Presto
Issue: 1920 1770 - Page 7
PRESTO
June 26, 1920.
THE FINE JULY LIST
OF Q R S MUSIC ROLLS
Remarkably Attractive Collection of Numbers,
Both Popular and Classic, for Playerpianos,
Is Announced in Artistic Folder.
The July list of Q R S music rolls is one of the
best yet. It is presented in an artistic folder, printed
in colors and handsomely illustrated. For con-
venience and winning arrangement this Q R S list
is distinctive in its preparation. In the hands of
the trade it is sure to stimulate the demand for
player rolls so well worth while having that they
must be profitable to the retailer. Following is the
list of the entirely new selections, and there is also
a good list of numbers that have already proven
themselves most popular:
Word Rolls: 1133, "Beautiful Annabelle Lee";
1134, "Good Old Favorites"; 1135, "Hawaiian
Breezes"; 1136, "I'll Be with You in Apple Blossom
Time"; 1137, "Louisiana I Can Hear Your Message
to Me"; 1138, "Napoli"; 1139, "Rose Time in Ha-
waii"; 1140, "Repasz Band"; 1141, "Railroad Blues";
1142, "Stop It," a rattling good one-step; 1143, "That
Old Irish Mother of Mine''; 1144, "Your Eyes Have
Said Remember" (Tho' Your Lips Have Said For-
get). Played by Lee S Roberts, who has given a
colorful interpretation.
Story Rolls: D-63, "Three Dances from Henry
V I I I " ; D-64, "The Whispering Winds."
Gems of the Semi-Classics: 80139, "Hearts and
Flowers,'' played by Lower; 80350, "Polka de Con-
cert," played by Stanford Robar; 115, "A Perfect
Day, arranged and played by Lee S. Roberts; 290,
"The Rosary," played by Lee S. Roberts and Carrol
Williams; 400080, "Narcissus," transcribed and
played by Pierre La Fontaine; 337, "Mighty Lak' a
Rose," played by Lee S. Roberts; 203, "Where the
River Shannon Flows," played by Lee S. Roberts;
90005, "Message of the Violet," played by Lee S.
Roberts; 400066, "The Palms," played by Lee S.
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Roberts; 100489, "Tell Me Pretty Maiden," arranged
and played by Lee S. Roberts; 80567, "Whispering-
Winds," played by Edmund Gillet; 400056, "Fifth
Nocturne," transcribed and played by Hans Hanks;
400150, Schubert's "Serenade/'played by Madam Stur-
kow Ryder; 119, "Silver Threads Among the Gold,"
arranged and played by Lee S. Roberts; 206, "My
Old Kentucky Home," arranged and played by Lee
S. Roberts.
TWO BIG WEEKS IN
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.
HURTS SAN FRANCISCO'S TRADE.
This week and the next will be busy ones for piano
and talking machine men who will flock to Atlantic
City, N. J,, for a schedule of association business
agreeably diluted with pleasure. The activities
opened this week with the tournament of the Piano
Trade Golf Association at Absecon, near Atlantic
City. This occupied Monday, Tuesday and Wednes-
day.
Friday and Saturday schedules include important
business meetings. The executives of the National
Association of Music Merchants met on Friday, the
25th, and the Piano Supply Association and the
Music Industries Chamber of Commerce met today
(Saturday, June 26).
Another important meeting scheduled for today
is that of the Ampico Art Society, made up of deal-
ers handling the Ampico reproducing piano. This
meeting took place in the afternoon at the Hotel
Traymore.
On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of the fol-
lowing week the National Association of Talking-
Machine Jobbers will hold a series of meetings and
social functions.
An agreement has been reached by well-to-do citi-
zens of San Francisco not to purchase anything in
the way of luxuries until after the prices come down.
These well-meaning citizens would have a perfect
excuse for doing that at their own pleasure, had they
not been so ill-advised by some of their leaders as
to classify pianos and playerpianos among the lux-
uries that they are planning to do without. It will
not hurt the manufacturers, who can easily deflect
their pianos to other cities wanting the goods, but,
if continued, the self-denial will slow up the San
Francisco dealers' sales of instruments. Los An-
geles, for instance, a city that is full of easy-spending
Yankees from the East, is said to stand ready for all
the surplus pianos that San Francisco's self-denial
may release. And besides that, there is no possi-
bility of piano prices coming down for a very long
time to come, if they ever do.
