February, 1931
()24 East 134th street, New York, is living retired in
New York.
Walter S. Jenkins, who was John Church Co.
manager at Chicago for many years; now manager of
The Cable Piano Co. store on Library avenue, Detroit,
Mich.
George W. Allen, formerly president of the Milton
Piano Co., New York, was, as far as records go,
last associated with Winter & Co., 849-863 East 141st
street, New York.
E. F. Lapham, former member of the firm of
Grosvenor & Lapham, in the Fine Arts Building,
Chicago, is still in the bond and brokerage business,
suite 1104 Harris Trust Building, Chicago.
Henry P. Veatch, for several years in charge of the
Packard Piano Co.'s Chicago agency but who later
has served in the wholesale department of Lyon &
Healy, Chicago, took hold last month as manager of
the new Lyon & Healy branch store at Davenport,
Iowa.
D. K. Dickinson, one of the partners in the Gul-
bransen-Dickinson Co. before it became the Gulbran-
sen Co., is now living in Florida.
A. C. Stadler, who for several years was advertis-
ing manager at the Operators Piano Co., Chicago, is
now out of the music business and is presumably
doing well in some other line.
G. R. McTntyre, formerly traveling wholesale man
for the John Church Co. of Cincinnati, is now one of
eastern and southern representatives of the Kohler
Industries.
A. A. Mahan, who made a record for himself with
the Packard Piano Co. of Fort Wayne, Ind., and is
one of the past presidents of the National Piano Trav-
elers' Association, is now working just as efficiently
as ever for the Ivers & Pond Piano Co., Boston, Mass
Paul B. Klugh, who just barely stepped out of the
piano business when a few years ago he engaged in
radio manufacturing, is now putting new vim into the
latest activities at the Zenith Radio Corporation, 3620
Iron street, Chicago.
Col. E. S. Payson, for a long time president of the
Emerson Piano Co. at Boston, Mass., is living retired
at his home in Concord, Mass.
Maj. W. S. Rich, who attends the conventions occa-
sionally; living quietly at his home in Brookline, Mass.
J. E Sleeper, who was with the Straube Piano Co.,
was later superintendent of the Holland Piano Co.'s
plant at Menomonie, Wis., where he took part in the
winding up of that business.
Thomas J. Mercer, at one time managing editor of
the Music Trade Indicator, later with the Gulbransen
Co., is now on the Pacific Coast managing a discount-
ing- house.
Edward P. Mason some two or three years ago
started the production of pianos in his own name and
located his headquarters on West 57th street, New
York.
Lee S. Roberts, formerly interested in the repre-
sentation of Chickering & Sons at San Francisco, is
becoming quite popular as a broadcaster for one of
the largest broadcasting stations on the Pacific Coast.
E. S. Rauworth, formerly manufacturing pianos at
Bellevue, Iowa, when last heard of was in the radio
business.
W H E R E ARE THESE?
Can any of the readers of Presto-Times locate any
of these "old-timers"?
Robert S. Howard, Lem Kline, Henry Johnson,
E. J. Jordan, William Knabe, W. M. Plaisted, E. M.
Atherton, E. E. Walter. A. B. Furlong, Will T. Brink-
erhoff, George H. Beverly, George W. Gittins. W. C.
Golden, Charles McConville, Alexander McDonald.
TWO NEW CAPEHART MODELS
Two entirely new lines of instruments, one for the
home and the other for commercial use, have just
been announced by The Capehart Corporation, of
Fort Wayne, Ind., pioneer manufacturers of automatic
phonographs and record-changing mechanisms. Fea-
tured in both lines are handsome new cabinets created
by the well known designer, Hans Berg, of Grand
Rapids, and the new 10-12C record-changing mechan-
ism developed by Capehart engineers, which handles
either 10-inch or 12-inch records.
Leading the line of home instruments are two mod-
els of Capehart automatic phonograph with radio,
described by the maker as the "complete musical in-
struments for home entertainment," since they open
the whole field of recorded music—on both 10-inch
and 12-inch records—and bring the music from the
air as well. The Capehart radio chassis in these in-
struments may be had in Tuned Radio Frequency
Screen Grid circuit or Superheterodyne model, the lat-
ter at a slight increase in price.
J. E. BROWNING'S PROMOTION.
J. E. Browning, of Spartanburg, S. C . has taken
over the direction of the music department of Sterchi
Bros. F\irniture Store at Knoxville, Tenn. His de-
partment includes pianos, radios, and electrical re-
frigeration.
PRESTO-TIMES
Characterized by its Fine Tone
The
MATHUHSEK
Piano has given Pleas-
ure to Several Gener-
a t i o n s of M u s i c
Lovers, and is Known
and designated as
"The most Durable Piano
in the World."
