Presto

Issue: 1927 2147

September 24, 1927
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PRESTO-TIMES
A DUCO FINISHED GULBRANSEN
JESSE FRENCH & SONS
^Make Homes Happy "
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£Xffre.of'Pianos/PlaijQrs 6»Granc
Write for Catalog*
Oastl©, Indiana.
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The accompanying cut shows the Gulbransen dis- DuPont exhibit, a very large proportion of them see
play at the DuPont Exhibit room on the Boardwalk,
the Gulbransen display. The instrument has at-
Atlantic City, N. J., recently. The instrument show r n tracted a great deal of attention and inquiry, and
is a Gulbransen Louis XVI Grand in mahogany, the DuPont people are very enthused over the splen-
with bench to match. D. J. O'Connell, manager of
did quality and appearance of this Gulbransen instru-
the DuPont Products Exhibit, states that at this ment, which is only one of a varied line of products
time of the year many people are visiting the Board- finished in duco and displayed at the headquarters,
walk and owing to the conspicuous location of the 1121 Boardwalk.
THE HOUSE OF GRANDS'
Concert, Parlor and Small Grands
Period and Modern Designs
Manufacturers of the
Grand in Upright Form
Grand tone and quality in the Upright Piano
is exclusively Bush & Lane
(PaUnud)
Reproducing and Player Pianos—
Welte-Mignon (Licensee) and Cecilian
Wrttt for our Art Catalog
Bush & Lane
Piano Co.
Holland. Michigan
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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
SCMLLER PIANO COMPANY
Factory and General Offices:
OREGON, ILLINOIS
CHICAGO OFFICE:
State and Adams St».
922 Republic Bid*.
NEW TOKK OFFICE:
130 W. 42nd St.
Bush Terminal
his address said, "It is beyond comprehension that
the amount of confusion and misunderstanding that
now exists can continue much longer without causing
the government to take some action." W. A. Ansley,
chairman of the committee on co-operation, which
includes forty-one of the largest national advertisers
Event at Coliseum This Week, in Which in the country manufacturing trademarked goods,
said that among the sufferers from present conditions
Close to a Thousand Participate Further
are those manufacturers whose products are suffi-
Advertises Piano Classes.
ciently prominent to make them a target for price
A public recital was given on Friday evening, Sep- cutters who offer these trademarked goods at cut
tember 23, in the Coliseum, Toledo, Ohio, by the rates as "leaders," thereby seeking to create the false
pupils who had completed twelve lessons in the
impression that all their merchandise is sold at cut
Melody Way course provided by the Toledo Music prices.
Merchants' Association and the Toledo Blade. Be-
It was announced at the meeting that the Resale
tween 900 and 1,000 boys and girls participated and
Price
Bill introduced at the last session of Congress
ten pianos were used on the stage. Henry Stucke,
manager for Grinnell Bros., was in charge of the by Senator Capper, of Kansas, and Representative
Kelly, of Pennsylvania, had been redrafted by a spe-
recital, which was the first of a series to be held in
cial committee of the House Committee on Interstate
the same place.
and Foreign Commerce and would be re-introduced
Today (September 24) a picnic is scheduled at
at the opening of the next Congress.
Walbridge Park for all Melody Way students. The
Secretary Whittier's report said that during the past
event was planned by the Toledo Blade which ap- year the Association has handled 355 cases involving
pointed Fred N. Goosman head of the Goosman
unfair business, of which 258 have been brought to
Piano Co., as chairman of arrangements, with W. W. satisfactory conclusions, 21 have been submitted to
Smith, president of the J. W. Green Co., as his aide.
the prosecuting authorities, thirteen have been con-
The piano houses have given help in popularizing
cluded without definite results, and the remainder
the piano course in a most important way. Piano are pending.
companies holding daily lessons in store studios are
the J. W. Greene Co., Goosman Piano Co., Frazelle
REOPENS IN LOS ANGELES.
