Presto

August 29, 1925.
PRESTO
The Background
A BUSY ROLL
DEPARTMENT
THE NEW
CAPITOL
WORD ROLLS
SEPTEMBER RELEASES
No.
Title
1235 Alone at Last—Fox-Trot
1241 Can't Your Friend Get a Friend for Me?
1237
1256
1246
1242
1236
1238
1243
1239
1244
1255
1234
1253
1249
1254
1247
1252
1257
1240
1251
1248
1250
1245
—Fox-Trot
Carolina Sweetheart—Waltz
High Tone Mama of Mine—Fox-Trot
Honey, I'm in Love With You—Fox-Trot
If You See That Gal of Mine Send
Her Home—Fox Trot
Isn't She the Sweetest Thing—Fox-Trot
I've Found My Sweetheart Sally—Waltz
I've Got the Blues for Tennessee—
Fox-Trot
Just Lonesome—Waltz
Let Me Linger Longer in Your Arms—
Fox-Trot
My Sweetie Turned Me Down—Fox-Trot
Oh! Heinrich! (You're So Nice)—
Fox-Trot
Red Hot Henry Brown—Fox-Trot
Rose of the Evening—Waltz
Silver Head—Fox-Trot
Somebody's Crazy About You—Fox-Trot
Sometime—Waltz
Sonya—Fox-Trot
Summer Nights—Fox-Trot
Twilight (The Stars and You)—Fox-Trot
Underneath the Yum-Yum Tree—
Fox-Trot
We're Back Together Again—One-Step
You Can't Make a Monkey Out of Me—
Fox-Trot
Extra Choruses
A Longer Roll
Seventy-five cents
Printed Words
Hand Played
Made of the best materials
obtainable.
Will please your trade and
double your sales.
Quality and price make
Capitol rolls the deal-
er's best profit producer
in a roll department.
Capitol Roll & Record Co.
721 N. Kedzie Ave., CHICAGO, ILL.
(Formerly Columbia Music Roll Co.)
THINGS SAID OR SUGGESTED
Many of the sons and grandsons of the founders
of great American piano houses are "carrying on,"
to use an extremely English expression, in the lines
begun by their ancestors.
Is the business of piano manufacturing in the
United States some day to be like one of those
European industries which are the hereditary mon-
opoly of a few families, like flint-knapping, violin
making and gold-beating?
* * *
Our enlightened capitalists are said to be exploring
new methods of eliminating waste. Now, is it crim-
inally extravagant to go on employing labor in the
fabrication of a constant supply of new goods before
the old are worn out? Let us hear from some of the
piano manufacturers on this subject, please.
* * *
The completion of the New York-Chicago tele-
phone cable on Tuesday, August 11, an 882-mile line
costing $30,000,000, suggests the broad thought that
something is always being "connected up." Great
connections are being made in all directions—in the
missing links of racial evolution, in the shading of the
sciences and the practices into one another, all lead-
ing to higher and better living here, instead of prat-
ing so much about the joys in store for us in the
land of kingdom come.
No connection is more wonderful in the realm of
appliance than that of the piano with radio trans-
mission. Here is a chance to exploit to the full the
possibilities of obvious and unusual truths—obvious
to the scientist; unusual and "scary" to the unscien-
tific mind.
* * *
This Presto representative, who called at several
piano stores in Cleveland last week, found no dull
trade at the "live" places. This midsummer activity
in piano selling proves, as Presto has always be-
lieved and said, that the salesman's will has more to
do with trade than the time of year. Feeble and
puzzled spirits make time the sleeping partner of
their lives to accomplish what ought to be achieved
by their own will.
* * *
Wouldn't it startle some of the old fellows now
in the grave, if they could come back for a few days,
just to look into some of the new things this genera-
tion is producing? Our non-partisan elections in
such a great city as Detroit, our proportional repre-
sentation charter in such a great city as Cleveland,
would startle the old-time "boss" politician.
Our Reproducing pianos, made in wonderful fac-
tories, our radios and, more than all, our good roads,
would make some of the dead wish they were alive
again. Although, at first, a returned individual
might, if iie had not progressed in his new world,
present a picture of the mental confusion of a man
faced with the many-sidedness of truth.
