April 30, 1927.
PRESTO-TIMES
NEW CONSTRUCTION
BAUER PIANOS
exemplify the most
radical and most pro-
gressive development
in piano building in
the present era. They
have no equal in tone
quality, substantial
construction or in-
dividuality.
JULIUS BAUER
& COMPANY
Ettablithed 18S7
305 So. Wabash Avenue, Chicago
Factory: 1335-1345 Altgeld Street
illustrated and described in the new booklet, but the
effective bit of publicity is more than a catalog. A
great many meritorious things about the Gulbransen
are set forth with convincing clearness. The regis-
tering action, why the instrument plays so easily, the
Gulbransen roll, and the instruction book are all mat-
Committees in More Than Fourteen Hundred ters delightfully treated.
Cities and Towns Are Aided by State
What is the advantage of national advertising ap-
and City Officials.
plied to the publicity of the Gulbransen Co? What
is meant by National Price? What is the significance
The National Music Week will be celebrated on of the "Baby" trade mark? These three questions are
May 1-7 in considerably more than 1,400 cities and satisfactorily answered in the early pages. The dif-
towns, according to the latest advices received by the ferences between the four upright models, the White
National Music Week Committee. Various state and House, Colonial, Suburban and Community, are prin-
municipal authorities are cooperating in the Music cipally in equipment, finish, workmanship and case
Week through official proclamation or other govern- design, but it is pointed out why the lower-priced
mental action. Governor Emerson of Wyoming has ones may be bought as confidently as the higher-
appointed a chain of local Music Week chairmen priced.
throughout the state. Governor Moore, of New Jer-
The availability of the Gulbransen for hand playing
sey, through the press has endorsed the movement.
Other governors have issued proclamations contain- as well as by roll, its durability and its helpfulness
to the boy or girl learning to play the piano are well
ing similar statements.
explained. Its helpful features for the violinist, the
John B. Tower, mayor of New Haven, Conn., has singer, the pianist, young people attending school, the
expressed the hope "that as many of our people as mother in the home, and the old folks are added.
possible will make use of this advantage to enjoy
In addition to showing the uprights, fine halftones
music of a better class."
of the Gulbransen grand and small grand, registering
A feature of the Music Week in New Haven is a grand and reproducing grand are provided.
concert by the New Haven Symphony Orchestra.
A birdseye view of the Gulbransen factories, their
At San Francisco a city-wide piano playing tourna- capacities, and a brief history of the company, illus-
ment is a leading event. In Denver the high light of trated with a portrait of the founder, A. G. Gulbran-
the Music Week is the presentation of the pageant, sen, complete the interesting contents of the new
"The Epic of Colorado," with music by Charles booklet.
Wakefield Cadman. In New York City the music
performance contests are the crowning feature of
the observance. Competitions are featured in the
observance at Wilmington, Del , and all the schools of
the county are participating in a festival at Eliza-
beth, N. J., with 3,000 in the chorus and 150 in the
orchestra.
Numerous state-wide events mark the Music Week, Miss Hazel Hallett Awarded Baldwin Piano
such as the Iowa state high school music contest,
at Final Contest of National Federation
held in Iowa City during Music Week under the aus-
of Music Clubs Convention.
pices of the University School of Music and 'the
University Extension Division. Kentucky is holding
Miss Hazel Hallett, of Boston, Mass., was the
during Music Week the finals of a state music mem-
ory contest under the auspices of the state department winner of the first piano prize in the National Young
Artists' contest conducted by the National Federation
of public instruction.
COMPLETE PLANS FOR
NATIONAL MUSIC WEEK
PRIZE WINNER IN
NATIONAL CLUB CONTEST
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SMITH & NIXON
Pianos and Player Pianos
Better than ever, with the same
"Grand Tone In Upright Case."
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Profit.
Smith & Nixon Piano Co.
1229 Miller St., Chicago
MORE DINNER THAN
FROLIC, DECLARES MATT
Item About Piano Travelers Convention Event
in Last Week's Presto-Times Prompts Cor-
rection by President Kennedy.
In a reference, in last week's Presto-Times to the
piano travelers' dinner and annual meeting, to be held
at t'.ie Hotel Drake, Monday night, June 6th, that
event was called a "dinner and frolic" to which
Matt J. Kennedy, president of the National Piano
Travelers Association, takes exception because the
affair will be, strictly speaking, a dinner and not a
"frolic" and dinner. The frolic wi'.l not be in promi-
nent evidence at the convention this year. All will be
frolicsome and joyful, but the away-late frolic, the
midnight-and-after frolic, may be wholly missing
Technically the word "frolic" may properly have
been omitted from last week's announcement though,
unless the travelers' and other festal occasions arc
entirely at variance this year with past music trade
conventions, and entirely different this year than in
past years, the spirit of the frolic certainly will pre-
vail.
ITAZF.L. HALLETT.
NEW GULBRANSEN
BOOKLET IS ISSUED
Artistic Appearance and Great Power to Con-
vince with Irrefutable Arguments, Charac-
teristics of Latest Bit of Publicity.
The new booklet about the Gulbransen Registering
Piano and other instruments is characteristic of the
Gulbransen Co.'s keen regard for the niceties in its
advertising literature and of course it is remarkably
potent in fulfilling the main purposes for which it
was designed. It presents the case of the Gulbransen
products artistically by means of fine printing and
splendid illustrations; convincingly with obvious
facts about the construction of the instruments.
"What attributes make the Gulbransen the leader?" is
a question lucidly answered in the foreword: "Its
easy-playing qualities; complete musical response, per-
sonal 'touch' on the keys, through pedalling; simpli-
fied, careful construction; Gulbransen Instruction
Rolls; National prices—National Advertising."
Thirteen models of Gulbransen instruments are
of Music Clubs. This first piano prize of $500 was
awarded by The Baldwin Piano Company.
The Baldwin piano was the official piano in all final
and semi-final contests held during the Biennial Con-
vention in Chicago recently. Miss Hallett, in addi-
tion to winner of the first piano prize, won the right
to go to New York at the expense of the Welte
Mignon Licensee to make artist's recordings.
MOVES IN KALAMAZOO, MICH.
The Michigan Music Company, Kalamazoo, Mich.,
George A. Snyder, proprietor, has moved from its old
location at 128 Portage street to 432 South Burdick
street, where more spacious quarters for a larger
stock are occupied.
J. H. MILLER'S CHANGE.
J. H. Miller, who went to the Pacific Coast from
St. Paul, Minn., and who has been with the Portland,
Ore , store of Wiley B. Allen Co. for some time past,
has severed his connection with that house to join the
Sherman, Clay Co. forces, with headquarters at
Seattle, Wash.
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