Presto

P R E S T O-T I M E S
September, 1930
YEARS AGO IN THE TRADE
APPRECIATES GUIDE
18 YEARS IN USE
Dow, Frederick Sunderman, F. W. Fenton, S. G. Fitz-
gerald, Mr. McConville, H. Jarrow, E. F. Tibbott, H.
Paul Mehlin, D. J. Nolan.
H. G. Kingwell, D. Freedman, Maynard Allen,
Percy S. Foster, H. D. Cotter, E. H. Uhl, Gust. Ad.
Anderson, Henry D. Hewitt, W. B. Williams, L. W.
Peterson, W. F. Allen, Otto Schulz, Mr. Davis, Edwin
B. Pfau, Mr. Morton, C. H. Thorby, J. E. Gerlich,
P. P. Lockhart, J. W. Stevens, J. Gibson, A. B. Fur-
long, H. Spayd, Albert F. Price, Frank E. Wade,
Will H. Collins, T. C. Billings, H. A Griffin,
W. J. Keeley, W. C. Goldman, H. G. Miller, Platt P.
Gibbs, C. B. Pess, C. Anderson, R. Engberg.
Byron Von Eisner, H. O. Ellis, C. E. Holmes, T. L.
Powell, L. A. McNab, J. O. Twichell, J. P. Seeburg,
E. V. Galloway, Fred Hill, E. J. Hartman, G. A.
Rosths, Jack Roche, R. H. Barsalough, Mr. Moore,
Mr. West, E. R. Eskew, John H. Parnham, Al.
Schuldes, W. H. Rasmussen, W. E. Gillespie, J. A.
Rose, Albert T. Strauch, R. Rose, W. E. Hall, A. A.
Mahan, O. T. Purdy, James Pickens, William L.
Bush, Matt Kennedy, Herbert W. Hill, I. N. Rice,
Edgar Smith.
Presto-Times receives scores, yes, hundreds of let-
ters, appreciative of the character and services of
Presto-Buyers' Guide in helping them in their work,
most of which, however, refer to the more recent is-
sues of the carefully-edited book. Rut here is a man—
Charles Mapes, tuner and repairer of 959 East Prairie
street, Decatur, 111.—who has one sole copy of the
book, a 1912 issue, and yet appreciates it highly today.
The following communication was received from him a
few days ago:
"Are you still publishing the Presto-Buyers' Guide,
and if so is the price the same as in 1912? I have one
of that year given to me by a dealer some years ago
when I was in his employ. 1 want a copy of the Guide
of today if you are still publishing it."
Both the Guide and the Presto-Times seem indis-
pensable, necessary and requisite to the up-to-date
music men. A letter just received from an Oklahoma
dealer shows how the paper is missed: "1 did not
receive my copy of Presto-Times the past week.
Why? Is my time out? Please continue to mail the
same to me. I cannot do without it, so don't count
me in the defunct gang."
We refrain from giving
names, but the files of such letters are open to the
public for inspection at Presto-Times office.
The report in The Presto of May 20, 1915, of the
Travelers' dinner showed that the trade was fighting
Old Man Gloom then as now—as always—and that
pessimism has no place in a live business. Here is
part of The Presto's report of that optimistic festival,
Monday night, May 16, 1915:
(From The Presto of May 20, 1915.)
"A stealthy figure entered the gay precincts of the
piano travelers' headquarters about 6:30 p. m. Mon-
day. Avoiding the chatting groups in the corridor of
the Stratford Hotel, the figure sneakingly crept
towards the dining hall where the National Piano
Travelers' Association's cabaret beefsteak event was
about to be staged. Checking a hat—a skyscraper
silk one with a wide crape band of woe—the figure
approached the dining hall. Then the discovery.
"With a bound like a panther, Frank M. Hood
landed on the intruder. The Schiller traveler's fingers
were fastened in a garroter's cinch around the scraggy
neck until a foot of tongue protruded from the orifice
in the dour face. Shaking the thing a few times while
the bones rattled like castanets in the dry body, the
vigilant sentinel hurled the limp figure through a win-
dow. The name of the ejectee was Gloom.
"The beefsteak dinner of the Piano Travelers at
the Stratford Monday evening was no place for
Gloom. Gravity was tabooed. To be sad or sullen
would be to invite suspicion and the gloom bounce.
From clams to coffee, joy ruled."
Among those who were on the floor for merry dis-
cussions of this and that were J. Harry Shale, Louis
Lowenstein, Mark P. Campbell, Eugene Whelan, W.
L. Bush and Percy S. Foster. The lid was taken off
by Will H. Collins, who told a story about the frogs
in a dry town.
The following were in attendance at the dinner:
G. C. Kavanagh, J. A. Coffin, Frank W. Teeple,
Frank M. Hood, Mr. Miller, H. R. Bauer, W. R. Rob-
ertson, F. P, Bassett, Louis Lowenstein, H. W. Hill,
George B. Norris, E. B. Bartlett, E. W. Furbush,
Lawrence Frank, W. R. Gullett, F. G. Moffett, Walter
S. Jenkins, E. E. Walter, C. M. Sigler, Adam Schnei-
der, R. C. Fulton, R. A. Rise, John Purves, J. Bauer.
George D. Turner, J. Shanley, J. Harry Shale, F. R.
