April 23, 1927.
PRESTO-TIMES
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
NEW YORK OFFICE:
130 W. 42nd St.
Bash Terminal Bids.
CHICAGO OFFICE:
State and Adams Sts.
922 Republic Bids.
STRICH & ZEIDLER, Inc.
GRAND, UPRIGHT and PLAYER
AND
HOMER PIANOS
740-742 East 136th Street
NEW YORK
BRINKERHOFF
Grands
PIANOS AT MUSIC
CLUBS' CONVENTION
Band Instruments and Phonographs Also
Shewn at Congress Hotel, Chicago, to
Delegates from All Parts of Country.
The big feature of the Fifteenth Biennial Conven-
tion of the National Federation of Music Clubs, at
Hotel Congress, Chicago, this week, was the exhibit
by manufacturers of pianos, band innstninicnts,
phonographs and sheet music. Delegates from all
parts of the country showed unusual interest in the
fine array of displays in the Florentine room on the
second floor.
Piano Exhibits.
The show booths were arranged on the sides and
in the center of the room which was richly dec-
orated with flowers and palms. The piano exhibits
were: The Baldwin Piano Company, five grands,
including 'two period models; Steinway & Sons, New
York, one straight grand and one Steinway Duo-Art
grand; Ampico Corporation, New York, Chickering
grand; Aeolian Company, New York, Aeolian Duo-
Art, display arranged by Lyon & Healy, Chicago;
Starr Piano Company, Richmond, Ind., Starr grand
and small upright; Story & Clark Piano Company,
Chicago, two period model grands; M. Schulz Com-
pany, Chicago, one period grand.
Other Displays.
C. G. Conn, Ltd., Elkhart, Ind., had a complete
line of band instruments. Displays were also made
by the Buescher Band Instrument Company and the
Martin Band Instrument Company.
The sheet music was displayed by Gamble-Hinge
Co., Chicago; Lyon & Healy, Chicago; Oliver Ditson,
Boston; Clayton F. Summy, Chicago; G Schirmer,
New York; M. Witmark & Sons. New York; Carl
Fischer, Chicago branch, and H. T. Fitzsimmons
& Co., publishers of choral music.
M. STEINERT & SONS CO.
SPONSOR DUO=ART CONCERT
Steinway Duo-Art Reproducing Piano Featured in
Notable Event at Bcston Opera House.
On Sunday afternoon, April 19, Mine. Ethel Le-
ginska and the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra gave
their last regular concert of the season at the Boston
Opera House. A large chorus of mixed voices as-
sisted in the program, and a Steinway Duo-Art Re-
producing piano was featured on the program.
This instrument rendered Mmc. Leginska's own
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recording of the first movement of Beethoven's C
minor concerto, and the Boston Transcript speaks
of the performance as follows: "The single number
in which she seemed her normal self was that in
which the mechanical piano played a recording made
in ease of mind and freedom of hand."
Again the Transcript said: "Her tone, accent, feel-
ing were audible again from the Duo-Art piano."
The M. Steinert & Sons Company sponsored the con-
cert for its Duo-Art piano.
NEWSY FACTS ABOUT THE
MEN WHO RETAIL PIANOS
Items gathered From Various Sources Relate Inci-
dents in the Trade Activities.
A successful piano sale was conducted recently by
the Daynes-Beebe Music Co., Salt Lake City.
The music store of E. L. Whitlaw at Hastings,
Neb., was recently damaged by fire.
Whitehead's Music House, Saginaw. Mich., lias
moved from 111 North Franklin street to 307 Federal
avenue.
Ye Music Shoppe, Sacramento, Cal., moved to a
new location last week, the lease having expired on
the quarters at 729 J street
The Saxophone Shop of Ed. Legler at Fresno, Cal.,
has been moved to 1244 Fulton street. Tn addition
to selling instruments the firm does considerable re-
pair work.
The Kratisgill Piano Co. of Louisville, Ky., is carry-
ing out extensive cleaning and redecorating plans.
Henry Hudson of the Hudson Music House at
Boonville, Ind., has fully recovered from injuries sus-
tained in a recent automobile accident
The Schilling Music Store, 161 West First street,
Oswego, N. Y., has purchased the four-story build-
ing which it occupies. This is one of the oldest
music stores in this part of the state and was founded
by the late Frank Schilling more than forty years
ago.
Thos. Goggan & Bro. has announced the moving
of their Waco, Tex., store from 516 Austin street to
520 Austin street.
OREGON BUSINESS SOLD.
B. J. Palmer's interest in the Palmer Piano House,
Medford, Ore., has been sold to Clayton H. Isaac,
William H. Flubrer and Miss Ruth Fluhrer. Mr.
Isaacs and Miss Fluhrer have been associated with
the business for some time, the former as general
manager and the latter as manager of the sheet music
department. The store, which is well located at Main
and Bartlett streets, will be remodeled.
• Reproducing Grands
Player-Pianos
and Pianos
AMPICO IN WINDOW DISPLAY
The Line That Sells Easily
and Satisfies Always
BRINKERHOFF PIANO CO.
711 Milwaukee Ave., CHICAGO, ILL.
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.
Refer to Presto Buyers' Guide for in-
formation about all Pianos, Players and
Reproducing Pianos.
The life-size colored cut-out of Rachmaninoff
seated at the piano, and other material supplied by
the Ampico Corporation to its dealers, is the feature
of an unusually effective window decoration arranged
by R. H. Parker, of the Meiklejohn Co., at Provi-
dence. The display attracted much attention and
many comments on its handsome appearance.
A similar display will be the feature of the booth
arranged by the Meiklejohn Company at the Masonic
"Home Beautiful Exposition" to occur in Providence
during the present month.
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