Presto

Issue: 1925 2049

October 31, 1925.
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PRESTO
UTAH REPORTS CHEERING
Band Concerts Throughout the State Considered
Effective Means for Stimulating Sales.
Cash and musical instruments as prizes were con-
tributed by the Salt Lake City music houses for the
band contest recently held in connection with the
Utah State Fair in Salt Lake City. The Glenn Bros.-
Roberts Piano Company gave $75 cash and a $115
band instrument; the Beesley Music Co., $50 cash
and a base drum; the Western Music & Art Co., $100
cash and a band instrument; the Consolidated Music
Co., a gold cornet, and the Daynes-Beebe Music Co.,
a gold saxophone.
The band contest held during the first four days of
the fair was the biggest event of its kind ever held
and its effects on the musical business in many places
are felt. It is a very small town and a very slow
one that has not its band or is not now preparing to
organize one.
Salt Lake City dealers report that the desire for
saxophones and banjos is shown by the dwellers on
the farms. According to the Daynes-Beebe Music
Co., the favor for banjos has reached the dimensions
of a craze with the farmer boys.
WANT 0. S. KELLY PLATES
Substantial Orders to O. S. Kelly Company Indicate
Cheerful Anticipations in Piano Factories.
A lively business in piano plates is a certain indi-
cation of a similar condition in the piano factories.
And it also is an assurance of good business for sev-
eral months to come. At the foundry of the O. S.
Kelly Co., Springfield, O., the piano plate department
is showing a pleasant activity that tells an encour-
aging story for piano manufacturers. Orders are
large and show confident anticipations in the industry.
This is usually a busy period of the year with the
piano plate makers but October this year differs from
the same month in past years in that the orders are
larger and quicker deliveries are requested. The
effort to comply with the requests of the piano manu-
facturers has resulted in a very lively condition in the
O. S. Kelly Co.'s foundry.
Popular Vocal—Breezin' Along (to Georgia),
Mason and Dixon, duet, Orchestra accompaniment,
and Who Wouldn't Love You, Tremaine Bros., duet,
Orchestra accompaniment.
Want a Little Lovin', and Some Other Bird
(Whistled a Tune), Buddy Lee.
You Gotta. Know How, Jack Kaufman, tenor, ac-
companied by Instrumental Trio, and The King Isn't
King Any More, Jack Kaufman, tenor, piano and
banjo accompaniment.
Mountain Tunes—The Lightning Express, and Blue
Ridge Mountain Blues, Vernon Dalhart, tenor, guitar
and violin accompaniment.
The John T. Scopes Trial, and Bryan's Last Fight,
Vernon Dalhart, tenor, guitar and violin accompani-
ment.
GREETING FOR BAND MEN
Musical Merchandise Dealers of Kansas City to Make
Things Pleasant for Visitors Nov. 27.
The music houses of Kansas City, Mo., will provide
entertainment features for the visitors during the
joint meeting in that city Nov. 27 and 28, of the Mis-
souri Band Association and the Kansas Band Asso-
ciation. In addition to the joint convention, separate
meetings of the individual associations will be held,
mainly for the election of officers. Close to 500 band
men are expected to attend..
An interesting feature of the meeting will be the
exhibits of band and orchestra instruments to be
made by the leading manufacturers. A number of
representatives of factories will be present at the dis-
plays and demonstrations of the instruments by pro-
fessionals of note will add to the interest of the occa-
sion. To commemorate the event E. W. Berry of the
Berry-Dalby Music Co. has written a stirring march
which will be played for the first time at the opening
session of the meeting.
BOOSTING SMALL GOODS
Recent Exhibit in Chicago of Association of
Musical Merchandise Manufacturers, Good
Advertising for Trade and Industry.
H. H. Slingerland, president of the Slingerland
Banjo Co., Chicago, was active in making the joint
exhibit of the Association of Musical Merchandise
Manufacturers (Chicago Zone) at the Illinois Prod-
ucts Exposition in the Furniture Mart, Chicago, re-
cently, a means to valuable publicity for the musical
merchandise industry and trade. The display of in-
struments was big, comprehensive and a source of
attraction to visitors at all hours of the day and
evening. It is estimated that half a million people
viewed the exhibit and to many the extent of the
production of musical merchandise in the Chicago
district was a revelation.
