Presto

PRESTO
April 17, 1920.
END OF A LONG DELIVERY TRIP
In the Word Rolls Are Many Prime Favorites
Played by the Keyboard
Masters.
The following Word Rolls are included in the
Advance list of player music issued for May by
the Q R S Music Company, Chicago.
Beautiful Hawaii (Mary Earl) waltz. Played by
Arden & Ohman.
Barefoot Trail, The (Phelps-Wiggers) Ballad.
Played by Phil Ohman.
Chloe (Sylva-Jolson) Fox Trot. Played by Phil
Rinnan.
Crocodile, The (Motzan-Akst) Fox Trot. Played
by "Zez" Confrey.
Dardanella Blues, The (Fisher-Black) Fox Trot.
Played by Pete Wendling.
Hot Tamale Mollie (Weslyn-Kortlander) Fox
Trot. Played by Max Kortlander.
In O|d Madeira (Wehner-Sanders-Carlo) Fox
Trot. Played by Arden & Ohman.
Just Like a Gipsey (Simons-Bayes) Fox Trot.
Played by Victor Arden.
Memories of Virginia (Wilnorf-Atkinson) Waltz
with Marimba Effects. Played by Osborne & Howe.
Missy (Robe-Stanton) Fox Trot. Played by Max
Kortlander.
Nailo (Callahan-Roberts) Fox Trot. Played by
Lee S. Roberts and Phil Ohman.
Oh! By Jingo! Oh! By Gee! (Brown-Von Tilzer)
Fox Trot. Played by Pete Wendling.
Old Man Jazz (Gene Quaw) Fox Trot. Played
by Arden & Ohman.
Pip Pip, Toot Toot, Good-Bye-ee (Kendell-Rob-
inson) Fox Trot. Played by J. Russell Robinson.
Shadows (Brennan-Rule) Ballad Fox Trot. Played
by Victor Arden.
Somebody
(Little-Stanley-Dellon)
One-Step.
Played by Baxter & Kortlander.
Sunny Southern Smiles (Gilbert-MacBoyle-
Cooper) Fox Trot. Played by J. Russel Robinson.
So Long Oolong (How Long You Gonna Be
Gone) (Kalmar-Ruby) Fox Trot. Played by Pete
Wendling.
Turkey In The Straw (Ott Bonnell). Played by
Max Kortlander.
When The Harvest Moon Is Shining (Sterling-
Von Tilzer) Waltz. Played by Baxter & Kort-
lander.
The following Story Rolls are included:
Basket of Roses (Albers). Played by Max Kort-
lander. Golden Age Waltz, The (Barnard).
WILLIAM H. BOWLES CALLS
ON NEW ENGLAND DEALERS
Seven States Will Be Covered in Song Trip by
Autopiano Company's Representative.
William H. Bowles, representative of the Auto-
piano Company, New York City, has started on a
trip which will take him through all towns located in
the New England States. It will probably extend
over a period of six to seven weeks, bringing him
back to New York City around Decoration Day. His
itinerary, which is a lengthy one, calls for stops
in all towns as far north as Bangor, Me., and will
take him through the states of Rhode Island, Con
necticut, Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont, New
Hampshire and New York. Mr. Bowles' trip is in
the interest of several of the Autopiano products:
The Autopiano Welte-Mignon reproducing instru
ment, the playerpiano phonograph and the line of
playerpianos which are being equipped with the new
General Player Action.
The first of these products, the Autopiano Welte-
Mignon reproducing piano, offers a product of con-
siderable selling merit. The instrument is built to
the regular Autopiano quality and equipped with the
Auto De Luxe Reproducing Action, which is licensed
under the famous Welte-Mignon patents. This su-
perior reproducing action is built into both the up-
right and grand pianos and has as an added asset
the vast Welte-Mignon library of music, which is
comprised of thousands of the most popular selec-
tions of music of all times.
The playerpiano phonograph which Mr. Bowles
will practically introduce to the New England deal-
ers is a novelty combination of both playerpiano
and phonograph. It consists of the well known
Autopiano product, the Pianista piano, with a su-
perior phonograph mechanism built into the sanr-
case. This phonograph equipment does not in any
way impair the action of the playerpiano and is built
into that part of the case which, in the past, has.
beer waste space. The General Player Action has
Vose Piano Travels from Boston to Taikuhsien, China, and Arrives in
Condition Highly Satisfactory to Customer
There's a long stretch of land and sea between
the Vose & Sons Piano Company's factory at
Massachusetts avenue and Magazine street, Boston,
and Taikuhsien, China, and in delivering a piano
from the first named place to the last every shade
and variety of transportation problem is encount-
ered. There is a great contrast between the first
incident of the piano's trip—that associated with a
fast Vose motor truck and smooth highways of the
Hub—and the last lap in which the piano was borne
in triumph into Taikuhsien.
