Presto
Issue: 1925 2010 - Page 16
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January 31, 1925.
P R E S T O
CHICAGO PIANO & ORGAN
ASS'N DINNER RECALLED
Well Known Names in Trade and Industry Appear
in List of Guests.
The annual dinner of the Chicago Piano & Organ
Association last week was made more enjoyable than
usual by the number of guests from out of town.
Many of the pleasant incidents were only anticipated
by Presto, which necessarily closed its forms before
the festivities were begun. Altogether there were
upwards of a hundred at the dinner, about twenty-
five per cent being visitors, including the delegates
to the Music Industries Chamber of Commerce and
the officers and committees of the National Piano
Manufacturers' Association and the Musical Supply
Association of America, who were the specially in-
vited guests of the evening.
The visitors comprised: Richard W. Lawrence,
president of the Chamber, and Colonel Hollenberg,
second vice-president; Mark P. Campbell, treasurer,
and Alfred L. Smith, secretary and general manager,
and M. V. De Forrest, E. Paul Hamilton and W. W.
Smith, directors; E. R. Jacobson and Charles Jacob,
president and treasurer, respectively, and John H.
Parnham and Herbert Simpson, directors of the
National Piano Manufacturers' Association, J. T.
Reed, president, and Arthur Wessell of the board of
directors of the Musical Supply Association.
Secretary Miller of the Superior Foundries, Cleve-
land, and O. A. Field, erstwhile prominent piano
man of St. Louis, now engaged in the life insurance
business in that city, were also present.
The reception committee was made up of the fol-
lowing past presidents of the association: Platt P.
Gibbs, C. C. Chickering, William L. Bush, E. B.
GRAND PIANO
58 Inches Long
The best exponent of the present Baby Grand Age.
Its totye — t^B lines — its restricted space requirement and
attractive price—
MAKE IT THE PREMIER AGENCY
Get full details of this valuable selling franchise NOW.
Premier Grand Piano Corporation
largest Institution in the World Building Grand
Pianos Exdusively
JUSTUS HATTEMEK
Viw-Pr«.nWnl
WAITER C, HEPPERLA
a
510-532 West /3rd Street
NEW YORK
ESTABLISHED 1854
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,
Man.
Executive Offices
138th St. and Walton Ave.
New York
Division W. P. HAINES A CO., Inc.
Bartlett, H. L. Draper, Otto Schulz, H. C. Dickin-
son, Edgar C. Smith, James Adam Schneider, Eugene
Whalen, W. E. Guylee and James T. Bristol, and of
course, the gentleman who now holds the enviable
position of president of the Association this year,
Mr. T. G. Weber, head of the house of Meyer &
Weber, and who presided at the Thursday night
meeting in a most commendable manner.
Geo. P. Bent, who was in California, and Jas. L.
Bowers, who was ill, were prevented from appearing
in the role of past presidents.
Eugene Whalen, chairman, and E. V. Galloway,
Percy A. Tonk, R. O'Connor and Albert N. Page
comprised the entertainment committee and they
brought together an interesting program of music
and oratory. The short talks of the delegates were
listened to with unusual attention. The subject of
the forthcoming convention the week of June 8 at the
Drake hotel was a live topic. Chicago was heralded
as the best and greatest convention city in America,
the Drake hotel the best all round hotel in the coun-
try for a big convention, and the Piano Club of
Chicago the ideal organization to carry out the work
of making this year's convention the biggest and
best of all music industry meetings.
GOOD ROADS HELP BUSY
TEXAS MUSIC DEALER
E. Ray Bright Now Concentrates Activities in Main
Store in Gonzales.
The Bright music Company, 224 St. Joseph street,
Gonzales, Tex., occupies a new modern store, and
the company headed by E. Ray Bright is concentrat-
ing activities there since the branch stores at Luling
and Yoakum were relinquished.
The closing of the stores was an economy made
possible by the improved roads in that section of the
state. Now with auto trucks the territory can be
as easily covered without branch stores.
Mr. Bright very wisely selected Gonzales as a cen-
tral location from which he may easily cover a wide
territory from one store. This modern establishment
carries a full and complete line of musical instru-
ments. Twenty-one years of continuous contact with
the music-loving public has given him a seasoned ex-
perience in the selection of a dependable line.
The line includes pianos, talking machines, musi-
cal merchandise, rolls, records, sheet music and radio.
PREPARATIONS FOR ANNUAL
MUSIC WEEK IN NEW YORK
Contestants' Auxiliary Formed to Assist District
Chairman in Various Methods of Publicity.
The latest development of the New York Music
Week Association in preparation for the Music Week
Association Contests for the present season is the
organization in each district of a Contestants' Aux-
iliary made up of the 3,000 entries in the contests of
last season who will serve under the local district
chairman. The purpose of the Contestants' Auxiliary
is to assist the district chairman in distributing litera-
ture, in encouraging others in the district to enter
the contests, and particularly to work for the devel-
opment of better music and higher standards of
musicianship in the home district.
