Presto
Issue: 1923 1910 - Page 8
PRESTO
DOESN'T COST MUCH TO
BECOME EXPERT TUNER
Reduced Terms of Tuition of Polk's School of
Piano Tuning Affords Advantages to
Piano Men.
A special term is announceu uy Polk's School of
Piano Tuning, of Valparaiso, Indiana, which must
be of great interest to young piano men, especially
salesmen who desire to equip themselves for their
work, or to enter a remunerative profession. A new
circular of Polk's School has appeared, from which
we extract the following:
"As a re'sult of decreased operating expenses for
the spring season, the management of Polk School
of Piano luning offers you a reduction of $75.00 in
tuition on its combined courses, effective March 1st
to April 30th, inclusive. The classes formed this
season are arranged for the special benefit of a great
many dealers and piano salesmen who cannot pos-
sibly leave their business at any other time of the
year.
"In addition to the regular courses in tuning and
player and electric playerpianos, we have recently
added a complete course in the new electric repro-
ducing piano. These new, modern reproducing pianos
are being sold in all parts of the United States in
large numbers, and there are comparatively no skilled
repairers to adjust and care for them. Reproducing
pianos are not ordinary playerpianos, and men must
be trained in this particular phase of player work in
order to enable them to succeed in repairing and ad-
justing the delicate and complicated mechanism of
the almost human reproducing piano.
"Our tiling course consists of all personal instruc-
tion with tuning hammer in hand, daily classes in ear
training, lectures and practical training in action and
tone regulating, voicing and all phases of piano re-
pairing. After the student has taken the required
amount of personal instruction, he is required to prac-
tice by himself in a private studio, and his work is
corrected and graded by instructors until he is com-
petent to do first-class work by himself. The stu-
dents work from six to eight hours each day for six
March 3, 1923
days a week. This is one reason that we can train
men to become expert in every phase of piano work
in seven to nine weeks. This is the average time
required to complete the combined courses.
"The player and electric player course consists of
the actual taking down and repairing of. all the mod-
ern types and makes of player and electric player,
mechanisms. This work is all practical, and students
mid it very interesting. Each unit of the mechanism
is taken down and each student must thoroughly un-
derstand the construction. Lectures are given con-
cerning the repair, regulation and adjustment of
broken and worn parts.
"You will realize the great advantage of entering
for this class, as you will not only save $75.00 in
Hiition, but you will be enabled to complete your
courses in time for the spring and summer work.
These are perhaps the busiest seasons of the year
for piano men.
"tf you are planning to enter this work in the
future, we trust that you will not overlook this very
unusual offer.
"If you desire more information concerning this
offer, we will consider it a favor if you will kindly
write the secretary personally. We assure you that
all inquiries will be given prompt attention.
"POLK SCHOOL OF PIANO TUNTNG.
"Willard R. Powell, Secretary."
NEWS ABOUT THE MEN
WHO RETAIL THE PIANOS
Brief Items of Trade News Gathered Here and
There in Music Field.
Nels Block and C. B. Elderkin are proprietors of
the Nevada Music Store, recently opened at 221
South Virginia street, Reno, Nev.
S. I. Lyon is the new manager of the piano de-
partment of Cohen Bros., a big department store in
Jacksonville, Fla.
Francis La Vioxlcte is manager of the new store
opened recently in the McVear Building, Petaluma,
Cal.
Arnold E. Koop, of Fond du Lac, Wis., was elected
treasurer of the Badger Music Shop, Milwaukee,
Wis.
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.
The Bush & Gerts parlor grand piano is the official
piano of the Opera Club of Chicago, 18 West Wal-
ton Place. Chicago. The club is headquarters for
operatic and concert artists during their stay in Chi-
cago.
The Kesselman-O'Driscoll Music House, Milwau-
kee, operates a licensed broadcasting station in con-
JOINS BENEDICT RANKS.
nection with its radio department.
E. A. Parks, head of the Parks Music Co., Hanni-
The Paul Music Emporium, South Center street,
bal. Mo., recently surprised friends and acquaintances Pottsville, Pa., has been remodeled and enlarged.
in the music industry by his marriage, which oc-
The League Phonograph Co. recently opened a
curred recently. Several announcements and invita- new store at 305 North Main street, Greenville, S. C.
tions reached friends in Chicago, as Mr. Parks is
Farrell, Stellings & Son has opened piano ware-
well known in the trade. Presto joins a host of well- rooms in Hanford, Cal. The Baldwin line is carried.
,wishers for his marital success.
The Corley Co. plans to move to larger quarters at
213 East Broad street, Richmond, Va.
CONVENTION COMMITTEE MEETING.
De Mayo's Music House has opened a new store at
The committee which is handling the arrangements 864 Tremont avenue, New York City.
for the convention on June 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8, at the
The Imfeld Music Store, 10 South Third street,
Drake Hotel, Chicago, has arranged for a meeting Hamilton, Ohio, which has heretofore handled only
and dinner of the various other committees to be held band instruments, sheet music and talking machines,
at the Drake, 6:30, Monday evening, March 5th.
has decided to add a piano department and will fea-
ture the Gulbransen line.
