Presto
Issue: 1927 2144 - Page 10
September 3, 1927
PRESTO-TIMES
10
PIANO CLUB PLANS RE=
TURN TO OLD QUARTERS
At Last Noonday Luncheon at Great North-
ern Hotel, Rousing Reopening Was
Promised.
'Flic little room which the Piano Club of Chicago
has been occupying for its Monday noonday lunch-
cons during the past two months at the Great North-
ern Hotel was completely tilled on Monday of this
week, it being the last meeting at that place before
taking over the former quarters at the Illinois Ath-
letic Club Monday, September 12.
To celebrate the occasion a gala event is in the
making. . Roger O'Connor has been named chair-
man of a committee to furnish "a grand good time"
and he has already set about to do it by securing the
assistance of several old-time members to each do
a stunt.
It is practically certain that Chief of Police Michael
Hughes will be the guest, although his presence will
have no relation to the rousing program promised.
The day will be known as "Will Collins Day,"
named for '•the general manager of the new retail
store of the H. C. Bay Company at 305 South
Wabash avenue.
The board of governors has arranged for the
annual meeting to take place on the evening of
Monday, October 10. This is election night, when
the 192S ticket wi'l be formally voted on. This affair
will be practically in charge of President Gordon
Laughearl, who will have some special and interest-
ing features to introduce and because of which he
asked to be placed at the head of the annual meeting
committee. This committee will announce a tenta-
tive program and fix on the place for holding the
entertainment which already has been set down for
an event of the first magnitude.
There. were several visitors and newcomers at the
meeting Monday, among them Mr. Laughead of
Toledo, Ohio, father of President Laughead, and
Will L. Bush. Altogether the luncheon was a very
interesting gathering. The club was gratified on its
excellent financial standing, with government bonds
to the amount of several thousands of dollars in the
treasury. Members looked back in retrospect over
the money given for the advancement of music in
this community, amounting in round numbers to ten
thousand dollars within a decade.
E. F. Lapham was invited to read extracts from an
article he has written for a new Chicago monthly
magazine, on some of the phases of Chicago's phe-
nomenal growth and development which were lis-
tened to with interest. The meeting was adourned
until one week from Labor Day (September 12), at
the Illinois Athletic Club.
BRITISH TRADE IN MUSIC
GOODS SHOWS DECREASE
Pianos, Organs and Musical Merchandise Shows Fall-
ing Off Since July 1, 1925.
British exports and imports of musical instruments
have not shown any growth except as to the un-
enumerated sorts of instruments as the result of the
reimposition of the import duties on July 1, 1925,
although the home market has benefited, according to
Alfred Nutting, office of American consulate gen-
eral, London.
Imports of pianos in the first half of 1927 totaled
1,441—less than one-tenth the number received in the
first six months of 1925. Organs, also, remained
fewer, the unenumerated other musical instruments,
while more numerous than in 1926, were this year
less than one-third the total for 1925. Substantially
the whole of the imports are retained in the country,
reexports being so few as to be negligible.
Up to the present British exports of organs in the
current half year were much less than a year ago, and
pianos have steadily decreased. For the first six
months of 1925 piano exports were 3.254 valued at
£15\203, while for the same period of 1927 they
were 1,774 pianos valued at £89,228—a decrease of
over 48 per cent.
KREITER
The Leading and Most Popular
Pianos and Players
Grands, Players, Uprights and
Reproducing Pianos
The Results of Over Forty Years'
of Experience.
Kreiter Pianos Cover the Entire Line
and no Piano Dealer who tries these in-
struments would supplant them by any
others. A trial will convince.
Kreiter Mfg. Co., Inc.
310-312 W, Water St., Milwaukee, Wig.
Factory: Marinette, Wis.
E. Leins Piano Co.
Makers of Pianos and
Player Pianos That Are
Established L e a d e r s .
Correspondence from Reliable
Dealers Invited
Factory and Offices, 304 W. 42nd Si
NEW YORK
NEW LYON & HEALY STORE.
