Presto
Issue: 1927 2140 - Page 5
August 6, 1927.
PLANS COMPLETED
FOR TUNERS' MEET
(Continued from page 3.)
"We cordially invite every tuner attending the con-
vention to visit our exhibit rooms where an interest-
ing display of the latest scientific developments in the
field of re-enacting- mechanism has been arranged.
Our staff of experts will be at hand to welcome any
inquiries relative to the Ampico and all our instru-
ments generally," says the announcement of the
Ampico Corporation.
"In addition to our activities during the conven-
tion period it is our intention to conduct a course of
Ampico instruction immediately following.
This
school will open in our service building at 423 West
54th street on August 12. W r e urgently request that
all tuners arrange to spend an extra week or ten days
in New York to avail themselves of this opportunity
to acquire a complete knowledge of the Ampico. De-
tailed information regarding classes and enrollment
may be had upon inquiry at our convention head-
quarters."
The Chicago Contingent.
The Chicago contingent to the tuners' convention,
comprising fifty or more tuners from Chicago and
the midwest, will leave over the Baltimore & Ohio
crack train, the Capital Limited, at 1 p. m. Saturday.
August 6. Arrangement has been made for private
Pullman accommodations and plans completed for a
stop-over at Baltimore. On the return trip many of
the midwest tuners will stop at Washington, D. C.
At Baltimore the Chicago delegation will be re-
ceived and entertained by Charles M. Stieff, Inc..
which will be one of the big events of the trip. The
modern Stieff factory and its various departments
will be viewed by the technicians.
At the tuners' headquarters, 22 Quincy street. Chi-
cago, this week W. F. McClellan, secretary, said,
"We are anticipating a bigger and better convention
than ever. We are growing steadily and more of our
members have taken an active interest in the asso-
ciation's affairs."
PRESTO-TIMES
BOWEN LOADER AIDS SALES
representative piano houses who consider the Bowen
Loader an essential to effective piano selling on the
outside. Instead of waiting for the customer to come
to the store, the store is practically brought to the
customer.
Among the many advantages of the Bowen Loader
are its comparative lightness, weighing only ninety
pounds; its constant protection for the piano from
the rigors of bad weather, its ease of operation and
virtue of easy riding over the roughest roads. Every
salesman, city or country, needs one of these outfits.
For successful country work they are indispensable,
and they are the best for city delivery and for can-
vassing suburban districts.
Here are two recent testimonials from active piano
houses for the Bowen One Man Loader and Car-
rier, received by the Bowen Piano Loader Co.,
Winston-Salem, N. C :
Mid-West Electric Piano Co.,
4711 Winthrop Ave.,
H. Taylor, technician and vice-president, Mason &
Indianapolis, lnd.
Hamlin Company, Boston. Adjournment promptly Gentlemen:
OFFICIAL PROGRAM.
You can see by the above letterhead that my
at 4 o'clock. Attending classes and visiting exhibits.
Monday, August 8, 9:30 a. m.—Registration of
Banquet at 6:00, banquet hall. Hotel Commodore. pianos are not sold to homes, but I am using four
delegates, members and visiting tuners; entire New Ten minute addresses by prominent members of the Fords with your Loader now. If 1 didn't have your
York division will serve as Reception Committee. trade; a program of high class musical numbers; Loader I would really have to go out of business.
Ladies' Committee, under direction of Mrs. George dancing.
The cost of my piano moving would be too great.
I move pianos some times as much as five hundred
II. Lawrence, will welcome wives and daughters of
Thursday, August 11—9:30 a. m.— Report of Com- miles on one trip. Imagine the cost without the
visitors. Attending classes and visiting exhibits.
Loader. One man only, always. 1 expect to put
mittee on Publicity, George C. Johnston, Chairman.
2:00 p. m.—Convention called to order by Presi- Report of Committee on Playerpiano Playing Con- on another outfit by Fall.
dent Charles Deutschmann. Singing of America. test, A. V. Minifie, Chairman. Address: "Teacher
Yours very truly,
Address of Welcome: Vice-Mayor of New York and Artist Cooperation with the Tuner," by F. E.
WALTER E. GAUNT.
City, and M. F. Garwood, Jr., chairman, Xew York Lane, secretary, New York Division.
Address:
Claude
P.
