Presto
Issue: 1928 2175 - Page 6
April 7, 1928
PRESTO-TIMES
ing to return soon, and if Mr. Christena's condition
will permit there will be a final decision. In fact,
as the matter rests at present, it will be the only
logical representation in. the city.
Alfred Rapp of the firm of Rapp & Lennox said
on Monday that his company was going to make
other arrangements, and within the next thirty days
other pianos would replace the former lines handled
by the company. Just what lines would be repre-
sented by them will not be made known at this time,
and within the next month the entire stock of the
American Piano Company's line would be disposed
of and the new line announced, with some interest-
ing changes in the sales force and other units of the
firm. During the interview with Mr. Rapp he said:
"At first we were undecided just what to do, but
eighteen years in the business, we believe we can
continue entirely to our advantage with other lines.
Of course, we expect to have a very high grade piano
as our leader, and several others of medium grade
will be carried. We have been offered some of the
instruments that are not now in Indianapolis, in fact,
that have been sold here for some years, and there
is no doubt but that we will accept at least two of
these makes."
Regardless of what happens, there will be a dif-
ferent picture presented in Indianapolis after the
present upheaval, with new instruments in places of
the old, and some of the old instruments passing
from the picture. A number of fine old pianos are
named as entirely fitted to fill in as leaders, all of
which are known in a greater or lesser degree in
Indianapolis, such as the Henry F. Miller, Hardman,
Sohmer, Baldwin, Kranich & Bach and others of
high standing.
ters in Portland, gave a splendid and forceful talk and
spoke of the conditions in the Pacific northwest and
said he hoped that the members would all get in and
help make the association helpful.
Mr. and Mrs. John H. Dundore, Jr., are being
congratulated by their friends upon the arrival at
their home of a daughter. Mr. Dundore, "Jack," is
in business with his father, J. H. Dundore, the Port-
land, Ore., representative of the Haddorff piano.
NEW PATENT FOR THE
STRAUBE PIANO COMPANY
Company at Hammond, Ind., Just Been Notified of
Patent for Laminal U-Type Construction Post.
The Straube Piano^Co., Hammond, Ind., has just
been advised by the patent office at Washington that
a patent has been granted to the company covering
laminal U-type post construction for grand pianos as
SIDNEY JOHNSON
HEADS OREGON ASSN.
THE LATEST JESSE
FRENCH PRODUCTIONS
The Ackerman & Lowe Piano Co., Inc., New
Castle, Ind., is enjoying a great favor for its pianos.
Speaking this week, E. P. Conduitt, secretary of the
company, said:
"Just yesterday one of our dealers from a nearby
town called and completed a transaction for a special
hi-lighted walnut piano, style 501, for delivery to a
customer on whom he had been working for over a
year. He had been unable to close the deal until
the customer saw the Ackerman & Lowe.
"This dealer also stated he had just gotten hold of
a prospect for an electric grand as a result of a
straight grand sold to a relative some time ago. Yes-
terday we received an order for two playerpianos
from Venezuela as a follow-up to a sample order
shipped some months ago. We also had the pleasure
of shipping a sample order to Peru and made our
second shipment following a sample order to a dealer
in Porto Kico handling the Marionola Phonographs.
"Taking it all together, we are pleased with the
amount of business that has been coming our way
and we anticipate it will be a great deal better from
now on."
The Leading and Most Popular
Pianos and Players
Grands, Players, Uprights and
Reproducing Pianos
The Results of Over Forty Years'
of Experience.
shown in the above photograph. The importance of
laminal construction is its ability to protect and main-
tain rigidity which is very essential in a grand piano.
This laminated construction is used in every Straube
grand, the design being somewhat changed to meet
the requirements occasioned by various sizes of
Straube grand pianos. The unusual and improved
type of post construction used by Straube Piano Co.
is well known by Straube merchants, as is also the
unique type of laminated key bed construction indi-
cated by the above photograph.
MAKING LOS ANGELES
PAGEANT A SUCCESS
E. H. Uhl, President of the Western Music
Trades Association, Very Active in Pro-
motional Work for Great Svent.
In the opinion of E. H. Uhl, president of the
Western Music Trades Association and president of
the Southern California Music Company, the Pageant
of Music and Exposition, to be held June 18 to 30
in the Ambassador Auditorium, will have a far-reach-
ing and beneficial effect. Its influence not only will
spread throughout California and Arizona, he de-
clared.
