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Issue: 1928 2211

December 15, 1928
H. PAUL MEHLIN DIES
AT HIS NEW YORK HOME
Son of the Founder of Paul G. Mehlin & Sons
Succumbs to Effect of Stroke Suffered
Early This Year.
H. Paul Mehlin, of Paul G. Mehlin & Sons, New
York, manufacturers of pianos, died at his home in
that city on Thursday of this week. He suffered a
stroke about a year ago, had been an invalid since
that time and did not take an active part in the busi-
ness of his house.
Mr. Mehlin had been energetic in the affairs of
Paul G. Mehlin & Sons since the death of his father,
P R E S T O-T I M E S
tions. Business, especially in the small goods section,
is reported very good.
The Pearson Piano Company is enjoying a good
business with the Steinway piano, and some very good
sales have been closed. Styles L and M seem to be
the most popular at this time. Kurtzmann grands are
also moving very good. The radio section is re-
ported to be doing a large volume of business. The
store has been especially decorated for the Christmas
season and is truly beautiful. Mr. George C. Pear-
son spent several days in Chicago last week visiting
his son, Albert Pearson.
Fritz Kreisler apppeared in Indianapolis in concert
on Sunday, the 9th, at the Murat Theater and used
the Steinway & Sons concert grand pianos, under the
Burton Theatrical Booking Association.
The Wilking Music Company have just received
one of the new style G Apollos with the beveled keys.
It was hardly out of the box when it was sold to a
very popular pianist in Indianapolis. Business is go-
ing on very good, was the report. In the window,
which has been decorated for Christmas, one of the
new Jesse French & Sons ensembles in mahogany
has been arranged in an old-fashioned Christmas
setting.
Calls for Starr Pianos.
H. G. Hook, manager of the Starr Piano Company,
reports business good, and says he will be very much
disappointed if the Christmas business doesn't run
ahead of last year. So far December has been good
and there is no reason why the month's sales should
not exceed last year's by a wide margin.
Mr. Frank Davis, manager of the House of Bald-
win, has been somewhat under the weather and was
reported home, not feeling so good.
T. J. PRICE, VETERAN ILLINOIS
MUSIC DEALER DIES, AGED 73
H. PAUr, MEHLIN.
Paul G. Mehlin, founder of the house, and gave his
attention to the sales of the product, w T hile his broth-
ers looked after the factory phases of the industry.
He had a wide acquaintance among the dealers and
numbered a wide circle of friends in the retail as well
as the wholesale side of the piano trade.
Mr. Mehlin always had been active in the National
Piano Manufacturers' Association and filled the office
of president of that body through one term. He pre-
sided at the sessions of the manufacturers in the his-
toric convention held in Atlantic City. He was one
of the charter members of the association and took
great pleasure in the annual reunion at which he met
the original group of members.
Mr. Mehlin's pride in the Mehlin & Sons piano
was a reflex of the part he had in carrying on the
ideals of his father. The qualities of beauty, fine tone
and reliable constriction w r ere made exactions by him
in every piano bearing the name of Mehlin & Sons.
HOLIDAY BUSINESS
GOOD IN INDIANAPOLIS
Sales Have Reached a Cheering Degree of
Liveliness and Expectations of Man-
agers Are of the Best.
Walter W. Timmerman, who recently became asso-
ciated with the Christena-Teague Piano Company,
Indianapolis, in an official capacity, says that he is
expecting a big business in grands between now and
Christmas. Mr. Timmerman has observed that the
tendency toward the better grade of pianos is very
outstanding, and reports the sale of two very fine
Mason & Hamlin pianos with the Ampico, one in
Florentine and the other of the Adam Period model.
Inquiries for better pianos are increasing right along
and we feel that we can supply the demand with the
American Piano Company's line of excellent instru-
ments, he said. The radio section of the company
reports business good.and finds it next to impossible
to get the desired models. The Orchestrope is also
going over the top in fine shape.
Good Steinway Sales.
. The Carlin Music Company is attracting consid-
erable attention with its Christmas window especially
decorated for holiday shoppers. Among many of the
attractive instruments in the way of small goods and
musical instruments, one can hardly help but be at-
tracted by a small Premier grand which has been
slightly elevated above the rest of the display. The
entire store has been decorated with holly wreaths,
poinsettia's, cedar and other artificial holiday decora-
Long and Honorable Career of Belleville Merchant
Suddenly Brought to a Close.
Thomas Joseph Price, 73, owner of the Price Music
Shop, 15 West Main street, Belleville, 111., died sud-
denly at his home 408 East Washington street, last
week.
Death was believed to have resulted from a heart
stroke. Mr. Price was at his place of business and
came home after closing hours in an apparently fine
condition. For the last three months he had been
ailing but his condition was never regarded as seri-
ous.
Mr. Price opened his music shop in the second
block on West Main street in 1883. Twenty-five years
later he moved to the present site, where he has since
conducted his business. His establishment was one
of the oldest business houses in Belleville.
He was a member of the Chamber of Commerce,
the Retail Merchants' Association, the Liederkranz
Society and the Good Samaritans. Mr. Price was
born in Staffordshire, England, July 14, 1855, and
came to this country sixty-eight years ago with his
parents and resided in Illinois for sixty-five years.
ADVERTISING FOR
CABLE CO. DEALERS
Large Portfolio Sent Out by the Company's
Advertising Department Replete with Good
Suggestions for Christmas Ads.
The Cable Company, Chicago, is sending out a
regular Dealer Service Portfolio of Christmas adver-
tisements that excels in beauty and variety any pre-
vious effort of that great piano manufacturing organ-
ization. It is a credit to the advertising department
and to the company. All kinds of ads. and all kinds
of cuts are used.
