Presto
Issue: 1924 2003 - Page 4
December 13, 1924.
PRESTO
PIANOS AND ANQLO=
GERMAN PACT
Peace Reigns and All Forms of Restriction on
Imports and Exports Are Removed
By Both of the Signa-
tories.
EFFECT ON PIANOS
Views of Prominent Tariff Reformers Revised Since
the Days of Blind Rage Which Invaded Even
the Sacred Realm of Music.
What complications and embarrassments the new
Anglo-German treaty may have for the music trade
of Great Britain is a matter of conjecture. Reading
the news of the treaty suggests possible grievances
for the English piano manufacturers on account of
the increased imports of German pianos presumed
from the announcement of the treaty.
The New Compact.
The official text of the Anglo-German trade treaty,
released last week, shows that Great Britain and Ger-
many arc clasping hands in a strong commercial
alliance. The treaty's protocol binds both parties
to make every effort to stimulate and help trade with
the other.
Both agree to abstain from using customs tariffs or
any other charges as a means of discrimination
against the other and agree not to impose or pro-
long "any duties or charges which are especially in-
jurious to the other party."
Both agree to remove at the earliest possible mo-
ment, not later than six months from the treaty's
ratification, all forms of restriction or prohibition on
importations or exportations, except, of course, spe-
cial articles such as opium or war materials.
The treaty in detail provides for equal property
and residence rights of citizens and mutual equality
in the treatment of vessels. Great Britain promises
to remove all enemy alien restrictions and allow Ger-
man banks to operate in Great Britain, while Ger-
many allows British insurance companies in Germany.
To Run Five Years.
The treaty does not apply to the British domin-
ions, but favored nation treatment will continue be-
tween Germany and the British colonies as long as it
is reciprocal.
The treaty will be in effect five years after its rati-
fication, and is subject to renewal. It will continue
effective one year after either party declines to renew
it. Disputes over interpretation of the treaty will be
referred to arbitration.
An Earlier View.
In the light of the new treaty of which Great
Britain practically adopts the war-time proposal of
Sir Hugh Bell, it is interesting to consider what an-
other English tariff reformer had to say on the same
subject when the guns w r ere still reverberating, and
British industrials were crying loudly against the
possibility of Germany's ever finding a market for
her products anywhere on earth!
At that time Edward Johnson wrote: "I doubt
that any one can be found in England to raise a
voice in aid of German Manufacturers or any other
German thing." And the English tariff reformer
of that time continued with direct reference to pianos:
"Sir Hugh's references to having been paid for
steel he once shipped to Germany by checks given
by British buyers for German pianos does not help
his case at all, but quite the contrary.
A piano is an article wherein the cost is repre-
sented almost entirely by labor; there is very little
raw material compared with the finished cost, and the
German workmen who made the pianos in question
had received wages which the British workmen lost.
"Further, the German company which sold those
pianos probably paid no taxes in England and the
profits on the business as well as the wages were
spent in Germany."
In the Light of Peace.
But with peace and a settling back to the pur-
suits of peace views change. Today the piano indus-
try in Germany, as mirrored in the trade papers is
moving forward with almost startling rapidity.
There are more of the active piano industries in Ger-
many than in the United States and many of them
display remarkable vitality and ambition. Perhaps
it is true, as Sir Hugh Bell said, even in the thick
of the great conflict that "it is to the interest of
England that every country, friend or foe, should
be as prosperous as possible."
STORY & CLARK MUSICALES
ARE NEW YORK EVENTS
This Week's Program Affords Good Idea of the High
Quality of the Performances.
The character of the Story & Clark Piano Co. con-
certs in New York is illustrated in the program of
the fourteenth of the series this week, Thursday eve-
ning. It was as follows:
Trister Ritorno
Bartholerny
Rimpianto
Toselli
O Primavera
Tirindelli
Albert Rappaport.
Sung in Italian.
Leis 'die Seelen sich beriihren, Schlaf miide Seele,
Ruhe
Ignatz Waghalter
Lillian Steele.
The Broken Vase
Arensky
Lilacs
Rachmaninoff
Why
Kudrin
Rain
Gretchaminoff
Albert Rappaport.
Sung in Russian.
Ich weiss nicht ob ich Dich liebe, Mein Herz
schmuckt sish mit Dir, Wenn der Fruhling auf
die Berge steigt
Ignatz Waghalter
Lillian Steele.
Mr. Waghalter at the piano. Program under the
direction of Frank C. Barber.
