Presto

Issue: 1927 2116

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PRESTO-TIMES
POPULAR SONG FAVORITES ON QULBRANSEN PIANO
The national advertising for Feb-
ruary of the Gulbransen Co., Chi-
cago, appeals to. the present day
interest in the current song fa-
vorites.
A reproduction in a halftone
of the artistic illustration prepared
for the magazines is here repro-
duced. This is said in the text:
"Today's songs. Just hearing
them is not enough. Now you can
do what everybody wants to do
play them for yourself!
"Pretty Cinderella . . Where'd
You Get Those Eyes? . . .Mary
Lou . . .
"Today's songs! You hum them
—sing them—whistle them . .
because you can't resist them.
"You've often wished that you
could do the really satisfying thing
—play them for yourself.
"Now you can, with the Gulbransen Registering
Piano. All the naturalness of hand playing. For
singing,
you."
For dancing. Just for the fun it gives
total expenditure in behalf of the tournament will
undoubtedly reach $100,000.
On Friday morning, Feb. 11, over 7,100 children
had registered for the piano tournament, with every
indication that the 10,000 mark (one-third the goal of
30,000 set for March 31) would be attained within the
Forty-nine Prominent Firms in Trade Now next ten days.
Parochial schools throughout the city are taking an
Numbered Among Financial Backers of
active part in the tournament, and hundreds of pupils
Great Tournament for Children.
attending these schools are registering each day for
participation in it.
Between February 3 and February 8 twelve new
Sisters teaching at the parochial schools are doing
contributors joined the group of music houses do- all they can to develop the talent of their pupils so
nating to the support of the Annual Greater Chicago that they will make a fine showing in the musical
Children's Piano Playing Tournament.
competition. Among the parochial schools that are
The new houses are the Clayton F. Summy Music represented in the tournament by their pupils are the
Co., the Schiller Piano Co., Goldsmith Piano Co., following:
J. P. Seeburg Piano Co., M. Schulz Co., Meyer &
St. Ignatius, St. Margaret Mary's, St. Timothy, St.
Weber, Carl Fischer, Inc, George B. Dow, Weber Martin, St. Louis Academy, St. Patrick's Academy,
& Sons, Gambel-Hinged Music Co., Chicago Piano St. Bernard's, St. Anselm, St. James, and the Acad-
Co., Hyman H. Raieff and Rudolph H. Schoeppe emy of Our Lady. Sister Mary Leo, director of music
Piano Co.
at the Academy of Our Lady, 95th and Throop
This brings the number of contributors up to Feb. streets, has agreed to loan the use of their auditorium
8 inclusive to forty-nine and the total sum subscribed for some of the preliminaries.
Seventy thousand Chicago club women have en-
up to and including that date to $16,200. The Herald
and Examiner, in addition to this, announces that its dorsed the tournament. These are all members of
the Chicago Federation of Women's Clubs and the
endorsement was the climax of a meeting in the
Hyde Park Hotel last week.
QUALITY FIRST and FIRST QUALITY
COLUMBUS, O., STORE ROBBED.
JESSE
FRENCH
AND
SONS
PIANO
CO.
NEWCASTLE
INDIANA
'A name well known since 1875"
UTAH ASSOCIATION
HAS BEEN REVIVED
Weekly Meetings to Be Held, at Salt Lake
City Where a Live Concert Season
Is in Progress.
MUSIC HOUSES BACK
PIANO PLAYING CONTEST
ESSE FRENCH & SONS
February 19, 1927.
Soaping rugs to deaden the sound of the explosion,
yeggs blew two safes in the Heaton Music Store,
Columbus, O., recently to secure $130 loot. A third
safe, containing $3,000, they were unable to open,
although they subjected it 'to heavy battering. The
safecrackers worked during the early hours of Sunday
morning, police believe, as no watchman was on duty
in the building during that period.
KREITER
The Leading and Most Popular
Pianos and Players
Grands, Players, Uprights and
Reproducing Pianos
The Results of Over Forty Years'
of Experience.
