Presto
Issue: 1924 1955 - Page 4
PRESTO
OPERATIC CONDUCTOR ADMIRES BALDWIN
January 12, 1924.
THE
W. P. HAINES & COMPANY
P I A N O S
THE PIANOS OF QUALITY
Three Generations of Piano Makers
All Styles—Ready Sellers
Attractive Prices
GRANDS
REPRODUCING GRANDS
UPRIGHTS and PLAYERS
AVAILABLE TERRITORY OPEN
W. P. HAINES & CO., Inc.
138th St. and Walton Ave.
New York City
GEORGIO rOLACCO AND HIS WIFE, EDITH MASON.
WITH THEIR BALDWIN REPRODUCING PIANO.
Giorgio Polacco, musical director of the Chicago
Civic Opera Company, was a native of Venice, but
has become an American citizen. He received his
early training with Maestro Coccon at the Saint Mark
Chapel, later at the Benedetto Marcello Musical Ly-
ceum of that city, and still later at the Conservatorio
Giuseppe Verdi of Milan. His education was general
as well as musical. At the remarkable age of twenty-
two he became a conductor at the Lyric International
Theater of Milan. Since that time he has conducted
in the most famous opera houses of three continents,
of which Rome, Petrograd, Buenos Aires, and New
York are only a few.
He has always been a progressive among conduc-
tors, interested in new works while giving due honor
to the old. In a communication received by The
Baldwin Piano Company, Polacco writes:
The Baldwin Piano Co.,
Gentlemen:—
I heard your Reproducing Piano at the home of
Mir.e. Raisa in Italy. I was always skeptical about
mechanical instruments but I do not find words
strong enough to express my admiration for the
Baldwin Reproducing Piano. It is the realization of
a dream. The possibility to hear at any moment the
exact playing of the greatest artists.
GIORGIO POLACCO.
HOW FREIGHT RATES HIT
MID=WEST MANUFACTURERS
they saw their captor try to wait on a customer in
the store, but finally point his pistol at the intending
buyer, another negro, and tell him to get out, after
informing him that, being a colored man and a hard-
working person, he would not take his money from
him.
Morris Mincowitz, proprietor of the store, was
absent at the time. Fishew told the police that two
negroes had entered the store to price saxophones.
He had almost made a sale of one instrument, when
he suddenly found himself looking into the barrel of
a .45 calibre pistol in the hands of one oi the men.
Panama Canal Competition Makes It Difficult for
Chicago Industries to Meet Eastern Prices.
The complaint has been frequent, from both man-
ufacturers and dealers, throughout the west, that dis-
criminating freight rates have worked detrimentally
to western manufacturers.
Middle western manufacturers have "had a double
wallop" on freight rates as a result of the competi-
tion from the Panama canal, S. H. Johnson, vice
president and freight traffic manager of the Chicago,
Rock Island and Pacific testified last week before the
Interstate Commerce Commission in Chicago.
Mr. Johnson appeared on behalf of his road in the
application . to the commission for the fixing of
special freight rates from Chicago to western points
to meet the Panama canal prices.
Mr. Johnson explained that before the canal com-
petition began, a regular system of graded rates ex-
isted. Then, with the increase in the use of water
transportation, through freight rates from the west
to eastern coasts and vice versa were cut, leaving it
more expensive to ship from points in the interior
than over the longer hauls.
RAID NEW YORK MUSIC SHOP
AND ROB THREE CLERKS
Masked Negroes Take $500 in Cash and Menace Girl
With Knife.
Three employes of the Morris Music Shop, 659
Lenox Avenue, New York, were robbed last Thurs-
day night of more than $500 in cash and jewelry by a
masked negro, who threatened to cut rings from the
fingers of Miss Rose Levine, one of the clerks, when
she had difficulty in obeying the command to "take
'em off and hand 'em over."
