Presto
Issue: 1925 2048 - Page 23
October 24, 1925.
PRESTO
COINOLAS
FOR
RESTAURANTS, CAFES and
A M U S E M E N T CENTERS
Style C-2
FROM THE BIGGEST
ORCHESTRION
All the latest tools and machinery required in up-to-
date musical instrument repairing have been in-
stalled. The house handles the Conn line of band
instruments.
Noteworthy Duo-Art Recordings Listed in Novem-
Their first phonograph records under the new Vic-
ber Bulletin Constitutes a Brilliant Collection.
tor electrical recording process were made last week
Seven of the greatest pianists have recorded their by the members o fthe Roger Wolfe Kahn Hotel Bilt-
playing of famous classics for the Aeolian Company's more Orchestra. The numbers selected for this pur-
November list: Paderewski, Gabrilowitsch, Bauer, pose were "Ram, Bam, Bammy" and Look Who's
Grainger, Myra Hess, Lamond, and a recording by Here."
A band contest at the Utah State Fair in Salt Lake
the late lamented Busoni. Foremost among them in
beauty and importance is Paderewski's latest and City October 2 has given great stimulation to the
own recording of the beautiful "Moonlight Sonata" band instrument business in Salt Lake City music
(first, second and third movements)—an impressive houses.
announcement that will be welcomed by music lovers.
The "Home Beautiful" at Little Rock, Ark., recently
A masterly transcription of the Bach "Chaconne" was equipped with a radio and other musical instru-
by the late Feruccio Busoni has been played by him ments furnished by the Hollenberg Music Co. of that
and appears in the November list—a splendid and city.
permanent reminder of this great pianist's art.
Exhibits of pianos, talking machines and radio were
One of Gabrilowitsch's own compositions, a charm- made at the Stark County Fair in Canton, O., re-
ing romance, "Melodie in E Minor, Op. S, No. 1" is cently by the William E. Zollinger Company, the
another attractive artist roll, played by the composer. Custer Music House and the Rhines Edison Co.
The very spirit of romance breathes through this de-
A new branch store has been opened by Kohler
lightful piece.
& Chase, San Francisco, in a two-story building re-
The subtle beauty of Debussy's "The Engulfed cently purchased on O'Farrell street, Adjoining the
Cathedral" is exquisitely played by the gifted young Orpheum Theater, two floors of which are given over
English pianiste, Myra Hess.
to the sale of used pianos and players.
Harold Bauer has recorded a brilliant concert waltz
A store in the Viquesney Block, Spencer, Ind., has
by Durand, "Valse in E Flat," which he has played
been rented by E. M. Patterson of Bloomington, for
in masterly fashion.
a music store. He will carry a complete line of music
In a special orchestral series, Frederic Lamond goods.
plays the third and fourth movements of the great
Rockport, Mo., has a new business house, operated
Tchaikowsky "Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64."
These arrangements were made by Mr. Lamond by E. C. Shaw of St. Joseph, who has opened a music
especially for the Duo-Art, and are a perfect inter- store in a choice location north of the postoffice and
has installed a complete line of pianos, radios and
pretation of this great classic.
In complete contrast is Percy Grainger's recording musical merchandise.
of an exquisite French song, "Nell," composed by
The Cable Piano Company, Bloomington, 111., has
Faure and rhythmically played by Mr. Grainger.
placed its line of pianos in the furniture store of A.
Something entirely new and novel is Robert Arm- Reynolds, Clinton, 111., one of the most energetic
bruster's recording of "Concert Music at the Waldorf- merchants in that section. The full line of pianos,
Astoria," beautifully arranged by him and with the players and reproducing pianos made by The Cable
co-operation of Joseph Knecht and his orchestra at Company, Chicago, is shown. The musical mer-
chandise stock includes band instruments.
that famous hotel.
