Presto
Issue: 1927 2159 - Page 5
December 17, 1927
PRESTO-TIMES
NEW KNABE STUDIOS, KANSAS CITY
NEW MEMBERS JOIN
PIANO CLUB OF CHICAGO
Lively Organization Representing Varied In-
terests of Big City Had One of Its
Characteristic Meetings.
THE KNABE STUDIOS, KANSAS CITY, MO.
The accompanying cuts show exterior and interior
views of the new home of the Knabe Studios, Kansas
City, Mo. The building is in the Kansas City Club
Plaza, Forty-seventh street, at Broadway, and im-
presses with its distinctive Spanish lines of architec-
ture and the decorative scheme. The furnishings to
follow the Spanish treatment.
On the second floor are nine musical studios sur-
rounding a central recital hall, all remarkable for
their beauty and spaciousness. David Parsil and Paul
Nederman, who planned the new structure, are suc-
cessful Knabe dealers who anticipate a great increase
of business in the new home.
The Piano Club of Chicago held a very interesting
session at the noonday luncheon on Monday of this
week at the Illinois Athletic Club, 112 South Michi-
gan avenue, Chicago. The drive for membership
brought in seven new members, as follows:
Egbert Van Alstine, composer for J. H. Remick
& Co., song publishers; A. U. Nordland, Chicago
manager at 227 North Michigan avenue for the Bohn
Refrigerator Co., of St. Paul, Minn.; D. C. Smith, of
the R. B. Rose Co., Inc., 323 West Polk street,
Chicago; Maurice Blink, advertising, of the Com-
mercial Art Engraving Co., 440 South Dearborn
street, Chicago; Roger Pratt, salesman for Bruns-
wick-Balke-Collender Co., 623 South Wabash avenue,
Chicago; William S. Hatten, president of William S.
Hatten Co., varnishes, 167 North May street, Chi-
cago; Ernest A. Hart man, manager of Conn Chicago
Company, 62 East Van Buren street, Chicago.
The Lions' Club Quartette sang some choice selec-
tions and by special request the "Lions' Roar" song.
The members of this line musical organization con-
sist of Edward MacCready, Dr. E. C. Jackman,
Ernest A. Hartman and Earl Sutton. Maurice Blink
is manager. Edward Benedict, of the W. W. Kim-
ball Company, played the accompaniments.
E. F. Lapham, of the piano club, said after the
singing that he had been listening to quartettes for
forty years and he must declare that this was the
best balanced male quartette he had ever listened to.
Among the visitors at the luncheon were Band-
master Grable, Mr. Schaubel, of Brunswick-Balke-
Collender Co., and several others.
The meeting was saddened by the announcement
of the death of Walter Lund, well-known wholesale
piano man. An account of his death appears in an-
other part of this issue.
GREAT RETAIL HOUSES
BOOMING ZENITH RADIO
Ten-Tube Machine Is Highly Recommended
and Makers Issue a Challenge to
Others.
Zenith Radio, under the efficient management of
Paul B. Klugh, is forging ahead rapidly. Particu-
larly among leading music houses throughout the
country it is self-evident in the manner in which they
are advertising the Zenith in their business that this
radio is a ready seller and a most desirable agency.
Several important big houses are making Zenith
sales the event of the holiday selling season. Of
these a conspicuous example is seen in a full-page
advertisement in Chicago dailies by Steger & Sons
Piano Mfg. Co., telling of the advantages of the ten-tube
radio receiver, of the uncanny power and selectivity
of the machine and ending with a challenge signed
Zenith Radio Corporation as follows:
"W r e challenge any other make of radio whatso-
ever, regardless of price, to equal the performance of
our new ten-tube All-Electric in quality or quantity
of tone; selectivity; sensitivity; distance; ease of
operation; precision of manufacture or general all-
round performance."
"It is conspicuously evident that the Zenith is be-
coming a great favorite with music merchants and
with a class of music merchants who heretofore have
been rather aloof about getting in contact with radio
for fear of having trouble in the operating and effec-
tiveness of the machines.
