Presto
Issue: 1925 2022 - Page 5
PRESTO
April 25, 1925.
CHRISTMAN
"The First Touch Tells"
The Famous
Studio Grand
(only 5 ft. long)
Continues to be in greater demand
than any other with discriminating
dealers.
In Tone, Quality and Beauty, these in-
struments excel, and Christman Up-
right Pianos are standards wherever
fine instruments are sold—and that is
practically everywhere.
LIVE TRADE ITEMS
FROM INDIANAPOLIS
Fire Spoils Show Window; a Business Change;
A. B. Chase Grand Sells Well; Cable
Midget Display and Other Matters.
Last Sunday afternoon the awning of the Indian-
apolis Music House on north Pennsylvania street was
discovered in flames, and was entirely destroyed, with
a damage of about $700 to the display in the show
window. The damage was mostly by the chemicals
used to extinguish the fire, according to Hal P.
Shearer, the president of the company.
Mr. Meskill, formerly of the Meskill Music Co.,
has been appointed manager of phonograph depart-
ment. The company has added the Edison line of
phonographs. The A. B. Chase piano, according to
Mr. Shearer, has been meeting with excellent success,
especially the graiids. Mr. Pullen, western manager
of the Edison company; Benjamin White, of the
Victor Co.; Major Rich, of the McPhail Piano Com-
pany, and Mr. Williams, of the A. B. Chase Com-
pany, were visitors in the past week.
The show window of the Carlin Music Company
is attracting a great deal of attention with an excel-
lent display of Holton band instruments. The in-
struments are neatly arranged and the window is
decorated with green silk velvet and the bells of the
instruments are illuminated with electricity. Ralph
Hodgin, manager of the small instrument department,
is responsible for the elegent display and reports some
very good sales.
On Thursday, Friday and Saturday the State Fed-
eration of Music Clubs will hold its convention at
the Hotel Lincoln, and Leonard Carlin will demon-
strate the advantages of the Cable Midget piano.
The Indianapolis Music House has bought the en-
tire stock of the Meskill Music Company, of 222
Massachusetts avenue. Mr. Meskill will be retained
by the Indianapolis Music House in the capacity of
manager of the phonograph department. The item
on page 19 in the last issue of Presto, relative to the
Indianapolis Music House merging with the Meskill
Music Co., is an error, and according to Hal P.
Shearer, president of the Indianapolis Music House,
the above statement is correct.
THE TRUE GOLFER
LOVES HIS WORK
A Bit of Business Literature That Also Con-
tains the Sparkle of the Mashie and
the Green.
CHRISTMAN
Reproducing Grand
Equipped with
Action
Has advantages for any Dealer or
Salesman. It is a marvel of expressive
interpretation of all classes of compo-
sition, reproducing perfectly the per-
formances of the world's greatest
pianists.
"The First Touch Tells"
IUg. U. 8. Pat. Off.
Christman Piano Co.
597 East 137th St.
New York
Pretty soon the old golf bags will leave their hiding
places in closet and corner and take their owners out
to the swelling green and the difficult hazards. When
the golfers of the piano men's associations, national
and local, get together at the June convention there
will be a good deal to talk about.
Consequently there is something inspiring in the
following extract from a piece of business writing that
appears in the latest very attractive folder of the
Blakely Printing Co., of Chicago. The pamphlet is
entitled "Fore," and shows the waiting field and wav-
ing flag at the nine hole:
A few of those soft, sunny, dozy, spring-feverish
days—you know the kind—and every American
golfer feels the thrill that tells him that the old golf
bag is soon coming out of the dark corner where it
has been hibernating and will once again take to the
fairway and the rough in the greatest of all sports.
Yes, sir-ee!
There's a "kick" in the very thought of it all! And
the man who cannot enthuse in it is not a real golfer.
Just so in business—it takes the enthusiasm of the
"love of the game" to put across the best that's in
any proposition. You know it to be true—you've felt
it yourself.
ITEMS ABOUT THE
ACTIVE PIANO MEN
Collection of News of a Personal Kind Con-
cerns Prominent Ones Here and There
in the Trade.
Herman Beck, formerly engaged in sales promotion
work for the Platt Music Company, Los Angeles,
Cal., was recently made assistant general sales man-
ager of all the Platt stores.