There can be no doubt of the influence of the piano
industry in musical affairs when music of the kind
indicated is presented under its auspices by artists of
acknowledged power and skill. The Story & Clark
concerts have become a feature on the musical life of
the metropolis. They are given at the beautiful New
York warerooms and recital hall of the Story &
Clark Piano Co. at 33 West 57th street.
NEW YORK MUSIC DEALERS
RE=ELECT 1925 OFFICERS
Association of Retailers Retain Present Execu-
tives and Express Approval of Music
Industries Chamber of Commerce.
At a well attended and enthusiastic meeting of the
Associated Musical Instrument Dealers of New
York, on Monday, December 8th, at which over
twenty of the leading musical instrument dealers of
the city were represented, all of the officers of the
Association were unanimously re-elected for the com-
ing year. The list of these officers is as follows:
George M. Bundy, president; Henry Gerson, vice-
president; Fred Gretsch, treasurer; Harry L. Hunt,
secretary; Beach Barrett, executive secretary.
Enthusiastic appreciation of the work of the offi-
cers during the past year, and particularly of Presi-
dent George M. Bundy, who may be called the
founder of the association, was shown by all of the
members. In spite of Mr. Bundy's protests that one
year in office was long enough for a president, he
was unanimously re-elected by a rising vote of ac-
clamation which expressed the complete satisfaction
of the members.
Reports were received from the newly appointed
Committees on Publicity and Music in the Schools,
and the Publicity Committee was authorized to con-
duct a prize contest in as widespread a manner as
possible, to obtain a short and expressive slogan for
the association.
The members expressed appreciation of the work
done for them by the Music Industries Chamber of
Commerce, with which the Association is affiliated
through its membership in the National Musical Mer-
chandise Association of the United States. Particu-
lar reference was made to the Book of Business
Standards recently issued by the Chamber's Trade
Service Bureau, and orders were placed for twenty
copies of this book by members of the association.
The Associated Musical Instrument Dealers of
New York has had a steady growth both in numbers
and influence during the past year, and has demon-
strated its value to the musical instrument trade of
New York as a means of securing co-operation in
business and pleasant social intercourse. Some of
its most important plans are barely under way, but
they have been well laid and carefuly thought out,
and accomplishments of great value to the trade are
anticipated during the coming year.
STEINWAY INCREASE.
Steinway & Sons. New York, have increased capi-
tal stock from $4,000,000 to $8,000,000. The pros-
perity of the world's most famous piano industry was
never before so great as now. A remarkable career
of seventy-one years is the record of the industry,
and there is not a great city in the world that is not
a market for Steinway pianos. In some respects the
famous house is unique among the world's great in-
dustries. Next month the offices of Steinway & Sons
will be removed from the old location on Fourteenth
street, New York, to the palatial new Steinway Hall
Building at 109-113 West 57th street.
"Billy" Fowler is owner and manager of the Bunga-
low Shop, Taylorville, 111., which is conducting a
vigorous and successful Christmas club sale.
OULBRANSEN HELPS RAISE
FUNDS FOR NORWEGIAN SOCIETY
ESTABLISHED 1S54
Contest for Instrument Brings $1,500 to Old Peoples'
Home in Chicago.
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.
For information Witt
^albtm'n piano Company
CINCINNATI
INDIANAPOLIS
LOUISVILLE
/ncorporaled
CHICAGO
BT. Lotus
DALLAS
Mrs. Marshall Solberg, 163 N. Cuyler avenue, Oak
Park, 111., was the lucky winner of the Gulbransen
Registering Piano offered in connection with the
raising of a building fund for the Norwegian Old
Peoples' Home Society.
During the entire week of the bazaar of the society,
held at the new Logan Square Masonic Temple in
Chicago, the Gulbransen White House Model, in
beautiful brown mahogany finish, was on exhibition
and was demonstrated daily.
The instrument was donated to the Society by
A. G. Gulbransen, president of the Gulbransen Com-
pany, and was responsible for adding $1,500 to the
building fund.
NEW YORK
DENVER
BAN FBANCISCO
BUSY IN ST. LOUIS.
Reports from St. Louis dealers tell of active efforts
for a holiday business and that Christmas business
has set in. A satisfactory number of sales has been
made for Christmas deliver}^, mostly of small grands
and players. November was a good month and De-
cember started with every promise of good business
until the last delivery is made on Christmas Eve.
Most of the stores will keep open evenings from now
until Christmas.
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 Models
WRITE FOR TERRITORY
Factory
Leominster,
Mass.
Executive Offices
138th St. and Walton Ave.