The idea of forming this committee came from the
contestants themselves as the result of their appre-
ciation of the encouragement given them by the asso-
ciation last season when judges chosen from among
the city's finest professional musicians journeyed to
each of the forty-eight districts to hear the entries
and give them kindly and constructive criticism.
TRUTH-IN-ADVERTISING MEDAL.
A medal was awarded this week to the truth-in-
advertising work of the Associated Advertising Clubs,
which specifically includes the Better Business Bu-
reaus of the country. Lou E Holland, president of
the Associated Advertising Clubs, with other officers
of the association, attended a dinner given by the
Harvard Business School, in Boston, January 26, for
the awarding of this medal, which was given by
Edward W. Bok. A similar medal will be awarded
annually to the person or organization that has made
the greatest contribution to the advancement of ad-
vertising. The award was voted to the truth-in-ad-
vertising movement by a jury of prominent adver-
tising men.
GOOD SALT LAKE CITY REPORT.
Playerpianos and reproducing pianos are well
favored by customers in the store of the Glen Bros.-
Roberts Piano Co., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mr. Teas-
dale, manager, said banjos, saxophones, violins and
cornets had big sales during the concluding weeks of
1924. The interest in the goods continues. There
was also a good demand for radio and phonograph
goods.
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ARTISTIC
IN EVERT
DETAIL
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II
II
HADDORFF PIANO CO.
M
2
ROCKFORD,ILL.
Wholesale Offices;
Naw T«rk Ch
I » W. iZai S»
CMrafo
410 S. Miekifao A««.
ii
ii
*
San feancwu
I l l California S».
Si
•
•I
=»
Schaff Bros.
Players $ nd Pianos have won their stand-
ing with trade and public by 54 years of
steadfast striving to excel. They repre-
sent the
LARGEST COMPETITIVE VALUE
because <
to sell and satisfactory when sold.
Brighten Your Line with the
SCHAFF BROS-
The Schaff Bros. Co.
Established 1868
Huntington, Ind.
GRAND PIANOS
EXCLUSIVELY
One Style—One Quality
giving you the
Unequaled Grand
Unequaled Price
Already being sold by leading dealers
throughout the country
Write today—tell us your next year's re-
quirements and we will meet your demands
with prompt and efficient service.
Columbian Grand Piano Mfg. Co.
400 W. Erie St
CHICAGO
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January 31, 1925.
P R E S T O
CHICAGO PIANO & ORGAN
ASS'N DINNER RECALLED
Well Known Names in Trade and Industry Appear
in List of Guests.
The annual dinner of the Chicago Piano & Organ
Association last week was made more enjoyable than
usual by the number of guests from out of town.
Many of the pleasant incidents were only anticipated
by Presto, which necessarily closed its forms before
the festivities were begun. Altogether there were
upwards of a hundred at the dinner, about twenty-
five per cent being visitors, including the delegates
to the Music Industries Chamber of Commerce and
the officers and committees of the National Piano
Manufacturers' Association and the Musical Supply
Association of America, who were the specially in-
vited guests of the evening.
The visitors comprised: Richard W. Lawrence,
president of the Chamber, and Colonel Hollenberg,
second vice-president; Mark P. Campbell, treasurer,
and Alfred L. Smith, secretary and general manager,
and M. V. De Forrest, E. Paul Hamilton and W. W.
Smith, directors; E. R. Jacobson and Charles Jacob,
president and treasurer, respectively, and John H.
Parnham and Herbert Simpson, directors of the
National Piano Manufacturers' Association, J. T.
Reed, president, and Arthur Wessell of the board of
directors of the Musical Supply Association.
Secretary Miller of the Superior Foundries, Cleve-
land, and O. A. Field, erstwhile prominent piano
man of St. Louis, now engaged in the life insurance
business in that city, were also present.
The reception committee was made up of the fol-
lowing past presidents of the association: Platt P.
Gibbs, C. C. Chickering, William L. Bush, E. B.
GRAND PIANO
58 Inches Long
The best exponent of the present Baby Grand Age.
Its totye — t^B lines — its restricted space requirement and
attractive price—
MAKE IT THE PREMIER AGENCY
Get full details of this valuable selling franchise NOW.
Premier Grand Piano Corporation
largest Institution in the World Building Grand
Pianos Exdusively
JUSTUS HATTEMEK
Viw-Pr«.nWnl
WAITER C, HEPPERLA
a
510-532 West /3rd Street
NEW YORK
ESTABLISHED 1854
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,
Man.
Executive Offices
138th St. and Walton Ave.
New York
Division W. P. HAINES A CO., Inc.
Bartlett, H. L. Draper, Otto Schulz, H. C. Dickin-
son, Edgar C. Smith, James Adam Schneider, Eugene
Whalen, W. E. Guylee and James T. Bristol, and of
course, the gentleman who now holds the enviable
position of president of the Association this year,
Mr. T. G. Weber, head of the house of Meyer &
Weber, and who presided at the Thursday night
meeting in a most commendable manner.
