Presto
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PRESTO
May 2, 1925.
CHRISTMAN
"The First Touch Tells
9 9
The Famous
Studio Grand
(only 5 ft. long)
A DISTINCTIVE LEADER
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.
DRESS UP YOUR
WINDOW DISPLAYS
Suggestion to Members of the Chicago P. & O.
Association for National Music
Week.
In behalf of the Chicago Piano & Organ Asso-
ciation, F. P. Whitmore has addressed the following
reminder to all members:
"This is an added reminder that next week—May
3rd-9th—is National Music Week.
"With this is a message of the splendid privilege
and opportunity given to us in the industry to sup-
port and further the promotion so liberally extended
by outside sources.
"Here is just a suggestion of some of the com-
mendable promotions arranged by the chairman of
the Chicago Federation of Women's Organizations:
Mrs. Ora Lightner Frost, for Chicago Music Week;
daily noon concerts at Marshall Field's; composition
contest for juniors, with $50 in prizes offered by The
Cable Piano Co.; May breakfast and artists' revue
Monday noon, May 4th, at the Morrison Hotel; spe-
cial reservations for members and old folks as guests
at Kimball Hall, Friday noon, May 8th.
"Window display cards will be distributed by a
committee from the Chicago Piano Club, or these
can be obtained locally from Adam Schneider, but
these alone do not adequately carry the message. So
we include our suggestion of your making your show
windows particularly attractive for Music Week and
then with the special posters linking this up with the
national campaign.
"We know all of this meets with your hearty ap-
proval and that you will be pleased to contribute
your part towards increasing public attention to
Music Week and all it stands for."
IMPRESSIVE SHOWING OF
DU0=ART IN CHICAGO
Lyon & Healy Displays Large Portrait of
Paderewski and His Opinion of the Instru-
ment Included in Beautiful Window.
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"
Rog U. 8. Pat Off
Christman Piano Co.
597 East 137th St.
New York
A very impressive and dignified display of the
Duo-Art reproducing piano has been arranged in the
large corner window of Lyon & Healy, Wabash
and Jackson, Chicago, this week. The window has
an admirable location, being easily visible from the
four corners of the street intersection and is invalu-
able from an advertising viewpoint.
The prestige of the Duo-Art instrument is made
plain in the fact that the greatest pianist, Paderewski,
records for it exclusively. A large portrait of the
famous pianist stands near the piano and also a card
on which he is quoted as follows:
"My attention has been called to the fact that the
manufacturers of certain reproducing pianos are ad-
vertising rolls bearing my name for use with their
instruments.
"In justice to myself and for the protection of the
public, I deem it necessary to make the following
statement.
"I have never played for any American reproduc-
ing instrument except the Duo-Art."
SIX OF MUSIC STORES IN
EVERY TEN SELL RADIO
And the Forthcoming Chicago Convention of
the Trades Is Styled the Silver
Anniversary.
That radio has taken its place among the essentials
in the field of music is the belief of students of
things musical, this belief being supported by a sur-
vey just completed in the interest of the music trades,
says a writer in the Chicago Evening Post.
This survey indicates that six out of every ten
music stores in the United States now handle radio
sets along with the general run of musical instru-
ments. Radio's place in music will have a conspicu-
ous spot on the program of the silver jubilee conven-
tion of the music trades, to be held in Chicago June
8 to 11, inclusive.
Seven hundred music stores in all parts of the
country sent in questionnaires relative to radio in
the music store, and the deductions were based upon
these questionnaires. Most of the stores consider
radio as "just another musical instrument," and sales
of radio sets are "lumped" with the sales of pianos,
players, phonographs, and other musical instruments,
only a few of the stores conducting separate radio de-
partments.
There is a strong feeling among music merchants
in general that the radio is doing much to "make
America musical"—the slogan of the silver jubilee
convention of the music trades—and music merchants
are counting on a general increase in the demand for
musical instruments as a result of the radio.
The radio exhibit at the convention will be one of
the most complete ever assembled, and the subject of
radio will be one of the features of the discussion
periods.
STORY & CLARK REMOVAL
OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED
Neatly Printed Reminder of Upward Step by Old
Chicago Industry Received by Mall.
An artistically arranged and printed sheet of paper
bearing the following notice has been received by
numberless friends and customers of the Story &
Clark Piano Co. The announcement is adorned also
by a good picture of the new building which will
henceforth be headquarters of the fine old piano
house:
"We wish to announce the removal of our general
offices and store to our new building at 173 North
Michigan avenue, Chicago, Illinois, May first, nine-
teen hundred twenty-five.—Story & Clark Piano
Company."
SORT OF JUBILEE MEETIN'
OF CHICAGO PIANO CLUB
Tuesday Brought in Twenty-seven New Members by
Activity of "Hank" Hewitt.
