Presto
Issue: 1925 2046 - Page 23
Dctober 10, 1925.
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PRESTO
COINOLAS
FOR
RESTAURANTS, CAFES and
A M U S E M E N T CENTERS
ACCOMPANIMENT ROLLS
Mel-O-Dee Music Roll Co. Affords Fine Opportuni-
ties for Lovers of Good Songs.
The new catalog of Music Roll Accompaniments
from the Mel-O-Dee Music Company, New York,
is just out. From a perusal of this interesting record
hook it would seem that music-roll accompaniments
can he secured for practically every standard sony
puhlished and all the classics.
The hooklet should be very valuable and interest-
ing to players and singers. The idea of accompani-
ment rolls also has educational value in that it
affords singers who otherwise could not master the
often somewhat complicated instrumental parts of
tine songs to employ them with absolute correctness
and accuracy of expression.
ANOTHER} DESIRABLE STANDARD
One Covering True Specifications or Recognized
Trade Practices as to Moisture Content Desired.
One form of study and investigation at the United
Style C-2
FROM THE BIGGEST
ORCHESTRION
States Forest Products Laboratory at Madison, Wis.,
is of keen interest to piano manufacturers and to
makers of benches and cabinets. Rolf Thelen, in
charge of the department of timber physics at the
laboratory, has from time to time provided very valu-
able instruction for the industries using wood. In a
recent article he points out the necessities for kiln-
drying of lumber:
"Kconomic conditions which make it desirable to
ship stock in as dry a condition as possible in order
to save freight, the possibility of cutting down the
amount of stock on hand and of avoiding stain and
other losses frequently occurring in air seasoning,
and the realization of the fact that in many cases
stock kiln dried at the mill or in transit can be used
by the consumer without additional drying. One of
the immediate results of these conditions has been a
rapid development in the sale of kiln-dried stock by
the mill man. The consumer without adequate dry-
ing facilities can purchase kiln-dried stock and thus
avoid the necessity of installing and operating drying
equipment of his own. Various mills in different re-
gions are making a specialty of the sale of kiln-dried
lumber and dimension material, and the number of
these mills is constantly increasing.
"The industry finds itself with no adequate specifi-
cation or recognized trade practice concerning the
moisture content of lumber and methods of season-
ing. While individual buyers and sellers have rea-
sonably satisfactory specifications, the industry as a
whole has no workable basis or understanding upon
which to merchandise the stock or settle controversies
which may arise. The result is naturally very un-
satisfactory, not to say chaotic.
"It is just as important that the stock be of proper
quality so far as seasoning is concerned as it is that it
be of proper quality so far as grade is concerned,
and it is necessary that suitable drying specifications
be provided so that the quality from the seasoning
standpoint may be accurately determined. The ad-
vantages to be derived from a standard drying speci-
fication are so obvious and so far outweigh any dis-
advantages that they require no discussion. This
standard specification should be of a technical char-
acter and should be limited to the matter of drying
alone. It coald then be applied to standard sales con-
tracts in any way which mig'it be desired."
PROGRESSIVE BIRMINGHAM FIRM.
The Saxophone Shop, Birmingham, Ala., has moved
to larger and more elaborate quarters at 204 North
Twentieth street, where a special opening was held
last week. Kred Klein, who is very active and well
known in musical circles here, is the proprietor of
this widely known firm, which has developed a big
band instrument business. The new store is com-
pletely equipped with a comprehensive stock of musi-
cal merchandise.
Tiny Coinola
THE SMALLEST
KEYLESS
Manufactured by
The Operators Piano Co.
715-721 N. Kedzie Ave.
CHICAGO
MOVES IN YOUNGSTOWN, O.
The Warner Music Co., Youngstown, O., formerly
known as W T arner's Music Shop, has moved to new
and larger quarters at 16 North Phelps street, where
it moved from the Hippodrome Arcade, in which it
was located for eleven years. In the new quarters
tin's firm will carry a more comprehensive line.
LANDAY BROS. MOVES OFFICES.
Landay Bros., Inc., New York, musical merchan-
dise dealer, has removed the executive offices to the
seventh floor of 147 Fifth avenue, on the southeast
corner of Twenty-first street. The two founders of
the business are Max Landay, president and general
manager, and James B. Landay, vice-president and
treasurer. Their first small music shop was at 288
Fifth avenue, and when upon incorporation they
moved to 400 Fifth avenue they were the only retail
merchants above Thirty-eighth street. Their present
Fifth avenue store at 427 Fifth avenue is rivaled in
beauty only by Landay Hall, at the southwest corner
of Forty-second street and Sixth avenue, and by
Landay Hall, Newark, now under construction.
