Presto
Issue: 1927 2140 - Page 11
August 6, 1927.
11
PRESTO-TIMES
MELODY WAY DEMONSTRATED
JESSE TRENCH & SONS
"Mate Homes Happy "
Cr
® SONS
SXffrs. of *Pianos/PIaijers 6>Granc
Write for Catalog*
Hew Castle.
•THE HOUSE OF GRANDS'
Concert, Parlor ana Small Grands
Xew York City piano merchants, with the cooper-
ation of the New York World, are shortly to carry
out the now famous Melody Way plan of music les-
sons. Shown in above cut is Miss Collins of the
Miessner Institute of Milwaukee, originators of this
excellent idea, giving a small group of New York
City music teachers instruction, in one of the studios
of Checkering Hall, on how to conduct the lessons.
Although only a few of the music teachers were
present when the above photograph was taken, these
meetings which were conducted over a period of
three days in Chickering Hall, were very well
attended. The interested male spectator is none
other than Phillip Gordon, the popular Chickering
Artist.
Period and Modern Designs
EUPHONATOR PRODUCERS
TRIPS THROUGH EASTERN
STATES PLEASES L I. KING "SWELL" NOTES FROM PIANO
^Manufacturers of the
Grand in Upright Form
Grand tone and quality in the Upright Piano
is exclusively Bush & Lane
(Patent.d)
Reproducing and Player Pianos—
Welte-Mignon (Licensee) and Cecilian
Writt for our Art Catalog
Busk & Lane
Piano Co.
Holland. Michigan
Sales Manager for the Bush & Lane Piano Co., Sees
Evidences of Good Summer Sales.
Leslie I. King, sales manager of the Bush & Lane
Piano Co., Holland, Mich., gives a cheerful report on
the results of his recent trip through several states
in the eastern section where he found sales good for
this period of the year. From his observations July
and August should prove above normal in piano
sales for those months.
Mr. King noted with particular pleasure the en-
thusiasm of the dealers over various Bush & Lane
models, including the new tive-toot grand, the metal
action Cecilian upright, the beautifully toned style 8
and the new three-foot ten-inch Bush & Lane di-
minutive which uphold every Bush & Lane tradition
of tone and construction.
NEW INCORPORATIONS
IN MUSIC GOODS TRADE
SCHILLER
A GREAT NAME—A GREAT PIANO
THE SCHILLER
Makes Friends, Makes Customers, Makes
Money, for the Dealer
Super-Grands, Medium Grands, Small
Grands. Full Plate Uprights; Medium
Uprights; Small (3:7) Uprights.
Reproducing Grands, Uprights and
Players
Grands with the Famous Bauer
Patented Construction
The SCHILLER PIANO challenges
superiority in tone quality as in construc-
tion, workmanship, finish and appearance.
For Agency Proposition and All
Particulars, address
SCHILLER PIANO COMPANY
Factory and General Offices:
OREGON, ILLINOIS
CHICAGO OFFICE:
State and Adams Sts.
922 Republic Bid*.
NEW TOKK OFFICE:
130 W. 42nd St.
Bush Terminal Bldff.
New and Old Concerns Secure Charters in Various
Places.
The Dallas Music Co., 907 Elm street, Dallas,
Tex.; $5,000.
The Carolina Music Co., Seneca, S. C : $10,000.
Roy M. Abbott of Seneca is the head of the concern.
Walter Kane, Inc., Baylis avenue, South Jamaica,
Long Island, N. Y.; $40,000; to engage in the music
business.
Scott Brothers Piano Company, Ashland, Ky.,
$30,000; C. T. Scott, P. M. Scott and E. J. Scott.
RAVEL TO PLAY MASON & HAMLIN.
When Maurice Ravel, celebrated French composer,
visits the United States next November for a nation-
wide tour, he will play the Mason & Hamlin piano.
Ravel has never before visited the United States and
the opportunity of hearing this master of tone color-
ing play his own works, is an event eagerly awaited
by musical people.
JACOB DOLL & SONS LEASES.
Jacob Doll & Sons, New York, piano manufac-
turers, has leased an entire floor at 6 East Thirty-
ninth street, running through to 7 East Thirty-eighth
street, for showrooms and executive offices. The
location adjoins the old Knabe Piano Building on
Fifth avenue which Ovington's recently leased.
A municipal band is being formed in Muskegon,
Michigan.
