April 15, 1929
PRESTO-TIMES
FOSTER & WALDO BUYS
BROOKS PIANO COMPANY
The Steinway Piano
in the White House
Stock and Good Will of Old Minneapolis
Music House Changes Hands and Elmer
A. Brooks Continues Activities.
The piano stock and good will of the Brooks-Evans
Piano Co.. 230 South Eighth street, Minneapolis,
Minn., have been purchased by Eoster & Waldo in
the same city.
Elmer A. Brooks has joiiu-d the sales staff at Fos-
ter & Waldo's, where he will be able to continue the
have dreamed of becoming First Lady—TIME, activities which have made him prominent in the
music goods field. Mr. Brooks has been continuously
March 4."
The history of the piano in the east room of the engaged in the piano business in Minneapolis for
executive mansion is quite well known and the forty-seven years—since 1882. His motto is "To have
famous musicales of the fall and winter, which center friends, be a friend." His establishment at Eleventh
around the Steinway grand, are other events of White and Marquette was for years a gathering place for
House hospitality that provide interesting themes the truly great of musicland. His collection of per-
sonally-autographed photographs of famous musicians
is said to be one of the finest in the country.
The grand piano at thi' corner, blazing with electric
lights, was a Marquette avenue landmark for a great
many years. Later, Mr. Brooks removed his estab-
lishment to 23 South Eighth street. Stock at that
address has been purchased by Foster & Waldo. This
friendly, obliging, Ir'gh-informed man numbers his
friends by the thousands. His judgment, to most of
them, represents the last word in the selection of
pianos.
Mr. Brooks' field of operation has now been im-
measureably widened by his connection with Foster
& Waldo, one of the most progressive music houses
in the northwest section. The line of pianos of the
American Piano Company is handled.
Beautiful Instrument Centering Famous Musicales at Which First Lady Is
Hostess, Used as Illustration in Attractive Steinway Ad of
Lyon & Healy, Chicago
The famous Steinway piano in the White House,
Washington, has been seen by a great number of
visitors and it is a beautiful object they particularly
talk about to friends at home for years after. The
splendid piano has also been made familiar to those
denied a trip to the National Capital by magazine and
newspaper stories, which usually are made more im-
A CALIFORNIA CONFERENCE.
At the California Public School Music Conference
recently held in San Francisco an unanimous vote
favored affiliation with the Music Supervisors' Na-
tional Conference. Speakers told of the great prog-
ress made in music study in the public schools of
California. A feature of closing day was a concert in
the Civic Auditorium in which an orchestra of 131
pieces and a chorus picked from the schools partici-
pated.
DETAILS OF CARVING ON WHITE HOUSE STEINWAY, PROM PEX AND INK DRAWING.
for newspaper correspondents. Lyon & Healy in
the recent addvertisement stated a historic fact:
Back to Theodore Roosevelt.
"When President Roosevelt, smiling big-sticker
who had spent years of his life roughing it, moved
his six children to the White House in 1902, he found
few of the modern advantages he deemed necessary
Telling Chicago.
to their cultural up-bringing. A year later this gold-
Chicago newspaper readers recently were treated leaf Steinway stood in the east room of the executive
to aa interesting close-up of the beautiful Steinway mansion responding to the eager fingers of the six
in the White House which embellished one of the young Roosevelts.
notable advertising displays of Lyon & Healy. In
"Each First Lady since Airs. Roosevelt has found
addition to the clever pen and ink drawing showing
the intricate detail of the carving on the Steinway Steinway a prized accoutrement to White House hos-
grand, a pen and ink sketch suggested the Presidential pitality. Steinway in your home will lend the same
residence with a line of tourists emerging after seeing distinctive atmosphere of culture and refinement.
"The special case in which the immortal soul of this
the sights therein. This was printed in connection
Steinway is embodied is perhaps the most beautiful
with the sketch:
ever produced in the United States. The instrument
''The guests may mingle, talk, admire the gilded in tone and action is in no way superior to the Stein-
Steinway piano where a Miss Grace Goodhue, tour- ways which today grace homes of knowing Chi-
ist, tinkled roguishly one day when she could never cagoans."
pressive by a picture of the famous instrument. And
not the least powerful means for publishing the musi-
cal excellences of the White House Steinway and its
artistic beauties of case are the interesting advertise-
ments of the music house representing Steinway &
Sons in every important city in the country.
GEO. P. BENT'S DAUGHTER DIES.
The death of Mrs. Clara -Wingate Rent Meikle.
widow of the late Ernest Grant Meikle, occurred
April 1 at Pasadena, Calif. She was the eldest daugh-
ter of George P. Bent and Mrs. Bent, and was born
March 10, 1877. at the corner of Wabash avenue and
Harrison street, Chicago. She was married June 21,
1898. to E. (i. Meikle, who for many years was an
officer in the George P. Bent Piano Co.
Mrs. Meikle gave early evidence of great musical
talent and composed a considerable amount of good
piano music. Her grand march, "G. P. B.," had con-
siderable popularity because of its spirited character
and originality.
ERNEST VOGET .ENJOYED VISIT.
Ernest Voget, piano dealer, Wayne, Neb., has just
returned from a visit to his sister in Hollis, Long
Tsland, N. Y., where he had an enjoyable time. "I
had worked so long and steadily I believed a vacation
was due to me." wrote Mr. Voget, who reports re-
cent sales of four Haddorff grands, three Style A,
and one Style B. "The population of Wayne is about
2,400 and sales opportunities extend for many miles
outside of the town. It keeps me busy so 1 need the
new Presto Buyers' Guide. Please mail at once,"
was the cheerv close of the letter.
OPENS IN MANSFIELD, O.
Prof. Eugene Smart, who has conducted a music
studio in Mansfield, O , for the past ten years, has
opened a music shop in the Roth building. Smart
purchased all the hand instruments and small music
goods from the W. E. Jones Company and has com-
bined this with his stock of string instruments. Dale
Stevens, a student of Smart's is acting as manager of
the store. Mr. Stevens is a well known musician in
Mansfield. Kenneth Hoffman, saxophone and clarinet
player who has been feature soloist with several or-
chestras, will also be employed in the music shop.
e^ Quality
Value
In selecting the benches to be offered with
the pianos you sell, don't count the cost
too closely.
Make sure that the benches you select
match each piano in style, quality and
value which the retail buyer will recognize.
This recommendation on our part entails
no extravagance on your part, because
in the Tonkbench,—Overton K. D.—-
Logansport lines, you will find models to
match practically every piano produced
today, quality to match that offered from
the lowest to the highest priced instru-
ments and regardless of the range in
which your selection falls, you will find
outstanding value which will be as ap-
parent to your customers as to yourself.
Right now is a good time to match every
piano on your floor with its corresponding
piano bench from the Tonkbench Line.
Tonk Manufacturing Co,
1912 Lewis Street
Chicago, III.
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