The Piano Club of Chicago announced 27 new
members at Tuesday's meeting this week. The roll
of honor for getting them in is: Albert Neely, 6 new
members; Billy Meister, 5 new members; Harry Bibb,
5 new members.
Every member of the club seems to be looking for
a new member. "We are going just like a pennant
winning baseball team—everyone plugging- for the
good of the club," says Harry D. Schoenwald,
president. "This is the real spirit of the Piano Club.
No one can resist a winner.
"We congratulate Charles Frederick Stein, long a
member of this club. Mr. Stein is manufacturing
grand and reproducing pianos at 1635 Fulton street,
this city. He found time, however, to sign up two
new members for Hank Hewitt, even though opening
a new piano factory."
"Our speaker next Monday, May 4th, at Illinois
Athletic Club, will be Russell B. Moon, an authority
in the moving picture field. Pete Meyers signed him
up. The Speakers' Committee promises a big sur-
prise soon.
HENRY F. MILLER PIANO AT
HOME BEAUTIFUL DISPLAY
Fine Exhibit of Artistic Instruments Add to Interest
of Special Event This Week.
The Henry F. Miller store is exhibiting this week
at the Boston Home Beautiful Exposition at
Mechanics Building. Two sections near the main
entrance are devoted to the display of Henry F.
Miller pianos. The exhibit consists of a Henry F.
Miller Welte-Mignon Reproducing Grand, a Baby
Grand, Lyric Grand and a player.
The exhibit, which is under the direction of John
E. Carter, manager of the Boston Miller store, has
attracted considerable attention. One of the features
is the playing of Joseph Eckman, noted organist and
pianist. Mr. Eckman, who was formerly player of
the municipal organ at San Diego, California, is now
connected with the Boston store of the Henry F.
Miller Co.
A Henry F. Miller Lyric Grand in a special wal-
nut case is also being used in the Hostess Room at
the Home Beautiful Exhibit.
RETURNS TO BOSTON.
Frank Butler, of the Continental Piano Company,
has returned to the Boston office after a trip through
New England. He will leave again shortly for a trip
through the Middle West.
FROM ATLANTA, GA.
F. A. Leatherman, Atlanta, Ga., music merchant,
was a Chicago trade visitor early this week. Mr.
Leatherman, who is a Gulbransen dealer, reports a
fair trade in his city.
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May 2, 1925.
CHRISTMAN
"The First Touch Tells
9 9
The Famous
Studio Grand
(only 5 ft. long)
A DISTINCTIVE LEADER
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.
DRESS UP YOUR
WINDOW DISPLAYS
Suggestion to Members of the Chicago P. & O.
Association for National Music
Week.
In behalf of the Chicago Piano & Organ Asso-
ciation, F. P. Whitmore has addressed the following
reminder to all members:
"This is an added reminder that next week—May
3rd-9th—is National Music Week.
"With this is a message of the splendid privilege
and opportunity given to us in the industry to sup-
port and further the promotion so liberally extended
by outside sources.
"Here is just a suggestion of some of the com-
mendable promotions arranged by the chairman of
the Chicago Federation of Women's Organizations:
Mrs. Ora Lightner Frost, for Chicago Music Week;
daily noon concerts at Marshall Field's; composition
contest for juniors, with $50 in prizes offered by The
Cable Piano Co.; May breakfast and artists' revue
Monday noon, May 4th, at the Morrison Hotel; spe-
cial reservations for members and old folks as guests
at Kimball Hall, Friday noon, May 8th.
"Window display cards will be distributed by a
committee from the Chicago Piano Club, or these
can be obtained locally from Adam Schneider, but
these alone do not adequately carry the message. So
we include our suggestion of your making your show
windows particularly attractive for Music Week and
then with the special posters linking this up with the
national campaign.
"We know all of this meets with your hearty ap-
proval and that you will be pleased to contribute
your part towards increasing public attention to
Music Week and all it stands for."
IMPRESSIVE SHOWING OF
DU0=ART IN CHICAGO
Lyon & Healy Displays Large Portrait of
Paderewski and His Opinion of the Instru-
ment Included in Beautiful Window.
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"
Rog U. 8. Pat Off
Christman Piano Co.
597 East 137th St.
New York
A very impressive and dignified display of the
Duo-Art reproducing piano has been arranged in the
large corner window of Lyon & Healy, Wabash
and Jackson, Chicago, this week. The window has
an admirable location, being easily visible from the
four corners of the street intersection and is invalu-
able from an advertising viewpoint.
The prestige of the Duo-Art instrument is made
plain in the fact that the greatest pianist, Paderewski,
records for it exclusively. A large portrait of the
famous pianist stands near the piano and also a card
on which he is quoted as follows:
"My attention has been called to the fact that the
manufacturers of certain reproducing pianos are ad-
vertising rolls bearing my name for use with their
instruments.
