Presto
Issue: 1920 1758 - Page 9
April 3, 1920.
ITEMS OF INTEREST
FROM CINCINNATI
News Mostly of a Personal Nature Which
Contains Some Important Piano Trade
and Industry Facts.
E. R. Loughead, traveling representative for the
Hallet & Davis Piano Company, Boston, was in Cin-
cinnati last week calling on the trade. During his
stay in Cincinnati Mr. Loughead made his head-
quarters at the office of the William R. Graul Piano
Company, which is the Cinc-nnati distrihutor of the
Hallet & Davis Company's pianos.
W. S. Jenkins, sales manager of the piano de-
partment of the John Church Company, was in Cin-
cinnati last week conferring with Roswell B.
Burchard, president of the company, regarding ship-
ments of pianos to the various branches.
Music business on the Pacific Coast is booming
according to Carl W. Yager, sheet music salesman
for the John Church Company, Cincinnati, who has
just completed a two months' business trip of that
section of the country. In a letter to Roswell B.
Burchard, president of the company, Yager said the
sheet music business has increased wonderfully, and
the volume of business he transacted surpasses all
previous records. Mr. Yager makes his headquar-
ters in New York City.
Lucien Wulsin, treasurer of the Baldwin Piano
Company, was in New York last week in conference
with Arnold Somolyo, manager of the branch in
that city, regarding the engagement of pianists for
the fall and winter months. Before leaving for
$50.00 Prize
for Best Display
For a picture of the most at-
tractive and artistic "Player-
piano Week" window display
in which the Standard Cut-
outs are used, we offer a prize
• of $50.00. The photographs
must be taken at night, and
should be mailed to us by the
25th of April. The winning
photograph shall be repro-
duced in the music trade
papers.
Attract attention to your
special "Playerpiano Week"
window display by using a
set of the window streamers
illustrated above.
The Standard window dis-
play £ut*outs will help to
make your " P l a y e r p i a n o
Week" window display a
success. Write today for a set
of the streamers and cut-outs.
KBSTO
Gotham, Mr. Wulsin said the company is short
7,000 pianos on orders right now.
The Rudolph Wurlitzer Company has leased two
store rooms at Peebles Corner which will be com-
bined and remodeled and opened as a music house.
S. L. Blankenship, advertising manager of the
Vocalstyle Music Roll Company, resigned that po-
sition last week and has takon a position as travel-
ing representative for the Q R S Music Roll Com-
pany. Mr. Blankenship had been with the Vocal-
style company for the past year.
H. F. PELTIER VISITS CHICAGO.
GEO. W. POUND APPEARS
BEFORE HOUSE COMMITTEE
General Council of Music Industries Chamber of
Commerce Argues for Barkley Bill.
George W. Pound, general counsel of the Music
Industries Chamber of Commerce, has been in
Washington, D. C, for more than a week on a
number of accumulated matters for the industry
before the Internal Revenue Department, various
committees and departments.
On Thursday of last week Mr. Pound presented
arguments before the House Committee on Inter-
state and Foreign Commerce in support of the
Barkley Bill, known as the Misbranding Act, a bill
to prevent fraudulent and untrue advertising, mis-
brandirtg of merchandise, etc., and in line with the
work of the Better Business Bureau. There is a
strong probability of the passage of this bill, ac-
cording to Mr. Pound. There is also another bill
known as the Rogers Bill, to the same import. No
changes in the War Revenue Taxation are at pres-
ent in contemplation.
Henry F, Peltier, who conducts a repair shop in
association with Kramer's Music House, 28 West
Fifth avenue, Gary Ind., was in Chicago Monday
morning of this week. Kramer's Music House sells
playerpianos, pianos, organs and phonographs, and
Mr. Kramer is a technical expert in tuning and re-
pairing instruments of music. Before going into
business on his own accouni, he was for several
years with Vose & Sons Piano Company. Mr.
Peltier has been an occasionai contributor to Presto,
writing on technical subject-., but treating them so
broadly that any salesman could understand what
he was driving at. Mr. Peltier says that all strikes
are now over at the steel mills in Gary, and pros-
perity seems to have come •:> the city to stay. The
greatest need of Gary, todav, he says, is homes for
the workingmen, the city being short about 2,500
houses. One large corporation that is settling there
does not know what to do to get living quarters Manager Frank M. Case Says Increase in Total of
Year's Business Is Assured.
for its workmen and their families.
