Presto
Issue: 1928 2165 - Page 4
January 28, 1928
PRESTO-TIMES
which contains interesting information concerning the
activities of native and foreign virtuosi.
Allmendinger Music Shop.
For thirteen years the Allmendinger Music Shop,
located at 305 Maynard street, has been conducted as
an Ann Arbor institution.
Founded on January 1, 1915, the music house has
held a distinct place among local concerns of its
nature as conducted by Mr. Allmendinger and, up
until the time of her death in December, by his wife.
The Allmendinger Music Shop handles two well-
known makes of pianos, phonographs and records and
a complete line of music teachers' supplies besides the
regular assortment of musical merchandise.
Schaeberle & Son.
In August, 1896, J. Fred Schaeberle, formerly
head of the music department of Linden Hall Semi-
nary, Lititz, Pa., opened a music store in Ann Arbor
at 114 West Liberty street. Nine years later he took
his son Ernest as partner and from that time the
establishment has been known as Schaeberle & Son
Music House.
The senior member of the firm retired from active
partnership in the business March 12, 1915. His
son, E. A. Schaeberle, has continued the business un-
der the same name. He offers Mehlin, Henry F.
Miller, Gulbransen and Schiller pianos, and carries a
complete line of orthophonic Victrolas, radiolas and
a general line of all small instruments and music.
The Grinnell Branch.
Confident in the future of Ann Arbor, the firm of
Grinnell Bros, eighteen years ago established a music
store there. Proof that this faith w T as well justified is
found in the statement of E. C. Whipple, manager of
the local branch, who said last week: "A most suc-
cessful year has just closed and it is my opinion that
192? will be an even more successful one both for
us and for all lines of business in Ann Arbor."
The Ann Arbor store is one of the largest and most
successful of the Grinnell branches, according to Mf.
Whipple. It has grown rapidly in size and personnel,
the consistent gains being attributed by the manager
to a sincere desire to meet all needs of music lovers
in this section.
The Original Small Piano
Made and marketed by specialists in small
pianos. Valuable territory still open.
Write for our: effective sales plan.
THE UTTLE- PIANO WITH THE BIG TONE M
MIESSNER PIANO COMPANY
126 Reed St .
Milwaukee, Wis.
STRICH & ZEIDLER, Inc.
SUPREMACY
THE SUPREMACY OF QUALITY
W e s s e l l ,
N i c k e l
&
G r o s s
Piano Action
HAS NEVER BEEN SERIOUSLY CHALLENGED. TODAY, AS
ALWAYS, IT IS THE MOST COSTLY ACTION TO BUILD BECAUSE
ITS MANUFACTURE INVOLVES STANDARDS OF MATERIALS
AND WORKMANSHIP UNEQUALLED IN THE PIANO ACTION
FIELD.
FOR MORE THAN A HALF-CENTURY
" The Standard of the World"
WESSELL, NICKEL & GROSS IS HELPING BOTH DEALER AND
MANUFACTURER SELL MORE PIANOS.
IT IS RENDERING THIS
ASSISTANCE THROUGH A COMPREHENSIVE
NATIONAL ADVERTISING.
CAMPAIGN OF
THIS ADVERTISING
IS TELLING
PROSPECTIVE PIANO BUYERS ALL OVER THE UNITED STATES
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE PIANO ACTION.
WESSELL, NICKEL
& GROSS ADVERTISEMENTS ENTER 2,400,000 HOMES EACH AND
EVERY MONTH OF THE YEAR.
THIS CIRCULATION
REPRE-
SENTS A TOTAL OF 12,000,000 READERS MONTHLY.
WESSELL, NICKEL & GROSS
Established 1874
NEW YORK CITY
The reproduction of an advertisement is an appropriate illustration for this comment of
Wessell, Nickel & Gross activity. The ad impresses the character of supremacy which is asso-
ciated with the widely known piano action manufacturers and in that way epitomizes the pur-
poses and performances of a progressive industry.
Supremacy in relation to Wessell, Nickel & Gross involves the possession of the great es-
sentials in manufacturing satisfactory products—the finest materials and the most efficient
workmanship. These essentials in Wessell, Nickel & Gross actions have been marks of
worthiness for more than fifty years.
In this day of keen interest in the means toward piano promotion, the qualities of the
Wessell, Nickel & Gross action may aptly be pointed out. Certainly the piano action acknowl-
edged as "The Standard of the World" has established itself as a piano sales promoter of great
potentiality. The statement in the ad that Wessell, Nickel & Gross actions help both manufac-
turers and dealers to sell more pianos is one of the incontrovertible facts in the trade.
And the famous action-making industry helps the piano sales by the comprehensive cam-
paign of national advertising for its products. Anything that makes for musical worth in pianos
is an aid to their sale. And the qualities of tone which provide the artistic features in pianos are
notably associated with the Wessell, Nickel & Gross actions.
GRAND, UPRIGHT and PLAYER
AND
HOMER PIANOS
740-742 East 136th Street
NEW YORK
BRINKERHOFF
Grands - Reproducing Grands
Player-Pianos
and Pianos
The Line That Sells Easily
and Satisfies Always
BRINKERHOFF PIANO CO.