Geo. P. Bent, who was in California, and Jas. L.
Bowers, who was ill, were prevented from appearing
in the role of past presidents.
Eugene Whalen, chairman, and E. V. Galloway,
Percy A. Tonk, R. O'Connor and Albert N. Page
comprised the entertainment committee and they
brought together an interesting program of music
and oratory. The short talks of the delegates were
listened to with unusual attention. The subject of
the forthcoming convention the week of June 8 at the
Drake hotel was a live topic. Chicago was heralded
as the best and greatest convention city in America,
the Drake hotel the best all round hotel in the coun-
try for a big convention, and the Piano Club of
Chicago the ideal organization to carry out the work
of making this year's convention the biggest and
best of all music industry meetings.
GOOD ROADS HELP BUSY
TEXAS MUSIC DEALER
E. Ray Bright Now Concentrates Activities in Main
Store in Gonzales.
The Bright music Company, 224 St. Joseph street,
Gonzales, Tex., occupies a new modern store, and
the company headed by E. Ray Bright is concentrat-
ing activities there since the branch stores at Luling
and Yoakum were relinquished.
The closing of the stores was an economy made
possible by the improved roads in that section of the
state. Now with auto trucks the territory can be
as easily covered without branch stores.
Mr. Bright very wisely selected Gonzales as a cen-
tral location from which he may easily cover a wide
territory from one store. This modern establishment
carries a full and complete line of musical instru-
ments. Twenty-one years of continuous contact with
the music-loving public has given him a seasoned ex-
perience in the selection of a dependable line.
The line includes pianos, talking machines, musi-
cal merchandise, rolls, records, sheet music and radio.
PREPARATIONS FOR ANNUAL
MUSIC WEEK IN NEW YORK
Contestants' Auxiliary Formed to Assist District
Chairman in Various Methods of Publicity.
The latest development of the New York Music
Week Association in preparation for the Music Week
Association Contests for the present season is the
organization in each district of a Contestants' Aux-
iliary made up of the 3,000 entries in the contests of
last season who will serve under the local district
chairman. The purpose of the Contestants' Auxiliary
is to assist the district chairman in distributing litera-
ture, in encouraging others in the district to enter
the contests, and particularly to work for the devel-
opment of better music and higher standards of
musicianship in the home district.
The idea of forming this committee came from the
contestants themselves as the result of their appre-
ciation of the encouragement given them by the asso-
ciation last season when judges chosen from among
the city's finest professional musicians journeyed to
each of the forty-eight districts to hear the entries
and give them kindly and constructive criticism.
TRUTH-IN-ADVERTISING MEDAL.
A medal was awarded this week to the truth-in-
advertising work of the Associated Advertising Clubs,
which specifically includes the Better Business Bu-
reaus of the country. Lou E Holland, president of
the Associated Advertising Clubs, with other officers
of the association, attended a dinner given by the
Harvard Business School, in Boston, January 26, for
the awarding of this medal, which was given by
Edward W. Bok. A similar medal will be awarded
annually to the person or organization that has made
the greatest contribution to the advancement of ad-
vertising. The award was voted to the truth-in-ad-
vertising movement by a jury of prominent adver-
tising men.
GOOD SALT LAKE CITY REPORT.
Playerpianos and reproducing pianos are well
favored by customers in the store of the Glen Bros.-
Roberts Piano Co., Salt Lake City, Utah. Mr. Teas-
dale, manager, said banjos, saxophones, violins and
cornets had big sales during the concluding weeks of
1924. The interest in the goods continues. There
was also a good demand for radio and phonograph
goods.
ISBSPSBSBSBf S«SgS«SBt»rB=«SWSWS»
ARTISTIC
IN EVERT
DETAIL
1
R
I!
II
II
HADDORFF PIANO CO.
M
2
ROCKFORD,ILL.
Wholesale Offices;
Naw T«rk Ch
I » W. iZai S»
CMrafo
410 S. Miekifao A««.
ii
ii
*
San feancwu
I l l California S».
Si
•
•I
=»
Schaff Bros.
Players $ nd Pianos have won their stand-
ing with trade and public by 54 years of
steadfast striving to excel. They repre-
sent the
LARGEST COMPETITIVE VALUE
because <
to sell and satisfactory when sold.
Brighten Your Line with the
SCHAFF BROS-
The Schaff Bros. Co.
Established 1868
Huntington, Ind.
GRAND PIANOS
EXCLUSIVELY
One Style—One Quality
giving you the
Unequaled Grand
Unequaled Price
Already being sold by leading dealers
throughout the country
Write today—tell us your next year's re-
quirements and we will meet your demands
with prompt and efficient service.
Columbian Grand Piano Mfg. Co.
400 W. Erie St
CHICAGO
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).