Presto
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PRESTO
May 23, 1925.
VARIETY OF TALENT
IN FACTORY STAFF
Jesse French & Sons Piano Co.'s Employes
Can Stage Everything From Classical
Music to a Four-Round Scrap.
with their mitts. The boys battled hard, Bob win-
ning the first two rounds and Don the final two.
Neither was given the winning decision.
ENGLISH MUSIC DEALERS
ALSO TAKE ON RADIO
Entertainment programs are frequently staged by Following Example of the Trade in America,
the British Dealers Tackle the Proposi-
the employes of piano factories but few factories can
present the variety in talents that was displayed at a
tion Profitably and as a Right.
recent social affair given by the factory staff of the
Jesse French & Sons Piano Co., New Castle, Ind.
The English music dealers take hold of the radio
The concerts in the Jesse French factory are always proposition very differently from the attitude of the
opened by the factory quartet composed of George trade in Germany. Instead of complaining that radio
Slick, Charles Slick, Ernest McNutt and Wayne is hurting their trade, the London dealers are putting
Riley, who can be delightfully classical or thrillingly in receivers and selling them—just as in this country.
jazzful as the mood of the audiences demands. These
The English music dealers determined to change
men, who arc masters of their various jobs at the radio from a menace to an asset to their trade and
bench in the piano factory, are soloists on their par- are now busy urging their inherent right to the radio
ticular instruments whose abilities arc well known to trade since the sets are built primarily for the pur-
orchestra leaders in a wide radius.
pose of listening in to music.
Charles Darling, an employe of the company,
In America as well as in Britain, the music trade
who was formerly a slack wire walker with a circus, looked in dismay upon the falling off in their sales
was one of the feature entertainers at the recent which came with the era of widespread broadcasting;
event. Although he had not been on a wire for ten
but now in both countries they have pluckily set to
years, Mr. Darling piled a number of classy tricks on work to make the best of new conditions and to get
the wire, such as sitting on a chair, juggling, going as much profit as they can from wireless. As the
through a barrel hoop, walking blindfolded, etc. The 'London "Piano-maker," remarks, it is as natural for
apparatus was put up in the small room where the the public to go to music dealers for radio apparatus
entertainment was held.
as for any other musical instrument, and therefore
Ed. Johnson is one of an efficient type of opera- the music trade should absorb as large a percentage
tives to whom is credited the admirable construction of the radio business as possible.
of Jesse French & Sons pianos. But Mr. Johnson
has a side line which is equally cultural—he makes
violins. Everybody in the factory knows of his abil-
ity to make fiddles and to play them, too, but he was
too good a number to leave off the program of the
recent concert. He proved his violin was good to
Brief Items of Trade News Gathered Here and
play and that he was good at playing it.
There in Music Field.
The desire for a little physical, or rather fisticuff
variety in the factory entertainment programs to mix
Cline & Anderson has opened a music store in the
with the esthetic numbers is usually acceded to by Arcade Market storeroom, Dayton, Ohio.
the promoters. The conclusion of the recent event
The new warerooms of the F. M. Rhoades Piano
was a spirited four-round go between Bob and Don Co. at Huron, S. D., was opened recently with an
Clark, two of the factory lads considered handiest attractive program, featuring the Baldwin piano.
The Mintz Piano Co., Cleveland, recently moved
to larger quarters at 1846 Euclid avenue, just east of
the Playhouse Square section.
Harold A. Wood is the manager of the branch
store recently opened at 635 Main street, Pine Bluff,
store of the Arkadelphia Music Co. of Arkadelphia,
Ark., recently opened at 635 Main street, Pine Bluff,
Arkansas.
Nicholas Woltjer recently opened a song shop in
connection with the Hager Music Shop, Monroe ave-
nue, Grand Rapids, Mich.
The Lane Music Store, Morrison street, Portland,
Ore., recently held a formal opening of its new store.
The Charles Parker Music Co.'s branch in Dallas,
Tex., is a Holton representative. The company now
operates stores in Houston, Waco and Galveston.
Ralph C. Hoffman, for four years the manager of
the Cheyenne, Wyo., branch of the Knight-Campbell
Music Co., has resigned.