The show throughout is under the management
of Waldo T. Tupper, appointed by Mr. Uhl, and
William W. Richardson, who is president of the Music
Trades Association of Southern California. Mr. Tup-
per is a thoroughly skilled trade exposition expert,
under whose guidance the annual Los Angeles radio
show has become one of the outstanding radio expo-
sitions of this country.
A contest to select a Southern California girl to
visit foreign countries on a four months' world tour
to promulgate the musical progress of Southern Cali-
fornia is well under way. Hundreds of girls are regis-
tered for the contest, and each will act as a builder
of attendance for the music show.
WILL H. COLLINS WITH LYON &
HEALY.
FOLLOW THE TRADITION OF
UNQUESTIONABLE QUALITY
Home Trade Excellent and Good Orders from
South America and Porto Rico Show
Popularity of Line There.
KREITER
Other Officers Elected for Ensuing Term at
Record Meeting at the Elks Club—Asso-
ciation Is Prosperous.
The Oregon Music Trades Association held its
annual election of officers at a meeting at the Elks
Club, Portland, Ore., recently, at which time Sidney
Johnson, manager of the Portland, Ore., branch of
Sherman, Clay & Co., was elected president, vice
G. F. Johnson, who has held the position for the
past three years. E. B. Hyatt of the Hyatt Music
Company was elected vice-president, and J. J. Col-
lins of Collins & Erwin, the Upstairs Piano Co., was
reelected secretary-treasurer, to serve without bonds.
Mr. Collins read his annual report which showed
the association in a very healthy financial condition.
Mr. Johnson, following his election, made an excellent
address to the assembled members, assuring them of
monthly meetings and expressed great confidence in
the future of the music industry in Oregon, and an-
nounced that the regular committees to look after the
various interests of the association would be appointed
immediately.
A. R. McKinley, Pacific Northwest manager of the
Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company, with headquar-
ACKERMAN & LOWE, INC.,
REPORTS GOOD BUSINESS
Wiil H. Collins has joined the sales forces in the
piano department of Lyon & Healy, Chicago and is
receiving the greetings of his friends on his reappear-
ance in the section of the big music store for which
he was active for many years.
Kreiter Pianos Cover the Entire Line
and no Piano Dealer who trie* these in-
struments would supplant them by any
others. A trial will convince.
Kreiter Mfg. Co., Inc.
310-312 W. Water St., Milwaukee, Wis.
Factory: Marinette, Wis.
E. Leins Piano Co.
Makera 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
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.
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PRESTO-TIMES
ing to return soon, and if Mr. Christena's condition
will permit there will be a final decision. In fact,
as the matter rests at present, it will be the only
logical representation in. the city.
Alfred Rapp of the firm of Rapp & Lennox said
on Monday that his company was going to make
other arrangements, and within the next thirty days
other pianos would replace the former lines handled
by the company. Just what lines would be repre-
sented by them will not be made known at this time,
and within the next month the entire stock of the
American Piano Company's line would be disposed
of and the new line announced, with some interest-
ing changes in the sales force and other units of the
firm. During the interview with Mr. Rapp he said:
"At first we were undecided just what to do, but
eighteen years in the business, we believe we can
continue entirely to our advantage with other lines.
Of course, we expect to have a very high grade piano
as our leader, and several others of medium grade
will be carried. We have been offered some of the
instruments that are not now in Indianapolis, in fact,
that have been sold here for some years, and there
is no doubt but that we will accept at least two of
these makes."
Regardless of what happens, there will be a dif-
ferent picture presented in Indianapolis after the
present upheaval, with new instruments in places of
the old, and some of the old instruments passing
from the picture. A number of fine old pianos are
named as entirely fitted to fill in as leaders, all of
which are known in a greater or lesser degree in
Indianapolis, such as the Henry F. Miller, Hardman,
Sohmer, Baldwin, Kranich & Bach and others of
high standing.
ters in Portland, gave a splendid and forceful talk and
spoke of the conditions in the Pacific northwest and
said he hoped that the members would all get in and
help make the association helpful.
Mr. and Mrs. John H. Dundore, Jr., are being
congratulated by their friends upon the arrival at
their home of a daughter. Mr. Dundore, "Jack," is
in business with his father, J. H. Dundore, the Port-
land, Ore., representative of the Haddorff piano.
NEW PATENT FOR THE
STRAUBE PIANO COMPANY
Company at Hammond, Ind., Just Been Notified of
Patent for Laminal U-Type Construction Post.
The Straube Piano^Co., Hammond, Ind., has just
been advised by the patent office at Washington that
a patent has been granted to the company covering
laminal U-type post construction for grand pianos as
SIDNEY JOHNSON
HEADS OREGON ASSN.