ADDS MUSICAL MERCHANDISE.
|
Our Phonograph Shop, Nashville, Tenn., has an-
nounced the opening of a new musical merchandise
department, an up-tcV-date section in every way.
Band instruments, banjos, drums, and a complete
line of violins and accessories are carried.
•
IN SMALL GOODS DEPARTMENT
Greater Interest in Musical Merchandise Shows in
New Stores and Old Ones.
A branch of the Denman Bros. Music Co., of
Anniston, Ala., has been opened in Piedmont, Ala.,
with a full line of musical instruments.
Ralph B. Rhoades, formerly of Yoakum, Tex., has
been named as manager of the New Mexico Piano
Co., 114 North Second street, Albuquerque, N. Mex.
Newton L. Christ is preparing to discontinue his
music business at Millersburg, Ohio.
The Gulick-Mac Fraud Co., music dealers, Dallas
City, 111., has concluded a very successful special sale
of pianos and phonographs and this week will launch
a sale in the newly opened branch store in La Harpe.
The P. and K. Song and Record Shop has been
opened at 718 Hennepin avenue, Minneapolis, Minn.
Tt will specialize in records and sheet music. Another
music store in Minneapolis was opened recently at 612
Hennepin avenue. Records, harmonicas and ukuleles
are featured there.
George C. Will, music merchant of Salem, Ore., has
launched an ambitious program of expansion. He
will erect a new store building at 160-72 South Lib-
erty street.
P
e e r 1 e s s
Player Actions
Embody Five Cardinal Features;
DURABILITY
SIMPLICITY
ACCESSIBILITY
SOLIDARITY
GUARANTEE
Write for Price* and Territory
We Have Something of Interest for You
Peerless Pneumatic Piano Action
Co., Inc.
TOLBERT F. CHEEK, President
469-485 East 133d Street
NEW YORK
A Pneumatic Action bearing the name
STRAUCH BROS.
U your guide for unfailing quality.
The high quality which has characterized
the Strauch Bros. Piano Actions and Ham-
mers for almost sixty years, distinguishes
our latest product, the
STRAUCH BROS.
PNEUMATIC ACTIONS
Simple in construction they are
dependable in every particular.
STRAUCH BROS., INC
327 W.lnut Are.
New York City
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23
PRESTO
COINOLAS
FOR
RESTAURANTS, CAFES and
A M U S E M E N T CENTERS
ACCOMPANIMENT ROLLS
Mel-O-Dee Music Roll Co. Affords Fine Opportuni-
ties for Lovers of Good Songs.
The new catalog of Music Roll Accompaniments
from the Mel-O-Dee Music Company, New York,
is just out. From a perusal of this interesting record
hook it would seem that music-roll accompaniments
can he secured for practically every standard sony
puhlished and all the classics.
The hooklet should be very valuable and interest-
ing to players and singers. The idea of accompani-
ment rolls also has educational value in that it
affords singers who otherwise could not master the
often somewhat complicated instrumental parts of
tine songs to employ them with absolute correctness
and accuracy of expression.
ANOTHER} DESIRABLE STANDARD
One Covering True Specifications or Recognized
Trade Practices as to Moisture Content Desired.
One form of study and investigation at the United
Style C-2
FROM THE BIGGEST
ORCHESTRION
States Forest Products Laboratory at Madison, Wis.,
is of keen interest to piano manufacturers and to
makers of benches and cabinets. Rolf Thelen, in
charge of the department of timber physics at the
laboratory, has from time to time provided very valu-
able instruction for the industries using wood. In a
recent article he points out the necessities for kiln-
drying of lumber:
"Kconomic conditions which make it desirable to
ship stock in as dry a condition as possible in order
to save freight, the possibility of cutting down the
amount of stock on hand and of avoiding stain and
other losses frequently occurring in air seasoning,
and the realization of the fact that in many cases
stock kiln dried at the mill or in transit can be used
by the consumer without additional drying. One of
the immediate results of these conditions has been a
rapid development in the sale of kiln-dried stock by
the mill man. The consumer without adequate dry-
ing facilities can purchase kiln-dried stock and thus
avoid the necessity of installing and operating drying
equipment of his own. Various mills in different re-
gions are making a specialty of the sale of kiln-dried
lumber and dimension material, and the number of
these mills is constantly increasing.
"The industry finds itself with no adequate specifi-
cation or recognized trade practice concerning the
moisture content of lumber and methods of season-
ing. While individual buyers and sellers have rea-
sonably satisfactory specifications, the industry as a
whole has no workable basis or understanding upon
which to merchandise the stock or settle controversies
which may arise. The result is naturally very un-
satisfactory, not to say chaotic.
