Presto
Issue: 1922 1896 - Page 10
PRESTO
10
TEXAS TOWN WHERE
COMPETITION WAS NIL
Incident in Career of Two Old Time Piano
Men Now in Vodville, Recalled by Their
Foot-Light Flashes.
Homer Linn and Charley Moisant are two old-
time piano salesmen-on-the-outside who are playing
in the same act in the big vaudeville houses. They
have stage names but use their real ones when taking
a census of old friends in the trade in the short in-
tervals between turns in the four-a-day. Homer
played the cornet nights in the orchestra of the Hay-
market theater, Chicago, when it was still the home
of the legit. Charley played a clarinet in the same
orchestra.
During the daytime, except matinee
periods on Wednesdays and Saturdays, they sold
pianos in a semi-official capacity for one of the loop
piano houses. Then, as now, they were close pals.
Both were temperamental, but a strange phase of
Homer Linn's temperamentality was a sporadic thrift.
During his periods of saving Charley Moisant took
the joys of his consistently lavish spending sadly.
Homer had something over $4,000 in Graham's bank
when the oil fever spread throughout the land follow-
ing the Beaumont, Tex., strike, and succession of mil-
lionaire-making gushers. He got up one morning
raging with the oil fever, drew his money from the
bank, and took the first train out for Texas. He did
so between shows, leaving his friend Charley to close
two piano deals, harvesting the commissions there-
for, of course.
It was a dull time for Charley after his friend's de-
parture. The oil fields, or rather the place where
Homer resided, called him. He answered when he had
saved twenty-five dollars over his fare. He fetched
up in one of the new communities in the oil region,
the kind that were such rich pasturage for con men,
Schumann
PIANOS and PLAYER PIANOS
Have no superiors in appearance, tone
power or other essentials of strictly
leaders in the trade.
Warning to Infringers
FRVDE MARK
This Trade Mark 1B 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 01
pianos bearing a name In
imitation of the name
Schumann with the Inten-
tion of deceiving the public
»tll be prosecuted to the
fullest extent of the law.
Schumann Piano Co.
W. N. VAN HAATttE, Preoident
Rockford, 111.
fake oil company promoters and smooth workers,
gathered from everywhere. It was a joyful moment
when, on entering a restaurant, he discovered his
friend Homer sitting at a table.
"Glory be," shouted the latter, "when did you get
in, George?"
"Today. How long have you been here?"
"Six months," answered Homer with a sigh.
''What are you going to do, George?" he added solic-
itously.
"Oh, just look around for a bit and try to make
an honest dollar."
"An honest dollar! An honest dollar!!" exclaimed
the resident for six months. "Well, George, you
ought to make your fortune. You won't have any
competition."
LATE FACTS GATHERED
IN THE MUSIC TRADE
Brief Items of Activities in the Business Collected
in Many States.
The Chickering line is now included in the piano
and playerpiano presentations of the Stronberg Music
House, Bradford, Pa.
The Bush & Gerts parlor grand piano was recently
selected for the Opera Club of Chicago, 18 West
Walton place, Chicago.
Oscar Stranburg, of Bradford, Pa., has recently
been appointed Chickering representative for Brad-
ford and adjacent territory. Mr. Stranburg is very
enthusiastic over the acquisition of the Chickering
agency and has secured also the agency for the
Ampico.
J. Hampton Cropp has joined the sales staff of the
Kieselhorst Piano Co., St. Louis. Mr. Crop, who is
well known in the Baltimore, Md., trade, was for-
merly manager of the piano department of the Ham-
man-Levin Co., in that city.
A novel display of the Meier & Frank Co., Port-
land, Ore., recently was a window in which a com-
plete apartment was shown living-room, bedroom,
dining-room and kitchen. One of the prominent fea-
tures of the display was a Knabe grand piano which
the host played in entertaining her friends.
The line of pianos and players of the Poole Piano
Co., Boston, are successfully handled at retail in that
city by the Henderson Brunswick Shop.
Fred Lindquist, formerly with the J. W. Jenkins
Sons' Music Co., Kansas City, Mo., is now with the
Tacoma, Wash., branch of Sherman, Clay & Co.
MUSIC WEEK SUCCESS
IN PORTLAND, ORE.
Joint Effort of Music Trade and Profession,
Clubs and Organizations Made Second
Event Memorable.
