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Presto

Issue: 1927 2138

July 23, 1927.
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PRESTO-TIMES
PIANO FACTORY^STORE SUPPLIES
FAIRBANKS PIANO PLATES
Product of Fairbanks Co. Springfield, Ohio,
Remarkable for Distinctive Qualities Appre-
ciated by Exacting Piano Manufacturers.
The fame of many pianos depends on the fine qual-
ity of the plate, the importance of which is obvious
to anybody who is familiar with piano construction.
The piano plate, from the character of its manu-
facture, early became a specialty adopted by the foun-
dry men. And like true specialists the foundry firms
adopting piano plate making as an important phase
of their activities, at once showed their understanding
of the problem of the piano builder. The plate pro-
vides the character of firmness and rigidity, without
which the task of the piano builder would be futile.
In the American piano industry the piano plates
made by the Fairbanks Company, Springfield, Ohio,
are considered a potent means towards attaining the
character of sturdiness and durability for pianos. It
is a selection prompted by distinctive qualities in the
Fairbanks plates which manufacturers believe to be
essential to the production of high-class pianos. Fair-
banks piano plates are particularly desirable because
they conform to the requirements of the exacting
piano manufacturer and are made from the finest
materials by the most skillful workmen.
It is admitted by dealers, piano makers and piano
owners of a discriminating kind that a Fairbanks plate
in a piano is a prime factor in dependable construc-
tion.
BUSINESS CONTINUES.
"There's business all the time if you can induce it
to come your way," was the text on which a promi-
nent western music dealer hung his address at the
recent Western Music Trades Association convention
in San Francisco. He argued in a bright, impromptu
manner that there is really no particular season of
MERIT IN SCHAFF STRINGS
the year in which the musical merchandise stock is
specially favored by buyers. Every day, every week,
every month may be set down as favored for musical
High Character of Materials Used and Per-
merchandise purchases, was the belief he expressed
and he cited his own experiences in support of the
sonal Element in the Processes in the
theory.
Factory Make for Quality.
ANNOUNCES ENGAGEMENT.
The announcement of the engagement of Herbert
Edward Marks, son of Edward B. Marks, New York
publisher, and Miss Hortense Eugenie Tyroler was
made this week. Miss Tyroler was graduated from
Vassar College in 1925 and received her Master of
Arts degree from Columbia University last February.
Mr. Marks, the older son of the music publisher,
attended Dartmouth, and after leaving college be-
came engaged in newspaper w r ork. For the past year
and a half he has been with his father's firm as head
of the mechanical and publicity departments. The
wedding is to take place next winter.
Arthur E. Winter, head of the Winter Music
House, Altoona, Pa., is one of the beneficiaries under
the will of the late Henry Buhl, Jr., of Pittsburgh.
Notice of Removal
We wish to inform you that owing to
the increase in our business we have
moved into our new building,
1305-07-09 NORTH 27TH STREET
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
We thank you for past patronage and
trust to further serve you.
OTTO R. TREFZ, JR.
WESSELL, NICKEL & GROSS
Manufacturer* of
The quality of the bass strings in a piano is one of
the most important considerations for the maker,
the dealer, and the ultimate retail buyer. Pianists
know the tonal value of good bass strings in
the instruments they play. Fullness, resonance in
an instrument, power, are accomplished by the se-
lection of the bass strings by the piano maker.
A piano rated as "fine" is an instrument in the build-
ing of which the maker is satisfied with nothing but
the best in materials. And in the list of materials the
bass strings are notably important.
The Schaff Piano String Co., 2009-2021 Clybourn
avenue, Chicago, has for very many years been dis-
tinguished for the unchallenged merit of its bass
strings. Piano manufacturers know that the good
will of his trade is the keystone of his business.
Without it the whole structure of his business would
fall to pieces. He knows that fine tone may be
effected by the use of perfect strings, and the manu-
facturer who uses the Schaff strings is assured of one
of the prime secrets of tonal merit for his instru-
ments.
The Schaff bass strings are made by experts
most of whom are veterans who consider their occu-
pation among the arts. The most modern machin-
ery is used, but there is a personal element in the
making of Schaff strings that makes them distinc-
tive in the industry.