Street
Piano Company,
division. Roll Call. Reading of minutes of 1926 "Lord and Lady Show-Off," by William E. Medcalf,
717 Church Street,
convention. Announcements. Appointment of Com- Indianapolis. Address: "Worn-out Pianos Should Be
Nashville, Tenn.
mittees. Introduction of Resolutions, etc. Adjourn- Junked, not .Serviced," by W. F. McClellan, Chicago.
ment promptly at 4 o'clock. Attending classes and Adjournment promptly at 11:30. Attending classes Gentlemen:
We are operating three of your Loaders on Ford
visiting exhibits.
cars and consider them of great advantage to our
and visiting exhibits.
road men who use them.
7:30 p. m.—Conference of Council Members.
2:00 p. in.— Finals in Playerpiano Playing Contest,
Tuesday, August 9.—9:30 a. m.—Keynote address,
They are also great business getting propositions,
President Charles Deutschmann. Annual Report of sponsored by Standard Pneumatic Action Company, if properly worked by an enthusiastic and energetic
Xew
York.
Awarding
trophies
to
winners.
salesman. We have been using these Loaders for
Secretary, W. F. McClellan. Annual Report of
several years and would not be without them. We
Final report of Committee on Resolutions.
Treasurer, Lester Singer. Report of Committee on
Piano Class Instruction, Leslie Hoskins. Chairman.
Nominations for Officers. Election of Officers. have known one salesman to make twenty-one sales
one month and deliver each instrument on one of
Report of Committee on Education, Nels C. Boe, Invitations for 1928 Convention. Presenting Char- in
these loaders. Of course, this instance is an unusual
Chairman. Adjournment promptly at 11:30. Attend- ters to newly organized divisions. Final Adjournment. one, however, it goes to show that if the Loader is
ing classes and visiting exhibits.
Attending classes and visiting exhibits.
properly handled, a salesman's possibilities are prac-
2:00 p. m.—Address: "Who, What and Why Is the
tically unlimited.
A Gulbransen Display.
Yours very truly,
Piano Tuner?" by Chauncey D. Bond, general super-
CLAUDE P. STREET PIANO CO.
intendent. Weaver Piano Company, York, Pa. Ad- The Gulbransen Company, Chicago, will have a
dress: "General Principles of Grand Construction" display at the Commodore Hotel in New York dur-
(illustrated with models of action, wrest plank, etc.), ing the period of the convention of the Piano Tuners
by Henry J. Frey, superintendent, Brambach Piano National Association, August 8 to 11. The Gulbran-
sen display space will be in room No. 703 and the
Company, New York.
Group conferences on Voicing, Grand Action Regu- company will send out a general invitation to the
lating, and Principles of Harmony, led by Herbert trade to examine the line which will be on display
Event in Furniture Department of Kohl Hardware
F. Antunes, Chicago. E. S. Werolin, New York City, there and which will include some new features.
Store by Success in Good Sales.
and H. E. Pilgrim, Hamilton, Ohio, respectively. Ad-
Among the pianos on display there will lie the
The
opening
of the Waltham Piano Co.'s factory
journment promptly at 4 o'clock. Attending classes sensational new Combination Registering and Re-
to home sales of pianos last week in Ripon, Wis.,
and visiting exhibits.
producing piano, with piano pedals instead of player attracted a great deal of attention at The Kohl Hard-
7:30 p. m.—Lecture on Organ Tuning, by Frank treadles, and the handsome Art Model Minuet, with ware Co., where the sale was held. Large crowds
W. Hale, president, Tuners' Supply Company, Boston. fancy scroll back. This instrument finished in deep
filled the furniture department of the store, being
verde green with daintily colored decorations on especially delighted with the Waltham Harpenola.
Wednesday, August 10.—9:30 a. m.—Report of
J
C. L. Netzow, vice president of the Waltham plant,
committee working with manufacturers regarding upper and lower panels, key-slip, etc. Another la e
placing "The Care of the Piano" pamphlet in pianos, addition to the line is the 4 foot 6 inch Reproducing was in Ripon at the time of the sale and when asked
H. T. Ravvson, Chairman. Report of committee pro- Grand, as well as a Small Style "S" piano. The whether he did not think that the radio had detracted
viding Plan for Short Cut to Prosperity, Herbert F. large size Community Registering Piano will also be from the piano in recent years, he stated, "No, there
is just as much interest shown in the piano today
Antunes, Chairman. Address: '''Tone Amplification," displayed.
as there was 25 years ago. Although I am an ardent
by John Anderson, technician, Chickering & Sons,
In addition to those mentioned, the following will admirer of the radio, it cannot take the place of a
Boston. Questions invited. Reports of Committees. have exhibits at the Hotel Commodore: American
piano any more than a phonograph or other musical
Preliminary . report of Committees on Resolutions. Steel & Wire Company, Auto-Pneumatic Action
instrument can, and for teaching children the essen-
Adjournment promptly at 11:30.