The association had 100,000 prize drawing coupons
printed, and each day at 4:30 and at 9:30 musical
instruments, cases and bench cushions were given
away to the lucky winners. Something like one
hundred prizes were given away during the ten days
of the show. It was part of the good work done by
the association in the promotion of musical merchan-
dise. This is only one of the many forms this body
has of promoting the sales of the products of the
members.
Mr. Slingerland as president of the association per-
sonally participated in every drawing, and before the
drawings gave a talk to the audience on musical in-
struments, impressing that fact that the Chicago zone
was the largest producing center of musical instru-
ments in the world, manufacturing weekly 50,000 in-
struments.
BAND GOODS IN TEXAS
Boys of the public schools of Lexington, Ky., are
forming a band.
The lively condition of the band instrument trade
in Texas is made plain by the effective manner in
which the dealers are featuring the goods. In every
city the houses handling band and orchestra goods
are devoting more space than heretofore to the lines
and show windows are used to the best effect.
In El Paso last week a display window of the Tri-
State Music Co. had wonderful sales power for the
instruments of C. G. Conn, Ltd., Elkhart, Ind. W.
L. Blackwell, manager and owner of the business,
said that favor for Conn instruments with profes-
sionals and amateurs, was very marked. "The shows,"
he said, "do much to stimulate the desire to buy, but
Conn merit is the most powerful incentive to the
selection of the instruments by buyers."
The sixty-five piece saxophone band of El Paso
is a new organization. P. J. Gustat is leader and the
band is equipped with Conn instruments.
NEW GENNETT RECORDS READY
Late Popular Tunes for Dancing and Attractive
Voice Numbers in New List.
The following Gennett records for dancing have
been announced ready for delivery by the Starr Piano
Co., Richmond, Ind.:
Oh! Boy What a Girl, fox trot, Original Indiana
Five, and Oh Lovey Be Mine, fox trot, The Happy
Collegians.
Breezin' Along (to Georgia), fox trot, and (You
Forgot to) Remember, fox trot, The Marigold Sere-
naders.
Sweet Man, fox trot, and My Sweetie Turned Me
Down, fox trot, The Vagabonds.
Speech, fox trot," The Happy Collegians, Arthur
Fields, Vocal Chorus, and Desdemona (That Per-
sonal Friend o' Mine) (Charleston), Bailey's Lucky
Seven.
The Tia Juana Trot, and Hawaiian Moon, waltz,
The Hollywood Night Owls.
El Paso One of the Liveliest Cities for Musical Mer-
chandise in Lively State.
Trade Mark
Copyrighted
1924
ROLLS FAVORED IN PORTLAND.
CUSHIONS
SCARFS
COVERS
WALTER M. GOTSCH CO.
430 South Green Street
FAIRBANKS
CHICAGO
According to the manager of the roll departments
of Portland, Ore, the best sellers of the October list
are "In the Garden of Tomorrow," and "Dreamy
Caroline Moon," both played by Osbourne and Howe,
"Footloose," played by Ardeen and Nortlander, and
"The Farmer Took Another Load Away! Hay!
Hay!" played by Scott and Watters.
PIANO PLATES
DEALERS and TUNERS!
Keys Recovered and Rebushed
THE FAIRBANKS CO., Springfield, Ohio
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.
"SUPERIOR" PIANO PLATES
PRICES FOR PYRALIN IVORY
52 b e a d s a n d tails
- $8.00
52 fronts - - - . - - - - - .
2.50
SS k e y s r e h a s h e d . . . . . . .
4.00
Express or Parcel Post to
FRIELD MILLER & CO.
3767 N. Illinois Street
:
Manufactured
SUPERIOR FOUNDRY CO.
by
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Cleveland, Ohio
INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
HOW TO S E N D .
Retnov* from frame, number plainly near Capstan,
wrap or bo* securely, and chip Parcel Post or Express.
Pleace do no< remove the old iroriea as
there is dan *r of t h e wood being broken.
Ivories will be returned if deeired.
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PRESTO
October 31, 1925.
