Presto
Issue: 1927 2118 - Page 4
PRESTO-TIMES
NEWS OF THE TRADE
IN MILWAUKEE, WIS.
ACTIVE AMPICO PROMOTION
Local Piano Merchants Subscribe to Next
Year's Playing Contest and Reduce Num-
ber of Regular Meetings.
Extensive preparations by the committee in charge
of arrangements for the Milwaukee, Wis., piano play-
ing contest, which will be conducted next year, are
being carried on. At present ^7,000 has been under-
written by a group of Milwaukee dealers to assure
prizes for the event. The committee is also getting
in touch with the dealers throughout the state in an
attempt to get them to cooperate.
Among recent visitors to the Edmund Gram Music
house were Roman Majewski, New York, represent-
ing the S'teinway & Sons, and C. W. Houseman
of the United Piano Corporation, of Norwalk, Ohio,
manufacturers of the A. B. Chase, and Emerson and
Lindeman lines. The house is representative of these
lines in Wisconsin.
The weekly luncheons held by the Milwaukee
Music Merchants Association have been discontinued
and, instead, a monthly meeting will be held. Mem-
bers of the organization felt that a meeting each
week was too often and that one each month would
serve the purpose.
PIANO PLAYING CONTEST
DINNER AND RALLY
TOP—AMPICO RECORDS DR-
PARTML'NT IN THE FORBES
& WALLACE STORE. SPRING-
FIELD. MASS., A NOTABLE
FEATURE OF THE PIANO
SAU>X OF THE COMPANY.
1SOTTOM—THE STEEL CON-
STRUCTION AMPICO REC-
ORD RACKS IN THE DEMON-
STRATION ROOM OF MRS. E.
REINHART'S SONS STORK'
AT HAZELTON, PA.
Meeting at Auditorium, Chicago, to Promote
Tournament Will Be Held on Thursday
Evening of Next Week.
The service system organized by the Ampico Pro-
motion Department of the American Piano Co. is a
most effective aid for keeping Ampico owners un-
The Supervising Committee of .the Greater Chicago ceasingly interested in their instruments by means
Children's Piano Playing Tournament is staging an of new recordings.
The Ampico Magazine, issued monthly, presents
informal rally dinner and meeting at the Auditorium
Hotel at 6:30 sharp on the evening of" Thursday, the new recordings in a manner that is unique in this
form of service, but that is not enough, it must be
March 10th.
All interested in Chicago's musical future and espe- made easy and convenient for Ampico owner to hear
cially the future of the piano, professionally or com- the new pieces. A new enthusiasm in Ampico own-
mercially, will realize thai attendance is not only ership comes with each addition to the musical
library, new recordings bring new delights and fresh
desirable but essential.
pride in ownership. The dealer handling the Ampico
Invitation cards are $2 00 each and Treasurer James realizes that a thoroughly equipped and complete
T. Bristol asks that check payable to the Piano collection, available at all times to his owners, is an
Playing Tournament be mailed promptly to his ad- asset of the greatest value.
dress. Kimball Building, Chicago.
The Ampico Promotion Department has given
serious thought to this feature of Ampico selling and
service and has its own system of stocking and han-
dling recordings, and a valuable and well-schemed
proposition that has met with the enthusiastic ap-
proval of those Ampico dealers who have installed
it. Two of the most successful Ampico Recording
Departments are shown in the illustration, one is in
DOINGS OF THE TRADE
IN INDIANA'S CAPITAL
Steady Improvement in Demand for Fine
Pianos with Good Record of Recent
Sales of Period Styles.
Rapp &. Lennox report business very good. Among
the sales of the past week was one of the period
models, a Foster grand. Queen Anne, in antique ma-
hogany. Conditions look especially good, said Mr.
Rapp, and prospects for the Ampico were never bet-
ter. Fred Colber, of the Knabe Organization, was
present and very much pleased with the outlook for
high grade instruments, especially in period models.
During his recent trip over the country he declared
that everywhere periodTnodfls were in the lead, and
it behooves manufacturers to cater to the likes of
the public. Mr. Colber dropped off on his w T ay west,
and during the day held several concerts at the store
demonstrating the Ampico in the Knabe.
The interest that has been noticed in higher grade
pianos is increasing, says Harry Wert, of the Pearson
Piano Co. It is shown by the Steinway & Sons sales,
i'.nd other high grade instruments sold by the com-
pany. Marguerite Vaihle Steinhart, recording artist,
will entertain at the Little Theater on the 13th day
of the month with the Steinway & Sons concert
grand.
