Presto
Issue: 1924 1963 - Page 6
PRESTO
MAKER OF NORDLUND
AND COLUMBIAN GRANDS
Introducing the Man Who Has Successfully
Created Fast Growing Industry Devoted to
Instruments of Most Popular Kind With
the Trade.
ALEXANDER NORDLUND
Skilled Worker in Wood and Employer of Expert
Piano Makers, Has Created a Flourishing Industry.
There has developed of late a very widespread in-
terest in the Columbian Grand piano, which may now
be found in the warerooms of a large number of
active dealers throughout the country. Not many
March 8, 1924.
and installed a complete grand piano plant. He en-
gaged an expert piano maker and superintendent, to
conduct that important part of his business and de-
voted two floors of the great building—covering a
city block—to that branch of his industries.
The cabinet factory is one of the largest in the
west, and it is wholly separate from the piano fac-
tory. The Columbian Grand Piano Mfg. Co. has
grown rapidly until it is now the purpose to pro-
duce ten instruments daily.
Mr. Nordlund is comparatively a young man. He
began business after having been engaged in a wood-
working industry. His initial capital was small, but
his energy was boundless and he acquired capital of
his own and ample credit with which to conduct the
industry which he had established. The factory, at
400 West Erie street, Chicago, is a very busy place,
where a great many skilled employes are kept work-
ing the year 'round.
It is by foresight, and a correct estimate of the
demands of the piano trade, that Mr. Nordlund, him-
self an amateur pianist and lover of music, has built
up a large Grand piano business by creating the kind
of instrument the public likes to buy. The Nordlund
Grand piano is sold for just what it is—a durable,
full-toned, beautiful instrument, behind which is the
guarantee of a responsible manufacturer.
WILL CHICAGO'S PIANO ROW
MOVE TO MICHIGAN AVENUE?
ALEXANDER NORDLUND.
of the later piano industries have been promoted with
more vigor or with better results than that of the
industry referred to.
Naturally, as a consequence, there is very general
interest to know something about the manufacturer
by whose enterprise and persistency the Columbian
Grand has been brought to its present popularity.
And while the manufacturer of the Columbian and
Nordland Grands may not be so widely known per-
sonally as some of his contemporaries, he has, never-
theless, been one of the active developers in special
lines in Chicago's industrial life.
Alexander Nordlund is the controlling head of the
Columbia Cabinet Company, an industry which has
been in operation for a good many years and from
which have come a large proportion of the phono-
graph cabinets used by some of the foremost phono-
graph manufacturers. Several years ago Mr. Nord-
lund very considerably increased his factory space
QUALITY
in Name and in Fact
TONE, MATERIALS, CONSTRUCTION,
WORKMANSHIP, DESIGN—all in ac-
cord with the broadest experience— are
the elements which give character to
Bush & Lane Products.
BUSH & LANE PIANOS
BUSH t LANE CECIUAN PLAYER PIANOS
take high place, therefore, in any com-
parison of high grade pianos because of
the individuality of character which dis-
tinguishes them in all essentials of merit
and value.
BUSH & LANE PIANO CO.
Holland, Mich
Meyer & Weber Head, Whose Store Is Moving, Be-
lieves He Is Leading the Way.
Meyer & Weber, piano dealers, are preparing to
move about the middle of March from 120 South
Wabash avenue, Chicago, where they have been
located for a great many years, to 174 North Michi-
gan avenue, Chicago.
In making the move to the North Michigan avenue
location, T. F. Weber, head of the company, says
that he feels that as pioneers in the piano line in that
locality his company is going to have greater success
from the start.
"We get away from the noise of the elevated and
into an environment better suited to selling pianos,"
he said. "The new locality is developing rapidly.
The Sinclair office building is to go up at the north-
east corner of Randolph street and Michigan avenue
to a height of 28 stories; there is to be a 22-story
building erected at Lake street and Wabash avenue,
and other buildings are promised. Eventually, I think
most of the piano stores will move over to Michigan
Cincinnati Factories of The Baldwin Piano Company
SUCCESS
is assured the dealer who takes advantage of
THE BALDWIN CO-OPERATION PLAN
which offers every opportunity to represent
under the most favorable conditions a com-
plete line of high grade pianos, players and
reproducers.
Fat Information wrllt
(Efje Palbtom $Dtano Company
CINCINNATI
INDIANAPOLIS
LOUISVILLE
Incorporated
CHICAGO
ST. LOUIS
DALLAS
NBW YOBK
DBNVBB
SAN FRANCISCO
The Heppe. Marcellus and Edouard Jules Piano
manufactured by the
HEPPE PIANO COMPANY
are the only pianos In the world with
Three Sounding Boards.
