Presto
Issue: 1927 2137 - Page 13
16, 1927.
PRESTO-TIMES
The Background
of
A BUSY ROLL
DEPARTMENT
13
line as if he was half an hour late. You could hear
her thunder over culverts and bridges and getting
faster and faster, until the fellow rocked about on his
Fine Selection of Music for Automatic Pianos for seat like a cradle. The fellow worked the keys on
the middle division like lightning and then he flew
August Listed in August Bulletin.
along the northern end of the line until the drivers
The August Bulletin of the Automatic Music Roll went around like a buzz-saw, and I got excited.
Co., Chicago, has heen mailed to the trade. As
"About the time I was trying to tell him to cut
usual the list is a long one and the music is char- her off a little, he kicked the dampers under the ma-
acterized by timeliness and care in selection.
chine wide open, pulled the throttle valve 'way back
Fox trots predominate in the new August list, but into the tender and how he did run. I couldn't stand
the waltzes and blues are made strong features of
it any longer and yelled to him that he was pounding
the presentations. A roll of "Mexican Harmony on the left and if he wasn't careful he'd drop his ash
Hits" is composed of alluring tunes. Four organ pan. No one heard me. She went by the meeting
rolls, light comedy, scenic, plaintive and popular are point at a mile and a half a minute and calling for
included in the August bulletin.
more steam. I knew the game was up. Sure enough,
dead ahead of us was the tail light of a special.
"In a daze I heard a crash as the French pro-
fessor struck the deep keys 'way down on the lower
end of the southern division, and then I came to my
Customs Court Rules in Favor of Southern California senses. There he was at a dead standstill with the
door of the firebox wide open, wiping the perspira-
Music Co., Which Protested Toy Tax.
tion off his face and bowing to the people before
•
The Southern California Music Company of Los him."
Angeles has just won a decision from the United
States Customs Court on the classification of small
imported brass horns or bugles.
On entry, these articles were classified as toys and
duty exacted at the rate of 70 per cent ad valorem Movement for Forming New Organizations Gains in
Enthusiasm All Over the Country.
under paragraph 1414, act of 1922. Judge Sullivan
now finds that they should have been assessed as
One hundred dollars remains to be collected toward
musical instruments, at the rate of only 40 per cent the $800 quota in the Ann Arbor, Mich., Chamber of
ad valorem, under paragraph 1443.
Commerce campaign for organization of a municipal
The importers introduced considerable testimony band, H. G. Pulfrey, chairman of the committee, an-
at the trial of this case to show that these small horns nounced this week.
or bugles have a more practical use than merely as
The Chamber of Commerce of Ann Arbor, Mich.,
toys. This view is accepted by the court.
has organized a band of 22 pieces and the organiza-
tion will later give a series of public concerts.
A new orchestra has recently been organized at
Dyersburg, Tenn., called the Southern Entertainers,
with Edward King as manager and Lester Robinson,
Many New Names Appear in Musical Instrument director.
Business and Old Ones Continue in Activities.
The Paoli Band is making satisfactory progress at
The Hunleth Music Co., St. Louis, has inaugurated the weekly rehearsals and arrangements are being
made to give a public exhibition next week.
a harmonica playing contest.
The H. C. Schultz Co., Inc., has opened branches
TO ADD SMALL GOODS.
in Detroit and Cleveland for giving a wholesale serv-
ice to dealers.
In the recent purchase of the Xordheimer Piano
The Gus Music Shop has opened for business at & Music Co., Toronto, Canada, by Heintzman & Co.,
1410 West Sixty-third Street, Chicago, carrying a of the same place, a new feature of the merged busi-
complete line of musical merchandise and sheet nesses was announced. Heintzman & Co., which
will be the name of the consolidation, will enter the
music.
The Wisconsin Radio Association will hold its smaller musical instrument field. At the present time
it handles only pianos, talking machines, radios and
fourth annual banquet September 21.
The annual outing of Talking Machine and Radio their accessories. Under the new policy, all forms
Men, Inc., took place on Thursday of this week at of musical instruments will be handled. In Toronto,
the sale of these will begin on January 1, but the
Briarcliff Lodge, N. Y.
The centenary of the invention of the accordion Windsor store will enter the field immediately. A
by Charles Buffon was celebrated recently in Brus- full stock of the smaller instruments will be installed
this week, C. C. Milligan, district manager, an-
sels, Belgium.
