Presto
Issue: 1925 2055 - Page 5
December 12, 1925.
CHRISTMAN
"The First Touch Tells 9 9
PRESTO
GEORGE W. POUND DIES
AT HOME IN BUFFALO
As General Counsel of Music Industries Cham-
ber of Commerce He Was Valuable Force
in Protecting Trade Interests.
George W. Pound, a prominent attorney of Buffalo,
N. Y., and widely known in the music industry, died
Dec. 2 at the age of 60 at his home in the city named.
Mr. Pound made a host of acquaintances and friends
during his eight years as general counsel for the
Music Industries Chamber of Commerce. In that
time he had been active in directing the course in
Studio Grand
(only 5 ft. long)
Will be your money-making in 1926. It is
recognized to be the most attractive small
Grand in the field and its fame is universal
Reproducing Grand
Equipped with
A marvel of tone and expressive
interpretation of all classes of com-
position, reproducing perfectly the
performances of the world's great-
est pianists.
CHRISTMAN
Grands, Players and Uprights
command the admiration of
the best class of music lovers.
"The Pint Touch Tells"
Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.
Christman Piano Co.
597 East 137th St.
New York
experienced since the early years of this still new
century. And he has faith that the upright piano will
have a return to the older demand. The Weser Bros,
line is one of the favorites, and its present popularity
rests upon the ambition to deserve the success, by
which the name of Weser has held its place for so
many years.
WORD OF COMMENDATION
FROM A FAMOUS COUNT
The "Custodian of the Lamp," Shining from
Seattle, Approves of an Appreciation of
the Wurlitzer House.
A characteristic telegram which came to Presto
one morning this week suggests an explanation which
may be more fully due to this paper than to the great
music house to which it points. The dispatch was as
follows:
Seattle, Wash., Dec. 7.
Presto Publishing Co.
Received your revised nineteen-twenty-six Presto
Buyers' Guide and ere the day is done must simply
apologize to you for my recent criticism of your
neglectful rating of the grand and most excellent
Wurlitzer Company products that slipped your notice
in previous editions stop business booming here any-
way who could not learn on a Christmas piano.
COUNT GEORGE HAY DUBARRY,
Custodian of the Lamp.
If that were the first time attention had been
called to what may have seemed like indifference to
the power and progress of the Wurlitzer house, no
comment might be suggested. But the condition is
so unusual as to be unique, and there has never been
a word in Presto other than admiration for the
Cincinnati concern that has developed from small be-
ginnings into one of the great music industries of the
world.
The men who write Presto every week have known
the present day active Wurlitzer family every since
those gentlemen left school. But, in some way
wholly unexplainable, the head of the Wurlitzer
house once mistook a compliment, perhaps inele-
gantly expressed but sincere, for something to the
contrary.
GEO. W. POUND.
It is therefore doubly a pleasure to have the "Cus-
legal matters affecting trade interests. His keen todian of the Lamp"—whatever that may mean—ex-
watchfulness and clear grasp of the legal elements press appreciation of what seems to him to indicate a
in the problems as they occurred, made him highly reform of some kind, but which is just what might
valuable to the Chamber and its constituent asso- have been said years ago had we not been told that
to even mention the name of Wurlitzer might bring
ciations.
dire disaster of some kind. The House of Wurlitzer
For twenty years Mr. Pound was associated with is a great one, and in it there is a good example of
the law firm of former Assemblyman John E. Pound what music can do as a business if adroitly and liber-
of Lockport. Later he practiced in Buffalo.
ally prosecuted. In time there will be palatial Wur-
Mr. Pound came from an old Quaker family, his litzer Buildings in all large cities throughout the
ancestors having been among the founders of Lock- country, as there are already in several of them.
port, N. Y. He and his cousin, Supreme Court Jus-
tice Cuthbert W. Pound, got their first legal train-
RUSSELL LIKES OLD CROWD.
ing in the office of John E. Pound in Lockport.
Charles C. Russell, whose name was head of the
He devoted a large share of his work to corpora-
tion law and to legislative matters. He was an au- Russell-Lane Piano Company, which became the
thority on copyright law as applied to the mechanical Price & Teeple Piano Company's property by pur-
reproduction of music, with particular reference to chase, is often seen associating with his old friends in
the phonograph and electric piano. He represented the piano trade, although he is now an insurance
the piano and phonograph interests in the four-year man with the Beard Insurance Agency, rooms 506 to
legal contest which finally ended with victory in Con- 526, Insurance Exchange Building, Chicago. Life
gress and the Supreme Court of the United States. insurance is now his strong hold in business, but he
Much of the present copyright law was written by is also handling construction bonds, Liberty bonds
and doing fire insurance. He has just returned to
him.
