Presto
Issue: 1924 1982 - Page 6
PRESTO
WARREN M. KING, PRESIDENT
the Smith, Barnes & Strohber Co., 1872 Clybourn
Ave.
Roger S. Brown, widely known as the traveling
representative of the Henry F. Miller & Sons Co.,
will act as wholesale manager for the Continental
Piano Co., with headquarters in Boston.
High Standards Preserved.
The high standards of the merged companies will
be maintained by the Continental Piano Co. The
business of both companies will be expanded. George
H. Hill will have general supervision of the produc-
tion of the Henry F. Miller & Sons Co.'s factory,
Wakefield, Mass.; and the Chicago and Milwaukee
plants of the Smith, Barnes & Strohber Co.
Stanwooci Miller, First Vice-President and General
Manager, Arrives in Chicago and Assumes
New Duties at 1872 Clybourn Ave.
NEW STATE ASSOCIATION
FOR WEST VIRGINIA
THE CONTINENTAL
PIANO COMPANY
Comprehensive Title of Holding Company for
Merged Henry F. Miller & Sons Co.
and Smith, Barnes & Strohber Co.
Suggests Expansion.
The merger of the Smith, Barnes & Strohber Co.,
Chicago, and the Henry F. Miller & Sons Co., Bos-
ton, was completed last week with the incorporation
of the Continental Piano Co., as holding company,
under the state laws of Massachusetts. The com-
pany will occupy the Miller building. 395 Boylston
street, Boston, where all the interests of the company
will be. centered.
Warren M. King, president of the Henry I\ Miller
& Sons Piano Co., is president of the new Consoli-
dated Piano Co.; Stanwood Miller is first vice-presi-
dent and general manager and G. Wilson McDow,
treasurer, all assuming in the new company the posi-
tions which they hold in the Henry F. Miller & Sons
Piano Co.
The New Board
The board of directors of the Continental Piano
Co. is composed of Mr. King, H. H. Rockwell, vice-,
president of the Northern Trust Company, Chicago,
Stanwood Miller, G. Wilson McDow and Harold L.
Perrin, who is a prominent Boston attorney and who
will also act as legal adviser to the new company.
Mr. Miller arrived in Chicago this week to take up
his duties as vice-president and general manager of
the Continental Piano Company. His office will be
at the Smith, Barnes & Strohber Co., 1872 Clybourn
Ave., where he will be permanently located by virtue
of his new office of vice-president and general man-
ager of the new company. He plans an immediate
trip to Kansas City, Mo., Milwaukee, Wis., and
Detroit, Mich.
Mr. Miller in Chicago.
When seen this week Mr. Miller said:
"The three factories will be operated as one, the
Smith, Barnes & Strohber Co.'s factories at Milwau-
kee and Chicago, and the Henry F. Miller & Sons
factory at Wake field, Mass.
"The Continental Piano Co. proposes to increase
the producing capacity and the efficiency of the three
factories. It also hopes to reduce piano prices in
the future by the strong combination presented in
the merger."
Mr. Miller stated that his family would remain in
Boston until next spring and that he had intentions
of purchasing a home on the North Shore section of
Chicago.
H. L. Plummer, assistant treasurer of the Con-
tinental Piano Co., will have his headquarters with
July 19, 1924.
EVANGELISTIC CAMPAIGN
AIDED BY BALDWIN GRAND
Loren G. Jones, Director, Says It Was Great Inspira-
tion for the Chorus.
The great success from a musical standpoint of
the recent Knoxville City-Wide Evangelistic Campaign
in Knoxville, Tenn., was due in no small part to the
inspiration given the chorus by the Baldwin Concert
Grand, furnished at the request of Loren G. Jones,
Dealers Meeting at Huntington Plan to Expand Or-
ganization Already in Existence.
