Ohio, has taken over the music store operated by the
& Co., S. T. Gordon & Son, and a lot more.
Euclid Music Co. at Euclid avenue near East 105th
Today Fourteenth street is almost deserted so far street in that city. The Buescher Co., one of Cleve-
as its piano manufacture is concerned. When old land's well-known down town dealers, has a fine
Steinway Hall was deserted for the splendid new store on Huron Road in the heart of Music Row, and
building of Fifty-seventh street little remained in the fine new store just purchased will give them also
New York's former piano center. Even "Luchow's" one of the best business locations in the East End.
the famous lunching rendezvous had faded. And now
the barn-like Academy of Music—an ancient relic—
Joel G. Childs, western representative of the Wick-
is to go.
ham Piano Plate Co., has resigned to go into busi-
The Academy of Music, on whose stage the stars ness for himself.
of the drama and the opera of many generations
have appeared, is to be torn down and replaced by
a modern office building. The Academy is located at
Fourteenth street and Irving Place, a half block west
of the old Steinway Hall, and is now used as a mov-
ing picture theater.
The Academy of Music was built originally for
the presentation of opera and opened on Oct. 20,
1854, with a lavish production of "Norma." Later it
became the home of the drama and practically all the
well known stars of past years have trod the boards
of its stage. Jenny Lind, Mr. Barnum's "Swedish
Nightingale," sang at a concert there. The Elder
Southern and a host of others played for long runs.
"AUTOPIANO" PROTECTED FOR
ANOTHER TWENTY YEARS
The Autopiano Company, of New York, Registers
Famous Name in Accordance with Law.
It was in 1905 that the Autopiano Company first
registered the name. The playerpiano was then very
young and the Autopiano company was one of the
pioneers in the field.
In the course of twenty years the Autopiano Com-
pany grew into one of the largest manufacturers of
playerpianos in the world. Twenty years of good-
will building that have made the name Autopiano fa-
mous throughout the entire world.
The Lyon & Healy
Reproducing Piano
A moderate priced reproducing piano,
beautiful in design and rich in tone.
Write for our new explanatory Chart,
the most complete and simple treat-
ment of the reproducing action.
Wabash at Jackson - - - Chicago
Builders of Incomparable
[PIANOS, PLAYERS^REPRODUCING PIANOS
NEW LOCATION FOR
ACTIVE MEMPHIS FIRM
Witzmann & Stuber, Inc., Schaeffer Representative,
Moves to New Peabody Hotel in That City.
Witzmann & Stuber, Inc., progressive music mer-
chants of Memphis, Tenn., moved this week from
its old location at 99, 105 North Second street, to
its new quarters in the recently constructed Peabody
Hotel, which is the finest in the South and one of
the most elaborate in the entire country. The new
location of the active Memphis firm is another step
forward in the steady progress it has made since
the company was organized under the name of E.
Witzmann & Co. over a half century ago.
The success of the firm is attributed largely to
its fine business policies and the high-grade mer-
chandise represented, among which the wide line of
pianos of the Schaeffer Piano Mfg. Co., 209 South
State street, Chicago, has been given prominence
with satisfying results. The Schaeffer instrument
The Heppe, Marcellus and Edouard Jules Ptano
manufactured by the
HEPPE PIANO COMPANY
are the only pianos In the world with
Three Sounding Boards.
Patented !n the United States, Great Brltalfii
France, Germany and Canada.
Liberal arrangements to responsible agents only*
Main Office, 1117 Chestnut St.
PHILADELPHIA. PA.
ADAM SCHAAF, Inc.
RE
™ANOS NG
GRANDS AND UPRIGHTS 5ftg55
Established Reputation and Quality Since 1873
FACTORY
OFFICES AND SALESROOMS
1020 So. Central Park Ave.,
319-321 So. Wabash Ave.,
Corner FUlmore Street
CHICAGO, ILL.
New Adam Schaaf Building,
THE BALDWIN
CO-OPERATIVE
PLAN
will increase your sales and
solve your financing problems.
Write to the nearest office
for prices.
CINCINNATI
INDIANAPOLIS
LOUISVILLE
INCORPORATED
CHICAGO
DALLAS
ST. LOUIS
DENVER
NEW YORK SAN FRANCISCO
RADLE TONE The Musician's Delight
Whenever you hear the name RADLE you immediately
think of a wonderful tone quality, durabili y and design.
Musicians insist on RADLE
F. RADLE, Inc. Est. 1850.
609-11 W. 36th St., New York City
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