Presto
Issue: 1925 2045 - Page 13
October 3, 1925.
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PRESTO
SCHUMANN FACTORY
BUSY MAKING GRANDS
Calls for Latest Model Exceed Afll Expecta-
tion and Problem Is to Fill Orders
Promptly.
A visit by a Presto man to the factory of the
Schumann Piano Co., Rockford, 111., last week dis-
closed an inspiring condition of activity in every de-
partment of a plant where quality is never sacrified
to quantity. The acceptance of an invitation by
Superintendent James Hurst to go through the fac-
tory was a verification of a lively condition gathered
from Schiller dealers.
For months past there has been a great demand for
the Schumann grands, and just now it is a problem
to fill orders for their latest model, the "A-A" grand,
a 4 feet 10 inch instrument of fine qualities and won-
derful capabilities, so that just now the Schumann
factory resembles one given up entirely to the manu-
facture of grands notwithstanding the production of
uprights and players goes on steadily.
The Schumann force at the factory, W. N. and
Willard Van Matre, Salesmanager C. B. Mclntosh,
Hoyne Wells of the advertising and publicity depart-
ment and the salesmen are all optimistic as to busi-
ness ahead, basing their belief in increasing trade on
their own steadily increasing business as it is develop-
ing with the Schumann Piano Company at the pres-
ent time.
piano as I do with my baton on the night of the per-
formance. It has been a privilege.
"That these interpretations will live through the
marvel of the Ampico and the glorious voice of the
Chickering completes my pleasure."
Signor Merola is also an enthusiastic admirer of
the Chickering and it was on a Chickering Ampico
Grand at the warerooms of Lee S. Roberts, Inc., in
San Francisco that Mr. Merola heard his completed
recordings which aroused the enthusiasm expressed
in his letter.
GERMAN PIANO UNSUITED
TO CANADA'S CLIMATE
Convention of German Piano Dealers Hear Uncom-
plimentary Things Said of Fatherland Instruments.
The Union of German Piano Dealers at a recent
meeting heard a report from Canada on the inability
of the German-made piano to "stand up" under the
trying climate of the Dominion. The report rested
on the information of a German of great experience
in piano production in Canada and the United States
as well as Germany, who has established a piano
business in Canada.
He would, he said, import German pianos could it
be done with profit. But the German piano must be
of a quality that will not injure his reputation. It is
true Germany produces cheap pianos that can be sold
in Canada cheaper than the Canadian product. But
these do not hold. Even good and dear German
pianos that would, with duty, etc., cost more than
Canadian ones have not stood the Canadian climate,
and such as would stand Canadian conditions would
be too costly to compete.
This conception of the German expert is confirmed
by the general experience of Europeans "who have
Conductor-Pianist, Delighted with Operatic come here with their furniture and pianos. Thus a
piano from a good German factory brought over by
Recordings on the Ampico, Tells Pleas-
an official of the German consulate to Canada be-
came unfit for use within three years. The sound
ure in Letter to Manufacturers.
Gaetano Merola, distinguished conductor of opera board is sprung, the keyboard and veneer loose, etc."
It is a standing complaint of European consulate
and pianist, has just heard his first recordings on the
officials that their imported furniture from Europe is
ruined by the climate. The contrasts in Canada of
heat, cold, wet and dry are too extreme. The official
communication quoted councils the sending of a com-
petent German to study Canadian conditions, and ad-
vise as to the possibility of importing German pianos
into Canada profitably.
GAETANO MEROLA HEARS
HIS OWN RECORD
STOCK OF WILEY PIANO
HOUSE BOUGHT BY BANKER
Sale of the stock and equipment of the Alfred
Wiley Piano House, 1018 Fourth avenue, Huntington,
W. Va., to Don Miller, local banker, realtor and
owner of the building in which the store was housed,
was confirmed by the Wiley creditors last week.
The stock was sold for $5,000 cash. The bid of W.
V. Grimes of Logan, on stock in the Logan store,
was rejected. Mr. Grimes' bid was $975. Stock in
the Logan store will be sold piece by piece.
Mr. Wiley, as proprietor of the Alfred Wiley Piano
House, went into bankruptcy more than a month ago
and since that time his store in Huntington and the
one in Logan have been closed.
Ampico. He has written expressing his appreciation
in the following letter:
"I have just heard ray first Ampico recordings of
the group of six operatic numbers. It was myself
playing, I assure you. It was uncanny.
"I think I have a peculiar interest in the Ampico.
A conductor of opera, by the very nature of his work,
feels something in an operatic number which few con-
cert pianists can interpret. It is for that reason that
I have enjoyed expressing operatic music with the
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FACTORY
1020 So. Central Park Ave.,
Corner Flllmore Street
and Quality Since 1873
Factories and General Offices
526-536 Niagara Street
BUFFALO, N. Y.