Keith McLeod, accompanist and soloist at Station
The Capstick Music Store, Nanty-Glo, Pa., has
WJZ, New York City, plays the tuneful "Shepherd's
been sold to Samuel and William Grant Davis, and
Tale," by Nevin, and Genevieve Pitot's spirited play-
the title of the business changed to the Davis Music
ing of "La Marseillaise" is another brilliant offering
Co. William Grant Davis is manager.
on the Duo-Art list for November.
MASTERLY MUSIC ROLLS
IN SMALL GOODS DEPARTMENT
Greater Interest in Musical Merchandise Shows in
New Stores and Old Ones.
Tiny Coinola
THE SMALLEST
KEYLESS
Manufactured by
The Operators Piano Co.
715*721 N. Kedzie Ave.
CHICAGO
Our Phonograph Shop, Nashville, Term., opened
a new musical merchandise department. Band in-
struments, banjos, drums, and a complete line of
violins and accessories are carried.
The P. and K. Song and Record Shop has been
opened at 718 Hennepin avenue, Minneapolis, Minn.
It specializes in records and sheet music. Another
music store in Minneapolis was opened recently at 612
Hennepin avenue.
The Warner Music Co., Youngstown, O., formerly
known as Warner's Music Shop, has moved to new
and larger quarters at 16 North Phelps street from
the Hippodrome Arcade, in which it was located for
eleven years.
The Saxophone Shop, Birmingham, Ala, has
moved to larger and more elaborate quarters at 204
North Twentieth street, where a special opening was
held recently. Fred Klein, who as very active and
well known in musical circles there, is the proprietor.
The Munson-Rayner Corp., of San Francisco, has
opened a branch at Portland, Ore. For the present
radio will be the line to be featured.
H. E. Poston, general manager of Jesse French &
Sons Piano Co., Montgomery, Ala., says that the
demand for Columbia records is so great that it is
necessary for his record department to carry a
"standing stock" of about ten thousand records.
The Talking Machine Shop, 114 West State street,
Rockford, 111., has increased its stock, Guy W. Deetz,
manager, reports.
•
The Automatic Music Roll Company, Chicago, has
issued its November bulletin of music for electric
pianos, orchestrions and organs, Seeburg specials with
snap and pep, the kind that gets the nickels into the
instrument. Many new rolls are added to the al-
ready big catalog of music for all standard 65-note
rewind, coin-operated pianos.
The panatrope, a new device combining the prin-
ciples of the phonograph and of the radio and in-
tended to bring from records music which the phono-
graph misses, was demonstrated recently in Lyon &
Healy's concert hall, Chicago.
R. J. Mueller, manager of the Cleveland district of
the Columbia Phonograph Co., announces the resig-
nation of L. J. Comer, sales representative of the
Buffalo territory. He is succeeded by J. W. Hannah.
A new feature in the musical merchandise depart-
ment of the Daynes-Beebe Music Co., Salt Lake City,
Utah, is a repair shop under the management of Chris
Linschoten, an expert repairman of wide- experience.
USE CONN SAXOPHONES.
The Saxophone Band of the Public Service Co., of
Colorado, comprising about twenty-five capable and
clever young men, is equipped jvith Conn saxophones
and they have been broadcasting very interesting con-
certs over Station KOA, the General Electric Com-
pany's powerful Denver Station. Guy Hopkins is the
director of this band.
AUSTRALIA A GOOD BUYER.
The government figures on August exports of musi-
cal instruments show Australia leading. Over $200,-
000 of the Australian imports were spent for player-
pianos, the other amounts being comparatively small
except the imnorts of American phonographs
($38,000).
TEACHERS CHOOSE BALDWIN.
The Baldwin piano has been selected as the official
piano for the Indiana State Teachers' Association,
which holds its annual convention in Indianapolis,
Oct. 22, 23 and 24.
P
e e r 1 e s s
Player Actions
Embody Five Cardinal Features?
DURABILITY
SIMPLICITY
ACCESSIBILITY
SOLIDARITY
GUARANTEE
Write for Prices and Territory
We Have Something of Interest for You
Peerless Pneumatic Piano Action
Co., Inc.
