Presto
Issue: 1920 1767 - Page 28
PRESTO
28
June 5, 1920.
Schumann
STAR=SPANGLED JAZZ
SURPRISES AMERICANS
PIANOS and PLAYER PIANOS
Have no superiors in appearance, tone
power or other essentials of strictly
leaders in the trade.
How Chief of Red Cross Discovered Gipsy Or-
chestra's Idea of How National Hymn
Should Be Played.
Warning to Infringers
%V9 E MARK
This Trade Mark is cast
in the plate and also ap-
pears upon the fall board
of all genuine Schumann
Pianos, and all infringers
will be prosecuted. Beware
of imitations such as Schu-
mann & Company, Schu-
mann & Son, and also
Shuman, as all stencil
shops, dealers and users of
pianos bearing a name in
imitation of the • name
Schumann with the inten-
tion of deceiving the public
will be prosecuted to the
fullest extent of the law.
Schumann Piano Co.
W. N. VAN MATRE, President
Rockford, 111.
OTTO R. TREFZ, Jr.
Manufacturer of
PIANO
BASS STRINGS
21st St. and Fairmount Ave.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
Franklin P. Adams once said that nobody but a
boy whose voice was changing could sing "The Star
Spangled Banner." However that may be, it is cer-
tain that only a Roumanian gipsy band could so
jazz the national anthem as to make it unrecogniz-
able to American ears.
Col. Gideon Wells, of Chicago, chief of the Amer-
ican Red Cross Commission to Roumania, before
starting on one of his tours of inspection along the
Danube, had expressed a desire to hear a real gipsy
orchestra play some real gipsy music. A govern-
ment official 'phoned the mayor of the towns the
American was to visit, asking him to arrange a din-
ner for the visitor with real gipsy music. Col.
Wells and his companions were agreeably surprised.
One of the numbers especially drew their praise.
It had all the fire, the weird fancifulness of a gipsy
dance. Some of the peasants in the restaurant
danced to it, kicking and flourishing their arms, to
the accompaniment of raucous hazzahs.
After dinner the restaurant manager stepped up
to Col. Wells and his party, his face wreathed in a
proud smile.
"How you like 'Ze Star Spangle Banner?'" he
queried.
The gipsies will have nothing to do with written
music. They play by ear. When their leader wants
to try a new one on his audiences, he simply plays
it over on his violin or whistles it, and the band is
then ready to begin. Foreign visitors in Roumania
flock to the cafes and restaurants that can give the
best gipsy music with the best dinner. The Dar-
danella success has nothing on the fox-trots per-
formed by the gipsies of Bucharest cafes. For cen-
turies the gipsies have played their violins against
time. As long ago as the second century of out-
era, when the Roman Emperor Trajan invaded the
forests of Pannonia to subdue the Dacians, the
gipsies were making their peculiar music, and no
doubt played to Trajan himself, jazzing the Roman
Imperial hymn, whatever that was, beyond recog-
nition.
KNABE IN MINNEAPOLIS.
Leopold Godowski used the Knabe piano in a
concert given in Minneapolis, Minn., on May 21.
The important fact to music lovers of the Twin
Cities has been utilized to excellent effect by the
Foster & Waldo Co. Special featuring of the
Knabe piano provided many pleasurable events in
the store for the past two weeks.
/IDDRESS-
PRICE & TEEPLE PIANO CO
CHICAGO U S A
Price & Teeple Piano Co.
218 South Wabash Avenue
CHICAGO
A LIVE LINE FOR LIVE DEALERS
WEBSTER
PIANOS AND PLAYERS
Fulfill Every Promise of
Profit to the Dealer
and Satisfaction to
His Customers.
NOTHING BETTER FOR YOUR TRADE
Manufactured by
THE WEBSTER PIANO CO.
450 Fifth Ave., NEW YORK CITY
"Built on Family Pride"
Doll & Sons
Represent the Artistic
in Piano and Player Piano
Construction
JACOB DOLL & SONS
STODDART
WELLSMORE
Jacob Doll & Sons, Inc.
Southern Boulevard, E. 133rd St.
E. 134th St. and Cypress Ave.
NEW YORK
W. P. HAINES & CO.
Your Prospective Customers
APOLLO
9h Suppose tt «>qppL-
does cost us oot
a little
PL4NO COMB4NY
I38th Street and Walton Avenue
NEW YORK CITY
Write for it.
Send Them Sales Letters
You can produce sales or inquiries with per-
sonal letters. Many concerns all over U. S.
are profitably using Sales Letters^we write.
Send for free instructive booklet, "Value of
iSales Letters."
Ross -Gould
Mailing
L.iS't'S
St. Louis
PRESTO
Paragon Piano Plates
Buyers'Guide
Absolutely Dependable
Best of Service
Indispensable t o
dealers and salesmen
Western manufacturers find that our facilities
and experience afford the best source of supplies.
(INCORPORATED)
PLAYERS and PIANOS
ertnee book free.
Get Your Plates From Oregon
50 cts.the copy
PARAGON FOUNDRIES COMPANY
OREGON, I L L .