Portland, Ore., has reason to be proud of its sec-
ond annual music week. The firms who participated
were the Wiley B. Allen Co., Hyatt Talking Ma-
chine Co., Sherman, Clay & Co., Edward & Co., Reed-
French Piano Co., Louis W. Mack, G. F. Johnson,
Piano Co., Brunswick-Balke Collender Co., Scbwan
Piano Co., McCormick Music House, Soule Bros.,
McDougall-Conn Music Co., Sherman, Clay & Co.
(wholesale), Vern L. Enger, Seiberling-Lucas Mu-
sic Co., and the Harold S. Gilgert Piano Co.
All of Portland's music clubs, musicians and civ-
ic organizations did their full share in making Port-
land's second annual music week one long to be-
remembered. The week was under the auspices of the
Community Service, which had the hearty co-opera-
tion of all.
The music trade did its full share in contributing
to the week's festivities. Instruments of all kinds
were furnished to all who desired them for the week
and as one dealer said, "I supplied enough musi-
cal instruments of all kinds to start a music store."
Sherman Clay & Co., J. H. Dundore, manager,
held daily Duo-Art concerts in the recital hall and
on Thursday gave a Duo-Art recital in the Wo-
man's Club building. The Victor wholesale depart-
ment, Elmer Hunt, manager, presented a 20-foot
mahogany reproduction of a Victrola which was
used at the grand ball on Saturday evening. The
Meier & Frank piano department, W. G. Wood-
ward, manager, gave a Knabe Ampico recital, fea-
turing the Ampico, assisted by Helen Harper, vio-
linist, and Jean Harper, pianist. The company also
furnished a Knabe Ampico for daily Ampico recitals
at Central Library and every evening Ampico recitals,
assisted by prominent'Portland musicians were given
under Meier & Frank's auspices. The company also
broadcasted daily concerts from the newly installed
radio station. Lipman, Wolfe & Co.'s piano depart-
ment, W. A. Erwin, manager, gave daily Baldwin
and Welte-Mignon recitals and the G. F. Johnson
Piano Co. featured the Hotel Oregon Grill orches-
tra in one of its main mindows.
NEW TARIFF RULES.
CHICAGO P. & O. OFFICERS.
By a vexatious and unaccountable reportorial error
the names of the officers of the Chicago Piano &
Organ Association, elected last week Wednesday,
at the Palmer House mid-day meeting, were "mixed
up" in Presto's report. The officers are all well-
known to every Chicago piano man, and they are as
follows: President, W. E. Guylee, The Cable Com-
pany; Vice-President, T. L. Powell, Cable-Nelson
Piano Company; Second Vice-President, J. T. Bris-
tol, Price & Teeple Piano Co.; Secretary, C. E.
Byrne, Steger & Sons Piano Mfg. Co.; Treasurer,
Adam Schneider, Julius Bauer & Co.
PLANS OF NEW YORK CLUB.
The annual beefsteak dinner and entertainment
of the Piano Club of New York will be held at the
club quarters on the evening of December 9. In
addition to the eatables a high class variety of en-
tertainment will be provided. Success is assured
from a glance at the special committee in charge
of arrangements. Albert Behning, chairman; George
Holz, Herman Roemer, George W. Gittins, William
Kehoe and Otto M. Heinzman.
JESSE FRENCH & SONS
GRAND
An
November 25, 1922.
A t t a i n m e n t
of A r t
"Known the World Over"
STYLE G
Factories: New Castle, Indiana, U. S. A.
All imported goods- must be stamped with the
Country of origin according to the new tariff rules
issued by the Division of Customs, Treasury Depart-
ment. In the statement issued, it is pointed out that
the 10 per cent provided in the new law will not
be applied to goods permitted to enter under the
old tariff act.
HIGH GRADE
Folding Organs
School Organs
Practice Keyboards
Dealers' Attention Solicited
A. L. WHITE MFG. CO.
215 Englewood Ave., CHICAGO, ILL.
The LEADING LINE
WEAVER PIANOS
Orands, Uprights and Players
Finest and most artistic
piano in design, tone and
construction that can be
made.
YORK PIANOS
Uprights and Player Pianos
A high grade piano of great
value and with charming tone quality.
Livingston Pianos— Uprights and Player Pianos
A popular piano at a popular price.
Over 70,000 instruments made by this company are ting*
ing their own praises in all parts o( the civilized world.
Write (or catalogues and state on what terms yp4j wopl4
like to deal, and we will make you a proposition If f<*a ar«
located in open territory.
WEAVER PIANO CO., Inc.
Factorj: YORK, P I .
