Presto
Issue: 1927 2141 - Page 15
August 13, 1927.
15
PRESTO-TIMES
COINOLAS
FOR
RESTAURANTS, CAFES and
AMUSEMENT CENTERS
Style C-2
FROM THE BIGGEST
ORCHESTRION
is a combination of two Greek words meaning "wood
sound." The music which it produces is caused more
by the vibrations of wood than is the case with most
musical instruments which utilize the resonant quali-
ties of that material. The manufacturer's success
with this instrument, as with most others where the
resonance of wood has an important function to per-
form, depends upon the care with which the wood for
the rods are selected, shaped, seasoned and mounted.
Most softwoods listed in this industry do not owe
their place to their resonance. For instance, much
white pine and sugar pine are manufactured into keys
for organs and pianos, but they are preferred for
those places on account of their lightness and smalJ
tendency to warp, and not for any quality of res-
onance which they may possess. Such softwoods
as hemlock, Douglas fir, yellow pine and cypress are
demanded for the frames of large instruments to give
the necessary strength without too much weight or
at too great a cost.
Hardwoods constitute eighty per cent of all the
material furnished by forests to the manufacturers
of musical instruments in this country. That figure
a'one tells the story of the importance of this class
of woods along the line indicated. Measured in feet,
there is much more softwood in the United States
than hardwood—five or six times as much. But in
kinds or species, hardwoods are far more numerous
than the others. Manufacturers engaged in the in-
dustry under discussion use not only more kinds of
hardwoods but a larger quantity. Five feet of hard-
wood go to these manufacturers to one foot of soft-
wood.
Maple leads all the others which follow in the
following order: Yellow poplar, chestnut, oak, elm,
birch, basswood, red gum, black walnut, beech, ash,
cottonwood, tupelo, cherry, sycamore, butternut,
buckeye, holly, hickory.
Maple leads, not because this wood has some spe-
cial use which accounts for the large demand, but it
is due to the general fitness of maple for many parts
of musical instruments. Most of its qualities are
good ones, and it has many. It fills numerous places
and does it well.
Louis E. Cook has opened a new music store at
451 San Benito street, Hollister, Cal.
FIELD FOR COINOLAS
Great Extent and Continuous Development
of the Market for Coin-Operated Instru-
ments Interests Dealers in Line.
The comprehensive line of Coinolas of the Opera-
tors' Piano Co., 715-721 North Kedzie avenue, Chi-
cago, includes instruments of all sizes suitable to
cafes, restaurants, ice cream parlors and amusement
places, from the biggest orchestrion to the smallest
keyless instrument—the Tiny Coinola. The expan-
sion of the market for coin operated instruments
should prompt the alert dealer to investigate the
presentations of the Operators' Piano Co.
The great development of this phase of the music
business is a fact noticed by everybody in the music
trade. It is a phase of the business that is really only
in the beginning and the wonderful possibilities of its
growth is an alluring thought for the ambitious man.
It is a comparatively new business and has no ham-
pering precedents for the new man. The size of the
field is great and the necessities for each kind of cus-
tomer explaining the variety in the line of such
houses as the Operators' Piano Co., whose range of
Coinolas is as comprehensive as admirable.
The Kroh Music Co. of Muskogee, Okla., has
opened a store in Holdenville, Okla.
Wanted. Tfoung Men!
—to become specialists in a field which will not
only pay them exceptionally well but which
will give them social standing and prominence!
O young men looking for such an opportunity v/u
have an unusual offer. Right now in numberless
cities and towns in the United States, there is a jjrtat
shortage of piano experts, technicians and tuners.
The few masters there are, are earning large salaries
for thl3 exceptionally pleasant work. Their time is
Crirrcr'
their own. They meet the best peo-
rKtC
pie *nd »»n establish a wealthy clien-
o j « , \ . • ' e l e - W e c a n flt J"'U f o r t h ' 8 profession
Send for free book- in L .oroximately 12 short weeks' time!
let which tells. al
„ „ not 8 musician ,
Now don . t
about t our u practical
You don't neu<1 to be. In fact, 60 per
?!!! £°™ « h 'g™'^ pent of our g, aduatea never took a music
e omu i e s s o n And
now
they
are earning from
$250 to $. r >j() a month!
pportunity you are looking for. Pull yourself out
the rut. Make a place for yourself among the
estpeople. Our complete course in our new $85,-
00.00 laboratory fits you for a real paying pro-
fession. You can do it. Others have with noVtter
backing: than you have. Find out the facts anyway.
POLK COLLEGE OF PIANO TUNING
Polk Building. D*U1O
La Port.. Ind.
T
Crossman Lumber
Company
Choice Lower Michigan
End Dried White Maple
Quartered Maple
Wide Maple
Polk College of Piano Tuning, La Porte. Ind.
Please send me a copy of your free booklet.
I like the idea of becoming- a professional
piano expert.
All thicknesses
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Philip W. Oetting & Son, Inc.
213 East 19th Street, New York
HIGH GRADE
Folding Organs
School Organs
Sole Agents for
WEICKERT
Hammer
Practice Keyboards
Felts
Grand and Upright Ham~
mert Made of Weickert Felt
Dealers' Attention Solicited
A. L. WHITE MFG. CO.
and Damper
Fine Action Bushing Cloths, etc
215 Englewood Ave., CHICAGO, ILL.
Tiny Colnola
THE SMALLEST
KEYLESS
KEYS RECOVERED AND REBUSHED
FRIELD MILLER & COMPANY
Samples of Work on Request
Prompt and Efficient Service
3355 North Illinois Street, INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
Manufactured by
The Operators Piano Co.
715-721 N. Kedzie Ave.