A special Louis the XV in waxed walnut rococo
Baldwin grand was delivered to one of the leading
business men of Elwood, Ind. This is the second
of these beautiful instruments sold by the local House
of Baldwin. During the entire week the Baldwin
concert grand will be used by Brown Brothers at the
Circle Theater in connection with their saxophone
act. On the 25th of the month the Baldwin Concert
grand will be used at the Herron Art Institute in the
auditorium.
The Wilking Music Company has delivered the
especially designed and decorated instrument to the
Ritz Theater which was built by the Apollo Com-
pany. The instrument is one of the early period
March 5. 1927.
models and done in Chinese red and gold, in harmony
with the interior decorations of the house.
The Jesse French & Sons grand will be used at a
concert during the coming week for the benefit of the
Barton Bradley fund. The fund was created in mem-
ory of Barton Bradley.-wlio heroically tried to rescue
a boy from drowning in Fall Creek and lost his own
life. The concert will be held at the Armory of Tech-
nical High School which he attended, and the pro-
ceeds will be held in trust for educational purposes
of poor pupils.
Publicity work will be started in connection with
the Jesse French & Sons piano in many of the lead-
ing churches and schools in the near future, accord-
ing to Mr. Wilking. It is the intention of the man-
ufacturers, as well as the Wilking Music Co., to keep
the name of Jesse French & Sons before the public.
Programs will be especially prepared for each occa-
sion.
Christena-Teague Piano Company has completed
the new record department which occupies a prom-
inent section of the first floor of the company. A
complete stock of records will be on hand, which will
be one of the largest and most complete in the city.
Hermann C. Spain of the Chickering organization
was a caller during the past week.
WHITE HOUSE RECITALS.
The last of the musicales at the White House,
Washington, D. C , in charge of Henry Junge of
Steinway & Sons, was given at the Speaker's Dinner,
February 10. Mr. Junge will later announce the
schedule of musical functions at the White House for
the season of 1927-1928. Much interest is always at-
tached to the events at which notable audiences listen
to famous artists and at which the Steinway piano
is used.
the beautiful piano salons of the Forbes & Wallace
store in Springfield, Mass., and the other is the
attractive quarters devoted to the hearing and selling
of Ampico recordings in the establishment of Mrs.
E. Reinhart's Sons at Hazleton, Pa. The installation
of these special steel constructed Ampico recording
racks and the attractive furnishing of special rooms
for their hearing greatly increases the sale of record-
ings and gives the owner a service that insures a
continued and constant interest in his instrument.
The admirable plans of the Ampico Promotion De-
partment for the handling of Ampico recordings so
successfully installed by Mr. Larkin of Forbes &
Wallace and Oscar and Henry Reinhart have been
found equally effective and productive of results else-
where. Amongst the many others who have installed
these special steel Ampico recording racks are:
Loomis Temple of Music, New Haven. Conn.; the
J. S. Reed Piano Co., Baltimore, Md.; the Bennett
Piano Co.. Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; the M. E. Blatt Co.,
Atlantic City, N. J.; A. Hospe Company, Omaha,
Neb., Forbes-Meagher Music Co., Madison, Wis.;
Harry Parmes, Brooklyn, N. Y., and L. Bamberger
& Co., Newark, N. J.
THE WEEK'S MEETING OF
THE CHICAGO PIANO CLUB
Emphasis Given Again to the Hotel Stevens' Arrange-
ment for the June Convention.
The Chicago Piano Club was entertained at its
noon-day luncheon this week Monday by that ver-
satile writer and conductor of the Chicago Herald
and Examiner's "Round About Chicago" column,
Jame.; Weber Linn. Mr. Linn gave a stirring ad-
dress on the practicability, and the impracticability,
of American ideals and brushed away fallacies com-
monly held as ideals. He was given a rising vote
of thanks and invited to "come again."
President Laughead spoke of the next Piano Club
event, the dinner, the Life Members' Stag, on Mon-
day night, the 21st of this month. The slogan for
this event is, "Keep this in mind and invite your
friends."
A repetition was made of the announcement already
given out that there are some twenty-four hundred
rooms available at the New Stevens hotel for the
June convention, at rates of $5 and less, per day. The
club streamer has as its motto for the day:
"As the years go by and experiences accumulate,
we realize more and more that the supreme thing
in life is the friendship of our fellow-men, and the
love of those with whom we work."
TO MEET PRINCE WILLIAM.
J. P. Seeburg, president of the J. P. Seeburg Piano
Co., returned to Chicago from Florida last week to
meet Prince William of Sweden. Mr. Seeburg is an
admirer and friend of the Prince and was prepared
to share in welcoming and entertaining the brilliant
orator and traveler from his native land.
