Presto

July 2, 1927.
PRESTO-TIMES
NEW STRAUBE FOLDER
CONVINCING TO TRADE
In Clear and Forceful Way Straube Piano Co.
Tells About "The World's Smallest
Full Scale Grand Piano.
The two-color double-page spread of the Straube
Piano Co., Hammond, Ind., printed in Presto-Times
a few weeks ago, which featured the Straube Sonata
grand with duplex overstrung scale, has been repro-
duced as an effective folder to be mailed to dealers.
The advertisement is convincing in its clear pictur-
ing of the string arrangement of the Sonata grand
and the manner in which the increased string strength
has been obtained.
Another cut, which reveals the high quality of con-
struction of the back of the Straube Sonata grand,
shows the laminal post construction, a patented
Straube feature which is one of the outstanding char-
acteristics of all Straube grands. This maintains the
rigidity of the entire instrument, preserving the tone
quality and insuring long life. The cut also shows
the built up key bed which permanently maintains
the proper level for key and action.
"In building a small grand piano it was the Straube
ideal to produce true grand qualities. And this has
been achieved! By the application of the exclusive
Straube method of duplex overstringing we have pro-
duced in a case but four feet four inches long, a scale
with a string length equal 'to a grand piano at least
a foot longer," says the folder.
"This exclusive Straube principle of scale drawing
has now achieved for the small grand piano the same
relative improvement in tone quality and volume
which made such a tremendous impression in the
Style L upright, introduced last year."
back in 1882, when he was working at the bench and
I was tuning for E. Gabler & Bro.
"During the World's Fair at Chicago I was work-
ing for Lyon Potter & Co., and one day I read in
the Chicago Tribune 'that a maid working for the
Otto Hinzen family at Louisvile, Ky., had encoun-
tered a burglar who had broken into the home, had
knocked him down and sat on him until help arrived.
Taking the address given by the Tribune, I wrote
to him, and he visited us when he came to the Fair.
"Now after about 34 years I found out by 'this
death notice that we had been neighbors for the past
seven years and we did not know it. The world is
not so big."
Surviving are Mrs. Hinzen and a daughter, Mrs.
Florence Templin, of Seattle, also three grandchildren,
James, Helen and Marvin Templin; one brother, Paul
Hinzen, Brooklyn, N. Y.; two sisters, Mrs. Katherine
Vollinger and Mrs. Jennie Stone, both of Atlantic
City, Ga. Mrs. Templin is expected to be here for
the services.
H.C.BAY COMPANY OPENS
NEW YORK WAREHOUSE
Julian T. Mayer Is New York Representative
With Showrooms and Offices at 417
West 28th Street.
NEW BRINKERHOFF
CATALOG IS ISSUED
Handsome Booklet for the Use of Dealers Has
the Character to Interest Prospects and
Arguments to Convince Them.
A handsome new catalog for the use of dealers has
been issued by the Brinkerhoff Piano Co., Chicago.
It pictures and describes the winners in the Brinker-
hoff line of pianos, playerpianos, grands and the Aria
Divina reproducing grands and the method of presen-
tation is convincing and highly conducive to sales.
The catalog is another aid to sales for the Brink-
erhoff dealer. The booklet has the essential quality
of creating interest in the Brinkerhoff instruments in
the mind of prospective buyers. What goes to make
a Brinkerhoff instrument, how the materials are
used, the men who use them, and the result, are all
things made familiar to the reader of the booklet.
Special attention is given in the booklet to the
Brinkerhoff grands which include the Mayfair small
grand, whose smart lines and distinctive appearance
has made one of the most desirable models.
''Brinkerhoff Grands are finished in a separate de-
partment by an expert corps of men. Both walnut
and mahogany styles may be had with the new high-
light shaded effects. Lacquer is also optional and
is meeting with increasing favor," says the new cata-
log.
"The Aria Divina Reproducing action is made en-
tirely by the Brinkerhoff organization. The elabo-
rate mechanism is of very modern design, embody-
ing the best known principles of pneumatic control.
As a result, no other piano so faithfully reproduces
each variation of the artists' technique and touch as
the Brinkerhoff with the Aria Divina. The Brinker-
hoff company pays no royalties, operating entirely
under patents developed by its own engineers, and
for that reason the Brinkerhoff Aria Divina Repro-
ducing- Grand can be sold at less than other leading
reproducing pianos."
The Kensington upright piano and Kensington
player as well as the Virginian upright and Virginian
player are shown in excellent halftone cuts and fully
described. The Empire player, the Mayfair small
grand, the Mayfair Reproducing Grand and the Vene-
tian Grand also are shown in cuts with descriptions
added.
