Presto

PRESTO-TIMES
April 23, 1927.
Hardman, Veck, & Co.
KNABE GRAND IN UNIQUE RECITAL
•••-' y
make
a Fine Piano
for every pocketbook
All exquisite instruments
offering unique tone beauty
and durability. All made
and g u a r a n t e e d by t h e
makers of the Hardman, the
world's most durable piano.
Your choice of models priced
to consumers from $375 to
$5000.
55 Years of Fine Piano Making
A V/
• i for
for cataloj
catalog and prices
of pianos
Made and guaranteed by
Hardman, Peck &f Co.
433 Fifth Avenue, New York
Fine Pianos
Makers oj the world's most
durable piano—the Hardman
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
Ttala Trade Mark la oaat
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 tha law.
New Catalogue on Bequest.
Schumann Piano Co.
W. M. VAN MATRE, President
Rockford, I1L
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
H •
• 111
W>
1'
Mi
-Hi
L
1
ft
H
-^T^^i^Cir." 5 : " r ^
- f *
ft
m
J
,\ •
^
]
1 * v . am••
m
1
"'•"' •
1*
/ • i
*^jiP
;
"
&SmW^mwBE*
mm
,jh>'-^
Jf ^
ii
y
^>
A*
*
^^
I
I
«."
I
T
i
l mmm
• i
m W
-. *^ • n
/ ^
; ^
•-. ^ # ^ A J
gpP-j^
1% i
*
^'r 1 «
;
mm
• P
iilSW
3 IIH.1
WTM
1
•i i j - ' f
* *
•*•
V . • , %
t
SENATE CHAMBER, CAPITOL, LITTLE ROCK, ARK., DURTNG UNIQUE CONCERT WHEN OPERA SINGER
AND KNABE GRAND WERE HEARD.
The story of an opera singer who traveled half
city, and Robert E. York, state editor of the Tex-
way across the coiUinent in response to a belated arkana Gazette, and chairman of the State American
acceptance of her promise to entertain the Arkansas Legion Publicity Committee, who suggested their
Legislature at the capitol in Little Rock, was revealed
appearance before the Legislature under Legion
when she and two other noted artists appeared in auspices. They promptly accepted and Monday,
concert before a joint session of the Senate and March 7 was named as the most suitable day.
House of Representatives recently. One had raced
Meanwhile Mme. Hodsdon had gone to Boston and
from Boston and another from Kansas City so the Mr. Nye to Kansas City to fulfill engagements, while
law-makers might not be disappointed.
Miss Stanley had decided to spend some time at Hot
The artists were Roger A. Nye, tenor, who has Springs. It looked like a hopeless situation, but
won fame as soloist with the New York Philharmonic York nevertheless sent wires to 'the artists, and to
and Boston Symphony Orchestras; Charlotte Hods- his astonishment all three sent favorable replies, Mme".
don, soprano, now under contract with the Los An- Hodsdon declaring that she would be there if there
were trains that traveled fast enough to make it
geles Municipal Grand Opera Company, and Miss
Marion Stanley, soprano, who has made a name for possible.
herself in concert work in the east.
Then came the question of a piano, and the H. V.
Beasley Music Company of Texarkana was appealed
The three had previously appeared in concert in
Texarkana under the auspices of Mrs. Helen Ruffin to and a Knabe Grand was rushed by truck over
150 miles.
Marshall, leader of the musical set in the border-line
TRADE NEWS FROM
THE NORTHWEST FIELD
Interesting Items from Oregon Tell of Activi-
ties of Firms and Individuals in an
Interesting Section.
to marry him. lie returned to Milwaukee last week
and his bride and her 13-year-old daughter will fol-
low as soon as she can dispose of business affairs.
A CHICAGO COMMERCIAL CENSUS.
Every dollar's worth of music goods bought and
sold in Chicago is to be accounted for in a census
of trade generally to be taken immediately, the Chi-
cago Association of Commerce announced recently.
On the data thus obtained will be based the great-
est campaign for increased business ever attempted
in an American city, it was stated. The census
forms are being printed, and will be taken to every
retailer, wholesaler, commission firm, broker, im-
porter, cooperative selling organization, or any other
kind of a merchandising firm, according to the an-
nouncement.
Messrs. Fred Sherman and Philip Clay of Sher-
man, Clay & Co.. San Francisco, visited the Portland,
Ore., branch the first week in April and while in
Portland were joined by R. E. Robinson, manager of
the Seattle branch and Pacific Northwest represen-
tative of the firm. The trio then visited the Pacific
Northwest agencies at the completion of their Port-
land visit. While in Portland Mr. Clay met the em-
ployes of both the wholesale and retail departments
and gave them a splendid sales talk of the new MANVEL BARAJAS IN NEW YORK.
Prof. Manvel Barajas of Mexico City was a recent
Automatic Orthophonic Victrola.
The piano department of Sherman, Clay & Co. of visitor in New York, spending many days with the
various officials of the American Piano Company and
Portland, Ore., is featuring the Cable-Nelson new art
models, by extensive advertising and attractive win- Wm. Knabe & Co. He is musical critic of El Uni-
dow displays. J. H. Hammer says that all four mod- versal, leading paper of Mexico City, and a member
els, the Spanish Renaissance, the Louis XVL, the of the faculty of the National Conservatory of Mex-
Italian type and the Spanish Granada, all answer ico and an ardent Knabe and Ampico enthusiast.
Until recently Professor Barajas was artistic director
the demand of the modern home builder, of whom
of Station CYJ of the General Electric, Mexico City,
there are many in Portland at the present time.
of which the Knabe is the official piano.
The Reed, French Piano Co. and the G. F. Johnson
Piano Co. of Portland, Ore., were visited the first
week in April by O. F. Rydeen, Pacific Coast repre- CELEBRATES FIFTH ANNIVERSARY.
sentative of the American Piano Co. These two firms
On March 29, 1922, M. J. Bourke & Son entered
are the Portland representatives of the American
business in Royal Oak, Mich., and the fifth anniver-
Piano Co. Mr. Rudeen reports excellent business in
sary of the occasion was recently celebrated at the
California, from which point he came to Portland.
store. The business has steadily grown to the pro-
portion of a double store at 413-415 South Washing-
ton avenue, carrying a complete line of musical in-
PIANO SALESMAN'S ROMANCE.
A childhood romance culminated recently in the struments. The outlook for a promising future is
marriage of James M. Gaines, salesman and an offi- attested to by Mr. Bourke and an enlarged store is
cial of the Edmund Gram Piano House, Milwaukee, now being considered.
Wis., and Miss Marie Wefing, of Denver, Colo. Mr.
ADOLPH OLIN'S DEATH
Gaines and Miss Wefing were engaged in Denver in
1904, but a petty quarrel brought about a misunder-
Adolph E. Olin, aged fifty-six years, years ago
standing and Mr. Gaines came to Milwaukee, while superintendent of the Haddorff Piano Company, died
Miss Wefing married another man, who died eighteen
April 11 in his home following a cerebral hemorrhage
months ago. In the early part of April Mr. Gaines on April 11. For many years Mr. Olin had been in
went to Denver where he got Miss Wefing's consent the furniture industry in Rockford.
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/