February 11, 1928
PRESTO-TIMES
FAMOUS CONDUCTOR
PRAISES STUDIO GRAND
Theodore Wendt, Leader, Pianist and Com-
poser, Gives His Opinion of Instrument
in Letter to Makers.
Theodore Wendt, a prominent conductor of South
Africa, .is one of the enthusiastic owners of a Studio
grand, made by the Christman Piano Co., Inc., New
York. His opinion of the fine instrument is expressed
in the following letter to the manufacturers:
"You may be interested to hear from a visitor to
the United States how much I enjoyed playing on
one of your Studio grands.
"As conductor for eleven years of the Cape Town
Symphony Orchestra, a permanent organization sub-
sidized by the Cape Town Municipality, and the only
Tobb, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Michaels, Carl Fowler, Bill
Lindsley, Albert Havens, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Sut-
ton, Mr. and Mrs. Cranfil Fowler of Chickasha, Ben
Fowler of Chickasha, Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Duke of
Chickasha, Mr. and Mrs. Harmon of Chickasha, F. L.
Elliston of Chickasha, H. K. Bruton of Chickasha
and Susan Reese of Chickasha.
Plans to incorporate the business for $100,000 also
were announced in connection with the profit sharing
with employes. Eventually Mr. Fowler hopes to
have all of his employes sharing in the business.
Business of the firm in 1928 should reach $300,000,
Mr. Fowler predicted.
SCHUMANN PIANO CO. ISSUES
INTERESTING NEW CATALOGUE
Handy Pocket Booklet Pictures and Describes Two
Alluring Additions to Fine Line.
The new thirty-two-page handy pocket catalog
of the Schumann Piano Co., Rockford, 111., just off
the press, shows real taste and refinement so charac-
teristic of Schumann handicraft, and combines quite a
number of new and intensely interesting features
which deserve comment.
The new catalog has cuts and descriptions of the
recent additions to the Schumann line, the Elfin up-
right, three feet eight inches in height, which has
noticeably asserted itself in the trade, and the forty-
eight-inch, seventy-two- note Elfin grand. The lat-
ter has excited the favor of dealers in large cities
where there is a big demand among high-class apart-
ment dwellers preferring quality in grand piano val-
ues, yet who heretofore have been restricted to
choosing from the* < upright offerings on account of
limited space.
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•THE HOUSE OF GRANDS"
Concert, Parlor and Small Grands
Period and Modern Designs
Spring Grove, Pa.„ Shows Merits of Fine Instruments
from York, Pa.
The Weaver Piano Company, Inc., of York, Pa.,
is using a unique way to present its products to
Spring Grove, Pa., which is a community too small to
support a salesroom. An enterprising garage man
is having an automobile show. On stepping into
THE$EX)RE WENDT.
the lobby of the garage, however, a display of Weaver
orchestra in the British Dominions, 1 have had great pianos is found. Consequently leads are obtained
and varied experience of most makes of pianos, and and salesmen from the York office do the se'.ling,
state without hesitation that in its class your Studio often bringing prospects to the automobile show and
grand is second to none. The tone is round, full and Weaver exhibit.
of beautiful singing quality, while the evenness of
Another feature of the ingenuity of the Weaver
touch is delightful. Small wonder that with such sales manager is the playing of the Weaver piano by
instruments America is becoming the musical center children from the community during the evening
of the world.
hours.
"As there is a likelihood of my remaining in Amer-
In these ways the Weaver Piano Company, Inc.,
ica, 1 hope it will be my good fortune to meet with has been able to not only introduce but to sell a
your pianos very frequently."
great many pianos in that vicinity.
Theo. Wendt was born in London, educated in
England and Germany, and received his musical
training at the Cologne Conservatoire and the Royal
Academy of Music, London, and gained the "Stern-
dale Bennett" scholarship for composition. He has
composed numerous orchestral, operatic, chamber and
piano works, many of which have been published by
Xovello & Co., Ltd., Chappell & Co., Ltd., and other Two Concert Grands and One Style B Add to En-
gagements in New Building.
publishers.
For years he has been a prominent figure in musical
The Kesselman-O'Driscoll Company, Knabe deal-
life in South Africa, and identified more particularly
with Cape Town. His success as conductor of opera, ers in Milwaukee, Wis., are very active in promoting
1912-1913, was such that the municipal council re- Knabe sales. The accompanying picture shows the
quested him to form a permanent symphony orches- magnificent new Eagles' Club House, Milwaukee,
tra, which he did. He remained the director of this erected at a cost of one million dollars, to which insti-
for over ten years (1914-1924).
KNABE GRAND PIANO
FOR MILWAUKEE CLUB HOUSE
PROGRESSIVE OKLAHOMA
FIRM PLANS FOR 1928
New Building for W. P. Fowler Music Store, Dun-
can, Is One of the Possibilities.
W. P. Fowler's Music Store, Duncan, Okla., will
either erect a new building in Ouncan in 192 5 or
remove to larger quarters than now occupied at 921
Main street, Mr. Fowler recently told employes at a
banquet celebrating the wind-up of 1927 business.
The business has expanded so rapidly, he said, that
larger quarters are imperative as soon as arrange-
ments can be made. The banquet followed the clos-
ing of 1927 with $100,000 worth of business since
August, 1927, it was stated.
There were thirty-five employes present at the ban-
quet in the Fowler home. They came from both the
Chickasha and the Duncan stores and included Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Bullock, Mr. and Mrs. Clark Davidson,
Carl Dent, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Fowler, Mr. and Mrs.
Ben DeKaifetz, Verla Haskins, Nona Hillhouse, Pearl
Manufacturers of the
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Reproducing and Player Pianos—
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Busk & Lane
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Holland, Michigan
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tution the Kesselman-O'Driscoll Company has re-
cently sold three Knabe grands.
Two of these are concert grands and the other a
Style B grand, and all of them in frequent use dem-
onstrate the true musical qualities of Knabe instru-
ments.
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