Patented Piano Exhibited at Recent Leipzig Fair Has
Strange Acoustic Properties.
At the recent Leipzig Fair, the firm of Fr. Weihen-
meyer & Co., Ltd., piano manufacturers, of Zuffen-
hausen-Stuttgart, exhibited a "Euphonator" piano
patent, by the use of which it is said to be possible to
get a swell note from a piano. In the "Euphonator"
this is made possible by a relatively simple applica-
tion of the laws of acoustics, according to the Lon-
don Music Trades Review, which continues:
Hitherto the sound waves that were reflected from
the sound-board were mostly lost between the slays
at the back. The inventor, Weihenmeyer, however,
collects all the sound waves behind the sound-board
in a cellular-formed resonance space, then permits
them to be thrown forward from the stretched back
wall 'to reach the hearers in several air shafts. To
allow of this, the hind part of the cover is constructed
so as to be movable and to act as a sound funnel at
an angle of 45 degrees.
The increased strength of tone thus obtained
amounts to about 50 per cent., and is of the finest
quality. Experts generally approve it, and grudg-
ingly wonder how this relatively simple invention,
which can be added with slight alteration and little
cost to any upright piano, should only now have been
•thought of. It is anticipated that the invention will
in a short time be universally adopted.
ROAD ALLURES CHAS. GRUNDY.
Charles Grundy, who dropped out of the piano
business for awhile, is back in Chicago after several
weeks of farm work on his farm in central Illinois.
As he says: "Back from the farm and ready to get
in the piano business." His plans are made for the
future. Mr. Grundy is an expert piano roadman
and his services by any manufacturer needing such
a man would be a valuable asset.
NEW KIMBALL BRANCH.
The Kimball Piano Company opened a branch
store at Muskegon Heights, Mich., last week, at 28
East Broadway, under the management of T. J. Mc-
Ginn. The store is filled with a complete stock of
Kimball grand and upright pianos and reproducing
pianos and phonographs.
NEW BALDWIN MANAGER.
F. A. Davis, formerly of the wholesale department
of The Baldwin Piano Company, Chicago, has been
appointed the manager of the Indianapolis Division
with salesrooms and offices at 35 Monument Circle. 1
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11
PRESTO-TIMES
MELODY WAY DEMONSTRATED
JESSE TRENCH & SONS
"Mate Homes Happy "
Cr
® SONS
SXffrs. of *Pianos/PIaijers 6>Granc
Write for Catalog*
Hew Castle.
•THE HOUSE OF GRANDS'
Concert, Parlor ana Small Grands
Xew York City piano merchants, with the cooper-
ation of the New York World, are shortly to carry
out the now famous Melody Way plan of music les-
sons. Shown in above cut is Miss Collins of the
Miessner Institute of Milwaukee, originators of this
excellent idea, giving a small group of New York
City music teachers instruction, in one of the studios
of Checkering Hall, on how to conduct the lessons.
Although only a few of the music teachers were
present when the above photograph was taken, these
meetings which were conducted over a period of
three days in Chickering Hall, were very well
attended. The interested male spectator is none
other than Phillip Gordon, the popular Chickering
Artist.
Period and Modern Designs
EUPHONATOR PRODUCERS
TRIPS THROUGH EASTERN
STATES PLEASES L I. KING "SWELL" NOTES FROM PIANO
^Manufacturers of the
Grand in Upright Form
Grand tone and quality in the Upright Piano
is exclusively Bush & Lane
(Patent.d)
Reproducing and Player Pianos—
Welte-Mignon (Licensee) and Cecilian
Writt for our Art Catalog
Busk & Lane
Piano Co.
Holland. Michigan
Sales Manager for the Bush & Lane Piano Co., Sees
Evidences of Good Summer Sales.
Leslie I. King, sales manager of the Bush & Lane
Piano Co., Holland, Mich., gives a cheerful report on
the results of his recent trip through several states
in the eastern section where he found sales good for
this period of the year. From his observations July
and August should prove above normal in piano
sales for those months.
Mr. King noted with particular pleasure the en-
thusiasm of the dealers over various Bush & Lane
models, including the new tive-toot grand, the metal
action Cecilian upright, the beautifully toned style 8
and the new three-foot ten-inch Bush & Lane di-
minutive which uphold every Bush & Lane tradition
of tone and construction.
