Presto
Issue: 1923 1915 - Page 10
April 7, 1923
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manager Export Bureau. The following also at-
SINGER'S BUST IS REMINDER
tended the meeting by invitation:
L. Krombcrger, of B. H. Janssen Piano Co.; Elmer
OF HARDMAN PIANO MERIT
Salisbury, of Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co.; Ed-
mund Sause, of Columbia Graphophone Co.
The committee discussed plans for the continua- Exhibit in Window in New York Replete with Inter-
Trip to Milwaukee Convinces Bush & Gerts Repre-
est for Musical People.
tion
and expansion of the work of the Bureau in oper-
sentative of Retailers' Difficulties.
ating- a Credit Information Interchange Service on
The bust of Enrico Caruso, recently shown in the
There may sometimes be handicaps to overcome foreign importers and dealers in American musical windows of Hardman, Peck & Co., in New York,
in selling pianos, even if the piano is of such a popu- instruments. Such a service was established about commemorated the memory of the great tenor and
lar make as the Bush & Gert.s, made by the Bush & six months ago and has already rendered over eighty served to remind the onlookers of the association of
Gerts Piano Co., Chicago. A salesman from this reports to its users.
the singer with the Hardman piano. The Hardman
company discovered this on a recent trip to Mil- The committee also went on record as favoring a was the piano selected by Caruso while a member of
waukee, where he made a few successful calls, but general reduction in steamship freight rates to foreign the Metropolitan Opera Co., and besides the piano
decided that pianos would sell better when the heavy countries, and plans were discussed for concerted ac- used by him in New York he had one in white and
spring snows had melted or slid away.
tion on the part of manufacturers and exporters to gold made for his villa in Italy. Shown with the bust
"Even though the calendar says it is spring, the bring this about.
in the recent display was a two-tone walnut grand,
snow was heavily settled on the Milwaukee streets,"
The next meeting of the committee will be held in of great beauty.
said the Bush & Gerts salesman. "I think the sales the offices of the Music Industries Chafffber of Com-
As the trade knows, the Hardman piano is the offi-
I made represent a great deal of determination on the merce, 105 West 40th street. New York City on cial piano of the Metropolitan Opera Co., and that
part of the dealer."
Wednesday, April 11th, at 2:30 p. m.
Caruso w r as one of the many great singers whose
choice has been the Hardman. The Hardman piano
has held its proud official position for the past ten
INCORPORATED IN BUFFALO.
WHAT ADVISORY COMMITTEE
The officers of the newly incorporated Erion Piano years, and a recent letter from the management of the
Co., Inc., Buffalo, N. Y., will be elected at a meet- Metropolitan Opera Co. speaks particularly of the
IS DOING TO AID TRADE ing
this week. It is certain that the choice for presi- "fine tone quality, fullness and great durability of the
dent will be Frederick Erion, founder of the firm. Hardman," which latter feature is an outstanding one
Last Week's Meeting Completed Plans to Extend The company, capitalized at $500,000, has two stores, in spite of the fact that they are subjected to "ex-
one on Williams street and one on Broadway. Asso- tremely heavy usage, due to the almost ceaseless re-
Work of Bureau of Industries.
ciated with Frederick Erion are his four sons, Ed- hearsals that are conducted here."
>t The Advisory Committee to the Export Bureau of ward P., Arthur J., Fred J. and Walter C. The busi-
I the Music Industries Chamber of Commerce held its ness was established in 1901 by Frederick Erion and
STEINWAY HIS THEME. •
I second meeting for this year in the offices of the his eldest son, Edward P. Erion, who manages the
The part of Steinway & Sons, New York, in
[Chamber in New York City, on Wednesday, March financial end of the business. The general managers furthering the cause of good music by means of the
28th. The following members of the committee were of the stores is Arthur W. Erion.
Steinway piano was told by William H. Schmoller,
in attendance:
of the Schmoller & Mueller Piano Co., Omaha, Neb.,
J. B. Schwarz, of Kohler & Campbell, chairman;
to the state convention of Nebraska teachers held in
GOOD TALKER, HARD HITTER.
'Miss Lucy Goldsmith, of Aeolian Company: Alvaro
Omaha this week. He told of the association of the
Kenneth
R.
Williams,
vice-president
of
the
Kirk-
Chaves, of Rudolph Wurlitzer Co.; Beach Barrett,
land Piano Co., St. Louis, is considered by himself great New York house with the development of the
;ind others to be a first class piano and phonograph piano and in preparing his theme was associated
salesman. But he does not work at it in the summer with data furnished by Benjamin H. Balensiefer and
when he is scoring runs as a member of the St. Louis P. IT. Bilbuber of Steinway & Sons.
Browns. Mr. Williams is as hard a hitter with the
The Good Old
DIVIDEND DECLARED.
bat as he is a persuasive talker with a piano prospect
in tow. He left last week for. Mobile, Ala., to join
The Baker Music House, Inc., Albany. N. Y.. on
the St. Louis team for the spring training.
March 15 paid the 21st consecutive quarterly dividend
of 2 per cent on preferred stock and $1 a share on
common stock to stockholders of record March 1,
OLD TUNER DIES.
