Presto
Issue: 1927 2126 - Page 11
April 30, 1927.
interested has the financial strength and enterprise
to sustain his energies.
The head of the house of Starck is a business man
of courage and unlimited ambitions. P. T. Starck
has been in the piano business from early manhood,
having followed closely in- the footsteps of his late
father, who was everywhere recognized as one of the
Popular Piano Man Is Now Vice President most successful in the industry. The capacity of the
son of the founder is testified to by the steady
and General Manager of the Substantial
growth of the P. A. Starck Piano Co., which has
pushed ahead with unwavering results since his
Chicago Piano Industry, Succeeding
father's death, as well as before.
A. L. Owen.
One of the youngest of the piano manufacturers
who have held prominence in the industry, Mr. P. T.
Starck is also one of the most progressive, and it is
his purpose, with the assistance of Mr. Brinkerhoff,
to develop a widespread wholesale trade such as has
New Affiliation Is Considered a Good One, for Mr. not heretofore been considered.
Friends of Will Brinkerhoff will be glad to read
Brinkerhoff's Past Justifies Anticipation of
this announcement, and that they will embrace the
the Future.
opportunity to add the Starck pianos to their prof-
itable lines there can be no doubt.
Will T. Brinkerhoff, one of the popular members of
the piano trade and industry, has joined the P. A.
Starck Piano Co., of Chicago, and is now the vice-
WILL BRINKERHOFF
JOINS STARCK CO.
WILL INCREASE WHOLESALE
THE NEW SMALL PIANO
IN THE STRAUBE LINE
Announcement of the Smallest Grand Piano
Ever Achieved Interests Music
Dealers Everywhere.
The announcement of "the smallest grand piano
ever achieved," by the Straube Piano Company,
Hammond, Ind., tells of a response to the require-
ments of the day. Uprights and grands have been
continually decreasing in dimensions so that the
"smallest ever" responds to what is understood to
be a common desire with piano customers. In the
1
new small grand, of course, the Straube Piano Com-
pany provides the tone quality and volume inseparable
from the grand ideal.
Tn the new model soon to be ready for presenta-
tion to the trade the company applies the principle
of Duplex overstringing as embodied in the Style L,
Straube upright, which effects the element of space-
saving while achieving the desirable tone quality ex-
pected in the grand.
The announcement of the new model is another
assurance of sales results for Straube dealers, who
are enabled to give the public the instruments of
small dimensions so generally required. Straube
pianos are now marketed by a great number of rep-
resentative dealers scattered all over the country
and the newest efforts of the Hammond industry is
certain to increase the number of satisfied Straube
dealers.
r . T. STARCK.
president and general manager of that highly substan-
tial house. Mr. Brinkerhoff succeeds A. L. Owen,
who has retired to enter another line of business.
Mr. Brinkerhoff has been one of the most widely
known of the active piano trade travelers, having
friends in the trade throughout the country. He
11
PRESTO-TIMES
SELLS RETAIL BUSINESS
OF JULIUS BAUER & CO.
Old Chicago Piano Industry to Continue
Manufacturing Its Fine Instruments at
Its Modern Factory.
The retail business of Julius Bauer & Co., 305
South W r abash avenue, the oldest of Chicago's famous
piano manufacturers, has been purchased by Lyon
& Healy, it was announced this week by Herman H.
Fleer, vice-president and manager of the piano divi-
sion of the latter house.
While the consideration was not disclosed, the
stock of new and used pianos and phonographs taken
over is said to be valued at $100,000.
Julius Bauer & Co. will continue to manufacture
pianos at its factory, 1335 Altgeld street, and will be
represented in Chicago by Lyon & Healy. The Bauer
is one of the distinguished American pianos. It was
founded by the late Julius Bauer in 1857 and at the
present time his three sons, William M. Bauer, who
is the president; Julius Bauer, Jr., and Richard Bauer
are in control of the business. The company is
capitalized at $250,000 and the Bauer has a powerful
place in the musical world.
"Lyon & Healy is proud to become representatives
for the Bauer piano," declared Mr. Freer in an-
nouncing the association which has just been told
in detail.
The piano, instruments with the old name. J. Bauer
& Co. on the fallboards, embody original features
that give them an added quality of distinctiveness.
