Presto
Issue: 1927 2114 - Page 8
February 5, 1927.
PRESTO-TIMES
rhythmic combinations of colors from six thousand
ingeniously arranged electrical incandescent bulbs.
He has worked out an almost unlimited combina-
tion from two hundred and eighty major colors, the
equipment controlling eighteen hundred rose lamps,
one thousand amber, and two thousand blue. Green
After Countless Experiments Attempt to Syn- has been omitted from the color scheme, because
of its effect on the complexion of the dancers. As
chronize Light with Music Is Attained
the fingers of Geasland move over the keys, the col-
by Los Angeles Scientist.
ors flash and dance on the walls, ceiling and pillars
of the huge ballroom in perfect synchronization to
By J. E. HUNGERFORD.
the music, producing an effect of beauty and harmony
Perfection in every detail of the only electrical, or that is truly amazing!
other, "color piano" in the world, an amazing instru-
Geasland's equipment includes fourteen hundred
ment 'that synchronizes color with music, has just wires and one hundred circuits—more than are needed
been announced by Leo Geasland, electrician at the for the lighting of a city of thirty thousand popula-
El Patio ballroom, Los Angeles, who has been ex- tion. So far as is known, Geasland's invention is the
perimenting for several years on novel illuminating only one of its kind in existence, scientists having
effects, and his unique invention.
experimented vainly for many years in efforts to per-
Geasland's invention consists of a peculiarly ar- fect an instrument that would produce color sym-
ranged keyboard of ten keys, which he operates with phonies, similar to the electrical "color piano."
his right hand in time to the orchestra, while his left
hand manipulates an electrical switchboard. Oper-
ating the keyboard and switches to the rhythm of the
orchestra music, Geasland is able to throw changing
ELECTRIC COLOR PIANO
FINALLY SEEMS COMPLETE
AN UNQUALIFIED TRIBUTE
TO KURTZMANN PIANOS
Newman Bros.
Delighted with the New One but Sees the Old
One Go with Sorrow After
Thirty-eight Years.
Grands and Uprights
A wonderful, though not unusual, tribute to Kurtz-
raann piano quality is seen in the following letter re-
ceived by the Pearson Piano Co. of Indianapolis a
few days ago:
Dear Sirs: You cannot imagine my sorrow when
the time came to part with my much-loved old
Kurtzmann piano, which has been in my family for
the past thirty-eight years. It was dear to me be-
cause of its quality of tone. It surely was a great
consolation to me to know that one of the same
make was taking its place.
We are delighted with the new Kurtzmann piano,
the tone being very rich and sonorous, the action
very sensitive, and the case plain and rich; and to
any one thinking of investing in a new piano I would
be very happy to recommend it, as we have had
thirty-eight years of perfect satisfaction with the
old one.
Respectfully,
MRS. GEORGE LANDES.
Greencastle, Ind., Jan. 8, 1927.
Guarantee
Quality, Profit and
Satisfaction
Newman Bros. Co.
816 Diz St.
Est. 1879
CHICAGO
TOO MUCH OVERHEAD.
•THE HOUSE OF GRANDS"
Concert, Parlor and Small Grands
Period and Modern Designs
Manufacturers
of the
Grand in Upriglit Form
Grand toije and quality in the Upright Piano
is exclusively Bush fd Lane
(Pattntei)
Reproducing and Player Pianos—
Welte-Mignon (Licensee)
and Cecilian
Write for our Art Catalog
Busk & Lane
Piano Co.
Louis Sterling in the paper prepared for the con-
vention of the Federation of British Music Industries
at Folkestone recently referred to the fact that about
140 pianoforte manufacturers are producing about
100,000 pianos per annum. "That fact," he said,
"almost tells the whole story; 100,000 pianos have to
pay overhead rents, taxes, managers, etc., of 140 fac-
tories. And many of the manufacturers are 'turning
out two or three different styles of pianos, raising
costs where concentration would lower them." He
went on to ask, how many of these 140 could afford
to lay down the very latest automatic machinery
known in the piano manufacturing field, and which
would enable them to reduce costs and increase pro-
duction—the two essentials to development and
progress.
FORCE OF ADVERTISING.
Advertising, the greatest educational force in bus-
iness and by many considered the greatest force, says
Stewart McDonald, president of the Moon Motor Co.,
is creating such tremendous demands for products
of all kinds that automobile factories are hard put to
meet the demand brought about by the tremendous
activity in other lines of business.