Patented In the United States, Great Brltattlf
France, Germany and Canada.
Liberal arrangements to responsible agents only*
Main Office. 1117 Chestnut St.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
PLANS OF SAN DIEGO FIRM.
The Gray-Maw Music Co., San Diego, Cal., will
soon take over the two-story store at 1054 Sixth
street as its future home. The remodeling plans now
in progress include a mezzanine balcony, a number
of demonstration booths for the record department,
and a large salesroom on the main floor to be used
for showing phonographs and pianos. The top story
of the building will be devoted to a concert hall,
another display room and several more demonstration
rooms. The Gray-Maw Music Co. has been in
existence about twelve years. Norman F. Maw is
president and general manager.
J. T. BRISTOL'S FATHER-IN-LAW DIES.
The Chicago Piano Club at its luncheon this week
adopted resolutions of sympathy for James J. Bris-
tol, a former president of the club, on account of the
death of his father-in-law, John McGillen, aged 62
years, a leader in Democratic politics in Cook
County, Illinois. He was a Chicago alderman for
eight years and mayor pro tern following the assas-
sination of the elder Carter Harrison. In the world's
fair days of 1893 Mr. McGillen was a partner in the
contracting firm of Agnew & Co., who built the man-
ufacturers' building, the largest in the exposition.
PIANO MAN WITH SIDE LINES.
Grand Piano
One of the old, reli-
able m a k e s . For
terms and territory
write.
Lester Piano Co.
1306 Chestnut St.
Philadelphia
.
John R. Spradling, piano man, has been located at
Doniphan, Mo., for two years and has been trying
the poultry business as a side line. He is now going
back on the road with the Hollenberg Piano Com-
pany, of Little Rock, Ark. Outside of the poultry
side line Mr. Spradling has a tourist resort on his
farm. He has a park and some boats on the Current
River, which is one of the beautiful Ozark streams.
OPENS STORE FOR USED PIANOS. .
Only second-hand instruments are shown in the
new store opened last week by the Darrow Music
Co., Denver, Colo. The company calls it the Denver
Piano Exchange which is located at 1428 Champa
street. The first showing in the exchange was a big
one and included taken-in trade instruments of all
ages. Most of the pianos and players are recondi-
tioned before being put on display.
When in doubt refer to
PRESTO BUYERS GUIDE
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/
MAKER OF NORDLUND
AND COLUMBIAN GRANDS
Introducing the Man Who Has Successfully
Created Fast Growing Industry Devoted to
Instruments of Most Popular Kind With
the Trade.
ALEXANDER NORDLUND
Skilled Worker in Wood and Employer of Expert
Piano Makers, Has Created a Flourishing Industry.
There has developed of late a very widespread in-
terest in the Columbian Grand piano, which may now
be found in the warerooms of a large number of
active dealers throughout the country. Not many
March 8, 1924.
and installed a complete grand piano plant. He en-
gaged an expert piano maker and superintendent, to
conduct that important part of his business and de-
voted two floors of the great building—covering a
city block—to that branch of his industries.
The cabinet factory is one of the largest in the
west, and it is wholly separate from the piano fac-
tory. The Columbian Grand Piano Mfg. Co. has
grown rapidly until it is now the purpose to pro-
duce ten instruments daily.
Mr. Nordlund is comparatively a young man. He
began business after having been engaged in a wood-
working industry. His initial capital was small, but
his energy was boundless and he acquired capital of
his own and ample credit with which to conduct the
industry which he had established. The factory, at
400 West Erie street, Chicago, is a very busy place,
where a great many skilled employes are kept work-
ing the year 'round.
It is by foresight, and a correct estimate of the
demands of the piano trade, that Mr. Nordlund, him-
self an amateur pianist and lover of music, has built
up a large Grand piano business by creating the kind
of instrument the public likes to buy. The Nordlund
Grand piano is sold for just what it is—a durable,
full-toned, beautiful instrument, behind which is the
guarantee of a responsible manufacturer.
WILL CHICAGO'S PIANO ROW
MOVE TO MICHIGAN AVENUE?
ALEXANDER NORDLUND.
of the later piano industries have been promoted with
more vigor or with better results than that of the
industry referred to.
Naturally, as a consequence, there is very general
interest to know something about the manufacturer
by whose enterprise and persistency the Columbian
Grand has been brought to its present popularity.
And while the manufacturer of the Columbian and
Nordland Grands may not be so widely known per-
sonally as some of his contemporaries, he has, never-
theless, been one of the active developers in special
lines in Chicago's industrial life.