"It is just as important that the stock be of proper
quality so far as seasoning is concerned as it is that it
be of proper quality so far as grade is concerned,
and it is necessary that suitable drying specifications
be provided so that the quality from the seasoning
standpoint may be accurately determined. The ad-
vantages to be derived from a standard drying speci-
fication are so obvious and so far outweigh any dis-
advantages that they require no discussion. This
standard specification should be of a technical char-
acter and should be limited to the matter of drying
alone. It coald then be applied to standard sales con-
tracts in any way which mig'it be desired."
PROGRESSIVE BIRMINGHAM FIRM.
The Saxophone Shop, Birmingham, Ala., has moved
to larger and more elaborate quarters at 204 North
Twentieth street, where a special opening was held
last week. Kred Klein, who is very active and well
known in musical circles here, is the proprietor of
this widely known firm, which has developed a big
band instrument business. The new store is com-
pletely equipped with a comprehensive stock of musi-
cal merchandise.
Tiny Coinola
THE SMALLEST
KEYLESS
Manufactured by
The Operators Piano Co.
715-721 N. Kedzie Ave.
CHICAGO
MOVES IN YOUNGSTOWN, O.
The Warner Music Co., Youngstown, O., formerly
known as W T arner's Music Shop, has moved to new
and larger quarters at 16 North Phelps street, where
it moved from the Hippodrome Arcade, in which it
was located for eleven years. In the new quarters
tin's firm will carry a more comprehensive line.
LANDAY BROS. MOVES OFFICES.
Landay Bros., Inc., New York, musical merchan-
dise dealer, has removed the executive offices to the
seventh floor of 147 Fifth avenue, on the southeast
corner of Twenty-first street. The two founders of
the business are Max Landay, president and general
manager, and James B. Landay, vice-president and
treasurer. Their first small music shop was at 288
Fifth avenue, and when upon incorporation they
moved to 400 Fifth avenue they were the only retail
merchants above Thirty-eighth street. Their present
Fifth avenue store at 427 Fifth avenue is rivaled in
beauty only by Landay Hall, at the southwest corner
of Forty-second street and Sixth avenue, and by
Landay Hall, Newark, now under construction.
ADDS MUSICAL MERCHANDISE.
|
Our Phonograph Shop, Nashville, Tenn., has an-
nounced the opening of a new musical merchandise
department, an up-tcV-date section in every way.
Band instruments, banjos, drums, and a complete
line of violins and accessories are carried.
•
IN SMALL GOODS DEPARTMENT
Greater Interest in Musical Merchandise Shows in
New Stores and Old Ones.
A branch of the Denman Bros. Music Co., of
Anniston, Ala., has been opened in Piedmont, Ala.,
with a full line of musical instruments.
Ralph B. Rhoades, formerly of Yoakum, Tex., has
been named as manager of the New Mexico Piano
Co., 114 North Second street, Albuquerque, N. Mex.
Newton L. Christ is preparing to discontinue his
music business at Millersburg, Ohio.
The Gulick-Mac Fraud Co., music dealers, Dallas
City, 111., has concluded a very successful special sale
of pianos and phonographs and this week will launch
a sale in the newly opened branch store in La Harpe.
The P. and K. Song and Record Shop has been
opened at 718 Hennepin avenue, Minneapolis, Minn.
Tt will specialize in records and sheet music. Another
music store in Minneapolis was opened recently at 612
Hennepin avenue. Records, harmonicas and ukuleles
are featured there.
George C. Will, music merchant of Salem, Ore., has
launched an ambitious program of expansion. He
will erect a new store building at 160-72 South Lib-
erty street.
P
e e r 1 e s s
Player Actions
Embody Five Cardinal Features;
DURABILITY
SIMPLICITY
ACCESSIBILITY
SOLIDARITY
GUARANTEE
Write for Price* and Territory
We Have Something of Interest for You
Peerless Pneumatic Piano Action
Co., Inc.
TOLBERT F. CHEEK, President
469-485 East 133d Street
NEW YORK
A Pneumatic Action bearing the name
STRAUCH BROS.
U your guide for unfailing quality.
The high quality which has characterized
the Strauch Bros. Piano Actions and Ham-
mers for almost sixty years, distinguishes
our latest product, the
STRAUCH BROS.
PNEUMATIC ACTIONS
Simple in construction they are
dependable in every particular.
STRAUCH BROS., INC
327 W.lnut Are.
New York City
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).