A state association for West Virginia will result
from the plan formulated at a recent meeting of the
Retail Music Merchants' Association at Huntington and
Charleston, held in Huntington. The purpose to ex-
pand the last named association and invest it with
state wide functions and influences, has frequently
been expressed at the previous meetings. As a re-
sult of the meeting, efforts were begun to organize in
each city of the state a local association, all of which
are to be welded into a statewide organization,
which, in turn, will become affiliated with the national
organization.
The cause of music generally will be served by the
enlarged organization, but a primary object will be
to help the trade and individual members by cor-
recting various misleading and harmful business ac-
tivities which members say exist.
Charleston was represented by R. A. McKee, presi-
dent of the Kanawha Association; Joe McKee, Jr.,
Simon Galperin, J. H. Lopin, S. B. Holmes and W.
A. Burke. Huntington was represented by C. V.
Miller, the president; J. M. Kenney, secretary and
treasurer; J. W. Pool, R. W. Taylor, O. A. Myers,
T. B. Newhouse and L. M. Holton.
INCREASED EXPORT TRADE
OF HINNERS ORGAN CO.
CAMPAIGN LEADERS.
Reading from left to right: Mrs. Loren G. Jones.
Pianist and Director Women's and Young People's Work
—Loren G. Jones, Soloist and Chorus Director—John
Edward Brown, Evangelist.
the director, who writes as follows to the Baldwin
Piano Co.:
"The Baldwin you sent here is a wonderful instru-
ment, and I hope some arrangements may be made
whereby I can have a Baldwin in all of our meetings.
Mrs. Jones says it is the best piano she has ever used.
"The local Committee appreciate so much your
kindness in furnishing this instrument and personally
I appreciate more than I can tell the great interest
you have shown in this meeting by making it possi-
ble for the music to be a success."
The store of Fred W. Bolender, the Eldridge
Building, Vuba, N. Y.. was damaged by fire recently.
-
Shipments to Russia and China Among Those Re-
ported This Week.
The Hinners Organ Co., Peoria, 111., reports a
busy condition in its export business and orders are
coming from customers in Europe and Asia. While
it is not a new thing for the factory to make shipment
to a distant country it may be of interest to learn
that the Hinners Organ Co. last week packed five
large chapel organs for shipment to Petrograd,
Russia. They are for the Methodist mission at that
point.
To Sienyu, China, this week will go one chapel
organ. This is for the Isabel Hart Girls' Board
School. A large pipe organ was shipped last week
to San Francisco, it being for St. Matthew's
Lutheran Church.
rH
*fiftardman
R. K. MAYNARD TRAVELS.
"Built on Family Pride"
Doll & Sons
Represent the Artistic
in Piano and Player Piano
Construction
JACOB DOLL & SONS
STODART
WELLSMORE
R. K. Maynard, Pacific Coast representative of the
M. Schulz Co., Chicago, who has been at his home
in South Pasadena for the past ten days or so, leaves
there for San Francisco this week Friday to be pres-
ent at the Western Music Trades Convention in San
Francisco next week, Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday.
Southern Boulevard, E. 133rd St.
E. 134th St. and Cypress Ave.
NEW YORK
is a complete line
It comprises a range of artisti-
cally worthy instruments to
please practically every purse:
The Hardman, official piano of
the Metropolitan Opera House;
the Harrington and the Hensel
Pianos in which is found that in-
builtdurabilitythatcharacterizes
all Hardman-made instruments;
the wonderful Hardman Repro-
ducing Piano; the Hardman
Autotone (the perfect player-
piano); and the popular Playo-
tone.
LETTING THE PUBLIC KNOW.
In a displayed advertisement last week Ashby L.
Payne, manager of Martin Bros. Piano Co., Jefferson
City, Mo., said he took pleasure "in announcing that
they have added to their selling force Paul Eveler,
of this city. Mr. Eveler will be glad to have his
friends call upon him."
Becker Bros.
Manufacturers
Jacob Doll & Sons, Inc.
