Presto
Issue: 1922 1898 - Page 6
PRESTO
FIRE DESTROYS BUILDING OF
CORLEY CO., RICHMOND, VA.
Damage to Structure and Stock Now Estimated at
Over One Hundred Thousand Dollars.
The loss to the Corley Company, Richmond, Va. f
from the disastrous fire which gutted the building at
213 East Broad street last week is now estimated at
$100,000.
Considerable damage was done to the
stock by, smoke and water, but it considered that a
large amount of the pianos and other musical instru-
ments will be salvaged.
The pianos and playerpianos in the warerooms on
the first floor, where the activities of the firemen
were greatest, are said to be ruined beyond the aid
of any repairman. The big stock of phonograph
records in the basement is also returned as a com-
plete loss. J. G. Corley, president of the company,
says the loss is covered by insurance.
The fire was one of the most sensational for some
time in Richmond. In fighting the fire twenty-two
firemen were overcome by smoke, but no fatalities
occurred. All of the employes of the Corley Co.
escaped without injury. The fire originated in the
basement. Preparations to resume were begun al-
most before the smoke had cleared away.
AMPICO'S CONCERT GRAND
AND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Baltimore Music Lovers at Century Theater Enjoy
a Week of Artistic Events.
Recent notable musical events in Baltimore, Md.,
were the recitals in the Century Theater. During the
week of November 12 to 18 there appeared an Ampi-
co Concert Grand re-enacting the Grieg Concerto Op.
16, A-Minor (First Movement) played by Marguerite
Volavy and accompanied by the Century Symphony
Orchestra. The excellent orchestra was directed by
Frank Rehsen, the well known Baltimore orchestra
conductor.
The Century Theater is the largest and finest pic-
ture house in the city. The Ampico Concert Grand
played to packed houses for the entire week. Accom-
panied by the Century Theater Orchestra, the instru-
ment received a hearty applause after each and every
performance.
So thoroughly pleased were the manager, conduc-
tor and members of the orchestra with the Ampico,
they requested that the instrument remain another
week, during which period it accompanied Herbert
Bangs, the concert master of the Century Theater Or-
chestra, very artistically rendering as a violin solo,
"Romance Andalouse" by Pablo Sarasate. Immediate-
ly following Mr. Bang's violin solo the Ampico Con-
cert Grand accompanied Miss Marie Duvall, prima
donna for the week, delightfully singing 1 "Oh Dry
Those Tears", by Dey Riego, with violin obligato,
played by Mr. Bangs.
All of these numbers, as well as the Ampico Con-
cert Grand, were the feature numbers of the two
SWAN PIANOS
are of the highest grade
t h a t c a n be obtained
through over 50 years of
practical experience in
piano and organ building.
Illustrations and cat a-
logues of various styles
will be furnished piano
merchants on application,
December 9, 1922.
weeks, and were received very enthusiastically by
all the audiences. All the arrangements in connection
with the Ampico Concert Grand appearing at the
Century Theater for the two weeks were made by
Mr. Rehsen, conductor, and the enterprising arid
hustling representative, Louis T. Haebler, of Knabe
Studios.
SUCCESSFUL PIANO MAN'S
LIFE IN ONE CHAPTER
REMODELING PLANS FOR
NEW JERSEY MUSIC FIRM
The following cut, or cartoon, or print, is from
the December "Story Book," the clever house-organ
of the famed industry of which Frank F. Story is
the vice-president and treasurer. And the accom-
panying sketch, skit or "biography," is from the
same oublication. No one who knows Mr. Story will
question the accuracy of a single item in this graphic
condensation of all the chapters of Mr. Story's ac-
tive, smiling and successful career:
Riggins, Gaskill, Hunt, Inc., Bridgeton, Will Have
Ideal Facilities With Alterations Completed.