A. G. Gulbransen, president of the Gulbransen-
The Chickering line is now included in the piano
Dickinson Co., Chicago, is spending a vacation in and playerpiano presentations of the Stronberg Music
Savannah, Ga.
House, Bradford, Pa.
BAUER PIANOS
The
JULIUS BAUER @ COMPANY
Office And Wareroome
^Reproducing Medium
TRADE MARK
Factory
Altaeld Street. CHICAGO
Old Number. 244 Wabash A*
New Number. 305 S. Wabaah A%
in the
A. ft. Chase
Established 187J
Emerson
Lindeman & Sons
Established 1849
Established 1836
The Celco Reproducing Medium in these
nationally known pianos offers a complete line,
characterized by distinction and controlled
exclusively by you. Write for open territory.
United Piano Corporation
20 West 45th Street
New York City
KROEGER
(Established 13S2)
The name alone Ss enough to suggest to dealers the Best
Artistic and Commercial Values.
The New Styl« Players Are F'nest Yet. If you can
get the Agency you ought to 1 we it.
KROEGER P ANO CO.
MDW YORK. N. Y.
Quick Sales and
Satisfied Customers
That's what you want and that's what you vei when you self Straube-
made players and pianos.
The constant and growing demand for Straube-niade instruments is
due to their high quality which is indicated by the kind of people
who buy them. You can see that they are being selected by those
who choose most carefully.
As a dealer you know the advantage of selling a line of instruments
with a standing of this sort. Let u« tell you about our interesting
dealer proposition.
STRAUBE PIANO CO., Hammond, Ind.
Try a Presto Want Ad and Get It
STAMFORD. CONK.
BR1NKERHOFF
Player- Pianos
and Pianos
The Line That Sell* Easily and Satisfies Alv*«
BRINKERHOFF PIANO CO.
OFFICES. REPUBLIC RLDG.
209 STATE STREET
CHICAGO
For QUALITY, SATISFACTION and PROFIT
NEWMAN BROTHERS PIANOS
NEWMAN BROS. CO.
Established 1870
Kindler & Collins
and
Factories, 816 DIX ST., Chicago, I)
E. Leins Piano Company
Makers of Pianos That Are Leaders
in Any Reliable Store
NEW FACTORY, 304 W. 42nd St.. NEW YORK
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DOESN'T COST MUCH TO
BECOME EXPERT TUNER
Reduced Terms of Tuition of Polk's School of
Piano Tuning Affords Advantages to
Piano Men.
A special term is announceu uy Polk's School of
Piano Tuning, of Valparaiso, Indiana, which must
be of great interest to young piano men, especially
salesmen who desire to equip themselves for their
work, or to enter a remunerative profession. A new
circular of Polk's School has appeared, from which
we extract the following:
"As a re'sult of decreased operating expenses for
the spring season, the management of Polk School
of Piano luning offers you a reduction of $75.00 in
tuition on its combined courses, effective March 1st
to April 30th, inclusive. The classes formed this
season are arranged for the special benefit of a great
many dealers and piano salesmen who cannot pos-
sibly leave their business at any other time of the
year.
"In addition to the regular courses in tuning and
player and electric playerpianos, we have recently
added a complete course in the new electric repro-
ducing piano. These new, modern reproducing pianos
are being sold in all parts of the United States in
large numbers, and there are comparatively no skilled
repairers to adjust and care for them. Reproducing
pianos are not ordinary playerpianos, and men must
be trained in this particular phase of player work in
order to enable them to succeed in repairing and ad-
justing the delicate and complicated mechanism of
the almost human reproducing piano.
"Our tiling course consists of all personal instruc-
tion with tuning hammer in hand, daily classes in ear
training, lectures and practical training in action and
tone regulating, voicing and all phases of piano re-
pairing. After the student has taken the required
amount of personal instruction, he is required to prac-
tice by himself in a private studio, and his work is
corrected and graded by instructors until he is com-
petent to do first-class work by himself. The stu-
dents work from six to eight hours each day for six
March 3, 1923
days a week. This is one reason that we can train
men to become expert in every phase of piano work
in seven to nine weeks. This is the average time
required to complete the combined courses.
"The player and electric player course consists of
the actual taking down and repairing of. all the mod-
ern types and makes of player and electric player,
mechanisms. This work is all practical, and students
mid it very interesting. Each unit of the mechanism
is taken down and each student must thoroughly un-
derstand the construction. Lectures are given con-
cerning the repair, regulation and adjustment of
broken and worn parts.
"You will realize the great advantage of entering
for this class, as you will not only save $75.00 in
Hiition, but you will be enabled to complete your
courses in time for the spring and summer work.
These are perhaps the busiest seasons of the year
for piano men.