Piano Co., Cable Piano Co., Whitriey-Blaine-Wilder-
muth Co., and Grinnell Bros., in Toledo, and the The Weaver Music Co., which used to be in busi-
following out-of-town firms: Crane-Halleck Music ness ?.t 4516 South Broadway, Los Angeles, Cal., is
Co., Bowling Greene, and Stilson's Music Store, again in active operation and now located at 5961
Gibsonburg, Ohio.
Whittier boulevard, that city, where it has lately
completed its own building and, as E. H. Weaver
says, "where we intend to remain a long time."
TOLEDO RECITAL FOR
PIANO CONTEST PUPILS
CONFLICTING DECISIONS
ON RESALE PRICES
Industrial Leaders at American Fair Trade
Association Annual Meeting Answer Or-
ganized Attack on National Advertising.
Recent court decisions and interpretations of the
Sherman Law in regard to the right of producers and
distributors to enter into contracts regulating resale
prices have created a situation which interferes seri-
ously with the progress of American industry and
which can be remedied only by federal legislation,
according to opinions expressed by members of the
American Fair Trade Association who attended the
thirteenth annual meeting of that organization held
last week at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York.
The association, which includes in its member-
ship 225 of the country's largest manufacturers in
addition to about 500 retailers and jobbers, has from
the start been working to protect the public as well
as the manufacturer and distributor through legisla-
tion authorizing standard resale prices.
Charles H. Ingersoll, president of the association, in
OPENS IN BOWLING GREEN, KY.
E. E. Todd, agent for the Baldwin Piano Co. in
Bowling Green, Ky., has rented the building on
Tenth street and will open a music store there. The
building is a combination store and residence, and
Mr. and Mrs. Todd will make their home there. The
place is being remodeled and Mr. Todd will open
his business this week.
STR1CH & ZEIDLER, Inc.
GRAND, UPRIGHT and PLAYER
AND
HOMER PIANOS
740-742 East 136th Street
NEW YORK
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September 24, 1927
PRESTO-TIMES
12
ment's rural extension directors, especially in their
work among the clubs of young people.
The scheme detailed in the new booklet is de-
scribed as "an elastic plan for utilizing the talking
machine in a creative way as an educational and
recreational instrument."
The pamphlet contains
National Bureau for the Advancement of Music complete directions for presenting in this form three
favorite operas, "Aida," "Carmen" and "Martha."
Issues Plans for Wider Uses of
These include lists of all the records from the three
operas now available in the catalogs of the different
Phonograph in Scheme.
manufacturers. It is pointed out that those lists will
Another example of the work being done' by the be gradually swelled as the companies issue more
National Bureau for the Advancement of Music in
of the opera records with the new improved re-
stimulating interest in the various musical instru- cording.
ments is provided by its new pamphlet, "Giving
It is further emphasized the finest phonograph ob-
Opera with the Phonograph." This publication is a tainable
should be used for the performance, and that
companion booklet to the bureau's pamphlets on the the
most
desirable machine is one of the newly per-
piano, the band orchestra instruments, the harmonica fected instruments
of the various companies.
and other instruments. There are five publications
This new pamphlet is prepared for the use of
devoted-definitely to the piano, besides several others
schools, music clubs, women's study groups, junior
that treat it in less detail; eight relating to the band
and orchestra instruments; one on the harmonica Chautauquas, Camp Fire Girls, Boy Scouts, Girl
Scouts, Girl Reserves, 4-H Clubs and other educa-
and one on the toy symphony.
tional or recreational groups.