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NEWS OF THE TRADE
IN MILWAUKEE, WIS.
ACTIVE AMPICO PROMOTION
Local Piano Merchants Subscribe to Next
Year's Playing Contest and Reduce Num-
ber of Regular Meetings.
Extensive preparations by the committee in charge
of arrangements for the Milwaukee, Wis., piano play-
ing contest, which will be conducted next year, are
being carried on. At present ^7,000 has been under-
written by a group of Milwaukee dealers to assure
prizes for the event. The committee is also getting
in touch with the dealers throughout the state in an
attempt to get them to cooperate.
Among recent visitors to the Edmund Gram Music
house were Roman Majewski, New York, represent-
ing the S'teinway & Sons, and C. W. Houseman
of the United Piano Corporation, of Norwalk, Ohio,
manufacturers of the A. B. Chase, and Emerson and
Lindeman lines. The house is representative of these
lines in Wisconsin.
The weekly luncheons held by the Milwaukee
Music Merchants Association have been discontinued
and, instead, a monthly meeting will be held. Mem-
bers of the organization felt that a meeting each
week was too often and that one each month would
serve the purpose.
PIANO PLAYING CONTEST
DINNER AND RALLY
TOP—AMPICO RECORDS DR-
PARTML'NT IN THE FORBES
& WALLACE STORE. SPRING-
FIELD. MASS., A NOTABLE
FEATURE OF THE PIANO
SAU>X OF THE COMPANY.
1SOTTOM—THE STEEL CON-
STRUCTION AMPICO REC-
ORD RACKS IN THE DEMON-
STRATION ROOM OF MRS. E.
REINHART'S SONS STORK'
AT HAZELTON, PA.
Meeting at Auditorium, Chicago, to Promote
Tournament Will Be Held on Thursday
Evening of Next Week.
The service system organized by the Ampico Pro-
motion Department of the American Piano Co. is a
most effective aid for keeping Ampico owners un-
The Supervising Committee of .the Greater Chicago ceasingly interested in their instruments by means
Children's Piano Playing Tournament is staging an of new recordings.
The Ampico Magazine, issued monthly, presents
informal rally dinner and meeting at the Auditorium
Hotel at 6:30 sharp on the evening of" Thursday, the new recordings in a manner that is unique in this
form of service, but that is not enough, it must be
March 10th.
All interested in Chicago's musical future and espe- made easy and convenient for Ampico owner to hear
cially the future of the piano, professionally or com- the new pieces. A new enthusiasm in Ampico own-
mercially, will realize thai attendance is not only ership comes with each addition to the musical
library, new recordings bring new delights and fresh
desirable but essential.
pride in ownership. The dealer handling the Ampico
Invitation cards are $2 00 each and Treasurer James realizes that a thoroughly equipped and complete
T. Bristol asks that check payable to the Piano collection, available at all times to his owners, is an
Playing Tournament be mailed promptly to his ad- asset of the greatest value.
dress. Kimball Building, Chicago.
The Ampico Promotion Department has given
serious thought to this feature of Ampico selling and
service and has its own system of stocking and han-
dling recordings, and a valuable and well-schemed
proposition that has met with the enthusiastic ap-
proval of those Ampico dealers who have installed
it. Two of the most successful Ampico Recording
Departments are shown in the illustration, one is in
DOINGS OF THE TRADE
IN INDIANA'S CAPITAL
Steady Improvement in Demand for Fine
Pianos with Good Record of Recent
Sales of Period Styles.
Rapp &. Lennox report business very good. Among
the sales of the past week was one of the period
models, a Foster grand. Queen Anne, in antique ma-
hogany. Conditions look especially good, said Mr.
Rapp, and prospects for the Ampico were never bet-
ter. Fred Colber, of the Knabe Organization, was
present and very much pleased with the outlook for
high grade instruments, especially in period models.
During his recent trip over the country he declared
that everywhere periodTnodfls were in the lead, and
it behooves manufacturers to cater to the likes of
the public. Mr. Colber dropped off on his w T ay west,
and during the day held several concerts at the store
demonstrating the Ampico in the Knabe.
The interest that has been noticed in higher grade
pianos is increasing, says Harry Wert, of the Pearson
Piano Co. It is shown by the Steinway & Sons sales,
i'.nd other high grade instruments sold by the com-
pany. Marguerite Vaihle Steinhart, recording artist,
will entertain at the Little Theater on the 13th day
of the month with the Steinway & Sons concert
grand.
