Presto

February 26, 1927.
PRESTO-TIMES
CHRISTMAN
"The First Touch Tells"
CONTEST COMMITTEE
HAS DEFINITE OBJECT
New Music Supervisor Committee Under
Charles E. Byrne, Strives for Appoint-
ment of New City Official.
The committee supervising the Annual Greater
Chicago Children's Piano Playing Tournament has
appointed a music supervisor committee for the pur-
pose of exerting every possible effort toward estab-
lishing a city music supervisor for Chicago. It is a
step towards group piano instruction in the schools
and ever-increasing interest in piano tournaments in
Chicago.
The general chairman of the music supervisor com-
mittee is Charles E. Byrne, vice-president of the
Steger & Sons Piano Manufacturing Co., under whom
will be the piano men who make up the supervising
committee of the Piano Playing Tournament: Henry
D. Hewitt, Chris G. Steger, Henry E. Weisert,
Eugene Whelan, Walter Kiehn, Eugene R. Farny,
Gordon Laughead, Elmer C. Hill, Herman H. Fleer,
Roy Cook, Matt J. Kennedy, Roger O'Connor and
George R. Brownell.
Harry B. Bibb, phonograph division, Brunswick-
Balke-Collender Co., will head the phonograph and
radio division. In addition to a music trade press
division, at least fifteen other divisions of this com-
mittee will be formed to bring about the appointment
of a salaried city music supervisor for Chicago.
THE CHRISTMAN
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THE
THE MASTER'S FINCER5
s
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in which is installed the most famous
of all piano-playing mechanisms.
THE CHRISTMAN
LINE
is complete, from the small upright to
the famous Studio Grand and the
Concert Grands. With this line the
dealer has the variety of sizes and
styles requisite to a complete piano
house.
Has No Superior and Few Equals in
Tone, Construction or Beauty
Write for full particulars and illus-
trated catalogues.
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The First Touch Tells 3 '
Re*. U. 8. Pat. Off.
Christman Piano Co.
597 East 137th St.
New York
Stathopoulo, New York, dealers in banjos, and Dan
Pagenta, representative of Matt Kennedy, Chicago.
A. Holmes, manager of the main Bradford store,
413 Broadway, states that they will close their South
Side store at 608 Mitchell street on March 1. All
the stock will be moved to their main store.
PERIOD DESIGN THAT
IS WINNING FAVOR
Schumann Piano in Spanish Style Presents
One of the Most Attractive Cases of
Recent Production.
The Schumann Piano Co., of Rockford. 111., is pro-
ducing a line of very handsome and authenticated
Period designs. They have already won recognition
and are in good demand with Schumann representa-
tives. The style herewith illustrated is the Spanish
BROADCASTING NEWS OF
FAMOUS BOSTON PIANO
Henry F. Miller Store Has the Air for Contin-
uous Broadcasting of Sales Talks by Pub-
licity Director Elliott.
Recently the Henry F. Miller, store, 200 Dart-
mouth street, Boston, started broadcasting over the
new Air Shopping News radio station, WASN, of
that city.
This new radio station, broadcasting on a wave
length of 280.2 metres, is on the air from 8 in the
morning until 6 in the evening with a continuous
broadcast of shopping news, with short intervals of
music in between the broadcasts of the different
Boston stores.
The station is using a Henry F. Miller Welte-
Mignon Reproducing Grand exclusively, and this
piano is used to furnish music during the three minute
periods between each five minute broadcast.
The Henry F. Miller store, which is the only piano
store in New England using this type of advertising,
is broadcasting on a schedule of every other day,
with five broadcasts each day that they are "on the
air," making a total of fifteen broadcasts each week.
The broadcasts are written by R. D. Elliott, direc-
tor of advertising for the Henry F. Miller store, and
are broadcast by one of the girls of the radio station.
It is interesting to note that these broadcasts are
educational talks on music and its development, as
well as Shopping News of the store.
SCHUMANN SPANISH STYLTC.
design. It is an instrument well calculated to sustain
the standards of Schumann pianos, and it is made in
two sizes, four-foot-ten inches and five-foot-three
inches.
With such an instrument as the Schumann, the
mere announcement of the Period designs is sufficient
to insure a demand. Within a week or two the Schu-
mann Piano Co. expects to have other Period styles
ready for the trade, and they will present the same
kind of attractiveness that has made the Spanish
design a favorite.
DEATH OF LAWRENCE MAXWELL,
LAWYER AND PIANO MAKER
Owner of Werner Industries, Cincinnati, Prominent
in Music Circles, Passed Away Last Week.
Lawrence Maxwell, widely known attorney, and
a leading figure in the local musical world through
his position as president of the Cincinnati May Fes-
tival Association, died in the Ohio city on February
18, aged 73. As an attorney Mr. Maxwell held a
but, while for
Thieves Visit Kesselman-O'Driscoll; Wurlitzer Or- commanding position in his profession
many years he had been the princ ; pal owner of the
gans for Theatres; Grandpa Roussellot.
Werner Industries, better known as the Krell Piano
Co., of Cincinnati, he was not generally known per-
Thieves entered the Kesselman-O'Driscoll music
store at 517 Grand avenue, Milwaukee, last week and sonally in that connection. He was not what is called
stole musical instruments valued at more than $600. a "popular" character, but he was forceful and carried
Included among the stolen articles were four saxo- his purposes to conclusions. And he was one of the
musical enthusiasts who, like the late Col. Geo. Ward
phones, some phonographs and numerous records.
Nichols, John Church and Reuben Springer, gave to
Harry Reinwald, of the Milwaukee Wurlitzer
house, states that they have recently sold two large Cincinnati its place among the cultural centers of the
Wurlitzer Hope Jones organs. One will be placed in country.
the new Venetian Theater on Thirty-seventh and
It is understood that the Werner Industries will
Center, and the other has been purchased by The continue without interruption under the present man-
Milwaukee Journal to use for their broadcasting sta- agement.
tion, WHAD.
The piano dealers of Milwaukee hold a noon lunch-
THE SALON DE LA MUSIQUE.
eon every Thursday at the Milwaukee Athletic Club.
A circular from France induces American music
At present they are making preparations for the state- manufacturers and dealers to attend the Paris Inter-
wide piano playing contest.
national Fair, May 14 to 29. This is said:
J. Roussellot, proprietor of the Lyric Music com-
"Manufacturers, Publishers, you must take part in.
pany at 88 Wisconsin street, has become a grandpa.
Retailers, you must visit, the Fifth Salon de la
His son Merle Roussellot, who is also a proprietor in Musique, the great annual market of the music trade.
the company, was blessed last week with a baby boy. All kinds of musical instruments, gramophones, musi-
J. Roussellot is also a director of the Milwaukee As- cal publications, supplies, accessories, sundries. Two
sociation of Music Merchants.
hundred stands in 1926. For particulars address the
Among two visitors at the Flanner-Hafsoos Music Office General de la Musique, 15, rue de Madrid
House last week were George Mann of the House of
Paris."
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