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Issue: 1927 2116 - Page 10
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PRESTO-TIMES
POPULAR SONG FAVORITES ON QULBRANSEN PIANO
The national advertising for Feb-
ruary of the Gulbransen Co., Chi-
cago, appeals to. the present day
interest in the current song fa-
vorites.
A reproduction in a halftone
of the artistic illustration prepared
for the magazines is here repro-
duced. This is said in the text:
"Today's songs. Just hearing
them is not enough. Now you can
do what everybody wants to do
play them for yourself!
"Pretty Cinderella . . Where'd
You Get Those Eyes? . . .Mary
Lou . . .
"Today's songs! You hum them
—sing them—whistle them . .
because you can't resist them.
"You've often wished that you
could do the really satisfying thing
—play them for yourself.
"Now you can, with the Gulbransen Registering
Piano. All the naturalness of hand playing. For
singing,
you."
For dancing. Just for the fun it gives
total expenditure in behalf of the tournament will
undoubtedly reach $100,000.
On Friday morning, Feb. 11, over 7,100 children
had registered for the piano tournament, with every
indication that the 10,000 mark (one-third the goal of
30,000 set for March 31) would be attained within the
Forty-nine Prominent Firms in Trade Now next ten days.
Parochial schools throughout the city are taking an
Numbered Among Financial Backers of
active part in the tournament, and hundreds of pupils
Great Tournament for Children.
attending these schools are registering each day for
participation in it.
Between February 3 and February 8 twelve new
Sisters teaching at the parochial schools are doing
contributors joined the group of music houses do- all they can to develop the talent of their pupils so
nating to the support of the Annual Greater Chicago that they will make a fine showing in the musical
Children's Piano Playing Tournament.
competition. Among the parochial schools that are
The new houses are the Clayton F. Summy Music represented in the tournament by their pupils are the
Co., the Schiller Piano Co., Goldsmith Piano Co., following:
J. P. Seeburg Piano Co., M. Schulz Co., Meyer &
St. Ignatius, St. Margaret Mary's, St. Timothy, St.
Weber, Carl Fischer, Inc, George B. Dow, Weber Martin, St. Louis Academy, St. Patrick's Academy,
& Sons, Gambel-Hinged Music Co., Chicago Piano St. Bernard's, St. Anselm, St. James, and the Acad-
Co., Hyman H. Raieff and Rudolph H. Schoeppe emy of Our Lady. Sister Mary Leo, director of music
Piano Co.
at the Academy of Our Lady, 95th and Throop
This brings the number of contributors up to Feb. streets, has agreed to loan the use of their auditorium
8 inclusive to forty-nine and the total sum subscribed for some of the preliminaries.
Seventy thousand Chicago club women have en-
up to and including that date to $16,200. The Herald
and Examiner, in addition to this, announces that its dorsed the tournament. These are all members of
the Chicago Federation of Women's Clubs and the
endorsement was the climax of a meeting in the
Hyde Park Hotel last week.
QUALITY FIRST and FIRST QUALITY
COLUMBUS, O., STORE ROBBED.
JESSE
FRENCH
AND
SONS
PIANO
CO.
NEWCASTLE
INDIANA
'A name well known since 1875"
UTAH ASSOCIATION
HAS BEEN REVIVED
Weekly Meetings to Be Held, at Salt Lake
City Where a Live Concert Season
Is in Progress.
MUSIC HOUSES BACK
PIANO PLAYING CONTEST
ESSE FRENCH & SONS
February 19, 1927.
Soaping rugs to deaden the sound of the explosion,
yeggs blew two safes in the Heaton Music Store,
Columbus, O., recently to secure $130 loot. A third
safe, containing $3,000, they were unable to open,
although they subjected it 'to heavy battering. The
safecrackers worked during the early hours of Sunday
morning, police believe, as no watchman was on duty
in the building during that period.
KREITER
The Leading and Most Popular
Pianos and Players
Grands, Players, Uprights and
Reproducing Pianos
The Results of Over Forty Years'
of Experience.
Kreiter Pianos Cover the Entire Line
and no Piano Dealer who tries these in-
struments would supplant them by any
others* A trial will convince.
Kreiter Mfg. Co., Inc.
310-312 W. Water St., Milwaukee, Wis.
Factory: Marinette, Wis.
THE JEWETT PIANOS
Reliable Grand, Upright and Player Pianos
JEWETT PIANO CO., Boston Factories: Leominster, Mass.
A meeting was held a few days ago by the Music
Dealers' Association of Utah which has recently been
revived in Salt Lake City. All members, including
music dealers from Salt Lake and the surrounding
territory, were in favor of resuming regular meetings,
which will be held twice monthly with a special
meeting to be held every fourth week in the month.