Wilkinson's a piano store at 534 Seventeenth street,
Oakland, Cal., recently completed its first year in
business and celebrated the event with an anniversary
sale.
George Sytz, 1 East First street, Oswego, N. Y.,
is preparing to open a branch music store in the Hay-
ward Block, Fair Haven, N. Y.
The New England Music Co. of Waterbury, Conn.,
recently opened a branch store in Southington, Conn.,
is a complete line
carrying a complete line of Columbia phonographs,
records .pianos, musical instruments, sheet music and
It comprises a range of artisti-
radio receivers.
cally worthy instruments to
The Ansonia Furniture Co. has moved to tem-
porary quarters while a new building is being erected
please practically every purse:
on Main street, Ansonia, Conn.
The Hardman, official piano of
Columbia records are now being handled solely by
the Metropolitan Opera House;
the Espenhain Dry Goods Co., Milwaukee, and this
department has been moved to the main floor with
the Harrington and the Hensel
the music roll and sheet music departments.
Pianos in which is found that in-
NEWS ABOUT THE MEN
WHO RETAIL THE PIANOS
- Jill Gnduring'
I
™£Hardman
The Shfardman J^ine
builtdurabilitythatcharacterizes
all Hardman-made instruments;
the wonderful Hardman Repro-
ducing Piano; the Hardman
Autotone (the perfect player-
piano); and the popular Playo-
tone.
c
NEW YORK.
W. P. Haines & Co.
Manufacturers of
BRADBURY, WEBSTER
and
W. P. HAINES & CO.
Grand, Upright and Reproducing
Pianos
138th Street and Walton Avenue
NEW YORK
CHICKER1NG OFFICES
MOVED TO NEW YORK
Announcement This Week Gives Reasons for
Transfer of Executive and Sales Depart-
ments of Chickering & Sons.
Chickcring & Sons, Boston, is making an important
announcement this week to dealers regarding the re-
moval of the executive and sales offices to Chickering
Hall, New York. The offices have for several years
been at the factory in Boston. It is evidently to
Chickering & Sons' advantage; to have the executive
offices at Chickering Hall, New York, rather than
in Boston.
Another matter of importance lies in the fact that
dealers not infrequently visit New York in the course
of the year and with Chickering & Sons' executive
offices right there the company can see more of vis-
iting dealers who often find it inconvenient to make
the additional trip to the Boston offices. C. Alfred
Wagner, president; his assistant, Lionel Tompkins,
Clifford C. Chickering and Herman T. Spain will
constitute the personnel of the New York offices.
Chickering Hall was erected not only to be the
New York home of the Chickering but to mark the
completion of a full century of the artistic musical
endeavor begun by Jonas Chickering in 1823. Its
location in the heart of the new shopping district, in
that part of 57th street which has been referred to
as "where Fifth avenue turns west," is especially
auspicious. Its beautiful recital salon has already
made it a center of musical activities of a particularly
choice and intimate nature. Its handsome illuminated
tower is a conspicuous feature in a region noted for
its fine buildings.
The LEADING LINE
WEAVER PIANOS
Orandu, Upright* and Players
Finest and most artistic
piano in design, tone and
construction tnat can be
made.
YORK PIANOS
Uprights and Player Pianos
A high grade piano of great
vaiue and with charming tone quality.
Livingston Pianos— Uprights and Player Pianos
A popular piano at a popular price.
Over 70,000 instrument* made by this company are sing-
ing their own praises in all parts of the civilised world.
Write for catalogues and state on what terms you would
like to deal, and we will make yon a proposition if yen are
located in open territory.
WEAVER PIANO CO., Inc.
Factory: YORK, PA.
Eatabltahod 1870
For a
Bigger and Better
Business
There is nothing to compare
with the complete line of
M. SCHULZ CO.
The Players are RIGHT in
everything t h a t means
money to the dealers and
satisfaction to the public
You will never do anything better
than when you get in touch with
M. SCHULZ CO.
711 Milwaukee Avenue
CHICAGO
OUTHPAN BRANCH: 700 Gwdbr Bid*. ATLANTA, GA
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PRESTO
May 23, 1925.