At
the
Wiley
B. Allen house in Portland, Ore.,
Creation of the foreign-trade department by the there is a shortage
of Mason & Hamlin pianos, but
United States Chamber of Commerce is the first Frank M. Case, manager,
sa\s that in spite of the
step toward a reorganization of the chamber's ma- shortage they are able to get
goods than they
chinery designed to divide the work of the chamber got last year and that they more
sell
all
they get, and
lip along the lines of the great divisions of industry. this assures an increase in the total year's
business.
Mr. Case has just returned from a two weeks
visit in California, where in company with Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Anrys, Mr. James Black and Miss Mae
PLAYER-
Shintaffer, all of the Wiley B. Allen Co., they visited
PIANO
Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and other places in
Southern California. On their return they motored
WEEK from Los Angeles to San Francisco on the coast
road.
EVERY DEAL-
A representative of the Ampico departments of
the
American Piano Co. is in Portland this week.
ER, NO MAT- W. E.
Ash is the representative, who after visiting
TER W H A T Denver, Seattle and Tacomi has arrived in Port-
land and from there will g> to San Francisco and
LINE HE MAY then back to New York. Mr. Ash is well pleased
the success the local dealers have had in selling
SELL, IS IN- with
the Ampico and rinds business in the other cities
TERESTED IN visited excellent.
F. A. Taylor, who has been with the Reed-French
THE
A P - Co. for some time has resumed his former position
P R O ACHING as salesman in the piano c.tpartment of Lipman,
Wolfe & Co.
The Pacific Accessory & Supply Co., Portland,
PLAYER-
Ore., C. D. Wood, manager, is doing such a big busi-
PIANO WEEK. ness that the company has been recapitalized and
is now about double what .'t was at starting. Mr.
Wood has just returned from an eastern trip where
TRIM
he established some good connections in accessories
YOUR
Band instruments and all kinds of music carried
by small goods houses will he added to its present
WINDOW stock in the near future.
PORTLAND, ORE., DEALERS SEE
IMPROVEMENT IN SHIPMENTS
HAVE IT PHO-
AMERICAN PIANO CO. DIVIDENDS.
TOGRAPHED.
The American Piano Company, New York, has
declared a stock dividend of 5 per cent and a cash
dividend of 1V£ per cent on the common stock and
the regular quarterly dividend of 1% per cent on the
preferred stock, all payable April 1 to stock of
record March 4. This is the same amount paid on
the common on January 1.
WIN
THE
FIFTY!
TRADE W I L L
BE B E T T E R
FOR A LONG
TIME
TO
C O M E , BE-
CAUSE
OF
THE PLAYER-
PIANO WEEK,
W H I C H THE
S T A N D ARD
P N E UMATIC
ACTION COM-
PANY
HAS
INAUGURAT-
ED.
FINISHING AT GULBRANSEN'S.
Ray Gronier, who has just completed a course at
the Danquard Player Action School, New York, is
now taking a post-graduate course at the Gulbran-
sen-Dickinson Company's factory, Chicago. When
he finishes this topping-out course he will again be
associated with his uncle, Lambert Gronier, piano
dealer of Lancaster, Wis.
SPECIAL SALE IN MISSOURI.
The Taylor Music Company, of Columbia, Mo.,
has just closed a special sale at Mexico, Mo., with
the Schiller, the Schaff Bros, and the Milton lines
of instruments. It was in charge of W. L. Dorgman,
with E. M. Finley and E. W. Parker, the Bruns-
wick, Mo., dealer, assisting. The sale was a great
success.
The Standard Oil Co. in Alton, 111., has four bids
in now for the 35 instruments for a new band being
organized at that place. This band will be com-
posed of the old band members, with an additional
number, enough to make 35 members. The com-
pany will also order new uniforms and have an ef-
ficient band instructor.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST
FROM CINCINNATI
News Mostly of a Personal Nature Which
Contains Some Important Piano Trade
and Industry Facts.