The Hohner cup for the best harmonica band was nounced.
awarded to the Hebrew Orphan Band of New York
in a recent contest in Central Park in that city.
MUSIC TEACHERS ELECT.
La Verne H. Brown, founder of the La Verne H.
Brown School of Music in Royal Oak, was elected
president of the Michigan Music Teachers' associa-
tion yesterday, the last day of the fortieth annual con-
Rides With French Pianist Over Thrilling Trip With vention in Detroit. Last week Mr. Brown com-
pleted his fifteenth year as teacher of piano and
Grand Pianote Throttle Wide Open.
theory in the Detroit Conservatory of Music. Early
The New Zealand Railways Magazine claims that
in the spring he was elected a member of the faculty
the following is a description "as told by Jem Nelson,
of the Detroit Institute of Musical Art where he now
one of America's oldest engine drivers," of his "ride
is established.
on a piano."
"I was loafing around town last night and as I had
"INTERFERENCE" HEARINGS.
nothing better to do I dropped into a concert and
Applications arc now being received at headquar-'
heard a slick looking Frenchman play a piano that
made me feel all over in spots. As soon as he sat ters of the Federal Radio Commission for hearings
down at the piano I knew by the way he handled his at which broadcasting stations will present claims of
work that he understood the machine he was running. interference with their programs by other stations.
He tapped the keys 'way down on one end, just as if The commission has announced that such hearings
they were gauges and he wanted to see if he had will be held after July 15 "for the purpose of pro-
viding an orderly method for the reduction and the
water enough.
"Then he looked up as if he wanted to know how eventual elimination of interference between radio
much steam he was carrying, and the next moment broadcasting stations operated on the same or on
he pulled open the throttle and sailed out on the main closely adjacent frequencies."
NEW AUTOMATIC ROLLS ISSUED
TAX ON SMALL BRASS BUGLES
THE NEW
CAPITOL
WORD ROLLS
1791
1792
1793
1794
1795
1796
1797
1798
1799
1800
1801
1802
1803
1804
1805
1806
1807
1808
1809
JULY RELEASES.
I Wonder How I Look When I'm
Asleep—Fox Trot.
Rio Rita—Fox Trot.
I'm a Stern Old Bachelor—One
Step.
Dawn of Tomorrow—Waltz.
I Could Waltz on Forever (With
You Sweetheart)—Waltz.
I'll Take Care of Your C a r e s -
Waltz.
Falling in Love with You—Waltz.
Tenderly Think of Me—Fox Trot.
Red Lips (Kiss My Blues Away)
Fox Trot.
When You're in Love—Waltz.
May God Bless You, Mother—
Waltz.
Positively -Absolutely—Fox Trot.
South Wind—Fox Trot.
Oh, What a Pal Was "Whoozis"—
Fox Trot.
So Blue—Fox Trot.
Hello, Cutie—Fox Trot.
I Wonder Who's with You When
I'm Not There—Fox Trot.
(You Flew Over) Uncle Sam
Takes His Hat Off to You—Fox
Trot.
Lindbergh (The Eagle of the U.
S. A.)—Fox Trot.
Extra Choruses
A Longer Roll
Seventy-five cents
Printed Words
Hand Played
Made of the best materials
obtainable.
Will please your trade and
double your sales.
Quality and price make
Capitol rolls the deal-
er's best profit producer
in a roll department.
Capitol Roll & Record Co.
721 N. Kedrie At*., CHICAGO, ILL
(Formerly Colombia Mane IUD C*.)
NEW BANDS STIMULATES TRADE
NEWS OF SMALL GOODS FIELD
ENGINE DRIVER AT RECITAL
/AUSIC PRINTERS
ENGRAVERS AND LITHOGRAPHERS
PRINT ANYTHING IN MUSIC
BY ANY PROCESS
SEND FOR QUOTATION AND SAMPLES
NO ORDER TOO SMALL TO RECEIVE ATTENTION
THE LARGEST EXCLUSIVE MUSIC PRINTER V E S T OF NEW YORK AND
THE LARGEST ENGRAVING DEPARTMENT IN THE UNITED STATES.
ESTABLISHED 1876
THE OTTO
CINCINNATI,
REFERENCE ANY PUBLISHER
ZIMMERMAN
& SON CO..INC.
