FAMOUS DANCE SCHOOL
USES KNABE=AMPICO
Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn Find the
Instrument of Great Value in
Creative Work.
The Denishawn School of Dancing has, through
many years of use, proved the perfect suitability of
the Knabe Ampico for accompanying the modern
dance. These artists who have done much to popu-
larize the Knabe Ampico are now preparing to pre-
JESSE KRENCH &SONS
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PRESTO-TIMES
July 30, 1927.
Factory and General Offices;,
OREGON, ILLINOIS
CHICAGO OFFICE:
State and Adams Sts.
922 Republic Bid*.
NEW TOHK OFFICE:
130 W. 42nd St.
Bush Terminal Bid*.
Minnesota and will return to Milwaukee the end of
next week.
Oconto county, Wisconsin, staged its sixth annual
music festival and picnic Sunday, July 17, on the
shores of Kelly Lake, near Green Bay. The event
drew ten thousand people from the cities and country
districts of northern Wisconsin. The Kiwanis clubs
of Oconto and Oconto Falls put on a program of
music and conducted the community singing. The
principal speakers of the occasion were Glenn Frank,
president of the University of Wisconsin, and Con-
gressman George J. Schneider.
JULY SALES GOOD IN
SOUTHERN INDIANA
And Music Dealers There Anticipate Similar Activii-
ties for Month of August.
Trade conditions in Evansville, Ind., and other
southern towns of the state are gradually getting
better and dealers say that July so far has been a
very good month and they are looking for a fair vol-
ume of business in August, although taken as a rule
it is a dull month. Conditions are improving in the
rural communities and farmers are in a much better
frame of mind than they were a few weeks acjo
during the rainy season. Music dealers say they
ought to have a good trade this fall. In the city of
Evansville most of the large manufacturing plants are
being operated on good time and bank clearings show
a very healthy state of conditions in general. Col-
lections are very good.
Henry Hudson, of Hudson & Son, Boonville, Ind.,
one of the oldest music houses in southern Indiana,
with his wife and son Bobbie, has returned from
Princeton, Ind., where he visited his mother for sev-
eral days.
Mrs. Harriett Wilder, of Indianapolis, who for-
merly operated music houses in Boonville, Ind.,
Petersburg, Ind., and other towns in southern In-
diana, is expected to arrive in Boonville soon to spend
the remainder of the summer with relatives and
l
friends.
Elmer D. Luhring, president of the Stahlschmidt
Piano Company, of Evansville, Ind., will leave soon
for Wisconsin to JOHI his wife and little daughter,
who have been spending the summer on the lakes.
sent a New York recital in which the Ampico will
supply the entire musical program.
Consistent creative work by such noted artists as
Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn does much to build
the prestige of .the piano and to increase its sales.
Miss St. Denis has written a letter of appreciation
of the Knabe Ampico which is most convincing evi-
dence of her enthusiasm:
"Mr. Shawn and I have been called the pioneers of
the dance in America. The Ampico is the pioneer of
its field. It is not strange that we should have
derived mutual benefit from this association during
Quin A. Ryan, WGN announcer, says: "The trou-
these last ten years.
ble with radio is that its announcers are mostly of
"In the early days in California, we concertized two opposite classes: the wing collar kind or the rub-
with the Ampico up and down the Pacific Coast; ber collar kind."
later on we used it in middle-western states; now we
employ it in our California, New York and Boston
schools for teaching purposes, and when we return
from our present tour, we shall give a concert in New
York in which we shall demonstrate the fact that an
entire program can be done with the Ampico accom-
paniment.
"We like our Knabe-Ampico better than any com-
The Leading and Most Popular
bination we know because the Knabe was our first
Pianos and Players
love, and we have had continuous co-operation from
them throughout these ten years of our association.
Grands, Players, Uprights and
"We have just begun our experimentation in
Reproducing Pianos
creating dance records for the Ampico, and before
another ten years have gone by, we know that we
The Results of Over Forty Years'
shall have many interesting developments in this
of Experience.
art of the dance to which we have dedicated our
Kreiter Pianos Cover the Entire Line
lives."
and no Piano Dealer who tries these in-
struments would supplant them by any
others. A trial will convince.
KREITER
LATE NEWS NOTES FROM
THE STATE OF WISCONSIN
The Kesselman-O'Driscoll Co., Milwaukee, to Move
Next Week to Music Arts Building.
The Kesselman-O'Driscoll Company, Milwaukee,
Wis., a subsidiary of the Music Arts Corporation,
will be ready soon to move from its old quarters at
517-519 Wisconsin avenue into the remodeled Music
Arts building at Broadway and Mason streets. The
Chickering warerooms, another subsidiary of the cor-
poration, has already moved into the building, and
Kesselman-O'Driscoll is now staging a removal sale
and will follow shortly.
Otto R. Stiehm, secretary of the Edmund Gram
Music house, and his wife, are on their vacation in
Kreiter Mfg. Co., Inc.
310-312 We Water St., Milwaukee, Wis.
Factory: Marinette, Wis.
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