Presto
Issue: 1924 1970 - Page 19
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PRESTO
April 26, 1924.
John McCormack
famous tenor, says,
"The Miegsner Piano certainly fills a tong-felt want, the
want of a small piano with a splendid action and lovely tone"
Write Today for Afte»«nor catalogue, prices an ' full
information
^•MIESSNER
The Little Piano with the Blj? Tone
MIESSNER PIANO CO.
General Offices & Factory, 126 Reed St.
MILWAUKEE, WIS.
STRICH & ZEIDLER, Inc.
GRAND, UPRIGHT and PLAYER
AND
HOMER PIANOS
740-742 East 136th Street
NEW YORK
GRAND PIANO
58 Inches Long
he best exponent of the present Baby Grand Age.
s tone — its lines — its restricted space requirement and
attractive price—
S
MAKE IT THE PREMIER AGENCY
Get full details of this valuable selling franchise NOW.
Premier Grand Piano Corporation
Largest Institution in the World Building Grand
Pianos Exclusively
WALTER C. HEPPERLA
Proident
JUSTUS HATTEMER
Vic»-Presi8«nt
510-532 West £Zxd Street
NEW YORK
PEOPLE DON'T ASK FOR
BAD MUSIC; THEY GET IT
Interesting Circumstances Relating to Encour-
agement of Music in Great Britain Have
Their Parallels in This Country.
One of the most significant facts brought out by
all the witnesses examined by the Board of Educa-
tion's Adult Education Committee of Great Britain
is that the people do not demand bad music; they
are given it. The fact was learned through the
course of that phase of the investigation relating to
the development of adult education through music
and the conditions viewed were similar to existing
circumstances in the United States.
The effort to raise the standard of musical appre-
ciation in Great Britain is somewhat similar to that of
the Bureau for the Encouragement of Music in our
own Music Industries Chamber of Commerce and the
scope of the British effort is shown by an interest-
ing article in Music, the London monthly journal.
A Potent Force.
The talking machine, according to the finding of
the committee, is the most potent force in musical
education in Great Britain. "It cannot be said that
this has been recognized in the past, partly because
of technical defects which are in course of being
remedied, and partly because of the enormous mass of
indifferent music which found its way into the early
gramophone catalogues. The committee confess sur-
prise at the unanimity of the many witnesses in re-
gard to the value of the gramophone and the possi-
bility of using it for educational purposes," says the
report.
Sir Walford Davies, who attaches momentous impor-
tance to the gramophone, in giving evidence before
the committee, took with him an instrument to illus-
trate his method of teaching. The National Council
of Music in Wales, of which he is chairman, has
launched a scheme for providing every school in
Wales with a gramophone, on the condition that it
is only to be used for educational records and such as
have the approval of the Council. He said:
"The gramophone provides means by which good
music can be brought intelligibly into every home.
It is true that gramophone music is 'tinned meat,'
but it is all the musical nourishment that most people
can get at the moment. Perhaps 90 per cent of
records are positively bad, but a great improvement
is taking place. The gramophone can be captured for
heavenly purposes."
Tie suggested also that public libraries might have
HIGH GRADE
Folding Organs
School Organs
Practice Keyboards
The Good Old
SMITH & NIXON
Dealers' Attention Solicited
A. L. WHITE MFG. CO.
215 Ertgiewood Ave., CHICAGO, ILL.
a sound-proof chamber where lovers of music could
hear the best music on the gramophone.
The Appeal of Music.
Music in churches, parks, theaters and dance halls
and radio is a means for influencing the musical taste.
The power of music to influence and even to govern
the emotions, says the report, has always been recog-
nized and used for noble purposes or for base. For
this reason, if for no other, those who are interested
in social welfare cannot be indifferent to the character
of the music which reaches the people in the various
ways. Good music does not necessarily arouse noble
emotions, nor bad music ignoble; but some kinds of
bad music appeal, and are intended to appeal, to the
lower nature of man, and at best bad music has no
meaning and no value. Even if the appeal of music
were emotional alone, it might be made a potent in-
strument of education. But good music has a far
wider appeal, and the part which it may play in edu-
cation, and by this we mean the development of all
the nobler faculties, cannot be overestimated.