The story of this delivery of a Vose upright piano
from the factory in Boston to the customer, Philip
result of which is told by the customer: "I am
highly gratified that it was but slightly out of tune
after its long journey." The sentence epitomizes
Vose piano merits. The hazards of change in the
modes of transporting it, trials of varying climates
and other incidents of a most unusual trip were
powerless to seriously effect the Vose action. It
reached the other side of the earth and was "but
slightly out of tune." The piano traveled from
Boston to Vancouver, B. C, and from there by boat
to Tientsin via Kobe, Japan; thence to Yutze, about
twenty-five miles south of Tai Yuen Fu, the capital
of Shansi Province. There began the job of the
ON TH1<: ROAD N'EAU TAIKUHSIBX.
L. Dutton, in the out-of-the-way Chinese place,
would be full of thrills if told in al! its details. But
the fact that stands out in greatest prominence in
the story is the added proof of Vose durability. The
story, too, earns a tribute for the Vose shipping
room.
"The piano arrived without a scratch or mar of
any kind," is a sentence from the customer's letter
written on the arrival of the piano. It had experi-
ences in trucks and trains; was shunted hither and
yon on docks and yanked up and down ship's holds
by derricks. Human carriers toted it from Yutze to
Taikuhsien over rough Chinese trails called roads
by courtesy. How they proceeded is shown in the
interesting picture which accompanies this story.
It shows the last lap of a journey which tried and
found true the construction of the Vose piano.
The trip was a test to Vose piano qualities, the
Yutze Brotherhood of Strongarm Piano Toters and
the brotherhood did a fancy bit of work.
Note the proud strut of the major-general of
toters who leads the procession. It was warranted
by the occasion and the ovation. No Fourth of July
parade in Chelsea ever brought forth an enthusi-
astic citizenry in such numbers as the transit of the
Vose piano through Yutze caused. The passage of
the huskies with their load intrigued the natives;
the contents of the box piqued the curiosity of peo-
ple who had never seen a piano. Large crowds fol-
lowed the toters through the streets and made the
job of piano toting in close places harder for the
heaving and sweating crew. To effect the moving
they used long poles some eight inches in diameter.
The whole outfit, piano, box and carrying poles
weighed no less than 1,200 pounds.
been designed to meet special demands in the trade
and offers the dealer a playerpiano equipment which
is interesting.
HAVANA TRADE ASSOCIATION
ASSURED OF QUICK GROWTH
COLORED TUNERS IN
CHICAGO DO GOOD WORK
New Organization of Music Trade of Cuban Capital
to Seek Affiliation with N. A. M. M. of America.
The second meeting of the new Cuban organiza-
tion of the trade, The Music Industries Associa-
tion of Havana, will be held at the Spanish Club in
Havana next week. It is considered that a large
addition to the membership will result from the
meeting. Ten of the leading music merchants of
the city of Havana joined at the first meeting held
March 23, and it was agreed upon to seek affiliation
with the National Association of Music Merchants
of America and also with the Music Industries
Chamber of Commerce as a division. The stated
object of the new association is to "instill and de-
velop a larger interest in the art of music, and also
to encourage and insure the best known commercial
principles and practices in our industry."
The officers of the Music Industries Association
of Havana are: President. E. Giralt; vice-presi-
dent, John L. Stowers; secretary-treasurer, Antonio
J. Hidalgo; directors: Manual A. Salas and Antonio
Alvarez.
Several Colored Piano Salesmen Also Call on
Negro Trade in Big City.
Negroes who are graduates of tuning schools are
making good among their own race in Chicago at
their trade in several instances. There are also
three or four colored piano salesmen in Chicago
who are selling for some of the prominent piano
concerns, although they do not appear very often
in person on Wabash avenue. ''Negroes in Chicago
are making big money, and they will buy musical
instruments, so why not make customers of them?"
is the argument used by a leading retail manager
on Wabash avenue in conversation with a Presto
representative on Thursday morning.
"The influx of negroes from the South during the
last two years of the war brought between 100,000
and 200,000 new settlers of this race into Chicago,"
continued the speaker, "and it did not take a very
observing" person to see that the newcomers were
from among the best colored people of the whole
South. They have been thrifty, and as I said before,
they have money, so it is up to us to sell them some
instruments of music;'for as a race thev love music."
Arcana Lodge, No. 246, A. F. and A. M., presented
a suitably inscribed gold watch to E. Leins, presi-
dent of the E. Leins Piano Co., New York, on his
birthday anniversary recently.
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