Albright, F. E. Case, H. E. Sullivan, Fred K. Kurtz,
PIANO TUNERS' CONVENTION.
The National Association of Piano Tuners has de-
cided to hold its annual convention next August in
Minneapolis. At the convention held in the Commo-
dore Perry Hotel, Toledo, Ohio, last month, Nels C.
Boe, of Chicago, was re-elected president. A. H.
Miller, of Cleveland, was elected vice-president, and
the following were chosen as the board of directors:
E. A. Weise, Chicago; Richard Kampennan, Grand
Rapids, Mich.; Herbert Schram, Rochester, N. Y.,
and Ronald Shero, Pasadena, Calif.
VOGUE DEALERS INCREASING.
Hard work and a good instrument are bringing
success to the Vogue piano—the new line put out by
Howard B. Morenus of LaPorte, Ind. Mr. Morenus
goes out personally at times on trips in his automobile
and calls on many of his old friends. His recent trip
through Ohio, taken in his machine, brought him six
new accounts, and lie is adding others since then by
correspondence from his office.
PIPE ORGANS IN NEW
YORK SCHOOLS
The move made by the Estey Organ Co., of Brattle-
boro, Vt., in installing pipe organs in public schools
will be watched with interest for further results.
Marking a revolutionary advance in the broad field
of musical education, the city of New York this
month is completing the installation of the first auto-
matic reproducing pipe organ ever to be used for mu-
sical instruction in the public school.
The three-manual concert organ being installed in
the auditorium of Theodore Roosevelt High School,
Washington avenue and Fordham road, The Bronx,
is the first of seven automatic reproducing pipe organs
now manufactured for New York public schools at
the Esttv or»aii factories in I'attleboro, Vt.
NATIONAL PIANO TRAVELERS' ASSOCIATION DINNER, MAY 16, 1915.
W. C. Whitney, E. F. Lapham, D. E. Fabyan, E. N.
Paulding, Burton S. Miller, Eugene Whelan, J. A.
Krumme, Jr., D. H. Paulding, Gustave Behning, A. F.
Smith, Edwin G. Tonk, Col. F. B. T. Hollenberg,
W. H. Moseley, E. E. Waldron, Charles Grundy, Mr.
Peckham, T. M. Pletcher, Paul Stroup, E. R. Metzger,
George W. Gittins, Thad Butler.
Paul B. Klugh, D. W. Harris, G. B. O'Neil, Frank
E. Edgar, M. M. Bonney, G. W. Allen, Percy R. Kim-
berly, M. L. McGinnis, L. W. P. Norris, C. F. Phil-
lips, James S. Holmes, Richard W. Lawrence, Julian
Mayer, Kenneth C. Curtis, E. R. Jacobson, Elmon
Armstrong, O. A. Field, Roger S. Brown, Joel Miller,
S. S. Rich, George H. Bliss, J. T. Penton, Herbert
Simpson, W. C. Heaton, Walter Kiehn, Mark P.
Campbell.
John Bunte, W. F. Wallace, R. E. Davis, W. B.
Williams, A. Jameson, Mr. Johnson, E. M. Backus,
Jr., James A. Wibley, J. H. Ludden, Mr. Busher, W.
T. BrinkerhofT, James F. Broderick, D. H. Spencer,
A. A. Page, William C. Klumpf, W. Wisdon, George
Mulcahey, Clark Adsit, H. J. Berlin, W. E. Tanner,
P. C. Johnson, W. B. Craighead, Henry Johnson,
George F. Abendschein, J. F. Kimberlin, George B.
CANADA'S
MUSICAL
INSTRUMENTS.
The Canadian Pacific Railway by holding music
festivals brings home to the people of Canada the
beauties of their own as well as the music of other
countries. A bulletin issued by the Canadian Pacific
Railway says: "The progress that Canada as a music-
loving nation is making is reflected to some extent
in its production of musical instruments. According
to reports on this industry by the Dominion Bureau
of Statistics, in 1928 the number of establishments
making returns was forty-two, representing a total
capital investment of $14,050,702, a gross value of pro-
duction of $12,282,589, and a total employment roll
of 2,983 people."
G. R. BROWNELL'S NEW JOB
Gurney R. Brownell, late head of the piano repair
and tuning department of Lyon & Healy, Chicago, is
now manager of the Lyon & Healy uptown store, 4646
Sheridan road. Chicago.
Studying music produces no hoodlums.
GIRL WRITER VISITS MOLLER'S.
Miss Alice Dickel, author, who had been in Cuba
when a friend had died under touching circumstances,
recently visited the Moiler Organ Works at Hagers-
town, Md., and as she sat in the recital studio heard
the same piece of music on one of the Moller organs
that had been played on a piano at the request
of the dying lady in Cuba. Miss Dickel connected
the tw r o hearings in a monograph of literary senti-
ment, with a turn of praise for the beauty and power
of the Moller organs, and her well-written story was
published in one of the daily papers of Hagerstown.
VV. S. Cheney of Chicago has returned from a
month's stay in the East. Mr. Cheney is now the
western representative of Pratt, Read & Co., of Deep
River, Conn.
A petition in involuntary bankruptcy was filed last
month against the Ogden Phonograph Manufacturing
Co., 3423 Ogden avenue, Chicago. Clay Manufactur-
ing Co., creditors. Claims, $1,000.
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