Classic Mode

Presto

Issue: 1928 2162

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P R E S T 0-T IMES
January 7, 1928
and have something other to say than just the ex-
pression of opinion as to the tone of the instrument.
The teacher should familiarize herself with the strong
selling points about the various pianos handled in
any store with which she is allied.
"There are others besides teachers who occasion-
Secretary of the National Association cf Music ally ask for commission. In some cases the com-
mission is justified. Occasionally we have a call
Merchants Cites Difficulties That Make
from some retail house in another line of business
Solution More Difficult.
saying that they could influence the sale of a piano
Herman H. Fleer, secretary of the National Asso- and asking what commission there will be in it for
ciation of Music Merchants, this week expressed the them. To such an inquiry, our answer is, 'Nothing.'
Other Means.
belief that one of the most difficult problems with
which the retail merchant is concerned at the pres-
"On the other hand, we work very closely with
ent time particularly because of the high'y competi- interior decorators. We feel that an interior decora-
tive character of selling at this time, is the question
tor is legitimately entitled to a commission because
of paying commissions to music teachers or others he has a great deal to do with the selection of a
who appear to look upon the retail piano dealer as particular style of instrument which will harmonize
easy prey.
; with the architectural design and furnishing of the
Mr. Fleer expressed the opinion that the simplest home. This is a subject which may profitably come
solution of this matter lies in each individual dealer up for discussion at one of our convention sessions."
establishing a list of teachers who would align them-
Trade-In Problem.
selves with his establishment and use their best
The
trade-in
problem
was a'so discussed by Mr.
efforts to bring customers to his store.
Fleer. He said that it is of course obvious to all
The Commission Quest'on.
dealers that the trade-ins cost the dealer altogether
"There is no objection whatever," said Mr. Fleer, too much money.
"to paying a music teacher a commission where the
"It seems," said Mr. Fleer, "that when business is
teacher really does give legitimate assistance to the bad, the average dealer has a tendency to make
dealer in making a sale to either a pupil or anyone
larger trade allowances than he ordinarily would,
who may rely upon the judgment of the teacher in with a result that there is a corresponding decrease
question.
This is work which should rightfully in profits. In about 75 per cent of the cases, the
be paid for.
customer with a piano to trade in, is smarter than
"What the music merchant olrcc's to, and justly the dealer.
: j H]
so, is where a teacher goes the rounds of various
"There are retail houses who mark up the price
stores and in some cases files the name of a prospect of new instruments with the direct purpose of making
with half a dozen dealers and rea'ly decs no actual apparently large allowances on trade-ins and to take
work whatever in the selection of a piano or influ- care of customer discoun's. but this is not the right
encing a sale. The teacher should be specific in way for a house to operate."
her recommendations, and if the customer buys else-
where, she should get nothing. The teacher should
be just as close to a retail piano store as a salesman
DETROIT CHILDREN WIN.
for that house.
More than 500 of the 900 school children of Detroit
who recently took part in the city-wide music mem-
What Teacher Doesn't Know.
"The average music teacher knows next to noth- ory test scored as perfect. The final test was the
ing about the construction of a piano. The teacher concluding feature of a concert course provided for
should receive instruction from a piano house so that public school pupils by the Detroit Symphony
she can talk intelligent'}' with a prospective customer Society.
H. H. FLEER DISCUSSES
COMMISSION PROBLEM
WESSELL, NICKEL & GROSS
EDMUND JOHNSON BURNED
IN TRAIN CRASH SUNDAY
President of Schaff Piano String Company, Chi-
cago, Is Recovering at Hospital.
In the train crash at 130th street, Chicago, at 3 p. m.,
Sunday, January 1, there was one killed and 28 in-
jured. One of the severely injured was Edmund
Johnson, president of the Schafif Piano String Co.,
2011 Clybourn avenue, Chicago. He was badly
scalded on one hip and on both legs from a bursted
steam pipe. He had his overcoat on at the time, and
in the collision was pushed over the escaping steam
and held fast there for a time.
Mr. Johnson was on his way to Michigan City,
Ind., from Chicago, and was riding on a fast South
Shore limited train that was speeding at 60 miles an
hour, when it ran into a stalled train at 130th street.
The first coach of the limited train bore the full force
of the crash. As the front end of the coach was
splintered it burst into flames and the steam pipes of
the heating system gave way, spraying the occupants
with scalding vapors. Mr. Johnson was taken to the
Pullman Hospital, where his burns were dressed, and
late this week was reported to be doing weM. Ed-
ward Stafford, motorman, was the man killed.
PIANO SALESMAN MURDERED.