Kreiter Pianos Cover the Entire Line
and no Piano Dealer who tries these in-
struments would supplant them by any
others* A trial will convince.
Kreiter Mfg. Co., Inc.
310-312 W. Water St., Milwaukee, Wis.
Factory: Marinette, Wis.
THE JEWETT PIANOS
Reliable Grand, Upright and Player Pianos
JEWETT PIANO CO., Boston Factories: Leominster, Mass.
A meeting was held a few days ago by the Music
Dealers' Association of Utah which has recently been
revived in Salt Lake City. All members, including
music dealers from Salt Lake and the surrounding
territory, were in favor of resuming regular meetings,
which will be held twice monthly with a special
meeting to be held every fourth week in the month.
Special speakers will be obtained in roder to have
these meetings interspersed with instructive talks.
The Daynes-Beebe Music Company have their
sixty-seventh anniversary sale on, which is going over
big.
The Glen Brothers-Roberts Piano Company, of Salt
Lake, is preparing for the advent of Philip Gor-
don in that city. Gordon, who is a Chickering artist,
will give a recital there sometime in May, and tieups
will be arranged in this connection, according to Man-
ager T. J. Holland. The French artist, Domesnil,
also a Chickering performer, will be in 'that city dur-
ing April with the original Chopin grand piano.
During the month of January an unusually large
number of high-grade pianos were sold by the Con-
solidated Music Company, it is announced by Chas.
H. C. King, secretary and treasurer of that organ-
ization.
The Beesley Music Company, of Salt Lake, an-
nounces that business both there and at the new
branch store in Ogden, Utah, is very good.
"Music in the Home" is the name of a new monthly
publication of the Lehman Piano Co., St. Louis,
devoted to information for music lovers, and partic-
ular facts for music students. The company handles
the Knabe, Hardman, Fischer, M. Schulz and Gabler
pianos and the Knabe and Fischer Ampicos.
MASCOT
The World's Leading Small
Electric Piano
TAKES UP SMALL SPACE
MAKES LARGE EARNINGS
Your territory may be open
Western Electric Piano Co.
429 W. Superior St., Chicago
SCHILLER
A GREAT NAME—A GREAT PIANO
THE SCHILLER
Makes Friends, Makes Customers, Makes
Money, for the Dealer
Super-Grands, Medium Grands, Small
Grands. Full Plate Uprights; Medium
Uprights; Small (3 :7) Uprights.
Reproducing Grands, Uprights and
Players
Grands with the Famous Bauer
Patented Construction
The SCHILLER PIANO challenges
superiority in tone quality as in construc-
tion, workmanship, finish and appearance.
For Agency Proposition and All
Particulars, address
SCHILLER PIANO COMPANY
Factory and General Offices:
OREGON, ILLINOIS
CHICAGO OFFICE:
State and Adams Sts.
922 Republic Bldg.
NEW YORK OFFICE:
130 W. 42nd St.
Bush Terminal Bldf.
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PRESTO-TIMES
February 19, 1927.
STRAUBE IN PORTLAND S C H O O I
S CHANGES IN THE TRADE
OF SOUTHERN INDIANA
Music Dealer Sells Out and New One Buys in
at Evansville, Where Trade
Promises Well.
After being in the piano and other musical instru-
ment business in Evansville, Ind., for thirty-two
years, N. W. Bryant, of the N. W. Bryant Piano
Company at 226 Main street, has announced that he
has sold his holding in the company to H. F.
Reichert, who has been secretary and treasurer of
the company since its organization. Mr. Reichert
will conduct the business under the same name, the
N. W. Bryant Piano Company. Mr. Bryant, after
returning from an extensive trip through the South
will devote all his time to another business in which
he has been interested for some time. Mr. Bryant
is one of the oldest piano men in Evansville and he is
widely known to the trade.