E. Leins Piano Co.
Makers of Pianos and
Player Pianos That Are
Established L e a d e r s
Correspondence from Reliable
Dealers Invited
Factory and Offices, 304 W. 42nd St.
NEW YORK
—a piano
for every customer's
pocketbook
You can meet all customers'
demands with the comprehensive
Hardman Line. There is a piano for
every pocketbook. Grands, Uprights,
Player and Reproducing Pianos.
Each comes in a wide price range.
The Hardman, Peck & Co. guar-
antee appears on every instrument.
Rich, mellow tone—beauty of
design—durability. Every Hardman,
Peck & Co. piano is a quality
instrument.
Write us for catalog and prices
Eighty-four Years of Fine Piano
Making
Made and Guaranteed by
433 FIFTH AVE, NEW YORK
Makers of the World's Most Durable Piano—
the Hardman—Official Piano of the Metropoli-
tan Opera Company for Fifteen Years—
1911-1926
Schumann
PIANOS and PLAYER PIANOS
GRANDS and UPRIGHTS
Have no superiors in appearance, tone
power or other essentials of strictly
leaders in the trade.
Warning to Infringers
This Trade Mark li oast
In the plate and also ap-
pear* upon the fall board
of all genuine Schumann
Pianos, and all Infringe™
will be prosecuted. Beware
of Imitations such as Schu-
mann & Company, Schu-
mann A Son, and also
Shuman, as all stencil
shops, dealers and users of
pianos bearing a name In
Imitation of the name
Schumann with the Inten-
tion of deceiving the public
will be prosecuted to the
fullest extent of the law.
New Catalogue on Bequest.
Holland. Michigan
• C
THE
HARDMAN LINE
BRINKERHOFF
Grands
-
Schumann Piano Co.
W. N. VAN MATRE, President
Rockford, 11L
Reproducing Grands
Player-Pianos
and Pianos
The Line That Sells Easily
and Satisfies Always
BRINKERHOFF PIANO CO.
711 Milwaukee Ave., CHICAGO, ILL.
W. P. Haines & Co.
Manufacturers of
BRADBURY. WEBSTER
and
W. P. HAINES & CO.
Grand, Upright and Reproducing
Pianos
138th Street and Walton Avenue
NEW YORK
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PRESTO-TIMES
rhythmic combinations of colors from six thousand
ingeniously arranged electrical incandescent bulbs.
He has worked out an almost unlimited combina-
tion from two hundred and eighty major colors, the
equipment controlling eighteen hundred rose lamps,
one thousand amber, and two thousand blue. Green
After Countless Experiments Attempt to Syn- has been omitted from the color scheme, because
of its effect on the complexion of the dancers. As
chronize Light with Music Is Attained
the fingers of Geasland move over the keys, the col-
by Los Angeles Scientist.
ors flash and dance on the walls, ceiling and pillars
of the huge ballroom in perfect synchronization to
By J. E. HUNGERFORD.
the music, producing an effect of beauty and harmony
Perfection in every detail of the only electrical, or that is truly amazing!
other, "color piano" in the world, an amazing instru-
Geasland's equipment includes fourteen hundred
ment 'that synchronizes color with music, has just wires and one hundred circuits—more than are needed
been announced by Leo Geasland, electrician at the for the lighting of a city of thirty thousand popula-
El Patio ballroom, Los Angeles, who has been ex- tion. So far as is known, Geasland's invention is the
perimenting for several years on novel illuminating only one of its kind in existence, scientists having
effects, and his unique invention.
experimented vainly for many years in efforts to per-
Geasland's invention consists of a peculiarly ar- fect an instrument that would produce color sym-
ranged keyboard of ten keys, which he operates with phonies, similar to the electrical "color piano."
his right hand in time to the orchestra, while his left
hand manipulates an electrical switchboard. Oper-
ating the keyboard and switches to the rhythm of the
orchestra music, Geasland is able to throw changing
ELECTRIC COLOR PIANO
FINALLY SEEMS COMPLETE
AN UNQUALIFIED TRIBUTE
TO KURTZMANN PIANOS
Newman Bros.
Delighted with the New One but Sees the Old
One Go with Sorrow After
Thirty-eight Years.
Grands and Uprights
A wonderful, though not unusual, tribute to Kurtz-
raann piano quality is seen in the following letter re-
ceived by the Pearson Piano Co. of Indianapolis a
few days ago:
Dear Sirs: You cannot imagine my sorrow when
the time came to part with my much-loved old
Kurtzmann piano, which has been in my family for
the past thirty-eight years. It was dear to me be-
cause of its quality of tone. It surely was a great
consolation to me to know that one of the same
make was taking its place.