Established 1870
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10
TEXAS TOWN WHERE
COMPETITION WAS NIL
Incident in Career of Two Old Time Piano
Men Now in Vodville, Recalled by Their
Foot-Light Flashes.
Homer Linn and Charley Moisant are two old-
time piano salesmen-on-the-outside who are playing
in the same act in the big vaudeville houses. They
have stage names but use their real ones when taking
a census of old friends in the trade in the short in-
tervals between turns in the four-a-day. Homer
played the cornet nights in the orchestra of the Hay-
market theater, Chicago, when it was still the home
of the legit. Charley played a clarinet in the same
orchestra.
During the daytime, except matinee
periods on Wednesdays and Saturdays, they sold
pianos in a semi-official capacity for one of the loop
piano houses. Then, as now, they were close pals.
Both were temperamental, but a strange phase of
Homer Linn's temperamentality was a sporadic thrift.
During his periods of saving Charley Moisant took
the joys of his consistently lavish spending sadly.
Homer had something over $4,000 in Graham's bank
when the oil fever spread throughout the land follow-
ing the Beaumont, Tex., strike, and succession of mil-
lionaire-making gushers. He got up one morning
raging with the oil fever, drew his money from the
bank, and took the first train out for Texas. He did
so between shows, leaving his friend Charley to close
two piano deals, harvesting the commissions there-
for, of course.
It was a dull time for Charley after his friend's de-
parture. The oil fields, or rather the place where
Homer resided, called him. He answered when he had
saved twenty-five dollars over his fare. He fetched
up in one of the new communities in the oil region,
the kind that were such rich pasturage for con men,
Schumann
PIANOS and PLAYER PIANOS
Have no superiors in appearance, tone
power or other essentials of strictly
leaders in the trade.
Warning to Infringers
FRVDE MARK
This Trade Mark 1B 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 01
pianos bearing a name In
imitation of the name
Schumann with the Inten-
tion of deceiving the public
»tll be prosecuted to the
fullest extent of the law.
Schumann Piano Co.
W. N. VAN HAATttE, Preoident
Rockford, 111.
fake oil company promoters and smooth workers,
gathered from everywhere. It was a joyful moment
when, on entering a restaurant, he discovered his
friend Homer sitting at a table.
"Glory be," shouted the latter, "when did you get
in, George?"
"Today. How long have you been here?"
"Six months," answered Homer with a sigh.
''What are you going to do, George?" he added solic-
itously.
"Oh, just look around for a bit and try to make
an honest dollar."
"An honest dollar! An honest dollar!!" exclaimed
the resident for six months. "Well, George, you
ought to make your fortune. You won't have any
competition."
LATE FACTS GATHERED
IN THE MUSIC TRADE
Brief Items of Activities in the Business Collected
in Many States.
The Chickering line is now included in the piano
and playerpiano presentations of the Stronberg Music
House, Bradford, Pa.
The Bush & Gerts parlor grand piano was recently
selected for the Opera Club of Chicago, 18 West
Walton place, Chicago.
Oscar Stranburg, of Bradford, Pa., has recently
been appointed Chickering representative for Brad-
ford and adjacent territory. Mr. Stranburg is very
enthusiastic over the acquisition of the Chickering
agency and has secured also the agency for the
Ampico.
J. Hampton Cropp has joined the sales staff of the
Kieselhorst Piano Co., St. Louis. Mr. Crop, who is
well known in the Baltimore, Md., trade, was for-
merly manager of the piano department of the Ham-
man-Levin Co., in that city.
A novel display of the Meier & Frank Co., Port-
land, Ore., recently was a window in which a com-
plete apartment was shown living-room, bedroom,
dining-room and kitchen. One of the prominent fea-
tures of the display was a Knabe grand piano which
the host played in entertaining her friends.
The line of pianos and players of the Poole Piano
Co., Boston, are successfully handled at retail in that
city by the Henderson Brunswick Shop.
Fred Lindquist, formerly with the J. W. Jenkins
Sons' Music Co., Kansas City, Mo., is now with the
Tacoma, Wash., branch of Sherman, Clay & Co.
MUSIC WEEK SUCCESS
IN PORTLAND, ORE.
Joint Effort of Music Trade and Profession,
Clubs and Organizations Made Second
Event Memorable.
