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Presto

Issue: 1927 2134

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PRESTO-TIMES
June 25, 1927.
HEADLINERS SIGN WITH
AMPICO CORPORATION
Roy Bargy and Lee Sims, Both in Limelight
of Popular Approval, to Record Exclu-
sively for the Ampico Library.
At the Ampico party at the Blackstone Hotel in
Chicago, the week of the convention formal an-
nouncement was made of the addition of Lee Sims
and Roy Bargy to the Ampico lists, and the evening
mark the high spots in the interpretation of today's
colorful, current favorites.
Bargy's personal playing is of dazzling brilliancy,
and in his recordings for the Ampico a name of inter-
national renown is added to the imposing array of
first rank musicians who record for it exclusively.
Lee Sims is, like Bargy, an artist of international
fame in the playing of the music of the day. Radio
fans love Lee Sims. His original style has won for
him the affections of the millions who "listen in"
whenever he is on the air. The acquisition of Lee
Sims as an exclusive artist by the Ampico Corpora-
tion is a matter for more than usual congratulation.
DISTINCTIVE STORY &
CLARK PERIOD MODEL
Story & Clark Piano Company, Chicago, Re-
ports Excellent Results from Recent Show-
ing of New Instruments in Line.
Highly satisfactory sales results are reactions to
the comprehensive convention week exhibit of the
Story & Clark Piano Company, Chicago, at the
spacious showrooms in the beautiful building at 173
North Michigan avenue. There the complete line
was on display, including the new Story & Clark
Period Models in both grand and upright types,
which particularly interested the visiting dealers.
Six distinctive types of Art Grands were shown,
the styles being English 18th Century, Italian 18th
Century, Hepplewhite, Adams Bros., Sheraton and
E. A. Kiselhorst, Head of St. John's Music House,
Louis XVI, all 5 ft. 2 in. in length, but each with dis-
Presents Copy as a "Good-Bye."
tinctive decorative features very pleasing and decid-
edly beautiful.
E. A. Kieselhorst, president of the Kiselhorst Piano
Three new period model Story & Clark players
Company, St. Louis, recently passed out a printed
which also attracted the music merchants were an
leaflet to the Kieselhorst Organization, which con-
Adam Bros, and Louis XVI, both 4 ft. 2 in. in height,
tained the following:
"On the eve of my departure for a three and one- and a 4 ft. 6 in. Sheraton Model. All contained the
new Story & Clark Triple X player action and were
half months' European tour, and in view of the fact
the recipients of much favorable comment.
that the first foreign country I visit will be England.
hi addition to the Period Models mentioned, the
the- birthplace and home of that great man of let-
new Story & Clark electric expression player without
ters, Rudyard Kipling, and the further fact that out-
pedals attracted much attention. This attraction was
standing St. Louisan, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh by
made up in a 4 ft. 2 in. case built with a view of enab-
his wonderful feat, his remarkable character and that
ling the dealer to market it at a most attractive price
of his splendid mother, my mind was attracted as if
and Story & Clark report many orders booked for
by a magnet to Rudyard Kipling's verses, ''If," which
it together with a very nice business on the regular
are the most beautiful and truthful set of verses ever
Story & Clark lines including the Period Models.
written. 1 pass it on to each of you, in the hope that
you will keep it where you can refer to it frequently,
because it w:ll be of great benefit to you individually,
as well as your association with the reliable old House
of Kieselhorst, now nearing its 50th milestone."
SEES STIMULATION IN
RUDYARD KIPLING VERSES
TRADE NEWS IN THE
BALTIMORE MUSIC FIELD
ROY BARGY.
was made memorable by the personal appearance of
Roy Bargy, who played several numbers which were
highly acclaimed by the guests of the Ampico Cor-
poration.
Mr. Bargy lias won for himself a wide popularity,
and is one of the most prominent figures in the school
IF
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.
If you can dream and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors jast the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop to build them up with worn-out tools.
If you can make one heap of all your winnings,
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss.
And lose and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the will which says to them, "Hold on."
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue.
Or walk with kings—nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you.
If a!l men count with you, but none too m.ich;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the earth and everything that's in it.
And—which is more—vou'll be a man, mv sou.
LEE SIMS.
of younger musicians who are bringing popular music
to a place where it must be considered a real con-
tribution to the art. His own orchestra at the Hotel
Stevens is one of those superlative organizations that
Frederick P. Stieff Elected Vice-President of Retail
Merchants' Association—Other News.
Frederick P. Stieff, of the Chas. M. Stieff Com-
pany, piano dealers, Baltimore, Md., was elected vice-
president of the Retail Merchants' Association of
Baltimore at a meeting of the board of directors held
last week at the Hotel Rennert.
New and larger quarters have been acquired by
Oldewurtels' Music Shop at 580 North Gay street,
which it will occupy following completion of remodel-
ing and improvements now being made.
Many music teachers of Baltimore are co-operating
with the Baltimore Music Trades' Association in the
Children's Piano Playing Contest being promoted
under the auspices of the local music dealers. They
arc having all of their pupils enroll. One of them,
Mrs. Margaret Dunn, has entered 35 of her pupils.