ORDER NOW AND SAVE FREIGHT.
"There is to be an advance in freight rates in Sep-
tember, amounting to 35 per cent," said Otto Schulz,
president of the M. Schulz Company, Chicago, on
Tuesday to a Presto representative, "so it behooves
all dealers to get their orders in early if they would
avoid this charge. Mr. Schulz said that it stood to
reason that the prices of pianos ought to come up.
As compared with other articles and commodities of
manufacture, Mr. Schulz said, pianos had made the
most modest advance of all. Pianos had advanced
only 100 per cent, in some cases 125 per cent, while
labor had advanced 200 per cent; lumber from 300 to
400 per cent; boots and shoes and clothing anywhere
from 250 to 400 per cent.
n i r n
What is Back of
Kohler & Campbell Players
ILWING Kohler & Campbell
Players solely from the Mer-
chant viewpoint, they are a
good retail proposition.
To be a good retail proposition involves the ques-
tions—Will they sell? Will they stand up when sold?
Will they build up prestige? What special merits do
they possess upon which to build and hold a profit-
able retail business ?
Measured by these tests we submit that Kohler &
Campbell Players outclass all other lines.
Back of every Kohler & Campbell Player is one of
the best industrial organizations in the country in any
line of trade. They have the advantage of ample
capital. They have unequaled buying power. They
have an outlet which insures a minimum production
cost. They can be sold at a retail price which is well
within the limits of what the public want to pay an3,
what is above all, their foundation rests upon the
KOHLLR & CAMPBELL Piano, one of the great,
outstanding and most dependable Pianos in the trade.
Kohler
Regular Equipment, Standard Player Action
Special Equipment, T)t Luxe Player Action
KOHLLR & CAMPBELL, INC.
I 1 th Avenue and 50th Street, New York
Kimball Building Chicago
Phelan Building San Fran,
Business Meetings, Golf Tournaments and
Social Functions Scheduled to Take Place
in Pleasant Eastern Resort.
STEINWAY HALL BUILDING
BOUGHT BY MUSICAL COLLEGE
Widely Known Music Teaching Institution Pays
$550,000 for Famous Chicago Structure,
Once known as Steinway Hall, later as the Whit-
ney Opera House, and more recently as the Central
Music Hall, the twelve-story structure at 62-66 East
Van Buren street, Chicago, has been purchased by
the Chicago Musical College for $550,000.
Negotiations now are under way with three east-
ern theater managers for the 800-seat auditorium on
the second floor for use as a high-class theater for
legitimate stage productions.
The musical college, one of the largest in the
world, with more than 4,200 students and now at 624
South Michigan avenue, will move into its new quar-
ters when its present lease expires in about two
years. The structure will be called the Steinway
Hall Building, and the playhouse the Steinway
Theater.
G. Schirmer, Inc., of New York, one of the larg-
est publishers of high-class music in the world, has
rented the first floor and the two basements, and
will open a Chicago branch. The entire building
will be devoted to music. In addition to the theater
there is a 200-seat recital hall.
The property is 61.75 by 106 feet.
It was
sold by the State Bank of Chicago, trustee for the
Orr Estate, to Carl D. Kinsey, vice-president of the
college.
SAYS PIANO IS CLASSY
AND HAS WONDERFUL TONE
One of the Customary Letters of Approbation to
William Tonk & Bro., Inc.
It is always a pleasure to draw attention to the
words of dealers who, having become familiar with
good pianos, are enthusiastic in giving expression to
their approval. Following is -i copy of a communi-
cation recently received at the offices of William
Tonk & Bro., of New York City:
Gloversville, N. Y.
William Tonk & Bro., Inc., New York City.
Sirs: The Piano Style 140 arrived June 11th and
will say that it is all one could expect. It sure is
"classy" and has a wonderful tone.
Respectfully,
GLOVERSVILLE MUSIC CO.
C. L. D.
JOINS JOPLIN FIRM.
O. B. Whitaker, Joplin, Mo., has disposed of his
interest in the Tri-State Haynes Motor Company
and obtained an interest in the R. L. Burke Music
Company. Mr. Whitaker is now vice-president of
the latter concern! He was interested in the music
company before enterting the automobile business
four years ago.
BUYS OUT PARTNER.
T. E. Davis has purchased the interest of his part-
ner, J. F. Freeman, in the music house of Freeman &
Davis, Brady, Tex., and will continue the business in
its present quarters under his own name.