The ^Hardman £ine
•
of
HIGH GRADE PIANOS
and PLAYER PIANOS
c
Factory and Warerooms
767-769 Tenth Avenue, New York
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WARREN M. KING, PRESIDENT
the Smith, Barnes & Strohber Co., 1872 Clybourn
Ave.
Roger S. Brown, widely known as the traveling
representative of the Henry F. Miller & Sons Co.,
will act as wholesale manager for the Continental
Piano Co., with headquarters in Boston.
High Standards Preserved.
The high standards of the merged companies will
be maintained by the Continental Piano Co. The
business of both companies will be expanded. George
H. Hill will have general supervision of the produc-
tion of the Henry F. Miller & Sons Co.'s factory,
Wakefield, Mass.; and the Chicago and Milwaukee
plants of the Smith, Barnes & Strohber Co.
Stanwooci Miller, First Vice-President and General
Manager, Arrives in Chicago and Assumes
New Duties at 1872 Clybourn Ave.
NEW STATE ASSOCIATION
FOR WEST VIRGINIA
THE CONTINENTAL
PIANO COMPANY
Comprehensive Title of Holding Company for
Merged Henry F. Miller & Sons Co.
and Smith, Barnes & Strohber Co.
Suggests Expansion.
The merger of the Smith, Barnes & Strohber Co.,
Chicago, and the Henry F. Miller & Sons Co., Bos-
ton, was completed last week with the incorporation
of the Continental Piano Co., as holding company,
under the state laws of Massachusetts. The com-
pany will occupy the Miller building. 395 Boylston
street, Boston, where all the interests of the company
will be. centered.
Warren M. King, president of the Henry I\ Miller
& Sons Piano Co., is president of the new Consoli-
dated Piano Co.; Stanwood Miller is first vice-presi-
dent and general manager and G. Wilson McDow,
treasurer, all assuming in the new company the posi-
tions which they hold in the Henry F. Miller & Sons
Piano Co.
The New Board
The board of directors of the Continental Piano
Co. is composed of Mr. King, H. H. Rockwell, vice-,
president of the Northern Trust Company, Chicago,
Stanwood Miller, G. Wilson McDow and Harold L.
Perrin, who is a prominent Boston attorney and who
will also act as legal adviser to the new company.
Mr. Miller arrived in Chicago this week to take up
his duties as vice-president and general manager of
the Continental Piano Company. His office will be
at the Smith, Barnes & Strohber Co., 1872 Clybourn
Ave., where he will be permanently located by virtue
of his new office of vice-president and general man-
ager of the new company. He plans an immediate
trip to Kansas City, Mo., Milwaukee, Wis., and
Detroit, Mich.
Mr. Miller in Chicago.
When seen this week Mr. Miller said:
"The three factories will be operated as one, the
Smith, Barnes & Strohber Co.'s factories at Milwau-
kee and Chicago, and the Henry F. Miller & Sons
factory at Wake field, Mass.
"The Continental Piano Co. proposes to increase
the producing capacity and the efficiency of the three
factories. It also hopes to reduce piano prices in
the future by the strong combination presented in
the merger."
Mr. Miller stated that his family would remain in
Boston until next spring and that he had intentions
of purchasing a home on the North Shore section of
Chicago.
H. L. Plummer, assistant treasurer of the Con-
tinental Piano Co., will have his headquarters with
July 19, 1924.
EVANGELISTIC CAMPAIGN
AIDED BY BALDWIN GRAND
Loren G. Jones, Director, Says It Was Great Inspira-
tion for the Chorus.
The great success from a musical standpoint of
the recent Knoxville City-Wide Evangelistic Campaign
in Knoxville, Tenn., was due in no small part to the
inspiration given the chorus by the Baldwin Concert
Grand, furnished at the request of Loren G. Jones,
Dealers Meeting at Huntington Plan to Expand Or-
ganization Already in Existence.