Lyon & Mealy, Chicago, last week opened a new
music store at 870 East 63rd street. C. H. De Acres,
vice-president and general manager of the firm, said
that the increasing importance of the Woodlawn
business district had convinced the management of
the necessity of a South Side store.
PROGRESSIVE MONTANA FIRM
The Heppe, Marcellus and Edouard Jules Piano
manufactured by the
HEPPE PIANO COMPANY
are the only pianos in the world with
Three Sounding Boards.
Patented in the United States. Great Britain,
France, Germany and Canada.
Liberal arrangements to responsible agents only.
Main Office, 1117 Chestnut St.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
The LEADING LINE
WEAVER PIANOS
Qrandu, Uprights and Players
Finest and most artistic
piano in design, tone and
construction that can be
made.
YORK PIANOS
Uprights and Player Pianos
A high grade piano of great
value and with charming tone quality.
Livingston Pianos— Uprights and Player Pianos
A popular piano at a popular price.
Over 7U,(KM> instruments made by thit company are sing-
ing their own praises in all parts of the civilised wor!<9.
Write for catalogues and state on what terms you would
like to deal, and we will make yon a proposition il you are
located in open territory.
WEAVER PIANO CO.. Inc.
Factory: YORK, PA.
Established 1870
CHRISTMAN
1 he accompanying cut shows a window display
and interior view of Nelson Music House, Billings,
Mont. With the completion and opening of its new
store, the Xelson Music House has what is recog-
nized as one of the finest and most modern general
music stores in the state. The Nelson Music House
boasts a record of progress and achievement, having
expanded from a modest origin to its present position
of im ort
P a n c e in the music trades of this section.
The firm has been a representative of the Gulbruiien
Co., Chicago, for the last rive years, and features that
company's instruments in both window and intcrior
displays in the new establishment.
UPRIGHTS, GRANDS, PLAYERS
AND REPRODUCING PIANOS
THE FAMOUS "STUDIO GRAND"
"The First Touch Tells"
(Reg. U..S. Pat. Off.)
CHRISTMAN PIANO CO., Inc.
597 East I37th Street.
NEW YORK
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PRESTO-TIMES
10
PIANO CLUB PLANS RE=
TURN TO OLD QUARTERS
At Last Noonday Luncheon at Great North-
ern Hotel, Rousing Reopening Was
Promised.
'Flic little room which the Piano Club of Chicago
has been occupying for its Monday noonday lunch-
cons during the past two months at the Great North-
ern Hotel was completely tilled on Monday of this
week, it being the last meeting at that place before
taking over the former quarters at the Illinois Ath-
letic Club Monday, September 12.
To celebrate the occasion a gala event is in the
making. . Roger O'Connor has been named chair-
man of a committee to furnish "a grand good time"
and he has already set about to do it by securing the
assistance of several old-time members to each do
a stunt.
It is practically certain that Chief of Police Michael
Hughes will be the guest, although his presence will
have no relation to the rousing program promised.
The day will be known as "Will Collins Day,"
named for '•the general manager of the new retail
store of the H. C. Bay Company at 305 South
Wabash avenue.
The board of governors has arranged for the
annual meeting to take place on the evening of
Monday, October 10. This is election night, when
the 192S ticket wi'l be formally voted on. This affair
will be practically in charge of President Gordon
Laughearl, who will have some special and interest-
ing features to introduce and because of which he
asked to be placed at the head of the annual meeting
committee. This committee will announce a tenta-
tive program and fix on the place for holding the
entertainment which already has been set down for
an event of the first magnitude.
There. were several visitors and newcomers at the
meeting Monday, among them Mr. Laughead of
Toledo, Ohio, father of President Laughead, and
Will L. Bush. Altogether the luncheon was a very
interesting gathering. The club was gratified on its
excellent financial standing, with government bonds
to the amount of several thousands of dollars in the
treasury. Members looked back in retrospect over
the money given for the advancement of music in
this community, amounting in round numbers to ten
thousand dollars within a decade.