Alexander Nordlund is the controlling head of the
Columbia Cabinet Company, an industry which has
been in operation for a good many years and from
which have come a large proportion of the phono-
graph cabinets used by some of the foremost phono-
graph manufacturers. Several years ago Mr. Nord-
lund very considerably increased his factory space
QUALITY
in Name and in Fact
TONE, MATERIALS, CONSTRUCTION,
WORKMANSHIP, DESIGN—all in ac-
cord with the broadest experience— are
the elements which give character to
Bush & Lane Products.
BUSH & LANE PIANOS
BUSH t LANE CECIUAN PLAYER PIANOS
take high place, therefore, in any com-
parison of high grade pianos because of
the individuality of character which dis-
tinguishes them in all essentials of merit
and value.
BUSH & LANE PIANO CO.
Holland, Mich
Meyer & Weber Head, Whose Store Is Moving, Be-
lieves He Is Leading the Way.
Meyer & Weber, piano dealers, are preparing to
move about the middle of March from 120 South
Wabash avenue, Chicago, where they have been
located for a great many years, to 174 North Michi-
gan avenue, Chicago.
In making the move to the North Michigan avenue
location, T. F. Weber, head of the company, says
that he feels that as pioneers in the piano line in that
locality his company is going to have greater success
from the start.
"We get away from the noise of the elevated and
into an environment better suited to selling pianos,"
he said. "The new locality is developing rapidly.
The Sinclair office building is to go up at the north-
east corner of Randolph street and Michigan avenue
to a height of 28 stories; there is to be a 22-story
building erected at Lake street and Wabash avenue,
and other buildings are promised. Eventually, I think
most of the piano stores will move over to Michigan
Cincinnati Factories of The Baldwin Piano Company
SUCCESS
is assured the dealer who takes advantage of
THE BALDWIN CO-OPERATION PLAN
which offers every opportunity to represent
under the most favorable conditions a com-
plete line of high grade pianos, players and
reproducers.
Fat Information wrllt
(Efje Palbtom $Dtano Company
CINCINNATI
INDIANAPOLIS
LOUISVILLE
Incorporated
CHICAGO
ST. LOUIS
DALLAS
NBW YOBK
DBNVBB
SAN FRANCISCO
The Heppe. Marcellus and Edouard Jules Piano
manufactured by the
HEPPE PIANO COMPANY
are the only pianos In the world with
Three Sounding Boards.
Patented In the United States, Great Brltattlf
France, Germany and Canada.
Liberal arrangements to responsible agents only*
Main Office. 1117 Chestnut St.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
PLANS OF SAN DIEGO FIRM.
The Gray-Maw Music Co., San Diego, Cal., will
soon take over the two-story store at 1054 Sixth
street as its future home. The remodeling plans now
in progress include a mezzanine balcony, a number
of demonstration booths for the record department,
and a large salesroom on the main floor to be used
for showing phonographs and pianos. The top story
of the building will be devoted to a concert hall,
another display room and several more demonstration
rooms. The Gray-Maw Music Co. has been in
existence about twelve years. Norman F. Maw is
president and general manager.
J. T. BRISTOL'S FATHER-IN-LAW DIES.
The Chicago Piano Club at its luncheon this week
adopted resolutions of sympathy for James J. Bris-
tol, a former president of the club, on account of the
death of his father-in-law, John McGillen, aged 62
years, a leader in Democratic politics in Cook
County, Illinois. He was a Chicago alderman for
eight years and mayor pro tern following the assas-
sination of the elder Carter Harrison. In the world's
fair days of 1893 Mr. McGillen was a partner in the
contracting firm of Agnew & Co., who built the man-
ufacturers' building, the largest in the exposition.
PIANO MAN WITH SIDE LINES.
Grand Piano
One of the old, reli-
able m a k e s . For
terms and territory
write.
Lester Piano Co.
1306 Chestnut St.
Philadelphia
.
John R. Spradling, piano man, has been located at
Doniphan, Mo., for two years and has been trying
the poultry business as a side line. He is now going
back on the road with the Hollenberg Piano Com-
pany, of Little Rock, Ark. Outside of the poultry
side line Mr. Spradling has a tourist resort on his
farm. He has a park and some boats on the Current
River, which is one of the beautiful Ozark streams.
OPENS STORE FOR USED PIANOS. .
Only second-hand instruments are shown in the
new store opened last week by the Darrow Music
Co., Denver, Colo. The company calls it the Denver
Piano Exchange which is located at 1428 Champa
street. The first showing in the exchange was a big
one and included taken-in trade instruments of all
ages. Most of the pianos and players are recondi-
tioned before being put on display.
When in doubt refer to
PRESTO BUYERS GUIDE
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).