1923. The business of the company shows an in-
George Pierce, for many years a piano tuner and
organ builder, died in New Bedford, Mass., last week, crease of $44,000 for the first two months of 1923 over
aged 77. Coming from England in early life, he the same period of 1922.
learned his original trade with Chickering and Sons
in Boston, but had been established in New Bedford
since 1872.
SELLING BUSH & QERTS
UNDER SNOW HANDICAP
Pianos and Player Pianos
WEBSTER PIANOS
Better than ever, with the same
"Grand Tone In Upright Case."
Grands and Players that every deal-
er likes to sell, for Satisfaction and
Profit.
Smith & Nixon Piano Co.
1229 Miller St., Chicago
Noted for Their Musical Beauty
of Tone and Artistic Style
ATTRACTIVE
PRICES
Factory
Executive Offices
Leominster,
138th St. and Walton Ave.
Mass.
New York
Division W. P. HAINES & CO., Inc.
The Lyon & Healy
Reproducing Piano
A moderate priced reproducing piano,
beautiful in design and rich in tone.
Write for our new explanatory Chart,
the most complete and simple treat-
ment of the reproducing action.
STRICH & ZEIDLER, Inc.
Wabash at Jackson - - - Chicago
AND
GRAND, UPRIGHT and PLAYER
HOMER PIANOS
KREITER
GRAND PIANO
58 Inches Long
The best exponent of the present Baby Grand Age.
It* tone — ita line* — it! reitricted space requirement and
attractive pr ice—
MAKE IT THE PREMIER AGENCY
Get full details of this valuable selling franchise NOW.
Pianos and Players
Have No Competition Where
Beauty of Cases and Tone
Sustain Profit Making Prices.
Premier Grand Piano Corporation
Everything the Highest but
the Price.
Largest Institution in the World Building Grand
Pianos Exclusively
Inspect them Carefully and See.
WALTER C HBPPERLA
PrM&Mt
JUSTUS HATTEMER
Vve-PreiMeot
510-532 West /3rd Street
NEW YORK
740-742 East 136th Street
NEW YORK
Kreiter Mfg. Co., Inc.
320-322 W. Water St., Milwaukee, Wis.
Factory: Marinette, Wis.
John McCormack
famous tenor, says,
"The Miessner Piano certainly fills a .ong-felt want, the
want of a small piano with a splendid action and lovely tone"
Write Today for Miessner catalogue, prices an I full
information
^MIESSNER
The Little Piano with the Rig Tone
MIESSNER PIANO CO.
General Offices & Factory, 126 Reed St.
MILWAUKEE, WIS.
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manager Export Bureau. The following also at-
SINGER'S BUST IS REMINDER
tended the meeting by invitation:
L. Krombcrger, of B. H. Janssen Piano Co.; Elmer
OF HARDMAN PIANO MERIT
Salisbury, of Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co.; Ed-
mund Sause, of Columbia Graphophone Co.
The committee discussed plans for the continua- Exhibit in Window in New York Replete with Inter-
Trip to Milwaukee Convinces Bush & Gerts Repre-
est for Musical People.
tion
and expansion of the work of the Bureau in oper-
sentative of Retailers' Difficulties.
ating- a Credit Information Interchange Service on
The bust of Enrico Caruso, recently shown in the
There may sometimes be handicaps to overcome foreign importers and dealers in American musical windows of Hardman, Peck & Co., in New York,
in selling pianos, even if the piano is of such a popu- instruments. Such a service was established about commemorated the memory of the great tenor and
lar make as the Bush & Gert.s, made by the Bush & six months ago and has already rendered over eighty served to remind the onlookers of the association of
Gerts Piano Co., Chicago. A salesman from this reports to its users.
the singer with the Hardman piano. The Hardman
company discovered this on a recent trip to Mil- The committee also went on record as favoring a was the piano selected by Caruso while a member of
waukee, where he made a few successful calls, but general reduction in steamship freight rates to foreign the Metropolitan Opera Co., and besides the piano
decided that pianos would sell better when the heavy countries, and plans were discussed for concerted ac- used by him in New York he had one in white and
spring snows had melted or slid away.
tion on the part of manufacturers and exporters to gold made for his villa in Italy. Shown with the bust
"Even though the calendar says it is spring, the bring this about.
in the recent display was a two-tone walnut grand,
snow was heavily settled on the Milwaukee streets,"
The next meeting of the committee will be held in of great beauty.
said the Bush & Gerts salesman. "I think the sales the offices of the Music Industries Chafffber of Com-
As the trade knows, the Hardman piano is the offi-
I made represent a great deal of determination on the merce, 105 West 40th street. New York City on cial piano of the Metropolitan Opera Co., and that
part of the dealer."
Wednesday, April 11th, at 2:30 p. m.
Caruso w r as one of the many great singers whose
choice has been the Hardman. The Hardman piano
has held its proud official position for the past ten
INCORPORATED IN BUFFALO.