TOLBERT F. CHEEK, President
j
469-485 East 133d Street
NEW YORK
j
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PRESTO
COINOLAS
FOR
RESTAURANTS, CAFES and
A M U S E M E N T CENTERS
Style C-2
FROM THE BIGGEST
ORCHESTRION
All the latest tools and machinery required in up-to-
date musical instrument repairing have been in-
stalled. The house handles the Conn line of band
instruments.
Noteworthy Duo-Art Recordings Listed in Novem-
Their first phonograph records under the new Vic-
ber Bulletin Constitutes a Brilliant Collection.
tor electrical recording process were made last week
Seven of the greatest pianists have recorded their by the members o fthe Roger Wolfe Kahn Hotel Bilt-
playing of famous classics for the Aeolian Company's more Orchestra. The numbers selected for this pur-
November list: Paderewski, Gabrilowitsch, Bauer, pose were "Ram, Bam, Bammy" and Look Who's
Grainger, Myra Hess, Lamond, and a recording by Here."
A band contest at the Utah State Fair in Salt Lake
the late lamented Busoni. Foremost among them in
beauty and importance is Paderewski's latest and City October 2 has given great stimulation to the
own recording of the beautiful "Moonlight Sonata" band instrument business in Salt Lake City music
(first, second and third movements)—an impressive houses.
announcement that will be welcomed by music lovers.
The "Home Beautiful" at Little Rock, Ark., recently
A masterly transcription of the Bach "Chaconne" was equipped with a radio and other musical instru-
by the late Feruccio Busoni has been played by him ments furnished by the Hollenberg Music Co. of that
and appears in the November list—a splendid and city.
permanent reminder of this great pianist's art.
Exhibits of pianos, talking machines and radio were
One of Gabrilowitsch's own compositions, a charm- made at the Stark County Fair in Canton, O., re-
ing romance, "Melodie in E Minor, Op. S, No. 1" is cently by the William E. Zollinger Company, the
another attractive artist roll, played by the composer. Custer Music House and the Rhines Edison Co.
The very spirit of romance breathes through this de-
A new branch store has been opened by Kohler
lightful piece.
& Chase, San Francisco, in a two-story building re-
The subtle beauty of Debussy's "The Engulfed cently purchased on O'Farrell street, Adjoining the
Cathedral" is exquisitely played by the gifted young Orpheum Theater, two floors of which are given over
English pianiste, Myra Hess.
to the sale of used pianos and players.
Harold Bauer has recorded a brilliant concert waltz
A store in the Viquesney Block, Spencer, Ind., has
by Durand, "Valse in E Flat," which he has played
been rented by E. M. Patterson of Bloomington, for
in masterly fashion.
a music store. He will carry a complete line of music
In a special orchestral series, Frederic Lamond goods.
plays the third and fourth movements of the great
Rockport, Mo., has a new business house, operated
Tchaikowsky "Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64."
These arrangements were made by Mr. Lamond by E. C. Shaw of St. Joseph, who has opened a music
especially for the Duo-Art, and are a perfect inter- store in a choice location north of the postoffice and
has installed a complete line of pianos, radios and
pretation of this great classic.
In complete contrast is Percy Grainger's recording musical merchandise.
of an exquisite French song, "Nell," composed by
The Cable Piano Company, Bloomington, 111., has
Faure and rhythmically played by Mr. Grainger.
placed its line of pianos in the furniture store of A.
Something entirely new and novel is Robert Arm- Reynolds, Clinton, 111., one of the most energetic
bruster's recording of "Concert Music at the Waldorf- merchants in that section. The full line of pianos,
Astoria," beautifully arranged by him and with the players and reproducing pianos made by The Cable
co-operation of Joseph Knecht and his orchestra at Company, Chicago, is shown. The musical mer-
chandise stock includes band instruments.
that famous hotel.
Keith McLeod, accompanist and soloist at Station
The Capstick Music Store, Nanty-Glo, Pa., has
WJZ, New York City, plays the tuneful "Shepherd's
been sold to Samuel and William Grant Davis, and
Tale," by Nevin, and Genevieve Pitot's spirited play-
the title of the business changed to the Davis Music
ing of "La Marseillaise" is another brilliant offering
Co. William Grant Davis is manager.
on the Duo-Art list for November.