E. R. Loughead, traveling representative for the
Hallet & Davis Piano Company, Boston, was in Cin-
cinnati last week calling on the trade. During his
stay in Cincinnati Mr. Loughead made his head-
quarters at the office of the William R. Graul Piano
Company, which is the Cinc-nnati distrihutor of the
Hallet & Davis Company's pianos.
W. S. Jenkins, sales manager of the piano de-
partment of the John Church Company, was in Cin-
cinnati last week conferring with Roswell B.
Burchard, president of the company, regarding ship-
ments of pianos to the various branches.
Music business on the Pacific Coast is booming
according to Carl W. Yager, sheet music salesman
for the John Church Company, Cincinnati, who has
just completed a two months' business trip of that
section of the country. In a letter to Roswell B.
Burchard, president of the company, Yager said the
sheet music business has increased wonderfully, and
the volume of business he transacted surpasses all
previous records. Mr. Yager makes his headquar-
ters in New York City.
Lucien Wulsin, treasurer of the Baldwin Piano
Company, was in New York last week in conference
with Arnold Somolyo, manager of the branch in
that city, regarding the engagement of pianists for
the fall and winter months. Before leaving for
$50.00 Prize
for Best Display
For a picture of the most at-
tractive and artistic "Player-
piano Week" window display
in which the Standard Cut-
outs are used, we offer a prize
• of $50.00. The photographs
must be taken at night, and
should be mailed to us by the
25th of April. The winning
photograph shall be repro-
duced in the music trade
papers.
Attract attention to your
special "Playerpiano Week"
window display by using a
set of the window streamers
illustrated above.
The Standard window dis-
play £ut*outs will help to
make your " P l a y e r p i a n o
Week" window display a
success. Write today for a set
of the streamers and cut-outs.
KBSTO
Gotham, Mr. Wulsin said the company is short
7,000 pianos on orders right now.
The Rudolph Wurlitzer Company has leased two
store rooms at Peebles Corner which will be com-
bined and remodeled and opened as a music house.
S. L. Blankenship, advertising manager of the
Vocalstyle Music Roll Company, resigned that po-
sition last week and has takon a position as travel-
ing representative for the Q R S Music Roll Com-
pany. Mr. Blankenship had been with the Vocal-
style company for the past year.
H. F. PELTIER VISITS CHICAGO.
GEO. W. POUND APPEARS
BEFORE HOUSE COMMITTEE
General Council of Music Industries Chamber of
Commerce Argues for Barkley Bill.
George W. Pound, general counsel of the Music
Industries Chamber of Commerce, has been in
Washington, D. C, for more than a week on a
number of accumulated matters for the industry
before the Internal Revenue Department, various
committees and departments.
On Thursday of last week Mr. Pound presented
arguments before the House Committee on Inter-
state and Foreign Commerce in support of the
Barkley Bill, known as the Misbranding Act, a bill
to prevent fraudulent and untrue advertising, mis-
brandirtg of merchandise, etc., and in line with the
work of the Better Business Bureau. There is a
strong probability of the passage of this bill, ac-
cording to Mr. Pound. There is also another bill
known as the Rogers Bill, to the same import. No
changes in the War Revenue Taxation are at pres-
ent in contemplation.
Henry F, Peltier, who conducts a repair shop in
association with Kramer's Music House, 28 West
Fifth avenue, Gary Ind., was in Chicago Monday
morning of this week. Kramer's Music House sells
playerpianos, pianos, organs and phonographs, and
Mr. Kramer is a technical expert in tuning and re-
pairing instruments of music. Before going into
business on his own accouni, he was for several
years with Vose & Sons Piano Company. Mr.
Peltier has been an occasionai contributor to Presto,
writing on technical subject-., but treating them so
broadly that any salesman could understand what
he was driving at. Mr. Peltier says that all strikes
are now over at the steel mills in Gary, and pros-
perity seems to have come •:> the city to stay. The
greatest need of Gary, todav, he says, is homes for
the workingmen, the city being short about 2,500
houses. One large corporation that is settling there
does not know what to do to get living quarters Manager Frank M. Case Says Increase in Total of
Year's Business Is Assured.
for its workmen and their families.