A one hundred piece band is being organized by
the local branch store of C. G. Conn, Ltd., 402 North
Howard street. To date eighty-eight young men and
young women of Baltimore have enrolled, leaving
only twelve more members necessary to complete the
band. Membership dues in the band are 25 cents
weekly. Those who do not have instruments of their
own are renting them from the store at a weekly rate
of $1. Arrangements have been made by the store to
give instructions to the members of the newly organ-
ized band. Due to the fact that Conn band instru-
ments are being used and that it is being organized
and sponsored by the Conn store, the band can truly
be called a Conn baud.
THE "LITTLE WONDER."
THE JUNE TAG.
Weiser & Sons, Chicago, lias received satisfactory
proof that the "Little Wonder" grand is well named.
In a folder issued to the trade the following is said
about the little instrument: "Not a detail has been
overlooked in the completion of this little piano.
Aside from its wonderful tonal qualities, it is beauti-
ful to look at. It is symmetrical throughout, the
legs, the lyre and all else conform to the small case.
Its weight, of approximately 200 pounds, makes it
just as easy to move around as a piece of furniture."
All Straube pianos shipped during the month of
June are distinguished by a tag, and the Straube
Piano Co., Hammond, Ind., believes this will help
dealers in getting the difficult prospect sold. The
company advises dealers to send orders for what they
may need during the month of June at an early date.
"From reports received from dealers in many parts
of the country, business is showing signs of marked
improvement. We hope this is the case with you,"
writes the sales department of the Hammond industry.
PRESTO BUYERS' GUIDE
GOLDSMITH
Price 50 Cents
Players and Pianos
PRESTO PUBLISHING CO.
Have Every "Ad vantage in Quality and Results
to the Dealers
An Investigation Will Prove It
CHICAGO
GOLDSMITH PIANO COMPANY
1225-1227 Miller Street, CHICAGO
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June 25, 1927.
PRESTO-TIMES
CONSIDERS GRAND OPERA
AIDS MUSIC SALES
Chicago Dealers and Trade Organizations See
Assurances of Help in Preparation for
Civic Opera Company.
Music interests in Chicago, including music goods
firms and individuals in the music industry, are noting
with pleasurable anticipation the preparations for a
new season of the Chicago Civic Opera Company. All
of the retail music houses are included among the
financial backers of the organization and the Piano
Club of Chicago is foremost among the sponsors.
Herbert M. Johnson, manager of the Chicago Civic
Opera Company, who is now abroad for the purpose
of adding to the list of artists for next season, writing
from London last week says:
"Our next move is to Paris, where Chicago artists
seem to be monopolizing attention. In addition to
Miss Garden, Mary McCormic is very much in the
public eye, specializing in 'Faust,' and Roberto Mqr-
anzoni has become the idol among conductors. Such
a condition is not likely to be overlooked by any
Chicagoan, so a small flock of us—Cyrena Van Gor-
don, who is here enjoying a vacation with her
husband, Dr. Shirley Bogart Munns, Mrs. Johnson
and myself—will hurry to the scene of the exvite-
ment."
Helps in Sales.
Grand opera is considered one of the potent aids
to the advancement of music and since its democ-
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
CHICAGO OFFICE:
State and Adams Sts.
922 Republic Bldgr.
NEW YORK OFFICE:
130 W. 42nd St.
Bush Terminal Bid?.
ratization is considered by men of the music trade in
Chicago one of the direct aids towards increasing
music goods sales. So the trade is closely watching
Mr. Johnson's efforts to recruit a strong organization
for next season. The comprehensive considerations
involved in his work are interestingly suggested in his Leonard C. Lamb, the Knoxville, Tenn., Music
letter:
Dealer, Talks Instructively to Interviewer.
Comparison of Costs.
Leonard C. Lamb, president of the Lamb Com-
"London's season is of eight weeks' duration, as pany, successors to the Cable Piano Company, Knox-
compared with Chicago's twelve weeks and New ville, Tenn., who attended the recent convention of
York's twenty-four. The contrast is greater when the trade in Chicago, gave his views of the gathering
one considers the relative size of the opera houses to a reporter for Knoxville Journal on his return.
and the further fact that in London no performances
"One of the most interesting things brought out
are sung on Saturday or Sunday and no matinees are
in
the convention," according to Mr. Lamb, "is the
given. Historic old Covent Garden seats only nineteen
hundred patrons as compared with about thirty-six change in the styles of pianos. The trend is all to-
are signs
hundred in our opera houses, so the fact that eighteen ward bright colors and fancy cases. These
y
of the first twenty performances were absolutely sold of the age. East Tennessee people, how ever, are still
out, while pleasing, means little from our standpoint. very conservative when they buy pianos. Although
Covent Garden's prices are almost identical with the we keep the newer designs and finishes in stock, we
Chicago scale of prices and a bit below the New York find that local people prefer the standard types of
scale, so that capacity means only about $7,000—a cases."'
"The importance of music in child life was brought
joke from American standpoints.
very forcibly in the convention talks," said Mr.