FORMS JUNIOR BAND.
A junior band, composed of boys and girls from
twelve to eighteen years of age, was organized in
Avon, 111., last week. This band is being sponsored
by the local Exchange Club through its entertain-
ment committee. Twenty-three members signed up
and there arc prospects for more members in the
near future.
MOVING TRUCKS
for
PIANO ACTIONS
HIGHEST GRADE
ONE GRADE ONLY
PIANOS
The Wessell, Nickel & Gross action is a
guarantee of the grade of the instrument
in which it is found.
FACTORIES:
M p U /
45lhSt..l0thA»«. &W46lh i^MLWW
Y H P I f
I WlVlV
Orthophonic Victrolas
Electric Refrigerators
OFFICE.
45th S**«t
4S7 W#
JULIUS BRECKWOLDT & SON, INC.
DOLGEVILLE. N. Y.
Write for catalog and prices for End Trucks, Sill
Trucks, Hoists, Covers and Special Straps.
Manufactured by
Self-Lifting PianoTruck Co.
Manufacturers of
FINDLAY, OHIO
Piano Backs, Boards, Bridges, Bars,
Traplevers and Mouldings
J BRECKWOLDT. Pre«.
W. A. BRECKWOLDT. Sec. & TTMM.
THE O S. KELLY CO.
Manufacturers
PRESTO BUYERS' GUIDE
TELLS ALL ABOUT ALL PIANOS
of
Hlfifhi
Grade
PIANO PLATES
SRRIISJGFIEIL-D
XH E CO MSTOCK, C H E ME" Y
IVORYTON, CONN •
-
-
OHIO
& CO.
IVORY CUTTERS SINCE 1834
MANUFACTURERS OF
Grand Keys, Actions and Hammers, Upright Keys
Actions and Hammer , Pipe Organ Keys
Piano Forte Ivory for IIB Trade
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July 23, 1927.
PRESTO-TIMES
SITUATION IN SUPPLIES
Pacts in Various Lines of Commodities Which Enter
Into Musical Instrument Manufacture.
The Tonk Manufacturing Co.'s branch factory at
4627 East 50th street, Los Angeles, Calif., guaran-
tees prompt deliveries of Tonkhench orders by west-
ern music dealers.
In a talk before the technical division of the Amer-
ican Pulp and Paper Association at the twelfth an-
nual dinner at the Hotel Commodore, New York,
Raphael Zon, director of the Great Lakes States
Forest Experiment Station, said that America's sup-
ply of spruce is being rapidly depleted.
The famous Weickert hammer and damper felts
are carried by Philip W. Oetting & Son, Inc., 213
East 19th. street, New York, which house also carries
a full line of grand and upright hammers made of
Weickert felt as well as full supplies of fine bushing
cloths and other requirements of that kind.
The piano industry is represented in the Wood
Industries Division of the American Society of Me-
chanical Engineers by Theo. Cassebeer, Paul Victor
and Paul Bilhuber, all of Steinway & Sons, New
Worry Over Player Details
is avoided by the manufac-
turer who uses the
A. C. Cheney Player Action
in his products. He knows
everything is all right and
that the best musical quali-
ties of his pianos are develop-
ed by the use of this player
mechanism.
York; H. C. Rice, C. Kurtzmann & Co., Buffalo; A.
K. (iutsolin, Standard Pneumatic Action Co., New
York, and Paul Taylor.
Much of the hardwood used in the piano industry
is of Georgia origin, according to a report by State
Forester B. H. Lufburrow, who recently reported on
the productiveness of twenty-three countries having
a total of 4,742,450 acres of hardwood.
Mahogany has been exported from British Hon-
duras for more than 200 years and since the decline
in the value of logwood has been the chief product.
The people of the United States must accept for-
estry as an opportunity as well as a responsibility,
E. A. Sherman, of the Forest Service Department,
told the meeting of the American Forestry Associa-
tion in New Haven, Conn., recently.
BILLIE WILLIAMS PLAYS CONN.
PROGRESSIVE MUSIC PRINTERS.