STRICH & ZEIDLER, h e
GRAND, UPRIGHT and PLAYER
AND
HOMER PIANOS
740-742 East 136th Street
NEW YORK
BRINKERHOFF
Grands
Player-Pianos
and Pianos
BRINKERHOFF PIANO CO.
OFFICES, REPUBLIC BLDG.
209 State Street
CHICAGO
HEPPE PIANO COMPANY
are the only pianos In the world with
Three Sounding Boards.
Scented In the United States, Great Britaibi
France, Germany and Canada.
Liberal arrangements to responsible agents only.
M a i n Office, 1117 Chestnut St.
PHILADELPHIA,, PA.
Whenever you hear the name RADLE you immediately
think of a wonderful tone quality, durabili y and design.
Musicians insist on RADLE
319-321 So. Wabaoh Ave.,
New Adam Schaaf Bufldfoft,
- Reproducing Grands
RADLE TONE—The Musician's Delight
OFFICES AND SALESROOMS
CHICAGO, ILL.
C. KURTZMANN & CO.
the Heppe, Marcellus and Edouard Jules Ptaro
manufactured by the
ASSIGNS PATENT TO M. SCHULZ CO.
A patent for a sheet-stopping mechanism for auto-
matic musical instruments recently granted by the
Patent Office to Adolph P. Gustavson, Chicago, has
been assigned the M. Schulz Company. The device
has an important function to perform in the playing
and rewinding of the music sheet.
GRANDS AND UPRIGHTS
Established Reputation
Manufactured by
TUNERS PLAN DRIVE.
The Chicago Division of the National Association
of Piano Tuners' Inc., will open a drive for new
members at the beginning of November. The divi-
sion has over a hundred members but it is expected
by L. C. Singer, president of the division, that the
number can be doubled by strenuous efforts.
ADAM SCHAAF, Inc.
R E P P ?28gj NO
NO
Grands—Players
The Line That Sells Easily
and Satisfies Always
Pianos of Huntdngton, West Virginia, Dealer, Re-
cently Declared Bankrupt, Now Being Retailed.
GAETANO MEROLA.
KURTZMANN
F. RADLE, Inc.
Est. 1850.
609-11 W. 36th St., New York CHy
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13
PRESTO
SCHUMANN FACTORY
BUSY MAKING GRANDS
Calls for Latest Model Exceed Afll Expecta-
tion and Problem Is to Fill Orders
Promptly.
A visit by a Presto man to the factory of the
Schumann Piano Co., Rockford, 111., last week dis-
closed an inspiring condition of activity in every de-
partment of a plant where quality is never sacrified
to quantity. The acceptance of an invitation by
Superintendent James Hurst to go through the fac-
tory was a verification of a lively condition gathered
from Schiller dealers.
For months past there has been a great demand for
the Schumann grands, and just now it is a problem
to fill orders for their latest model, the "A-A" grand,
a 4 feet 10 inch instrument of fine qualities and won-
derful capabilities, so that just now the Schumann
factory resembles one given up entirely to the manu-
facture of grands notwithstanding the production of
uprights and players goes on steadily.
The Schumann force at the factory, W. N. and
Willard Van Matre, Salesmanager C. B. Mclntosh,
Hoyne Wells of the advertising and publicity depart-
ment and the salesmen are all optimistic as to busi-
ness ahead, basing their belief in increasing trade on
their own steadily increasing business as it is develop-
ing with the Schumann Piano Company at the pres-
ent time.
piano as I do with my baton on the night of the per-
formance. It has been a privilege.
"That these interpretations will live through the
marvel of the Ampico and the glorious voice of the
Chickering completes my pleasure."
Signor Merola is also an enthusiastic admirer of
the Chickering and it was on a Chickering Ampico
Grand at the warerooms of Lee S. Roberts, Inc., in
San Francisco that Mr. Merola heard his completed
recordings which aroused the enthusiasm expressed
in his letter.
GERMAN PIANO UNSUITED
TO CANADA'S CLIMATE
Convention of German Piano Dealers Hear Uncom-
plimentary Things Said of Fatherland Instruments.
The Union of German Piano Dealers at a recent
meeting heard a report from Canada on the inability
of the German-made piano to "stand up" under the
trying climate of the Dominion. The report rested
on the information of a German of great experience
in piano production in Canada and the United States
as well as Germany, who has established a piano
business in Canada.