They are instruments that interest the piano buyers
of refined musical ear and, including them in a piano
line is a sure appeal of representative retailers to
customers of the most desirable kind. Bauer grands
are distinguished by an artistic character which at-
tracts the professional pianists and teachers. Every
piano bears the stamp of merit and is a tribute to the.
abilities of William M. Bauer, an acoustician of
national reputation.
FOOT POWER PLAYER
RUN FROM LIGHT SOCKET
Invention of Evansville, Ind., Man Transforms
Ordinary Playerpiano Into Inexpensive
Electric Instrument.
An Evansville, Indiana, man, coming home tired
from work, and asked to operate the playerpiano for
company, thought out a way which will be hailed
with joy by those who like music, but renig at the
BEN REYNOLDS SHOWS 'EM.
The Washington, Pa., Rotary Club at its luncheon thought of having to "pump" to make it.
Orrin A. Rhodes, of 210 Canal street, Evanston.
last week was given a surprise by Ben Reynolds, of
Ben Reynolds & Co., music merchants, one of its a maintenance man at a canning factory, has per-
fected an invention which he claims will reduce the
members, in the shape of a musical entertainment
and a complete demonstration of the automatic ortho- installation and operation of an electric playerpiano so
phonic Victrola, by George Rewbridge and Mr. Mc- as to be within the means of the average family.
The Rhodes invention consists of a tiny motor and
Celland, of Pittsburgh, factory representatives. The
program was arranged by Elmer N. Reynolds and the rod, connected to an electric socket, and it is said to
playing of twelve records automatically was a revela- consume no more current than an ordinary electric
tion to the Rotarians. The program was greatly light. Cost of installation is said to be about $9.
So home folks with "any old playerpiano" can stage
enjoyed by all.
their parties and have music as long as they like,
just by turning on the electric current.
WILL WADE MAKES CHANGE.
The City Board of Education at Huntingburg,
The house of Wade-Twitchell Piano Co., Chicago,
Ind., has just purchased a baby grand piano for the
will soon be no more. Will Wade has associated new school gymnasium in that city from C. Korn-
himself with a large financial concern of New York rumpf, the Huntingburg dealer. The Huntingburg
City, and will enter the bond business. He will look
Music Club and the Parent-Teacher clubs assisted in
after the interests in Chicago of the New York bank- purchasing the instrument.
ing concern, which makes a business of loaning
LaVallette Commandery, Knights Templar, at
money on real estate securities and commercial paper. Evansville. Ind., has purchased a large Estey organ
It is understood that a large music house has made a that will be installed in the Masonic Temple at the
cash offer for the stock in the Wade-Twitchell store
corner of Chestnut and Upper Third streets in that
on Wabash avenue.
city. Jt will be one of the largest pipe organs in
Evansville and southern Indiana.
NEW CEDAR RAPIDS STORE.
John Jenney, teacher of music in the Kenwood
Park and Tipton high schools, has joined with
Charles Brabbitt, former proprietor of the Western
Wood Wind factory, in a new musical instrument
store, located at 223 J / 2 First street, Cedar Rapids, la.
Mr. Jenney will continue as a school teacher and will
also conduct studios in connection with the store.
NEW SCHUMANN PATENT.
A new patent for truss structures for upright piano
cases has been granted by the United States Bureau
of Patents to James D. Hurst, Rockford, 111. The
WILL T. BR1XKERHOFF.
patent, No. 1,623,188, has been assigned to the Schu-
made a success of wholesale piano selling and, in his mann Piano Company of Rockford.
new capacity as wholesale director and vice-president
of the P. A. Starck Piano Co., it is practically certain
Extensive alterations and improvements have been
that his past successes will be repeated. He has a fine carried out on the third floor of the Dreher Piano
line of instruments and the house in which he is now
Co.'s store in Cleveland.
G. W. BATES MADE TREASURER.
George W. Bates, comptroller of Sherman, Clay &
Co., San Francisco, has been appointed treasurer of
the company, to take the place of Andrew G. Mc-
Carthy, who resigned recently. Mr. Bates joined
•the company in 1907, being assigned to the book-
keeping department, for which he designed the admir-
able svstem in use there.
THE BRITISH CONVENTION.
The convention of the British Music Trade Fed-
eration will take place on the same dates as the
annual meetings of the national music trade associa-
tions here. The convention will be opened June 6 at
the Metropol Hotel, Folkestone, by Paul M. Booth,
president. A concert, fancy dress ball and a carnival
are features of the convention week.
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interested has the financial strength and enterprise
to sustain his energies.