Special speakers will be obtained in roder to have
these meetings interspersed with instructive talks.
The Daynes-Beebe Music Company have their
sixty-seventh anniversary sale on, which is going over
big.
The Glen Brothers-Roberts Piano Company, of Salt
Lake, is preparing for the advent of Philip Gor-
don in that city. Gordon, who is a Chickering artist,
will give a recital there sometime in May, and tieups
will be arranged in this connection, according to Man-
ager T. J. Holland. The French artist, Domesnil,
also a Chickering performer, will be in 'that city dur-
ing April with the original Chopin grand piano.
During the month of January an unusually large
number of high-grade pianos were sold by the Con-
solidated Music Company, it is announced by Chas.
H. C. King, secretary and treasurer of that organ-
ization.
The Beesley Music Company, of Salt Lake, an-
nounces that business both there and at the new
branch store in Ogden, Utah, is very good.
"Music in the Home" is the name of a new monthly
publication of the Lehman Piano Co., St. Louis,
devoted to information for music lovers, and partic-
ular facts for music students. The company handles
the Knabe, Hardman, Fischer, M. Schulz and Gabler
pianos and the Knabe and Fischer Ampicos.
MASCOT
The World's Leading Small
Electric Piano
TAKES UP SMALL SPACE
MAKES LARGE EARNINGS
Your territory may be open
Western Electric Piano Co.
429 W. Superior St., Chicago
SCHILLER
A GREAT NAME—A GREAT PIANO
THE SCHILLER
Makes Friends, Makes Customers, Makes
Money, for the Dealer
Super-Grands, Medium Grands, Small
Grands. Full Plate Uprights; Medium
Uprights; Small (3 :7) Uprights.
Reproducing Grands, Uprights and
Players
Grands with the Famous Bauer
Patented Construction
The SCHILLER PIANO challenges
superiority in tone quality as in construc-
tion, workmanship, finish and appearance.
For Agency Proposition and All
Particulars, address
SCHILLER PIANO COMPANY
Factory and General Offices:
OREGON, ILLINOIS
CHICAGO OFFICE:
State and Adams Sts.
922 Republic Bldg.
NEW YORK OFFICE:
130 W. 42nd St.
Bush Terminal Bldf.
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PRESTO-TIMES
POPULAR SONG FAVORITES ON QULBRANSEN PIANO
The national advertising for Feb-
ruary of the Gulbransen Co., Chi-
cago, appeals to. the present day
interest in the current song fa-
vorites.
A reproduction in a halftone
of the artistic illustration prepared
for the magazines is here repro-
duced. This is said in the text:
"Today's songs. Just hearing
them is not enough. Now you can
do what everybody wants to do
play them for yourself!
"Pretty Cinderella . . Where'd
You Get Those Eyes? . . .Mary
Lou . . .
"Today's songs! You hum them
—sing them—whistle them . .
because you can't resist them.
"You've often wished that you
could do the really satisfying thing
—play them for yourself.
"Now you can, with the Gulbransen Registering
Piano. All the naturalness of hand playing. For
singing,
you."
For dancing. Just for the fun it gives
total expenditure in behalf of the tournament will
undoubtedly reach $100,000.
On Friday morning, Feb. 11, over 7,100 children
had registered for the piano tournament, with every
indication that the 10,000 mark (one-third the goal of
30,000 set for March 31) would be attained within the
Forty-nine Prominent Firms in Trade Now next ten days.
Parochial schools throughout the city are taking an
Numbered Among Financial Backers of
active part in the tournament, and hundreds of pupils
Great Tournament for Children.
attending these schools are registering each day for
participation in it.
Between February 3 and February 8 twelve new
Sisters teaching at the parochial schools are doing
contributors joined the group of music houses do- all they can to develop the talent of their pupils so
nating to the support of the Annual Greater Chicago that they will make a fine showing in the musical
Children's Piano Playing Tournament.
competition. Among the parochial schools that are
The new houses are the Clayton F. Summy Music represented in the tournament by their pupils are the
Co., the Schiller Piano Co., Goldsmith Piano Co., following:
J. P. Seeburg Piano Co., M. Schulz Co., Meyer &
St. Ignatius, St. Margaret Mary's, St. Timothy, St.