A. J. Willem, who has been identified with the
music profession in Evansville for the past IS years,
teaching piano and other musical instruments, has
been made assistant manager of the Stahlschmidt
Piano Company in Evansville. Mr. Willem has been
connected with the W. F. Schwentker Company, deal-
ers in pianos and phonographs, for the past few years.
He is one of the best known musical directors in
Evansville. He is organist at Zion's Evangelical
Church and at the Scottish Rite Cathedral, and also
director of the Zion Glee Club in Evansville.
Music dealers in Evansville and other towns in
southern Indiana report that their trade for the past
month has been sluggish because of the bad weather
conditions that have prevailed. In their opinion there
will be improvement before the first of May and they
believe the spring trade will be equal to that of the
corresponding period of last year.
Raymond Kirsch, leader of the Boonville Municipal
Band at Boonville, Ind., has announced he will pur-
chase a number of new instruments for the band. He
will give a number of concerts in Boonville and other
towns in southern Indiana during the coming
summer.
The Hobart M. Cable Company have moved from
the second floor of the Kresge Building, at Pennsyl-
vania and Washington streets, to its new warerooms
at 150 North Delaware street. Mr. Coverdill is in
charge of the store.
(1) BENSON POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL; (2) KENNEDY SCHOOL; (3) OCKLEY-GREEN SCHOOL; (4) ABER-
NATHY SCHOOL; (5) LAURELHURST SCHOOL; (6) MARYSVILLE SCHOOL; (7) HOSFORD SCHOOL; (8)
LENTS SCHOOL; (9) BEACH SCHOOL.
Straube pianos in several models were recently sold
to the Music Committee of the Board of Education
at Portland, Ore., by the Collins & Irwin Piano Co.,
Straube dealers, in the Ungar Building, Portland.
The Straube company, of Hammond, Ind., is nat-
urally very proud, as the committee was willing to
pay more, and did pay more, for the Straube piano
•than they would have had to pay for several other
makes.
They were greatly impressed with the constructive
excellence, smoothness of action and the volume of
tone embodied in Straube pianos. The well-known
ability of the Straube piano^to stay in tune for long
periods of time, under trying conditions and very hard
usage, also had much >to do in influencing the com-
mittee.
Of late years many schools in various parts of the
country have selected Straube pianos. The group
picture above contains the nine Portland schools to
which Straube pianos have been installed.
BRINKERHOFF
Grands - Reproducing Grands
Player-Pianos
and Pianos
The Line That Sells Easily
and Satisfies Always
BRINKERHOFF PIANO CO.
711 Milwaukee Ave., CHICAGO, ILL.
ADDS PIANO LINE.
t&S Beppe, Marcellus and Edouard Jules PUu»
manufactured by the
HEPPE PIANO COMPANY
are tbe only pianos In the world with
Three Sounding Boards.
•Patented In the United States, Great Britain;
France, Germany and Canada.
Liberal arrangements to responsible agents ooi;«
Main Office, 1117 Chestaut St,
PHILADELPHIA^ W&.
A QUALITY PRODUCT
FOR OVER
QUARTER OFA CENTURY
Louis H. Ahaus, owner of the Brunswick Shop,
Cincinnati, has announced the addition of a line of
pianos to talking machines and records in which the
firm heretofore specialized. The line of instruments
of the Gulbransen Co., Chicago, has been installed
and the company is planning a spirited campaign for
sales of the Registering Piano.
WINDOW FULL OF PIANOS.
The big Fair store in Chicago has a large window
filled with pianos this week. The display is a good
one and shows with what vigor the department houses
that sell pianos are going after business. And they
seem to be getting it. The Fair piano department is
controlled by the Wurlitzer house.
POOLE
^BOSTON-
STRICH & ZEIDLER, Inc.
GRAND, UPRIGHT and PLAYER
AND
HOMER PIANOS
740-742 East 136th Street
. NEW YORK
GRAND AND UPRIGHT PIANOS
AND
PLAYER PIANOS
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