Riggins, Caskill, Hunt, Inc., Bridgeton, N. J., is
remodelling its store and when the alterations are
carried out the company will have more spacious
warerooms for displaying its stock of pianos and talk-
ing machines. The remodeling, plans include the
erection of new offices on the first floor.
The company is the representative in that city and
adjacent territory for the Steinw^y piano and the
Duo-Art for both of which the company has built up
a large business. The line also includes the Krakauer
Bros., Madison and Milton pianos.
Three lines of talking machines are carried by the
house which enjoys a big and profitable business in
the machines and records. The extent of its record
stock is widely known. In the remodeled store the
record racks will have a capacity of 10,000 records.
Additional booths for demonstration purposes are
also included in the remodeling plans.
Frank F. Story's Progress and Portrait as Sketched
by the December "Story Book."
NEW ELECTRIC SIGN.
The Gulbransen-Dickinson Company, Chicago, has
just installed a new electric sign made by the flexlume
process, at the main factory building, corner of Chi-
cago and Kedzie Avenues, in Chicago. The sign
bears the Gulbransen trade mark of a baby at the
pedals, and the name Gulbransen Player Piano. I t is
one of two electric signs which have been pur-
chased in a large quantity and which are being in-
stalled by Gulbransen dealers over the country. The
type erected at the factory is eighteen feet, eight
inches high.
NEW MINNEAPOLIS STORE.
The line of the Baldwin Piano Co., is featured by
the Newach Piano Co., which recently opened a music
store at 825 Nicollet avenue, Minneapolis, Minn. The
company also carries the Columbia graphonola. The
head of the new concern is R. C. Newach, who has
had valuable experience in the retail music trade in
that section.
HIGHER PRICES COMING.
There is a prospect of further advances in the
prices of pianos after the turn of the year, according
to authorities in the industry. Since the first of June
costs of raw material as well as labor have increased
and were reflected in a rise in price. Manufacturers
now say the advances have not covered the increase
of cost.
SWAN ORGANS
The tremendous superi-
. *,.* *\* ority of the SWAN Reed
\ y&\g
Organs over all others lies
i h?pM> 1 in the absolute mechanism
J I ^ L ^ ^ an( ^ scientific perfection i©
( p l ^ l ^ p the bellows action and stop
^9*XRt%gJ** action, making it the best
"'""''
value in modern orgao
building.
sw
S. N. SWAN & SONS, M - * * * * FREEPORT, ILL
F. F. STORY.
F. F. Story was born at an early age. When he
first saw the light of day and the doctor spanked him
he hit high C with a smile. He's been smiling ever
since. His success in the musical industry was as-
sured from that moment.
The first thing his mother gave him to play with
was a piano hammer—and as he hit the wires he
learned to laugh in time.
When he isn't manufacturing pianos, he meets all
comers on the golf links.
Favorite motto—"I got you four down."
J. D. BARTHEL DIES.
John D. Barthel, veteran president of the Barthel-
Dusenberg Piano Co., of St. Louis, died suddenly last
Saturday, Dec. 2, at his home at St. Louis. Mr.
Barthel was an old piano man, having been engaged
in the music business for most of his life. The
Barthel-Dusenberg company is the musical headquar-
ters for the German Lutherans of Missouri, Kansas,
Nebraska and other adjoining states, and Mr. Barthel
himself was early connected with the Concordia Pub-
lishing Company, a Lutheran concern. The funeral
was held Tuesday, Dec. 5, in St. Louis.
The Greatness of a Piano should be Measured
by its Scale, not by the name on the Fallboard.
The scales from which we build
are designed and originated by C. C. Chickering who
commands a fund^of piano tradition and experience reach-
ing back into the very beginnings of the piano industry.
CHICKERING BROTHERS
Office and Factory:
South Park Avenue and 23rd Street
i**|_ •
^IllCagO
WESER BROS., Inc.
WRITE FOR CATALOGUE AND DETAILS
OF TERRITORY AVAILABLE
520 to 528 W. 43rd St., New York
Manufacturers Pianos—Player-Pianos
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FIRE DESTROYS BUILDING OF
CORLEY CO., RICHMOND, VA.