The heaviest loser was Joseph Fishew, manager of
the store, who was robbed of $370 in cash which he
had in his pocket. Joseph Diamond, a credit man,
lost a diamond valued at $200. Two rings which were
taken from Miss Levine were valued at $100.
While the trio were huddled in a corner of the back
room, into which they had been herded by the negro,
A SILENT PIANO.
You are to me an exquisite piano,
Sweetly idle, save for the brief tinkling
Drawn by listless fingers of passers-by;
A piano that is waiting, hoping, calling
For the touch of the master musician
To vibrate it into harmony and life;
Awaiting the touch of fingers to startle you
With vital, resonant, meaning chords,
Or haunting-ly tender minor phrases. . .
*
* *
You are to me an exquisite instrument
Waiting for the touch of the musician Love.
Ru Theda in Chi. Trib.
WESER
Pianos and Players
Sell readily—Stay sold
Great profit possibilities
Style E (shown below) our latest 4'6"
Order a sample to-day.
Liberal advertising and
cooperative arrangements
Write for catalogue
and price list
Weser Bros., Inc.
Manufacturers
520 to 528 West 43rd St.
New York
ORGANS IN 1923. *
Martin Austin, general manager of the Estey Or-
gan Co., Brattleboro, Vermont, says that the past
year was a remarkable one for the reed organ trade
especially of the finer and higher priced instruments;
For some time past the Estey Organ Company has
specialized in a two-manual organ designed for
churches and halls and lodge rooms.
FLORIDA HIS DESTINATION.
W. N. Van Matre, president Schumann Piano Co.,
Rockford, 111., has closed his home at Lake Bluffs, 111.,
and at present is residing at the Drake Hotel, Chi-
cago. Mr. Van Matre will be at the factory at Rock-
ford a considerable part of the time this month and
later will go to Florida for the remainder of the
winter.
The banjo vies with the ukulele for popularity in
Hartford, Conn., according to A. P. McCoy, presi-
dent of McCoy's, 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.
Wabash at Jackson - - - Chicago
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OPERATIC CONDUCTOR ADMIRES BALDWIN
January 12, 1924.
THE
W. P. HAINES & COMPANY
P I A N O S
THE PIANOS OF QUALITY
Three Generations of Piano Makers
All Styles—Ready Sellers
Attractive Prices
GRANDS
REPRODUCING GRANDS
UPRIGHTS and PLAYERS
AVAILABLE TERRITORY OPEN
W. P. HAINES & CO., Inc.
138th St. and Walton Ave.
New York City
GEORGIO rOLACCO AND HIS WIFE, EDITH MASON.
WITH THEIR BALDWIN REPRODUCING PIANO.
Giorgio Polacco, musical director of the Chicago
Civic Opera Company, was a native of Venice, but
has become an American citizen. He received his
early training with Maestro Coccon at the Saint Mark
Chapel, later at the Benedetto Marcello Musical Ly-
ceum of that city, and still later at the Conservatorio
Giuseppe Verdi of Milan. His education was general
as well as musical. At the remarkable age of twenty-
two he became a conductor at the Lyric International
Theater of Milan. Since that time he has conducted
in the most famous opera houses of three continents,
of which Rome, Petrograd, Buenos Aires, and New
York are only a few.
He has always been a progressive among conduc-
tors, interested in new works while giving due honor
to the old. In a communication received by The
Baldwin Piano Company, Polacco writes:
The Baldwin Piano Co.,
Gentlemen:—
I heard your Reproducing Piano at the home of
Mir.e. Raisa in Italy. I was always skeptical about
mechanical instruments but I do not find words
strong enough to express my admiration for the
Baldwin Reproducing Piano. It is the realization of
a dream. The possibility to hear at any moment the
exact playing of the greatest artists.
GIORGIO POLACCO.
