PRESTO TIMES
AMERICAN
MUSIC TRADES-INDUSTRIES
Established 1884
1 Year. .. .$1.00. 6 Months....60 cents
CHICAGO, ILL., MARCH-APRIL, 1935
Established 1 8 8 1
JOURNAL
Fifteenth of Publication Most*
PRESTO-TIMES' SUGGESTION ON
A PIANO NAME
MUSIC PUBLISHERS,
COMPOSERS, ARRANGERS,
MUSICAL SOCIETIES AND CLUBS
Requiring Music Plates, or
Printed Music of Any De-
scription; ENGRAVING,
LITHOGRAPHING or Any
Form of Compositions, should
apply to
Otto Zimmerman & Son, Inc.
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT SPACE
IN THIS ISSUE
BALDWIN (PIANOS)
(Announcement on New Models)
GULBRANSEN (PIANOS)
(Gulhransen Super-Scale Pianos)
CINCINNATI, OHIO
who print anything in music
by any process. Estab. 1876.
HARDMAN-PECK (PIANOS)
(New HARRINGTON GRAND Announcement)
MATHUSHEK-SPINET (PIANOS)
(The Piano Sensation of the Decade)
STEINWAY PIANOS
(Special on the New Accelerated Action)
STORY & CLARK (PIANOS)
HARDMAN-
(Story & Clark Dealers Fearlessly Challenge
Competition)
92 YEARS
KURTZMANN (PIANOS)
of
(The Wurlitzer Grand Piano Company
(Announcement on the 1935 Kurtzmann)
Absolute Reliability
Manufactured by
HARDMAN, PECK & CO.
New Location
33 WEST 57TH STREET
NEW YORK, N. Y.
THE FORTUNATE FINDLAY
TRUCK WINNER
SOME TIME AGO THE SELF LIFT-
ING PIANO TRUCK COMPANY OF
FINDAY, OHIO, O F F E R E D A
PREMIUM TO THE OWNER OF THE
OLDEST TRUCK IN SERVICE MAN-
UFACTURED BY THE SELF LIFT-
ING COMPANY. THE WINNER OF
THIS PRIZE, WHICH WAS A NEW
UP - TO - DATE S E L F - LI F T I N G
TRUCK, WENT TO THE ELLIS
TRANSFER C O M P A N Y , BAKER,
OREGON, ON TRUCK NUMBER 168,
PURCHASED IN 1902, MR. ELLIS
HAS MOVED T H O U S A N D S OF
PIANOS WITH THIS TRUCK AND
AFTER THIRTY-THREE YEARS HE
SAYS IT IS STILL GIVING GOOD
SERVICE.
FEATURES AND DESCRIPTIONS
A Challenge Many Times Verified
An Invention That Sustains the Claim of the
Makers
Annual National Music Week
Correspondence
Editorial—Semi-Editorial—Briefs
Notes on Musical Publications
Women in the Music Trades
Personal
Presto-Times' Suggestions on a Piano Name
Now for the Chicago Convention: July 22, 23, 24
A Broadside on New Designs and Late Models
Chicago-Made Harps Lead the World
Three Dealers Help Revival of a Prominent Piano
Music Trade Globe Trotters
Profits in Piano Accordion Selling
At various times this paper has suggested to dealers
in reply to their inquiries names for them to have
stencilled or decalcomanied on pianos which they
would carry in stock aside from their regular line.
Many of the names suggested were adopted and some
of them are still used on pianos made today. This
phase of the piano business has dropped off very
materially for the past few years but recently a com-
munication came to Presto-Times from which letter
we quote:
"We are a piano retailing concern operating over
parts of North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana,
and are looking for a good name on a piano which
can be copyrighted. However there are so many
discontinued names in the piano industry that you
may know of some such for a combination that would
be suitable for our purpose in having a piano of our
own."
For obvious reasons this firm would not want its
name broadcast in this matter but to several houses
in the trade who it was thought their inquiry would
interest the name of the house and address was given.
In our reply to the North Dakota music house a
considerable list of names suitable for stenciling on
a piano and other names many of which had been
discontinued were submitted but there are still other
names which this correspondent's letter suggests
might be given, most of them discontinued piano
names such as:
Bancroft, Banks, Barrett, Berkshire, Bescner, Brad-
ley, Bowers, Bennett Company (once at Warren,
Pennsylvania), Bernard (Decker & Son product),
Boston (Compton-Price, Coshocton, Ohio, product),
Chauncey, Chester, Carlton, Clifton, Chandler (Milton
Piano Company), Clinton, Ropelt (Rochester, New
V'ork, product), Everard, Huron, Kingston, LaVerne.
Llewellyn, Lyra, Melbourne, Merriam, LaFayette
(Krell-French Company product), Monroe (Newby &
Evans product), Rembrandt (Price & Teeple product).
And there are the names used on pianos, of firms
now oat of business, such as Dreher. Kleber, Kramer,
Philips & Crew, Loud, etc., etc., but which names are
of no general value today.
With the discarded names sent this correspondent
and the various suggested new names it is hoped this
and the various new names suggested it is hoped
these parties will be able to acquire a suitable one
for their requirements.
There has been a move to have the names of the
manufacturers who make pianos bearing other names
than their own to be stamped somewhere in the piano.
In fact this was hoped to have been one of the pro-
visions ot the NRA code, a rule that would require
every piano manufactured to carry the manufacturer's
name in conspicuous letters on or in the piano. Th's
rule was suggested in the report of President Wulsin
in 1934. But while many manufacturers were
in favor of this and the matter received the special
attention of the executive committee of the associa-
tion and the code authority, it was decided not to
take any definite action in the matter at this time,
that is regarding the desirability of having the code
supplemented to contain provisions a'ong the lines
indicated.
MANY SAY YES TO THIS PROPOSITION
Messrs. Hecht Bros.. Steinway representatives at
Baltimore, Md., following the Steinway famous line—
"Instrument of the Immortals"—asks, "Isn't it worth-
while to pay a little more for the pride and pleasure
of owning the world's supreme piano; isn't it worth
a little more to own a Steinway?"
E. E. Rullman, Chicago, has been re-elected presi-
Trade Pick-Up; New Firms, Changes, Removals, dent of the Automatic Musical Instrument Co., Grand
Rapids, Mich. The directors are widely scattered,
Etc.
among them being E. C. Steffens. Chicago; L. H.
Martin. La Crosse, Wis.; R. H. Mills. Springfield,
Revival of a Prominent Piano
The White House Musicales
Ohio: J. F. Fraser, Minneapolis, and A. R. Gillies,
Grand Ledge, Mich.
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