The committee declared that "the gramophone aiid
broadcasting set clearly cannot take the place of con-
certs. Their function is to provide good music to
those who are prevented by circumstances from at-
tending concerts, and to introduce good music, to
those who have never heard it. They should fill our
concert halls, not empty them."
In conclusion, the committee state that they have
endeavored to prove beyond cavil that the love of
music and a gift for making music form part of the
character of the people.
NEW INCORPORATIONS.
The Forde H. Hastings Co., Hartford, Conn.;
$.3,000. Forde H. Hastings, Walter F. Foley and
Henry E. Myers.
General American Radio Manufacturing Corp.,
Manhattan; 5,000 shares preferred stock, $100 each;
10,000 common, no par value; I. Port, E. S. Friberg.
(Attorney, A. M. Grill, 34 Wall street, New York.)
The Kaemmerer Music Shops, Inc., 2902 North
Vandeventer avenue and 3199 South Grand avenue,
St. Louis, $70,000; to do a general musical instrument
business; Matt F. Kaemmerer, A. H. Kaemmerer and
Frank Hilliar.
V. F. Studley, Rochland, Me., $72,000; furniture and
pianos; Vingie V. Studley and others.
BRINKERHOFF
Player-Pianos
and Pianos
The Line That Sells Easily
and Satisfies Always
BRINKERHOFF PIANO CO.
OFFICES, REPUBLIC BLDG.
209 State Street
CHICAGO
Pianos and Player Pianos
Just What You Want!
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.
A Line of Pianos and Players
That Will Meet Every Re-
quirement of Your Business.
BEAUTIFUL IN TONE AND IN
CASE DESIGNS
To Sell at Prices That Insure
Good Profits to the Dealers
and Always with Satisfac-
tion to Their Customers.
Smith & Nixon Piano Co.
1229 Miller St., Chicago
When in doubt refer to
PRESTO BUYERS GUIDE
Send for Full Particulars
and We Will Do Business.
FUEHR&STEMMER PIANO CO.
2701-2709 South Wells Street
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
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PRESTO
April 26, 1924.
John McCormack
famous tenor, says,
"The Miegsner Piano certainly fills a tong-felt want, the
want of a small piano with a splendid action and lovely tone"
Write Today for Afte»«nor catalogue, prices an ' full
information
^•MIESSNER
The Little Piano with the Blj? Tone
MIESSNER PIANO CO.
General Offices & Factory, 126 Reed St.
MILWAUKEE, WIS.
STRICH & ZEIDLER, Inc.
GRAND, UPRIGHT and PLAYER
AND
HOMER PIANOS
740-742 East 136th Street
NEW YORK
GRAND PIANO
58 Inches Long
he best exponent of the present Baby Grand Age.
s tone — its lines — its restricted space requirement and
attractive price—
S
MAKE IT THE PREMIER AGENCY
Get full details of this valuable selling franchise NOW.
Premier Grand Piano Corporation
Largest Institution in the World Building Grand
Pianos Exclusively
WALTER C. HEPPERLA
Proident
JUSTUS HATTEMER
Vic»-Presi8«nt
510-532 West £Zxd Street
NEW YORK
PEOPLE DON'T ASK FOR
BAD MUSIC; THEY GET IT
Interesting Circumstances Relating to Encour-
agement of Music in Great Britain Have
Their Parallels in This Country.
One of the most significant facts brought out by
all the witnesses examined by the Board of Educa-
tion's Adult Education Committee of Great Britain
is that the people do not demand bad music; they
are given it. The fact was learned through the
course of that phase of the investigation relating to
the development of adult education through music
and the conditions viewed were similar to existing
circumstances in the United States.
The effort to raise the standard of musical appre-
ciation in Great Britain is somewhat similar to that of
the Bureau for the Encouragement of Music in our
own Music Industries Chamber of Commerce and the
scope of the British effort is shown by an interest-
ing article in Music, the London monthly journal.
A Potent Force.