New York
Dm.ion W. P. HAINES & CO., Inc.
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PRESTO
PIANOS AND ANQLO=
GERMAN PACT
Peace Reigns and All Forms of Restriction on
Imports and Exports Are Removed
By Both of the Signa-
tories.
EFFECT ON PIANOS
Views of Prominent Tariff Reformers Revised Since
the Days of Blind Rage Which Invaded Even
the Sacred Realm of Music.
What complications and embarrassments the new
Anglo-German treaty may have for the music trade
of Great Britain is a matter of conjecture. Reading
the news of the treaty suggests possible grievances
for the English piano manufacturers on account of
the increased imports of German pianos presumed
from the announcement of the treaty.
The New Compact.
The official text of the Anglo-German trade treaty,
released last week, shows that Great Britain and Ger-
many arc clasping hands in a strong commercial
alliance. The treaty's protocol binds both parties
to make every effort to stimulate and help trade with
the other.
Both agree to abstain from using customs tariffs or
any other charges as a means of discrimination
against the other and agree not to impose or pro-
long "any duties or charges which are especially in-
jurious to the other party."
Both agree to remove at the earliest possible mo-
ment, not later than six months from the treaty's
ratification, all forms of restriction or prohibition on
importations or exportations, except, of course, spe-
cial articles such as opium or war materials.
The treaty in detail provides for equal property
and residence rights of citizens and mutual equality
in the treatment of vessels. Great Britain promises
to remove all enemy alien restrictions and allow Ger-
man banks to operate in Great Britain, while Ger-
many allows British insurance companies in Germany.
To Run Five Years.
The treaty does not apply to the British domin-
ions, but favored nation treatment will continue be-
tween Germany and the British colonies as long as it
is reciprocal.
The treaty will be in effect five years after its rati-
fication, and is subject to renewal. It will continue
effective one year after either party declines to renew
it. Disputes over interpretation of the treaty will be
referred to arbitration.
An Earlier View.
In the light of the new treaty of which Great
Britain practically adopts the war-time proposal of
Sir Hugh Bell, it is interesting to consider what an-
other English tariff reformer had to say on the same
subject when the guns w r ere still reverberating, and
British industrials were crying loudly against the
possibility of Germany's ever finding a market for
her products anywhere on earth!
At that time Edward Johnson wrote: "I doubt
that any one can be found in England to raise a
voice in aid of German Manufacturers or any other
German thing." And the English tariff reformer
of that time continued with direct reference to pianos:
"Sir Hugh's references to having been paid for
steel he once shipped to Germany by checks given
by British buyers for German pianos does not help
his case at all, but quite the contrary.
A piano is an article wherein the cost is repre-
sented almost entirely by labor; there is very little
raw material compared with the finished cost, and the
German workmen who made the pianos in question
had received wages which the British workmen lost.
"Further, the German company which sold those
pianos probably paid no taxes in England and the
profits on the business as well as the wages were
spent in Germany."
In the Light of Peace.
But with peace and a settling back to the pur-
suits of peace views change. Today the piano indus-
try in Germany, as mirrored in the trade papers is
moving forward with almost startling rapidity.
There are more of the active piano industries in Ger-
many than in the United States and many of them
display remarkable vitality and ambition. Perhaps
it is true, as Sir Hugh Bell said, even in the thick
of the great conflict that "it is to the interest of
England that every country, friend or foe, should
be as prosperous as possible."
STORY & CLARK MUSICALES
ARE NEW YORK EVENTS
This Week's Program Affords Good Idea of the High
Quality of the Performances.
The character of the Story & Clark Piano Co. con-
certs in New York is illustrated in the program of
the fourteenth of the series this week, Thursday eve-
ning. It was as follows:
Trister Ritorno
Bartholerny
Rimpianto
Toselli
O Primavera
Tirindelli
Albert Rappaport.
Sung in Italian.
Leis 'die Seelen sich beriihren, Schlaf miide Seele,
Ruhe
Ignatz Waghalter
Lillian Steele.
The Broken Vase
Arensky
Lilacs
Rachmaninoff
Why
Kudrin
Rain
Gretchaminoff
Albert Rappaport.
Sung in Russian.
Ich weiss nicht ob ich Dich liebe, Mein Herz
schmuckt sish mit Dir, Wenn der Fruhling auf
die Berge steigt
Ignatz Waghalter
Lillian Steele.
Mr. Waghalter at the piano. Program under the
direction of Frank C. Barber.