At
the
Wiley
B. Allen house in Portland, Ore.,
Creation of the foreign-trade department by the there is a shortage
of Mason & Hamlin pianos, but
United States Chamber of Commerce is the first Frank M. Case, manager,
sa\s that in spite of the
step toward a reorganization of the chamber's ma- shortage they are able to get
goods than they
chinery designed to divide the work of the chamber got last year and that they more
sell
all
they get, and
lip along the lines of the great divisions of industry. this assures an increase in the total year's
business.
Mr. Case has just returned from a two weeks
visit in California, where in company with Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Anrys, Mr. James Black and Miss Mae
PLAYER-
Shintaffer, all of the Wiley B. Allen Co., they visited
PIANO
Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and other places in
Southern California. On their return they motored
WEEK from Los Angeles to San Francisco on the coast
road.
EVERY DEAL-
A representative of the Ampico departments of
the
American Piano Co. is in Portland this week.
ER, NO MAT- W. E.
Ash is the representative, who after visiting
TER W H A T Denver, Seattle and Tacomi has arrived in Port-
land and from there will g> to San Francisco and
LINE HE MAY then back to New York. Mr. Ash is well pleased
the success the local dealers have had in selling
SELL, IS IN- with
the Ampico and rinds business in the other cities
TERESTED IN visited excellent.
F. A. Taylor, who has been with the Reed-French
THE
A P - Co. for some time has resumed his former position
P R O ACHING as salesman in the piano c.tpartment of Lipman,
Wolfe & Co.
The Pacific Accessory & Supply Co., Portland,
PLAYER-
Ore., C. D. Wood, manager, is doing such a big busi-
PIANO WEEK. ness that the company has been recapitalized and
is now about double what .'t was at starting. Mr.
Wood has just returned from an eastern trip where
TRIM
he established some good connections in accessories
YOUR
Band instruments and all kinds of music carried
by small goods houses will he added to its present
WINDOW stock in the near future.
PORTLAND, ORE., DEALERS SEE
IMPROVEMENT IN SHIPMENTS
HAVE IT PHO-
AMERICAN PIANO CO. DIVIDENDS.
TOGRAPHED.
The American Piano Company, New York, has
declared a stock dividend of 5 per cent and a cash
dividend of 1V£ per cent on the common stock and
the regular quarterly dividend of 1% per cent on the
preferred stock, all payable April 1 to stock of
record March 4. This is the same amount paid on
the common on January 1.
WIN
THE
FIFTY!
TRADE W I L L
BE B E T T E R
FOR A LONG
TIME
TO
C O M E , BE-
CAUSE
OF
THE PLAYER-
PIANO WEEK,
W H I C H THE
S T A N D ARD
P N E UMATIC
ACTION COM-
PANY
HAS
INAUGURAT-
ED.
FINISHING AT GULBRANSEN'S.
Ray Gronier, who has just completed a course at
the Danquard Player Action School, New York, is
now taking a post-graduate course at the Gulbran-
sen-Dickinson Company's factory, Chicago. When
he finishes this topping-out course he will again be
associated with his uncle, Lambert Gronier, piano
dealer of Lancaster, Wis.
SPECIAL SALE IN MISSOURI.
The Taylor Music Company, of Columbia, Mo.,
has just closed a special sale at Mexico, Mo., with
the Schiller, the Schaff Bros, and the Milton lines
of instruments. It was in charge of W. L. Dorgman,
with E. M. Finley and E. W. Parker, the Bruns-
wick, Mo., dealer, assisting. The sale was a great
success.
The Standard Oil Co. in Alton, 111., has four bids
in now for the 35 instruments for a new band being
organized at that place. This band will be com-
posed of the old band members, with an additional
number, enough to make 35 members. The com-
pany will also order new uniforms and have an ef-
ficient band instructor.
Enhanced content © 2008-2009 and presented by MBSI - The Musical Box Society International (www.mbsi.org) and the International Arcade Museum (www.arcade-museum.com).
All Rights Reserved. Digitized from the archives of the MBSI with support from NAMM - The International Music Products Association (www.namm.org).
Additional enhancement, optimization, and distribution by the International Arcade Museum. An extensive collection of Presto can be found online at http://www.arcade-museum.com/library/
Future scanning projects are planned by the International Arcade Museum Library (IAML).