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of the Music Merchants' Association of Ohio as to the
present whereabouts of the Everett.
An investigation followed. It was regretably learned
that the Everett had left Cincinnati and Ohio, and was
being manufactured in or near Chicago. Thus, one of
The American Music Trade Weekly
the favored topics for discussion at the Ohio meetings,
Published Every Saturday at 417 South Dearborn has left the state and out of courtesy to the Illinois state
association, all future debates as to its merits, must
Street, Chicago, Illinois.
therefore be held at the Illinois meetings only. Adieu!
Adois !! Farewell!!! Everett.
C. A. DANIELL and FRANK D. ABBOTT • • Editors
If such a "very heated debate" took place it
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article
just quoted must mystify all concerned
Entered aa second -cjasfl matter Jan. 29, 1896, at the
Post Office, Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 3, 1879. with the Everett piano. However, the point is
Subscription, $2 a year; 6 months, $1; Foreign, $4.
that it must seem equally strange that any "official
Payable In advance. No extra charge in United States
possessions, Cuba and Mexico. Rates for advertising on
bulletin"' devoted to the Ohio, or any other music
application.
association, should be in dense ignorance of the
Items of news and other matter are solicited and if
fact that the Everett piano is still active, or that
of general interest to the music trade will be paid for
at space rates. Usually piano merchants or salesmen the "present whereabouts of the Everett" should
in the smaller cities are the best occasional corre-
require investigation. Hence a little enlighten-
spondents, and their assistance is invited.
ment, and that free of all charge.
Payment is not accepted for matter printed in the
The Everett piano is now made in the ample
editorial or news columns of Presto-Times.
Where half-tones are made the actual cost of pro- factories of the Cable-Nelson Piano Co. It is
duction will be charged if of commercial character, made, not exactly "in or near Chicago," but in
or other than strictly news interest.
When electrotypes are sent for publication it is South Haven, Michigan. And it is made under
requested that their subjects and senders be carefully the expert and competent control of Mr. J. H.
indicated.
Parnham who has also the knack of selling pianos.
Forms close at noon every Thursday. News mat-
And why the "favorite topic" should be ejected
ter should be in not later than eleven o'clock on the
from
the Ohio meetings just because the Everett
same day. Advertising copy should be in hand before
Tuesday, five p. m., to insure preferred position. Full is made in Michigan is just as mysterious as that
page dfsplay copy should be in hand by Monday noon
preceding publication day. Want advs. for current it was ever a "favorite topic" when the Everett
week, to insure classification, must not be later than was made in Massachusetts or Kentucky. For it
Wednesday noon.
Address all communications for the editorial or business was never made in Ohio at any time, though the
departments to PRESTO PUBLISHING CO., 417 South
"official bulletin" may not know any more about
Dearborn Street, Chicago, III.
that than about other things not quite local to
Cleveland.
SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1927.
The last form of Presto-Times goes to press
at 11 a. m. Thursday. Any news transpiring
after that hour cannot be expected in the cur-
rent issue. Nothing received at the office that
is not strictly news of importance can have
attention after 9 a. m. on Thursday. If they
concern the interests of manufacturers or
dealers such items will appear the week follow-
ing. Copy for advertising designed for the
current issue must reach the office not later
than Wednesday noon of each week.
THE DEALER'S OPPORTUNITY
Music Week begins on May first—only three
weeks ahead. By this time, of course, all men
of the music trade know what it means. Many
of them will arrange to participate in it. And if
music is the universal language all know how to
express themselves, and what to do and say to
make Music Week of individual, as well as gen-
eral, usefulness. A few of them, furthermore,
are arranging to turn Music Week into an oppor-
tunity for furthering the interests of their own
business.
If Music Week means anything—and it means
a lot—it is, with many other things, that it pre-
sents an opportunity for keeping the sale of the
things that make music well up to the highest
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point of enthusiasm. It must be made to stir the
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people who buy musical instruments. And this
includes music rolls and sheet music—everything
and anything that is to be found in any well-
equipped music store. That is one purpose of
ABOUT THE "EVERETT"
One of the interesting chapters of piano his- Music Week, whether it is down on the program
tory, if it is ever written, will embalm the story or not.
The head of a music store, in a big city or a
of the Everett piano. According to Mr. Frank
A. Lee's own statement, the John Church Co. small town, who fails to grasp the opportunities
invested more than two millions of dollars in pro- afforded by Music Week must be as fast asleep
as anything can be and still remain alive. Every
moting the instrument that bears the name of
the great New Englander, though there was no local newspaper should contain the music dealer's
more association between Edward Everett and announcement; every music store window should
the piano than there was between the Emerson be decorated in a way to help along the cause of
music in its national sense, and the welfare of the
piano and Ralph Waldo.
dealer in a special sense. The word "music"
But just now a mild order of interest attaches
should be in every line and on every tongue.
to a somewhat mysterious item which appears in
Every instrument in town should be sounding and
the latest issue of the "official bulletin of the
every voice should be made to sing.
Music Merchants' Association of Ohio." The
That will make Music Week all that it should
item follows:
be.
