Presto
Issue: 1923 1931 - Page 14
PRESTO
14
CRiSP ITEMS
ABOUT DEALERS
Some Personal Bits Gathered Here and There
Among Those in Close Touch
with Ultimate Con-
sumers.
There was no dolce far niente in June for Charles
B. Miller of the New York store of the P. A. Starck
Piano Co. The fact is clear from the returns in the
interesting sales contest there for the month named.
Mr. Miller was successful in securing one of the
prizes awarded for the largest amount of business
during the month of June. He was the former man-
ager and buyer of the piano department of the Snell-
enburg Co., Philadelphia, and also manager of the
Harrisburg branch store for Chas. M. Stieff, Inc.
Everybody in the trade will be glad to learn that
Wm. C. Hamilton, vice-president of the National As-
sociation of Music Merchants, is sufficiently recovered
from the effects of a recent operation to visit his
office daily. A recent announcement about Mr.
Hamilton is that he has been appointed a member of
the. Committee on Mercantile Affairs of the Pitts-
burgh Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber has
the largest membership of any similar organization
in the country.
Frank Kimmel's Popularity.
Frank H. Kimmel, manager of the Arthur Jordan
Piano Co., Washington, D. C, is well known in the
trade for his ability to organize sales and make the
stimulation continuous in the piano department. But
Mr. Kimmel can talk interestingly as well as act
effectively and he proved it recently in his address
before the Arts Club when his subject was "Moods
and Music." Mr. Kimmel was the honor guest at a
a dinner given by the club. The lecture was the
third on music delivered by Mr. Kimmel since his
return to Washington last spring. His other lec-
tures were "Old Tunes for New," delivered at one of
the big churches in this city, and "Familiarity with
Music," given at Kensington, Md., a residential com-
munity on the outskirts of Washington.
Charles Mitchell, proprietor of the new Columbus
Music House, Columbus, Ind., is better known by
the less dignified form of the name—Charley. But
Mr. Mitchell has long answered to the latter form
without losing in dignity. He is a veteran news-
paperman of that city in which he knows everybody
and everybody knows him. Last week he augmented
the stock of his store by purchasing the fine line of
pianos and, music goods generally carried by the
Columbus branch of the Pearson Piano Co.
i_ !
A Power in Politics.
Joseph Klinenberg, head of the Klinenberg Piano
Co., 4915 S. Ashland avenue, Chicago, is not only an
active piano man who has achieved a big output of
good pianos and players in that thrifty section of the
city, but has also found time to take an active inter-
est in the politics that affect it. Mr. Klinenberg has
endorsed a candidate for the congressional vacancy
and that settles it. All's over but the voting and
"counting.
The success of E. A. Francis in Galesburg, 111.,
told with type and picture in another part of the
paper, will be good news to a large circle of friends
of the energetic piano man. But it will not be a sur-
prise to them to learn that their friend had achieved
success so soon after returning to the piano business.
Old friends who knew him way back in the days
when he was Iowa representative for Lyon & Potter
and before that time expected only success in his
Galesburg venture.
PITTSBURGH HOUSE IS
FORCEFUL ADVERTISER
Schroeder Piano Co.'s Publicity Succeeds in Selling
Pianos and Players.
Among the piano firms of the country noted for
the strength, effectiveness and persistency of their
advertising the Schroeder Piano Co., of Pittsburgh,
Pa., stands out. For progressiveness, ability to sell
a large volume of business, and you keep doing it year
after year, few organizations in the country rank
higher.
A recent Schroeder display in the newspapers
shows how Schroeder advertises and sells the Kohler
& Campbell line. The advertising is never accused of
being "pretty," in any sense. But, it contains a
selling thought in every line, between the top and
bottom rule border. The display, too, is always
good. It shows the merchandise the firm wants to
sell. Prices and terms are featured in a dignified
way that appeals to the prospective buyer.
Summed up, Schroeder advertising is interesting,
because it produces the business. This in a final
analysis is what every piano merchant is interested in.
SECRETARY HOOVER'S VIEWS.
Discussing legislative activities, Sec. Hoover as-
serts that "The interest of any one industry or trade,
to be sound in the ultimate analysis, must be the pub-
lic interest and in their legislative activities many
trade associations have borne this axiom foremost.
The demand of legislatures for the views of the dif-
ferent trades upon all sorts of questions of public in-
terest is incessant, and the open preparation and pres-
entation of such matters is far more consonant with
proper development of public life than the private
lobbying of the few or powerful.
