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NOVEMBER 17, 1928
The Music Trade Review
Seeburg Style RO Pipe Organ Installed
in Empire Room, Palmer House, Chicago
Jerome Levy, Director of Music in That Hotel, Writes in Praise of Instrument—
Instrument Is of Type for Residences and the Home
/CHICAGO, ILL., November 10.—The thought
^"^ is often propounded that one's success is
to be gained away from home. The old story
about the prophet not being recognized by his
own people is often told, and may be applied
to products. However, very often this adage
doesn't hold true as has just been proved by
the J. P. Seeburg Co. of this city with the in-
stallation of the Seeburg Style RO pipe organ
in the Empire Room of the Palmer House, one
of Chicago's largest hotels.
Jerome Levy, the versatile orchestra leader
effects the instrument produced playing in con-
junction with the orchestra.
The growing appreciation for pipe organ
music is very evident, and with customary
vision, the J. P. Seeburg Co., manufacturers of
automatic instruments and pipe organs, is in-
troducing this new type of instrument which
will no doubt appeal to a large market that is
now ripe for cultivation. The instrument that
has been installed recently in the Palmer House
is a model now being offered by the J. P. See-
burg Co. as a home instrument, which is re-
Co., and that the records used are also Bruns-
wick records.
WSYR report that they have received hun-
dreds of favorable comments on these pro-
grams, to the effect that the reproductions on
the Brunswick records cannot be distinguished
from the original performance, some even go
so far as to ask for a verification of the state-
ment that the music is the result of playing
recordings on a reproducing instrument.
Henry M. Steussy Forms
Company in Milwaukee
MILWAUKEE, W I S . , November 12.—Henry M.
Steussy, formerly vice-president and general
manager of the Kesselman-O'Driscoll Co., which
has recently discontinued business, has formed
the firm of Henry M. Steussy, Inc., a new cor-
poration which has purchased the radio and Vic-
trola department of the Kesselman-O'Driscoll
Co. The new concern has the same employes as
were with the Kesselman concern, and is located
in the same store in the Kesselman Building at
Broadway and Mason street.
Hardman Modernique Pianos
to Be Shown in Washington
Palmer
House,
Chicago,
PHILADELPHIA, PA., November 12.—The special
rxhibit of Modernique pianos of Hardman,
I'eck & Co. manufacture, and arranged in the
show windows and warerooms of Gimbel Bros.,
this city, during the past fortnight, has been
brought to a close and the instruments shipped
to Washington, D. C, where they will be shown
in the music store of A. W. Lawson & Co., 1222
G street, N. W., the Hardman representatives.
and (below)
Seeburg
Organ
in
That
Hotel
and director of music at the Palmer House,
is unstinted in his praise of the Seeburg in-
strument. He says: "I find the Seeburg pipe
organ a most satisfactory and necessary ad-
junct to the already complete equipment of our
symphony orchestra. The beautiful effects ob-
tainable as a solo instrument is without equal;
in concert it furnishes an excellent background
for the string section, substituting for the
wood-winds.
"We were at first Just a little skeptical as. to
the possibilities of a self-contained pipe organ
of this kind, but our fears were short-lived. It
certainly is remarkable what volume, and par-
ticularly beauty of tone, is possible in the See-
burg. The voicing of the pipes is just right
to take care of our needs, and the volume is
even more than we anticipated."
This instrument is creating much comment
from the public musical critics of prominence.
Madame DePrimo, one of Fiance's accom-
plished pianists, who is again in this country,
was impressed by the beauty of tone, and dis-
played a profound interest in the excellent
ported to be taking very well with the trade.
The instrument, known as Style RO, is suit-
able for installation in residences without re-
quiring troublesome alterations for installing
pipe chambers. All pipes and mechanism, with
the exception of a small blower, are contained
within the Gothic motif case as illustrated, con-
sisting of two manuals and a full set of stops
controlling diapason, melodia, viola, violin,
dolce, tremola, supcroctave, etc.
The instrument is also equipped with a new
reproduction roll mechanism, which accommo-
dates three different types of rolls, the special
Seeburg organ art roll, the Seeburg style XP,
or by controlling the expression manuals, an
ordinary player roll can be used to operate
the instrument. The height is only 56 inches,
the depth 31*4 inches, and width 62)4 inches,
and the total weight—w&en packed is only 1,235
pounds.
Panatrope for Syracuse
Radio Broadcasting Station
Instrument Installed by Clark Music Co. Fur-
nishes Part of Station Program Daily—
Arouses Favorable Comment
The Clark Music Co., of Syracuse, N. Y.,
with branch stores in Watertown and East-
wood, the latter .a suburb of Syracuse, has
popularized the Brunswick Panatrope in that
section, by installing as part of the permanent
equipment of the fine Syracuse broadcasting
station WSYR, Hotel Syracuse, a Brunswick
Panatrope which is used on an average of four
times each week, for several hours at a lime,
to play all the latest Brunswick recordings.
Announcement is sent out on the air that the
program is furnished by the Brunswick Pana-
trope through the courtesy of the Clark Music
Pratt Read
Products
keys actions
players
are shipped on time.
When we make a
promise you can
count on it.
When you want
quick service you
can get it.
We have over
200,000 sq. ft.
of manufacturing
space to back you
up with.
Write us at the
first opportunity.
PRATT, READ & CO.
Established in 180i
The PRATT READ PLAYER ACTION CO.
Deep River, Conn.