November. 2.6,, 1927
PRESTO-TIMES
COOPERATES WITH THE
PIANO PROMOTION PLAN
The H. V. Beasley Music House, Texarkana,
Ark., Applies the Services of the Scheme
in Interesting Teachers.
The H. V. Beasley Music Company, of Texarkana,
Ark., is cooperating with the work of the Piano Man-
ufacturers' Sales Promotion Plan in a splendid
manner.
This progressive concern sent the following letter
to music teachers in connection with the two folders
issued by the Sales Promotion Committee entitled
'•Shall My Child Study the Piano?" and "When Shall
My Child Begin?'":
"We are sending enclosed two very line articles
on a subject that you are interested in—'Shall My
Child Study the Piano?' and 'When Shall My Child
Begin?' Read them.
"How many would you like to have to distribute
among parents who have children that you would
like to have study with you? If you will indicate
the quantity desired on the form below, we will gladly
send you the supply with our compliments.
"We have ten thousand of these (live thousand of
each) for our teacher friends to distribute, so feel
free to ask for as many as you can use to advantage.
"Order today as time is limited for their best use."
This is work that other piano dealers would do well
to emulate.
members. The club is progressing finely and is ful-
liliing an important function in the trade of Chicago.
Mr. Wolfe's talk was intended to be illustrated by
moving pictures entitled the "Birth of Aviation" and
"Since America Learned to Fly," showing first flights
< f the Wright Brothers m the United States and
Furope, the development of airplaines to date as well
as parachute jumping, altitude flights and aeroplanes
attached to Zeppelins, but the films had been loaned
to the Government and he could not get them.
He said the airplanes of the world had flown 12,-
000,000 miles and had carried 395,000 passengers.
The company which he represented has 38 planes,
each averaging travel of about 5,000 miles a day and
they carry a large number of passengers.
HAROLD HENRY, AMERICAN
PIANIST, WRITES OF BALDWIN
Artist Whose Playing Delights Concert Audiences
Expresses Gratification at Baldwin Tone Quality
In a recent letter to the Baldwin Piano Company,
Cincinnati. Harold Henry, the famous American
pianist, says "Baldwin combines the excellence of
them all." The letter follows:
"It has been .my privilege to use in my concerts
in Furope only the acknowledged best piano of each
make
a Fine Piano
for every pocketbook
All exquisite instruments
offering unique tone beauty
and durability. All made
and g u a r a n t e e d by t h e
makers of the Hardman, the
world's most durable piano.
Your choice of models priced
to consumers from $375 to
$5000.
55 Years of Fine Piano Making
and prices
of pianos
WM. KNABE & CO. ANNOUNCES
REMOVAL SALE OF PIANOS
Made and guaranteed by
Hardman, Peck <&/ Co.
Before Occupation at Knabe Tower Building, Near-
ing Completion, All Pianos Will Be Sold.
Knibellished with a reproduction of a drawing of
the new Knabe Tower Building, Hearing completion
on Fifth avenue at Forty-seventh street, New York,
Wm. Knabe & Co., Fifth avenue and Fifty-second
street, an advertisement in New York papers last
week announced a pre-removal sale of tine pianos.
"But Knabe's are not going to move any pianos,"
is the printed statement. "When we move to the
new Knabe Tower Building, we are not going to take
a single one of our present stock of p:anos with rs.
Instead—a great selling event!
"One million dollars' worth of pianos will be dras-
tically reduced in a removal sale starting next Mon-
day, November 21. Think what that means! One
million dollars' worth of pianos cut to such dra-.-
tically low prices that now no one need be without
a fine instrument."
Hardman, Feck G? Co
433 Fifth Avenue, New York
Fine Pianos
Makers of the world's most
durable piano—the Hardman
Schumann
HAROLD HENRY
country, and 1 come back to the Baldwin piano to
find that it combines the excellences of them all.