JOINS HOBART M. CABLE.
CORRIDOR IN STUDIO BUILDING.
VALUABLE SUGGESTIONS FOR
SHOW WINDOW DISPLAYS
The Gulbransen Company, Chicago, Issues Sheet of
Pictures of Attractive Displays.
The Gulbransen Co., Chicago, has issued a sheet of
pictures illustrating window displays which have been
made by music dealers in many places. The sugges-
tions in the pictures are valuable to the trade.
Gulbransen pianos and the Gulbransen Baby are
used to good purpose in many of the displays and
their possibilities for window displays are clearly in-
dicated. Among the progressive music houses who
made the displays illustrated are the following:
Koveck Studios, Bennington, Vt.; Simonson Piano
Co., Chicago; Emerson Piano House, Decatur, 111.;
Hardy Music Co., Bay City, Mich.; Winegar Furni-
ture Co., Grand Rapids, Mich.; Thearle Music Co.,
San Diego, Calif.; El Paso Piano Co., El Paso, Tex.;
and the Young & Chaffee Music Co., Grand Rapids,
Mich.
The Houlette Music Co. has opened a fine store
at 622-24 Pine avenue, Long Beach, Cal. Calvin J.
Houlette, widely known in Long Beach music circles,
is the owner of the new music firm.
Tower O. Askerlund of Denver, Colo., has joined
the sales division of The Hobart M. Cable Company,
La Porte, Ind., and will represent the company in
the states of Colorado, Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma,
Louisiana and Texas. Mr. Askerlund has for the
past eight years been associated with the Q R S
Company, covering this same field, and his many
friends will be glad to welcome him when he calls
upon them as a ambassador of the Blue Ribbon Line.
JACQUES HERRBURGER SAILS.
Jacques Herrburger, Paris, head of the manufac-
turing firm which produces the Herrburger-Schwan-
der actions, who is at present in the United States,
will sail for home this week.
Platt Music Co., Los Angeles, is making plans to
open a new branch on South Broadway, between
Eighth and Tenth streets.
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PRESTO-TIMES
NEW KNABE STUDIOS, KANSAS CITY
NEW MEMBERS JOIN
PIANO CLUB OF CHICAGO
Lively Organization Representing Varied In-
terests of Big City Had One of Its
Characteristic Meetings.
THE KNABE STUDIOS, KANSAS CITY, MO.
The accompanying cuts show exterior and interior
views of the new home of the Knabe Studios, Kansas
City, Mo. The building is in the Kansas City Club
Plaza, Forty-seventh street, at Broadway, and im-
presses with its distinctive Spanish lines of architec-
ture and the decorative scheme. The furnishings to
follow the Spanish treatment.
On the second floor are nine musical studios sur-
rounding a central recital hall, all remarkable for
their beauty and spaciousness. David Parsil and Paul
Nederman, who planned the new structure, are suc-
cessful Knabe dealers who anticipate a great increase
of business in the new home.
The Piano Club of Chicago held a very interesting
session at the noonday luncheon on Monday of this
week at the Illinois Athletic Club, 112 South Michi-
gan avenue, Chicago. The drive for membership
brought in seven new members, as follows:
Egbert Van Alstine, composer for J. H. Remick
& Co., song publishers; A. U. Nordland, Chicago
manager at 227 North Michigan avenue for the Bohn
Refrigerator Co., of St. Paul, Minn.; D. C. Smith, of
the R. B. Rose Co., Inc., 323 West Polk street,
Chicago; Maurice Blink, advertising, of the Com-
mercial Art Engraving Co., 440 South Dearborn
street, Chicago; Roger Pratt, salesman for Bruns-
wick-Balke-Collender Co., 623 South Wabash avenue,
Chicago; William S. Hatten, president of William S.
Hatten Co., varnishes, 167 North May street, Chi-
cago; Ernest A. Hart man, manager of Conn Chicago
Company, 62 East Van Buren street, Chicago.
The Lions' Club Quartette sang some choice selec-
tions and by special request the "Lions' Roar" song.
