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P R E S T O
fuly 12, 1924.
and the largest audience. The Brambach's beautiful
tone came up to the qualifications desired.
The memory contest was conducted along some-
what unusual lines. The students heard a number of
musical selections and were required to name each
by St. Mary's High School for Use in New one as it was played. Three such tests were con-
ducted and those teams failing to guess 20 out of 40
$300,000 Building.
numbers played were eliminated. The schools with
The public schools of Ohio recently conducted their
highest marks on the third test were declared the
lannual Music Memory Contest in which high schools winners. This third test was extremely difficult.
land grammar schools of the entire state participated. Selections had to be recognized by a few notes or a
|The first prize that every Ohio high school strove to brief phrase. Music supervisors who were present
learn was a Brambach Baby Grand piano. The lucky remarked that with their experience and training they
[winners were the team from St. Mary's High School, were unable to recognize many of the selections.
In addition to the Brambach Baby Grand awarded
1st. Mary's, Ohio. Their Brambach Baby Grand will
be placed in a new $300,000 high school now nearly the school, there were prizes for each individual
member of the winning team. The members of St.
| completed.
A Brambach Baby Grand was decided upon as the Mary's High School team and their prizes follow:
I prize piano with two things in mind. An instrument Anita Koenig, scholarship to Cincinnati Conservatory
was wanted that would be attractive enough for any of Music; Mildred Hunter, scholarship to Dennison
high school building in the state of Ohio. A small University; John Koenig, cornet.
grand was the logical choice. Above all, the tone of
the piano chosen must pass the critical test of experi-
enced music supervisors. Many of these high schools
have remarkably trained student orchestras that per-
form before large audiences. The piano decided
upon must be good enough for the best performers
Items of General News Value from the Field
Throughout the Country.
iRAMBACH GRAND FIRST PRIZE
IN STATE MUSIC CONTEST
SOME LATE DOINGS IN
THE RETAIL TRADE
Schumann
PIANOS and PLAYER PIANOS
GRANDS and UPRIGHTS
Have no superiors in appearance, tone
power or other essentials of strictly
leaders in the trade.
Warning to Infringers
This Trade Mark is cast
In the plate and also ap-
pears upon the fall board
of all genuine Schumann
Pianos, and all Infringers
will be prosecuted. Beware
of imitations such as Schu-
mann & Company, Schu-
mann & Son, and also
Shuman,
as
all
stencil
shops, dealers and users of
pianos bearing a name in
imitation
of
the
name
Schumann with the inten-
tion of deceiving the public
will be prosecuted to the
fullest extent of the law.
New Catalogue on Request.
Schumann Piano Co.
W. N. VAN MATRE, President
Rockford, 111.
The John Breuner Co., of Sacramento, Cal., re-
cently opened a piano department under the manage-
ment of E. E. Trower.
M. Truda, 2894 Delaware avenue, Kenmore, N. Y.,
will move back to his old location in 238 West Ferry
street, Buffalo, August 1.
The Southern Standard Music Co. recently opened
its handsome new home in Chattanooga, Tenn. Lee
Hearing is manager.
A branch store was opened recently in Probo, Utah,
by the Daynes-Beebe Music Co.
Cooper Brothers, music merchants of New Ken-
sington, Pa., are erecting a two-story building on
Fifth avenue and expect to move into it in December.
The Schroeder Piano Co., of Pittsburgh, with J. F.
Strouse in charge, will open a branch store in Monon-
gahela, Pa.
J. H. Cortwright has engaged in the music busi-
ness at Wilson, N. C.
The Martin Piano Co. recently opened an attractive
wareroom at 208 Ohio street, Sedalia, Mo.
The Milner Musical Co. recently opened for busi-
ness in the Scranton Building, Rising Sun, Ind.
NEW "BRAMBACH" FACTORY.
A month ago Presto gave exclusive particulars of
plans for a • new seven-story factory building the
Brambach Piano Company is to erect on a site pur-
chased from the Kohler Estate. The plat is 150 by
200 by irregular, on the north side of West Fifty-first
street, New York City, beginning 150 feet west of
Eleventh avenue and running through the block to
Fifty-second street. The estimated cost of the build-
ing is about $750,000.
For a
Bigger and Better
Business
Grand and
Reproducing
Grand Pianos
are the last word in
musical perfection.
Lester Piano Co.
