Presto
Issue: 1925 2006 - Page 10
10
January 3, 1925
PRESTO
IMPORTANCE OF
CHAMBER WORK
(Continued from page 7.)
of music, can be had through this Bureau of the
Chamber. I wish that every piano manufacturer
would make it a point to get the service helps which
aim toward better advertising, national and retail,
and also get the co-operative viewpoint back of the
special literature and the convention exhibits of the
past two years. The book "Advertising Music" and
the service booklet "The Care of the Piano" are two
important items every piano manufacturer should
know about.
In the way of advice and information service, the
Chamber has gathered as much data of general value
to the trade as can be found anywhere, and the Trade
Service Bureau answers many inquiries for market
information, sources of supply, statistics, etc., besides
giving out facts which have been the basis of valu-
able publicity for the industry.
When we consider that all this is done by the same
department manager who, with one assistant, con-
ducts the Better Business Bureau, it is evident that
this part of the Chamber work deserves our real co-
operation in the way of individual effort, and the
financial support to meet its modest requirements.
Wishing you success in your effort. I am, cordially
yours,
C. C. CONWAY,
Chairman, Advisory Committee of Trade
Service Bureau. .
LETTER FROM H. PAUL MEHLIN.
Gentlemen: As a business man you should be con-
versant with your investment in the Music Industries
Chamber of Commerce, and as chairman of the Music
Advancement Committee it has devolved upon me to
keep you informed of the work of that particular
Bureau. You naturally do not care for details, but I
would like to call your attention to a few of the out-
standing activities from a dollar and cents viewpoint.
First is Music Week, observed on a city-wide basis
m 523 cities in 1924.
The Music Memory Contest was started in four
cities and towns in 1917 and has extended to 1,197
cities, towns, counties and states during the past
twelve months.
Eight or nine publications have been written to
stimulate and aid music in the schools, but the most
important one is the 112-page book giving a survey
of the giving of high school credits for music studied
under private teachers. This took eighteen months
to compile and has been pronounced by authorities an
invaluable aid to music teachers, music supervisors,
music clubs, women's clubs, etc , in trying to obtain
credit from the public schools for private study of
music.
The Bureau's record of outdoor Christmas caroling
has spread from 30 cities and towns six years ago
to 1,280 last year. Easter caroling is now being
developed.
A survey is now being made of the money spent
by municipalities for local support of music through
a questionnaire sent to mayors of 1,500 American
cities.
A 72-page book has just been published on "The
Utilization of Music in Prisons and Mental Hospi-
tals." Not only has it already resulted in the sale of
a number of pianos and musical instruments for these
institutions.
The Bureau co-operates with a wide variety of or-
ganizations, but has concentrated a great deal of its
efforts upon the National Federation of Music Clubs
and has stimulated this powerful organization to take
up many lines of work and has helped them in the
work that the Bureau considers of special importance.
Chief among these is the development of junior clubs
throughout the country.
These are only the high spots of the Bureau's
activities, but whenever I talk with Mr. Tremaine I
learn of some new line of work or of some new in-
fluence the Bureau is exerting.
Tt does not seem to me that any piano manufac-
turer who gives the subject thought can question the
value of the work, for not only are we concerned with
increasing the market for pianos, but we are under
the necessity of fighting to preserve our market, for
modern life is making so many demands upon the
people's time and money that we find ourselves forced
to compete with the steadily increasing array of other
attractions.
In my judgment the National Bureau has been a
tremendous aid in stimulating the interest of the en-
tire country in music, and is in a measure responsible
for the prosperous business we enjoy, and I further
believe that all of this important work is essential to
our future prosperity. Yours very truly,
H. PAUL MEHLIN.
Chairman, Music Advancement Committee.
REARRANGEMENT OF BOSTON
RETAIL STORE A NECESSITY
Henry F. Miller Stores Company Provides Four
Special Demonstration Rooms for
Customers.
Ond tiring*
THE
SHardman
The zHardman Jzine
is a complete line
It comprises a range of artisti-
cally w o r t h y 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.
c ffardman^peck &Co.
The increased sales of the Henry F. Miller store
of Boston have made it necessary to change the large
sales and display room on the second floor into four
individual demonstrating rooms. Alterations have
just been completed. The new rooms are elaborately
finished in natural cherry panels with light blue and
gold trimmings. The floors are highly polished and
carpeted with rich blue imported Chinese rugs which
blend harmoniously with the rooms and fixtures.
These new rooms will be used for demonstrating
Henry F. Miller baby and Lyric grands and Henry
F. Miller and Trowbridge uprights.
HAMBURG EXPORT PRICES.