Company (Welte-Mignon, Licensee), Baldwin Piano tials of music, the need of a piano stands undisputed."
2:00 p. m.—Address: "Evolution of the Music Company, Julius N. Brown, Forster Music Publish-
Roll" (illustrated by stereopticon views), by Charles ing Company, Hammacher-Schlemmer & Co., Chas.
SELLS THE GOODS.
F. Stoddard, inventor of the Ampico, and director Pfriemer, Inc., M. Schulz Company, Simplex Player
Referring to the advertisement of traveling sales-
research laboratory, American Piano Company New Action Company, Standard Pneumatic Action Com- man, "Box 2," in this issue of Presto-Times, this
pany, Charles Frederick Stein, Steinway & Sons, advertiser is known personally to Presto-Times and
York.
Address: "Analysis and Measurement of Tone" Straube Piano Company, Tuners' Supply Company, the gentleman can be highly recommended from this
(followed by tests on acuteness of hearing), by Paul Weaver iPano Company, Wessell, Nickel & Gross.
office.
No piano salesman is completely equipped without
a Bowen One-Man Piano Loader and Carrier, which
gives him the advantages of quick, easy and safe
transportation for his sample. By Hitting it to a Ford
roadster, simply and quickly by a patented device he
has an ideal piano truck. Thus with a slight effort
he can load or unload, or demonstrate a piano or
player in the quickest possible time, being enabled
thereby to see a considerable number of prospects in
a day. It is truly a one-man affair. Only one man,
the salesman himself, is needed to sell pianos with a
Bowen Loader attached to a Ford roadster.
In the accompanying cut is pictured a shipment of
Bowen Loaders shipped to the Frederick Piano Co.,
Pittsburgh, Pa., by the Bowen Piano Loader Co.,
Winston-Salem, N. C. It shows a belief by a big
and active piano house in the efficacy of the Bowen
device. The big Pittsburgh firm is only one of the
RIPON, WIS., DEALER ACTIVE
SELLING WALTHAM LINE
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PLANS COMPLETED
FOR TUNERS' MEET
(Continued from page 3.)
"We cordially invite every tuner attending the con-
vention to visit our exhibit rooms where an interest-
ing display of the latest scientific developments in the
field of re-enacting- mechanism has been arranged.
Our staff of experts will be at hand to welcome any
inquiries relative to the Ampico and all our instru-
ments generally," says the announcement of the
Ampico Corporation.
"In addition to our activities during the conven-
tion period it is our intention to conduct a course of
Ampico instruction immediately following.
This
school will open in our service building at 423 West
54th street on August 12. W r e urgently request that
all tuners arrange to spend an extra week or ten days
in New York to avail themselves of this opportunity
to acquire a complete knowledge of the Ampico. De-
tailed information regarding classes and enrollment
may be had upon inquiry at our convention head-
quarters."
The Chicago Contingent.
The Chicago contingent to the tuners' convention,
comprising fifty or more tuners from Chicago and
the midwest, will leave over the Baltimore & Ohio
crack train, the Capital Limited, at 1 p. m. Saturday.
August 6. Arrangement has been made for private
Pullman accommodations and plans completed for a
stop-over at Baltimore. On the return trip many of
the midwest tuners will stop at Washington, D. C.
At Baltimore the Chicago delegation will be re-
ceived and entertained by Charles M. Stieff, Inc..
which will be one of the big events of the trip. The
modern Stieff factory and its various departments
will be viewed by the technicians.
At the tuners' headquarters, 22 Quincy street. Chi-
cago, this week W. F. McClellan, secretary, said,
"We are anticipating a bigger and better convention
than ever. We are growing steadily and more of our
members have taken an active interest in the asso-
ciation's affairs."
PRESTO-TIMES
BOWEN LOADER AIDS SALES
representative piano houses who consider the Bowen
Loader an essential to effective piano selling on the
outside. Instead of waiting for the customer to come
to the store, the store is practically brought to the
customer.
Among the many advantages of the Bowen Loader
are its comparative lightness, weighing only ninety
pounds; its constant protection for the piano from
the rigors of bad weather, its ease of operation and
virtue of easy riding over the roughest roads. Every
salesman, city or country, needs one of these outfits.