NEW TALKING MACHINE PATENTS
1,522,095. Amplifying horn. Stuart B. Booty, Dul-
wich Hill, Australia.
1,521,595. Phonograph. W. T. Carnes, Kansas
City, Mo.
66,363. Design, phonograph cabinet. Antonio Dell-
'Aquila, New York, N. Y.
1,521,615. Phonograph cabinet. Louis J. Gerson,
Palisades, N. Y.
1,522,255. Radiospeaker. Emil R. Meyer, Brook-
lyn, N. Y.
66,380. Design, phonograph cabinet. Gordon E.
Roedding, Grand Rapids, Mich.
1,522,165. Double horn construction for grapho-
phones. Frank W. Williams, Chicago, 111.
1,522,997. Automatic graphophone stop. Clifford
C. Brooks and E. O. Klemm, Fenton, Michigan.
1.523.173. Talking moving picture apparatus. W.
M. Clark, East Orange, N. J.
1.522.948. Production of sound records. Victor H.
Emerson, New York, N. Y.
1.522.949. Making sound records. A^ictor H. Emer-
son, New York, N. Y.
1,523,343. Electric control mechanism for sound-
reproducing machines. E. J. Johnson, Somerville,
Mass.
1,522,547. Means for recording sound. B. F. Roeh-
rig, Los Angeles, Calif.
1,522,657. Magnetic sound box for phonographs
and the like. Curt Stille, Berlin-Zehlendorf, Germany.
1,523,670. Sound reproducing diaphragh. James
H. Sutlive, Kansas City, Mo.
1.524.174. Sound reproducing machine. Leon F.
Douglass, San Rafael, Calif.
1,524,368. Radio attachment for phonographs.
Carl M. Post, Des Moines, Iowa.
1,524,370. Driving motor for talking machines, dic-
tating machines and the like. Georg Seibt, Berlin-
Schoneberg, and G. Schernbeck, Berlin-Tempelhof,
Germany.
1,524,411. Talking machine. Alfred Sondheimer,
Brooklyn, N. Y.
HIGH GRADE
Folding Organs
School Organs
Practice Keyboards
D«aler«' Attention Solicited
A. L. WHITE MFG. CO.
215 Englewood Av«., CHICAGO, ILL.
1,524,689.
Diaphragm for sound-recording and
sound reproducing instruments. Wm. E. Clifton,
Nottingham, England.
1,524,856. Picture exhibitor for talking machines.
Wm. J. Donaldson, Philadelphia, Pa.
1,524,697.
Phonographic apparatus. Henry C.
Egerton, Bergen, N. J.
1,525,283. Continuous record interchanging phono-
graph. David F. Eshleman, Waynesboro, Pa.
1,525,033. Phonographic-disk-record cabinet. Al-
fred H. Haas, Baltimore, Md.
1,525,320. Amplifying horn. Wilhelm Pierce,
Allentown, Pa.
1,525,987. Horn for phonographs. Joseph Gawlik,
Milwaukee, Wis.
1,526,138. Phonograph-spring over-winding auto-
matic disconnector. Mike Gregorich, Calumet, Mich.
1,525,948. Phonograph stop. Thomas J. Murphy,
Astoria, N. Y.
1,525,510. Electrical automatic repeating mecha-
nism for automatic phonographs. Malcoml L. Ord,
St. Louis, Mo.
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1,526,254. Sound-reflecting; device for taiking ma-
chines. Curt Stille, Berlin-Zehlendorf, Germany.
1,526,103. Talking machine. B. W. Taylor, St.
Vital, Canada.
1,527,505. Phonograph horn neck. Ambrose O.
Bartholomew, Allentown. Pa.
1,527,242. Phonograph motor and the like and
lubricating the same. Maximilian Weil, New York,
N. Y.
TO FINANCE VICTOR PAPER.
The Victor Talking Machine Co. and the Bankers
Commercial Security Co., Inc., New York, have con-
cluded arrangements whereby the latter company will
finance the paper of Victor dealers on a favorable
basis, and for the primary purpose of liquidating ac-
counts with Victor wholesalers on a basis that will
permit of the enjoying of a cash discount. Under
the new arrangement paper having a maturity of from
six to eighteen months will be handled by the finance
company in lots of $1,000 or more, and will be ac-
cepted whether or not it carries interest, the terms
on interest-bearing paper of course being more
favorable.
