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Presto

Issue: 1927 2153

November 5, 1927
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PRESTO-TIMES
WH T
SCHILLER FOR RADIO STATION
t
INTERESTS THE
TRADE AT CLEVELAND
Agency for Line of Chickering & Sons Placed
with Knabe Warerooms—Goldsmith's New
Store for Savoy Hotel.
One of the principal at-
tractions at the Internation-
al Petroleum Exposition &
Tulsa State Fair, at Tulsa,
Okia., was WLBN broad-
casting station. Although
this photo was taken at
night it shows the promi-
nent position WLBN occu-
pied. The Schiller Super-
Grand piano with the Bauer
patented construction was
used and was proclaimed by
those who listened in, to
have exceptionaly fine tone
quality for radio reception.
The Tulsa Music Shop han-
dles the complete line of
Schiller pianos.
TWO BALDWIN CONCERT
GRANDS FOR DE PACHMANN
Eighty-Year Old Pianist to Give Series of Concerts
for His Health.
A special order for two concert grand pianos, to
he shipped to England for the great de Pachmann, is
explained by the attached newspaper story, dated
London, England, which appeared in the Cincinnati
Times-Star recently: "Vladimir de Pachmann, fO-
year-old pianist, has been ordered out of the retire-
ment of his villa in Rome by his physicians, and is
giving a series of thirty-eight concerts throughout
England—for his health.
"Rest will kill you! You must play to audiences
and keep up the sort of activity on which you have
trhived for so many years," the tlalian doctoros told
their patient.
"I wish it were fifty instead of thirty-eight con-
certs," the great interepreter of Chopin announced
after his first conceri; in England.
"I tried to retire and went to my villa in Rome
three years ago. But I became ill and the doctors
said I had to get back to the concert stage.
"Perhaps it is my last tour. But I feel young
at the piano—not over 45—and I must go on playing.
Becker Bros.
Manufacturer* ot
HIGH GRADE PIANOS
and PLAYER PIANOS
If I stop I die. If I cannot play to audiences I must
play to myself. I can play all day and all night
and not become tired."
WICK ORGAN CO. BUILD
ADDITION TO FACTORY
Improvement Provides Company with 10,000 Addi-
tional Square Feet of Floor Space.
The Wick Pipe Organ Co., Highland, 111., is now
building a substantial addition to its factory building.
The new addition is 50x100 feet of two stories, one
of which is the kind known as an English basement.
It is being built of tile with steel reinforcement.
When completed the first story will be used as a
lumber kiln and for storage and the mill room will
be on the second floor, which will give them 10,000
more square feet of space and enable them the better
to care for their growing business.
The Wick Organ Co. is one of the valued industries
of that city; employees there are seldom if ever laid
off and good wages are paid.
E. J. JORDAN ON PACIFIC COAST.
E. J. Jordan, manager of the American Piano Com-
pany's Chicago headquarters, 2030 Strauss Building,
is on the Pacific Coast looking after business out
there. He is expected back at his office about De-
cember 3 or 4.
The Original Small Piano
Made and marketed by specialists in small
pianos. Valuable territory still open,
Write for our effective sales plan.
CARL WEBER SAYS TRADE GAINS.
Carl Weber, of Meyer & Weber, Stieff agents at
174 North Michigan avenue, Chicago, says trade is on
the gain. He will not go on his annual hunting trip
until next spring, when he and his two hunting com-
panions expect to hunt bear in the northern wilds of
Canada.
THE LITTLE PIANO WITH THE BIG TONE
MIESSNER PIANO COMPANY
126 Reed St.
Milwaukee, Wis.
THE JEWETT PIANOS
Reliable Grand, Upright and Player Pianos
Factory and Wareroomb
767-769 Tenth Avenue, New York
The agency for the Chickering & Sons line of
pianos has been placed with the Knabe Warerooms.