Arrivals and Departures of U. S. Steamer Leviathan
Interest Milton Piano Co. Employees.
Workmen who are engaged in completing the new
Milton Piano Company's factory at 632 West 51st
street, k New York, and officials of the company have
grandstand seats from which to observe the move-
ments of the greatest merchant ship on earth, the
Leviathan of the United States lines, when she is
in her home port. Pier 86, North River, at the foot
of West 46th street, where the Leviathan docks, is in
plain view from the upper floors of the new Milton
factory.
An airplane view of the Leviathan was made just
after her completion of her much-discussed trial trip
on which she broke three world's records—for hourly
speed, for average speed over a twelve-hour period
and for number of radio messages transmitted. She
sailed again on the fourth for Cherbourg and South-
ampton with 1,775 passengers and a crew of over
1,200, returning this week after completing the most
successful maiden trip on record.
This airplane view is striking evidence of the con-
venient proximity of the new Milton factory to ship-
ping facilities. Within a few blocks from the fac-
tory freighters to all parts of the world are continu-
ally loading and unloading, and on their outbound
trips many of them will carry part of the tremen-
dous output of pianos made possible by the now
greatly increased manufacturing capacity of the Mil-
ton Piano Company. George W. Allen, president of
the company, states that the new factory is rapidly
nearing completion and will be occupied in a short
time.
OWAIN MARTIN DIES.
Owain Martin, president of Martin-Orme, Ltd.,
Ottawa, Out., who died recently, was one of the most
widely known men in the Canadian trade, where he
had a host of friends. Mr. Martin was seventy-two
years old, a native of the Isle of Wight, but a resi-
dent of Canada for the past fifty-four years. He
came to Toronto when a boy of eighteen and started
work with the Nordheimer Piano Co., rising to the
position of general manager. In 1902 he resigned
to form the piano manufacturing firm of Martin &
Stanley, Peterborough, Ont. In 1904 Matthew Orrae
took over Mr. Stanley's share of the partnership, the
firm name was changed to Martin-Orme, Ltd., and
the works were moved to Ottawa.
ANGELUS RECITALS ATTRACT.
The following letter from Mrs. Caroline Norris, a
Hardman piano owner, was recently received by
Hardman, Peck & Co., New York: "Mr. Norris and
I wish to thank you for the excellent care you have
given our Autotone while in storage and for the fine
condition in which you returned it to us. We cer-
tainly appreciate it! This is the fourth instrument in
our family from the 'House of Hardman' and our
second one. The pianos have all proven satisfactory
and the 'House' a most reliable and courteous one
to do business with." The instrument was in storage
for nearly four and one-half years, while Mrs. Norris
and her husband were traveling.
Herma Menth, famous pianiste, gives daily recitals
at the Barnes Music Co.'s Angelus Bungalow at the
Monroe Centennial Exposition, Los Angeles, using
the Angelus. Under the supervision of P. K. Van
Yorx, of the Hallet & Davis Piano Co., Boston, the
Angelus in the Hallet & Davis reproduces Miss
Menth's and other great artists' recorded rolls with
admirable fidelity. The recitals are attracting the
most favorable comment and unrestricted praise.
UNSURPASSED IN TONE and GENERAL
CONSTRUCTION and UNEQUALED IN PRICE,
make the JESSE FRENCH & SONS line of pianos
the MOST ATTRACTIVE AGENCY ON THE
MARKET. INVESTIGATE THIS CLAIM and
you will readily agree to its correctness*
Send Today for Catalog and Prices in Unoccupied Territory
JESSE FRENCH & SONS PIANO CO.
NEW CASTLE, INDIANA
A QUALITY PRODUCT
FOR OVER
QUARTER OFACENTURY
PIANO FACTORY WORKERS
SEE BIG SHIP DOCK
A HARDMAN TRIBUTE.
A Valuable Agency
STYLE G
July 28, 1923
POQLE
^BOSTON—
Wood Bros., Pittsfield, Mass., has opened a new
store on North street, with a complete line of pianos,
other musical instruments and accessories.
The LEADING LINE
WEAVER PIANOS
Grands, Uprights and Players
Finest and most artistic
piano in design, towe and
construction that can be
made.
YORK P I A N O S
Uprights and Player Piano*
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 sing*
ing their own praises i i all parts of the civilised world.
Write for catalogues and state on what tecrns vpji would
like to deal, aqji we will rftake you a proposition if yen are
locfeted in open' territory.
WEAVER PIANO CO., Inc.
Factory: YORK. P \ .