The head of the house of Starck is a business man
of courage and unlimited ambitions. P. T. Starck
has been in the piano business from early manhood,
having followed closely in- the footsteps of his late
father, who was everywhere recognized as one of the
Popular Piano Man Is Now Vice President most successful in the industry. The capacity of the
son of the founder is testified to by the steady
and General Manager of the Substantial
growth of the P. A. Starck Piano Co., which has
pushed ahead with unwavering results since his
Chicago Piano Industry, Succeeding
father's death, as well as before.
A. L. Owen.
One of the youngest of the piano manufacturers
who have held prominence in the industry, Mr. P. T.
Starck is also one of the most progressive, and it is
his purpose, with the assistance of Mr. Brinkerhoff,
to develop a widespread wholesale trade such as has
New Affiliation Is Considered a Good One, for Mr. not heretofore been considered.
Friends of Will Brinkerhoff will be glad to read
Brinkerhoff's Past Justifies Anticipation of
this announcement, and that they will embrace the
the Future.
opportunity to add the Starck pianos to their prof-
itable lines there can be no doubt.
Will T. Brinkerhoff, one of the popular members of
the piano trade and industry, has joined the P. A.
Starck Piano Co., of Chicago, and is now the vice-
WILL BRINKERHOFF
JOINS STARCK CO.
WILL INCREASE WHOLESALE
THE NEW SMALL PIANO
IN THE STRAUBE LINE
Announcement of the Smallest Grand Piano
Ever Achieved Interests Music
Dealers Everywhere.
The announcement of "the smallest grand piano
ever achieved," by the Straube Piano Company,
Hammond, Ind., tells of a response to the require-
ments of the day. Uprights and grands have been
continually decreasing in dimensions so that the
"smallest ever" responds to what is understood to
be a common desire with piano customers. In the
1
new small grand, of course, the Straube Piano Com-
pany provides the tone quality and volume inseparable
from the grand ideal.
Tn the new model soon to be ready for presenta-
tion to the trade the company applies the principle
of Duplex overstringing as embodied in the Style L,
Straube upright, which effects the element of space-
saving while achieving the desirable tone quality ex-
pected in the grand.
The announcement of the new model is another
assurance of sales results for Straube dealers, who
are enabled to give the public the instruments of
small dimensions so generally required. Straube
pianos are now marketed by a great number of rep-
resentative dealers scattered all over the country
and the newest efforts of the Hammond industry is
certain to increase the number of satisfied Straube
dealers.
r . T. STARCK.
president and general manager of that highly substan-
tial house. Mr. Brinkerhoff succeeds A. L. Owen,
who has retired to enter another line of business.
Mr. Brinkerhoff has been one of the most widely
known of the active piano trade travelers, having
friends in the trade throughout the country. He
11
PRESTO-TIMES
SELLS RETAIL BUSINESS
OF JULIUS BAUER & CO.
Old Chicago Piano Industry to Continue
Manufacturing Its Fine Instruments at
Its Modern Factory.
The retail business of Julius Bauer & Co., 305
South W r abash avenue, the oldest of Chicago's famous
piano manufacturers, has been purchased by Lyon
& Healy, it was announced this week by Herman H.
Fleer, vice-president and manager of the piano divi-
sion of the latter house.
While the consideration was not disclosed, the
stock of new and used pianos and phonographs taken
over is said to be valued at $100,000.
Julius Bauer & Co. will continue to manufacture
pianos at its factory, 1335 Altgeld street, and will be
represented in Chicago by Lyon & Healy. The Bauer
is one of the distinguished American pianos. It was
founded by the late Julius Bauer in 1857 and at the
present time his three sons, William M. Bauer, who
is the president; Julius Bauer, Jr., and Richard Bauer
are in control of the business. The company is
capitalized at $250,000 and the Bauer has a powerful
place in the musical world.
"Lyon & Healy is proud to become representatives
for the Bauer piano," declared Mr. Freer in an-
nouncing the association which has just been told
in detail.
The piano, instruments with the old name. J. Bauer
& Co. on the fallboards, embody original features
that give them an added quality of distinctiveness.
They are instruments that interest the piano buyers
of refined musical ear and, including them in a piano
line is a sure appeal of representative retailers to
customers of the most desirable kind. Bauer grands
are distinguished by an artistic character which at-
tracts the professional pianists and teachers. Every
piano bears the stamp of merit and is a tribute to the.
abilities of William M. Bauer, an acoustician of
national reputation.