Portland, Ore., has reason to be proud of its sec-
ond annual music week. The firms who participated
were the Wiley B. Allen Co., Hyatt Talking Ma-
chine Co., Sherman, Clay & Co., Edward & Co., Reed-
French Piano Co., Louis W. Mack, G. F. Johnson,
Piano Co., Brunswick-Balke Collender Co., Scbwan
Piano Co., McCormick Music House, Soule Bros.,
McDougall-Conn Music Co., Sherman, Clay & Co.
(wholesale), Vern L. Enger, Seiberling-Lucas Mu-
sic Co., and the Harold S. Gilgert Piano Co.
All of Portland's music clubs, musicians and civ-
ic organizations did their full share in making Port-
land's second annual music week one long to be-
remembered. The week was under the auspices of the
Community Service, which had the hearty co-opera-
tion of all.
The music trade did its full share in contributing
to the week's festivities. Instruments of all kinds
were furnished to all who desired them for the week
and as one dealer said, "I supplied enough musi-
cal instruments of all kinds to start a music store."
Sherman Clay & Co., J. H. Dundore, manager,
held daily Duo-Art concerts in the recital hall and
on Thursday gave a Duo-Art recital in the Wo-
man's Club building. The Victor wholesale depart-
ment, Elmer Hunt, manager, presented a 20-foot
mahogany reproduction of a Victrola which was
used at the grand ball on Saturday evening. The
Meier & Frank piano department, W. G. Wood-
ward, manager, gave a Knabe Ampico recital, fea-
turing the Ampico, assisted by Helen Harper, vio-
linist, and Jean Harper, pianist. The company also
furnished a Knabe Ampico for daily Ampico recitals
at Central Library and every evening Ampico recitals,
assisted by prominent'Portland musicians were given
under Meier & Frank's auspices. The company also
broadcasted daily concerts from the newly installed
radio station. Lipman, Wolfe & Co.'s piano depart-
ment, W. A. Erwin, manager, gave daily Baldwin
and Welte-Mignon recitals and the G. F. Johnson
Piano Co. featured the Hotel Oregon Grill orches-
tra in one of its main mindows.
NEW TARIFF RULES.
CHICAGO P. & O. OFFICERS.
By a vexatious and unaccountable reportorial error
the names of the officers of the Chicago Piano &
Organ Association, elected last week Wednesday,
at the Palmer House mid-day meeting, were "mixed
up" in Presto's report. The officers are all well-
known to every Chicago piano man, and they are as
follows: President, W. E. Guylee, The Cable Com-
pany; Vice-President, T. L. Powell, Cable-Nelson
Piano Company; Second Vice-President, J. T. Bris-
tol, Price & Teeple Piano Co.; Secretary, C. E.
Byrne, Steger & Sons Piano Mfg. Co.; Treasurer,
Adam Schneider, Julius Bauer & Co.
PLANS OF NEW YORK CLUB.
The annual beefsteak dinner and entertainment
of the Piano Club of New York will be held at the
club quarters on the evening of December 9. In
addition to the eatables a high class variety of en-
tertainment will be provided. Success is assured
from a glance at the special committee in charge
of arrangements. Albert Behning, chairman; George
Holz, Herman Roemer, George W. Gittins, William
Kehoe and Otto M. Heinzman.
JESSE FRENCH & SONS
GRAND
An
November 25, 1922.
A t t a i n m e n t
of A r t
"Known the World Over"
STYLE G
Factories: New Castle, Indiana, U. S. A.
All imported goods- must be stamped with the
Country of origin according to the new tariff rules
issued by the Division of Customs, Treasury Depart-
ment. In the statement issued, it is pointed out that
the 10 per cent provided in the new law will not
be applied to goods permitted to enter under the
old tariff act.
HIGH GRADE
Folding Organs
School Organs
Practice Keyboards
Dealers' Attention Solicited
A. L. WHITE MFG. CO.
215 Englewood Ave., CHICAGO, ILL.
The LEADING LINE
WEAVER PIANOS
Orands, Uprights and Players
Finest and most artistic
piano in design, tone and
construction that can be
made.
YORK PIANOS
Uprights and Player Pianos
A high grade piano of great
value and with charming tone quality.
Livingston Pianos— Uprights and Player Pianos
A popular piano at a popular price.
Over 70,000 instruments made by this company are ting*
ing their own praises in all parts o( the civilized world.
Write (or catalogues and state on what terms yp4j wopl4
like to deal, and we will make you a proposition If f<*a ar«
located in open territory.
WEAVER PIANO CO., Inc.
Factorj: YORK, P I .
Established 1870
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/
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