VARIETY OF TALENT
IN FACTORY STAFF
Jesse French & Sons Piano Co.'s Employes
Can Stage Everything From Classical
Music to a Four-Round Scrap.
with their mitts. The boys battled hard, Bob win-
ning the first two rounds and Don the final two.
Neither was given the winning decision.
ENGLISH MUSIC DEALERS
ALSO TAKE ON RADIO
Entertainment programs are frequently staged by Following Example of the Trade in America,
the British Dealers Tackle the Proposi-
the employes of piano factories but few factories can
present the variety in talents that was displayed at a
tion Profitably and as a Right.
recent social affair given by the factory staff of the
Jesse French & Sons Piano Co., New Castle, Ind.
The English music dealers take hold of the radio
The concerts in the Jesse French factory are always proposition very differently from the attitude of the
opened by the factory quartet composed of George trade in Germany. Instead of complaining that radio
Slick, Charles Slick, Ernest McNutt and Wayne is hurting their trade, the London dealers are putting
Riley, who can be delightfully classical or thrillingly in receivers and selling them—just as in this country.
jazzful as the mood of the audiences demands. These
The English music dealers determined to change
men, who arc masters of their various jobs at the radio from a menace to an asset to their trade and
bench in the piano factory, are soloists on their par- are now busy urging their inherent right to the radio
ticular instruments whose abilities arc well known to trade since the sets are built primarily for the pur-
orchestra leaders in a wide radius.
pose of listening in to music.
Charles Darling, an employe of the company,
In America as well as in Britain, the music trade
who was formerly a slack wire walker with a circus, looked in dismay upon the falling off in their sales
was one of the feature entertainers at the recent which came with the era of widespread broadcasting;
event. Although he had not been on a wire for ten
but now in both countries they have pluckily set to
years, Mr. Darling piled a number of classy tricks on work to make the best of new conditions and to get
the wire, such as sitting on a chair, juggling, going as much profit as they can from wireless. As the
through a barrel hoop, walking blindfolded, etc. The 'London "Piano-maker," remarks, it is as natural for
apparatus was put up in the small room where the the public to go to music dealers for radio apparatus
entertainment was held.
as for any other musical instrument, and therefore
Ed. Johnson is one of an efficient type of opera- the music trade should absorb as large a percentage
tives to whom is credited the admirable construction of the radio business as possible.
of Jesse French & Sons pianos. But Mr. Johnson
has a side line which is equally cultural—he makes
violins. Everybody in the factory knows of his abil-
ity to make fiddles and to play them, too, but he was
too good a number to leave off the program of the
recent concert. He proved his violin was good to
Brief Items of Trade News Gathered Here and
play and that he was good at playing it.
There in Music Field.
The desire for a little physical, or rather fisticuff
variety in the factory entertainment programs to mix
Cline & Anderson has opened a music store in the
with the esthetic numbers is usually acceded to by Arcade Market storeroom, Dayton, Ohio.
the promoters. The conclusion of the recent event
The new warerooms of the F. M. Rhoades Piano
was a spirited four-round go between Bob and Don Co. at Huron, S. D., was opened recently with an
Clark, two of the factory lads considered handiest attractive program, featuring the Baldwin piano.
The Mintz Piano Co., Cleveland, recently moved
to larger quarters at 1846 Euclid avenue, just east of
the Playhouse Square section.
Harold A. Wood is the manager of the branch
store recently opened at 635 Main street, Pine Bluff,
store of the Arkadelphia Music Co. of Arkadelphia,
Ark., recently opened at 635 Main street, Pine Bluff,
Arkansas.
Nicholas Woltjer recently opened a song shop in
connection with the Hager Music Shop, Monroe ave-
nue, Grand Rapids, Mich.
The Lane Music Store, Morrison street, Portland,
Ore., recently held a formal opening of its new store.
The Charles Parker Music Co.'s branch in Dallas,
Tex., is a Holton representative. The company now
operates stores in Houston, Waco and Galveston.
Ralph C. Hoffman, for four years the manager of
the Cheyenne, Wyo., branch of the Knight-Campbell
Music Co., has resigned.