1507 Euclid avenue. The Chickering is well and
favorably known among music lovers in greater
Cleveland, having been sold for many years by the
May Company.
The Ampico Symphoni(|ue, of the American Piano
Co., was presented to Cleveland music lovers this
week and created a great deal of very favorable inter-
est. Recitals on the new instrument were given by
the Knabe Warerooms and Mason & Hamlin each
evening during the week and were well attended.
Jerry Goldsmith is preparing to open a new music
store in the Savoy hotel building on Euclid avenue
near East 17th street. He has moved from his old
location at the rooms of the Starr Piano Co. on
Huron Road and is now busy getting ready to open
for business within the next couple of weeks. He
handles small goods, sheet music and band instru-
ments and may add radio. He plans on making the
store a bit different from the average music store and
will call it Jerry's Playhouse Square Music Shoppe.
William R. Steinway, head of the European inter-
ests of Steinway & Sons, London, paid a call on
Henry Dreher of the Dreher Piano Co., last week.
The Visuola, the new device for teaching elemen-
tary piano, was demonstrated at the store of the
Dreher Piano Co. this week by its inventor, John
G. Bostleman of New York, and created a lot of
interest, many teachers being present to witness the
demonstration.
JEWETT PIANO CO., Boston
Factories: Leominster, Mass.
PRESTO BUYERS' GUIDE
GOLDSMITH
Price 50 Cents
Players and Pianos
PRESTO PUBLISHING CO.
Have Every Advantage in Quality and Results
to the Dealers
An Investigation Will Prove It
CHICAGO
GOLDSMITH PIANO COMPANY
1223-1227 Miller Street, CHICAGO
A QUALITY PRODUCT
FOR OVER
QUARTER. OFA CENTURY
POOLE
•^BOSTON —
GRAND AND UPRIGHT PIANOS
AND
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PLAYER PIANOS
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November 5, 1927
PRESTO-TIMES
AN AEROPLANE RADIO SHIPMENT
DEMAND INCREASING FOR
JESSE FRENCH & SONS LINE
The Wiley B. Allen
Company, Los Angeles,
has the proud distinction
of being the first Los An-
geles music firm to avail
itself of the advantages
of rapid delivery of a ra-
dio by air transport.
Georg Schneevoigt, con-
ductor of the Los An-
geles Symphony Orches-
tra, purchased a beautiful
style 17 Radiola and
wishing immediate deliv-
ery, the Wiley B. Allen
Co. invoked the Pacific
Air Transport Co.. who
landed the radio in Los
Angeles in two hours and
t w e n t y minutes. The
Wiley B. Allen Co. and
RECEIVING THE SHIPMENT.
the Pacific Air Transport
Co. are the first to inaugurate rapid transit for radios Company, Los Angeles; Mrs. Georg Schneevoight,
and other parcels requiring emergency delivery on eminent European pianist; Georg Schneevoight, di-
the Pacifis Coast. The picture shows the arrival of
rector Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra; Irving
the radio. Those in the group are, reading from left
II. Andrews, manager radio department, Wiley B.
to right:
Allen, and J. L. Mushet, superintendent Pacific Air
E. Palmer Tucker, vice-president, Wiley B. Allen Transport Co.
October Has Been Biggest Month of the Year at the
New Castle Plant.
BALTIMORE PIANO PLAYING
CONTEST NOW UNDER WAY
Three Thousand School Children Participate in Pre-
liminaries Conducted by Music Trades Ass'n.
More than three thousand children of Baltimore.
Md., last week participated in the first elimination
tests of the preliminaries in the Greater Baltimore
Piano Playing Contest, sponsored by the Music
Trades Association of Baltimore. The children who
participated represented the elementary, intermediate
and high schools of Baltimore.
Winners of the preliminaries will be known as
"school champions," and they will be selected to
represent their schools in the district finals to be held
within the next two weeks. District meets will be
held in four sections of the city.
