August, 1930
P R E S T O-T I M E S
THE INTERNATIONAL CHARACTER OF
STEINWAY & SONS
The foreign development of Steinway & Sons is
one of the most interesting features of the growth
and prestige of that great piano manufacturing cor-
poration. Steinway instruments are shipped from the
In the course of the development of Steinway &
Sons business, more than 100 American and German
patents have been taken out. These patents repre-
sented changes in piano construction which were so
WALTHAM DEALERS VISIT CHICAGO.
Ernest E. Smith, manager of the Waltham Piano
Co.'s store at 33 South Howard street, Akron, Ohio,
accompanied by W. P. Hare, who makes his head-
quarters for the Waltham at Warren, Ohio, were in
Chicago the last day in July and made a pleasant
call at Presto-Times office. Both Mr. Smith and Mr.
Hare expressed the belief that trade is bound to be a
great deal better this fall than it was last year. Ohio
crops are bountiful and prices are sure to hold up.
OUT SELLING MATHUSHEKS.
Ben M. Strub, who recently joined the Mathushek
Piano Manufacturing Co. of New Haven and New
York, has been on a trip in the Northwest for that
concern lately. Mr. Strub has lots of friends in the
piano business and he is making new ones every day.
With the Mathushek pianos to sell in his travels, he
is finding the work very much to his liking, for he
says one must be in love with the goods he is rep-
resenting in order to achieve the greater success.
CANADIAN PIANO TRADE.
Fifty years in business is a long time. Out at
Winnipeg and Brandon, Manitoba, McLean's Mani-
toba Diamond Jubilee is being carried out in the form
of piano sales. The firm was established in 1870.
The firm is giving three years to pay for the instru-
ments sold at this jubilee. The Heintzman & Co.
pianos are their leaders. "We will pay your railroad
fare both w ; ays if you purchase a piano during this
sale and live within the province of Manitoba," says
the company. Heintzman & Co. pianos at Lindsay's
in Montreal are selling at $15 cash and $7 monthly.
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COMBINING VENEER COMPANIES.
The United Plywood Corp. of Delaware has pur-
chased the New Albany, Ind., Veneering Co.'s plant.
Other plants bought by the same purchaser were the
Breece Mfg. Co. and the United Veneer Co., both of
Portsmouth, Ohio, and the Gauseboard Plywood Co.
of Memphis, Term.
WANAMAKER TO FEATURE ERLA.
The Keystone Radio Co., Philadelphia, distributors
of Erla sets, advise that the John Wanamaker de-
partment store will feature the Erla miniature models
in their radio department during the coming radio
season.
AMERICAN TOUR FOR PADEREWSKI.
Ignace Jan Paderewski, now at Morges, Switzer-
land, has recovered from his recent operation for
appendicitis and is preparing for his American tour
in October.
MORE RCA DISTRIBUTORS.
A branch office of the Radio Distributing Corp. of
Newark, N. J., or of Radisco, as this organization is
known to the trade, has been established at Scranton,
Pa., with Ogden Williams in charge. H. A. Regar is
manager of the Tampa, Fla., office of the RCA.
MUSIC TRADE PICK-UPS
STYLR A GRAND ON THE DECK OF S.S. EUROPA
factories in New York and they are shipped from
the Steinway plant in Germany.
Presto-Times takes pleasure in presenting here pic-
tures of a Steinway Style A Grand being hoisted onto
the giant liner Europa of the North German Lloyd.
This ship was built at the yards of Bloom & Voss
at Hamburg, Germany, and when almost completed
she burned and nearly sank. The lower picture shows
the sun deck of the Europa. Next to the piano is
Mr. Wortman, the assistant manager of the Steinway
& Sons Hamburg plant.
fundamental that now all pianos in the world are
built on the Steinway system.
Steinway & Sons established the Hamburg factory
in 1880. Since that time the Hamburg factory has
been the supplier for all countries except the United
States. At the present time it is exporting to 54
countries and does business in six different languages,
namely, English, German, French, Italian, Spanish
and Portuguese. Steinway pianos may be found in
almost every country in the world, and wherever
found they always bear the highest reputation.
BURKHAM & STAMM TRUSTEESHIP.
SEVEN-STORY STUDIO AND STORE.
An order was filed with John H. Conrad, deputy
clerk of the United States district court at Wheeling,
W. Va., last month in the case of the Burkham &
Stamm Piano Co., bankrupts in which Attorney
George C. Beneke, trustee in the case, was empowered
to handle all matters pertaining to it. The company
was located on 11th street, Wheeling, during the time
it was in business and the bankruptcy which has been
in progress for some time is now practically closed.
A seven-story studio and store building to be
erected at the northwest corner of the Ervay and
Federal street intersection, Dallas, Tex., diagonally
across from the new postoffice, w T ill cost $500,000.
The building is to provide modern, sound-proof rooms
for music and expression teachers, with auditoriums
for recitals and store space on the ground floor for
music and musical instrument houses and other busi-
nesses.
CASE MAKERS LEASE SPACE.
The American Case Co , specialists in manufactur-
ing containers for musical instruments, have rented
for a term of years loft space in the three-story build-
ing at 436 Tompkins street. Orange, N. J.
The name of The Talking Machine World and
Radio-Music Merchant, published by the Federated
Business Publications, Inc., has been changed to The
Radio-Music Merchant, it was announced on July 23.
The change in name will take effect with the August
issue.
The factory building at Muncie, Ind , formerly
occupied by the Bell Piano Co., is in the hands of a
committee of the Chamber of Commerce of Muncie
for rent or sale.
Harry W. Vose is receiver for the firm of Whit-
ney & Co., Toledo, Ohio. William C. Whitney listed
liabilities of the firm at $13,648.51 and assets at
$5,659.92.
TRADE PAPER CHANGES NAME.
E. D. Eades has been appointed manager of the
new Atlanta, Ga., branch of the Brunswick Radio
Corp. and E. J. Cogburn, Jr., is his assistant. Both
are experienced music trade men of Atlanta.
Having bought the interest of his partner in the
J. H. Puttick Co., John Puttick opened his own radio
store at 5417 West Vernor highway, Detroit, on
July 26.
The Steinite Mfg. Co., Delaware corporation, has
filed an amendment at Indianapolis to its articles of
incorporation.
The Westinghouse Radio Co., Inc., Maryland cor-
poration, has filed a notice of withdrawal from
Indiana.
Sampson Industries, Inc., has just been incorporated
at St. Louis, Mo. Its purpose is to manufacture
radios and its location is at 6603 University drive,
St. Louis.
The Chicago Tribune is sponsoring a musical fes-
tival at Soldiers Field, Chicago, on August 23'.
Arturo Tuscanini is conducting the performances
of Tannhauser and of Tristan at Bayreuth this mid-
summer.
R. C. Reeve has opened an up-to-date music shop
in the Smith Studio building, Easley, S. C.
The Baldwin Piano Co. has signed a lease for a
period of years on a two-story building at 1303 Elm
street, Dallas, Tex., and will occupy it September 1.
The Hamilton Music Publishing Co. has been or-
ganized at Paterson, N. J., by George Wicks and John
T. Van Rensalier.
Edward D. Jordan, lately with the Cable Piano Co.,
is returning to the Columbia Phonograph Co. at At-
lanta, Ga., as state and local representative.
Norman M. Karsten, formerly with the Gulbransen
Co., is now assistant advertising manager of the
Transformer Co. of America, manufacturers of the
Clarion radio.
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