"For quickness and responsiveness of the action, it
is perfection. The tone admits of endless variety
from the greatest sonority to the most delicate pian-
In Letter Announcing Fact Mr. Bent Expresses issimo. One is able to secure through the use of
the pedals unlimited cumulative tonal effects and
Sorrow at Death of Miss Black.
every quality of tonal color.
Geo. P. Bent, 214 South Wabash avenue, Chicago,
"Other pianos may possess some of these excel-
this week announced a regrettable fact in the follow-
lences, but I must confess my surprise and gratifi-
ing letter to Presto-Times dated November 21:
"It is with great sorrow that I inform you of the cation to find them all combined in one—the Bald-
death of my secretary, M*ss Blanche Stuart Black. win."
Mr. Henry is an American by birth, and a descend-
She was killed by an automobile last Thursday eve-
ning, the 17th. within an hour after I bad dictated a ant of a line of Yankee ancestors dating back before
the Revolution. He studied under Dr. Ernest, Jed-
number of letters to her.
''1 wish to pay tribute to iier memory by telling liczka, Berlin, and Moritz Moszkowsky, Paris.
you that for more than thirty years she served me as
He has played with unvarying success in the most
private and confidential secretary most loyally, faith - important music centers of Europe, starring with the
ful'y and capably. She was a woman of most lovable Munich Tonuenstler, Orchestre de Paris, Hamburg
and charming character, and I have known but few Volks-Symphonie, and in America with the New
as good and true as she was."
York Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Cincinnati
Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Minneapolis Sym-
phony and Seattle Symphony. He has appeared in
recitals in the leading cities of Europe and the
United States.
G. P. BENT'S SECRETARY
IS KILLED BY AUTOMOBILE
AN AVIATION TALK TO
PIANO CLUB OF CHICAGO
PIANOS and PLAYER PIANOS
GRANDS and UPRIGHTS
Have no superiors in appearance, tone
power or other essentials of strictly
leaders in the trade.
Warning to Infringers
This Trade Mark la cast
In tbe plate and also ap-
pears upon the fall board
of all genuine Schumann
Pianos, and all lnfrlngera
will be prosecuted. Beware
of Imitations such as Schu-
mann A Company, Schu-
mann A Son. and also
Shum&n, as all stencil
shops, dealers and users of
pianos bearing a name in
imitation of the name
Schumann with the Inten-
tion of deceiving the public
will be prosecuted to the
fullest extent of the law.
flaw Catalogue on Request.
Schumann Piano Co.
W N. VAN MATRE, President
Rockford, 111.
N E W BAND CONTEST BOOKLET.
Enlightenment and Fun Are the Two Things 'he
Attendant Never Misses at This Club.
The booklet of rules and general information on
the state and national school band contests for 192S
is just off the press and is being sent out by the
The Piano Club of Chicago was richly entertaiii'-d
National Bureau for the Advancement of Muse. 45
ihis week at its Monday luncheon, the two Joes fur- West 45th street, New York, to the 15,000 music
nishing fun and music, and Thomas Wolfe, division supervisors of the country. The wide extent of the
traffic manager of the National Air Transport Com- participation of these contests and the interest
pany, Inc., giving an enlightening talk on aviation. aroused is indicated by the fact that it was necessary
The two Joes are both members of the Piano Club— to issue a sixty-four page booklet to convey the infor-
Joe Lyons and Joe Pierson. The Four Horsemen of
mation and contain the pictures of the forty-nine
Dance Music and Popular Songs were students of
winning bands in the different classes of the state
the universities of Chicago and the Northwestern and national contests. The growth in the band con-
who did song and jazz stunts in a most amusing- test movement since its inception under the auspices
manner.
of this Bureau and the Committee on Instrumental
Affairs of the Music Supervisors' National Confer-
There was a full attendance, with visitors present
to the number of ten or twelve, as guests of the ence, in 1924, has been remarkable.
W. P. Haines & Co.
Manufacturers or
BRADBURY. WEBSTER
and
W. P. HAINES & CO.
Grand, Upright and Reproducing
Pianos
138th Street and Walton Avenue
NEW YORK
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