OLD DRUM FACTORY CELEBRATES.
The Johs. Link Co. Drum & Drumskin factory of
Weissenfels, Germany, celebrated the fiftieth year of
its existence on October 3. It was established in 1875
by Johannes Link. Born in 1847, he died in 1914.
The concern has an international reputation for its
prepared skins and drums.

VISITS PORTLAND, ORE., TRADE.
Jack Swartz of the J. Swartz Music Co., New
York, visited the Portland, Ore., trade recently. The
Swartz company is a distributor of musical instru-
ment accessories and specialties.
IN SMALL G00
^
Greater Interest in Musical Merchandise Shows in
New Stores and Old Ones.
Mrs. I. B. Torgeson resigned recently as manager
of the Victor department in the Boston Store, Mil-
waukee. Mrs. Torgeson formerly was supervisor of
music in the Milwaukee public schools, and prior to
joining the Boston Store was in charge of Victor
educational work for the Carberry-Parker Co.
Edward Petit, manager of the music department of
the J. H. C. Petersen's Sons Co., Davenport, Iowa,
witnessed a demonstration of the Brunswick Pana-
trope at the Congress Hotel, Chicago, recently.
J. H. Blinn, formerly manager of the Baldwin Piano
Co.'s phonograph department, Denver, Colo., and
manager of the phonograph-radio department of the
Denver Dry Goods Co. to succeed O. P. Jones, who
resigned.
The Conway Music Co, Conway, Ark., has com-
pleted an audition room, where prospects may listen
in comfort to Victor, Edison and Columbia records.
A branch of the Denman Bros. Music Co., of
Anniston, Ala., has been opened in Piedmont, Ala.,
with a full line of musical instruments.
Ralph B. Rhoades, formerly of Yoakum, Tex., has
been named as manager of the New Mexico Piano
Co., 114 North Second street, Albuquerque, N. M.
The Saxophone Shop, Birmingham, Ala., has moved
to larger and more elaborate quarters at 204 North
Twentieth street. Fred Klein, who is. very active and
well known in musical circles, is the proprietor. The
new store is completely equipped with a comprehen-
sive stock of musical merchandise.
The Warner Music Co., Youngstown, O., formerly
known as Warner's Music Shop, has moved to new
and larger quarters at 16 North Phelps street, from
the Hippodrome Arcade, in which it was located for
eleven years.
Landay Bros., Inc., New York, musical merchandise
dealer, has removed the executive offices to the
seventh floor of 147 Fifth avenue, on the southeast
corner of Twenty-first street.
Our Phonograph Shop, Nashville, Tenn., has an-
nounced the opening of a new musical merchandise
department carrying band instruments, banjos, drums,
and a complete line of violins" and accessories.
The Gulick-MacFrand Co., music dealers, Dallas
City, 111., has concluded a very "successful special sale,
of phonographs in La Harpe, 111.
The P. and K. Song and Record Shop has been
opened at 718 Hennepin avenue, Minneapolis, Minn.
It will specialize in records and sheet music.
George C. Will, music merchant of Salem, Ore.,
plans to erect a new store building at 160-72 South
Liberty street.
The Western Talking Machine Co. recently opened
a store at 9036 Oakland avenue, Detroit, Mich.
The Piano Repair Shop
Pianos and Phonographs Rebuilt by
Expert Workmen
Player-actions installed. Instruments
refinished or remodeled and actions and
keys repaired. Work guaranteed. Prices
reasonable.
Our-of-town dealers' repair work solic-
ited. Write for details and terms.
THE PIANO REPAIR SHOP
C. D. GREENLEAF, Pres.
J- F. BOYER, Sec'y
World's largest manufacturers of High Grade Band and Orchestra Instruments. Employs 1,000
expert workmen.
All of the matt 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 catalogues, prices, etc.
339 South Wabash Are.
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Chicag*
C. G. CONN, Ltd., Elkhart, Ind.
DEPT. MS.
ELKHART, IND.
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
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1514-1520 Blue Island Ave.
Chicago, 111.
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