Presto
Issue: 1924 1983 - Page 7
PRESTO
July 26, 1924.
CREATING
A
SENSATION
IN
THE PIANO
WORLD
TESTIMONIAL FOR HADDORFF
The most conclusive evidence of the artistic merits
and durable character of a piano comes from the
teachers and the heads of schools. For that reason
a testimonial for a piano from directors of prominent
schools of music is considered an acknowledgment
of merit by the company making it. The following
letter to Maxey Grunthal & Bros., Jacksonville, Fla.,
from Mrs. Charles Davies, director of the Florida
Conservatory of Music, Jacksonville, expresses good
will for the dealers for fostering appreciation of
efforts of our music department, both attempt to
foster the love and appreciation of the divine art.
Although you have not asked us for a testimonial
as to the qualities of the Haddorff and Clarendon
pianos, we know that you are no longer in need of
such recommendations and that the files of the Had-
dorf Piano Company and Maxey Grunthal & Bros,
are crowded with letters from satisfied customers.
We must say it is merely to give ourselves the
pleasure of expressing our unqualified delight with
the superb pianos now safely harbored within our
Never has there been cre-
ated a line of automatic
pianos so e s p e c i a l l y
adapted for handling by
the regular piano trade
as the
SEEBURG
Pianos of genuine musical
merit, a pneumatic mech-
anism of exceptional reli-
ability and durability and
art case designs which
mark a new departure in
this class of instruments.
Style "K T" with its
many musical combina-
tions is meeting with
remarkable favor.
Let us give you par-
ticulars.
J. P. SEEBURG
PIANO CO.
CHICAGO
General Offices: 1510 Dayton St.
Factory 1508-16 Dayton St.
FLORIDA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC.
music generally and particularly in handling instru-
ments of such dependability as those made by the
Haddorff Piano Co., Rockford, 111. Mrs. Davies'
letter follows:
FLORIDA CONSERVATORY O F MUSIC,
Jacksonville, Florida.
May 23, 1924.
Maxey Grunthal & Bros.,
Jacksonville, Fla.
Gentlemen:
It seems as if your work of placing beautiful pianos
with music loving people is right in line with the
four walls. From long experience with instruments,
we would say that the Haddorff and Clarendon pianos
seem to combine and sometimes to surpass all of our
conceptions of achievement in modern piano making,
their mechanism, their scale, their exceptionally sweet
tonal charm, and their resourcefulness seem to repre-
sent a long chain of triumphs. The case also is satis-
factory, as its quiet elegance harmonizes well with
home or studio.
No need to wish you success; your Haddorff and
Clarendon pianos breathe success, and success begets
success.
Yours sincerely,
MRS. CHARLES DAVIES, Director.
E B. BARTLETT IN THE
ROLE OF HISTORIAN
New York State. Mr. W. W. Kimball was ap-
proached with a view to selling him the pianos.
"The negotiations resulted in his trading some of
his western land for the pianos and having acquired
title, he immediately proceeded to sell them. It only
took a few days, notwithstanding the notion on the
part of the regular piano man that the market was
already supplied. This was in 1856 or 1857 and was
the beginning of the piano business which we are
now all interested in."
The accidental beginning of the W. W. Kimball
Co.'s business was a prelude to the great things ac-
complished in succeeding years and which are so
simply and admirably told by Mr. Bartlett. The
choice of Chicago as the Kimball headquarters in
1857, the growth of the reed organ business, the de-
struction of the building and stock in the Chicago fire
of 1871, the influence of E. S. Conway on the for-
tunes of the house, the association of Albert G. Cone
with the company and of Mr. Bartlett himself are in-
cidents in a clear and interesting synopsis of a long
story.
Vice-President of the W. W. Kimball Company
Writes Leading Story for New House Journal.
E. B. Bartlett, vice-president of the W. W. Kim-
ball Co., Chicago, wrote the story, "Our Company,"
for the first number of the Kimballgram, published
by the Foremen's Club of the company, and showed
he had the ability to give the artistic touch to plain
facts of history. Any story of the W. W. Kimball
Company should begin with the days of the founder
before fate had given a music business direction to
his thoughts or actions.
"Mr. William Wallace Kimball, the founder of
this business, was born on a farm in Maine in 1828,
had the advantage of the common schools of the
neighborhood, taught school for a time in that sec-
tion, and about 1855 or 1856, imbued with the pioneer-
ing spirit moved to what was then considered the
'wild and woolly west'," writes Mr. Bartlett. "His
farm experience led him to be interested in agricul-
tural lands, of which he secured a considerable quan-
tity in Iowa through the government land office
at Dubuque, Iowa."
That was the situation of a vigorous American,
observant of opportunities and filled with the en-
ergy to realize them. Mr. Bartlett continues:
"While Mr. Kimball was in Dubuque a man with
an established piano business in New York State
shipped a number of pianos to Dubuque, with a view
to taking advantage of the boom conditions then ex-
isting there. Before he had sold them all he seems
to have gotten homesick and anxious to return to
GOOD SUMMER BUSINESS.
The William V. Crowe Piano Co., Columbus, O.,
now established in attractive new quarters, 251 South
High street, reports a lively summer business. For
a short time this firm wos located at 112 South High
street, where it was found that the space was inade-
quate. Before that for seventeen years the store was
located on East Town street.
Al Waltamath has opened a store in Salem, Ohio.
A limited stock of pianos and a few talking machines
have been installed in a Main street location, and
according to Mr. Waltamath sales have been very
satisfactory in the short time the store has been in
operation.