REVIVING MEMORIES OF
WORLD'S FAIR OF 1893
It has been suggested numerous times by partici-
pants in the Columbian exposition of 1893 and quite
recently by Harry Edward Freund, of Chicago, that
a meeting be called by one of the piano organizations
of Chicago to bring together those living members of
the music trade who took part directly in giving exhi-
bitions at that most famous of world's fairs—the
World's "Columbian Exposition in Jackson Park—in
1893, and including music trade people who visited
that fair.
Mr. Freund's suggestion is that a permanent organ-
ization ought to be formed of these survivors who
could get together at intervals and review old-time
experiences and perhaps give the younger generation
of music dealers some valuable pointers that would
help to put more pep in the trade.in 1931.
Among those who have come to mind as possible
members of such an organization are Harry Edward
Freund, Will Collins, of Lyon & Healy's; E. W. Fur-
bush, who had charge of the Vose exhibit at the fair;
George J. Dowling, James A. Gray, of Boardman &
Gray. Albany; Col. E. S. Payson, of Boston, Curtis
N. Kimball, E. P. Carpenter, now living in the East,
who was one of the members of the Jury of Awards
in Section I (the musical instrument section); Ru-
dolph Dolge, now living in Caracas, Venezuela; Albert
Strauch, of New York: James F. Boyer, of C. G-
Conn, Inc., Elkhart, Ind.; Fred Reidemeister of Stein-
way & Sons; Frank D. Abbott, E. H. Story, of the
Story & Clark Piano Co.; Alex. Steinert, whose father.
Morris Steinert, had a famous collection of old
musical instruments; A. M. Sweetland, for years with
Newman Bros. Co., now living in South Bend, Ind.,
with the Starr Piano Co.; R. O. Burgess, who had
charge of the Needham Piano & Organ Co.'s exhibit
at the fair; Carl Bronson, who then was with Chase
Bros., now conducting a teaching studio in Los
Angeles; Charles F. Thompson, then head of the
Thompson Piano Co., now living at East Liverpool,
Ohio; Leo Heerwagen. who was then with the Votey
Organ Co., now engaged in a like business with head-
quarters in New York; Otto Wissner, New York;
Charles C. Russell, of the Russell Piano Co., Chicago;
A. G. Gulbransen, now president of the Gulbransen
Co., Chicago; ii.'B."-Bartlett. now vice-president of
the W. W. Kimball Co.. Chicago; Platt• P. Gibbs,
then at the head of the Chicago Music Co."
ONE OF THE BASIC UNITS
OF THE MUSIC INDUSTRY
No Concern is Better
Equipped to Meet
the Requirements of
Dealers and no Piano
is More Adaptable to
the Climate of any
Country; Due to its
Unique Features of
Construction.
For Particulars, Write to
MATHUSHEK PIANO MFG. CO.
There is no more highly specialized trade than the
making of good piano actions. As the action is, so
is the p:ano—it is the piano's heart. In developing
piano actions every modificatory improvement has
been studied and put into effect and technicians have
pursued these studies with indefatigable zeal for many
years. A piano to suit the discriminating taste of a
virtuoso must have an easy and perfect-working action
—one that responds instantly to the slightest touch.
Dealings with Comstock, Cheney & Co. have been
so satisfactory to manufacturers that this house stands
out as a fundamental institution—really one of the
foundation stones supporting the piano industry.
When a piano is shown to a customer and the
dealer realizes in the presence of his customer that its
action is from Comstock's he can recommend the
instrument as one that will measure up to its price.
He thinks of the ability of Comstock, Cheney & Co.
to supply his needs—a house that is one of the main-
springs of the music industry. In its line it has
gained a reputation so enviable that no doubt is left
in the minds of the piano manufacturers or dealers
as to its ability to give excellent service and first-
quality goods.
In the manufacturing field, Comstock, Cheney & Co.
have followed up every advantageous improvement,
overcome every difficult involution, secured patents on
the most efficient devices and the modes of their con-
trol, until today this house stands supreme in its line
and in its achievements.
MAKE-UP ERROR CORRECTED
In the last issue of Presto-Times a misplacement
of names occurred, wherein in the listing of piano
concerns now operating, in handling the type while
making up, there was put under the Bush & Lane
Piano Co., Holland, Mich., a number of piano names
that are being operated by the Kohler-Brambach
Piano Co., Inc., and in addition to these names is
Brambach Piano Co. Presto-Times gladly makes this
correction, so that its readers may not be misin-
formed.
Alexander Ave. and 132nd St.
E. B. BARTLETT IN THE SOUTH
NEW YORK, N. Y.
E. B. Bartlett, vice-president of the W. W. Kimball
Co., Chicago, left last week for a period of recreation
and rest at Houston, Tex., where he is visiting at the
home of his daughter.
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