OHIO.
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PRESTO-TIMES
The Background
of
A BUSY ROLL
DEPARTMENT
13
line as if he was half an hour late. You could hear
her thunder over culverts and bridges and getting
faster and faster, until the fellow rocked about on his
Fine Selection of Music for Automatic Pianos for seat like a cradle. The fellow worked the keys on
the middle division like lightning and then he flew
August Listed in August Bulletin.
along the northern end of the line until the drivers
The August Bulletin of the Automatic Music Roll went around like a buzz-saw, and I got excited.
Co., Chicago, has heen mailed to the trade. As
"About the time I was trying to tell him to cut
usual the list is a long one and the music is char- her off a little, he kicked the dampers under the ma-
acterized by timeliness and care in selection.
chine wide open, pulled the throttle valve 'way back
Fox trots predominate in the new August list, but into the tender and how he did run. I couldn't stand
the waltzes and blues are made strong features of
it any longer and yelled to him that he was pounding
the presentations. A roll of "Mexican Harmony on the left and if he wasn't careful he'd drop his ash
Hits" is composed of alluring tunes. Four organ pan. No one heard me. She went by the meeting
rolls, light comedy, scenic, plaintive and popular are point at a mile and a half a minute and calling for
included in the August bulletin.
more steam. I knew the game was up. Sure enough,
dead ahead of us was the tail light of a special.
"In a daze I heard a crash as the French pro-
fessor struck the deep keys 'way down on the lower
end of the southern division, and then I came to my
Customs Court Rules in Favor of Southern California senses. There he was at a dead standstill with the
door of the firebox wide open, wiping the perspira-
Music Co., Which Protested Toy Tax.
tion off his face and bowing to the people before
•
The Southern California Music Company of Los him."
Angeles has just won a decision from the United
States Customs Court on the classification of small
imported brass horns or bugles.
On entry, these articles were classified as toys and
duty exacted at the rate of 70 per cent ad valorem Movement for Forming New Organizations Gains in
Enthusiasm All Over the Country.
under paragraph 1414, act of 1922. Judge Sullivan
now finds that they should have been assessed as
One hundred dollars remains to be collected toward
musical instruments, at the rate of only 40 per cent the $800 quota in the Ann Arbor, Mich., Chamber of
ad valorem, under paragraph 1443.
Commerce campaign for organization of a municipal
The importers introduced considerable testimony band, H. G. Pulfrey, chairman of the committee, an-
at the trial of this case to show that these small horns nounced this week.
or bugles have a more practical use than merely as
The Chamber of Commerce of Ann Arbor, Mich.,
toys. This view is accepted by the court.
has organized a band of 22 pieces and the organiza-
tion will later give a series of public concerts.
A new orchestra has recently been organized at
Dyersburg, Tenn., called the Southern Entertainers,
with Edward King as manager and Lester Robinson,
Many New Names Appear in Musical Instrument director.
Business and Old Ones Continue in Activities.
The Paoli Band is making satisfactory progress at
The Hunleth Music Co., St. Louis, has inaugurated the weekly rehearsals and arrangements are being
made to give a public exhibition next week.
a harmonica playing contest.
The H. C. Schultz Co., Inc., has opened branches
TO ADD SMALL GOODS.
in Detroit and Cleveland for giving a wholesale serv-
ice to dealers.
In the recent purchase of the Xordheimer Piano
The Gus Music Shop has opened for business at & Music Co., Toronto, Canada, by Heintzman & Co.,
1410 West Sixty-third Street, Chicago, carrying a of the same place, a new feature of the merged busi-
complete line of musical merchandise and sheet nesses was announced. Heintzman & Co., which
will be the name of the consolidation, will enter the
music.
The Wisconsin Radio Association will hold its smaller musical instrument field. At the present time
it handles only pianos, talking machines, radios and
fourth annual banquet September 21.
The annual outing of Talking Machine and Radio their accessories. Under the new policy, all forms
Men, Inc., took place on Thursday of this week at of musical instruments will be handled. In Toronto,
the sale of these will begin on January 1, but the
Briarcliff Lodge, N. Y.
The centenary of the invention of the accordion Windsor store will enter the field immediately. A
by Charles Buffon was celebrated recently in Brus- full stock of the smaller instruments will be installed
this week, C. C. Milligan, district manager, an-
sels, Belgium.