A special Louis the XV in waxed walnut rococo
Baldwin grand was delivered to one of the leading
business men of Elwood, Ind. This is the second
of these beautiful instruments sold by the local House
of Baldwin. During the entire week the Baldwin
concert grand will be used by Brown Brothers at the
Circle Theater in connection with their saxophone
act. On the 25th of the month the Baldwin Concert
grand will be used at the Herron Art Institute in the
auditorium.
The Wilking Music Company has delivered the
especially designed and decorated instrument to the
Ritz Theater which was built by the Apollo Com-
pany. The instrument is one of the early period
March 5. 1927.
models and done in Chinese red and gold, in harmony
with the interior decorations of the house.
The Jesse French & Sons grand will be used at a
concert during the coming week for the benefit of the
Barton Bradley fund. The fund was created in mem-
ory of Barton Bradley.-wlio heroically tried to rescue
a boy from drowning in Fall Creek and lost his own
life. The concert will be held at the Armory of Tech-
nical High School which he attended, and the pro-
ceeds will be held in trust for educational purposes
of poor pupils.
Publicity work will be started in connection with
the Jesse French & Sons piano in many of the lead-
ing churches and schools in the near future, accord-
ing to Mr. Wilking. It is the intention of the man-
ufacturers, as well as the Wilking Music Co., to keep
the name of Jesse French & Sons before the public.
Programs will be especially prepared for each occa-
sion.
Christena-Teague Piano Company has completed
the new record department which occupies a prom-
inent section of the first floor of the company. A
complete stock of records will be on hand, which will
be one of the largest and most complete in the city.
Hermann C. Spain of the Chickering organization
was a caller during the past week.
WHITE HOUSE RECITALS.
The last of the musicales at the White House,
Washington, D. C , in charge of Henry Junge of
Steinway & Sons, was given at the Speaker's Dinner,
February 10. Mr. Junge will later announce the
schedule of musical functions at the White House for
the season of 1927-1928. Much interest is always at-
tached to the events at which notable audiences listen
to famous artists and at which the Steinway piano
is used.
the beautiful piano salons of the Forbes & Wallace
store in Springfield, Mass., and the other is the
attractive quarters devoted to the hearing and selling
of Ampico recordings in the establishment of Mrs.
E. Reinhart's Sons at Hazleton, Pa. The installation
of these special steel constructed Ampico recording
racks and the attractive furnishing of special rooms
for their hearing greatly increases the sale of record-
ings and gives the owner a service that insures a
continued and constant interest in his instrument.
The admirable plans of the Ampico Promotion De-
partment for the handling of Ampico recordings so
successfully installed by Mr. Larkin of Forbes &
Wallace and Oscar and Henry Reinhart have been
found equally effective and productive of results else-
where. Amongst the many others who have installed
these special steel Ampico recording racks are:
Loomis Temple of Music, New Haven. Conn.; the
J. S. Reed Piano Co., Baltimore, Md.; the Bennett
Piano Co.. Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; the M. E. Blatt Co.,
Atlantic City, N. J.; A. Hospe Company, Omaha,
Neb., Forbes-Meagher Music Co., Madison, Wis.;
Harry Parmes, Brooklyn, N. Y., and L. Bamberger
& Co., Newark, N. J.
THE WEEK'S MEETING OF
THE CHICAGO PIANO CLUB
Emphasis Given Again to the Hotel Stevens' Arrange-
ment for the June Convention.
The Chicago Piano Club was entertained at its
noon-day luncheon this week Monday by that ver-
satile writer and conductor of the Chicago Herald
and Examiner's "Round About Chicago" column,
Jame.; Weber Linn. Mr. Linn gave a stirring ad-
dress on the practicability, and the impracticability,
of American ideals and brushed away fallacies com-
monly held as ideals. He was given a rising vote
of thanks and invited to "come again."
President Laughead spoke of the next Piano Club
event, the dinner, the Life Members' Stag, on Mon-
day night, the 21st of this month. The slogan for
this event is, "Keep this in mind and invite your
friends."
A repetition was made of the announcement already
given out that there are some twenty-four hundred
rooms available at the New Stevens hotel for the
June convention, at rates of $5 and less, per day. The
club streamer has as its motto for the day:
"As the years go by and experiences accumulate,
we realize more and more that the supreme thing
in life is the friendship of our fellow-men, and the
love of those with whom we work."
TO MEET PRINCE WILLIAM.
J. P. Seeburg, president of the J. P. Seeburg Piano
Co., returned to Chicago from Florida last week to
meet Prince William of Sweden. Mr. Seeburg is an
admirer and friend of the Prince and was prepared
to share in welcoming and entertaining the brilliant
orator and traveler from his native land.
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).