W. Huntington has resigned as manager of the
music department of J. Lowenstein & Sons, Val-
paraiso, Ind.
B. L. Barnhouse, former sales manager for Thomas
Goggan & Bro, Waco, Texas, has been appointed
manager of the Mission branch store of Kohler &
Chase in San Francisco.
Leroy C. Gunther has now complete control of
Gunther & Kennedy, Inc., Middletown, N. Y.
J. Ivey Jessup has resigned as manager of the
branch store of Chas. M. Stieff, Inc., at Charlotte,
N. C., to enter another line of business.
George Jacobs, of Jacob's Music House, is presi-
dent of the Fort Wayne Music Dealers' Association,'
Fort Wayne, Indiana.
A. J. Lehmkuhl, for 30 years with Lyon & Healy,
Chicago, ten years as manager of the piano depart-
ment, i snow general manager for the L. Grunewald
Company, Inc., New Orleans, La.
Will Graham, of the Hopper-Kelly Company, first
president of the newly organized music dealers' asso-
ciation in that city, is a hustler who means to inter-
est every music dealer in the organization.
Harry D. Schoenwald, president of the Piano Club
of Chicago, has been made Chicago district manager
for the Adler Manufacturing Company, Louisville,
Ky., makers of pianos, phonographs and radio sets.
W. A. Allen and John Spada are partners in a new
music store which has been opened in Duquesne, Pa.
Mr. Allen was formerly manager of the branch store
of the W. F. Frederick Piano Company in Duquesne."*
Oscar H. Carlson is now eastern representative for
the sales promotion and service department of Strauch
Bros., Inc., New York.
G. S. McLaughlin is the new manager of the branch
stores of Lyon & Healy, Chicago.
ETHEL LEQINSKA VISITS
AT KNABE FACTORY
Visit of the Distinguished Artist Made Memorable
by Recital to Entire Working Force.
Ethel Leginska, who sailed on the Berengaria last
week, paid a visit to the Knabe factory while in that
city on April 10th. The visit was made memorable
by a recital which Miss Leginska voluntarily gave for
the entire working force of the Knabe organization.
Her program included works by Beethoven,
Goosens, Liszt, Chopin and her own composition,
"Dance of a Puppet." Miss Leginska's graceful com-
pliment to the men who make the Knabe pianos,
which she uses exclusively in her concerts, was deeply
appreciated and provoked an enthusiasm worthy of
the occasion.
Miss Leginska goes to Europe to fulfill many con-
cert engagements in several of which she appears as
conductor.
GREAT INTEREST IN
CONVENTION WINDOW DISPLAY
Music Week Window Displays to Be Photographed
and Described for Jury.
The window display contest in connection with the
annual convention of the music trades and industries
at the Drake Hotel, Chicago, the first week of June,
promises to be one of the most interesting events of
the big gathering.
In an announcement now being responded to in an
enthusiastic way music merchants of the national
association or otherwise identified in division mem-
berships of the Chamber have been invited to sub-
mit photographs of their Music Week Window Dis-
plays for exhibit at convention headquarters in the
Drake Hotel during the week of the convention, along
with letters describing their advertising tie-up to
Music Week. Write the name of firm, address and
name of individual who dressed window on the back
of photograph. A silver trophy and certificates of
merit will be awarded.
MOVES STORE IN PITTSBURGH. .
Scheidlmcier's Music Store, Pittsburgh, Pa., was
moved recently to a new location at 333-335 Second
Avenue boulevard, just a few doors below Smithfield
street. This firm carries a complete line of music
goods, including musical merchandise, and the school
in connection with it has a staff of twelve proficient
teachers, teaching all instruments. M. J. Scheidl-
meier. head of the company, is a nationally known
tenor banjo soloist.
HONOR FOR MILWAUKEE MEN.
Among the music dealers of Milwaukee, Wis., who
are included in the list of committee members for the
retail division of the Milwaukee Association of Com-
merce are Leslie C. Parker, president and manager
of the Carberry-Parker Co., who is chairman of the
committee on legislation, and is also a member of the
better business bureau committee, and Hugh W. Ran-
dall, president and general manager of the J. B. Brad-
ford Piano Co., who is chairman of the committee on
parking and traffic
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April 25, 1925.