Damage to Structure and Stock Now Estimated at
Over One Hundred Thousand Dollars.
The loss to the Corley Company, Richmond, Va. f
from the disastrous fire which gutted the building at
213 East Broad street last week is now estimated at
$100,000.
Considerable damage was done to the
stock by, smoke and water, but it considered that a
large amount of the pianos and other musical instru-
ments will be salvaged.
The pianos and playerpianos in the warerooms on
the first floor, where the activities of the firemen
were greatest, are said to be ruined beyond the aid
of any repairman. The big stock of phonograph
records in the basement is also returned as a com-
plete loss. J. G. Corley, president of the company,
says the loss is covered by insurance.
The fire was one of the most sensational for some
time in Richmond. In fighting the fire twenty-two
firemen were overcome by smoke, but no fatalities
occurred. All of the employes of the Corley Co.
escaped without injury. The fire originated in the
basement. Preparations to resume were begun al-
most before the smoke had cleared away.
AMPICO'S CONCERT GRAND
AND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Baltimore Music Lovers at Century Theater Enjoy
a Week of Artistic Events.
Recent notable musical events in Baltimore, Md.,
were the recitals in the Century Theater. During the
week of November 12 to 18 there appeared an Ampi-
co Concert Grand re-enacting the Grieg Concerto Op.
16, A-Minor (First Movement) played by Marguerite
Volavy and accompanied by the Century Symphony
Orchestra. The excellent orchestra was directed by
Frank Rehsen, the well known Baltimore orchestra
conductor.
The Century Theater is the largest and finest pic-
ture house in the city. The Ampico Concert Grand
played to packed houses for the entire week. Accom-
panied by the Century Theater Orchestra, the instru-
ment received a hearty applause after each and every
performance.
So thoroughly pleased were the manager, conduc-
tor and members of the orchestra with the Ampico,
they requested that the instrument remain another
week, during which period it accompanied Herbert
Bangs, the concert master of the Century Theater Or-
chestra, very artistically rendering as a violin solo,
"Romance Andalouse" by Pablo Sarasate. Immediate-
ly following Mr. Bang's violin solo the Ampico Con-
cert Grand accompanied Miss Marie Duvall, prima
donna for the week, delightfully singing 1 "Oh Dry
Those Tears", by Dey Riego, with violin obligato,
played by Mr. Bangs.
All of these numbers, as well as the Ampico Con-
cert Grand, were the feature numbers of the two
SWAN PIANOS
are of the highest grade
t h a t c a n be obtained
through over 50 years of
practical experience in
piano and organ building.
Illustrations and cat a-
logues of various styles
will be furnished piano
merchants on application,
December 9, 1922.
weeks, and were received very enthusiastically by
all the audiences. All the arrangements in connection
with the Ampico Concert Grand appearing at the
Century Theater for the two weeks were made by
Mr. Rehsen, conductor, and the enterprising arid
hustling representative, Louis T. Haebler, of Knabe
Studios.
SUCCESSFUL PIANO MAN'S
LIFE IN ONE CHAPTER
REMODELING PLANS FOR
NEW JERSEY MUSIC FIRM
The following cut, or cartoon, or print, is from
the December "Story Book," the clever house-organ
of the famed industry of which Frank F. Story is
the vice-president and treasurer. And the accom-
panying sketch, skit or "biography," is from the
same oublication. No one who knows Mr. Story will
question the accuracy of a single item in this graphic
condensation of all the chapters of Mr. Story's ac-
tive, smiling and successful career:
Riggins, Gaskill, Hunt, Inc., Bridgeton, Will Have
Ideal Facilities With Alterations Completed.
Riggins, Caskill, Hunt, Inc., Bridgeton, N. J., is
remodelling its store and when the alterations are
carried out the company will have more spacious
warerooms for displaying its stock of pianos and talk-
ing machines. The remodeling, plans include the
erection of new offices on the first floor.