Winners of the preliminaries will not be known
for another week, as it will take that much time for
the judges to go over the results. The winners of
these tests will be awarded silver rings. Gold rings
will be given the district champions, while the three
city-wide champions will receive pianos valued at
$800 to $1,500.
Weaver's Violin Shop will open at 831 North How-
BRINKERHOFF
Grands
- Reproducing Grands
ard street following completion of the remodeling and
otherwise improving the building to make it suitable
for an exclusive violin shop. Rare old violins will
be carried together with the modern makes. Violin
lepairing will be a service available at the shop.
TRIBUTE BY POET TO STEINWAY.
The following is one of the verses published by the
Christian Science Monitor on September 26. The
author is Rose Saffron:
He must be a Musician,
Whose Steinway, echoing
The vibrant melodies
Plucked from his very own heart-strings,
Voices the roar of thunder claps
On sky-rimmed mountain peaks,
Soft gurgles of the canyon brook,
Liquid notes of the hermit-thrush,
Breathless solitude of the moor,
The crash of a furious sea
Spilling against a giant rock,—
The whole an offering, perhaps,
In response to the rhythmic flap
Of Pegasus' wings!
There is a great deal of activity at the Jesse French
& Sons Piano Company's factory at New Castle, nld.,
just now. "I wish to stave," said H. Edgar French,
president of the company, to a Presto-Times repre-
sentative this week, "that up to the first of October
we have actually shipped more pianos this year than
we shipped during the corresponding period for 1924
and more pianos than for the corresponding period
of 1925. We were only about 250 pianos behind 1926.
"I do not have the complete figures, but I know
that October so far has been the biggest month of
the year, so take it altogether the house of Jesse
French & Sons is still able to say 'Thousands in use
and the demand increasing.' "
GEO. P. BENT IN CHICAGO.
George P. I'ait arrived in Chicago last week, having
made only one stop on the trip from his home in Los
Angeles, and that was at San Francisco. Mr. Bent
is at the Palmer House. The primary object of the
present stay in Chicago of a month or more is to finish
the preparation of his book, a volume his thousands
of friends are anticipating with eager interest. He
spent a pleasant luncheon hour at the Piano Club of
Chicago on Monday of this week.
MORE TRADE AT BISSELL-WEISERT'S.
Arthur Bissell, of the Bissell-Weisert Piano Com-
pany, 26 South Michigan avenue, Chicago, in answer
to an inquiry from a Presto-Times representative on
Tuesday of this week, said: "Business is improving
right along: the gains are noticeable." The Bissell-
Weisert Company's line includes the Christman, the
Marshall & Wendell, the Sohmer, the Milton and the
Brewster instruments.
WILLIAMS
PIANOS
The policy of the Williams House is and always
has been to depend upon excellence of product
instead of alluring price. Such a policy does not
attract.barguin hunters. It does, however, win the
hearty approval and support of a very desirable
and substantial patronage.
Makers of William, Pianos,
Epworth Pianos and Organs
KQHLER INDUSTRIE
of NEW YORK
AFFILIATED
Player-Pianos
a n d Pianos
COMPANIES
anufacturing for the trade
The Line That Sells Easily
and Satisfies Always
Upright and Grand Pianos
Plaver Pianos
Weke Mignon (Licensee) Repro-
ducing Pianos
De Luxe Player Actions
Standard Player Actions
Welte Mignon (Licensee) Repro-
ducing Actions
Expression Player Actions
Piano Hammers
Bass St« ings
BRINKERHOFF PIANO CO.
711 Milwaukee Ave., CHICAGO, ILL.
STRICH & ZEIDLER, Inc.
GRAND, UPRIGHT and PLAYER
AND
HOMER PIANOS
740-742 East 136th Street
NEW YORK
Wholesale Chicago Office and Service ''Departments
San Francisco Office
458 Vhelan "Building
KOHLER INDUSTRIES
1222 KIM BALL B U I L D I N G
CHICAGO
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