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PRESTO-TIMES
AT POLK COLLEGE
OF PIANO TUNING
Fall Registration Normal and Unusual Enthu-
siasm Is Evidenced by Students in the
Instruction in Action Repairing Reg-
ulating and Service Work.
coin-operated pianos. Even the old-fashioned and
almost extinct square model is there.
The technical phase of the work is taught by illus-
trated lectures in class, given by well-known instruc-
tors. Aside from this, however, the course consists
of entirely private lessons, and additional examinations
from which the student is graded. By this method
approximately twelve weeks are required to thor-
oughly enable the average student to master the
course of instruction and graduate as a master piano
tuner and technician.
Every effort is being made to make the January
1920 class the largest in the history of Polk College.
October 13, 1928
CHICAGO APPOINTEES
OF AMERICAN PIANO CO.
E. C. Hill, Retail Manager, and Lathrop Res-
seguie Heads Artists' Department—Gen-
eral Manager L. Schoenewald on Job.
E. C. Hill, formerly with The Baldwin Piano Com-
pany in Chicago, is the new retail sales manager
for the American Piano Company's Chicago house,
and has taken charge already. A staff of the best
The fall registration at Polk College of Piano
available salesmen in Chicago has been gathered to-
Tuning, Laporte, Ind., is normal and the students
gether to push piano selling in the city and its
are displaying unusual enthusiasm in their instruction
suburbs and an interesting campaign is being planned.
L. Schoenewald, the general manager at Chicago,
has arrived in the city, having come from Xew York
some time ago. Mr. Schoenewald is not new to Chi-
By Attaching It to the Piano or Organ It cago, having sold pianos in the midwestern metrop-
olis some years ago. Hut he now has behind him a
Adds Its Own Charming
background of having made good as manager of the
Story & Clark Piano Company, and later as man-
Tones.
ager of the Chickering & Sons store on West 57th
The new Aromora Choralcelo is the latest type of
street in Gotham.
the Choralcelo. This instrument consists of a com-
plete scale of metal bars and is so designed as to Lathrop Resseguie is the man appointed as man-
permit its being easily attached to any piano, either ager of the artists' department of the American Piano
Company at Chicago. He also has taken hold of his
grand or upright, as well as an organ console. It
is not only available for hand playing but in cases new work with vim.
These men have all been moving into the new
where it is attached to automatic instruments it re-
sponds perfectly to music rolls, adding its charming quarters of the American Piano Company on Wabash
avenue, near Jackson boulevard, during this week—
tones to those previously existing.
not quite settled, but nearly so.
The principle of this instrument is developed by
electro-magnetic power, the tone qualities being pro-
duced by electrical vibration. The Aromora Choral-
celo is equipped with the means of building up com- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
posite tones of the ideal character of the flute, clari-
net, oboe, horn, diapason, together with its own
simple tones, sub-octave, and super-octave.
In attaching this instrument to the piano or organ
console the original instrument meets with no inter-
POLK COLLEGE OP PIANO TUNING.
ference. The equipment permits of the playing of
the piano alone or the Aromora Choralcelo alone
of piano tuning, repairing actions, regulating player and of the joining of the two instruments into one
actions, repairing and all the service branches of the as desired.
trade.
The Aromora Corporation of Chicago, an Illinois
It is important that the members of the piano in- corporation, has been organized to manufacture and
dustry and trade fully realize the size of the Polk distribute the Aromora Choralcelo in the United
College of Piano Tuning and its importance in con- States.
tributing to accurate knowledge of trade manufac-
turing and service problems.
AROMORA CHORALCELO
AS A MUSIC MAKER
The School Building.
The school building itself is acoustically correct.
Its twenty-four private studios on one floor are sound-
proof and each equipped with a high grade piano for
instruction and actual tuning work. The floor below
is devoted to laboratory work on piano actions.
Every known type of action is represented, including
well-known makes of upright, players, electric and
Wanted: Ibung Men!
—to become specialists in a field which will not
only pay them exceptionally well but which
will give them social standing and prominence!
T
O young men looking for such an opportunity we
have an unusual offer. Right now in numberless
cities and towns in the United States, there is a great
shortage of piano experts, technicians and tuners.
The few masters there are, are earning large salaries
for this exceptionally pleasant work. Their time is
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their own. They meet the best peo-
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tell.-. We can fit you for this profession
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—=~"^ best people. Our complete course in our new $85,-
000.00 laboratory fits you for a real paying pro-
fession. You can do it. Others have with noijetter
backing than you have. Find out the facts anyway.
POLK COLLEGE OF PIANO TUNING
. Polk Building. Dopt. 1O
TheCABLECOMPANY
Makers of Grand, Upright
and Inner'Player Pianos,
including Conover, Cable,
Kingsbury, Wellington and
Euphona.
Chicago
La Porte, Ind.
Folk College of Piano Tuning, La Porte. Ind.
Please send me a copy of your free booklet.
I like the idea of becoming a professional
piano expert.
Name
Addr.
ALWAYS
a p r o d u c t w o r t h y of
"A Name Well Known Since
1875"
JESSE FRENCH & SONS PIANO CO.
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NEWCASTLE, INDIANA
Coin Operated and Selection Controlled Pianos
MECHANICALLY PERFECT
Music That Pays as It Plays
WESTERN ELECTRIC PIANO CO., 832-850 Blackhawk St., Chicago, ID.
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