May, 1931
11
PRESTO-TIMES
THIS PIANO WENT TO SEA
An Associated Press dispatch from Washington,
D. C , says that when Mrs. C. J. Wright, 2220 Bagby
street, Houston, Texas, went to California last fall
she rented her home, including her playerpiano. Two
daughters of the renter later introduced a group of
sailors from the flagship Houston of the Asiatic fleet
to the piano. The instrument made such good music
that the boys simply couldn't leave it, so when the
Houston sailed for China the piano went along. Now
Mrs. Wright is demanding her piano and it is up to
Assistant Secretary Jahncke of the navy to get it.
Mr. Jahncke mused: "I wonder if it won't turn out
Chinese music when we get it home.''
m Miscellaneous Doings
m
at the Convention
GENERAL TRADE
REPRESENTATIVES
Henry Detmcr can now be found at 339 South
Wabash avenue. His offices are on the third floor at
the same entrance as the piano repair shop of Mr.
Bartholomee.
Frank Weiser, who is working for the Gulbransen
Co., when at home is at Elmhurst, 111.
Ben M. Strub, Mathushek man, resides in Chicago
when not out selling Mathushek pianos.
Gordon Laughead, general wholesale representative
of the Wurlitzer Grand Piano Co., of DeKalb, 111.,
whose headquarters are in Chicago, is likely to be
seen at the convention.
The Starr Piano Co., of Richmond, Ind., has as its
local representative for Chicago and vicinity C. R.
Hunt, who is a veteran Starr piano salesman.
Pratt, Read & Co., manufacturers of piano keys,
actions and ivory, Deep River, Conn., will not make
an exhibit, but Richard W. Stevens, an official of that
company, will represent the house during the con-
vention.
The V. C. Squier Co., manufacturers of wound
musical strings, Battle Creek, Mich., do not intend to
exhibit at the Chicago convention. Raymond Gould
of the company, however, will be in attendance.
The Henry F. Miller Piano Co., 234 Boylston street,
Boston, Mass., is not planning to have any exhibit at
the June convention in Chicago. However, G. Wilson
MacDow, treasurer of the company, expects to attend
the convention.
Hardman, Peck & Co., 433 Fifth avenue, New York,
are among those who will not have an exhibit in Chi-
cago during the convention—either at the Palmer
House or in the hands of a dealer.
Jacob Bros. Co., New York, will not have an exhibit
at the Chicago convention. C. Albert Jacob, Jr., vice-
president of the Mathushek Piano Mfg. Co., will be
at the convention and at the Mathushek exhibit in
BURNING RUBBISHY PIANOS
In his department entitled "Things I Never Knew
Till Now But Which You Knew AlLAJong," Walter
Winchell, columnist for the Daily Mirror, New York,
says: "That there is a Long Island dump where a
rooms 802 and 803 Palmer House, and will at the special spot has been set aside for the burning of
same time represent the interests of Jacob Bros. Co. pianos. The radio is blamed." Well, all Presto-Times
Comstock, Cheney & Co., Ivoryton, Conn., the great can add to that is the explanation that the pianos
piano action and hammer house, will be represented burned there are corpses, not real pianos. They may
at the convention by Mr. Seeley of that company. look like pianos in the distance but in reality are only
Mr. Seeley will be at the convention the entire week. fit for the bonfire of the crematory. Nobody with a
Frank Holton & Co., manufacturers of the Holton grain of common sense blames the radio for condemn-
band instruments, Elkhorn, Wis., will not make any ing dead pianos to the flames.
display exhibit during the convention but J. W.
Strong, general sales manager, will probably be a
convention visitor several days of the week.
The etching herewith is torn out of a page of The
The C. G. Conn Co.'s exhibit at the Palmer House
will embrace the Pan-American, the Leedy Co., the Piano Tuners Magazine on which page is a sample
Cavalier lines and other auxiliary organizations. This of Presto advs. published in some of the music and
combine will make a very fine showing; in fact, the
exhibit will bring a little theater with the new Alto
-eaicsman, "Here is Ji
what you are looking for. Now tak.
Saxophone holding the center of the stage. Pan-
this
book
home
and do exactly what
ed
American is to feature a novel motion display and the
m- it tells you and you will come to
Cavalier, himself, is to be on hand to sponsor that line.
ro,
fed
Leedy will feature the mallet-played instruments.
ny
THE PRESTO BUYERS' GUIDE
Soprani, Inc., and The Continental Music Co. will
J will
TO AMERICAN PIANOS
The BLUE BOOK of the Piar
be in Room 886. Both of these companies have inno-
lanufacturir.it Industry.
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and descriptions of B
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vations of great interest to the trade which are to be
itinos: official record of all piar
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introduced at the show.
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TNC BOOK THAT SELLS PIANOS
.mended as a
,nt musical child
S. Ernest Philpitt, head of the great house of S.
Te"Rchors schools, prospective pin no
buyers will find the ISuyers' Guide a
v?en years of age.
Ernest Philpitt & Son, whose headquarters are at 40
K. W. G.
50 cents per copy (25 cents to
S. E. First street, Miami Beach, Fla., with branch
*, by Satis N. Cole-
Free with one year's subscrip-
illustrated. John
tion ($1.25) to PRESTO-TIMES,
stores scattered throughout the state, will be at the
The American Music Trade
ew York.
cenvention the entire week and make his headquarters
is well known to
SLISHINC
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of
the
originators
at the Palmer House, arriving Sunday, June 7. Mr.
Dearborn
t children should be
Chk.f o. III., U. S. A.
nusic by first having
Philpitt is secretary of the National Music Merchants'
,i learn to play on crude
Association and a director. He will be accompanied
by Dallas Tucker, an official of the Philpitt concern, music industries papers and the "musical instruments
who will come mainly to attend the sheet music deal- department" of a few daily and weekly newspapers,
ers' convention. Mr. Philpitt will be given the glad
where there is a probability of getting orders for the
hand of welcome by Chicago piano manufacturers and
Buyers' Guide and rendering- a service to manufac-
he informs a Presto-Times representative that he ex- turers.
pects to enjoy Chicago immensely.
Rudy Wiedoft Enterprises, piano dealers, have been
The Wurlitzer store, 444 South Salina street, Syra- incorporated by Miller & Miller, 25 West Forty-
cuse, N. Y., is holding a pre-inventory sale of pianos fourth street, New York. One hundred shares com-
—free delivery and free bench.
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