CHRISTMAN
"The First Touch Tells"
The Famous
Studio Grand
(only 5 ft. long)
Continues to be in greater demand
than any other with discriminating
dealers.
In Tone, Quality and Beauty, these in-
struments excel, and Christman Up-
right Pianos are standards wherever
fine instruments are sold—and that is
practically everywhere.
LIVE TRADE ITEMS
FROM INDIANAPOLIS
Fire Spoils Show Window; a Business Change;
A. B. Chase Grand Sells Well; Cable
Midget Display and Other Matters.
Last Sunday afternoon the awning of the Indian-
apolis Music House on north Pennsylvania street was
discovered in flames, and was entirely destroyed, with
a damage of about $700 to the display in the show
window. The damage was mostly by the chemicals
used to extinguish the fire, according to Hal P.
Shearer, the president of the company.
Mr. Meskill, formerly of the Meskill Music Co.,
has been appointed manager of phonograph depart-
ment. The company has added the Edison line of
phonographs. The A. B. Chase piano, according to
Mr. Shearer, has been meeting with excellent success,
especially the graiids. Mr. Pullen, western manager
of the Edison company; Benjamin White, of the
Victor Co.; Major Rich, of the McPhail Piano Com-
pany, and Mr. Williams, of the A. B. Chase Com-
pany, were visitors in the past week.
The show window of the Carlin Music Company
is attracting a great deal of attention with an excel-
lent display of Holton band instruments. The in-
struments are neatly arranged and the window is
decorated with green silk velvet and the bells of the
instruments are illuminated with electricity. Ralph
Hodgin, manager of the small instrument department,
is responsible for the elegent display and reports some
very good sales.
On Thursday, Friday and Saturday the State Fed-
eration of Music Clubs will hold its convention at
the Hotel Lincoln, and Leonard Carlin will demon-
strate the advantages of the Cable Midget piano.
The Indianapolis Music House has bought the en-
tire stock of the Meskill Music Company, of 222
Massachusetts avenue. Mr. Meskill will be retained
by the Indianapolis Music House in the capacity of
manager of the phonograph department. The item
on page 19 in the last issue of Presto, relative to the
Indianapolis Music House merging with the Meskill
Music Co., is an error, and according to Hal P.
Shearer, president of the Indianapolis Music House,
the above statement is correct.
THE TRUE GOLFER
LOVES HIS WORK
A Bit of Business Literature That Also Con-
tains the Sparkle of the Mashie and
the Green.
CHRISTMAN
Reproducing Grand
Equipped with
Action
Has advantages for any Dealer or
Salesman. It is a marvel of expressive
interpretation of all classes of compo-
sition, reproducing perfectly the per-
formances of the world's greatest
pianists.
"The First Touch Tells"
IUg. U. 8. Pat. Off.
Christman Piano Co.
597 East 137th St.
New York
Pretty soon the old golf bags will leave their hiding
places in closet and corner and take their owners out
to the swelling green and the difficult hazards. When
the golfers of the piano men's associations, national
and local, get together at the June convention there
will be a good deal to talk about.
Consequently there is something inspiring in the
following extract from a piece of business writing that
appears in the latest very attractive folder of the
Blakely Printing Co., of Chicago. The pamphlet is
entitled "Fore," and shows the waiting field and wav-
ing flag at the nine hole:
A few of those soft, sunny, dozy, spring-feverish
days—you know the kind—and every American
golfer feels the thrill that tells him that the old golf
bag is soon coming out of the dark corner where it
has been hibernating and will once again take to the
fairway and the rough in the greatest of all sports.
Yes, sir-ee!
There's a "kick" in the very thought of it all! And
the man who cannot enthuse in it is not a real golfer.
Just so in business—it takes the enthusiasm of the
"love of the game" to put across the best that's in
any proposition. You know it to be true—you've felt
it yourself.
ITEMS ABOUT THE
ACTIVE PIANO MEN
Collection of News of a Personal Kind Con-
cerns Prominent Ones Here and There
in the Trade.
Herman Beck, formerly engaged in sales promotion
work for the Platt Music Company, Los Angeles,
Cal., was recently made assistant general sales man-
ager of all the Platt stores.