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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/
June 26, 1920.
THE FINE JULY LIST
OF Q R S MUSIC ROLLS
Remarkably Attractive Collection of Numbers,
Both Popular and Classic, for Playerpianos,
Is Announced in Artistic Folder.
The July list of Q R S music rolls is one of the
best yet. It is presented in an artistic folder, printed
in colors and handsomely illustrated. For con-
venience and winning arrangement this Q R S list
is distinctive in its preparation. In the hands of
the trade it is sure to stimulate the demand for
player rolls so well worth while having that they
must be profitable to the retailer. Following is the
list of the entirely new selections, and there is also
a good list of numbers that have already proven
themselves most popular:
Word Rolls: 1133, "Beautiful Annabelle Lee";
1134, "Good Old Favorites"; 1135, "Hawaiian
Breezes"; 1136, "I'll Be with You in Apple Blossom
Time"; 1137, "Louisiana I Can Hear Your Message
to Me"; 1138, "Napoli"; 1139, "Rose Time in Ha-
waii"; 1140, "Repasz Band"; 1141, "Railroad Blues";
1142, "Stop It," a rattling good one-step; 1143, "That
Old Irish Mother of Mine''; 1144, "Your Eyes Have
Said Remember" (Tho' Your Lips Have Said For-
get). Played by Lee S Roberts, who has given a
colorful interpretation.
Story Rolls: D-63, "Three Dances from Henry
V I I I " ; D-64, "The Whispering Winds."
Gems of the Semi-Classics: 80139, "Hearts and
Flowers,'' played by Lower; 80350, "Polka de Con-
cert," played by Stanford Robar; 115, "A Perfect
Day, arranged and played by Lee S. Roberts; 290,
"The Rosary," played by Lee S. Roberts and Carrol
Williams; 400080, "Narcissus," transcribed and
played by Pierre La Fontaine; 337, "Mighty Lak' a
Rose," played by Lee S. Roberts; 203, "Where the
River Shannon Flows," played by Lee S. Roberts;
90005, "Message of the Violet," played by Lee S.
Roberts; 400066, "The Palms," played by Lee S.
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Roberts; 100489, "Tell Me Pretty Maiden," arranged
and played by Lee S. Roberts; 80567, "Whispering-
Winds," played by Edmund Gillet; 400056, "Fifth
Nocturne," transcribed and played by Hans Hanks;
400150, Schubert's "Serenade/'played by Madam Stur-
kow Ryder; 119, "Silver Threads Among the Gold,"
arranged and played by Lee S. Roberts; 206, "My
Old Kentucky Home," arranged and played by Lee
S. Roberts.
TWO BIG WEEKS IN
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.
HURTS SAN FRANCISCO'S TRADE.
This week and the next will be busy ones for piano
and talking machine men who will flock to Atlantic
City, N. J,, for a schedule of association business
agreeably diluted with pleasure. The activities
opened this week with the tournament of the Piano
Trade Golf Association at Absecon, near Atlantic
City. This occupied Monday, Tuesday and Wednes-
day.
Friday and Saturday schedules include important
business meetings. The executives of the National
Association of Music Merchants met on Friday, the
25th, and the Piano Supply Association and the
Music Industries Chamber of Commerce met today
(Saturday, June 26).
Another important meeting scheduled for today
is that of the Ampico Art Society, made up of deal-
ers handling the Ampico reproducing piano. This
meeting took place in the afternoon at the Hotel
Traymore.
On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of the fol-
lowing week the National Association of Talking-
Machine Jobbers will hold a series of meetings and
social functions.
An agreement has been reached by well-to-do citi-
zens of San Francisco not to purchase anything in
the way of luxuries until after the prices come down.
These well-meaning citizens would have a perfect
excuse for doing that at their own pleasure, had they
not been so ill-advised by some of their leaders as
to classify pianos and playerpianos among the lux-
uries that they are planning to do without. It will
not hurt the manufacturers, who can easily deflect
their pianos to other cities wanting the goods, but,
if continued, the self-denial will slow up the San
Francisco dealers' sales of instruments. Los An-
geles, for instance, a city that is full of easy-spending
Yankees from the East, is said to stand ready for all
the surplus pianos that San Francisco's self-denial
may release. And besides that, there is no possi-
bility of piano prices coming down for a very long
time to come, if they ever do.
ORDER NOW AND SAVE FREIGHT.