The Hohner cup for the best harmonica band was nounced.
awarded to the Hebrew Orphan Band of New York
in a recent contest in Central Park in that city.
MUSIC TEACHERS ELECT.
La Verne H. Brown, founder of the La Verne H.
Brown School of Music in Royal Oak, was elected
president of the Michigan Music Teachers' associa-
tion yesterday, the last day of the fortieth annual con-
Rides With French Pianist Over Thrilling Trip With vention in Detroit. Last week Mr. Brown com-
pleted his fifteenth year as teacher of piano and
Grand Pianote Throttle Wide Open.
theory in the Detroit Conservatory of Music. Early
The New Zealand Railways Magazine claims that
in the spring he was elected a member of the faculty
the following is a description "as told by Jem Nelson,
of the Detroit Institute of Musical Art where he now
one of America's oldest engine drivers," of his "ride
is established.
on a piano."
"I was loafing around town last night and as I had
"INTERFERENCE" HEARINGS.
nothing better to do I dropped into a concert and
Applications arc now being received at headquar-'
heard a slick looking Frenchman play a piano that
made me feel all over in spots. As soon as he sat ters of the Federal Radio Commission for hearings
down at the piano I knew by the way he handled his at which broadcasting stations will present claims of
work that he understood the machine he was running. interference with their programs by other stations.
He tapped the keys 'way down on one end, just as if The commission has announced that such hearings
they were gauges and he wanted to see if he had will be held after July 15 "for the purpose of pro-
viding an orderly method for the reduction and the
water enough.
"Then he looked up as if he wanted to know how eventual elimination of interference between radio
much steam he was carrying, and the next moment broadcasting stations operated on the same or on
he pulled open the throttle and sailed out on the main closely adjacent frequencies."
NEW AUTOMATIC ROLLS ISSUED
TAX ON SMALL BRASS BUGLES
THE NEW
CAPITOL
WORD ROLLS
1791
1792
1793
1794
1795
1796
1797
1798
1799
1800
1801
1802
1803
1804
1805
1806
1807
1808
1809
JULY RELEASES.
I Wonder How I Look When I'm
Asleep—Fox Trot.
Rio Rita—Fox Trot.
I'm a Stern Old Bachelor—One
Step.
Dawn of Tomorrow—Waltz.
I Could Waltz on Forever (With
You Sweetheart)—Waltz.
I'll Take Care of Your C a r e s -
Waltz.
Falling in Love with You—Waltz.
Tenderly Think of Me—Fox Trot.
Red Lips (Kiss My Blues Away)
Fox Trot.
When You're in Love—Waltz.
May God Bless You, Mother—
Waltz.
Positively -Absolutely—Fox Trot.
South Wind—Fox Trot.
Oh, What a Pal Was "Whoozis"—
Fox Trot.
So Blue—Fox Trot.
Hello, Cutie—Fox Trot.
I Wonder Who's with You When
I'm Not There—Fox Trot.
(You Flew Over) Uncle Sam
Takes His Hat Off to You—Fox
Trot.
Lindbergh (The Eagle of the U.
S. A.)—Fox Trot.
Extra Choruses
A Longer Roll
Seventy-five cents
Printed Words
Hand Played
Made of the best materials
obtainable.
Will please your trade and
double your sales.
Quality and price make
Capitol rolls the deal-
er's best profit producer
in a roll department.
Capitol Roll & Record Co.
721 N. Kedrie At*., CHICAGO, ILL
(Formerly Colombia Mane IUD C*.)
NEW BANDS STIMULATES TRADE
NEWS OF SMALL GOODS FIELD
ENGINE DRIVER AT RECITAL
/AUSIC PRINTERS
ENGRAVERS AND LITHOGRAPHERS
PRINT ANYTHING IN MUSIC
BY ANY PROCESS
SEND FOR QUOTATION AND SAMPLES
NO ORDER TOO SMALL TO RECEIVE ATTENTION
THE LARGEST EXCLUSIVE MUSIC PRINTER V E S T OF NEW YORK AND
THE LARGEST ENGRAVING DEPARTMENT IN THE UNITED STATES.
ESTABLISHED 1876
THE OTTO
CINCINNATI,
REFERENCE ANY PUBLISHER
ZIMMERMAN
& SON CO..INC.
OHIO.
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).