Weber, Carl Fischer, Inc, George B. Dow, Weber Martin, St. Louis Academy, St. Patrick's Academy,
& Sons, Gambel-Hinged Music Co., Chicago Piano St. Bernard's, St. Anselm, St. James, and the Acad-
Co., Hyman H. Raieff and Rudolph H. Schoeppe emy of Our Lady. Sister Mary Leo, director of music
Piano Co.
at the Academy of Our Lady, 95th and Throop
This brings the number of contributors up to Feb. streets, has agreed to loan the use of their auditorium
8 inclusive to forty-nine and the total sum subscribed for some of the preliminaries.
Seventy thousand Chicago club women have en-
up to and including that date to $16,200. The Herald
and Examiner, in addition to this, announces that its dorsed the tournament. These are all members of
the Chicago Federation of Women's Clubs and the
endorsement was the climax of a meeting in the
Hyde Park Hotel last week.
QUALITY FIRST and FIRST QUALITY
COLUMBUS, O., STORE ROBBED.
JESSE
FRENCH
AND
SONS
PIANO
CO.
NEWCASTLE
INDIANA
'A name well known since 1875"
UTAH ASSOCIATION
HAS BEEN REVIVED
Weekly Meetings to Be Held, at Salt Lake
City Where a Live Concert Season
Is in Progress.
MUSIC HOUSES BACK
PIANO PLAYING CONTEST
ESSE FRENCH & SONS
February 19, 1927.
Soaping rugs to deaden the sound of the explosion,
yeggs blew two safes in the Heaton Music Store,
Columbus, O., recently to secure $130 loot. A third
safe, containing $3,000, they were unable to open,
although they subjected it 'to heavy battering. The
safecrackers worked during the early hours of Sunday
morning, police believe, as no watchman was on duty
in the building during that period.
KREITER
The Leading and Most Popular
Pianos and Players
Grands, Players, Uprights and
Reproducing Pianos
The Results of Over Forty Years'
of Experience.
Kreiter Pianos Cover the Entire Line
and no Piano Dealer who tries these in-
struments would supplant them by any
others* A trial will convince.
Kreiter Mfg. Co., Inc.
310-312 W. Water St., Milwaukee, Wis.
Factory: Marinette, Wis.
THE JEWETT PIANOS
Reliable Grand, Upright and Player Pianos
JEWETT PIANO CO., Boston Factories: Leominster, Mass.
A meeting was held a few days ago by the Music
Dealers' Association of Utah which has recently been
revived in Salt Lake City. All members, including
music dealers from Salt Lake and the surrounding
territory, were in favor of resuming regular meetings,
which will be held twice monthly with a special
meeting to be held every fourth week in the month.
Special speakers will be obtained in roder to have
these meetings interspersed with instructive talks.
The Daynes-Beebe Music Company have their
sixty-seventh anniversary sale on, which is going over
big.
The Glen Brothers-Roberts Piano Company, of Salt
Lake, is preparing for the advent of Philip Gor-
don in that city. Gordon, who is a Chickering artist,
will give a recital there sometime in May, and tieups
will be arranged in this connection, according to Man-
ager T. J. Holland. The French artist, Domesnil,
also a Chickering performer, will be in 'that city dur-
ing April with the original Chopin grand piano.
During the month of January an unusually large
number of high-grade pianos were sold by the Con-
solidated Music Company, it is announced by Chas.
H. C. King, secretary and treasurer of that organ-
ization.
The Beesley Music Company, of Salt Lake, an-
nounces that business both there and at the new
branch store in Ogden, Utah, is very good.
"Music in the Home" is the name of a new monthly
publication of the Lehman Piano Co., St. Louis,
devoted to information for music lovers, and partic-
ular facts for music students. The company handles
the Knabe, Hardman, Fischer, M. Schulz and Gabler
pianos and the Knabe and Fischer Ampicos.
MASCOT
The World's Leading Small
Electric Piano
TAKES UP SMALL SPACE
MAKES LARGE EARNINGS
Your territory may be open
Western Electric Piano Co.
429 W. Superior St., Chicago
SCHILLER
A GREAT NAME—A GREAT PIANO
THE SCHILLER
Makes Friends, Makes Customers, Makes
Money, for the Dealer
Super-Grands, Medium Grands, Small
Grands. Full Plate Uprights; Medium
Uprights; Small (3 :7) Uprights.
Reproducing Grands, Uprights and
Players
Grands with the Famous Bauer
Patented Construction
The SCHILLER PIANO challenges
superiority in tone quality as in construc-
tion, workmanship, finish and appearance.
For Agency Proposition and All
Particulars, address
SCHILLER PIANO COMPANY
Factory and General Offices:
OREGON, ILLINOIS
CHICAGO OFFICE:
State and Adams Sts.
922 Republic Bldg.
NEW YORK OFFICE:
130 W. 42nd St.
Bush Terminal Bldf.
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).