Presto
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PRESTO
October 31, 1925.
NEW TALKING MACHINE PATENTS
1,522,095. Amplifying horn. Stuart B. Booty, Dul-
wich Hill, Australia.
1,521,595. Phonograph. W. T. Carnes, Kansas
City, Mo.
66,363. Design, phonograph cabinet. Antonio Dell-
'Aquila, New York, N. Y.
1,521,615. Phonograph cabinet. Louis J. Gerson,
Palisades, N. Y.
1,522,255. Radiospeaker. Emil R. Meyer, Brook-
lyn, N. Y.
66,380. Design, phonograph cabinet. Gordon E.
Roedding, Grand Rapids, Mich.
1,522,165. Double horn construction for grapho-
phones. Frank W. Williams, Chicago, 111.
1,522,997. Automatic graphophone stop. Clifford
C. Brooks and E. O. Klemm, Fenton, Michigan.
1.523.173. Talking moving picture apparatus. W.
M. Clark, East Orange, N. J.
1.522.948. Production of sound records. Victor H.
Emerson, New York, N. Y.
1.522.949. Making sound records. A^ictor H. Emer-
son, New York, N. Y.
1,523,343. Electric control mechanism for sound-
reproducing machines. E. J. Johnson, Somerville,
Mass.
1,522,547. Means for recording sound. B. F. Roeh-
rig, Los Angeles, Calif.
1,522,657. Magnetic sound box for phonographs
and the like. Curt Stille, Berlin-Zehlendorf, Germany.
1,523,670. Sound reproducing diaphragh. James
H. Sutlive, Kansas City, Mo.
1.524.174. Sound reproducing machine. Leon F.
Douglass, San Rafael, Calif.
1,524,368. Radio attachment for phonographs.
Carl M. Post, Des Moines, Iowa.
1,524,370. Driving motor for talking machines, dic-
tating machines and the like. Georg Seibt, Berlin-
Schoneberg, and G. Schernbeck, Berlin-Tempelhof,
Germany.
1,524,411. Talking machine. Alfred Sondheimer,
Brooklyn, N. Y.
HIGH GRADE
Folding Organs
School Organs
Practice Keyboards
D«aler«' Attention Solicited
A. L. WHITE MFG. CO.
215 Englewood Av«., CHICAGO, ILL.
1,524,689.
Diaphragm for sound-recording and
sound reproducing instruments. Wm. E. Clifton,
Nottingham, England.
1,524,856. Picture exhibitor for talking machines.
Wm. J. Donaldson, Philadelphia, Pa.
1,524,697.
Phonographic apparatus. Henry C.
Egerton, Bergen, N. J.
1,525,283. Continuous record interchanging phono-
graph. David F. Eshleman, Waynesboro, Pa.
1,525,033. Phonographic-disk-record cabinet. Al-
fred H. Haas, Baltimore, Md.
1,525,320. Amplifying horn. Wilhelm Pierce,
Allentown, Pa.
1,525,987. Horn for phonographs. Joseph Gawlik,
Milwaukee, Wis.
1,526,138. Phonograph-spring over-winding auto-
matic disconnector. Mike Gregorich, Calumet, Mich.
1,525,948. Phonograph stop. Thomas J. Murphy,
Astoria, N. Y.
1,525,510. Electrical automatic repeating mecha-
nism for automatic phonographs. Malcoml L. Ord,
St. Louis, Mo.
- \. .-•.*
1,526,254. Sound-reflecting; device for taiking ma-
chines. Curt Stille, Berlin-Zehlendorf, Germany.
1,526,103. Talking machine. B. W. Taylor, St.
Vital, Canada.
1,527,505. Phonograph horn neck. Ambrose O.
Bartholomew, Allentown. Pa.
1,527,242. Phonograph motor and the like and
lubricating the same. Maximilian Weil, New York,
N. Y.
TO FINANCE VICTOR PAPER.
The Victor Talking Machine Co. and the Bankers
Commercial Security Co., Inc., New York, have con-
cluded arrangements whereby the latter company will
finance the paper of Victor dealers on a favorable
basis, and for the primary purpose of liquidating ac-
counts with Victor wholesalers on a basis that will
permit of the enjoying of a cash discount. Under
the new arrangement paper having a maturity of from
six to eighteen months will be handled by the finance
company in lots of $1,000 or more, and will be ac-
cepted whether or not it carries interest, the terms
on interest-bearing paper of course being more
favorable.