For successful country work they are indispensable,
and they are the best for city delivery and for can-
vassing suburban districts.
Here are two recent testimonials from active piano
houses for the Bowen One Man Loader and Car-
rier, received by the Bowen Piano Loader Co.,
Winston-Salem, N. C :
Mid-West Electric Piano Co.,
4711 Winthrop Ave.,
H. Taylor, technician and vice-president, Mason &
Indianapolis, lnd.
Hamlin Company, Boston. Adjournment promptly Gentlemen:
OFFICIAL PROGRAM.
You can see by the above letterhead that my
at 4 o'clock. Attending classes and visiting exhibits.
Monday, August 8, 9:30 a. m.—Registration of
Banquet at 6:00, banquet hall. Hotel Commodore. pianos are not sold to homes, but I am using four
delegates, members and visiting tuners; entire New Ten minute addresses by prominent members of the Fords with your Loader now. If 1 didn't have your
York division will serve as Reception Committee. trade; a program of high class musical numbers; Loader I would really have to go out of business.
Ladies' Committee, under direction of Mrs. George dancing.
The cost of my piano moving would be too great.
I move pianos some times as much as five hundred
II. Lawrence, will welcome wives and daughters of
Thursday, August 11—9:30 a. m.— Report of Com- miles on one trip. Imagine the cost without the
visitors. Attending classes and visiting exhibits.
Loader. One man only, always. 1 expect to put
mittee on Publicity, George C. Johnston, Chairman.
2:00 p. m.—Convention called to order by Presi- Report of Committee on Playerpiano Playing Con- on another outfit by Fall.
dent Charles Deutschmann. Singing of America. test, A. V. Minifie, Chairman. Address: "Teacher
Yours very truly,
Address of Welcome: Vice-Mayor of New York and Artist Cooperation with the Tuner," by F. E.
WALTER E. GAUNT.
City, and M. F. Garwood, Jr., chairman, Xew York Lane, secretary, New York Division.
Address:
Claude
P.
Street
Piano Company,
division. Roll Call. Reading of minutes of 1926 "Lord and Lady Show-Off," by William E. Medcalf,
717 Church Street,
convention. Announcements. Appointment of Com- Indianapolis. Address: "Worn-out Pianos Should Be
Nashville, Tenn.
mittees. Introduction of Resolutions, etc. Adjourn- Junked, not .Serviced," by W. F. McClellan, Chicago.
ment promptly at 4 o'clock. Attending classes and Adjournment promptly at 11:30. Attending classes Gentlemen:
We are operating three of your Loaders on Ford
visiting exhibits.
cars and consider them of great advantage to our
and visiting exhibits.
road men who use them.
7:30 p. m.—Conference of Council Members.
2:00 p. in.— Finals in Playerpiano Playing Contest,
Tuesday, August 9.—9:30 a. m.—Keynote address,
They are also great business getting propositions,
President Charles Deutschmann. Annual Report of sponsored by Standard Pneumatic Action Company, if properly worked by an enthusiastic and energetic
Xew
York.
Awarding
trophies
to
winners.
salesman. We have been using these Loaders for
Secretary, W. F. McClellan. Annual Report of
several years and would not be without them. We
Final report of Committee on Resolutions.
Treasurer, Lester Singer. Report of Committee on
Piano Class Instruction, Leslie Hoskins. Chairman.
Nominations for Officers. Election of Officers. have known one salesman to make twenty-one sales
one month and deliver each instrument on one of
Report of Committee on Education, Nels C. Boe, Invitations for 1928 Convention. Presenting Char- in
these loaders. Of course, this instance is an unusual
Chairman. Adjournment promptly at 11:30. Attend- ters to newly organized divisions. Final Adjournment. one, however, it goes to show that if the Loader is
ing classes and visiting exhibits.
Attending classes and visiting exhibits.
properly handled, a salesman's possibilities are prac-
2:00 p. m.—Address: "Who, What and Why Is the
tically unlimited.
A Gulbransen Display.
Yours very truly,
Piano Tuner?" by Chauncey D. Bond, general super-
CLAUDE P. STREET PIANO CO.
intendent. Weaver Piano Company, York, Pa. Ad- The Gulbransen Company, Chicago, will have a
dress: "General Principles of Grand Construction" display at the Commodore Hotel in New York dur-
(illustrated with models of action, wrest plank, etc.), ing the period of the convention of the Piano Tuners
by Henry J. Frey, superintendent, Brambach Piano National Association, August 8 to 11. The Gulbran-
sen display space will be in room No. 703 and the
Company, New York.