"tf you are planning to enter this work in the
future, we trust that you will not overlook this very
unusual offer.
"If you desire more information concerning this
offer, we will consider it a favor if you will kindly
write the secretary personally. We assure you that
all inquiries will be given prompt attention.
"POLK SCHOOL OF PIANO TUNTNG.
"Willard R. Powell, Secretary."
NEWS ABOUT THE MEN
WHO RETAIL THE PIANOS
Brief Items of Trade News Gathered Here and
There in Music Field.
Nels Block and C. B. Elderkin are proprietors of
the Nevada Music Store, recently opened at 221
South Virginia street, Reno, Nev.
S. I. Lyon is the new manager of the piano de-
partment of Cohen Bros., a big department store in
Jacksonville, Fla.
Francis La Vioxlcte is manager of the new store
opened recently in the McVear Building, Petaluma,
Cal.
Arnold E. Koop, of Fond du Lac, Wis., was elected
treasurer of the Badger Music Shop, Milwaukee,
Wis.
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.
The Bush & Gerts parlor grand piano is the official
piano of the Opera Club of Chicago, 18 West Wal-
ton Place. Chicago. The club is headquarters for
operatic and concert artists during their stay in Chi-
cago.
The Kesselman-O'Driscoll Music House, Milwau-
kee, operates a licensed broadcasting station in con-
JOINS BENEDICT RANKS.
nection with its radio department.
E. A. Parks, head of the Parks Music Co., Hanni-
The Paul Music Emporium, South Center street,
bal. Mo., recently surprised friends and acquaintances Pottsville, Pa., has been remodeled and enlarged.
in the music industry by his marriage, which oc-
The League Phonograph Co. recently opened a
curred recently. Several announcements and invita- new store at 305 North Main street, Greenville, S. C.
tions reached friends in Chicago, as Mr. Parks is
Farrell, Stellings & Son has opened piano ware-
well known in the trade. Presto joins a host of well- rooms in Hanford, Cal. The Baldwin line is carried.
,wishers for his marital success.
The Corley Co. plans to move to larger quarters at
213 East Broad street, Richmond, Va.
CONVENTION COMMITTEE MEETING.
De Mayo's Music House has opened a new store at
The committee which is handling the arrangements 864 Tremont avenue, New York City.
for the convention on June 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8, at the
The Imfeld Music Store, 10 South Third street,
Drake Hotel, Chicago, has arranged for a meeting Hamilton, Ohio, which has heretofore handled only
and dinner of the various other committees to be held band instruments, sheet music and talking machines,
at the Drake, 6:30, Monday evening, March 5th.
has decided to add a piano department and will fea-
ture the Gulbransen line.
A. G. Gulbransen, president of the Gulbransen-
The Chickering line is now included in the piano
Dickinson Co., Chicago, is spending a vacation in and playerpiano presentations of the Stronberg Music
Savannah, Ga.
House, Bradford, Pa.
BAUER PIANOS
The
JULIUS BAUER @ COMPANY
Office And Wareroome
^Reproducing Medium
TRADE MARK
Factory
Altaeld Street. CHICAGO
Old Number. 244 Wabash A*
New Number. 305 S. Wabaah A%
in the
A. ft. Chase
Established 187J
Emerson
Lindeman & Sons
Established 1849
Established 1836
The Celco Reproducing Medium in these
nationally known pianos offers a complete line,
characterized by distinction and controlled
exclusively by you. Write for open territory.
United Piano Corporation
20 West 45th Street
New York City
KROEGER
(Established 13S2)
The name alone Ss enough to suggest to dealers the Best
Artistic and Commercial Values.
The New Styl« Players Are F'nest Yet. If you can
get the Agency you ought to 1 we it.
KROEGER P ANO CO.
MDW YORK. N. Y.
Quick Sales and
Satisfied Customers
That's what you want and that's what you vei when you self Straube-
made players and pianos.
The constant and growing demand for Straube-niade instruments is
due to their high quality which is indicated by the kind of people
who buy them. You can see that they are being selected by those
who choose most carefully.
As a dealer you know the advantage of selling a line of instruments
with a standing of this sort. Let u« tell you about our interesting
dealer proposition.
STRAUBE PIANO CO., Hammond, Ind.
Try a Presto Want Ad and Get It
STAMFORD. CONK.
BR1NKERHOFF
Player- Pianos
and Pianos
The Line That Sell* Easily and Satisfies Alv*«
BRINKERHOFF PIANO CO.
OFFICES. REPUBLIC RLDG.
209 STATE STREET
CHICAGO
For QUALITY, SATISFACTION and PROFIT
NEWMAN BROTHERS PIANOS
NEWMAN BROS. CO.
Established 1870
Kindler & Collins
and
Factories, 816 DIX ST., Chicago, I)
E. Leins Piano Company
Makers of Pianos That Are Leaders
in Any Reliable Store
NEW FACTORY, 304 W. 42nd St.. NEW YORK
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).