WHAT ADVISORY COMMITTEE
The officers of the newly incorporated Erion Piano years, and a recent letter from the management of the
Co., Inc., Buffalo, N. Y., will be elected at a meet- Metropolitan Opera Co. speaks particularly of the
IS DOING TO AID TRADE ing
this week. It is certain that the choice for presi- "fine tone quality, fullness and great durability of the
dent will be Frederick Erion, founder of the firm. Hardman," which latter feature is an outstanding one
Last Week's Meeting Completed Plans to Extend The company, capitalized at $500,000, has two stores, in spite of the fact that they are subjected to "ex-
one on Williams street and one on Broadway. Asso- tremely heavy usage, due to the almost ceaseless re-
Work of Bureau of Industries.
ciated with Frederick Erion are his four sons, Ed- hearsals that are conducted here."
>t The Advisory Committee to the Export Bureau of ward P., Arthur J., Fred J. and Walter C. The busi-
I the Music Industries Chamber of Commerce held its ness was established in 1901 by Frederick Erion and
STEINWAY HIS THEME. •
I second meeting for this year in the offices of the his eldest son, Edward P. Erion, who manages the
The part of Steinway & Sons, New York, in
[Chamber in New York City, on Wednesday, March financial end of the business. The general managers furthering the cause of good music by means of the
28th. The following members of the committee were of the stores is Arthur W. Erion.
Steinway piano was told by William H. Schmoller,
in attendance:
of the Schmoller & Mueller Piano Co., Omaha, Neb.,
J. B. Schwarz, of Kohler & Campbell, chairman;
to the state convention of Nebraska teachers held in
GOOD TALKER, HARD HITTER.
'Miss Lucy Goldsmith, of Aeolian Company: Alvaro
Omaha this week. He told of the association of the
Kenneth
R.
Williams,
vice-president
of
the
Kirk-
Chaves, of Rudolph Wurlitzer Co.; Beach Barrett,
land Piano Co., St. Louis, is considered by himself great New York house with the development of the
;ind others to be a first class piano and phonograph piano and in preparing his theme was associated
salesman. But he does not work at it in the summer with data furnished by Benjamin H. Balensiefer and
when he is scoring runs as a member of the St. Louis P. IT. Bilbuber of Steinway & Sons.
Browns. Mr. Williams is as hard a hitter with the
The Good Old
DIVIDEND DECLARED.
bat as he is a persuasive talker with a piano prospect
in tow. He left last week for. Mobile, Ala., to join
The Baker Music House, Inc., Albany. N. Y.. on
the St. Louis team for the spring training.
March 15 paid the 21st consecutive quarterly dividend
of 2 per cent on preferred stock and $1 a share on
common stock to stockholders of record March 1,
OLD TUNER DIES.
1923. The business of the company shows an in-
George Pierce, for many years a piano tuner and
organ builder, died in New Bedford, Mass., last week, crease of $44,000 for the first two months of 1923 over
aged 77. Coming from England in early life, he the same period of 1922.
learned his original trade with Chickering and Sons
in Boston, but had been established in New Bedford
since 1872.
SELLING BUSH & QERTS
UNDER SNOW HANDICAP
Pianos and Player Pianos
WEBSTER PIANOS
Better than ever, with the same
"Grand Tone In Upright Case."
Grands and Players that every deal-
er likes to sell, for Satisfaction and
Profit.
Smith & Nixon Piano Co.
1229 Miller St., Chicago
Noted for Their Musical Beauty
of Tone and Artistic Style
ATTRACTIVE
PRICES
Factory
Executive Offices
Leominster,
138th St. and Walton Ave.
Mass.
New York
Division W. P. HAINES & CO., Inc.
The Lyon & Healy
Reproducing Piano
A moderate priced reproducing piano,
beautiful in design and rich in tone.
Write for our new explanatory Chart,
the most complete and simple treat-
ment of the reproducing action.
STRICH & ZEIDLER, Inc.
Wabash at Jackson - - - Chicago
AND
GRAND, UPRIGHT and PLAYER
HOMER PIANOS
KREITER
GRAND PIANO
58 Inches Long
The best exponent of the present Baby Grand Age.
It* tone — ita line* — it! reitricted space requirement and
attractive pr ice—
MAKE IT THE PREMIER AGENCY
Get full details of this valuable selling franchise NOW.
Pianos and Players
Have No Competition Where
Beauty of Cases and Tone
Sustain Profit Making Prices.
Premier Grand Piano Corporation
Everything the Highest but
the Price.
Largest Institution in the World Building Grand
Pianos Exclusively
Inspect them Carefully and See.
WALTER C HBPPERLA
PrM&Mt
JUSTUS HATTEMER
Vve-PreiMeot
510-532 West /3rd Street
NEW YORK
740-742 East 136th Street
NEW YORK
Kreiter Mfg. Co., Inc.
320-322 W. Water St., Milwaukee, Wis.
Factory: Marinette, Wis.
John McCormack
famous tenor, says,
"The Miessner Piano certainly fills a .ong-felt want, the
want of a small piano with a splendid action and lovely tone"
Write Today for Miessner catalogue, prices an I full
information
^MIESSNER
The Little Piano with the Rig Tone
MIESSNER PIANO CO.
General Offices & Factory, 126 Reed St.
MILWAUKEE, WIS.
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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