OLD DRUM FACTORY CELEBRATES.
The Johs. Link Co. Drum & Drumskin factory of
Weissenfels, Germany, celebrated the fiftieth year of
its existence on October 3. It was established in 1875
by Johannes Link. Born in 1847, he died in 1914.
The concern has an international reputation for its
prepared skins and drums.
•
VISITS PORTLAND, ORE., TRADE.
Jack Swartz of the J. Swartz Music Co., New
York, visited the Portland, Ore., trade recently. The
Swartz company is a distributor of musical instru-
ment accessories and specialties.
IN SMALL G00
^
Greater Interest in Musical Merchandise Shows in
New Stores and Old Ones.
Mrs. I. B. Torgeson resigned recently as manager
of the Victor department in the Boston Store, Mil-
waukee. Mrs. Torgeson formerly was supervisor of
music in the Milwaukee public schools, and prior to
joining the Boston Store was in charge of Victor
educational work for the Carberry-Parker Co.
Edward Petit, manager of the music department of
the J. H. C. Petersen's Sons Co., Davenport, Iowa,
witnessed a demonstration of the Brunswick Pana-
trope at the Congress Hotel, Chicago, recently.
J. H. Blinn, formerly manager of the Baldwin Piano
Co.'s phonograph department, Denver, Colo., and
manager of the phonograph-radio department of the
Denver Dry Goods Co. to succeed O. P. Jones, who
resigned.
The Conway Music Co, Conway, Ark., has com-
pleted an audition room, where prospects may listen
in comfort to Victor, Edison and Columbia records.
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. M.
The Saxophone Shop, Birmingham, Ala., has moved
to larger and more elaborate quarters at 204 North
Twentieth street. Fred Klein, who is. very active and
well known in musical circles, is the proprietor. The
new store is completely equipped with a comprehen-
sive stock of musical merchandise.
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.
Landay Bros., Inc., New York, musical merchandise
dealer, has removed the executive offices to the
seventh floor of 147 Fifth avenue, on the southeast
corner of Twenty-first street.
Our Phonograph Shop, Nashville, Tenn., has an-
nounced the opening of a new musical merchandise
department carrying band instruments, banjos, drums,
and a complete line of violins" and accessories.
The Gulick-MacFrand Co., music dealers, Dallas
City, 111., has concluded a very "successful special sale,
of phonographs in La Harpe, 111.
The P. and K. Song and Record Shop has been
opened at 718 Hennepin avenue, Minneapolis, Minn.
It will specialize in records and sheet music.
George C. Will, music merchant of Salem, Ore.,
plans to erect a new store building at 160-72 South
Liberty street.
The Western Talking Machine Co. recently opened
a store at 9036 Oakland avenue, Detroit, Mich.
The Piano Repair Shop
Pianos and Phonographs Rebuilt by
Expert Workmen
Player-actions installed. Instruments
refinished or remodeled and actions and
keys repaired. Work guaranteed. Prices
reasonable.
Our-of-town dealers' repair work solic-
ited. Write for details and terms.
THE PIANO REPAIR SHOP
C. D. GREENLEAF, Pres.
J- F. BOYER, Sec'y
World's largest manufacturers of High Grade Band and Orchestra Instruments. Employs 1,000
expert workmen.
All of the matt celebrated Artists use and endorse Conn Instruments.
Famous Bandmasters and Orchestra Directors highly endorse and recommend the use of the
Conn Instruments in their organizations.
Conn Instruments are noted for their ease of playing, light and reliable valve or key action;
quick response, rich tonal quality, perfect intonation, tone carrying quality, artisticness of design,
beautiful finish and reliable construction.
Conn Instruments are sent to any point in th U. S. subject to ten days free trial. Branch store
or agencies will be found in all large cities. Write for catalogues, prices, etc.
339 South Wabash Are.
C. G. CONN, Ltd.
Chicag*
C. G. CONN, Ltd., Elkhart, Ind.
DEPT. MS.
ELKHART, IND.
PERFECTION
Benches and Cabinets
The line that sells on sight and satisfies always
Send for catalog and price list
Nationally Priced
Size 14x30, in all
finishes
Full size Bench 15x36
Packed two benches in one crate.
$6.00
7.50
PERFECTION PIANO BENCH MFG. COMPANY
1514-1520 Blue Island Ave.
Chicago, 111.
