Presto

Issue: 1927 2140

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PRESTO-TIMES
Inc., which is signed by Edward Lyman Bill, secre-
tary, says:
Edward Lyman Bill., Inc., publishers of business
papers for over 48 years, have recently formed Fed-
erated Business Publications, Inc., to carry on the
Authorized Capital of $100,000 Named in Incorpora- activities of four of their well known publications,
"The Music Trade Review," "The Talking Machine
tion Papers Filed Recently with State Secretary.
World," "Carpet and Rug News," and "Tires."
To this group will soon be added publications of
Under new organization the Massey -Piano com-
pany, wholesale and retail piano dealers, Des Moines. similar merit in diverse fields to the end that Fed-
erated will constitute an exceptionally complete pub-
la., will reopen in a Walnut street location within
service to American industry.
the next few days. Papers asking incorporation were lication
We are especially pleased to announce this forma-
filed recently.
tion of Federated Business Publications, Inc., to
C. G. Van Vliet, for the last three years chairman
the advertisers and subscribers of Edward Lyman
of the motor trades bureau of the Chamber of Com-
Bill publications, inasmuch as it provides for the first
merce, has been named president and treasurer of the time a means whereby they can actively participate
in the future success of the business they have been
new organization and will represent outside financial
so largely instrumental in building.
interests. W. J. Massey, who for fifteen years had
We want them to share in this expansion only in
been president of the former Massey Piano Com-
pany, now in liquidation, will be secretary and sales accordance with their individual desire to do so, but
we do want them to know of the existence of this
manager.
and that we wholeheartedly recommend
Authorized capital of $100,000 was named in the opportunity,
the current Federated offering as a high-grade in-
incorporation papers. Several Walnut locations are
vestment combining an excellent yield on the pre-
being considered by the new company and one will
ferred stock of 8.3 per cent with an attractive specu-
be decided upon this week.
lative feature in the common stock warrant.
The new company, it was announced would con-
duct a wholesale business over the state and a retail
LONDON AMPICO MANAGER HERE.
business in Des Moines.
C. E. Gorham, general manager of Ampico, Ltd.,
of London, England, is visiting the United States to
remain about thirty days. Mr. Gorham was at one
time an American Piano Company representative on
the Pacific Coast. Through Ampico, Ltd., many
Chickerings, Knabes and Mason & Hamlin pianos,
Circular Letter to Trade Invites Purchase of Stock as well as Ampicos, have been purchased by many
prominent personages in the British Isles, including
in New Incorporation.
Her Majesty, the Queen of England, who recently
A circular letter from Edward Lyman Bill, Inc., became the proud owner of an Ampico.
420 Lexington avenue, New York, accompanied by
a statement issued by a bond house of that city,
REUBEN DAVIES DIES.
Parker, Robinson & Co., Inc., 120 Broadway, tells
A telegram from the Will A. Watkin Company,
about the Federated Business Publications, Inc. The
Chickering representative at Dallas, Tex., advises of
capital stock is made up of 20,000 shares of non-par
value, but now offered at $30 per share for a cumu- the death of Reuben Davies, a Chickering artist of
note, on Monday, July 11. The funeral was held in
lative first preferred.
The circular letter from the Edward Lvman Bill, Dallas on Thursday, July 13.
MASSEY PIANO COMPANY TO
REOPEN IN DES MOINES
THE FEDERATED BUSINESS
PUBLICATIONS, INC., DESCRIBED
August 6, 1927.
KREITER
The Leading and Most Popular
Pianos and Players
Grands, Players, Uprights and
Reproducing Pianos
The Results of Over Forty Years'
of Experience.
Kreiter Pianos Cover the Entire Line
and no Piano Dealer who tries these in-
struments would supplant them by any
others. A trial will convince.
Kreiter Mfg. Co., Inc.
310-312 W, Water St., Milwaukee, Wis.
Factory: Marinette, Wis.