Strong complaint is being made against some Ham-
burg export' agents who are alleged to be buying
pianos at special prices for shipment, but when they
get hold of the goods they sell the mat cut prices,
against exclusively inland dealers, to private buyers.
A correspondent of a German paper indicates that
this "very smart maneuver" is not peculiar to Ham-
burg. He urges that piano-makers should be ex-
pected to take the greatest care that export prices be
quoted only to genuine export houses that can be
relied on to ship the goods out of the country,
which basis, of course, export prices are quoted.
"Built on Family Pride"
Doll & Sons
Represent the Artistic
in Piano and Player Piano
Construction
JACOB DOLL & SONS
STODART
WELLSMORE
Jacob Doll & Sons, Inc.
Southern Boulevard, E. 133rd St.
E. 134th St. and Cypress Ave.
NEW YORK
Becker Bros.
Manufacturer*
HIGH GRADE PIANOS
and PLAYER PIANOS
Factory and Warerooma
767-769 Tenth Avenue, New York
STR1CH & ZEIDLER, Inc
GRAND, UPRIGHT and PLAYER
AND
HOMER PIANOS
740-742 East 136th Street
NEW YORK
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 la cast
In the plate and also ap-
pears upon the fall board
of all genuine Schumann
Pianos, and all Infringe™
-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.
SCOTCH DEALER HONORED
The Scottish Music Trade Benevolent Fund, at its
annual meeting in Edinboro recently, re-elected Wm.
Thomson, head of Wm. Thomson & Son, Glasgow,
as honorary president, Peter M. Campbell being
elected as president for the ensuing year. New vice-
presidents elected were J. M. Hay and Hy. R. Mac-
intosh, with Wm. Kennedy reappointed as secretary
and treasurer.
BUSY IN TOLEDO.
Many fine sales of reproducing pianos materially
increased the sum of sales during the holiday busi-
ness of the Whitney-Blaine-Wildermuth Co., Toledo,
O. Players and straight pianos found many pur-
chasers among a discriminating clienlele. Mehlin &
Sons, M. Schulz, Settergren, Werner and other pianos
are handled by the company, of which Henry C.
Wildermuth is manager of the piano department.
of
" '
New Catalogue on Request.
Schumann Piano Co.
W. N. VAN MATRE, President
Roclcford, 111.
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January 3, 1925
PRESTO
IMPORTANCE OF
CHAMBER WORK
(Continued from page 7.)
of music, can be had through this Bureau of the
Chamber. I wish that every piano manufacturer
would make it a point to get the service helps which
aim toward better advertising, national and retail,
and also get the co-operative viewpoint back of the
special literature and the convention exhibits of the
past two years. The book "Advertising Music" and
the service booklet "The Care of the Piano" are two
important items every piano manufacturer should
know about.
In the way of advice and information service, the
Chamber has gathered as much data of general value
to the trade as can be found anywhere, and the Trade
Service Bureau answers many inquiries for market
information, sources of supply, statistics, etc., besides
giving out facts which have been the basis of valu-
able publicity for the industry.
When we consider that all this is done by the same
department manager who, with one assistant, con-
ducts the Better Business Bureau, it is evident that
this part of the Chamber work deserves our real co-
operation in the way of individual effort, and the
financial support to meet its modest requirements.
Wishing you success in your effort. I am, cordially
yours,
C. C. CONWAY,
Chairman, Advisory Committee of Trade
Service Bureau. .
LETTER FROM H. PAUL MEHLIN.
Gentlemen: As a business man you should be con-
versant with your investment in the Music Industries
Chamber of Commerce, and as chairman of the Music
Advancement Committee it has devolved upon me to
keep you informed of the work of that particular
Bureau. You naturally do not care for details, but I
would like to call your attention to a few of the out-
standing activities from a dollar and cents viewpoint.
First is Music Week, observed on a city-wide basis
m 523 cities in 1924.
The Music Memory Contest was started in four
cities and towns in 1917 and has extended to 1,197
cities, towns, counties and states during the past
twelve months.
Eight or nine publications have been written to
stimulate and aid music in the schools, but the most
important one is the 112-page book giving a survey
of the giving of high school credits for music studied
under private teachers. This took eighteen months
to compile and has been pronounced by authorities an
invaluable aid to music teachers, music supervisors,
music clubs, women's clubs, etc , in trying to obtain
credit from the public schools for private study of
music.
The Bureau's record of outdoor Christmas caroling
has spread from 30 cities and towns six years ago
to 1,280 last year. Easter caroling is now being
developed.