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PRESTO
October 31, 1925.
NEW TALKING MACHINE PATENTS
1,522,095. Amplifying horn. Stuart B. Booty, Dul-
wich Hill, Australia.
1,521,595. Phonograph. W. T. Carnes, Kansas
City, Mo.
66,363. Design, phonograph cabinet. Antonio Dell-
'Aquila, New York, N. Y.
1,521,615. Phonograph cabinet. Louis J. Gerson,
Palisades, N. Y.
1,522,255. Radiospeaker. Emil R. Meyer, Brook-
lyn, N. Y.
66,380. Design, phonograph cabinet. Gordon E.
Roedding, Grand Rapids, Mich.
1,522,165. Double horn construction for grapho-
phones. Frank W. Williams, Chicago, 111.
1,522,997. Automatic graphophone stop. Clifford
C. Brooks and E. O. Klemm, Fenton, Michigan.
1.523.173. Talking moving picture apparatus. W.
M. Clark, East Orange, N. J.
1.522.948. Production of sound records. Victor H.
Emerson, New York, N. Y.
1.522.949. Making sound records. A^ictor H. Emer-
son, New York, N. Y.
1,523,343. Electric control mechanism for sound-
reproducing machines. E. J. Johnson, Somerville,
Mass.
1,522,547. Means for recording sound. B. F. Roeh-
rig, Los Angeles, Calif.
1,522,657. Magnetic sound box for phonographs
and the like. Curt Stille, Berlin-Zehlendorf, Germany.
1,523,670. Sound reproducing diaphragh. James
H. Sutlive, Kansas City, Mo.
1.524.174. Sound reproducing machine. Leon F.
Douglass, San Rafael, Calif.
1,524,368. Radio attachment for phonographs.
Carl M. Post, Des Moines, Iowa.
1,524,370. Driving motor for talking machines, dic-
tating machines and the like. Georg Seibt, Berlin-
Schoneberg, and G. Schernbeck, Berlin-Tempelhof,
Germany.
1,524,411. Talking machine. Alfred Sondheimer,
Brooklyn, N. Y.
HIGH GRADE
Folding Organs
School Organs
Practice Keyboards
D«aler«' Attention Solicited
A. L. WHITE MFG. CO.
215 Englewood Av«., CHICAGO, ILL.
1,524,689.
Diaphragm for sound-recording and
sound reproducing instruments. Wm. E. Clifton,
Nottingham, England.
1,524,856. Picture exhibitor for talking machines.
Wm. J. Donaldson, Philadelphia, Pa.
1,524,697.
Phonographic apparatus. Henry C.
Egerton, Bergen, N. J.
1,525,283. Continuous record interchanging phono-
graph. David F. Eshleman, Waynesboro, Pa.
1,525,033. Phonographic-disk-record cabinet. Al-
fred H. Haas, Baltimore, Md.
1,525,320. Amplifying horn. Wilhelm Pierce,
Allentown, Pa.
1,525,987. Horn for phonographs. Joseph Gawlik,
Milwaukee, Wis.
1,526,138. Phonograph-spring over-winding auto-
matic disconnector. Mike Gregorich, Calumet, Mich.
1,525,948. Phonograph stop. Thomas J. Murphy,
Astoria, N. Y.
1,525,510. Electrical automatic repeating mecha-
nism for automatic phonographs. Malcoml L. Ord,
St. Louis, Mo.
- \. .-•.*
1,526,254. Sound-reflecting; device for taiking ma-
chines. Curt Stille, Berlin-Zehlendorf, Germany.
1,526,103. Talking machine. B. W. Taylor, St.
Vital, Canada.
1,527,505. Phonograph horn neck. Ambrose O.
Bartholomew, Allentown. Pa.
1,527,242. Phonograph motor and the like and
lubricating the same. Maximilian Weil, New York,
N. Y.
TO FINANCE VICTOR PAPER.
The Victor Talking Machine Co. and the Bankers
Commercial Security Co., Inc., New York, have con-
cluded arrangements whereby the latter company will
finance the paper of Victor dealers on a favorable
basis, and for the primary purpose of liquidating ac-
counts with Victor wholesalers on a basis that will
permit of the enjoying of a cash discount. Under
the new arrangement paper having a maturity of from
six to eighteen months will be handled by the finance
company in lots of $1,000 or more, and will be ac-
cepted whether or not it carries interest, the terms
on interest-bearing paper of course being more
favorable.