There can be no doubt of the influence of the piano
industry in musical affairs when music of the kind
indicated is presented under its auspices by artists of
acknowledged power and skill. The Story & Clark
concerts have become a feature on the musical life of
the metropolis. They are given at the beautiful New
York warerooms and recital hall of the Story &
Clark Piano Co. at 33 West 57th street.
NEW YORK MUSIC DEALERS
RE=ELECT 1925 OFFICERS
Association of Retailers Retain Present Execu-
tives and Express Approval of Music
Industries Chamber of Commerce.
At a well attended and enthusiastic meeting of the
Associated Musical Instrument Dealers of New
York, on Monday, December 8th, at which over
twenty of the leading musical instrument dealers of
the city were represented, all of the officers of the
Association were unanimously re-elected for the com-
ing year. The list of these officers is as follows:
George M. Bundy, president; Henry Gerson, vice-
president; Fred Gretsch, treasurer; Harry L. Hunt,
secretary; Beach Barrett, executive secretary.
Enthusiastic appreciation of the work of the offi-
cers during the past year, and particularly of Presi-
dent George M. Bundy, who may be called the
founder of the association, was shown by all of the
members. In spite of Mr. Bundy's protests that one
year in office was long enough for a president, he
was unanimously re-elected by a rising vote of ac-
clamation which expressed the complete satisfaction
of the members.
Reports were received from the newly appointed
Committees on Publicity and Music in the Schools,
and the Publicity Committee was authorized to con-
duct a prize contest in as widespread a manner as
possible, to obtain a short and expressive slogan for
the association.
The members expressed appreciation of the work
done for them by the Music Industries Chamber of
Commerce, with which the Association is affiliated
through its membership in the National Musical Mer-
chandise Association of the United States. Particu-
lar reference was made to the Book of Business
Standards recently issued by the Chamber's Trade
Service Bureau, and orders were placed for twenty
copies of this book by members of the association.
The Associated Musical Instrument Dealers of
New York has had a steady growth both in numbers
and influence during the past year, and has demon-
strated its value to the musical instrument trade of
New York as a means of securing co-operation in
business and pleasant social intercourse. Some of
its most important plans are barely under way, but
they have been well laid and carefuly thought out,
and accomplishments of great value to the trade are
anticipated during the coming year.
STEINWAY INCREASE.
Steinway & Sons. New York, have increased capi-
tal stock from $4,000,000 to $8,000,000. The pros-
perity of the world's most famous piano industry was
never before so great as now. A remarkable career
of seventy-one years is the record of the industry,
and there is not a great city in the world that is not
a market for Steinway pianos. In some respects the
famous house is unique among the world's great in-
dustries. Next month the offices of Steinway & Sons
will be removed from the old location on Fourteenth
street, New York, to the palatial new Steinway Hall
Building at 109-113 West 57th street.
"Billy" Fowler is owner and manager of the Bunga-
low Shop, Taylorville, 111., which is conducting a
vigorous and successful Christmas club sale.
OULBRANSEN HELPS RAISE
FUNDS FOR NORWEGIAN SOCIETY
ESTABLISHED 1S54
Contest for Instrument Brings $1,500 to Old Peoples'
Home in Chicago.
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.
For information Witt
^albtm'n piano Company
CINCINNATI
INDIANAPOLIS
LOUISVILLE
/ncorporaled
CHICAGO
BT. Lotus
DALLAS
Mrs. Marshall Solberg, 163 N. Cuyler avenue, Oak
Park, 111., was the lucky winner of the Gulbransen
Registering Piano offered in connection with the
raising of a building fund for the Norwegian Old
Peoples' Home Society.
During the entire week of the bazaar of the society,
held at the new Logan Square Masonic Temple in
Chicago, the Gulbransen White House Model, in
beautiful brown mahogany finish, was on exhibition
and was demonstrated daily.
The instrument was donated to the Society by
A. G. Gulbransen, president of the Gulbransen Com-
pany, and was responsible for adding $1,500 to the
building fund.
NEW YORK
DENVER
BAN FBANCISCO
BUSY IN ST. LOUIS.
Reports from St. Louis dealers tell of active efforts
for a holiday business and that Christmas business
has set in. A satisfactory number of sales has been
made for Christmas deliver}^, mostly of small grands
and players. November was a good month and De-
cember started with every promise of good business
until the last delivery is made on Christmas Eve.
Most of the stores will keep open evenings from now
until Christmas.
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 Models
WRITE FOR TERRITORY
Factory
Leominster,
Mass.
Executive Offices
138th St. and Walton Ave.
New York
Dm.ion W. P. HAINES & 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).