Wilkinson's a piano store at 534 Seventeenth street,
Oakland, Cal., recently completed its first year in
business and celebrated the event with an anniversary
sale.
George Sytz, 1 East First street, Oswego, N. Y.,
is preparing to open a branch music store in the Hay-
ward Block, Fair Haven, N. Y.
The New England Music Co. of Waterbury, Conn.,
recently opened a branch store in Southington, Conn.,
is a complete line
carrying a complete line of Columbia phonographs,
records .pianos, musical instruments, sheet music and
It comprises a range of artisti-
radio receivers.
cally worthy instruments to
The Ansonia Furniture Co. has moved to tem-
porary quarters while a new building is being erected
please practically every purse:
on Main street, Ansonia, Conn.
The Hardman, official piano of
Columbia records are now being handled solely by
the Metropolitan Opera House;
the Espenhain Dry Goods Co., Milwaukee, and this
department has been moved to the main floor with
the Harrington and the Hensel
the music roll and sheet music departments.
Pianos in which is found that in-
NEWS ABOUT THE MEN
WHO RETAIL THE PIANOS
- Jill Gnduring'
I
™£Hardman
The Shfardman J^ine
builtdurabilitythatcharacterizes
all Hardman-made instruments;
the wonderful Hardman Repro-
ducing Piano; the Hardman
Autotone (the perfect player-
piano); and the popular Playo-
tone.
c
NEW YORK.
W. P. Haines & Co.
Manufacturers of
BRADBURY, WEBSTER
and
W. P. HAINES & CO.
Grand, Upright and Reproducing
Pianos
138th Street and Walton Avenue
NEW YORK
CHICKER1NG OFFICES
MOVED TO NEW YORK
Announcement This Week Gives Reasons for
Transfer of Executive and Sales Depart-
ments of Chickering & Sons.
Chickcring & Sons, Boston, is making an important
announcement this week to dealers regarding the re-
moval of the executive and sales offices to Chickering
Hall, New York. The offices have for several years
been at the factory in Boston. It is evidently to
Chickering & Sons' advantage; to have the executive
offices at Chickering Hall, New York, rather than
in Boston.
Another matter of importance lies in the fact that
dealers not infrequently visit New York in the course
of the year and with Chickering & Sons' executive
offices right there the company can see more of vis-
iting dealers who often find it inconvenient to make
the additional trip to the Boston offices. C. Alfred
Wagner, president; his assistant, Lionel Tompkins,
Clifford C. Chickering and Herman T. Spain will
constitute the personnel of the New York offices.
Chickering Hall was erected not only to be the
New York home of the Chickering but to mark the
completion of a full century of the artistic musical
endeavor begun by Jonas Chickering in 1823. Its
location in the heart of the new shopping district, in
that part of 57th street which has been referred to
as "where Fifth avenue turns west," is especially
auspicious. Its beautiful recital salon has already
made it a center of musical activities of a particularly
choice and intimate nature. Its handsome illuminated
tower is a conspicuous feature in a region noted for
its fine buildings.
The LEADING LINE
WEAVER PIANOS
Orandu, Upright* and Players
Finest and most artistic
piano in design, tone and
construction tnat can be
made.
YORK PIANOS
Uprights and Player Pianos
A high grade piano of great
vaiue and with charming tone quality.
Livingston Pianos— Uprights and Player Pianos
A popular piano at a popular price.
Over 70,000 instrument* made by this company are sing-
ing their own praises in all parts of the civilised world.
Write for catalogues and state on what terms you would
like to deal, and we will make yon a proposition if yen are
located in open territory.
WEAVER PIANO CO., Inc.
Factory: YORK, PA.
Eatabltahod 1870
For a
Bigger and Better
Business
There is nothing to compare
with the complete line of
M. SCHULZ CO.
The Players are RIGHT in
everything t h a t means
money to the dealers and
satisfaction to the public
You will never do anything better
than when you get in touch with
M. SCHULZ CO.
711 Milwaukee Avenue
CHICAGO
OUTHPAN BRANCH: 700 Gwdbr Bid*. ATLANTA, GA
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).