A business of constantly increasing interest to peo-
ple in all phases of the music trade, is that of Rayner,
Dalheim & Co., 20554-2060 West Lake street, Chi-
cago, music printers by all processes. The growth
of the house indicates the vast increase in music pub-
lishing in America, but the importance of Rayner,
Dalheim & Co. is the best proof of its active modern
methods and the appreciation of those methods by
musicians, publishers and the music trade.
Greater Beauty
and Greater
Manufacturers of
Comfort
SCARFS,
GUSH-
IONS,
COVERS
CASTLETON, N. Y.
Piano String Co.
County Fairs and Other Events in Indiana to Be
Enlivened by Good Music.
Talbott's Roys Band, of Sturgis, Ky., has been
given the contract for furnishing music at the Union
County Fair to be held at Uniontown, Ky., in August.
The Jasper silver band, Jasper, Ind., one of the best
known bands in the state, has been awarded the con-
tract to play for the Dubois County Fair that will be
held in Huntingburg, Ind., in August.
The Boonville Municipal Band, under the direction
of Professor Raymond Kirsch, is arranging to give
several concerts in southern Indiana towns.
Weyerbacher's Cadet band of Evansville, Ind., is
spending the months of July and August in the state
of Wisconsin and will return to Evansville in time for
the opening of school in September.
The American Legion Band, Cannelton, Ind., or-
ganized less than a year ago, has been whipped into
shape and has a number of engagements to till during
the remainder of the vear.
Billie Williams is a versatile musician, appearing
in vaudeville on the Keith circuit, who shows her
preference for the instruments made by C. G. Conn,
Ltd., Elkhart, Ind. She plays the saxophone, clari-
net, banjo, and other instruments, but she appears to
favor the saxophone in her program. Of course it
is a Conn saxophone she uses in her act, during
Mrs. Samuel Gompers, widow of the labor leader,
which she demonstrates the merits of the instrument who has given all her time to music since the death
as well as her own proficiency in using it. Off the of her husband three years ago, is contemplating
stage Miss Williams is one of the most enthusiastic pianoforte lessons abroad.
boosters for Conn instruments.
A. C. CHENEY
PIANO ACTION COMPANY
SCHAFF
SCHOOL BANDS GET CONTRACTS
Bench Cushions, Piano Throws, Bags
for Small Instruments. Upholstered
Bench Tops.
Illustrated Folder* On Request
OTTO R. TREFZ, Jr.
PIANO BASS STRINGS — PIANO REPAIR SUPPLIES
TUNERS AND REPAIRERS
Our new Illustrated Catalogue of Piano
and Player Hardware, Felts and Tools
is now ready. If you haven't received
your copy let us know.
2110 Fairinount Ave.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
GENERAL PIANO KEY
REPAIRING
24-HOUR
SERVICE
RECOVERING
BUSHING
SHARPS
E. A. BOUSLOG, Inc.
2106 Boulevard Place
INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
Period Drapery and Mfg. Go.
NEW ALBANY, IND.
The Piano Repair Shop
PIANO KEYS RECOVERED
Piano Bass Strings
2009-2021 CLYBOURN AVENUE
Corf er Lewis Street
CHICAGO
Heaviest grade Pyralin Ivory, beveled
and polished to look like the finest ivory
keyboards built. Beautiful work, guaran-
teed. Sharps ebonized, bushings, etc.
We begin work on your keys the minute they
arrive. Write for New Price List.
McMACKIN PIANO SERVICE
Factory: 1721-3 Mondamin Avenue
DES MOINES, IA.
Pianos and Phonographs Rebuilt by
Expert Workmen
Playei-actions installed. Instruments
refinished or remodeled and actions and
keys repaired. Work guaranteed. Prices
reasonable.
Our-of-town dealers' repair work solic-
ited. Write for details and terms.
THE PIANO REPAIR SHOP
339 South Wabaah Ave.
Chicago
FOR TRUE ECONOMY BUY
PERFECTION
Benches and Cabinets
The line that sells on sight and satisfies always
STYLE 25
Send for catalog and price list
PERFECTION FURNITURE COMPANY
1514-1520 Blue Island Ave.
Chicago, 111.
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