711 Milwaukee Ave., CHICAGO, I L ^
C. KURTZMAN PIANO CO.
HAS 173 LIVE AGENCIES
President H. C. Rice Pleased that Kurtzmann Pianos
Are So Well Represented.
Sitting in his office on Niagara street, Buffalo,
N. Y., on Wednesday afternoon, H. C. Rice, presi-
dent of C. Kurtzmann & Co., told a Presto-Times
caller of the safety and surety of that company's
business, with 173 live agencies in the United States,
all hustling for and selling Kurtzmann pianos.
He recounted from memory nearly every city of
importance in America where these fine instruments
are sold. Mr. Rice sees no dark clouds looming up
on the horizon of prospective piano trade for 1928
SHERMAN, CLAY & CO.
BUY WILEY B. ALLEN STORE
separate and independent corporation, and is not af-
fected by the deal at San Francisco and Northern
California."
The formal opening of the Platt Music Co.'s new
Downtown Home, 832 South Broadway, Los Ange-
les, on the 27th, promises to be an important event
in music and commercial circles. Among those who
have signified an intention to be present is John H.
Parnham, president of the Cable-Nelson Piano Co.,
Chicago, who will be accompanied by Mrs. Parnham.
E. R. Jacobson, president of the Straube Piano Co.,
Hammond, Ind., who had expected to be at the
opening ceremonies, telegraphed today his inability
to go, owing to his presence being required at the
meeting of the Chamber executive in New York
this week.
BRETON.
The Price Music Company of Centralia, Wash.,
has epened a branch music store with the Wheeler
Radio Service, at 908 Water street, South Bend,
Wash., in charge of L. A. Hart.
All the Northern California Interests of the Latter
Said to Be Included in Deal.
We wish to tell you of the great usefulness of
A wire from our correspondent at Los Angeles, the Ampico in the department of music at Prince-
Calif., reads as follows:
ton ivhere we use the instrument for our series of
Los Angeles, Jan. 26, 1923.—Sherman, Clay &
lectures
on "The History and Appreciation of
Co, Steinway representatives for large territory on
the Pacific Coast, acquire today the Wiley B. Allen Music." This series has been unusually success-
Co., taking the store, fixtures and probably the Mason ful this year and the Ampico proves an invaluable
& Hamlin agencies in San Francisco and Northern
California stores and branches of the Wiley B. Allen help.—Prof. Alexander Russell, Director of Mu-
Co. The Los Angeles house of Wiley B. Allen is a sic at Princeton University.
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PRESTO-TIMES
which contains interesting information concerning the
activities of native and foreign virtuosi.
Allmendinger Music Shop.
For thirteen years the Allmendinger Music Shop,
located at 305 Maynard street, has been conducted as
an Ann Arbor institution.
Founded on January 1, 1915, the music house has
held a distinct place among local concerns of its
nature as conducted by Mr. Allmendinger and, up
until the time of her death in December, by his wife.
The Allmendinger Music Shop handles two well-
known makes of pianos, phonographs and records and
a complete line of music teachers' supplies besides the
regular assortment of musical merchandise.
Schaeberle & Son.
In August, 1896, J. Fred Schaeberle, formerly
head of the music department of Linden Hall Semi-
nary, Lititz, Pa., opened a music store in Ann Arbor
at 114 West Liberty street. Nine years later he took
his son Ernest as partner and from that time the
establishment has been known as Schaeberle & Son
Music House.
The senior member of the firm retired from active
partnership in the business March 12, 1915. His
son, E. A. Schaeberle, has continued the business un-
der the same name. He offers Mehlin, Henry F.
Miller, Gulbransen and Schiller pianos, and carries a
complete line of orthophonic Victrolas, radiolas and
a general line of all small instruments and music.
The Grinnell Branch.
Confident in the future of Ann Arbor, the firm of
Grinnell Bros, eighteen years ago established a music
store there. Proof that this faith w T as well justified is
found in the statement of E. C. Whipple, manager of
the local branch, who said last week: "A most suc-
cessful year has just closed and it is my opinion that
192? will be an even more successful one both for
us and for all lines of business in Ann Arbor."
The Ann Arbor store is one of the largest and most
successful of the Grinnell branches, according to Mf.
Whipple. It has grown rapidly in size and personnel,
the consistent gains being attributed by the manager
to a sincere desire to meet all needs of music lovers
in this section.
The Original Small Piano
Made and marketed by specialists in small
pianos. Valuable territory still open.
Write for our: effective sales plan.
THE UTTLE- PIANO WITH THE BIG TONE M
MIESSNER PIANO COMPANY
126 Reed St .
Milwaukee, Wis.
STRICH & ZEIDLER, Inc.
SUPREMACY
THE SUPREMACY OF QUALITY
W e s s e l l ,
N i c k e l
&
G r o s s
Piano Action
HAS NEVER BEEN SERIOUSLY CHALLENGED. TODAY, AS
ALWAYS, IT IS THE MOST COSTLY ACTION TO BUILD BECAUSE
ITS MANUFACTURE INVOLVES STANDARDS OF MATERIALS
AND WORKMANSHIP UNEQUALLED IN THE PIANO ACTION
FIELD.