E. F. Lapham was invited to read extracts from an
article he has written for a new Chicago monthly
magazine, on some of the phases of Chicago's phe-
nomenal growth and development which were lis-
tened to with interest. The meeting was adourned
until one week from Labor Day (September 12), at
the Illinois Athletic Club.
BRITISH TRADE IN MUSIC
GOODS SHOWS DECREASE
Pianos, Organs and Musical Merchandise Shows Fall-
ing Off Since July 1, 1925.
British exports and imports of musical instruments
have not shown any growth except as to the un-
enumerated sorts of instruments as the result of the
reimposition of the import duties on July 1, 1925,
although the home market has benefited, according to
Alfred Nutting, office of American consulate gen-
eral, London.
Imports of pianos in the first half of 1927 totaled
1,441—less than one-tenth the number received in the
first six months of 1925. Organs, also, remained
fewer, the unenumerated other musical instruments,
while more numerous than in 1926, were this year
less than one-third the total for 1925. Substantially
the whole of the imports are retained in the country,
reexports being so few as to be negligible.
Up to the present British exports of organs in the
current half year were much less than a year ago, and
pianos have steadily decreased. For the first six
months of 1925 piano exports were 3.254 valued at
£15\203, while for the same period of 1927 they
were 1,774 pianos valued at £89,228—a decrease of
over 48 per cent.
KREITER
The Leading and Most Popular
Pianos and Players
Grands, Players, Uprights and
Reproducing Pianos
The Results of Over Forty Years'
of Experience.
Kreiter Pianos Cover the Entire Line
and no Piano Dealer who tries these in-
struments would supplant them by any
others. A trial will convince.
Kreiter Mfg. Co., Inc.
310-312 W, Water St., Milwaukee, Wig.
Factory: Marinette, Wis.
E. Leins Piano Co.
Makers of Pianos and
Player Pianos That Are
Established L e a d e r s .
Correspondence from Reliable
Dealers Invited
Factory and Offices, 304 W. 42nd Si
NEW YORK
NEW LYON & HEALY STORE.
Lyon & Mealy, Chicago, last week opened a new
music store at 870 East 63rd street. C. H. De Acres,
vice-president and general manager of the firm, said
that the increasing importance of the Woodlawn
business district had convinced the management of
the necessity of a South Side store.
PROGRESSIVE MONTANA FIRM
The Heppe, Marcellus and Edouard Jules Piano
manufactured by the
HEPPE PIANO COMPANY
are the only pianos in the world with
Three Sounding Boards.
Patented in the United States. Great Britain,
France, Germany and Canada.
Liberal arrangements to responsible agents only.
Main Office, 1117 Chestnut St.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
The LEADING LINE
WEAVER PIANOS
Qrandu, Uprights and Players
Finest and most artistic
piano in design, tone and
construction that can be
made.
YORK PIANOS
Uprights and Player Pianos
A high grade piano of great
value and with charming tone quality.
Livingston Pianos— Uprights and Player Pianos
A popular piano at a popular price.
Over 7U,(KM> instruments made by thit company are sing-
ing their own praises in all parts of the civilised wor!<9.
Write for catalogues and state on what terms you would
like to deal, and we will make yon a proposition il you are
located in open territory.
WEAVER PIANO CO.. Inc.
Factory: YORK, PA.
Established 1870
CHRISTMAN
1 he accompanying cut shows a window display
and interior view of Nelson Music House, Billings,
Mont. With the completion and opening of its new
store, the Xelson Music House has what is recog-
nized as one of the finest and most modern general
music stores in the state. The Nelson Music House
boasts a record of progress and achievement, having
expanded from a modest origin to its present position
of im ort
P a n c e in the music trades of this section.
The firm has been a representative of the Gulbruiien
Co., Chicago, for the last rive years, and features that
company's instruments in both window and intcrior
displays in the new establishment.
UPRIGHTS, GRANDS, PLAYERS
AND REPRODUCING PIANOS
THE FAMOUS "STUDIO GRAND"
"The First Touch Tells"
(Reg. U..S. Pat. Off.)
CHRISTMAN PIANO CO., Inc.
597 East I37th Street.
NEW YORK
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).