Music should have the "center of the stage,"
In 1916 at the Ohnstead Hotel in Cleveland, a very
heated debate took place at the convention of the Music and the busiest places should be the music stores.
Merchants' Association of Ohio. If memory serves And it is not a moment too early for the music
correctly, the leading "argufiers" were none other than
A. B. Smith of Akron, challenger, and F. B. Beinkamp dealers to get busy. They should be preparing
of Cincinnati, defender. The commotion had to do
themselves, their employes and their stores, for
with the Everett piano.
a
big event—a week in which their communities
Since that time, the records of the Ohio organization
fail to disclose any further agitation on the subject. do little else than think of music and the things
However, recently, in fact ten years since the Cleveland
episode,, an inquiry was made by one of the members that make it.
National MusicWeek
April 9, 1927.
WHAT WE WERE DOING
And Saying When the Trade
Was Young
45 YEARS AGO IN THE TIMES
(From Musical Times, April 9, 1882.)
The Messrs. Wahle, music dealers of Buffalo, are
preparing to erect a fine opera house on Eagle street,
that city.
In addition to her marvelous musical powers, Mrs.
Rive-King is blessed with uncommon literary taste.
The Messrs. Brainards of Cleveland, Ohio, control
the Chickering piano for all the northern portion of
Ohio and are doing a large business in that noble
instrument.
The Wilson patent stool, made of iron, is too
unwieldly for parlor use. It is virtually two piano
stools in one.
The Music Clerks' Association of New York is an
organization which we hope to see duplicated in other
large cities. The object is to aid members who are
unfortunate and require help.
35 YEARS AGO IN THE TRADE
(From Presto, April 7. 1892.)
The Fifth Avenue Theater in New York will be
opened in May with a new comic opera in which
Marion Manola will be the prima donna.
We understand that Adam Schaaf is perfecting
plans to build a piano factory on some property he
has probably purchased ere this paper reaches sub-
scribers.
It is proposed to run from New York to Chicago,
at the time of the dedication of the exposition build-
ings, ten special trains, ten minutes apart, each train
to have elaborate decorations and music.
Sir George Grove's plan for photographing the
original scores of the Beethoven symphonies is soon
to be put into execution. Breitkopf & Haftel of
Leipsic will do the work of reproducing the manu-
scripts by what is known as the collotype system,
and the first volume is expected to be ready in May.
The annual dinner of the Piano Manufacturers'
Association of New York and Vicinity took place last
Thursday evening at Delmonico's. Seventy-nine
were present, the visitors being F. Ruxtoi; of Chick-
ering & Son, Boston; Ernst Knabe of Baltimore;
Calvin Whitney and H. R. Moore of the A. B. Chase
Co., Norwalk; E. N. Kimball. Emerson Piano Co..
Boston; S. Shoninger, B. Shoninger Co., New Haven;
F. B. Stieff, Baltimore; Henry Wegman, Auburn,
N, Y.; C. C. Colby, Colby Piano Co., Erie; H. J.
Raymore, M. Griswold, Jr., and R. M. Summers,
Shaw Piano Co., Erie.
25 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
(From Presto, April 10, 1902.)
Mr. Robert Pfoddow, treasurer of the Estey Piano
Co., died at his home, 1248 Dean street, Brooklyn,
after a brief illness and undergoing an operation for
stomach trouble.
Thursday evening, April 17, the dedication concert
of the new Bush Temple of Music. Chicago avenue
and North Clark street, will be given, among the
artists engaged for the occasion being Mme. Schu-
mann-Heink.
The R. S. Howard Company of New York Citv
has been incorporated under the laws of New York
with a capital of $25,000 to engage in the manufac-
ture of pianos. The directors are R. S. Howard,
G. J. Mulcahey and W. M. Golden, Jr., all of New
York City.
The list of American millionaires which appears
in the New York World almanac of 1902 includes
surprisingly few of the manv men and corporations
identified with the piano trade. The compiler of the
almanac limits the list of music trade millionaires to
Franklin Murphy (of piano varnish fame). Newark,
N. T.; the Steinway estate, of New York; W. W.
Kimball, of Chicago, 111., and the George H. Chick-
ering estate, of Boston, Mass.
THE UPWARD CLIMB.
It's common to hear of some men of wealth
Who've scaled to the heights of fame
And gathered their riches by trick and stealth
Unheeding the rules of the game;
But most of the winners who toil today—
The gleaners of worth-while crop.—
Have sowed their good seed in lowly way
And honestly climbed to the top.
The way to success is a very hard road,
Its windings are many and strange.
And often misfortune's stings will goad
The toiler 'mid struggle and change;
The windings and pitfalls that often appear
May cause him to waver and stop,
And only the climber that knows no fear
Has courage to climb to the top.
When viewed from the base the mountain seems high.
Its peaks reaching up to the blue,
To scale it seems hopeless for all who would try-—|
Beyond human powers to do;
But he who persists, whate'er may impede.
Enduring when others would drop.
Determined to conquer by heroic deed,
Undaunted will climb to the top.
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