May 7, 1927.
PRESTO-TIMES
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Shuman, as all stencil
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pianos bearing a name In
Imitation of the name
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will be prosecuted to the
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New Catalogue on Request.
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W. N. VAN MATRE, President
Rockfoni, 111
W. P. Haines & Co.
Manufacturers or
BRADBURY. WEBSTER
and
W. P. HAINES & CO.
Grand, Upright and Reproducing
Pianos
138th Street and Walton Avenue
NEW YORK
campaign. The church pipe organ, said to have cost
$50,000, was his gift.
The family residence in Detroit is at 90 Arden Park,
while a winter home was maintained by Mr. Grinnell
in Seabreeze, near Daytona, Fla.
Besides his widow, Mrs. Myrtle Grinnell, and the
President of Grinnell Bros., Detroit, Which daughter, he leaves two sisters, six nephews and a
niece. The sisters, Mrs. Frank Johnson and Mrs.
He Helped in Founding, Hsd Been
Louisa Van Gieson, live in Clinton.
111 for a Year.
Three nephews are identified with the business.
They are Elmer W. Grinnell, and Jay Grinnell, both
Clayton A. Grinnell, president and co-founder of
the Grinnell Bros, music house, of Detroit, one of the vice-presidents and directors, and Fred Grinnell, man-
largest establishments of its kind in the country, died ager of the Pontiac branch.
in Colorado Springs, Col., last Saturday, at the age
of sixty-seven.
Mr. Grinnell had been ill since last June, when he
was stricken with plearisy while attending a conven-
tion in New York City of the National Association
of Music Merchants. He went in September to Col-
C. A. GRINNEIX DIES
AT COLORADO SPRINGS
EVEN EIQHTY=SEVEN YEARS
NOT OLD FOR MUSIC PAPER
Nor Is It Fair for Man to Take Credit foi His
Wife's Years in Measuring
His Own.
A vigorous infant publication called "The Radio
Dealer," of New York, recently celebrated its fifth
anniversary with a birthday cake illuminated by a
great group of shining candles in shape of commen-
datory letters from members of the radio trade. One
of the lights seemed particularly bright because it
reflected one of the former distinguished workers in
the piano trade as follows:
Editor The Radio Dealer:—Five years of life for
a trade publication is a short one. I have before me
at the moment, a copy of Presto-Times, published by
my good friends, Daniell & Abbott, which paper
covers the music trade with which I was identified
for many years, bearing the following legend at the
top: "Eighty-seven years in the Music Trade In-
dustry."
When it is considered that the piano was commer-
mercially made in the early part of the last century,
and its forerunners, the harpsichord and spinet long
ante-dated this period, it will be seen that a career of
eighty-seven years does not even date back to the
beginning of the music business.
Your magazine is celebrating its fifth anniversary.
That takes us back to 1922 and we know that radio,
insofar as broadcasting and reception are concerned,
was in its infancy at that time. Your magazine, there-
fore, has been catering to the trade since radio be-
came a commercial entity.
^
Zenith Radio, Chicago, 111.
PAUL B. KLUGH,
Vice-Presideivt.
It is fair to say that Mr. Klugh extends too great
C. A. GRINNELL.
credit for longevity to Presto-Times. While this is
orado Springs, where he and his family took up resi- undoubtedly the oldest of the music trades papers,
dence in the Broadmoor hotel. His ilhress reached the immense aggregate of 87 years indicated the
the critical stage several t'mes last winter.
concurrent figures which represent the existence of
Wkh his brothers, the late Ira L. and Herbert B. both Presto and Musical Times to the time of their
wedding in 1926.
Grinnell, he established the business which now bears
their name forty-six years ago. Clayton A. Grinnell
was born in Barre, N. Y., in December, 1860, and first
BIG WEEK'S BUSINESS.
engaged in business in Clinton, Mich., when about
Liberal use of printer's ink sold a carload of pianos
twenty years of age.
for the Van de Walle Music & Radio Company,
The brothers at that time were proprietors of a Seymour, Ind., on Saturday, according to John Van
sewing machine store. From Clinton they moved to de Walle. When Saturday evening came, not a piano
of the carload which had been placed on sale, re-
Ann Arbor, and in 1880 to Detroit, opening a store at
mained in stock and a considerable number of cus-
218 Woodward avenue.
tomers could not be cared for.
From the experiment of carrying a few organs and
pianos in stock, the business has developed into one
of the largest music houses, in volume of business, in
AN AKRON ANNOUNCEMENT.
the United States. The house has ten branch stores
A. B. Smith, head and founder of the A. B. Smith
in Detroit and twenty branches and sub-branches in
Piano Co., Akron, O., and prominent in state and
the principal cities of Michigan, Ohio and Ontario. national trade activities, will soon retire in favor of
The present Grinnell Bros, building, at 1515-21 his son, A. B. Smith, Jr., who has been actively
Woodward avenue, was erected about eighteen years associated with his father in the management of the
ago.
progressive house.
Mr. Grinnell also was president of the Grinnell
Realty Company, and of the Old Shores Land Com-
pany, of Detroit. He was vice-president of the
Detroit properties corporation, of the Detroit Metro-
politan corporation and a director of the Industrial
Morris Plan bank. He was always active in the
UPRIGHTS, GRANDS, PLAYERS
affairs of the National Association of Music Mer-
AND REPRODUCING PIANOS
chants, of which he was president during a term.
THE FAMOUS "STUDIO GRAND"
He was prominently identified with welfare work
"The First Touch Tells"
and was a member of the board of the Children's
(Reg. U. s. Pat. Off.)
Welfare Society. As an active member of the Metro-
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