November 14, 1925.
19
PRESTO
SMALL GOODS AND SUPPLIES
nor money to see that the child's remarkable talents
receive the proper direction.
He accounts for the big trade in strings at his
growing plant by the explanation that the piano busi-
Activity of Great String Industry Told by ness never has lost ground either seriously or perma- Following Letter From President T. M.
nently. He admits that the automobile cut into its
Pletcher Tells Details of Acquisition of
Ed. C. Johnson, General Manager, Back
preserves for a few years; that later the radio has
Great Catalog and Master Records.
from Trip to Europe.
done the same thing. But this, he says, is the natural
of the American instinct for something
The following letter, dated November 4, from Presi-
Ed. C. Johnson, general manager of the Schaff outcropping
or something different. But Mr. Johnson sees dent T. M. Pletcher to trade, tells details of impor-
Piano String Company, Chicago, said to a Presto new,
endless piano business extending for years and tant acquisition:
representative on Monday of this week that October an
down the ages to come, and in straight, hand-
We are very pleased to formally announce that we
had been the largest month in the history of his com- years
have
purchased the entire Angelus catalog and library
played
pianos
at
that.
He
says
he
agrees
with
pany's business.
George Dowling's recent expressions along that line. of rolls and masters. This library will be added to
Mr. Johnson returned in October from two and
our library of Recordo rolls as rapidly as possible, and
we will also add them to our regular line of Q R S
one-half months' traveling in Europe. And Mr.
BRANCH
STORE
SOLD.
rolls.
Johnson has an up-to-date method of traveling. He
Watkins
Bros.,
Inc.,
Hartford,
Conn.,
has
an-
Mr. Percy K. Van Yorx will join our recording and
made all of his European trips by airplane. "I felt nounced that the Bristol branch of the concern has
staff January 1st. We believe it is unneces-
safer flying from city to city than if I had been on been sold to Ralph C. Nelson, of Bristol. This house editing
sary for us to elaborate on Mr. Van Yorx as an edi-
the trains," said Mr. Johnson.
was established in 1874 and operates stores in Hart- tor of reproducing rolls. Following is some history:
Mr. Van Yorx started in the player game in 1898.
"My travels by airplane in Europe this time ford and South Manchester, featuring a full stock of
He has been with the Angelus company, the Wilcox
amounted to more than six thousand miles. I made music goods.
& White Co., since 1900; he concertized all over the
stops at London, Paris, Lucerne, Ostend, Cologne,
country for several years with Angelus and assisting
or Koln as the Germans spell it; at Berlin, in the
artists. Became interested in the reproducing piano
Ruhr, at Weimar, Dresden, Hamburg, Nuremburg,
in 1904, made experiments in recording about 1909-10.
Munich, Vienna, Saalsburg, Zurich, Interlaken,
He began to record world renowned pianists in 1912,
Bremen and many other places."
among them Godowsky, Bauer, Gabrilowitsch, Zeis-
ler, Luginska, Lerner, etc.
"How did you find the piano business in Germany,
For the past six months he has been devoting a
Mr. Johnson?"
INCORPORATED
great deal of time to the study of actions using the
"They have a good many orders, but the people
MANUFACTURERS* AGENTS
Recordo reproducing roll. He expresses himself as
have no money," the returned traveler replied. "The
being confident that there are still greater possibilities
piano manufacturing concerns of Germany—the big
in these reproducing instruments.
ones, I mean—are manufacturing about fifty per cent
We expect to get up something very fine in a
Recordo catalog.
of their normal product. The Steinway factory in
Yours very truly,
Germany is a very big one, as you are aware, and
TOM PLETCHER,
next to that comes the Bechstein."
President, The Q R S Music Co.
These trips in Europe are by no means Mr. John-
Unusual
son's first times in the air. He has been flying in
Service
MUSICIAN OPENS STORE.
the United States for several years. One of his ear-
Charles L. Edwards, a Wilmington, Del., musician,
lier trips was a flight from San Francisco to Del
has opened a new music store at 106 West Sixth
Monte, California, several years ago, a distance of
street, where he carries a complete line of musical
one hundred forty miles.
merchandise, including band instruments. He will
also carry radio. A feature of the new store is the
Mr. Johnson has a most promising musician in his
fact that Mr. Edwards can demonstrate any instru-
family in the person of his eleven-year-old daughter,
ment that he sells, being a proficient performer on
who is proving herself a pianist of rare ability for
most band instruments.
one of her years. He intends to spare neither pains
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MU5ICAL MERCHANDISE
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