Presto

December 26, 1925.
17
PRESTO
ENGINEERS STUDY BALDWIN PIANO
WINNERS IN GULBRANSEN
SUMMER SALES CAMPAIGN
Four Additional Pictures of Men Who Defied Hot
Weather Conditions Shown in Bulletin.
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The accompanying cut was made from a photo-
graph of the engineering class under Prof. Henry P.
Shearman of Miami University that recently spent
considerable time studying the construction of the
Baldwin piano, made by the Baldwin Piano Company,
Cincinnati. The instruments of Baldwin construction
are technically of the highest degree of excellence and
PIANO SALES AIDED
BY NEW INVENTIONS
Complete Isolation of Sound in Rooms Is Pur-
pose of Two New Patents Reported
This Week.
Two inventions reported in the newspapers this
week are aids to music goods sales and they directly
interest the builder who is called upon to construct
sound-proof rooms for music merchants. By the use
of either of the inventions the sounds of the piano
upstairs or the saxophone on the floor below are im-
prisoned there, reports the national bureau of stand-
dards, Washington, which just has finished experi-
ments in preventing noises.
"Noise can be kept out of a room, just as well as
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properly good subjects for the attention of a class in
engineering. The system of scientific improvements
peculiar to the Baldwin piano is based on the law of
acoustics and permits of the greatest development of
tone and secures an artistic result of the highest
quality.
Four more winners in the Gulbransen "Summer
Sales" campaign receive recognition by the publica-
tion of their pictures in the December number of The
Gulbransen Bulletin. They are as follows:
Wisconsin—C. B. Harting, Harting Music Store.
Sawyer.
Minnesota—W. E. Prokopec, Weber Jewelry &
Music Co., St. Cloud.
Washington—H. J. Jensen, Hopper-Kelley Co., Ta-
coma,
Pennsylvania—Fred C. Squires, Squires Music
House, Shippensburg.
In the October Bulletin, in the original list of win-
ners, the name of L. H. Walter, of Walter Piano and
Automobile Co., Hillsboro, Texas, was left out by an
oversight, although his picture was shown.
A. L. WHITE CO. IS RUSHED.
a snowstorm can," reported Dr. Paul S. Heyl, chief
of the bureau's sound laboratory.
Dr. Heyl had a partition which he promised would
be "sound-proof," built between two adjoining ball-
rooms of the Mayflower Hotel at Washington. He
arranged to test it on the night that the big charity
ball was to be in one ballroom and at the same time
a ball to members of the diplomatic corps in the
other.
The test proved the contention of the bureau chief
and not the faintest sound in one was heard in the
other. The partition is made of hair felt, supported
by thin boards of sugar cane fiber and the musical
sounds became tangled and lost in this wilderness of
hair and fiber.
From the department of physics in the University
of Illinois comes the other relief to the nervous lis-
tener to the piano practicing of little Susie in the
next flat or the mournful saxophone moaning of
Sammy on the floor above. The invention of a
highly sensitive instrument by Prof. F. R. Watson
of the University of Illinois provides a new method
of measuring the sound transmitted through a wall
and of testing the sound-proofness of walls.
"Business is too good," said A. L. White on Thurs-
day to a Presto representative when asked at his
factory, 215 Englewood avenue, Chicago, about trade
conditions. "It is so good that the A. L. White
Manufacturing Company is finding it difficult to fill
orders as promptly as we would wish. We have
enough business in sight to run us through to the
first of April." And yet there are people who say the
reed organ is "dead."
QUALITY FIRST and FIRST QUALITY
JESSE FRENCH & SONS
BEHR BROS. FOR SCHOOL.
The school board of Dallas, Tex., recently bought
24 Behr Bros, pianos from J. C. Phelps, a Behr Bros,
dealer of that city. The selection was made after ex-
haustive tests and careful comparisons in which it
was decided that because of its resonant tone, its
extreme durability and general high standard, the
Behr Bros, piano was just the instrument they had
been seeking.
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FRENCH
AND
SONS
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ED. LEVEILLE BACK ON THE JOB.
Your territory may be open
Western Electric Piano Co,
429 W. Superior St., Chicago
Edward A. LeVeille, traffic freight manager for the
National Piano Manufacturers' Association, who was
slightly injured in the accident in which his wife
lost her life early in December, is back at work again
at his office in the Marquette Building, Chicago. He
says he can not understand how he escaped, inas-
much as his car was completely demolished by the
Soo train that struck it.
"A name well known since 1875"
BEGIN THE NEW YEAR RIGHT
The best piano season is with us and dealers and salesmen who would take advantage of the opportunities must have
the proper facilities for displaying and delivering the instruments. The only complete equipment is the latest fool-
proof Loader. It may now be had for only $95. Satisfaction guaranteed.
BOWEN PIANO LOADER CO.
Winston-Salem, N. C.
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