Several of the bureau's other publications give
specific suggestions leading to a greater use of the
phonograph. For instance that instrument and the
player-piano are an absolute essential to the music
memory contest, which originated in the home of the
bureau's director, C. M. Tremaine. In the bureau's
general pamphlet on that subject is a list of one Everett Piano Added to Its Wide Range of Grands
by Sherman, Clay & Co.
hundred compositions most frequently used in the
memory contests, That list is made up solely of
Sherman, Clay & Co. of Portland, Ore., has added
numbers available on records or rolls. The manufac- the Everett piano to its already large list of grand
turers were asked to place these numbers on their pianos and are featuring it in an artistic window' dis-
preferential lists as far as stock was concerned and
play, with an Everett grand of the Hepplewhite
in filling orders. Thus the double purpose has been period as the central features of the display.
accomplished of indicating to the manufacturers what
L. E. Larson, formerly manager of the phono-
numbers are likely to be called for and to school graph
department of the Sieberling, Lucas Music Co.,
music supervisors the numbers likely to be easily of Portland,
Ore., has joined the piano force of the
obtainable.
Sherman, Clay & Co. branch of that city.
This use of the talking machine and the player-
I. E. Sklare, manager of the Remick Song Shop of
piano is also being developed in the rural districts
Portland, Ore., furnished the entertainment for the
through the bureau's new leaflet, "Suggestions for
Shrine weekly luncheon the week of September 12,
Music Memory Contest Procedure in Rural Com- and put over a big hit.
munity Clubs," now being utilized by the govern-
NEW BUREAU BOOKS
AIDS LOVE OF MUSIC
LATE ITEMS OF TRAM
NEWS FROM PORTLAND, ORE.
TO ADD PIANOS.
WILLIAMS
PIANOS
The policy of the Williams House ia and always
has been to depend upon excellence of product
instead of alluring price. Such a policy does not
attract bargain hunters. It does, however, win the
hearty approval and support of a very desirable
•nd substantial patronage.
WILLIAWS
^
J S T S 5 3 £ CHICAGO
For a
Bigger and Better
Business
There is nothing to compare
with the complete line of
M. SCHULZ CO.
The Players are RIGHT in
everything t h a t means
money to the dealers and
satisfaction to the public
You will never do anything better
than when you get in touch with
M. SCHULZ CO.,
711 Milwaukee Avenue
CHICAGO
SOUTHERN BRANCH: 730 Candler Bldg., ATLANTA, GA.
The Good Old
Information comes to Presto-Times that an impor-
tant department store in Los Angeles is planning to
take on a line of pianos, a line of trade in which this
particular store has not been engaged heretofore. It
is stated in fact, that the management of this store
has already solicited the agency of a certain well
known piano and is ready to negotiate for one or
two additional agencies.
SMITH & NIXON
SELLS FROM HOME.
Better than ever, with the same
"Grand Tone In Upright Case."
Grands and Players that every deal-
er likes to sell, for Satisfaction and
Profit.
The following announcement was presented in a
Grandville, Mich., paper this week: "Having dis-
continued the music store of Bolt & Rietberg, 1520
Grandville avenue, I wish to notify the public that
1 have retained the agency of a high grade piano
which I wish to sell from mv home."
THE KOHLER INDUSTRIE
Pianos and Player Pianos
Smith & Nixon Piano Co.
1229 MiUer St., Chicago
of NEW YORK
AFFILIATED
COMPANIES
anufactoring for the trade
Upright and Grand Pianos
Plaver Pianos
Welte Mignon (Licensee) Repro-
ducing Pianos
De Luxe Player Actions
Standard Player Actions
Welte Mignon (Licensee) Repro-
ducing Actions
Expression Player Actions
Piano Hammers
Bass Strings
NEW CONSTRUCTION
BAUER PIANOS
exemplify the most
radical and most pro-
gressive development
in piano building in
the present era. They
have no equal in tone
quality, substantial
construction or in-
dividuality.
Wholesale Chicago Office and Service "Departments
San Francisco Office
458 Vhelan ^Building
KOHLER INDUSTRIES
1222 KIMBALL B U I L D I N G
CHICAGO
JULIUS BAUER & COMPANY
Ettablithed 18S7
Feciory and Office: 1335-1345 Altgeld Street
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