W. Huntington has resigned as manager of the
music department of J. Lowenstein & Sons, Val-
paraiso, Ind.
B. L. Barnhouse, former sales manager for Thomas
Goggan & Bro, Waco, Texas, has been appointed
manager of the Mission branch store of Kohler &
Chase in San Francisco.
Leroy C. Gunther has now complete control of
Gunther & Kennedy, Inc., Middletown, N. Y.
J. Ivey Jessup has resigned as manager of the
branch store of Chas. M. Stieff, Inc., at Charlotte,
N. C., to enter another line of business.
George Jacobs, of Jacob's Music House, is presi-
dent of the Fort Wayne Music Dealers' Association,'
Fort Wayne, Indiana.
A. J. Lehmkuhl, for 30 years with Lyon & Healy,
Chicago, ten years as manager of the piano depart-
ment, i snow general manager for the L. Grunewald
Company, Inc., New Orleans, La.
Will Graham, of the Hopper-Kelly Company, first
president of the newly organized music dealers' asso-
ciation in that city, is a hustler who means to inter-
est every music dealer in the organization.
Harry D. Schoenwald, president of the Piano Club
of Chicago, has been made Chicago district manager
for the Adler Manufacturing Company, Louisville,
Ky., makers of pianos, phonographs and radio sets.
W. A. Allen and John Spada are partners in a new
music store which has been opened in Duquesne, Pa.
Mr. Allen was formerly manager of the branch store
of the W. F. Frederick Piano Company in Duquesne."*
Oscar H. Carlson is now eastern representative for
the sales promotion and service department of Strauch
Bros., Inc., New York.
G. S. McLaughlin is the new manager of the branch
stores of Lyon & Healy, Chicago.
ETHEL LEQINSKA VISITS
AT KNABE FACTORY
Visit of the Distinguished Artist Made Memorable
by Recital to Entire Working Force.
Ethel Leginska, who sailed on the Berengaria last
week, paid a visit to the Knabe factory while in that
city on April 10th. The visit was made memorable
by a recital which Miss Leginska voluntarily gave for
the entire working force of the Knabe organization.
Her program included works by Beethoven,
Goosens, Liszt, Chopin and her own composition,
"Dance of a Puppet." Miss Leginska's graceful com-
pliment to the men who make the Knabe pianos,
which she uses exclusively in her concerts, was deeply
appreciated and provoked an enthusiasm worthy of
the occasion.
Miss Leginska goes to Europe to fulfill many con-
cert engagements in several of which she appears as
conductor.
GREAT INTEREST IN
CONVENTION WINDOW DISPLAY
Music Week Window Displays to Be Photographed
and Described for Jury.
The window display contest in connection with the
annual convention of the music trades and industries
at the Drake Hotel, Chicago, the first week of June,
promises to be one of the most interesting events of
the big gathering.
In an announcement now being responded to in an
enthusiastic way music merchants of the national
association or otherwise identified in division mem-
berships of the Chamber have been invited to sub-
mit photographs of their Music Week Window Dis-
plays for exhibit at convention headquarters in the
Drake Hotel during the week of the convention, along
with letters describing their advertising tie-up to
Music Week. Write the name of firm, address and
name of individual who dressed window on the back
of photograph. A silver trophy and certificates of
merit will be awarded.
MOVES STORE IN PITTSBURGH. .
Scheidlmcier's Music Store, Pittsburgh, Pa., was
moved recently to a new location at 333-335 Second
Avenue boulevard, just a few doors below Smithfield
street. This firm carries a complete line of music
goods, including musical merchandise, and the school
in connection with it has a staff of twelve proficient
teachers, teaching all instruments. M. J. Scheidl-
meier. head of the company, is a nationally known
tenor banjo soloist.
HONOR FOR MILWAUKEE MEN.
Among the music dealers of Milwaukee, Wis., who
are included in the list of committee members for the
retail division of the Milwaukee Association of Com-
merce are Leslie C. Parker, president and manager
of the Carberry-Parker Co., who is chairman of the
committee on legislation, and is also a member of the
better business bureau committee, and Hugh W. Ran-
dall, president and general manager of the J. B. Brad-
ford Piano Co., who is chairman of the committee on
parking and traffic
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).