MASTERLY MUSIC ROLLS
IN SMALL GOODS DEPARTMENT
Greater Interest in Musical Merchandise Shows in
New Stores and Old Ones.
Tiny Coinola
THE SMALLEST
KEYLESS
Manufactured by
The Operators Piano Co.
715*721 N. Kedzie Ave.
CHICAGO
Our Phonograph Shop, Nashville, Term., opened
a new musical merchandise department. Band in-
struments, banjos, drums, and a complete line of
violins and accessories are carried.
The P. and K. Song and Record Shop has been
opened at 718 Hennepin avenue, Minneapolis, Minn.
It specializes in records and sheet music. Another
music store in Minneapolis was opened recently at 612
Hennepin avenue.
The Warner Music Co., Youngstown, O., formerly
known as Warner's Music Shop, has moved to new
and larger quarters at 16 North Phelps street from
the Hippodrome Arcade, in which it was located for
eleven years.
The Saxophone Shop, Birmingham, Ala, has
moved to larger and more elaborate quarters at 204
North Twentieth street, where a special opening was
held recently. Fred Klein, who as very active and
well known in musical circles there, is the proprietor.
The Munson-Rayner Corp., of San Francisco, has
opened a branch at Portland, Ore. For the present
radio will be the line to be featured.
H. E. Poston, general manager of Jesse French &
Sons Piano Co., Montgomery, Ala., says that the
demand for Columbia records is so great that it is
necessary for his record department to carry a
"standing stock" of about ten thousand records.
The Talking Machine Shop, 114 West State street,
Rockford, 111., has increased its stock, Guy W. Deetz,
manager, reports.
•
The Automatic Music Roll Company, Chicago, has
issued its November bulletin of music for electric
pianos, orchestrions and organs, Seeburg specials with
snap and pep, the kind that gets the nickels into the
instrument. Many new rolls are added to the al-
ready big catalog of music for all standard 65-note
rewind, coin-operated pianos.
The panatrope, a new device combining the prin-
ciples of the phonograph and of the radio and in-
tended to bring from records music which the phono-
graph misses, was demonstrated recently in Lyon &
Healy's concert hall, Chicago.
R. J. Mueller, manager of the Cleveland district of
the Columbia Phonograph Co., announces the resig-
nation of L. J. Comer, sales representative of the
Buffalo territory. He is succeeded by J. W. Hannah.
A new feature in the musical merchandise depart-
ment of the Daynes-Beebe Music Co., Salt Lake City,
Utah, is a repair shop under the management of Chris
Linschoten, an expert repairman of wide- experience.
USE CONN SAXOPHONES.
The Saxophone Band of the Public Service Co., of
Colorado, comprising about twenty-five capable and
clever young men, is equipped jvith Conn saxophones
and they have been broadcasting very interesting con-
certs over Station KOA, the General Electric Com-
pany's powerful Denver Station. Guy Hopkins is the
director of this band.
AUSTRALIA A GOOD BUYER.
The government figures on August exports of musi-
cal instruments show Australia leading. Over $200,-
000 of the Australian imports were spent for player-
pianos, the other amounts being comparatively small
except the imnorts of American phonographs
($38,000).
TEACHERS CHOOSE BALDWIN.
The Baldwin piano has been selected as the official
piano for the Indiana State Teachers' Association,
which holds its annual convention in Indianapolis,
Oct. 22, 23 and 24.
P
e e r 1 e s s
Player Actions
Embody Five Cardinal Features?
DURABILITY
SIMPLICITY
ACCESSIBILITY
SOLIDARITY
GUARANTEE
Write for Prices and Territory
We Have Something of Interest for You
Peerless Pneumatic Piano Action
Co., Inc.
TOLBERT F. CHEEK, President
j
469-485 East 133d Street
NEW YORK
j
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/
!
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