A survey is now being made of the money spent
by municipalities for local support of music through
a questionnaire sent to mayors of 1,500 American
cities.
A 72-page book has just been published on "The
Utilization of Music in Prisons and Mental Hospi-
tals." Not only has it already resulted in the sale of
a number of pianos and musical instruments for these
institutions.
The Bureau co-operates with a wide variety of or-
ganizations, but has concentrated a great deal of its
efforts upon the National Federation of Music Clubs
and has stimulated this powerful organization to take
up many lines of work and has helped them in the
work that the Bureau considers of special importance.
Chief among these is the development of junior clubs
throughout the country.
These are only the high spots of the Bureau's
activities, but whenever I talk with Mr. Tremaine I
learn of some new line of work or of some new in-
fluence the Bureau is exerting.
Tt does not seem to me that any piano manufac-
turer who gives the subject thought can question the
value of the work, for not only are we concerned with
increasing the market for pianos, but we are under
the necessity of fighting to preserve our market, for
modern life is making so many demands upon the
people's time and money that we find ourselves forced
to compete with the steadily increasing array of other
attractions.
In my judgment the National Bureau has been a
tremendous aid in stimulating the interest of the en-
tire country in music, and is in a measure responsible
for the prosperous business we enjoy, and I further
believe that all of this important work is essential to
our future prosperity. Yours very truly,
H. PAUL MEHLIN.
Chairman, Music Advancement Committee.
REARRANGEMENT OF BOSTON
RETAIL STORE A NECESSITY
Henry F. Miller Stores Company Provides Four
Special Demonstration Rooms for
Customers.
Ond tiring*
THE
SHardman
The zHardman Jzine
is a complete line
It comprises a range of artisti-
cally w o r t h y 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.
c ffardman^peck &Co.
The increased sales of the Henry F. Miller store
of Boston have made it necessary to change the large
sales and display room on the second floor into four
individual demonstrating rooms. Alterations have
just been completed. The new rooms are elaborately
finished in natural cherry panels with light blue and
gold trimmings. The floors are highly polished and
carpeted with rich blue imported Chinese rugs which
blend harmoniously with the rooms and fixtures.
These new rooms will be used for demonstrating
Henry F. Miller baby and Lyric grands and Henry
F. Miller and Trowbridge uprights.
HAMBURG EXPORT PRICES.
Strong complaint is being made against some Ham-
burg export' agents who are alleged to be buying
pianos at special prices for shipment, but when they
get hold of the goods they sell the mat cut prices,
against exclusively inland dealers, to private buyers.
A correspondent of a German paper indicates that
this "very smart maneuver" is not peculiar to Ham-
burg. He urges that piano-makers should be ex-
pected to take the greatest care that export prices be
quoted only to genuine export houses that can be
relied on to ship the goods out of the country,
which basis, of course, export prices are quoted.
"Built on Family Pride"
Doll & Sons
Represent the Artistic
in Piano and Player Piano
Construction
JACOB DOLL & SONS
STODART
WELLSMORE
Jacob Doll & Sons, Inc.
Southern Boulevard, E. 133rd St.
E. 134th St. and Cypress Ave.
NEW YORK
Becker Bros.
Manufacturer*
HIGH GRADE PIANOS
and PLAYER PIANOS
Factory and Warerooma
767-769 Tenth Avenue, New York
STR1CH & ZEIDLER, Inc
GRAND, UPRIGHT and PLAYER
AND
HOMER PIANOS
740-742 East 136th Street
NEW YORK
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 la cast
In the plate and also ap-
pears upon the fall board
of all genuine Schumann
Pianos, and all Infringe™
-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.
SCOTCH DEALER HONORED
The Scottish Music Trade Benevolent Fund, at its
annual meeting in Edinboro recently, re-elected Wm.
Thomson, head of Wm. Thomson & Son, Glasgow,
as honorary president, Peter M. Campbell being
elected as president for the ensuing year. New vice-
presidents elected were J. M. Hay and Hy. R. Mac-
intosh, with Wm. Kennedy reappointed as secretary
and treasurer.
BUSY IN TOLEDO.
Many fine sales of reproducing pianos materially
increased the sum of sales during the holiday busi-
ness of the Whitney-Blaine-Wildermuth Co., Toledo,
O. Players and straight pianos found many pur-
chasers among a discriminating clienlele. Mehlin &
Sons, M. Schulz, Settergren, Werner and other pianos
are handled by the company, of which Henry C.
Wildermuth is manager of the piano department.
of
" '
New Catalogue on Request.
Schumann Piano Co.
W. N. VAN MATRE, President
Roclcford, 111.
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).