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Presto

Issue: 1927 2153

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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
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a n d Pianos
COMPANIES
anufacturing for the trade
The Line That Sells Easily
and Satisfies Always
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Plaver Pianos
Weke Mignon (Licensee) Repro-
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De Luxe Player Actions
Standard Player Actions
Welte Mignon (Licensee) Repro-
ducing Actions
Expression Player Actions
Piano Hammers
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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
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CHICAGO
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November 5, 1927
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P R E S T O-T I M E S
NEW FORM OF HARPSICHORD
PLAYED AT FESTIVAL
Arnold Dolmetsch, Who Has Developed Model, Ex-
hibits its Possibilities at Old Music Festival.
A new form of harpsichord upon which Arnold
Dolmetsch has been working for several years, was
demonstrated at the Haslemere Festival of Old
Music.
"When the harpsichord was in its heyday it was
the subject of continual experiment," says The Tele-
graph of London. "It possessed a range of tone-
color and a brilliance which the piano, for all its
sonority, cannot equal. At the same time, its limi-
tations are obvious. The ordinary jack which plucks
the strings has a fundamental defect. When the key
is released by the finger the platform, on its way back
to the resting position, must glide upon the string
before the vibrations can be stopped by the damper
attached to the jack. A very noticeable 'jingle' is
thus produced, which impairs the purity of the tone,
especially in rapid passages.
"Harpsichord makers tried in vain for three cen-
turies to remedy this defect. The new Dolmetsch
harpsichord has a device by which the plectrum, in-
stead of going through beyond the strings, returns
whence it came without touching them. The result
is a much purer tone and Mr. Dolmetsch, who was
playing the instrument for the first time in its fully
completed state, declared that it was also more sensi-
tive to the touch than the instruments built upon the
old models.
"The new jack also makes a damper-lifting pedal
possible. This innovation may cause the old-fash-
ioned purist to gasp and start. Yet there is plenty
of evidence that harpsichord makers in the past at-
tempted to fit a damper pedal, and were only pre-
vented by the technical difficulties. The sustaining
pedal was known to piano makers long before the
mechanism was perfected by Broadwood. And there
is much harpsichord music of Bach and Scarlatti
which when played on the piano requires the pedal."
AEOLIAN RADIO POPULARITY.
The Aeolian radio concerts, broadcasted from Aeo-
lian Mall. New York, and received in Chicago as
well as all parts of the country, started this week
EIGHT BALDWINS IN RECITAL
Eight Baldwin grand pianos, played by sixteen
artists, provided a sensational feature at a concert
at the Scottish Rite Temple, St. Louis, recently. In
the picture (left) the Temple interior with the pianos
and players are shown. The other picture shows
the artists who participated. The following letter
was received by the Baldwin Piano Co. from Ernst
C. Krohn, president of the Musicians' Guild of St.
Louis:
"On behalf of the Musicians' Guild of St. Louis, I
wish to express to you our grateful appreciation of
your generous assistance in our recent Music Week
Concert. The loan of eight magnificent Baldwin
grand pianos and your courteous hospitality in pro-
viding practice rooms contributed perhaps more than
you realize toward making the eight-piano ensemble
the outstanding feature of the concert.
It may interest you to know that your idea of a
piano ensemble has resulted in the formation of a
piano ensemble society which will carry on the work
of our pioneer group."
and seem likely to become one of the most popular
VICTOR WORKS OVERTIME.
of the broadcasting programs sent out from New
Advance
orders for instruments and records, for
York. The Aeolian broadcasting station in New
delivery in the next three months, indicate one of
York is known as the NBC studios.
the biggest volumes in the history of the Victor Talk-
Senator Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of the wire- ing Machine Company, according to a statement last
less telegraph, who is now on his way to America night by E. E. Shumaker, president of the compjany.
to attend the International Radio and Telegraph This statement was made by Mr. Shumaker just be-
Conference in Washington, will address a joint meet-
ing of the institute of Radio Engineers and the Amer- fore he sailed for Europe on the Berengaria. "Our
ican Institute of Electrical Engineers on October 17, plants are working overtime with full forces, and
in the Engineering Societies Building at 33 West we are forced to continually increase production
Thirty-ninth street. Senator Marconi will speak on schedules to meet increasing demands."
short wave directional radio communication.
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Manufacturers of
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for
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PIANOS
ONE GRADE ONLY
The Wessell t Nickel & Gross action is a
guarantee of the grade of the instrument
in which tt is found.
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