Established 1870
AND UPRIGHT PIANOS
AND
PLAYER PIANOS
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14
CRiSP ITEMS
ABOUT DEALERS
Some Personal Bits Gathered Here and There
Among Those in Close Touch
with Ultimate Con-
sumers.
There was no dolce far niente in June for Charles
B. Miller of the New York store of the P. A. Starck
Piano Co. The fact is clear from the returns in the
interesting sales contest there for the month named.
Mr. Miller was successful in securing one of the
prizes awarded for the largest amount of business
during the month of June. He was the former man-
ager and buyer of the piano department of the Snell-
enburg Co., Philadelphia, and also manager of the
Harrisburg branch store for Chas. M. Stieff, Inc.
Everybody in the trade will be glad to learn that
Wm. C. Hamilton, vice-president of the National As-
sociation of Music Merchants, is sufficiently recovered
from the effects of a recent operation to visit his
office daily. A recent announcement about Mr.
Hamilton is that he has been appointed a member of
the. Committee on Mercantile Affairs of the Pitts-
burgh Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber has
the largest membership of any similar organization
in the country.
Frank Kimmel's Popularity.
Frank H. Kimmel, manager of the Arthur Jordan
Piano Co., Washington, D. C, is well known in the
trade for his ability to organize sales and make the
stimulation continuous in the piano department. But
Mr. Kimmel can talk interestingly as well as act
effectively and he proved it recently in his address
before the Arts Club when his subject was "Moods
and Music." Mr. Kimmel was the honor guest at a
a dinner given by the club. The lecture was the
third on music delivered by Mr. Kimmel since his
return to Washington last spring. His other lec-
tures were "Old Tunes for New," delivered at one of
the big churches in this city, and "Familiarity with
Music," given at Kensington, Md., a residential com-
munity on the outskirts of Washington.
Charles Mitchell, proprietor of the new Columbus
Music House, Columbus, Ind., is better known by
the less dignified form of the name—Charley. But
Mr. Mitchell has long answered to the latter form
without losing in dignity. He is a veteran news-
paperman of that city in which he knows everybody
and everybody knows him. Last week he augmented
the stock of his store by purchasing the fine line of
pianos and, music goods generally carried by the
Columbus branch of the Pearson Piano Co.
i_ !
A Power in Politics.
Joseph Klinenberg, head of the Klinenberg Piano
Co., 4915 S. Ashland avenue, Chicago, is not only an
active piano man who has achieved a big output of
good pianos and players in that thrifty section of the
city, but has also found time to take an active inter-
est in the politics that affect it. Mr. Klinenberg has
endorsed a candidate for the congressional vacancy
and that settles it. All's over but the voting and
"counting.
The success of E. A. Francis in Galesburg, 111.,
told with type and picture in another part of the
paper, will be good news to a large circle of friends
of the energetic piano man. But it will not be a sur-
prise to them to learn that their friend had achieved
success so soon after returning to the piano business.
Old friends who knew him way back in the days
when he was Iowa representative for Lyon & Potter
and before that time expected only success in his
Galesburg venture.
PITTSBURGH HOUSE IS
FORCEFUL ADVERTISER
Schroeder Piano Co.'s Publicity Succeeds in Selling
Pianos and Players.
Among the piano firms of the country noted for
the strength, effectiveness and persistency of their
advertising the Schroeder Piano Co., of Pittsburgh,
Pa., stands out. For progressiveness, ability to sell
a large volume of business, and you keep doing it year
after year, few organizations in the country rank
higher.
A recent Schroeder display in the newspapers
shows how Schroeder advertises and sells the Kohler
& Campbell line. The advertising is never accused of
being "pretty," in any sense. But, it contains a
selling thought in every line, between the top and
bottom rule border. The display, too, is always
good. It shows the merchandise the firm wants to
sell. Prices and terms are featured in a dignified
way that appeals to the prospective buyer.
Summed up, Schroeder advertising is interesting,
because it produces the business. This in a final
analysis is what every piano merchant is interested in.
SECRETARY HOOVER'S VIEWS.
Discussing legislative activities, Sec. Hoover as-
serts that "The interest of any one industry or trade,
to be sound in the ultimate analysis, must be the pub-
lic interest and in their legislative activities many
trade associations have borne this axiom foremost.
The demand of legislatures for the views of the dif-
ferent trades upon all sorts of questions of public in-
terest is incessant, and the open preparation and pres-
entation of such matters is far more consonant with
proper development of public life than the private
lobbying of the few or powerful.
Arrivals and Departures of U. S. Steamer Leviathan
Interest Milton Piano Co. Employees.