Group conferences on Voicing, Grand Action Regu- company will send out a general invitation to the
lating, and Principles of Harmony, led by Herbert trade to examine the line which will be on display
Event in Furniture Department of Kohl Hardware
F. Antunes, Chicago. E. S. Werolin, New York City, there and which will include some new features.
Store by Success in Good Sales.
and H. E. Pilgrim, Hamilton, Ohio, respectively. Ad-
Among the pianos on display there will lie the
The
opening
of the Waltham Piano Co.'s factory
journment promptly at 4 o'clock. Attending classes sensational new Combination Registering and Re-
to home sales of pianos last week in Ripon, Wis.,
and visiting exhibits.
producing piano, with piano pedals instead of player attracted a great deal of attention at The Kohl Hard-
7:30 p. m.—Lecture on Organ Tuning, by Frank treadles, and the handsome Art Model Minuet, with ware Co., where the sale was held. Large crowds
W. Hale, president, Tuners' Supply Company, Boston. fancy scroll back. This instrument finished in deep
filled the furniture department of the store, being
verde green with daintily colored decorations on especially delighted with the Waltham Harpenola.
Wednesday, August 10.—9:30 a. m.—Report of
J
C. L. Netzow, vice president of the Waltham plant,
committee working with manufacturers regarding upper and lower panels, key-slip, etc. Another la e
placing "The Care of the Piano" pamphlet in pianos, addition to the line is the 4 foot 6 inch Reproducing was in Ripon at the time of the sale and when asked
H. T. Ravvson, Chairman. Report of committee pro- Grand, as well as a Small Style "S" piano. The whether he did not think that the radio had detracted
viding Plan for Short Cut to Prosperity, Herbert F. large size Community Registering Piano will also be from the piano in recent years, he stated, "No, there
is just as much interest shown in the piano today
Antunes, Chairman. Address: '''Tone Amplification," displayed.
as there was 25 years ago. Although I am an ardent
by John Anderson, technician, Chickering & Sons,
In addition to those mentioned, the following will admirer of the radio, it cannot take the place of a
Boston. Questions invited. Reports of Committees. have exhibits at the Hotel Commodore: American
piano any more than a phonograph or other musical
Preliminary . report of Committees on Resolutions. Steel & Wire Company, Auto-Pneumatic Action
instrument can, and for teaching children the essen-
Adjournment promptly at 11:30.
Company (Welte-Mignon, Licensee), Baldwin Piano tials of music, the need of a piano stands undisputed."
2:00 p. m.—Address: "Evolution of the Music Company, Julius N. Brown, Forster Music Publish-
Roll" (illustrated by stereopticon views), by Charles ing Company, Hammacher-Schlemmer & Co., Chas.
SELLS THE GOODS.
F. Stoddard, inventor of the Ampico, and director Pfriemer, Inc., M. Schulz Company, Simplex Player
Referring to the advertisement of traveling sales-
research laboratory, American Piano Company New Action Company, Standard Pneumatic Action Com- man, "Box 2," in this issue of Presto-Times, this
pany, Charles Frederick Stein, Steinway & Sons, advertiser is known personally to Presto-Times and
York.
Address: "Analysis and Measurement of Tone" Straube Piano Company, Tuners' Supply Company, the gentleman can be highly recommended from this
(followed by tests on acuteness of hearing), by Paul Weaver iPano Company, Wessell, Nickel & Gross.
office.
No piano salesman is completely equipped without
a Bowen One-Man Piano Loader and Carrier, which
gives him the advantages of quick, easy and safe
transportation for his sample. By Hitting it to a Ford
roadster, simply and quickly by a patented device he
has an ideal piano truck. Thus with a slight effort
he can load or unload, or demonstrate a piano or
player in the quickest possible time, being enabled
thereby to see a considerable number of prospects in
a day. It is truly a one-man affair. Only one man,
the salesman himself, is needed to sell pianos with a
Bowen Loader attached to a Ford roadster.
In the accompanying cut is pictured a shipment of
Bowen Loaders shipped to the Frederick Piano Co.,
Pittsburgh, Pa., by the Bowen Piano Loader Co.,
Winston-Salem, N. C. It shows a belief by a big
and active piano house in the efficacy of the Bowen
device. The big Pittsburgh firm is only one of the
RIPON, WIS., DEALER ACTIVE
SELLING WALTHAM LINE
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