1306 Chestnut St.
Philadelphia
There is nothing to compare
with the complete line of
M. SCHULZ CO.
The Players are RIGHT in
everything t h a t means
money to the dealers and
satisfaction to the public
You will never do anything better
than when you get in touch with
M. SCHULZ CO.
711 Milwaukee Avenue
CHICAGO
OUTHERN BRANCH: 730 Candler Bldg., ATLANTA, GA
PEEPS INTO SOME OF THE
CHICAGO STORE WINDOWS
Seen Along the Busy Piano Row on South Wabash
Avenue and Elsewhere.
The Baldwin Piano Co., 323 South Wabash avenue,
Chicago, has a large photograph showing the artists
of the Ravinia Opera Club, who use the Baldwin
instruments.
Raymond Music Corp., 229 South Wabash avenue,
Chicago, is displaying the Ampico with the latest re-
leases of Ampico rolls and pictures of artists who use
this instrument.
The latest Bauer grand is on display in the window
of Julius Bauer & Co., 305 South Wabash avenue,
Chicago. It's a strikingly handsome instrument.
Story & Clark Piano Co., 315 South Wabash ave-
nue, Chicago, is displaying their Repro-Phraso
playerpiano, and the features of this fine instrument
are attracting enthusiastic attention.
Meyer & Weber are now settled in their new store
at 174 North Michigan boulevard, Chicago, featuring
the Chas. M. Stieff pianos, from Baltimore.
The Halsted Music Shop, located on the famous
Halsted and Twelfth street district, is presenting one
of the finest window displays in Chicago. The Gul-
bransen Registering piano, with the ''baby at the
pedal" is a fine attraction.
NEW MANAGER ACTIVE.
T. A. Roy is the new manager of the Plymouth,
Mass., branch of the United Music Co., which has
headquarters in New London, Mass. After being
mustered out of the U. S. Navy at the close of the
war, he started selling talking machines for the com-
pany, but soon applied his abilities to selling pianos
and players by personal solicitation. In his new ap-
pointment he is putting into practice his belief in the
efficacy of the personal appeal.
QUALITV
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 & LANE CECILIAN 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.
ESTABLISHED 18S4
THE
BRADBURY PIANO
FOR ITS
ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE
FOR ITS
INESTIMABLE AGENCY VALUE
THE CHOICE OF
Representative Dealers the World Over
Now Produced in Several
New Model.
WRITE FOR TERRITORY
Factory
Leominster,
Mats.
Executive Office*
138th St. and Walton Ave.
New York
Diniion W. P. HAINES A. CO., Inc.
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P R E S T O
fuly 12, 1924.
and the largest audience. The Brambach's beautiful
tone came up to the qualifications desired.
The memory contest was conducted along some-
what unusual lines. The students heard a number of
musical selections and were required to name each
by St. Mary's High School for Use in New one as it was played. Three such tests were con-
ducted and those teams failing to guess 20 out of 40
$300,000 Building.
numbers played were eliminated. The schools with
The public schools of Ohio recently conducted their
highest marks on the third test were declared the
lannual Music Memory Contest in which high schools winners. This third test was extremely difficult.
land grammar schools of the entire state participated. Selections had to be recognized by a few notes or a
|The first prize that every Ohio high school strove to brief phrase. Music supervisors who were present
learn was a Brambach Baby Grand piano. The lucky remarked that with their experience and training they
[winners were the team from St. Mary's High School, were unable to recognize many of the selections.
In addition to the Brambach Baby Grand awarded
1st. Mary's, Ohio. Their Brambach Baby Grand will
be placed in a new $300,000 high school now nearly the school, there were prizes for each individual
member of the winning team. The members of St.
| completed.
A Brambach Baby Grand was decided upon as the Mary's High School team and their prizes follow:
I prize piano with two things in mind. An instrument Anita Koenig, scholarship to Cincinnati Conservatory
was wanted that would be attractive enough for any of Music; Mildred Hunter, scholarship to Dennison
high school building in the state of Ohio. A small University; John Koenig, cornet.
grand was the logical choice. Above all, the tone of
the piano chosen must pass the critical test of experi-
enced music supervisors. Many of these high schools
have remarkably trained student orchestras that per-
form before large audiences. The piano decided
upon must be good enough for the best performers
Items of General News Value from the Field
Throughout the Country.
iRAMBACH GRAND FIRST PRIZE
IN STATE MUSIC CONTEST
SOME LATE DOINGS IN
THE RETAIL TRADE
Schumann
PIANOS and PLAYER PIANOS
GRANDS and UPRIGHTS
Have no superiors in appearance, tone
power or other essentials of strictly
leaders in the trade.