A state association for West Virginia will result
from the plan formulated at a recent meeting of the
Retail Music Merchants' Association at Huntington and
Charleston, held in Huntington. The purpose to ex-
pand the last named association and invest it with
state wide functions and influences, has frequently
been expressed at the previous meetings. As a re-
sult of the meeting, efforts were begun to organize in
each city of the state a local association, all of which
are to be welded into a statewide organization,
which, in turn, will become affiliated with the national
organization.
The cause of music generally will be served by the
enlarged organization, but a primary object will be
to help the trade and individual members by cor-
recting various misleading and harmful business ac-
tivities which members say exist.
Charleston was represented by R. A. McKee, presi-
dent of the Kanawha Association; Joe McKee, Jr.,
Simon Galperin, J. H. Lopin, S. B. Holmes and W.
A. Burke. Huntington was represented by C. V.
Miller, the president; J. M. Kenney, secretary and
treasurer; J. W. Pool, R. W. Taylor, O. A. Myers,
T. B. Newhouse and L. M. Holton.
INCREASED EXPORT TRADE
OF HINNERS ORGAN CO.
CAMPAIGN LEADERS.
Reading from left to right: Mrs. Loren G. Jones.
Pianist and Director Women's and Young People's Work
—Loren G. Jones, Soloist and Chorus Director—John
Edward Brown, Evangelist.
the director, who writes as follows to the Baldwin
Piano Co.:
"The Baldwin you sent here is a wonderful instru-
ment, and I hope some arrangements may be made
whereby I can have a Baldwin in all of our meetings.
Mrs. Jones says it is the best piano she has ever used.
"The local Committee appreciate so much your
kindness in furnishing this instrument and personally
I appreciate more than I can tell the great interest
you have shown in this meeting by making it possi-
ble for the music to be a success."
The store of Fred W. Bolender, the Eldridge
Building, Vuba, N. Y.. was damaged by fire recently.
-
Shipments to Russia and China Among Those Re-
ported This Week.
The Hinners Organ Co., Peoria, 111., reports a
busy condition in its export business and orders are
coming from customers in Europe and Asia. While
it is not a new thing for the factory to make shipment
to a distant country it may be of interest to learn
that the Hinners Organ Co. last week packed five
large chapel organs for shipment to Petrograd,
Russia. They are for the Methodist mission at that
point.
To Sienyu, China, this week will go one chapel
organ. This is for the Isabel Hart Girls' Board
School. A large pipe organ was shipped last week
to San Francisco, it being for St. Matthew's
Lutheran Church.
rH
*fiftardman
R. K. MAYNARD TRAVELS.
"Built on Family Pride"
Doll & Sons
Represent the Artistic
in Piano and Player Piano
Construction
JACOB DOLL & SONS
STODART
WELLSMORE
R. K. Maynard, Pacific Coast representative of the
M. Schulz Co., Chicago, who has been at his home
in South Pasadena for the past ten days or so, leaves
there for San Francisco this week Friday to be pres-
ent at the Western Music Trades Convention in San
Francisco next week, Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday.
Southern Boulevard, E. 133rd St.
E. 134th St. and Cypress Ave.
NEW YORK
is a complete line
It comprises a range of artisti-
cally worthy instruments to
please practically every purse:
The Hardman, official piano of
the Metropolitan Opera House;
the Harrington and the Hensel
Pianos in which is found that in-
builtdurabilitythatcharacterizes
all Hardman-made instruments;
the wonderful Hardman Repro-
ducing Piano; the Hardman
Autotone (the perfect player-
piano); and the popular Playo-
tone.
LETTING THE PUBLIC KNOW.
In a displayed advertisement last week Ashby L.
Payne, manager of Martin Bros. Piano Co., Jefferson
City, Mo., said he took pleasure "in announcing that
they have added to their selling force Paul Eveler,
of this city. Mr. Eveler will be glad to have his
friends call upon him."
Becker Bros.
Manufacturers
Jacob Doll & Sons, Inc.
The ^Hardman £ine
•
of
HIGH GRADE PIANOS
and PLAYER PIANOS
c
Factory and Warerooms
767-769 Tenth Avenue, New York
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).
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