Workmen who are engaged in completing the new
Milton Piano Company's factory at 632 West 51st
street, k New York, and officials of the company have
grandstand seats from which to observe the move-
ments of the greatest merchant ship on earth, the
Leviathan of the United States lines, when she is
in her home port. Pier 86, North River, at the foot
of West 46th street, where the Leviathan docks, is in
plain view from the upper floors of the new Milton
factory.
An airplane view of the Leviathan was made just
after her completion of her much-discussed trial trip
on which she broke three world's records—for hourly
speed, for average speed over a twelve-hour period
and for number of radio messages transmitted. She
sailed again on the fourth for Cherbourg and South-
ampton with 1,775 passengers and a crew of over
1,200, returning this week after completing the most
successful maiden trip on record.
This airplane view is striking evidence of the con-
venient proximity of the new Milton factory to ship-
ping facilities. Within a few blocks from the fac-
tory freighters to all parts of the world are continu-
ally loading and unloading, and on their outbound
trips many of them will carry part of the tremen-
dous output of pianos made possible by the now
greatly increased manufacturing capacity of the Mil-
ton Piano Company. George W. Allen, president of
the company, states that the new factory is rapidly
nearing completion and will be occupied in a short
time.
OWAIN MARTIN DIES.
Owain Martin, president of Martin-Orme, Ltd.,
Ottawa, Out., who died recently, was one of the most
widely known men in the Canadian trade, where he
had a host of friends. Mr. Martin was seventy-two
years old, a native of the Isle of Wight, but a resi-
dent of Canada for the past fifty-four years. He
came to Toronto when a boy of eighteen and started
work with the Nordheimer Piano Co., rising to the
position of general manager. In 1902 he resigned
to form the piano manufacturing firm of Martin &
Stanley, Peterborough, Ont. In 1904 Matthew Orrae
took over Mr. Stanley's share of the partnership, the
firm name was changed to Martin-Orme, Ltd., and
the works were moved to Ottawa.
ANGELUS RECITALS ATTRACT.
The following letter from Mrs. Caroline Norris, a
Hardman piano owner, was recently received by
Hardman, Peck & Co., New York: "Mr. Norris and
I wish to thank you for the excellent care you have
given our Autotone while in storage and for the fine
condition in which you returned it to us. We cer-
tainly appreciate it! This is the fourth instrument in
our family from the 'House of Hardman' and our
second one. The pianos have all proven satisfactory
and the 'House' a most reliable and courteous one
to do business with." The instrument was in storage
for nearly four and one-half years, while Mrs. Norris
and her husband were traveling.
Herma Menth, famous pianiste, gives daily recitals
at the Barnes Music Co.'s Angelus Bungalow at the
Monroe Centennial Exposition, Los Angeles, using
the Angelus. Under the supervision of P. K. Van
Yorx, of the Hallet & Davis Piano Co., Boston, the
Angelus in the Hallet & Davis reproduces Miss
Menth's and other great artists' recorded rolls with
admirable fidelity. The recitals are attracting the
most favorable comment and unrestricted praise.
UNSURPASSED IN TONE and GENERAL
CONSTRUCTION and UNEQUALED IN PRICE,
make the JESSE FRENCH & SONS line of pianos
the MOST ATTRACTIVE AGENCY ON THE
MARKET. INVESTIGATE THIS CLAIM and
you will readily agree to its correctness*
Send Today for Catalog and Prices in Unoccupied Territory
JESSE FRENCH & SONS PIANO CO.
NEW CASTLE, INDIANA
A QUALITY PRODUCT
FOR OVER
QUARTER OFACENTURY
PIANO FACTORY WORKERS
SEE BIG SHIP DOCK
A HARDMAN TRIBUTE.
A Valuable Agency
STYLE G
July 28, 1923
POQLE
^BOSTON—
Wood Bros., Pittsfield, Mass., has opened a new
store on North street, with a complete line of pianos,
other musical instruments and accessories.
The LEADING LINE
WEAVER PIANOS
Grands, Uprights and Players
Finest and most artistic
piano in design, towe and
construction that can be
made.
YORK P I A N O S
Uprights and Player Piano*
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 sing*
ing their own praises i i all parts of the civilised world.
Write for catalogues and state on what tecrns vpji would
like to deal, aqji we will rftake you a proposition if yen are
locfeted in open' territory.
WEAVER PIANO CO., Inc.
Factory: YORK. P \ .
Established 1870
AND UPRIGHT PIANOS
AND
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).