"As against this, however, producing costs fully out
Lamb.
is a wholesome outlet for adolescent
equalize conditions. Union labor costs absorb about emotions, "Music
and
statistics
reveal that only a small num-
forty per cent of grand opera expenditures at home. ber of 200,000 juvenile delinquents
in this country each
Here, in comparison, labor costs are trifling. The year play any sort of a musical instrument.
players in the Covent Garden orchestra receive about
"The educators and parents of America are begin-
$7.50 a performance with a free rehearsal for each
opera, whereas Chicago musicians receive double that ning to realize the importance of music in child life.
Music acts first of all as a stimulant and recreation.
sum and from $90 to $100 a week for rehearsals.
"The weekly wage for a chorister in London is Next, it is beneficial entertainment. Finally, it is in-
about the daily fee of the player in the pit, and they, surance, for a person who has a good musical educa-
too, accord a free rehearsal for each opera. The tion can usually make it of financial value to him-
minimum scale of the Choral Alliance, as the Ameri- self. Music is the only natural art and the only art
can choristers' union is known, is $61 a week, with $42 which is still taught individually and not in classes.
"Class instruction in music, however, is coming,
a week for rehearsals. The variance in costs fcr
and such instruction will make it possible for those
everything else is in proportion."
who cannot afford to pay for individual lessons to
obtain a musical education at a small cost. Music
is the only thing that enters every important event in
a person's life."
TELLS HOME TOWN ABOUT
BIG TRADE GATHERING
TRADE NEWS NOTES
FROM EVANSVILLE, IND.
Brief Items, Mostly Personal, Tell of Activities in
the Busy Indiana City.
Plans for the dedication of the new Estey organ in
the temple of La Valette Commandery, Knights
Templar, at Evansville, Ind., are being worked out.
Prominent high Masons from all over Indiana and
other states will be invited to take part in the dedica-
tory program.
N. W. Bryant, founder of the N. W. Bryant Piano
Company at Evansville, Ind., is back from a business
trip to Henderson, Ky.
W. P. Geissler, head of the W. P. Geissler Music
Company at Evansville, Ind., has returned from a
business trip to Chicago.
Miss Mary Ellen McClure has been named in-
structor of piano, theory and harmony in the Evans-
ville College at Evansville, Ind., according to Herbert
Heidecker, head of the department of music in the
college. Miss McClure received her bachelor of arts
degree from Evansville College in 1925 and for six
years she studied piano and voice under Professor
Heidecker.
Wanted. Young Men!
' I'O young men looking for such an opportunity wo
J. have an unusual offer. Right now in numberless
cities and towns in the United States, there is a great
shortage of piano experts, technicians and tuners.
The few masters there are, are earning Jargre salaries
for ttil3 exceptionally pleasant work. Their time is
their own. They me
and soon establish
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POLK COLLEGE OF PIANO TUNING
Ik Building. DepllO
La Porte, Ind.
Piano Tuning, La Porte. Ind.
a a copy of your free booklet,
1 like the ide of becoming a professional
An amendment of the articles of incorporation of
the Carberry-Parker Co., Badger Music Shop, so that
the name of the corporation is changed to the
'"Badger Music Shop," is announced. The company
is holding a sale preparatory to its removal into the
new Music Arts Building on the corner of Mason
street and Broadwav.
NEW CHICAGO FIRM.
The Summerdalc Music Shop, dealing in pianos,
radios, phonographs and accessories, was opened Sat-
urday, June 11, at 5234 N. Robey street. Messrs.
Phelps and Tateel are the proprietors.
•THE HOUSE OF GRANDS"
Concert, Parlor ana Small Grands
Period and Modern Designs
C. S. MULLENIX, MANAGER.
C. S. Mullenix, president of the Atlanta, Ga., chap-
ter of the National Association of Piano Tuners and
active in piano sales, has been made manager of the
Cable Piano Company's store in Asheville, N. C. For
many years Mr. Mullenix has been head of the tuning
department of the company w r ith a field for tuning
and fine repair work that comprised the state of
Georgia. His ability in that respect and his judgment
in ways to create piano prospects makes him
peculiarly fitted for his new managerial position.
THE BELLOWS-BLOWER'S EPITAPH.
—to become specialists in a field which wilt not
only pay them exceptionally well but which
will give them socialstanding and prominence!
AMENDS INCORPORATION CLAUSES.
Under this stone lies Meredith Morgan,
Who blew the bellows of our church organ.
Tobacco he hated, to smoke most unwilling.
Yet ne'er was so pleased as when pipes he was rilling;
No reflection on him for rude speech that he cast,
Though he gave our old organist many a blast.
No puffer was he,
Though a capital blower;
He could fill double G,
And now lies a note lower.
—Exchange.
Manufacturers of the
Grand in Upright Form
Grand tone and quality in the Upright Piano
is exclusively Bush Hf Lane
(Paunud)
Reproducing and Player Pianos—
gnon (Licensee) and Cecilian
Writ* for our Art Catalog
Bush & Lane
Piano Co.
Holland, Michigan
THE JEWETT PIANOS
Reliable Grand, Upright and Player Pianos
JEWETT PIANO CO., Boston Factories: Leominster, Mass.
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