"There is to be an advance in freight rates in Sep-
tember, amounting to 35 per cent," said Otto Schulz,
president of the M. Schulz Company, Chicago, on
Tuesday to a Presto representative, "so it behooves
all dealers to get their orders in early if they would
avoid this charge. Mr. Schulz said that it stood to
reason that the prices of pianos ought to come up.
As compared with other articles and commodities of
manufacture, Mr. Schulz said, pianos had made the
most modest advance of all. Pianos had advanced
only 100 per cent, in some cases 125 per cent, while
labor had advanced 200 per cent; lumber from 300 to
400 per cent; boots and shoes and clothing anywhere
from 250 to 400 per cent.
n i r n
What is Back of
Kohler & Campbell Players
ILWING Kohler & Campbell
Players solely from the Mer-
chant viewpoint, they are a
good retail proposition.
To be a good retail proposition involves the ques-
tions—Will they sell? Will they stand up when sold?
Will they build up prestige? What special merits do
they possess upon which to build and hold a profit-
able retail business ?
Measured by these tests we submit that Kohler &
Campbell Players outclass all other lines.
Back of every Kohler & Campbell Player is one of
the best industrial organizations in the country in any
line of trade. They have the advantage of ample
capital. They have unequaled buying power. They
have an outlet which insures a minimum production
cost. They can be sold at a retail price which is well
within the limits of what the public want to pay an3,
what is above all, their foundation rests upon the
KOHLLR & CAMPBELL Piano, one of the great,
outstanding and most dependable Pianos in the trade.
Kohler
Regular Equipment, Standard Player Action
Special Equipment, T)t Luxe Player Action
KOHLLR & CAMPBELL, INC.
I 1 th Avenue and 50th Street, New York
Kimball Building Chicago
Phelan Building San Fran,
Business Meetings, Golf Tournaments and
Social Functions Scheduled to Take Place
in Pleasant Eastern Resort.
STEINWAY HALL BUILDING
BOUGHT BY MUSICAL COLLEGE
Widely Known Music Teaching Institution Pays
$550,000 for Famous Chicago Structure,
Once known as Steinway Hall, later as the Whit-
ney Opera House, and more recently as the Central
Music Hall, the twelve-story structure at 62-66 East
Van Buren street, Chicago, has been purchased by
the Chicago Musical College for $550,000.
Negotiations now are under way with three east-
ern theater managers for the 800-seat auditorium on
the second floor for use as a high-class theater for
legitimate stage productions.
The musical college, one of the largest in the
world, with more than 4,200 students and now at 624
South Michigan avenue, will move into its new quar-
ters when its present lease expires in about two
years. The structure will be called the Steinway
Hall Building, and the playhouse the Steinway
Theater.
G. Schirmer, Inc., of New York, one of the larg-
est publishers of high-class music in the world, has
rented the first floor and the two basements, and
will open a Chicago branch. The entire building
will be devoted to music. In addition to the theater
there is a 200-seat recital hall.
The property is 61.75 by 106 feet.
It was
sold by the State Bank of Chicago, trustee for the
Orr Estate, to Carl D. Kinsey, vice-president of the
college.
SAYS PIANO IS CLASSY
AND HAS WONDERFUL TONE
One of the Customary Letters of Approbation to
William Tonk & Bro., Inc.
It is always a pleasure to draw attention to the
words of dealers who, having become familiar with
good pianos, are enthusiastic in giving expression to
their approval. Following is -i copy of a communi-
cation recently received at the offices of William
Tonk & Bro., of New York City:
Gloversville, N. Y.
William Tonk & Bro., Inc., New York City.
Sirs: The Piano Style 140 arrived June 11th and
will say that it is all one could expect. It sure is
"classy" and has a wonderful tone.
Respectfully,
GLOVERSVILLE MUSIC CO.
C. L. D.
JOINS JOPLIN FIRM.
O. B. Whitaker, Joplin, Mo., has disposed of his
interest in the Tri-State Haynes Motor Company
and obtained an interest in the R. L. Burke Music
Company. Mr. Whitaker is now vice-president of
the latter concern! He was interested in the music
company before enterting the automobile business
four years ago.
BUYS OUT PARTNER.
T. E. Davis has purchased the interest of his part-
ner, J. F. Freeman, in the music house of Freeman &
Davis, Brady, Tex., and will continue the business in
its present quarters under his own name.
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).