Presto

Presto Buyers' Guide
Presto Trade Lists
Analyzes and Classifies
All American Pianos
and in Detail Tells of
Their Makers.
Three Uniform Book-
lets, the Only Complete
Directories of the Music
Industries.
THE AMERICAN MUSIC TRADE WEEKLY " &«*•# w m « r«
CHICAGO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1923
TWO REMARKABLY BEAUTIFUL CHICKERING INSTRUMENTS
STYLE P. Q. A. CHICKERING GRAND.
STYLE 52 CHICKERING AMPICO.
Last week's Presto contained a special feature
which must create general interest in the retail trade.
It is the Successful Styles department in which sev-
eral pages are devoted to illustrations of pianos—
grands, uprights, players and reproducing pianos—
which won great favor during the past year and will
continue to have a good demand during this year.
A number of illustrations and photographs designed
for use in the feature referred to, came too late, and
some of them are so representative of the American
instrument in its finest development, that it would
be doing an injustice to omit them from these pages.
This week, therefore, on this page, we present two
of the handsomest of all the Successful Styles which
have won favorable judgment in the trade and with
the musical public. Both of these instruments are
of such decorative design as to challenge admiration.
Both are Chickering pianos—representative of the
modern development of the oldest piano industry in
the nation. And Presto takes special pleasure in
inviting a critical inspection of these two case-de-
signs—the more so that their quality is familiar to
all piano men, and the tonal character of these pianos
is amply proclaimed by the name they bear.
The two beautiful Grands illustrated on this page
are Style 52 Chickering Ampico and the Style F.Q.A.
Chickering Grand—the daintily decorative Queen
Anne style, than which nothing could be more grace-
ful.
These two Chickering Grands are representative of
the finest piano architecture. They are instruments
of such beauty that, if only as art pictures, they chal-
lenge admiration. Chickering representatives find
them irresistible when fine trade is to be influenced.
And it will not escape the dealers, also, that the
settings of these two instruments is of a kind to
satisfy the most discriminating. The effects of ele-
gant home surroundings is satisfying, and, altogether,
Presto is glad of the opportunity to present so beau-
tiful a pair as this page sets forth.
HISTORIC CHICAGO MUSIC
HOUSE NOW REORGANIZED
lumbus Healy, vice-president, have recently materially
increased their holdings.
Xo change is to be made in the business policy or
the operations of the company, it is announced.
FEDERAL COURT FINDS
PATENT RIGHT INFRINGED
Lyon & Healy, Well-Known Pioneer Merchants and
Manufacturers, Announce Reincorporation.
EDUCATING BY BILLBOARD.
Litigation by Gulbransen-Dickinson Co. Results in
Victory and Court" Decides for Plaintiff.
Lyon & Healy, Chicago, announcee a reorganiza-
tion which is of unusual interest to the trade, because
of the distinction of the "world's largest music
house."
The stockholders of Lyon & Healy have voted to
reorganize the company by transferring all its prop-
erty to a new company of the same name, and capi-
talized for $2,500,000 of preferred stock and $4,500,000
of common stock. The preferred stock is to be sold
to the public, and all of the common stock is to be
exchanged for the holdings of the present stock-
holders of the old company. The reorganization will
permit the sale of common stock to employees of the
company, at reasonable prices, and the board of di-
rectors expects to inaugurate a policy to make such
stock available within a short time.
As a result of the reorganization, no change will
be made in the management and direction of the
company; indeed, M. A. Healy, president, and Co-
The billboard advertising of the Schroeder Piano
Co., Pittsburgh, Pa., presenting the claims of the
C. Kurtzmann piano, is one of the most noticeable
publicity features in that busy city. In the striking
outdoor displays the pictures are making the public
more familiar with the beauties of line in the C.
Kurtzmann grands, "Leading Musicians prefer Kurtz-
mann pianos" is the caption employed. Other boards
tell about the musical merits of the C. Kurtzmann
playerpianos.
W. E. ROUCH JOINS CABLE FAMILY.
R. J. Cook, General Manager, of The Cable Piano
Co., Chicago, announces the appointment of W. E.
Rouch to the management of the Bloomington
branch. Mr. Rouch is one of the most popular and
energentic salesmen of Central Illinois, and well de-
serves the promotion. His appointment dates from
January first.
The patent, trade-mark and unfair competition, and
copyright suits brought by the Gulbransen-Dickinson
Company, Chicago, against H. P. Maus, Lima, Ohio,
in the United States District Court for the Northern
District of Ohio, came up for trial before Judge
Westenhaver at Toledo, Ohio, on January 4th.
In the patent case no defense was introduced and a
decree was entered finding the Gulbransen-Dickin-
son Company's Thompson patent No. 1,288,759 rated
and infringed. The trial of the other two cases con-
tinued through the morning of the following day,
closing at noon with the arguments of counsel. The
cases were taken under advisement by the Court,
time being allowed for the filing of briefs.
Los Angeles, Cal., will soon have another hand-
some skyscraper. A three hundred thousand dollar
class A building for the Starr Piano Company is soon
to rise at 636-638 South Hill street.
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