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28
June 5, 1920.
Schumann
STAR=SPANGLED JAZZ
SURPRISES AMERICANS
PIANOS and PLAYER PIANOS
Have no superiors in appearance, tone
power or other essentials of strictly
leaders in the trade.
How Chief of Red Cross Discovered Gipsy Or-
chestra's Idea of How National Hymn
Should Be Played.
Warning to Infringers
%V9 E MARK
This Trade Mark is cast
in the plate and also ap-
pears upon the fall board
of all genuine Schumann
Pianos, and all infringers
will be prosecuted. Beware
of imitations such as Schu-
mann & Company, Schu-
mann & Son, and also
Shuman, as all stencil
shops, dealers and users of
pianos bearing a name in
imitation of the • name
Schumann with the inten-
tion of deceiving the public
will be prosecuted to the
fullest extent of the law.
Schumann Piano Co.
W. N. VAN MATRE, President
Rockford, 111.
OTTO R. TREFZ, Jr.
Manufacturer of
PIANO
BASS STRINGS
21st St. and Fairmount Ave.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
Franklin P. Adams once said that nobody but a
boy whose voice was changing could sing "The Star
Spangled Banner." However that may be, it is cer-
tain that only a Roumanian gipsy band could so
jazz the national anthem as to make it unrecogniz-
able to American ears.
Col. Gideon Wells, of Chicago, chief of the Amer-
ican Red Cross Commission to Roumania, before
starting on one of his tours of inspection along the
Danube, had expressed a desire to hear a real gipsy
orchestra play some real gipsy music. A govern-
ment official 'phoned the mayor of the towns the
American was to visit, asking him to arrange a din-
ner for the visitor with real gipsy music. Col.
Wells and his companions were agreeably surprised.
One of the numbers especially drew their praise.
It had all the fire, the weird fancifulness of a gipsy
dance. Some of the peasants in the restaurant
danced to it, kicking and flourishing their arms, to
the accompaniment of raucous hazzahs.
After dinner the restaurant manager stepped up
to Col. Wells and his party, his face wreathed in a
proud smile.
"How you like 'Ze Star Spangle Banner?'" he
queried.
The gipsies will have nothing to do with written
music. They play by ear. When their leader wants
to try a new one on his audiences, he simply plays
it over on his violin or whistles it, and the band is
then ready to begin. Foreign visitors in Roumania
flock to the cafes and restaurants that can give the
best gipsy music with the best dinner. The Dar-
danella success has nothing on the fox-trots per-
formed by the gipsies of Bucharest cafes. For cen-
turies the gipsies have played their violins against
time. As long ago as the second century of out-
era, when the Roman Emperor Trajan invaded the
forests of Pannonia to subdue the Dacians, the
gipsies were making their peculiar music, and no
doubt played to Trajan himself, jazzing the Roman
Imperial hymn, whatever that was, beyond recog-
nition.
KNABE IN MINNEAPOLIS.
Leopold Godowski used the Knabe piano in a
concert given in Minneapolis, Minn., on May 21.
The important fact to music lovers of the Twin
Cities has been utilized to excellent effect by the
Foster & Waldo Co. Special featuring of the
Knabe piano provided many pleasurable events in
the store for the past two weeks.
/IDDRESS-
PRICE & TEEPLE PIANO CO
CHICAGO U S A
Price & Teeple Piano Co.
218 South Wabash Avenue
CHICAGO
A LIVE LINE FOR LIVE DEALERS
WEBSTER
PIANOS AND PLAYERS
Fulfill Every Promise of
Profit to the Dealer
and Satisfaction to
His Customers.
NOTHING BETTER FOR YOUR TRADE
Manufactured by
THE WEBSTER PIANO CO.
450 Fifth Ave., NEW YORK CITY
"Built on Family Pride"
Doll & Sons
Represent the Artistic
in Piano and Player Piano
Construction
JACOB DOLL & SONS
STODDART
WELLSMORE
Jacob Doll & Sons, Inc.
Southern Boulevard, E. 133rd St.
E. 134th St. and Cypress Ave.
NEW YORK
W. P. HAINES & CO.
Your Prospective Customers
APOLLO
9h Suppose tt «>qppL-
does cost us oot
a little
PL4NO COMB4NY
I38th Street and Walton Avenue
NEW YORK CITY
Write for it.
Send Them Sales Letters
You can produce sales or inquiries with per-
sonal letters. Many concerns all over U. S.
are profitably using Sales Letters^we write.
Send for free instructive booklet, "Value of
iSales Letters."
Ross -Gould
Mailing
L.iS't'S
St. Louis
PRESTO
Paragon Piano Plates
Buyers'Guide
Absolutely Dependable
Best of Service
Indispensable t o
dealers and salesmen
Western manufacturers find that our facilities
and experience afford the best source of supplies.
(INCORPORATED)
PLAYERS and PIANOS
ertnee book free.
Get Your Plates From Oregon
50 cts.the copy
PARAGON FOUNDRIES COMPANY
OREGON, I L L .
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).