Presto
Issue: 1927 2157 - Page 4
PRESTO-TIMES
given daily during the noon hour in the Larkin ad-
ministration building.
Connected to the organ is a Chickering Concert
grand with the Ampico, playable separately or from
the organ console. Both the Chickering Ampico and
the organ are also played frequently during business
Department for Development of Piano Playing sessions and always at a request of any visitor.
In connection with the daily noon-time concerts,
Contests and Class Piano Instruction
the Larkin company issues for free distribution an
Is Duly Inaugurated.
attractive, well-designed program announcement
A new department in the executive office of the booklet. On Tuesday, November 15, an especially
National Association of Music Merchants was in- attractive recital was given by Rollo F. Maitland,
augurated last week to give special attention to the Fellow of the American Guild of Organists and or-
development of piano playing contests and also to ganist at the Church of the New Jerusalem, Phila-
assist in increasing piano class instruction in public delphia, for a large audience which included many
schools and warerooms. The department will work representative musicians and music lovers.
The program included the famous Liebestraum, No.
in close cooperation with both the executive office
;
of the Merchants' Association and the National Bu- 3, by Liszt, whose compos tions are now coming in
for
renewed
public
attention
due to the fact that the
reau for the Advancement of Music. The Bureau
has in its files a large amount of valuable informa- two pianos, both Chickerings, owned by Liszt, are
tion gathered from the piano playing contests which now being' exhibited in this country in various cities
have been held in Detroit, Chicago, San Francisco through the courtesy of the Hungarian Government.
and other cities and it is the purpose to make avail-
able all of this information to the members of the BUYS BLUFFTON, IND., MUSIC STORE.
trade throughout the country.
James Kitchen. Bluffton, Ind., has purchased the
Funds made available by the new promotion stamp James Dayton music store of North Johnson, in a
are being used directly for the operation of this new deal closed last week. Mr. Kitchen has been selling
department. In addition to the work which is being radios for the past few months and he will also sell
done through correspondence on the subject of con- pianos now that he has a business establishment in
tests, the Merchants' Association will send its execu- the uptown district. Mr. Dayton has not decided
tive secretary to cities where a contest is in prospect, just what work he will take up.
and where requests for such a visit are received, for
the purpose of giving first-hand assistance in the PATTULO BUYS CHICKERING AMPICO.
preliminary work of organizing contests.
George Pattulo, famous writer of special articles
It is the belief of the executives of the Merchants' for the Saturday Evening Post, has purchased a style
Association that every possible effort should be made
to largely increase the number of piano-playing con- 53 Ampico in ebony at Chickering Hall, New York.
tests throughout the country and every possible effort Mr. Pattulo is now absent from New York, while his
will be made to cooperate with retail merchants to apartment at 383 Park avenue is being redecorated.
The instrument is to be installed there as soon as
this end.
preparations are completed.
Through the efforts of the National Bureau for the
Advancement of Music, the National Music Super-
visors' Conference has recently appointed a special
committee to invest'gate and to farther the institu-
tion of the teaching of piano playing in the public
schools throughout the country. The bureau is
working closely with the supervisors to increase the
interest of all public school authorities in this matter.
NEW BUREAU ADDED
TO MERCHANTS ASS'N
December 3, 1927
NEW COMMITTEES FOR
ILLINOIS TRADE ASS'N
President Herman H. Fleer Publishes His
Selections for Six Important Groups
Operating the Organization.
Herman H. Fleer, president of the Illinois Music
Dealers' Association, has declared his appointments
for the various committees for the ensuing term.
Legislative Committee—Chas. Adams, Peoria,
chairman; E. E. Hanger, Lincoln; J. T. Bristol, Chi-
cago; A. Anderson, Springfield; E. E. Weiler, Chi-
cago; Roy Waite, Chicago.
Piano Playing Tournament—Chas. E. Byrne, Chi-
cago, chairman; Peter Meyer, Chicago; Henry Wei-
sert, Chicago; J. T. Bristol, Chicago; A. L. Brenner,
Rock Island.
Membership Committee—Ted Perkins, Chicago,
chairman; Henry Hewitt, Chicago; Roger O'Connor,
Chicago; Walter Kiehn, Chicago; W. H. Thompkins,
Rockford; Lloyd Parker, Harrisburg; Chas. Adams,
Peoria; E E. Hanger, Lincoln; Fred J. Base, Chi-
cago; John J. Buttell, Fort Wayne; Matt Kennedy,
Chicago; Roy Cook, Chicago:
Publicity Committee—Henry Hewitt, Chicago,
chairman; Roy Waite, Chicago; A. L. McNab, Chi-
cago; Henry MacMullan, Chicago; Harry Bibb, Chi-
cago.
Entertainment Committee—G. R. Brownell, Chi-
cago, chairman; Louis A. Crittenton, Chicago; Carl
Sundberg, Chicago; Harry Bibb, Chicago; W. H.
Collins, Chicago.
Group Instruction in Schools Committee—Henry
Weisert, Chicago, chairman; Roger O'Connor, Chi-
cago; Roy Cook, Chicago.