Two negro bandits are being sought by Chicago
police as the slayers of Morris Shames, a floor sales-
man for the Freeman Piano & Furniture Company,
who was shot en Wednesday night of this week at
47th street and Wabash avenue, Chicago, when he
resisted them. Before he died he said that the men
confronted him with revolvers and ordered him to
raise his hands, but one of them shot him before he
had a chance to do so, and both fled without rob-
bing him.
PUBLISHER BUYS KNABE.
Knabe New York Warerooms, 52nd street and
Fifth avenue, report the sale of a Knabe Ampico
grand, Louis XV to Bernard Ridder, publisher of the
New Yorker-Herald and the Staats-Zeitung.
MOVING TRUCKS
Manufacturer* of
for
PIANO ACTIONS
HIGHEST GRADE
ONE GRADE ONLY
PIANOS
The Wessell, Nickel & Gross action is a
guarantee of the grade of the instrument
in which it is found.
FACTORIES!
45thSt.,10»hATe. &W46lh.
Orthophonic Victrolas
Electric Refrigerators
OFFICEt
457 w. 45th Street
Write for catalog and prices for End Trucks, SiL
Trucks, Hoists, Covers and Special Straps.
JULIUS BRECKWOLDT & SON, INC
Manufactured by
DOLGEVILLE. N. Y.
Self-Lifting PianoTruck Co,
Manufacturers of
FINDLAY, OHIO
Piano Backs, Boards, Bridges, Bars,
Traplevers and Mouldings
J BRECKWOLDT, Prea.
W. A. BRECKWOLDT, Sec. & Treas.
THE O S. KELLY CO.
Manufacturers
PRESTO BUYERS' GUIDE
TELLS ALL ABOUT ALL PIANOS
of
Migri
Grade
PIANO PLATES
SPRINGFIELD
XH E CO MSTOCK, C H E ME" Y
IVORYTON, CONN
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OHIO
CO.
IVORY CUTTERS SINCE 1834
MANUFACTURERS OF
Grand Keys, Actions and Hammers, Upright Keys
Actions and Hammer , Pipe Organ Keys
Piano Forte Ivory for the Trade
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PRESTO-TIMES
January 7, 1928
Ballads—Bird Songs at Eventide, medium G, Eric
Coates (Henri Bergman); I'm Falling in Love with
Someone, key F, Victor Herbert (Henri Bergman).
Instrumental—"Funny Face" Medley (1) Funny
Action Manufacturing Company Goes Right on Mak-
Pace, (2) He Loves and She Loves, (3) Let's Kiss
ing Actions Directed by Albert Staib.
and Make Up, (4) 'S Wonderful, George Gershwin
(Phil Ohman); "Oh, Boy" Selections (1) Till the
It has been definitely announced that the Staib-
Abendschein Co. of New York, through F. H. Abend- Clouds Roll By, (2) An Old-Fashioned Wife, (3)
schein, secretary of the company, will continue the You Never Knew Me, Popular Salon, Jerome Kern
(Henri Bergman).
business as heretofore.
''The Staib-Abenschein actions," he said, "will be
manufactured as heretofore at the plant, 134th street
ANTIQUITY OF THE BUGLE.
and Brook avenue, the Bronx, under the direction
Next to the harp the bugle is the musical instru-
and supervision of Albert Staib, who has been presi- ment of greatest antiquity. Many national museums
dent and active factory manager since 1890.
have models of bugles of various periods of the
"Since the untimely death of George F. Abend- Roman Empire. There is also in the department of
schein, we have been active in adjusting and co- prehistoric antiquities in the British Museum, Lon-
ordinating our resources and have succeeded to such don, a tine bugte horn belonging to the bronze age in
an extent that we are now in a most satisfactory Denmark. The tube, which has an accentuated coni-
position to proceed with the manufacturing of ac- cal bore, is bent in a semicircle, having on the inner
tions."
bend a series of little rings, from which, in all proba-
The officers of the company are: Albert Staib. bility, were suspended ornaments or cords. Running
president; F. W. Abendschein, treasurer; F. H. spirally round the whole length of the tube is an
Abendschein, secretary.
engraved design, which is in an excellent state of
preservation.
STAIB = ABENDSCHEJN CONTINUES
NEW MUSIC FOR AUTOMATICS
Long List of Dance and Other Popular Numbers
Available for Wide Range of Instruments.
The Automatic Music Roll Company, Chicago, has
issued its January bulletin of music for Seeburg and
other standard coin-operated instruments.