CHICAGO
FAIRBANKS
PIANO PLATES
THE FAIRBANKS CO., Springfield, Ohio
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15
PRESTO-TIMES
COINOLAS
FOR
RESTAURANTS, CAFES and
AMUSEMENT CENTERS
Style C-2
FROM THE BIGGEST
ORCHESTRION
is a combination of two Greek words meaning "wood
sound." The music which it produces is caused more
by the vibrations of wood than is the case with most
musical instruments which utilize the resonant quali-
ties of that material. The manufacturer's success
with this instrument, as with most others where the
resonance of wood has an important function to per-
form, depends upon the care with which the wood for
the rods are selected, shaped, seasoned and mounted.
Most softwoods listed in this industry do not owe
their place to their resonance. For instance, much
white pine and sugar pine are manufactured into keys
for organs and pianos, but they are preferred for
those places on account of their lightness and smalJ
tendency to warp, and not for any quality of res-
onance which they may possess. Such softwoods
as hemlock, Douglas fir, yellow pine and cypress are
demanded for the frames of large instruments to give
the necessary strength without too much weight or
at too great a cost.
Hardwoods constitute eighty per cent of all the
material furnished by forests to the manufacturers
of musical instruments in this country. That figure
a'one tells the story of the importance of this class
of woods along the line indicated. Measured in feet,
there is much more softwood in the United States
than hardwood—five or six times as much. But in
kinds or species, hardwoods are far more numerous
than the others. Manufacturers engaged in the in-
dustry under discussion use not only more kinds of
hardwoods but a larger quantity. Five feet of hard-
wood go to these manufacturers to one foot of soft-
wood.
Maple leads all the others which follow in the
following order: Yellow poplar, chestnut, oak, elm,
birch, basswood, red gum, black walnut, beech, ash,
cottonwood, tupelo, cherry, sycamore, butternut,
buckeye, holly, hickory.
Maple leads, not because this wood has some spe-
cial use which accounts for the large demand, but it
is due to the general fitness of maple for many parts
of musical instruments. Most of its qualities are
good ones, and it has many. It fills numerous places
and does it well.
Louis E. Cook has opened a new music store at
451 San Benito street, Hollister, Cal.
FIELD FOR COINOLAS
Great Extent and Continuous Development
of the Market for Coin-Operated Instru-
ments Interests Dealers in Line.
The comprehensive line of Coinolas of the Opera-
tors' Piano Co., 715-721 North Kedzie avenue, Chi-
cago, includes instruments of all sizes suitable to
cafes, restaurants, ice cream parlors and amusement
places, from the biggest orchestrion to the smallest
keyless instrument—the Tiny Coinola. The expan-
sion of the market for coin operated instruments
should prompt the alert dealer to investigate the
presentations of the Operators' Piano Co.
The great development of this phase of the music
business is a fact noticed by everybody in the music
trade. It is a phase of the business that is really only
in the beginning and the wonderful possibilities of its
growth is an alluring thought for the ambitious man.
It is a comparatively new business and has no ham-
pering precedents for the new man. The size of the
field is great and the necessities for each kind of cus-
tomer explaining the variety in the line of such
houses as the Operators' Piano Co., whose range of
Coinolas is as comprehensive as admirable.
The Kroh Music Co. of Muskogee, Okla., has
opened a store in Holdenville, Okla.
Wanted. Tfoung Men!
—to become specialists in a field which will not
only pay them exceptionally well but which
will give them social standing and prominence!
O young men looking for such an opportunity v/u
have an unusual offer. Right now in numberless
cities and towns in the United States, there is a jjrtat
shortage of piano experts, technicians and tuners.
The few masters there are, are earning large salaries
for thl3 exceptionally pleasant work. Their time is
Crirrcr'
their own. They meet the best peo-
rKtC
pie *nd »»n establish a wealthy clien-
o j « , \ . • ' e l e - W e c a n flt J"'U f o r t h ' 8 profession
Send for free book- in L .oroximately 12 short weeks' time!
let which tells. al
„ „ not 8 musician ,
Now don . t
about t our u practical
You don't neu<1 to be. In fact, 60 per
?!!! £°™ « h 'g™'^ pent of our g, aduatea never took a music
e omu i e s s o n And
now
they
are earning from
$250 to $. r >j() a month!
pportunity you are looking for. Pull yourself out
the rut. Make a place for yourself among the
estpeople. Our complete course in our new $85,-
00.00 laboratory fits you for a real paying pro-
fession. You can do it. Others have with noVtter
backing: than you have. Find out the facts anyway.
POLK COLLEGE OF PIANO TUNING
Polk Building. D*U1O
La Port.. Ind.
T
Crossman Lumber
Company
Choice Lower Michigan
End Dried White Maple
Quartered Maple
Wide Maple
Polk College of Piano Tuning, La Porte. Ind.
Please send me a copy of your free booklet.
I like the idea of becoming- a professional
piano expert.
All thicknesses
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Philip W. Oetting & Son, Inc.
213 East 19th Street, New York
HIGH GRADE
Folding Organs
School Organs
Sole Agents for
WEICKERT
Hammer
Practice Keyboards
Felts
Grand and Upright Ham~
mert Made of Weickert Felt
Dealers' Attention Solicited
A. L. WHITE MFG. CO.
and Damper
Fine Action Bushing Cloths, etc
215 Englewood Ave., CHICAGO, ILL.
Tiny Colnola
THE SMALLEST
KEYLESS
KEYS RECOVERED AND REBUSHED
FRIELD MILLER & COMPANY
Samples of Work on Request
Prompt and Efficient Service
3355 North Illinois Street, INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
Manufactured by
The Operators Piano Co.
715-721 N. Kedzie Ave.
CHICAGO
FAIRBANKS
PIANO PLATES
THE FAIRBANKS CO., Springfield, 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).