OLD DRUM FACTORY CELEBRATES.
The Johs. Link Co. Drum & Drumskin factory of
Weissenfels, Germany, celebrated the fiftieth year of
its existence on October 3. It was established in 1875
by Johannes Link. Born in 1847, he died in 1914.
The concern has an international reputation for its
prepared skins and drums.
•
VISITS PORTLAND, ORE., TRADE.
Jack Swartz of the J. Swartz Music Co., New
York, visited the Portland, Ore., trade recently. The
Swartz company is a distributor of musical instru-
ment accessories and specialties.
IN SMALL G00
^
Greater Interest in Musical Merchandise Shows in
New Stores and Old Ones.
Mrs. I. B. Torgeson resigned recently as manager
of the Victor department in the Boston Store, Mil-
waukee. Mrs. Torgeson formerly was supervisor of
music in the Milwaukee public schools, and prior to
joining the Boston Store was in charge of Victor
educational work for the Carberry-Parker Co.
Edward Petit, manager of the music department of
the J. H. C. Petersen's Sons Co., Davenport, Iowa,
witnessed a demonstration of the Brunswick Pana-
trope at the Congress Hotel, Chicago, recently.
J. H. Blinn, formerly manager of the Baldwin Piano
Co.'s phonograph department, Denver, Colo., and
manager of the phonograph-radio department of the
Denver Dry Goods Co. to succeed O. P. Jones, who
resigned.
The Conway Music Co, Conway, Ark., has com-
pleted an audition room, where prospects may listen
in comfort to Victor, Edison and Columbia records.
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. M.
The Saxophone Shop, Birmingham, Ala., has moved
to larger and more elaborate quarters at 204 North
Twentieth street. Fred Klein, who is. very active and
well known in musical circles, is the proprietor. The
new store is completely equipped with a comprehen-
sive stock of musical merchandise.
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.
Landay Bros., Inc., New York, musical merchandise
dealer, has removed the executive offices to the
seventh floor of 147 Fifth avenue, on the southeast
corner of Twenty-first street.
Our Phonograph Shop, Nashville, Tenn., has an-
nounced the opening of a new musical merchandise
department carrying band instruments, banjos, drums,
and a complete line of violins" and accessories.
The Gulick-MacFrand Co., music dealers, Dallas
City, 111., has concluded a very "successful special sale,
of phonographs in La Harpe, 111.
The P. and K. Song and Record Shop has been
opened at 718 Hennepin avenue, Minneapolis, Minn.
It will specialize in records and sheet music.
George C. Will, music merchant of Salem, Ore.,
plans to erect a new store building at 160-72 South
Liberty street.
The Western Talking Machine Co. recently opened
a store at 9036 Oakland avenue, Detroit, Mich.
The Piano Repair Shop
Pianos and Phonographs Rebuilt by
Expert Workmen
Player-actions installed. Instruments
refinished or remodeled and actions and
keys repaired. Work guaranteed. Prices
reasonable.
Our-of-town dealers' repair work solic-
ited. Write for details and terms.
THE PIANO REPAIR SHOP
C. D. GREENLEAF, Pres.
J- F. BOYER, Sec'y
World's largest manufacturers of High Grade Band and Orchestra Instruments. Employs 1,000
expert workmen.
All of the matt celebrated Artists use and endorse Conn Instruments.
Famous Bandmasters and Orchestra Directors highly endorse and recommend the use of the
Conn Instruments in their organizations.
Conn Instruments are noted for their ease of playing, light and reliable valve or key action;
quick response, rich tonal quality, perfect intonation, tone carrying quality, artisticness of design,
beautiful finish and reliable construction.
Conn Instruments are sent to any point in th U. S. subject to ten days free trial. Branch store
or agencies will be found in all large cities. Write for catalogues, prices, etc.
339 South Wabash Are.
C. G. CONN, Ltd.
Chicag*
C. G. CONN, Ltd., Elkhart, Ind.
DEPT. MS.
ELKHART, IND.
PERFECTION
Benches and Cabinets
The line that sells on sight and satisfies always
Send for catalog and price list
Nationally Priced
Size 14x30, in all
finishes
Full size Bench 15x36
Packed two benches in one crate.
$6.00
7.50
PERFECTION PIANO BENCH MFG. COMPANY
1514-1520 Blue Island Ave.
Chicago, 111.
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).