HOW FREIGHT RATES HIT
MID=WEST MANUFACTURERS
they saw their captor try to wait on a customer in
the store, but finally point his pistol at the intending
buyer, another negro, and tell him to get out, after
informing him that, being a colored man and a hard-
working person, he would not take his money from
him.
Morris Mincowitz, proprietor of the store, was
absent at the time. Fishew told the police that two
negroes had entered the store to price saxophones.
He had almost made a sale of one instrument, when
he suddenly found himself looking into the barrel of
a .45 calibre pistol in the hands of one oi the men.
Panama Canal Competition Makes It Difficult for
Chicago Industries to Meet Eastern Prices.
The complaint has been frequent, from both man-
ufacturers and dealers, throughout the west, that dis-
criminating freight rates have worked detrimentally
to western manufacturers.
Middle western manufacturers have "had a double
wallop" on freight rates as a result of the competi-
tion from the Panama canal, S. H. Johnson, vice
president and freight traffic manager of the Chicago,
Rock Island and Pacific testified last week before the
Interstate Commerce Commission in Chicago.
Mr. Johnson appeared on behalf of his road in the
application . to the commission for the fixing of
special freight rates from Chicago to western points
to meet the Panama canal prices.
Mr. Johnson explained that before the canal com-
petition began, a regular system of graded rates ex-
isted. Then, with the increase in the use of water
transportation, through freight rates from the west
to eastern coasts and vice versa were cut, leaving it
more expensive to ship from points in the interior
than over the longer hauls.
RAID NEW YORK MUSIC SHOP
AND ROB THREE CLERKS
Masked Negroes Take $500 in Cash and Menace Girl
With Knife.
Three employes of the Morris Music Shop, 659
Lenox Avenue, New York, were robbed last Thurs-
day night of more than $500 in cash and jewelry by a
masked negro, who threatened to cut rings from the
fingers of Miss Rose Levine, one of the clerks, when
she had difficulty in obeying the command to "take
'em off and hand 'em over."
The heaviest loser was Joseph Fishew, manager of
the store, who was robbed of $370 in cash which he
had in his pocket. Joseph Diamond, a credit man,
lost a diamond valued at $200. Two rings which were
taken from Miss Levine were valued at $100.
While the trio were huddled in a corner of the back
room, into which they had been herded by the negro,
A SILENT PIANO.
You are to me an exquisite piano,
Sweetly idle, save for the brief tinkling
Drawn by listless fingers of passers-by;
A piano that is waiting, hoping, calling
For the touch of the master musician
To vibrate it into harmony and life;
Awaiting the touch of fingers to startle you
With vital, resonant, meaning chords,
Or haunting-ly tender minor phrases. . .
*
* *
You are to me an exquisite instrument
Waiting for the touch of the musician Love.
Ru Theda in Chi. Trib.
WESER
Pianos and Players
Sell readily—Stay sold
Great profit possibilities
Style E (shown below) our latest 4'6"
Order a sample to-day.
Liberal advertising and
cooperative arrangements
Write for catalogue
and price list
Weser Bros., Inc.
Manufacturers
520 to 528 West 43rd St.
New York
ORGANS IN 1923. *
Martin Austin, general manager of the Estey Or-
gan Co., Brattleboro, Vermont, says that the past
year was a remarkable one for the reed organ trade
especially of the finer and higher priced instruments;
For some time past the Estey Organ Company has
specialized in a two-manual organ designed for
churches and halls and lodge rooms.
FLORIDA HIS DESTINATION.
W. N. Van Matre, president Schumann Piano Co.,
Rockford, 111., has closed his home at Lake Bluffs, 111.,
and at present is residing at the Drake Hotel, Chi-
cago. Mr. Van Matre will be at the factory at Rock-
ford a considerable part of the time this month and
later will go to Florida for the remainder of the
winter.
The banjo vies with the ukulele for popularity in
Hartford, Conn., according to A. P. McCoy, presi-
dent of McCoy's, 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.
Wabash at Jackson - - - Chicago
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).