E. Leins Piano Co.
Makers of Pianos and
Player Pianos That Are
Established L e a d e r s .
Correspondence from Reliable
Dealers Invited
Factory and Offices, 304 W. 42nd St.
NEW YORK
GULBRANSEN MINUET MODEL
The Heppe, Marcellus and Edouard Jules Piano
manufactured by the
HEPPE PIANO COMPANY
are the only pianos in the world with
Three Sounding Boards.
Patented in the United States. Go-eat Britain,
France, Germany and Canada.
Liberal arrangements to responsible agents only.
Main Office, 1117 Chestnut St.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
The LEADING LINE
WEAVER PIANOS
Qrandu, Upright* and Players
Finest and most artistic
piano in design, tone and
construction that can be
made.
YORK PIANOS
Upright* and Player Pianos
A high grade piano of great
value and with charming tone quality.
Livingston Pianos— Uprights and Player Pianos
A popular piano at a popular price.
Over 70,000 instruments made by thii company are sing-
Ing their own praises in all parts of the civilised worW.
Write for catalogues and state on what terms you would
like to deal, and we will make you a proposition if you are
located in open territory.
WEAVER PIANO CO., Inc.
Factory: TORK, PA.
Established 1870
CHRISTMAN
The Gulbransen Minuet Art Model is shown in
the accompanying cut. This instrument is finished
in deep verde green, with gold, ivory and other col-
ored trimmings, all daintily and artistically handled.
The Art Model Minuet is a show-piece for fine
homes, for schools, theaters, hotels and other places
of similar character. Decorations are used on the
upper and lower panels, the key-slip, trusses and
edges of the top lid.
The Minuet Model has reached a point of great
popularity throughout the entire country on account
of its exceptional tone and graceful appearance. Now
that it is available in the Art Model it will gain added
prestige, and further emphasize the outstanding value
of the Gulbransen piano line.
UPRIGHTS, GRANDS, PLAYERS
AND REPRODUCING PIANOS
THE FAMOUS "STUDIO GRAND"
"The First Touch Tells"
(Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.)
CHRISTMAN PIANO CO., Inc.
597 East 137th Street.
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NEW YORK
August 6, 1927.
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PRESTO-TIMES
MELODY WAY DEMONSTRATED
JESSE TRENCH & SONS
"Mate Homes Happy "
Cr
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SXffrs. of *Pianos/PIaijers 6>Granc
Write for Catalog*
Hew Castle.
•THE HOUSE OF GRANDS'
Concert, Parlor ana Small Grands
Xew York City piano merchants, with the cooper-
ation of the New York World, are shortly to carry
out the now famous Melody Way plan of music les-
sons. Shown in above cut is Miss Collins of the
Miessner Institute of Milwaukee, originators of this
excellent idea, giving a small group of New York
City music teachers instruction, in one of the studios
of Checkering Hall, on how to conduct the lessons.
Although only a few of the music teachers were
present when the above photograph was taken, these
meetings which were conducted over a period of
three days in Chickering Hall, were very well
attended. The interested male spectator is none
other than Phillip Gordon, the popular Chickering
Artist.
Period and Modern Designs
EUPHONATOR PRODUCERS
TRIPS THROUGH EASTERN
STATES PLEASES L I. KING "SWELL" NOTES FROM PIANO
^Manufacturers of the
Grand in Upright Form
Grand tone and quality in the Upright Piano
is exclusively Bush & Lane
(Patent.d)
Reproducing and Player Pianos—
Welte-Mignon (Licensee) and Cecilian
Writt for our Art Catalog
Busk & Lane
Piano Co.
Holland. Michigan
Sales Manager for the Bush & Lane Piano Co., Sees
Evidences of Good Summer Sales.
Leslie I. King, sales manager of the Bush & Lane
Piano Co., Holland, Mich., gives a cheerful report on
the results of his recent trip through several states
in the eastern section where he found sales good for
this period of the year. From his observations July
and August should prove above normal in piano
sales for those months.