FOR MORE THAN A HALF-CENTURY
" The Standard of the World"
WESSELL, NICKEL & GROSS IS HELPING BOTH DEALER AND
MANUFACTURER SELL MORE PIANOS.
IT IS RENDERING THIS
ASSISTANCE THROUGH A COMPREHENSIVE
NATIONAL ADVERTISING.
CAMPAIGN OF
THIS ADVERTISING
IS TELLING
PROSPECTIVE PIANO BUYERS ALL OVER THE UNITED STATES
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE PIANO ACTION.
WESSELL, NICKEL
& GROSS ADVERTISEMENTS ENTER 2,400,000 HOMES EACH AND
EVERY MONTH OF THE YEAR.
THIS CIRCULATION
REPRE-
SENTS A TOTAL OF 12,000,000 READERS MONTHLY.
WESSELL, NICKEL & GROSS
Established 1874
NEW YORK CITY
The reproduction of an advertisement is an appropriate illustration for this comment of
Wessell, Nickel & Gross activity. The ad impresses the character of supremacy which is asso-
ciated with the widely known piano action manufacturers and in that way epitomizes the pur-
poses and performances of a progressive industry.
Supremacy in relation to Wessell, Nickel & Gross involves the possession of the great es-
sentials in manufacturing satisfactory products—the finest materials and the most efficient
workmanship. These essentials in Wessell, Nickel & Gross actions have been marks of
worthiness for more than fifty years.
In this day of keen interest in the means toward piano promotion, the qualities of the
Wessell, Nickel & Gross action may aptly be pointed out. Certainly the piano action acknowl-
edged as "The Standard of the World" has established itself as a piano sales promoter of great
potentiality. The statement in the ad that Wessell, Nickel & Gross actions help both manufac-
turers and dealers to sell more pianos is one of the incontrovertible facts in the trade.
And the famous action-making industry helps the piano sales by the comprehensive cam-
paign of national advertising for its products. Anything that makes for musical worth in pianos
is an aid to their sale. And the qualities of tone which provide the artistic features in pianos are
notably associated with the Wessell, Nickel & Gross actions.
GRAND, UPRIGHT and PLAYER
AND
HOMER PIANOS
740-742 East 136th Street
NEW YORK
BRINKERHOFF
Grands - Reproducing Grands
Player-Pianos
and Pianos
The Line That Sells Easily
and Satisfies Always
BRINKERHOFF PIANO CO.
711 Milwaukee Ave., CHICAGO, I L ^
C. KURTZMAN PIANO CO.
HAS 173 LIVE AGENCIES
President H. C. Rice Pleased that Kurtzmann Pianos
Are So Well Represented.
Sitting in his office on Niagara street, Buffalo,
N. Y., on Wednesday afternoon, H. C. Rice, presi-
dent of C. Kurtzmann & Co., told a Presto-Times
caller of the safety and surety of that company's
business, with 173 live agencies in the United States,
all hustling for and selling Kurtzmann pianos.
He recounted from memory nearly every city of
importance in America where these fine instruments
are sold. Mr. Rice sees no dark clouds looming up
on the horizon of prospective piano trade for 1928
SHERMAN, CLAY & CO.
BUY WILEY B. ALLEN STORE
separate and independent corporation, and is not af-
fected by the deal at San Francisco and Northern
California."
The formal opening of the Platt Music Co.'s new
Downtown Home, 832 South Broadway, Los Ange-
les, on the 27th, promises to be an important event
in music and commercial circles. Among those who
have signified an intention to be present is John H.
Parnham, president of the Cable-Nelson Piano Co.,
Chicago, who will be accompanied by Mrs. Parnham.
E. R. Jacobson, president of the Straube Piano Co.,
Hammond, Ind., who had expected to be at the
opening ceremonies, telegraphed today his inability
to go, owing to his presence being required at the
meeting of the Chamber executive in New York
this week.
BRETON.
The Price Music Company of Centralia, Wash.,
has epened a branch music store with the Wheeler
Radio Service, at 908 Water street, South Bend,
Wash., in charge of L. A. Hart.
All the Northern California Interests of the Latter
Said to Be Included in Deal.
We wish to tell you of the great usefulness of
A wire from our correspondent at Los Angeles, the Ampico in the department of music at Prince-
Calif., reads as follows:
ton ivhere we use the instrument for our series of
Los Angeles, Jan. 26, 1923.—Sherman, Clay &
lectures
on "The History and Appreciation of
Co, Steinway representatives for large territory on
the Pacific Coast, acquire today the Wiley B. Allen Music." This series has been unusually success-
Co., taking the store, fixtures and probably the Mason ful this year and the Ampico proves an invaluable
& Hamlin agencies in San Francisco and Northern
California stores and branches of the Wiley B. Allen help.—Prof. Alexander Russell, Director of Mu-
Co. The Los Angeles house of Wiley B. Allen is a sic at Princeton University.
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).