Chicago from attendance at the insurance convention
Mr. Pound was formerly a lieutenant in the Sixty- held
the New Roosevelt Hotel, New Orleans, the
fifth Regiment, N. G. N. Y., and was a Past Exalted total at
attendance
numbering about 400 delegates. He
Ruler of the Elks. He wrote many articles and a
good deal of his writing appeared in Presto. For said: "We made Rome howl in N'Orleans!"
several years, in addition to his professional activities,
Mr. Pound served as secretary of the Wurlitzer Com-
STARR IN PORTLAND, ORE.
pany, whose interests he so ably prosecuted in im-
The wholesale department for the Pacific North-
portant patent right cases. He was a peculiarly west of the Starr Piano Co., in Portland, Ore., Charles
attractive personality and has made friends in the Soule, district manager, is now comfortably settled in
trade almost everywhere.
the new quarters at the corner of Fifth and Flanders
streets, where it occupies the entire second floor of a
business block. Mr. Soule says that the new location
will enable them to speed up deliveries, as they are
only two blocks from the depot and have a railroad
spur right up to their building, and the office and
warehouse space are.in the same building.
Secretary J. Rossner Says Increase Over Preceding
Twelve Months Tells Story of Progress.
GRANDS HOLIDAY FAVORITES.
Rudolph H. Schoeppe Piano Co., 6319 and 6321
The old industry of Weser Bros., Inc., of New
York, is drawing to the end of an unusually busy South Ashland avenue, Chicago, reports continued
year. According to Secretary J. Rossner, the figures interest in grands for the holiday trade. The firm,
will show a most gratifying condition in the trade of which features grands in an effective way, carries the
the house. And particularly has the new Weser 4 Haddorff, Cable-Nelson, Bush & Gerts and other fine
ft. 4 in. playerpiano been a winner. The demand for pianos and players, Conn band instruments, phono-
this instrument has far outstripped expectations, and graphs, Q R S music rolls, sheet music and radio.
it continues to display the promise of even greater
activity next year.
Sanger Bros., Dallas, Tex., which had a display
Mr. Rossner believes that the new year will bring booth at the recent Texas State Fair, reports fine re-
a better condition in the piano business than has been sults from its enterprise.
OLD HOUSE OF WESER BROS.
IS CLOSING A BIG YEAR
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CHRISTMAN
"The First Touch Tells 9 9
PRESTO
GEORGE W. POUND DIES
AT HOME IN BUFFALO
As General Counsel of Music Industries Cham-
ber of Commerce He Was Valuable Force
in Protecting Trade Interests.
George W. Pound, a prominent attorney of Buffalo,
N. Y., and widely known in the music industry, died
Dec. 2 at the age of 60 at his home in the city named.
Mr. Pound made a host of acquaintances and friends
during his eight years as general counsel for the
Music Industries Chamber of Commerce. In that
time he had been active in directing the course in
Studio Grand
(only 5 ft. long)
Will be your money-making in 1926. It is
recognized to be the most attractive small
Grand in the field and its fame is universal
Reproducing Grand
Equipped with
A marvel of tone and expressive
interpretation of all classes of com-
position, reproducing perfectly the
performances of the world's great-
est pianists.
CHRISTMAN
Grands, Players and Uprights
command the admiration of
the best class of music lovers.
"The Pint Touch Tells"
Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.
Christman Piano Co.
597 East 137th St.
New York
experienced since the early years of this still new
century. And he has faith that the upright piano will
have a return to the older demand. The Weser Bros,
line is one of the favorites, and its present popularity
rests upon the ambition to deserve the success, by
which the name of Weser has held its place for so
many years.
WORD OF COMMENDATION
FROM A FAMOUS COUNT
The "Custodian of the Lamp," Shining from
Seattle, Approves of an Appreciation of
the Wurlitzer House.
A characteristic telegram which came to Presto
one morning this week suggests an explanation which
may be more fully due to this paper than to the great
music house to which it points. The dispatch was as
follows:
Seattle, Wash., Dec. 7.
Presto Publishing Co.
Received your revised nineteen-twenty-six Presto
Buyers' Guide and ere the day is done must simply
apologize to you for my recent criticism of your
neglectful rating of the grand and most excellent
Wurlitzer Company products that slipped your notice
in previous editions stop business booming here any-
way who could not learn on a Christmas piano.
COUNT GEORGE HAY DUBARRY,
Custodian of the Lamp.
If that were the first time attention had been
called to what may have seemed like indifference to
the power and progress of the Wurlitzer house, no
comment might be suggested. But the condition is
so unusual as to be unique, and there has never been
a word in Presto other than admiration for the
Cincinnati concern that has developed from small be-
ginnings into one of the great music industries of the
world.