* * *
More population, more jazz, more Luna Parks and
palatial movie theaters, more wop immigrants, more
lipsticks used, and slang, slang, slang from the un-
cultured and cultured alike. The "best" magazines
giving prominent positions to dialect stories.
These are some of the things we put up with today.
Many of the records and rolls are either slangy or
in dialect. A story went the rounds in Cleveland
that a member of the Chicago Browning Club was
asked whether he liked dialect verse. He replied:
"Some of it. Eugene Field was all right. But the
other day I read some verses by a fellow named
Chaucer and he carries it altogether too far."
* * *
"Don't be stingy, Daddy! Buy a piano for that
timid, shrinking, talented daughter, the tips of whose
fingers are just aching to dance along the keys.
She will bring many a surge of pride in your manly
bosom as with her piano she makes an astonishing
impression or fertility, of force, of range, variety
and richness. Didn't know 'twas in the gal, did you?
* * *
Some of the best piano salesmen can neither play
a bar of music nor sing the simplest tune. George
MacDonald, the great Scotch author, couldn't sing
or play, but like the kind of salesman referred to, his
soul was truly musical. In Mary Marston, vol. 2,
page 280, lie wrote:
"It seems to me, at least in my great ignorance,
that one cannot understand music unless he is humble
towards it, and consents, if need be, not to under^
stand. When one is quiescent, submissive, opens the
ears of the mind, and demands nothing more of
them than the hearing—when the waters of question
retire to their bed, and individuality is still, then the
dews and rain of music, finding the way clear for
them, soak and sink through the sands of the mind,
down, far down, below the thinking-place, down to
the region of music, which is the hidden worship o,f
the soul, the place where lies ready the material for
man to making withal."
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It is not always possible to determine whether a
particular piece of work that helps to make a piano
distingue and individual, is by the master of the
factory or by one of his pupils. And nobody would
care to know except the dealer, and he only to satisfy
his curiosity.
* * *
Take a vacation, tired piano man. One of the
surest ways not to see life whole is to see it too
steadily in one place.
* * *
Common sense is effective in the words of the
side-door salesman and the wide-floor salesman. It's
better for the beginner to post up on the points of
merit in his piano, rather than load himself down
with parrot-learning talking points.
Many a well-mannered sentence delivered at a
residence or a store dies of its own preciousness
* * *
There is something behind all surfaces. The roots
of the seen remain unseen. In these words we might
be describing a true-toned piano—an instrument that
speaks the language of the cultured. It's a good
companion. Although the best companion is not he
who says nothing, the good companion is known by
what he omits to say.
KNABE PIANOS FOR
NEW HOTEL GRIM
Fine Texarkana Hostelry Opened This Month
Has Been Equipped Through the H. V.
Beasley Music Company.
The beautiful new Hotel Grim of Texarkana, which
was brilliantly opened on July 15 last, has been
equipped with Knabe pianos by the H. V. Beasley
Music Co. of that city.
The Hotel Grim is one of the finest in the country
and its completion and opening is something which
has been looked forward to with much pride by all
residents of Texarkana. The opening was a social
event of considerable importance, which included, be-
sides a banquet which taxed the complete capacity
of the hotel, a fine musical program and other enter-
tainment.
The Knabe pianos supplied by the H. V. Beasley
Music Company include grands for use in various
parts of the hotel and for the orchestra leaders.
Incidental to the real estate developments which
are daily adding to the beauty of this southern city
is the proposed new building to be occupied jointly
by the H. V. Beasley Music Company and two other
firms. This fine new building, to be erected at Third
and Pine streets, will be one of the handsomest build-
ings in the city.
PAYS FORTUNE FOR OLD VIOLIN.
Caryl Bryan Oakes, a young artist completing his
studies under Leopold Auer, famous teacher of Hei-
fetz, Elman and Zimbalist, has just purchased the
famous Stradivarius violin known as the "Duke of
Edinburgh." The instrument was part of the ce'e-
brated Partello collection owned by Lyon & Healy.
Mr. Oakes, who is a resident of Tipton, Ind., selected
the violin after hearing it played by Professor Auer.
Though made by Stradivarius in 1722, the violin is
in perfect condition with a rich golden varnish, the
secret of which has been lost for centuries.
W. A. Sallee, a pioneer music dealer, Litchfield,
111., will retire after 34 years in the business. Old age
and the poor health of his wife are reasons for his
retirement. He will move to Houston, Texas.
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