GULBRANSENS FOR APARTMENTS
GIVE CENSUS FACTS
PROMPTLY IS ADVICE
Music Industries Chamber of Commerce Asks
Cooperation of Members in the Govern-
ment Plan for New Biennial Census.
The Music Industries Chamber of Commerce is
cooperating with the Bureau of Census of the United
States Department of Commerce in the plans for the
next biennial census of manufacturers for the year
1927. The Chamber recognizes the value of the work
to the music industry and is urging the members to
supply the necessary information as soon as possible
after the date named, January 10.
The canvass which will be made by mailed ques-
tionnaires, is to secure the information necessary in
framing a comprehensive report of the condition and
progress of the music business in all its phases. Offi-
cials of the Music Industries Chamber of Commerce
express the hope that manufacturers will fill out the
blanks and return them promptly to the Census
Bureau.
LARKIN SOAP BUILDING
EQUIPS WITH CHICKERING
Concert Grand with Ampico Is Feature of
Administration Building of Widely
Known Buffalo Industry.
Like the John Wanamaker stores in New York
and Philadelphia, the Larkin Soap Company, Buffalo,
N. Y., is another of the country's well-known mer-
cantile enterprises which enlists the aid of good music
to further its institutional program. Like Wana-
maker, the Larkin company, whose fame as a soap
and perfume manufacturer extends around the world,
has found that this wide departure from conventional
advertising has paid in dollars and cents, as well as
the undoubted prestige from being sponsor to a cul-
tural program of the highest order of artistic merit.
The Larkin concert organ, a gift from the late John
D. Larkin, president of the company, is one of the
largest organs in the country. It is equipped with the
latest development in automatic playing devices, not
only playing the notes but automatically drawing
stops and supplying expression. It has 6,691 pipes
and 94 independent speaking stops. Concerts are
The accompanying cut shows the Gaylor Apart-
ments in Los Angeles, the management of which has
purchased twenty-four Gulbranscn small grand pianos
and one combination registering and reproducing
grand piano from the Martin Music Company of Los
Angeles.
This is one of the finest apartment houses in all of
California, located in Wilshire boulevard, directly
across from the Ambassador Hotel. The Gaylord
Building has 147 apartments. They are among the
most expensively furnished and highest priced in
the city.
Naturally the Martin Music Company and the Gul-
bransen Company, Chicago, are very delighted at the
choice of the Gulbransen product in this case. Inci-
dentally it offers a suggestion for a further field of
sales opened up to dealers.
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given daily during the noon hour in the Larkin ad-
ministration building.
Connected to the organ is a Chickering Concert
grand with the Ampico, playable separately or from
the organ console. Both the Chickering Ampico and
the organ are also played frequently during business
Department for Development of Piano Playing sessions and always at a request of any visitor.
In connection with the daily noon-time concerts,
Contests and Class Piano Instruction
the Larkin company issues for free distribution an
Is Duly Inaugurated.
attractive, well-designed program announcement
A new department in the executive office of the booklet. On Tuesday, November 15, an especially
National Association of Music Merchants was in- attractive recital was given by Rollo F. Maitland,
augurated last week to give special attention to the Fellow of the American Guild of Organists and or-
development of piano playing contests and also to ganist at the Church of the New Jerusalem, Phila-
assist in increasing piano class instruction in public delphia, for a large audience which included many
schools and warerooms. The department will work representative musicians and music lovers.
The program included the famous Liebestraum, No.
in close cooperation with both the executive office
;
of the Merchants' Association and the National Bu- 3, by Liszt, whose compos tions are now coming in
for
renewed
public
attention
due to the fact that the
reau for the Advancement of Music. The Bureau
has in its files a large amount of valuable informa- two pianos, both Chickerings, owned by Liszt, are
tion gathered from the piano playing contests which now being' exhibited in this country in various cities
have been held in Detroit, Chicago, San Francisco through the courtesy of the Hungarian Government.
and other cities and it is the purpose to make avail-
able all of this information to the members of the BUYS BLUFFTON, IND., MUSIC STORE.
trade throughout the country.
James Kitchen. Bluffton, Ind., has purchased the
Funds made available by the new promotion stamp James Dayton music store of North Johnson, in a
are being used directly for the operation of this new deal closed last week. Mr. Kitchen has been selling
department. In addition to the work which is being radios for the past few months and he will also sell
done through correspondence on the subject of con- pianos now that he has a business establishment in
tests, the Merchants' Association will send its execu- the uptown district. Mr. Dayton has not decided
tive secretary to cities where a contest is in prospect, just what work he will take up.
and where requests for such a visit are received, for
the purpose of giving first-hand assistance in the PATTULO BUYS CHICKERING AMPICO.
preliminary work of organizing contests.
George Pattulo, famous writer of special articles
It is the belief of the executives of the Merchants' for the Saturday Evening Post, has purchased a style
Association that every possible effort should be made
to largely increase the number of piano-playing con- 53 Ampico in ebony at Chickering Hall, New York.
tests throughout the country and every possible effort Mr. Pattulo is now absent from New York, while his
will be made to cooperate with retail merchants to apartment at 383 Park avenue is being redecorated.