The members of this line musical organization con-
sist of Edward MacCready, Dr. E. C. Jackman,
Ernest A. Hartman and Earl Sutton. Maurice Blink
is manager. Edward Benedict, of the W. W. Kim-
ball Company, played the accompaniments.
E. F. Lapham, of the piano club, said after the
singing that he had been listening to quartettes for
forty years and he must declare that this was the
best balanced male quartette he had ever listened to.
Among the visitors at the luncheon were Band-
master Grable, Mr. Schaubel, of Brunswick-Balke-
Collender Co., and several others.
The meeting was saddened by the announcement
of the death of Walter Lund, well-known wholesale
piano man. An account of his death appears in an-
other part of this issue.
GREAT RETAIL HOUSES
BOOMING ZENITH RADIO
Ten-Tube Machine Is Highly Recommended
and Makers Issue a Challenge to
Others.
Zenith Radio, under the efficient management of
Paul B. Klugh, is forging ahead rapidly. Particu-
larly among leading music houses throughout the
country it is self-evident in the manner in which they
are advertising the Zenith in their business that this
radio is a ready seller and a most desirable agency.
Several important big houses are making Zenith
sales the event of the holiday selling season. Of
these a conspicuous example is seen in a full-page
advertisement in Chicago dailies by Steger & Sons
Piano Mfg. Co., telling of the advantages of the ten-tube
radio receiver, of the uncanny power and selectivity
of the machine and ending with a challenge signed
Zenith Radio Corporation as follows:
"W r e challenge any other make of radio whatso-
ever, regardless of price, to equal the performance of
our new ten-tube All-Electric in quality or quantity
of tone; selectivity; sensitivity; distance; ease of
operation; precision of manufacture or general all-
round performance."
"It is conspicuously evident that the Zenith is be-
coming a great favorite with music merchants and
with a class of music merchants who heretofore have
been rather aloof about getting in contact with radio
for fear of having trouble in the operating and effec-
tiveness of the machines.
JOINS HOBART M. CABLE.
CORRIDOR IN STUDIO BUILDING.
VALUABLE SUGGESTIONS FOR
SHOW WINDOW DISPLAYS
The Gulbransen Company, Chicago, Issues Sheet of
Pictures of Attractive Displays.
The Gulbransen Co., Chicago, has issued a sheet of
pictures illustrating window displays which have been
made by music dealers in many places. The sugges-
tions in the pictures are valuable to the trade.
Gulbransen pianos and the Gulbransen Baby are
used to good purpose in many of the displays and
their possibilities for window displays are clearly in-
dicated. Among the progressive music houses who
made the displays illustrated are the following:
Koveck Studios, Bennington, Vt.; Simonson Piano
Co., Chicago; Emerson Piano House, Decatur, 111.;
Hardy Music Co., Bay City, Mich.; Winegar Furni-
ture Co., Grand Rapids, Mich.; Thearle Music Co.,
San Diego, Calif.; El Paso Piano Co., El Paso, Tex.;
and the Young & Chaffee Music Co., Grand Rapids,
Mich.
The Houlette Music Co. has opened a fine store
at 622-24 Pine avenue, Long Beach, Cal. Calvin J.
Houlette, widely known in Long Beach music circles,
is the owner of the new music firm.
Tower O. Askerlund of Denver, Colo., has joined
the sales division of The Hobart M. Cable Company,
La Porte, Ind., and will represent the company in
the states of Colorado, Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma,
Louisiana and Texas. Mr. Askerlund has for the
past eight years been associated with the Q R S
Company, covering this same field, and his many
friends will be glad to welcome him when he calls
upon them as a ambassador of the Blue Ribbon Line.
JACQUES HERRBURGER SAILS.
Jacques Herrburger, Paris, head of the manufac-
turing firm which produces the Herrburger-Schwan-
der actions, who is at present in the United States,
will sail for home this week.
Platt Music Co., Los Angeles, is making plans to
open a new branch on South Broadway, between
Eighth and Tenth streets.
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).