April 16, 1927.
21
PRESTO-TIMES
COINOLAS
FOR
RESTAURANTS, CAFES and
AMUSEMENT CENTERS
PUTTING HIS SONG OVER
Latest Lincoln Hit Is Heard in Many Popular The-
aters Throughout the Country.
Editor Presto-Times: In appreciation of your
good will toward my new song, "Abraham Lincoln
and His First Sweetheart, Ann Rutledge," I write to
tell you that I have sold the first thousand copies of
it, and the first thousand they say, is always the
hardest. It is still gaining in popularity because now
it is being used by a vaudeville act with headquarters
iu Chicago, The Hooper and Gatchett act, of Harry
Rogers Theatrical Enterprises, 807 Woods Theater
Bldg., 54 West Randolph street.
Mr. Jack Davies, of Plymouth, Pa., and my home
town, is also interested, with Mr. Rogers, and they
are using my song in this act. They write me it is
getting over very nicely. At the time they wrote me,
this act was playing down in Kentucky. This was,
of course, very good news to me and it shows prog-
ress for my song. I am using the song over the radio
occasionally with progress and good results. Orches-
tras are using it, playing it in the original writing,
and then jazzing it after.
DR. W. H. GILBERTSON.
Plymouth, Pa.
NEWS OF SMALL GOODS FIELD
Style C-2
FROM THE BIGGEST
ORCHESTRION
Many New Names Appear in Musical Instrument
Business and Old Ones Continue in Activities.
San Francisco is to have its fourth annual radio
show August 20 to 27, at the Exposition Auditorium,
under the auspices of the Pacific Radio Trade Asso-
ciation.
New rolls for Coinola orchestrions are included in
the latest bulletin of the Clark Orchestra Roll Co.,
De Kalb, 111.
The roll department of the Heaton Music Store,
Columbus, O., has taken over the Ampico rolls car-
ried by the Knabe Piano Store.
Every period of the year is a season for the use
and of course the purchase of Selpo trucks, made by
the Self-Lifting Piano Truck Company, Findlay, O.
Downey Coleman, lumber dealer of Oakland City.
Ind., has bought a half-interest in the American Wal-
nut Co., of Evansville, Ind.
The Jones Music Co., recently opened in Hennessy,
Okla., carries a line of musical merchandise and sheet
music.
W. H. Lawton is the new manager of the Colum-
bia Phonograph Co., Los Angeles.
WHEN WOOD DECAYS.
Weathering and decay should be clearly distin-
guished from each other because they differ with
respect to the causes producing them, the conditions
favoring them, and the methods effective in com-
bating them in use at different piano plants. Weath-
ering is primarily due to thes hrinking and swelling
of wood with continual changes in moisture content.
The surface layers of a shingle, board, or other piece
of wood alternately absorb or lose moisture rapidly
if exposed to rain and sunshine or to the ever-
changing humidity of the atmosphere. Decay, on the
other hand, is caused by the action of wood-destroy-
ing fungi—small living organisms which feed on the
wood substance. The visible effect of the attack is
familiar to everyone as "rotten" wood.
SHEET MUSIC DISPLAYS.
One of the prime needs for quickening sheet music
sales is effective display inside the store and in the
show windows. Progressive dealers now provide fix-
tures and racks for displays and a sheet music counter
is "paying its rent" when it is constantly covered
with music, every title of which is suggestive of the
buying desire to somebody. Giving over show win-
dows to displays of sheet music is an acknowledg-
ment of the importance of music in the scheme of
profits. Now the art and ingenuity of window dress-
ers are applied to the presentation of the music in
the manner that inspires prompt purchasing.
POLICY FOR RECORD BUYERS.
Assuring buyers of talking machine records that
the numbers are new and the records fresh stock
is meaning of a printed "policy" of the Frederick
Tretz Shoppe, 712 Broadway, Albany, N. Y., which
says: "The policy safeguards the public against
wornout records and guarantees first run records that
have never been played at lower prices. Under the
Paramount Policy dealers are not allowed to play
records." The Albany dealer handles musical mer-
chandise, pianos, sheet music and radio and operates
a reliable repair shop as well as a school of music.
BUYS OUT PARTNER.
Durward J. Cline recently purchased the interest
of his partner, R. A. Pryor, in the Pryor & Cline
Music Co., 1905 Elm street, Dallas, Tex., and re-
named the business the Cline Music Co. Band and
orchestra instruments and Columbia phonographs are
carried.
Crossman Lumber
Company
Choice Lower Michigan
End Dried White Maple
Quartered Maple
Wide Maple
All thicknesses
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Philip W. Oetting & Son, Inc.
213 East 19th Street, New York
HIGH GRADE
Folding Organs
School Organs
Sole Agents for
WEICKERT
Hammer and Damper Felts
Practice Keyboards
Grand and Upright Ham-
mers Made of Weickert Felt
Daalera' Attention Solicited
A. L. WHITE MFG. CO.
215 Englewood Ave., CHICAGO, ILL,
Fine Action Bushing Cloths, etc
KEYS RECOVERED AND REBUSHED
Tiny Coinola
THE SMALLEST
KEYLESS
FRIELD MILLER & COMPANY
Samples of Work on Request
Prompt and Efficient Service
3355 North Illinois Street, INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
Manufactured by
The Operators Piano Co.
715-721 N. Kedzie Ave.
CHICAGO
FAIRBANKS
PIANO PLATES
THE FAIRBANKS CO., Springfield, Ohio
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