The instrument is to be installed there as soon as
this end.
preparations are completed.
Through the efforts of the National Bureau for the
Advancement of Music, the National Music Super-
visors' Conference has recently appointed a special
committee to invest'gate and to farther the institu-
tion of the teaching of piano playing in the public
schools throughout the country. The bureau is
working closely with the supervisors to increase the
interest of all public school authorities in this matter.
NEW BUREAU ADDED
TO MERCHANTS ASS'N
December 3, 1927
NEW COMMITTEES FOR
ILLINOIS TRADE ASS'N
President Herman H. Fleer Publishes His
Selections for Six Important Groups
Operating the Organization.
Herman H. Fleer, president of the Illinois Music
Dealers' Association, has declared his appointments
for the various committees for the ensuing term.
Legislative Committee—Chas. Adams, Peoria,
chairman; E. E. Hanger, Lincoln; J. T. Bristol, Chi-
cago; A. Anderson, Springfield; E. E. Weiler, Chi-
cago; Roy Waite, Chicago.
Piano Playing Tournament—Chas. E. Byrne, Chi-
cago, chairman; Peter Meyer, Chicago; Henry Wei-
sert, Chicago; J. T. Bristol, Chicago; A. L. Brenner,
Rock Island.
Membership Committee—Ted Perkins, Chicago,
chairman; Henry Hewitt, Chicago; Roger O'Connor,
Chicago; Walter Kiehn, Chicago; W. H. Thompkins,
Rockford; Lloyd Parker, Harrisburg; Chas. Adams,
Peoria; E E. Hanger, Lincoln; Fred J. Base, Chi-
cago; John J. Buttell, Fort Wayne; Matt Kennedy,
Chicago; Roy Cook, Chicago:
Publicity Committee—Henry Hewitt, Chicago,
chairman; Roy Waite, Chicago; A. L. McNab, Chi-
cago; Henry MacMullan, Chicago; Harry Bibb, Chi-
cago.
Entertainment Committee—G. R. Brownell, Chi-
cago, chairman; Louis A. Crittenton, Chicago; Carl
Sundberg, Chicago; Harry Bibb, Chicago; W. H.
Collins, Chicago.
Group Instruction in Schools Committee—Henry
Weisert, Chicago, chairman; Roger O'Connor, Chi-
cago; Roy Cook, Chicago.
GULBRANSENS FOR APARTMENTS
GIVE CENSUS FACTS
PROMPTLY IS ADVICE
Music Industries Chamber of Commerce Asks
Cooperation of Members in the Govern-
ment Plan for New Biennial Census.
The Music Industries Chamber of Commerce is
cooperating with the Bureau of Census of the United
States Department of Commerce in the plans for the
next biennial census of manufacturers for the year
1927. The Chamber recognizes the value of the work
to the music industry and is urging the members to
supply the necessary information as soon as possible
after the date named, January 10.
The canvass which will be made by mailed ques-
tionnaires, is to secure the information necessary in
framing a comprehensive report of the condition and
progress of the music business in all its phases. Offi-
cials of the Music Industries Chamber of Commerce
express the hope that manufacturers will fill out the
blanks and return them promptly to the Census
Bureau.
LARKIN SOAP BUILDING
EQUIPS WITH CHICKERING
Concert Grand with Ampico Is Feature of
Administration Building of Widely
Known Buffalo Industry.
Like the John Wanamaker stores in New York
and Philadelphia, the Larkin Soap Company, Buffalo,
N. Y., is another of the country's well-known mer-
cantile enterprises which enlists the aid of good music
to further its institutional program. Like Wana-
maker, the Larkin company, whose fame as a soap
and perfume manufacturer extends around the world,
has found that this wide departure from conventional
advertising has paid in dollars and cents, as well as
the undoubted prestige from being sponsor to a cul-
tural program of the highest order of artistic merit.
The Larkin concert organ, a gift from the late John
D. Larkin, president of the company, is one of the
largest organs in the country. It is equipped with the
latest development in automatic playing devices, not
only playing the notes but automatically drawing
stops and supplying expression. It has 6,691 pipes
and 94 independent speaking stops. Concerts are
The accompanying cut shows the Gaylor Apart-
ments in Los Angeles, the management of which has
purchased twenty-four Gulbranscn small grand pianos
and one combination registering and reproducing
grand piano from the Martin Music Company of Los
Angeles.
This is one of the finest apartment houses in all of
California, located in Wilshire boulevard, directly
across from the Ambassador Hotel. The Gaylord
Building has 147 apartments. They are among the
most expensively furnished and highest priced in
the city.
Naturally the Martin Music Company and the Gul-
bransen Company, Chicago, are very delighted at the
choice of the Gulbransen product in this case. Inci-
dentally it offers a suggestion for a further field of
sales opened up to dealers.
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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/
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