The men who write Presto every week have known
the present day active Wurlitzer family every since
those gentlemen left school. But, in some way
wholly unexplainable, the head of the Wurlitzer
house once mistook a compliment, perhaps inele-
gantly expressed but sincere, for something to the
contrary.
GEO. W. POUND.
It is therefore doubly a pleasure to have the "Cus-
legal matters affecting trade interests. His keen todian of the Lamp"—whatever that may mean—ex-
watchfulness and clear grasp of the legal elements press appreciation of what seems to him to indicate a
in the problems as they occurred, made him highly reform of some kind, but which is just what might
valuable to the Chamber and its constituent asso- have been said years ago had we not been told that
to even mention the name of Wurlitzer might bring
ciations.
dire disaster of some kind. The House of Wurlitzer
For twenty years Mr. Pound was associated with is a great one, and in it there is a good example of
the law firm of former Assemblyman John E. Pound what music can do as a business if adroitly and liber-
of Lockport. Later he practiced in Buffalo.
ally prosecuted. In time there will be palatial Wur-
Mr. Pound came from an old Quaker family, his litzer Buildings in all large cities throughout the
ancestors having been among the founders of Lock- country, as there are already in several of them.
port, N. Y. He and his cousin, Supreme Court Jus-
tice Cuthbert W. Pound, got their first legal train-
RUSSELL LIKES OLD CROWD.
ing in the office of John E. Pound in Lockport.
Charles C. Russell, whose name was head of the
He devoted a large share of his work to corpora-
tion law and to legislative matters. He was an au- Russell-Lane Piano Company, which became the
thority on copyright law as applied to the mechanical Price & Teeple Piano Company's property by pur-
reproduction of music, with particular reference to chase, is often seen associating with his old friends in
the phonograph and electric piano. He represented the piano trade, although he is now an insurance
the piano and phonograph interests in the four-year man with the Beard Insurance Agency, rooms 506 to
legal contest which finally ended with victory in Con- 526, Insurance Exchange Building, Chicago. Life
gress and the Supreme Court of the United States. insurance is now his strong hold in business, but he
Much of the present copyright law was written by is also handling construction bonds, Liberty bonds
and doing fire insurance. He has just returned to
him.
Chicago from attendance at the insurance convention
Mr. Pound was formerly a lieutenant in the Sixty- held
the New Roosevelt Hotel, New Orleans, the
fifth Regiment, N. G. N. Y., and was a Past Exalted total at
attendance
numbering about 400 delegates. He
Ruler of the Elks. He wrote many articles and a
good deal of his writing appeared in Presto. For said: "We made Rome howl in N'Orleans!"
several years, in addition to his professional activities,
Mr. Pound served as secretary of the Wurlitzer Com-
STARR IN PORTLAND, ORE.
pany, whose interests he so ably prosecuted in im-
The wholesale department for the Pacific North-
portant patent right cases. He was a peculiarly west of the Starr Piano Co., in Portland, Ore., Charles
attractive personality and has made friends in the Soule, district manager, is now comfortably settled in
trade almost everywhere.
the new quarters at the corner of Fifth and Flanders
streets, where it occupies the entire second floor of a
business block. Mr. Soule says that the new location
will enable them to speed up deliveries, as they are
only two blocks from the depot and have a railroad
spur right up to their building, and the office and
warehouse space are.in the same building.
Secretary J. Rossner Says Increase Over Preceding
Twelve Months Tells Story of Progress.
GRANDS HOLIDAY FAVORITES.
Rudolph H. Schoeppe Piano Co., 6319 and 6321
The old industry of Weser Bros., Inc., of New
York, is drawing to the end of an unusually busy South Ashland avenue, Chicago, reports continued
year. According to Secretary J. Rossner, the figures interest in grands for the holiday trade. The firm,
will show a most gratifying condition in the trade of which features grands in an effective way, carries the
the house. And particularly has the new Weser 4 Haddorff, Cable-Nelson, Bush & Gerts and other fine
ft. 4 in. playerpiano been a winner. The demand for pianos and players, Conn band instruments, phono-
this instrument has far outstripped expectations, and graphs, Q R S music rolls, sheet music and radio.
it continues to display the promise of even greater
activity next year.
Sanger Bros., Dallas, Tex., which had a display
Mr. Rossner believes that the new year will bring booth at the recent Texas State Fair, reports fine re-
a better condition in the piano business than has been sults from its enterprise.
OLD HOUSE OF WESER BROS.
IS CLOSING A BIG YEAR
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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).
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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