The rolls are available for the following standard
65-note rewind coin-operated electric pianos using
three and one-half inch cores:
American, Carleton, Casino, Chicago Electric, Coin-
ola A, C and Cupid, Colonial, Cote, Cremona, Eber-
hardt, Electra, Empress 65-note, Engelhardt, Eusym-
phonic, Harwood, Heller, Howard, Jewett, Lehr, Mar-
quette, Midget Orchestra, Monarch, National 20R,
Ne'.son-Wiggen style 1-2-3-4, Originators, Operators
A, C, and Cupid, Presburg, Price & Teeple, Rand,
Regina, Reichaid, Schaeffer, Seeburg A, B, C, E, F,
K, L, and PGA, Starr, Tangley Calliaphone, Tangley
Calliope, Victor, Violophone, Western Electric A, C,
X and J.
The new roils are also available for all styles of
Seeburg organ, orchestrions and pianos using three-
inch cores: Anderson, Ariston, Armstrong, Autoelec-
LOUIS MACK MOVES.
tro'.a, Billings, Concertrola, Decker Bros., Electra-
Louis Mack, sheet music dealer of Portland, Ore., tone, Evans, Haines, Ider>l, Wilson, Wm. A. John-
Splendid Range of Dances, Ballads and Instrumental has closed a lease for a storeroom at 363 Morrison
son, Kibhy, King, Kreiter, Netzow, Reed, Rhapsodist,
Music in New Bulletin for February.
street and will move from his present location at 187 Schultz, Standard F and GR. Waltham, Watson.
The following numbers are included in the Feb- Broadway as soon as the alterations have been com-
ruary bulletin of the Mel-O-Dee Music Co., Inc., pleted in his new location. Mr. Mack is one of
CONN SAXOPHONE ORCHESTRA.
Meriden, Conn., the names of the recording artists Portland's pioneer sheet music dealers and will con-
Ernie
Meyers, manager of the Conn-Portland
duct a sheet music and novelty shop at his new place
being printed in parentheses:
Music Co., of Portland, Ore., has organized a saxo-
of business.
Among My Souvenirs, fox trot, ballad, E flat, Hora-
phone orchestra of ten members, who are Conn
tio Nicholls (Phil Ohman); A Shady Tree, waltz,
equipped. They made their debut over the radio and
ADDS GIFT DEPARTMENT.
ballad, key G, Walter Donaldson (Walter Donald-
since then have been in constant demand, playing at
son); An Old Guitar and an Old Refrain (A Song of
The Daynes-Beebe Music Co., Salt Lake Citv, the hospitals and for the shut-ins. Stanley Baylis,
Spain), fox trot, Kahn, Black and Moret (Phil Utah, has opened a new section called the "Gift De- Mr. Meyers' assistant, is the pianist and musical
Ohman; The Hours I Spent with You, waltz, E flat, partment." The new department will handle piano director of the organization.
Little Jack Little (Phil Ohman); I Fell Head Over drapes, tapestries, covers, cushions, musical figures,
Heels in Love, fox trot, Pat Thayer (Frank Milne); Oriental drapes and similar things, to be in the imme-
I Told Them All About You, fox trot, Cliff Friend diate charge of Miss Louise Johnson of the talking
(Ernest Leith); The Man I Love (Strike Up the machine department.
Band), fox trot, George Gershwin (Alan Moran);
Mary (What Are You Waiting For), fox trot, Walter
Donaldson (Muriel Pollock); 'S Wonderful ("Funny
213 East 19th Street, New York
Face"), fox trot, George Gershwin (Phil Ohman);
What Are We Waiting For, fox trot, Max Kortlan-
Sole Agents for
E flat. Lewis, Marks, Gill (Constance Mering—J-Ls
Heaviest grade Pyralin Ivory, beveled
der (Harvey Maddon); Where in the World (Is
and polished to look like the finest ivory
There Someone for Me), waltz, E flat, Lewis, Marks,
keyboards
built. Beautiful work, guaran-
Gill and Lombardo (Constance Mering); Wherever
teed. Sharps ebonized, bushings, etc.
You Are ("Sidewalks of New York"), fox trot,
Hammer and Damper Felts
Dowling and Hanley (Alan Moran).
We begin work on your keys the minute they
NEW MEL=0=DEE MUSIC ROLLS
Philip W. Getting & Son, Inc.
PIANO KEYS RECOVERED
WEICKERT
arrive.
Worry Over Player Details
is avoided by the manufac-
turer who uses the
A. C. CHENEY
PIANO ACTION COMPANY
CASTLETON, N. Y.
Grand and Upright Hammer*
Made of W ticker t Felt
McMACKIN PIANO SERVICE
Factory: 1721-3 Mondamin Avenue
DES MOINES, IA.
/AUSIC
A. C. Cheney Player Action
in his products. He knows
everything is all right and
that the best musical quali-
ties of his pianos are develop-
ed by the use of this player
mechanism.
Write for Nevj Price List.
Fine Action Bushing Cloths, etc
PRINTERS
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Benches
There is no piano built so fine that we cannot make a bench
of equal quality.
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