He would, he said, import German pianos could it
be done with profit. But the German piano must be
of a quality that will not injure his reputation. It is
true Germany produces cheap pianos that can be sold
in Canada cheaper than the Canadian product. But
these do not hold. Even good and dear German
pianos that would, with duty, etc., cost more than
Canadian ones have not stood the Canadian climate,
and such as would stand Canadian conditions would
be too costly to compete.
This conception of the German expert is confirmed
by the general experience of Europeans "who have
Conductor-Pianist, Delighted with Operatic come here with their furniture and pianos. Thus a
piano from a good German factory brought over by
Recordings on the Ampico, Tells Pleas-
an official of the German consulate to Canada be-
came unfit for use within three years. The sound
ure in Letter to Manufacturers.
Gaetano Merola, distinguished conductor of opera board is sprung, the keyboard and veneer loose, etc."
It is a standing complaint of European consulate
and pianist, has just heard his first recordings on the
officials that their imported furniture from Europe is
ruined by the climate. The contrasts in Canada of
heat, cold, wet and dry are too extreme. The official
communication quoted councils the sending of a com-
petent German to study Canadian conditions, and ad-
vise as to the possibility of importing German pianos
into Canada profitably.
GAETANO MEROLA HEARS
HIS OWN RECORD
STOCK OF WILEY PIANO
HOUSE BOUGHT BY BANKER
Sale of the stock and equipment of the Alfred
Wiley Piano House, 1018 Fourth avenue, Huntington,
W. Va., to Don Miller, local banker, realtor and
owner of the building in which the store was housed,
was confirmed by the Wiley creditors last week.
The stock was sold for $5,000 cash. The bid of W.
V. Grimes of Logan, on stock in the Logan store,
was rejected. Mr. Grimes' bid was $975. Stock in
the Logan store will be sold piece by piece.
Mr. Wiley, as proprietor of the Alfred Wiley Piano
House, went into bankruptcy more than a month ago
and since that time his store in Huntington and the
one in Logan have been closed.
Ampico. He has written expressing his appreciation
in the following letter:
"I have just heard ray first Ampico recordings of
the group of six operatic numbers. It was myself
playing, I assure you. It was uncanny.
"I think I have a peculiar interest in the Ampico.
A conductor of opera, by the very nature of his work,
feels something in an operatic number which few con-
cert pianists can interpret. It is for that reason that
I have enjoyed expressing operatic music with the
?28gjj
FACTORY
1020 So. Central Park Ave.,
Corner Flllmore Street
and Quality Since 1873
Factories and General Offices
526-536 Niagara Street
BUFFALO, N. Y.
STRICH & ZEIDLER, h e
GRAND, UPRIGHT and PLAYER
AND
HOMER PIANOS
740-742 East 136th Street
NEW YORK
BRINKERHOFF
Grands
Player-Pianos
and Pianos
BRINKERHOFF PIANO CO.
OFFICES, REPUBLIC BLDG.
209 State Street
CHICAGO
HEPPE PIANO COMPANY
are the only pianos In the world with
Three Sounding Boards.
Scented In the United States, Great Britaibi
France, Germany and Canada.
Liberal arrangements to responsible agents only.
M a i n Office, 1117 Chestnut St.
PHILADELPHIA,, PA.
Whenever you hear the name RADLE you immediately
think of a wonderful tone quality, durabili y and design.
Musicians insist on RADLE
319-321 So. Wabaoh Ave.,
New Adam Schaaf Bufldfoft,
- Reproducing Grands
RADLE TONE—The Musician's Delight
OFFICES AND SALESROOMS
CHICAGO, ILL.
C. KURTZMANN & CO.
the Heppe, Marcellus and Edouard Jules Ptaro
manufactured by the
ASSIGNS PATENT TO M. SCHULZ CO.
A patent for a sheet-stopping mechanism for auto-
matic musical instruments recently granted by the
Patent Office to Adolph P. Gustavson, Chicago, has
been assigned the M. Schulz Company. The device
has an important function to perform in the playing
and rewinding of the music sheet.
GRANDS AND UPRIGHTS
Established Reputation
Manufactured by
TUNERS PLAN DRIVE.
The Chicago Division of the National Association
of Piano Tuners' Inc., will open a drive for new
members at the beginning of November. The divi-
sion has over a hundred members but it is expected
by L. C. Singer, president of the division, that the
number can be doubled by strenuous efforts.
ADAM SCHAAF, Inc.
R E P P ?28gj NO
NO
Grands—Players
The Line That Sells Easily
and Satisfies Always
Pianos of Huntdngton, West Virginia, Dealer, Re-
cently Declared Bankrupt, Now Being Retailed.
GAETANO MEROLA.
KURTZMANN
F. RADLE, Inc.
Est. 1850.
609-11 W. 36th St., New York CHy
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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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