"In justice to myself and for the protection of the
public, I deem it necessary to make the following
statement.
"I have never played for any American reproduc-
ing instrument except the Duo-Art."
SIX OF MUSIC STORES IN
EVERY TEN SELL RADIO
And the Forthcoming Chicago Convention of
the Trades Is Styled the Silver
Anniversary.
That radio has taken its place among the essentials
in the field of music is the belief of students of
things musical, this belief being supported by a sur-
vey just completed in the interest of the music trades,
says a writer in the Chicago Evening Post.
This survey indicates that six out of every ten
music stores in the United States now handle radio
sets along with the general run of musical instru-
ments. Radio's place in music will have a conspicu-
ous spot on the program of the silver jubilee conven-
tion of the music trades, to be held in Chicago June
8 to 11, inclusive.
Seven hundred music stores in all parts of the
country sent in questionnaires relative to radio in
the music store, and the deductions were based upon
these questionnaires. Most of the stores consider
radio as "just another musical instrument," and sales
of radio sets are "lumped" with the sales of pianos,
players, phonographs, and other musical instruments,
only a few of the stores conducting separate radio de-
partments.
There is a strong feeling among music merchants
in general that the radio is doing much to "make
America musical"—the slogan of the silver jubilee
convention of the music trades—and music merchants
are counting on a general increase in the demand for
musical instruments as a result of the radio.
The radio exhibit at the convention will be one of
the most complete ever assembled, and the subject of
radio will be one of the features of the discussion
periods.
STORY & CLARK REMOVAL
OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED
Neatly Printed Reminder of Upward Step by Old
Chicago Industry Received by Mall.
An artistically arranged and printed sheet of paper
bearing the following notice has been received by
numberless friends and customers of the Story &
Clark Piano Co. The announcement is adorned also
by a good picture of the new building which will
henceforth be headquarters of the fine old piano
house:
"We wish to announce the removal of our general
offices and store to our new building at 173 North
Michigan avenue, Chicago, Illinois, May first, nine-
teen hundred twenty-five.—Story & Clark Piano
Company."
SORT OF JUBILEE MEETIN'
OF CHICAGO PIANO CLUB
Tuesday Brought in Twenty-seven New Members by
Activity of "Hank" Hewitt.
The Piano Club of Chicago announced 27 new
members at Tuesday's meeting this week. The roll
of honor for getting them in is: Albert Neely, 6 new
members; Billy Meister, 5 new members; Harry Bibb,
5 new members.
Every member of the club seems to be looking for
a new member. "We are going just like a pennant
winning baseball team—everyone plugging- for the
good of the club," says Harry D. Schoenwald,
president. "This is the real spirit of the Piano Club.
No one can resist a winner.
"We congratulate Charles Frederick Stein, long a
member of this club. Mr. Stein is manufacturing
grand and reproducing pianos at 1635 Fulton street,
this city. He found time, however, to sign up two
new members for Hank Hewitt, even though opening
a new piano factory."
"Our speaker next Monday, May 4th, at Illinois
Athletic Club, will be Russell B. Moon, an authority
in the moving picture field. Pete Meyers signed him
up. The Speakers' Committee promises a big sur-
prise soon.
HENRY F. MILLER PIANO AT
HOME BEAUTIFUL DISPLAY
Fine Exhibit of Artistic Instruments Add to Interest
of Special Event This Week.
The Henry F. Miller store is exhibiting this week
at the Boston Home Beautiful Exposition at
Mechanics Building. Two sections near the main
entrance are devoted to the display of Henry F.
Miller pianos. The exhibit consists of a Henry F.
Miller Welte-Mignon Reproducing Grand, a Baby
Grand, Lyric Grand and a player.
The exhibit, which is under the direction of John
E. Carter, manager of the Boston Miller store, has
attracted considerable attention. One of the features
is the playing of Joseph Eckman, noted organist and
pianist. Mr. Eckman, who was formerly player of
the municipal organ at San Diego, California, is now
connected with the Boston store of the Henry F.
Miller Co.
A Henry F. Miller Lyric Grand in a special wal-
nut case is also being used in the Hostess Room at
the Home Beautiful Exhibit.
RETURNS TO BOSTON.
Frank Butler, of the Continental Piano Company,
has returned to the Boston office after a trip through
New England. He will leave again shortly for a trip
through the Middle West.
FROM ATLANTA, GA.
F. A. Leatherman, Atlanta, Ga., music merchant,
was a Chicago trade visitor early this week. Mr.
Leatherman, who is a Gulbransen dealer, reports a
fair trade in his city.
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All Rights Reserved. Digitized from the archives of the MBSI with support from NAMM - The International Music Products Association (www.namm.org).
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