FOOT POWER PLAYER
RUN FROM LIGHT SOCKET
Invention of Evansville, Ind., Man Transforms
Ordinary Playerpiano Into Inexpensive
Electric Instrument.
An Evansville, Indiana, man, coming home tired
from work, and asked to operate the playerpiano for
company, thought out a way which will be hailed
with joy by those who like music, but renig at the
BEN REYNOLDS SHOWS 'EM.
The Washington, Pa., Rotary Club at its luncheon thought of having to "pump" to make it.
Orrin A. Rhodes, of 210 Canal street, Evanston.
last week was given a surprise by Ben Reynolds, of
Ben Reynolds & Co., music merchants, one of its a maintenance man at a canning factory, has per-
fected an invention which he claims will reduce the
members, in the shape of a musical entertainment
and a complete demonstration of the automatic ortho- installation and operation of an electric playerpiano so
phonic Victrola, by George Rewbridge and Mr. Mc- as to be within the means of the average family.
The Rhodes invention consists of a tiny motor and
Celland, of Pittsburgh, factory representatives. The
program was arranged by Elmer N. Reynolds and the rod, connected to an electric socket, and it is said to
playing of twelve records automatically was a revela- consume no more current than an ordinary electric
tion to the Rotarians. The program was greatly light. Cost of installation is said to be about $9.
So home folks with "any old playerpiano" can stage
enjoyed by all.
their parties and have music as long as they like,
just by turning on the electric current.
WILL WADE MAKES CHANGE.
The City Board of Education at Huntingburg,
The house of Wade-Twitchell Piano Co., Chicago,
Ind., has just purchased a baby grand piano for the
will soon be no more. Will Wade has associated new school gymnasium in that city from C. Korn-
himself with a large financial concern of New York rumpf, the Huntingburg dealer. The Huntingburg
City, and will enter the bond business. He will look
Music Club and the Parent-Teacher clubs assisted in
after the interests in Chicago of the New York bank- purchasing the instrument.
ing concern, which makes a business of loaning
LaVallette Commandery, Knights Templar, at
money on real estate securities and commercial paper. Evansville. Ind., has purchased a large Estey organ
It is understood that a large music house has made a that will be installed in the Masonic Temple at the
cash offer for the stock in the Wade-Twitchell store
corner of Chestnut and Upper Third streets in that
on Wabash avenue.
city. Jt will be one of the largest pipe organs in
Evansville and southern Indiana.
NEW CEDAR RAPIDS STORE.
John Jenney, teacher of music in the Kenwood
Park and Tipton high schools, has joined with
Charles Brabbitt, former proprietor of the Western
Wood Wind factory, in a new musical instrument
store, located at 223 J / 2 First street, Cedar Rapids, la.
Mr. Jenney will continue as a school teacher and will
also conduct studios in connection with the store.
NEW SCHUMANN PATENT.
A new patent for truss structures for upright piano
cases has been granted by the United States Bureau
of Patents to James D. Hurst, Rockford, 111. The
WILL T. BR1XKERHOFF.
patent, No. 1,623,188, has been assigned to the Schu-
made a success of wholesale piano selling and, in his mann Piano Company of Rockford.
new capacity as wholesale director and vice-president
of the P. A. Starck Piano Co., it is practically certain
Extensive alterations and improvements have been
that his past successes will be repeated. He has a fine carried out on the third floor of the Dreher Piano
line of instruments and the house in which he is now
Co.'s store in Cleveland.
G. W. BATES MADE TREASURER.
George W. Bates, comptroller of Sherman, Clay &
Co., San Francisco, has been appointed treasurer of
the company, to take the place of Andrew G. Mc-
Carthy, who resigned recently. Mr. Bates joined
•the company in 1907, being assigned to the book-
keeping department, for which he designed the admir-
able svstem in use there.
THE BRITISH CONVENTION.
The convention of the British Music Trade Fed-
eration will take place on the same dates as the
annual meetings of the national music trade associa-
tions here. The convention will be opened June 6 at
the Metropol Hotel, Folkestone, by Paul M. Booth,
president. A concert, fancy dress ball and a carnival
are features of the convention week.
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All Rights Reserved. Digitized from the archives of the MBSI with support from NAMM - The International Music Products Association (www.namm.org).
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Future scanning projects are planned by the International Arcade Museum Library (IAML).