The talking machine, according to the finding of
the committee, is the most potent force in musical
education in Great Britain. "It cannot be said that
this has been recognized in the past, partly because
of technical defects which are in course of being
remedied, and partly because of the enormous mass of
indifferent music which found its way into the early
gramophone catalogues. The committee confess sur-
prise at the unanimity of the many witnesses in re-
gard to the value of the gramophone and the possi-
bility of using it for educational purposes," says the
report.
Sir Walford Davies, who attaches momentous impor-
tance to the gramophone, in giving evidence before
the committee, took with him an instrument to illus-
trate his method of teaching. The National Council
of Music in Wales, of which he is chairman, has
launched a scheme for providing every school in
Wales with a gramophone, on the condition that it
is only to be used for educational records and such as
have the approval of the Council. He said:
"The gramophone provides means by which good
music can be brought intelligibly into every home.
It is true that gramophone music is 'tinned meat,'
but it is all the musical nourishment that most people
can get at the moment. Perhaps 90 per cent of
records are positively bad, but a great improvement
is taking place. The gramophone can be captured for
heavenly purposes."
Tie suggested also that public libraries might have
HIGH GRADE
Folding Organs
School Organs
Practice Keyboards
The Good Old
SMITH & NIXON
Dealers' Attention Solicited
A. L. WHITE MFG. CO.
215 Ertgiewood Ave., CHICAGO, ILL.
a sound-proof chamber where lovers of music could
hear the best music on the gramophone.
The Appeal of Music.
Music in churches, parks, theaters and dance halls
and radio is a means for influencing the musical taste.
The power of music to influence and even to govern
the emotions, says the report, has always been recog-
nized and used for noble purposes or for base. For
this reason, if for no other, those who are interested
in social welfare cannot be indifferent to the character
of the music which reaches the people in the various
ways. Good music does not necessarily arouse noble
emotions, nor bad music ignoble; but some kinds of
bad music appeal, and are intended to appeal, to the
lower nature of man, and at best bad music has no
meaning and no value. Even if the appeal of music
were emotional alone, it might be made a potent in-
strument of education. But good music has a far
wider appeal, and the part which it may play in edu-
cation, and by this we mean the development of all
the nobler faculties, cannot be overestimated.
The committee declared that "the gramophone aiid
broadcasting set clearly cannot take the place of con-
certs. Their function is to provide good music to
those who are prevented by circumstances from at-
tending concerts, and to introduce good music, to
those who have never heard it. They should fill our
concert halls, not empty them."
In conclusion, the committee state that they have
endeavored to prove beyond cavil that the love of
music and a gift for making music form part of the
character of the people.
NEW INCORPORATIONS.
The Forde H. Hastings Co., Hartford, Conn.;
$.3,000. Forde H. Hastings, Walter F. Foley and
Henry E. Myers.
General American Radio Manufacturing Corp.,
Manhattan; 5,000 shares preferred stock, $100 each;
10,000 common, no par value; I. Port, E. S. Friberg.
(Attorney, A. M. Grill, 34 Wall street, New York.)
The Kaemmerer Music Shops, Inc., 2902 North
Vandeventer avenue and 3199 South Grand avenue,
St. Louis, $70,000; to do a general musical instrument
business; Matt F. Kaemmerer, A. H. Kaemmerer and
Frank Hilliar.
V. F. Studley, Rochland, Me., $72,000; furniture and
pianos; Vingie V. Studley and others.
BRINKERHOFF
Player-Pianos
and Pianos
The Line That Sells Easily
and Satisfies Always
BRINKERHOFF PIANO CO.
OFFICES, REPUBLIC BLDG.
209 State Street
CHICAGO
Pianos and Player Pianos
Just What You Want!
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.
A Line of Pianos and Players
That Will Meet Every Re-
quirement of Your Business.
BEAUTIFUL IN TONE AND IN
CASE DESIGNS
To Sell at Prices That Insure
Good Profits to the Dealers
and Always with Satisfac-
tion to Their Customers.
Smith & Nixon Piano Co.
1229 Miller St., Chicago
When in doubt refer to
PRESTO BUYERS GUIDE
Send for Full Particulars
and We Will Do Business.
FUEHR&STEMMER PIANO CO.
2701-2709 South Wells Street
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
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).