One of the most captivating appeals to the pros-
pect reads:
"You will get far more pleasure and satisfaction
this Christmas if you apply your family gift money
on a piano or player. What you would ordinarily
spend on little, inconsequential gifts, will serve nicely
as the small initial deposit, which brings the instru-
ment to your home immediately—or the night before
Christmas, if you prefer."
Above is shown
the Queen Anne
Period Grand
5 feet, 2 inches.
At the right is
shown the Lyric
Grand, 5 ft., 7 in.
The Henry F. Miller
Sells Itself
J
UST get your customer seated at
a Henry F. Miller piano and it
will sell itself. She will be thrilled
by the beauty of its tones and will
marvel at the easy responsiveness
of its action. To play a Henry F .
Miller piano is to realize that here
is an instrument with the ability to
give a musician the full power of
expression.
One glance at the Henry F.
Miller and one fleeting moment at
its keyboard make it apparent that
no expense has been spared, and
nothing has been left undone, to
make it the best possible piano that
experience, knowledge and skilled
craftsmanship can produce.
You can sell Henry F. Miller
pianos, for they have a wealth of
genuinely interesting and convinc-
ing selling points. And the piano
will practically sell itself if you will
get your customer at the keyboard.
Wise dealers are quickly closing up
territory on this famous old pres-
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R. DE MAJEWSKI VISITS CHICAGO.
Roman de Majewski, of the wholesale piano depart-
ment of Steinway & Sons, New York, was a visitor
at Lyon & Healy's, Chicago, one or two days last
week. Mr. Majewski assured the trade in Chicago
that Steinway & Sons are very busy and their book-
ings show plenty of orders ahead.
The Stoneman Company, 845-851 West Erie street,
Chicago, veneer cutters, were found to be very busy
on Tuesday of this week when a Presto-Times rep-
resentative called at its office.
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P R E S T O-T I M E S
December 15, 1928
Would like to have a later one. If you have them
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MRS. PAUL PAULSON.
1056 Union Street, Kingsburg, Calif.
Our correspondent writing from Kingsburg, Calif.,
possibly is not closely associated with the piano busi-
Mrs. Paul Paulsen of Kingsburg, Calif., Writes ness else she would have been made aware of the Particular Attention Is Called to an Organ for
publication of a new Presto Buyers Guide every year.
Theaters That Embodies Latest Methods
Interesting Letter in Ordering New
But no matter in what year she bought her last
of Production.
Copy of Blue Book.
copy she found it reliable as to the character of the
American pianos described therein. Of course the
The Operators' Piano Company, 715 North Kedzie
The following letter impresses a fact of which a new issues bring the publication up to date in a
great many people in the piano trade are aware. It is great many particulars and in them the new features avenue, Chicago, is building some very attractive and
serviceable instruments, some of which were shown
that a number of Presto Buyers Guide is continuous
in pianos are impressed.
to a Presto-Times representative on December 6 by
in its service long after the particular issue is de-
The Presto Buyers Guide for 1929 is in preparation President Severson of that company. One of these
clared out of print:
and orders now placed will receive early attention is a theater organ of widest range and a multiplicity
Kingsburg, Calif, Dec. 3, '28.
in mailing.
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MUSICAL INSTRUMENT CENSUS.
New York was first with 118 musical instrument
CHANGE IN SYRACUSE, N. Y.
manufacturers in the report of the Department of
Commerce in the census for 1927. Of the 371 such
The Greenleaf Music Co., Syracuse, N. Y., has sold
establishments reported for that period sixty-two were its phonograph and record department to Walter L.
located in Illinois. Playerpianos, "baby grands," wind
Welch, who will continue the business as a depart-
instruments, xylophones, drums, bells, stringed instru- ment of the Greenleaf Music Co. Mr. Welch has also
ments and organs were included in the list of Illinois purchased the Edison phonograph and record busi-
products, ranking this state second in the list of pro- ness of the Stone Piano Co. and will also continue
duction and valuation. Indiana was third with twenty- this branch at the Greenleaf store, 582 South Salina
two. Two were reported in Missouri and one in street.
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OPERATORS' PIANO CO.
MAKING FINE ORGANS
MOVES IN HOUSTON, TEX.
A GRINNELL BROS. BRANCH.
The Houston Music House, Houston, Tex., recently
moved to new and larger quarters on Main street
Cliff Strable, well known Fremont, O., man, is in J. S. Ramos is proprietor of the business. All the
charge of a new music house which opened its doors departments are on the first floor where the goods are
to the public recently in the Lejeune Brothers build- arrayed in a most alluring manner. The offices and
ing, 226 Park avenue, Fremont. The store is known repair shop are on the balcony.
as the Grinnell Brothers Music House. Grinnell
Brothers have recently opened a number of similar
STEIN'S TRADE KEEPS UP.
stores in Ohio, with Findlay, Lima and Fremont
Charles Frederick Stein, 3047 Carroll avenue, Chi-
among the cities in that section of the state obtaining
cago, piano manufacturer, told a Presto-Times re-
branches of the firm.
porter on Tuesday of this week that his 1928 business
so far had equalled that of 1927, with a few days still
to come in 1928 to make it exceed the 1927 record.
"We have been lucky," he said, "and consequently
are happy."
DISTINCTIVE
TONE QUALITY
MOVES IN SEATTLE.
Alvin H. Waite, music dealer, Seattle, Wash., is
now located in his new store at 217 Stewart street,
near Third. The new location is in the same building
as the old one but more accommodation for a growing
business has been secured in the new quarters.
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