Mr. King noted with particular pleasure the en-
thusiasm of the dealers over various Bush & Lane
models, including the new tive-toot grand, the metal
action Cecilian upright, the beautifully toned style 8
and the new three-foot ten-inch Bush & Lane di-
minutive which uphold every Bush & Lane tradition
of tone and construction.
NEW INCORPORATIONS
IN MUSIC GOODS TRADE
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 Bid*.
NEW TOKK OFFICE:
130 W. 42nd St.
Bush Terminal Bldff.
New and Old Concerns Secure Charters in Various
Places.
The Dallas Music Co., 907 Elm street, Dallas,
Tex.; $5,000.
The Carolina Music Co., Seneca, S. C : $10,000.
Roy M. Abbott of Seneca is the head of the concern.
Walter Kane, Inc., Baylis avenue, South Jamaica,
Long Island, N. Y.; $40,000; to engage in the music
business.
Scott Brothers Piano Company, Ashland, Ky.,
$30,000; C. T. Scott, P. M. Scott and E. J. Scott.
RAVEL TO PLAY MASON & HAMLIN.
When Maurice Ravel, celebrated French composer,
visits the United States next November for a nation-
wide tour, he will play the Mason & Hamlin piano.
Ravel has never before visited the United States and
the opportunity of hearing this master of tone color-
ing play his own works, is an event eagerly awaited
by musical people.
JACOB DOLL & SONS LEASES.
Jacob Doll & Sons, New York, piano manufac-
turers, has leased an entire floor at 6 East Thirty-
ninth street, running through to 7 East Thirty-eighth
street, for showrooms and executive offices. The
location adjoins the old Knabe Piano Building on
Fifth avenue which Ovington's recently leased.
A municipal band is being formed in Muskegon,
Michigan.
Patented Piano Exhibited at Recent Leipzig Fair Has
Strange Acoustic Properties.
At the recent Leipzig Fair, the firm of Fr. Weihen-
meyer & Co., Ltd., piano manufacturers, of Zuffen-
hausen-Stuttgart, exhibited a "Euphonator" piano
patent, by the use of which it is said to be possible to
get a swell note from a piano. In the "Euphonator"
this is made possible by a relatively simple applica-
tion of the laws of acoustics, according to the Lon-
don Music Trades Review, which continues:
Hitherto the sound waves that were reflected from
the sound-board were mostly lost between the slays
at the back. The inventor, Weihenmeyer, however,
collects all the sound waves behind the sound-board
in a cellular-formed resonance space, then permits
them to be thrown forward from the stretched back
wall 'to reach the hearers in several air shafts. To
allow of this, the hind part of the cover is constructed
so as to be movable and to act as a sound funnel at
an angle of 45 degrees.
The increased strength of tone thus obtained
amounts to about 50 per cent., and is of the finest
quality. Experts generally approve it, and grudg-
ingly wonder how this relatively simple invention,
which can be added with slight alteration and little
cost to any upright piano, should only now have been
•thought of. It is anticipated that the invention will
in a short time be universally adopted.
ROAD ALLURES CHAS. GRUNDY.
Charles Grundy, who dropped out of the piano
business for awhile, is back in Chicago after several
weeks of farm work on his farm in central Illinois.
As he says: "Back from the farm and ready to get
in the piano business." His plans are made for the
future. Mr. Grundy is an expert piano roadman
and his services by any manufacturer needing such
a man would be a valuable asset.
NEW KIMBALL BRANCH.
The Kimball Piano Company opened a branch
store at Muskegon Heights, Mich., last week, at 28
East Broadway, under the management of T. J. Mc-
Ginn. The store is filled with a complete stock of
Kimball grand and upright pianos and reproducing
pianos and phonographs.
NEW BALDWIN MANAGER.
F. A. Davis, formerly of the wholesale department
of The Baldwin Piano Company, Chicago, has been
appointed the manager of the Indianapolis Division
with salesrooms and offices at 35 Monument Circle. 1
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