NEW INCORPORATIONS
IN MUSIC GOODS TRADE
SCHILLER
A GREAT NAME—A GREAT PIANO
THE SCHILLER
Makes Friends, Makes Customers, Makes
Money, for the Dealer
Super-Grands, Medium Grands, Small
Grands. Full Plate Uprights; Medium
Uprights; Small (3:7) Uprights.
Reproducing Grands, Uprights and
Players
Grands with the Famous Bauer
Patented Construction
The SCHILLER PIANO challenges
superiority in tone quality as in construc-
tion, workmanship, finish and appearance.
For Agency Proposition and All
Particulars, address
SCHILLER PIANO COMPANY
Factory and General Offices:
OREGON, ILLINOIS
CHICAGO OFFICE:
State and Adams Sts.
922 Republic Bid*.
NEW TOKK OFFICE:
130 W. 42nd St.
Bush Terminal Bldff.
New and Old Concerns Secure Charters in Various
Places.
The Dallas Music Co., 907 Elm street, Dallas,
Tex.; $5,000.
The Carolina Music Co., Seneca, S. C : $10,000.
Roy M. Abbott of Seneca is the head of the concern.
Walter Kane, Inc., Baylis avenue, South Jamaica,
Long Island, N. Y.; $40,000; to engage in the music
business.
Scott Brothers Piano Company, Ashland, Ky.,
$30,000; C. T. Scott, P. M. Scott and E. J. Scott.
RAVEL TO PLAY MASON & HAMLIN.
When Maurice Ravel, celebrated French composer,
visits the United States next November for a nation-
wide tour, he will play the Mason & Hamlin piano.
Ravel has never before visited the United States and
the opportunity of hearing this master of tone color-
ing play his own works, is an event eagerly awaited
by musical people.
JACOB DOLL & SONS LEASES.
Jacob Doll & Sons, New York, piano manufac-
turers, has leased an entire floor at 6 East Thirty-
ninth street, running through to 7 East Thirty-eighth
street, for showrooms and executive offices. The
location adjoins the old Knabe Piano Building on
Fifth avenue which Ovington's recently leased.
A municipal band is being formed in Muskegon,
Michigan.
Patented Piano Exhibited at Recent Leipzig Fair Has
Strange Acoustic Properties.
At the recent Leipzig Fair, the firm of Fr. Weihen-
meyer & Co., Ltd., piano manufacturers, of Zuffen-
hausen-Stuttgart, exhibited a "Euphonator" piano
patent, by the use of which it is said to be possible to
get a swell note from a piano. In the "Euphonator"
this is made possible by a relatively simple applica-
tion of the laws of acoustics, according to the Lon-
don Music Trades Review, which continues:
Hitherto the sound waves that were reflected from
the sound-board were mostly lost between the slays
at the back. The inventor, Weihenmeyer, however,
collects all the sound waves behind the sound-board
in a cellular-formed resonance space, then permits
them to be thrown forward from the stretched back
wall 'to reach the hearers in several air shafts. To
allow of this, the hind part of the cover is constructed
so as to be movable and to act as a sound funnel at
an angle of 45 degrees.
The increased strength of tone thus obtained
amounts to about 50 per cent., and is of the finest
quality. Experts generally approve it, and grudg-
ingly wonder how this relatively simple invention,
which can be added with slight alteration and little
cost to any upright piano, should only now have been
•thought of. It is anticipated that the invention will
in a short time be universally adopted.
ROAD ALLURES CHAS. GRUNDY.
Charles Grundy, who dropped out of the piano
business for awhile, is back in Chicago after several
weeks of farm work on his farm in central Illinois.
As he says: "Back from the farm and ready to get
in the piano business." His plans are made for the
future. Mr. Grundy is an expert piano roadman
and his services by any manufacturer needing such
a man would be a valuable asset.
NEW KIMBALL BRANCH.
The Kimball Piano Company opened a branch
store at Muskegon Heights, Mich., last week, at 28
East Broadway, under the management of T. J. Mc-
Ginn. The store is filled with a complete stock of
Kimball grand and upright pianos and reproducing
pianos and phonographs.
NEW BALDWIN MANAGER.
F. A. Davis, formerly of the wholesale department
of The Baldwin Piano Company, Chicago, has been
appointed the manager of the Indianapolis Division
with salesrooms and offices at 35 Monument Circle. 1
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).