The company is the representative in that city and
adjacent territory for the Steinw^y piano and the
Duo-Art for both of which the company has built up
a large business. The line also includes the Krakauer
Bros., Madison and Milton pianos.
Three lines of talking machines are carried by the
house which enjoys a big and profitable business in
the machines and records. The extent of its record
stock is widely known. In the remodeled store the
record racks will have a capacity of 10,000 records.
Additional booths for demonstration purposes are
also included in the remodeling plans.
Frank F. Story's Progress and Portrait as Sketched
by the December "Story Book."
NEW ELECTRIC SIGN.
The Gulbransen-Dickinson Company, Chicago, has
just installed a new electric sign made by the flexlume
process, at the main factory building, corner of Chi-
cago and Kedzie Avenues, in Chicago. The sign
bears the Gulbransen trade mark of a baby at the
pedals, and the name Gulbransen Player Piano. I t is
one of two electric signs which have been pur-
chased in a large quantity and which are being in-
stalled by Gulbransen dealers over the country. The
type erected at the factory is eighteen feet, eight
inches high.
NEW MINNEAPOLIS STORE.
The line of the Baldwin Piano Co., is featured by
the Newach Piano Co., which recently opened a music
store at 825 Nicollet avenue, Minneapolis, Minn. The
company also carries the Columbia graphonola. The
head of the new concern is R. C. Newach, who has
had valuable experience in the retail music trade in
that section.
HIGHER PRICES COMING.
There is a prospect of further advances in the
prices of pianos after the turn of the year, according
to authorities in the industry. Since the first of June
costs of raw material as well as labor have increased
and were reflected in a rise in price. Manufacturers
now say the advances have not covered the increase
of cost.
SWAN ORGANS
The tremendous superi-
. *,.* *\* ority of the SWAN Reed
\ y&\g
Organs over all others lies
i h?pM> 1 in the absolute mechanism
J I ^ L ^ ^ an( ^ scientific perfection i©
( p l ^ l ^ p the bellows action and stop
^9*XRt%gJ** action, making it the best
"'""''
value in modern orgao
building.
sw
S. N. SWAN & SONS, M - * * * * FREEPORT, ILL
F. F. STORY.
F. F. Story was born at an early age. When he
first saw the light of day and the doctor spanked him
he hit high C with a smile. He's been smiling ever
since. His success in the musical industry was as-
sured from that moment.
The first thing his mother gave him to play with
was a piano hammer—and as he hit the wires he
learned to laugh in time.
When he isn't manufacturing pianos, he meets all
comers on the golf links.
Favorite motto—"I got you four down."
J. D. BARTHEL DIES.
John D. Barthel, veteran president of the Barthel-
Dusenberg Piano Co., of St. Louis, died suddenly last
Saturday, Dec. 2, at his home at St. Louis. Mr.
Barthel was an old piano man, having been engaged
in the music business for most of his life. The
Barthel-Dusenberg company is the musical headquar-
ters for the German Lutherans of Missouri, Kansas,
Nebraska and other adjoining states, and Mr. Barthel
himself was early connected with the Concordia Pub-
lishing Company, a Lutheran concern. The funeral
was held Tuesday, Dec. 5, in St. Louis.
The Greatness of a Piano should be Measured
by its Scale, not by the name on the Fallboard.
The scales from which we build
are designed and originated by C. C. Chickering who
commands a fund^of piano tradition and experience reach-
ing back into the very beginnings of the piano industry.
CHICKERING BROTHERS
Office and Factory:
South Park Avenue and 23rd Street
i**|_ •
^IllCagO
WESER BROS., Inc.
WRITE FOR CATALOGUE AND DETAILS
OF TERRITORY AVAILABLE
520 to 528 W. 43rd St., New York
Manufacturers Pianos—Player-Pianos
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).