Warning to Infringers
This Trade Mark is cast
In the plate and also ap-
pears upon the fall board
of all genuine Schumann
Pianos, and all Infringers
will be prosecuted. Beware
of imitations such as Schu-
mann & Company, Schu-
mann & Son, and also
Shuman,
as
all
stencil
shops, dealers and users of
pianos bearing a name in
imitation
of
the
name
Schumann with the inten-
tion of deceiving the public
will be prosecuted to the
fullest extent of the law.
New Catalogue on Request.
Schumann Piano Co.
W. N. VAN MATRE, President
Rockford, 111.
The John Breuner Co., of Sacramento, Cal., re-
cently opened a piano department under the manage-
ment of E. E. Trower.
M. Truda, 2894 Delaware avenue, Kenmore, N. Y.,
will move back to his old location in 238 West Ferry
street, Buffalo, August 1.
The Southern Standard Music Co. recently opened
its handsome new home in Chattanooga, Tenn. Lee
Hearing is manager.
A branch store was opened recently in Probo, Utah,
by the Daynes-Beebe Music Co.
Cooper Brothers, music merchants of New Ken-
sington, Pa., are erecting a two-story building on
Fifth avenue and expect to move into it in December.
The Schroeder Piano Co., of Pittsburgh, with J. F.
Strouse in charge, will open a branch store in Monon-
gahela, Pa.
J. H. Cortwright has engaged in the music busi-
ness at Wilson, N. C.
The Martin Piano Co. recently opened an attractive
wareroom at 208 Ohio street, Sedalia, Mo.
The Milner Musical Co. recently opened for busi-
ness in the Scranton Building, Rising Sun, Ind.
NEW "BRAMBACH" FACTORY.
A month ago Presto gave exclusive particulars of
plans for a • new seven-story factory building the
Brambach Piano Company is to erect on a site pur-
chased from the Kohler Estate. The plat is 150 by
200 by irregular, on the north side of West Fifty-first
street, New York City, beginning 150 feet west of
Eleventh avenue and running through the block to
Fifty-second street. The estimated cost of the build-
ing is about $750,000.
For a
Bigger and Better
Business
Grand and
Reproducing
Grand Pianos
are the last word in
musical perfection.
Lester Piano Co.
1306 Chestnut St.
Philadelphia
There is nothing to compare
with the complete line of
M. SCHULZ CO.
The Players are RIGHT in
everything t h a t means
money to the dealers and
satisfaction to the public
You will never do anything better
than when you get in touch with
M. SCHULZ CO.
711 Milwaukee Avenue
CHICAGO
OUTHERN BRANCH: 730 Candler Bldg., ATLANTA, GA
PEEPS INTO SOME OF THE
CHICAGO STORE WINDOWS
Seen Along the Busy Piano Row on South Wabash
Avenue and Elsewhere.
The Baldwin Piano Co., 323 South Wabash avenue,
Chicago, has a large photograph showing the artists
of the Ravinia Opera Club, who use the Baldwin
instruments.
Raymond Music Corp., 229 South Wabash avenue,
Chicago, is displaying the Ampico with the latest re-
leases of Ampico rolls and pictures of artists who use
this instrument.
The latest Bauer grand is on display in the window
of Julius Bauer & Co., 305 South Wabash avenue,
Chicago. It's a strikingly handsome instrument.
Story & Clark Piano Co., 315 South Wabash ave-
nue, Chicago, is displaying their Repro-Phraso
playerpiano, and the features of this fine instrument
are attracting enthusiastic attention.
Meyer & Weber are now settled in their new store
at 174 North Michigan boulevard, Chicago, featuring
the Chas. M. Stieff pianos, from Baltimore.
The Halsted Music Shop, located on the famous
Halsted and Twelfth street district, is presenting one
of the finest window displays in Chicago. The Gul-
bransen Registering piano, with the ''baby at the
pedal" is a fine attraction.
NEW MANAGER ACTIVE.
T. A. Roy is the new manager of the Plymouth,
Mass., branch of the United Music Co., which has
headquarters in New London, Mass. After being
mustered out of the U. S. Navy at the close of the
war, he started selling talking machines for the com-
pany, but soon applied his abilities to selling pianos
and players by personal solicitation. In his new ap-
pointment he is putting into practice his belief in the
efficacy of the personal appeal.
QUALITV
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 & LANE CECILIAN 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.
ESTABLISHED 18S4
THE
BRADBURY PIANO
FOR ITS
ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE
FOR ITS
INESTIMABLE AGENCY VALUE
THE CHOICE OF
Representative Dealers the World Over
Now Produced in Several
New Model.
WRITE FOR TERRITORY
Factory
Leominster,
Mats.
Executive Office*
138th St. and Walton Ave.
New York
Diniion W. P. HAINES A. CO., Inc.
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).