We are delighted with the new Kurtzmann piano,
the tone being very rich and sonorous, the action
very sensitive, and the case plain and rich; and to
any one thinking of investing in a new piano I would
be very happy to recommend it, as we have had
thirty-eight years of perfect satisfaction with the
old one.
Respectfully,
MRS. GEORGE LANDES.
Greencastle, Ind., Jan. 8, 1927.
Guarantee
Quality, Profit and
Satisfaction
Newman Bros. Co.
816 Diz St.
Est. 1879
CHICAGO
TOO MUCH OVERHEAD.
•THE HOUSE OF GRANDS"
Concert, Parlor and Small Grands
Period and Modern Designs
Manufacturers
of the
Grand in Upriglit Form
Grand toije and quality in the Upright Piano
is exclusively Bush fd Lane
(Pattntei)
Reproducing and Player Pianos—
Welte-Mignon (Licensee)
and Cecilian
Write for our Art Catalog
Busk & Lane
Piano Co.
Louis Sterling in the paper prepared for the con-
vention of the Federation of British Music Industries
at Folkestone recently referred to the fact that about
140 pianoforte manufacturers are producing about
100,000 pianos per annum. "That fact," he said,
"almost tells the whole story; 100,000 pianos have to
pay overhead rents, taxes, managers, etc., of 140 fac-
tories. And many of the manufacturers are 'turning
out two or three different styles of pianos, raising
costs where concentration would lower them." He
went on to ask, how many of these 140 could afford
to lay down the very latest automatic machinery
known in the piano manufacturing field, and which
would enable them to reduce costs and increase pro-
duction—the two essentials to development and
progress.
FORCE OF ADVERTISING.
Advertising, the greatest educational force in bus-
iness and by many considered the greatest force, says
Stewart McDonald, president of the Moon Motor Co.,
is creating such tremendous demands for products
of all kinds that automobile factories are hard put to
meet the demand brought about by the tremendous
activity in other lines of business.
E. Leins Piano Co.
Makers of Pianos and
Player Pianos That Are
Established L e a d e r s
Correspondence from Reliable
Dealers Invited
Factory and Offices, 304 W. 42nd St.
NEW YORK
—a piano
for every customer's
pocketbook
You can meet all customers'
demands with the comprehensive
Hardman Line. There is a piano for
every pocketbook. Grands, Uprights,
Player and Reproducing Pianos.
Each comes in a wide price range.
The Hardman, Peck & Co. guar-
antee appears on every instrument.
Rich, mellow tone—beauty of
design—durability. Every Hardman,
Peck & Co. piano is a quality
instrument.
Write us for catalog and prices
Eighty-four Years of Fine Piano
Making
Made and Guaranteed by
433 FIFTH AVE, NEW YORK
Makers of the World's Most Durable Piano—
the Hardman—Official Piano of the Metropoli-
tan Opera Company for Fifteen Years—
1911-1926
Schumann
PIANOS and PLAYER PIANOS
GRANDS and UPRIGHTS
Have no superiors in appearance, tone
power or other essentials of strictly
leaders in the trade.
Warning to Infringers
This Trade Mark li oast
In the plate and also ap-
pear* upon the fall board
of all genuine Schumann
Pianos, and all Infringe™
will be prosecuted. Beware
of Imitations such as Schu-
mann & Company, Schu-
mann A Son, and also
Shuman, as all stencil
shops, dealers and users of
pianos bearing a name In
Imitation of the name
Schumann with the Inten-
tion of deceiving the public
will be prosecuted to the
fullest extent of the law.
New Catalogue on Bequest.
Holland. Michigan
• C
THE
HARDMAN LINE
BRINKERHOFF
Grands
-
Schumann Piano Co.
W. N. VAN MATRE, President
Rockford, 11L
Reproducing Grands
Player-Pianos
and Pianos
The Line That Sells Easily
and Satisfies Always
BRINKERHOFF PIANO CO.
711 Milwaukee Ave., CHICAGO, ILL.
W. P. Haines & Co.
Manufacturers of
BRADBURY. WEBSTER
and
W. P. HAINES & CO.
Grand, Upright and Reproducing
Pianos
138th Street and Walton Avenue
NEW YORK
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).