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July 26, 1924.
CREATING
A
SENSATION
IN
THE PIANO
WORLD
TESTIMONIAL FOR HADDORFF
The most conclusive evidence of the artistic merits
and durable character of a piano comes from the
teachers and the heads of schools. For that reason
a testimonial for a piano from directors of prominent
schools of music is considered an acknowledgment
of merit by the company making it. The following
letter to Maxey Grunthal & Bros., Jacksonville, Fla.,
from Mrs. Charles Davies, director of the Florida
Conservatory of Music, Jacksonville, expresses good
will for the dealers for fostering appreciation of
efforts of our music department, both attempt to
foster the love and appreciation of the divine art.
Although you have not asked us for a testimonial
as to the qualities of the Haddorff and Clarendon
pianos, we know that you are no longer in need of
such recommendations and that the files of the Had-
dorf Piano Company and Maxey Grunthal & Bros,
are crowded with letters from satisfied customers.
We must say it is merely to give ourselves the
pleasure of expressing our unqualified delight with
the superb pianos now safely harbored within our
Never has there been cre-
ated a line of automatic
pianos so e s p e c i a l l y
adapted for handling by
the regular piano trade
as the
SEEBURG
Pianos of genuine musical
merit, a pneumatic mech-
anism of exceptional reli-
ability and durability and
art case designs which
mark a new departure in
this class of instruments.
Style "K T" with its
many musical combina-
tions is meeting with
remarkable favor.
Let us give you par-
ticulars.
J. P. SEEBURG
PIANO CO.
CHICAGO
General Offices: 1510 Dayton St.
Factory 1508-16 Dayton St.
FLORIDA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC.
music generally and particularly in handling instru-
ments of such dependability as those made by the
Haddorff Piano Co., Rockford, 111. Mrs. Davies'
letter follows:
FLORIDA CONSERVATORY O F MUSIC,
Jacksonville, Florida.
May 23, 1924.
Maxey Grunthal & Bros.,
Jacksonville, Fla.
Gentlemen:
It seems as if your work of placing beautiful pianos
with music loving people is right in line with the
four walls. From long experience with instruments,
we would say that the Haddorff and Clarendon pianos
seem to combine and sometimes to surpass all of our
conceptions of achievement in modern piano making,
their mechanism, their scale, their exceptionally sweet
tonal charm, and their resourcefulness seem to repre-
sent a long chain of triumphs. The case also is satis-
factory, as its quiet elegance harmonizes well with
home or studio.
No need to wish you success; your Haddorff and
Clarendon pianos breathe success, and success begets
success.
Yours sincerely,
MRS. CHARLES DAVIES, Director.
E B. BARTLETT IN THE
ROLE OF HISTORIAN
New York State. Mr. W. W. Kimball was ap-
proached with a view to selling him the pianos.
"The negotiations resulted in his trading some of
his western land for the pianos and having acquired
title, he immediately proceeded to sell them. It only
took a few days, notwithstanding the notion on the
part of the regular piano man that the market was
already supplied. This was in 1856 or 1857 and was
the beginning of the piano business which we are
now all interested in."
The accidental beginning of the W. W. Kimball
Co.'s business was a prelude to the great things ac-
complished in succeeding years and which are so
simply and admirably told by Mr. Bartlett. The
choice of Chicago as the Kimball headquarters in
1857, the growth of the reed organ business, the de-
struction of the building and stock in the Chicago fire
of 1871, the influence of E. S. Conway on the for-
tunes of the house, the association of Albert G. Cone
with the company and of Mr. Bartlett himself are in-
cidents in a clear and interesting synopsis of a long
story.
Vice-President of the W. W. Kimball Company
Writes Leading Story for New House Journal.
E. B. Bartlett, vice-president of the W. W. Kim-
ball Co., Chicago, wrote the story, "Our Company,"
for the first number of the Kimballgram, published
by the Foremen's Club of the company, and showed
he had the ability to give the artistic touch to plain
facts of history. Any story of the W. W. Kimball
Company should begin with the days of the founder
before fate had given a music business direction to
his thoughts or actions.
"Mr. William Wallace Kimball, the founder of
this business, was born on a farm in Maine in 1828,
had the advantage of the common schools of the
neighborhood, taught school for a time in that sec-
tion, and about 1855 or 1856, imbued with the pioneer-
ing spirit moved to what was then considered the
'wild and woolly west'," writes Mr. Bartlett. "His
farm experience led him to be interested in agricul-
tural lands, of which he secured a considerable quan-
tity in Iowa through the government land office
at Dubuque, Iowa."
That was the situation of a vigorous American,
observant of opportunities and filled with the en-
ergy to realize them. Mr. Bartlett continues:
"While Mr. Kimball was in Dubuque a man with
an established piano business in New York State
shipped a number of pianos to Dubuque, with a view
to taking advantage of the boom conditions then ex-
isting there. Before he had sold them all he seems
to have gotten homesick and anxious to return to
GOOD SUMMER BUSINESS.
The William V. Crowe Piano Co., Columbus, O.,
now established in attractive new quarters, 251 South
High street, reports a lively summer business. For
a short time this firm wos located at 112 South High
street, where it was found that the space was inade-
quate. Before that for seventeen years the store was
located on East Town street.
Al Waltamath has opened a store in Salem, Ohio.
A limited stock of pianos and a few talking machines
have been installed in a Main street location, and
according to Mr. Waltamath sales have been very
satisfactory in the short time the store has been in
operation.
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).