The H. C. Bay Company, 209 South State street
(Republic Building), Chicago, made the announce-
ment this week of the opening of its warehouse in
New York, which will be the headquarters of the
company in the East and will serve the Eastern
trade. A complete stock of H. C. Bay Company's
instruments will be on hand at all times, which will
enable the company to supply the trade in and
around New York City with immediate delivery.
This move was considered necessary by the H. C.
Bay Company in view of the fact that many enter-
prising dealers in that territory are representing the
Bay instruments and much time will be saved on their
shipments.
Julian T. Mayer is appointed New York repre-
sentative, with offices at 417 West 28th street. Mr.
New Owner of Progressive Altoona House Mayer, who is well known in the trade, will be wel-
comed to New York by his friends in the East.
Has Had Wide and Varied Prepara-
It is certain that the New York trade will
tion for His Duties.
appreciate the convenience the H. C. Bay warehouse
Arthur E. Winter is now the sole owner of the will afford 'them. The stock includes a selection of
Winter Music House, Altoona, Pa., which was grands, reproducing grands, player pianos, upright
founded close to fifty years ago by his father, F. A. pianos, reproducing uprights and studio uprights, all
Winter, who died last year. By the terms of a deal of which can be had in plain Colonial and Period
W. W. Huntington Provides Object Lesson Worthy
just closed, Mr. Winter bought the inherent inter- styles.
of Attention by U. S. Representative at Geneva.
ests of his brothers and sisters in the real estate and
business of the main store at 1415 Eleventh avenue
W.
W. Huntington, a piano tuner of Valparaiso,
AMPICO SCHOOL IN NEW YORK.
as well as the branch store in Tyrone, Pa. The
Ind., was troubled with motorists parking at the
A special session of the Ampico School has been curb in front of his door so that he could not use
Winter Music House in Altoona is in a modern build-
ing of three stories and basement, and the arrange- arranged to immediately follow the sessions of the the space. The following item from a Valparaiso
ments make the store a model of taste and complete- tuners' convention to be held in New York in August. paper tells how Mr. Huntington outwitted the
Tuners attending the convention may, therefore, with usurpers:
ness.
"Several journeys to court in an effort to keep a
The new owner has had experience in the manu- a few days' additional stay in New York, avail them-
facture, wholesale selling, as well as the retailing of selves of the unusual opportunity offered by this little space clear, at least in front of his driveway,
pianos. Previous to entering into partnership with session of the school. Enrollments may be made availed him nothing.
"Today the curb space in front of his home is
his father in 1906 he had extended his knowledge of now by addressing the Service Department of the
pianos by studying their construction in several of Ampico Corporation, 423 West 54th street, New strangely clear. And the reason—Huntington sitting
York, or at the Ampico Corporation headquarters at peacefully smoking on his front porch, carelessly
the New York piano plants.
the Hotel Commodore during the convention session. balances a loaded rifle on his knees."
In the fine line of pianos handled are the Steinway,
Emerson, Krakauer, Jacob Bros., Brinkerhoff, Winter,
and Premier, as well as the Duo-Art. The same
splendid line of instruments is carried in the branch
store in Tyrone.
ARTHUR E. WINTER
NOW HEADS WINTER & CO.
VALPARAISO, IND., TUNER
BELIEVES IN PREPAREDNESS
NEW OULBRANSEN POSTER
OTTO H. HINZEN DIES
IN CASHMERE, WASH
, G U L B R A N S EH'
Piano.
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And Walter E. Fox, of Omak, Wash., Sup-
plies Facts of His Association with
Deceased for Over 34 Years.
Otto H. Hinzen, 71, who died recently in Cash-
mere, Wash., was stricken with apoplexy last July
and had been confined to his bed since that time. He
was born in New York City on August 30, 1856, and
when still a child went to Louisville, Ky., where he
lived until he came to Cashmere 17 years ago.
After he finished his education he became a piano
maker and was in the business until he came West.
He was for seven years manager of the Nahahum
Orchards and ten years ago moved to his own
orchard home where he was living at the time of
his death.
Walter E. Fox, the Omak, Wash., music dealer
who sent Presto-Times the notice of Otto H. Hin-
zen's death, told of a few interesting circumstances
of their association:
"He and I were roommates in New York City
Small, Graceful, His Anywhere
A Tonal Achievement
only $295
A new 24-sheet poster is being prepared for the
use of dealers by the Gulbransen Co., Chicago. It
will be devoted to the small grand and will be known
ar. No. 15, is shown in the accompanying cut.
It makes the second consecutive month that a new
poster has been announced by the Gulbransen Com-
pany. Last month it announced the Minuet poster
and is now ready for delivery. The Grand poster
will probably be available in other thirty or forty
days.
Both of these posters will play a leading-part in
the Gulbransen poster campaign for the fall months.
This Grand poster is from a reproduction of an
oil painting, the most advanced and artistic process
of 24-sheet poster preparation.
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