THE LATEST JESSE
FRENCH PRODUCTIONS
The Ackerman & Lowe Piano Co., Inc., New
Castle, Ind., is enjoying a great favor for its pianos.
Speaking this week, E. P. Conduitt, secretary of the
company, said:
"Just yesterday one of our dealers from a nearby
town called and completed a transaction for a special
hi-lighted walnut piano, style 501, for delivery to a
customer on whom he had been working for over a
year. He had been unable to close the deal until
the customer saw the Ackerman & Lowe.
"This dealer also stated he had just gotten hold of
a prospect for an electric grand as a result of a
straight grand sold to a relative some time ago. Yes-
terday we received an order for two playerpianos
from Venezuela as a follow-up to a sample order
shipped some months ago. We also had the pleasure
of shipping a sample order to Peru and made our
second shipment following a sample order to a dealer
in Porto Kico handling the Marionola Phonographs.
"Taking it all together, we are pleased with the
amount of business that has been coming our way
and we anticipate it will be a great deal better from
now on."
The Leading and Most Popular
Pianos and Players
Grands, Players, Uprights and
Reproducing Pianos
The Results of Over Forty Years'
of Experience.
shown in the above photograph. The importance of
laminal construction is its ability to protect and main-
tain rigidity which is very essential in a grand piano.
This laminated construction is used in every Straube
grand, the design being somewhat changed to meet
the requirements occasioned by various sizes of
Straube grand pianos. The unusual and improved
type of post construction used by Straube Piano Co.
is well known by Straube merchants, as is also the
unique type of laminated key bed construction indi-
cated by the above photograph.
MAKING LOS ANGELES
PAGEANT A SUCCESS
E. H. Uhl, President of the Western Music
Trades Association, Very Active in Pro-
motional Work for Great Svent.
In the opinion of E. H. Uhl, president of the
Western Music Trades Association and president of
the Southern California Music Company, the Pageant
of Music and Exposition, to be held June 18 to 30
in the Ambassador Auditorium, will have a far-reach-
ing and beneficial effect. Its influence not only will
spread throughout California and Arizona, he de-
clared.
The show throughout is under the management
of Waldo T. Tupper, appointed by Mr. Uhl, and
William W. Richardson, who is president of the Music
Trades Association of Southern California. Mr. Tup-
per is a thoroughly skilled trade exposition expert,
under whose guidance the annual Los Angeles radio
show has become one of the outstanding radio expo-
sitions of this country.
A contest to select a Southern California girl to
visit foreign countries on a four months' world tour
to promulgate the musical progress of Southern Cali-
fornia is well under way. Hundreds of girls are regis-
tered for the contest, and each will act as a builder
of attendance for the music show.
WILL H. COLLINS WITH LYON &
HEALY.
FOLLOW THE TRADITION OF
UNQUESTIONABLE QUALITY
Home Trade Excellent and Good Orders from
South America and Porto Rico Show
Popularity of Line There.
KREITER
Other Officers Elected for Ensuing Term at
Record Meeting at the Elks Club—Asso-
ciation Is Prosperous.
The Oregon Music Trades Association held its
annual election of officers at a meeting at the Elks
Club, Portland, Ore., recently, at which time Sidney
Johnson, manager of the Portland, Ore., branch of
Sherman, Clay & Co., was elected president, vice
G. F. Johnson, who has held the position for the
past three years. E. B. Hyatt of the Hyatt Music
Company was elected vice-president, and J. J. Col-
lins of Collins & Erwin, the Upstairs Piano Co., was
reelected secretary-treasurer, to serve without bonds.
Mr. Collins read his annual report which showed
the association in a very healthy financial condition.
Mr. Johnson, following his election, made an excellent
address to the assembled members, assuring them of
monthly meetings and expressed great confidence in
the future of the music industry in Oregon, and an-
nounced that the regular committees to look after the
various interests of the association would be appointed
immediately.
A. R. McKinley, Pacific Northwest manager of the
Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company, with headquar-
ACKERMAN & LOWE, INC.,
REPORTS GOOD BUSINESS
Wiil H. Collins has joined the sales forces in the
piano department of Lyon & Healy, Chicago and is
receiving the greetings of his friends on his reappear-
ance in the section of the big music store for which
he was active for many years.
Kreiter Pianos Cover the Entire Line
and no Piano Dealer who trie* these in-
struments would supplant them by any
others. A trial will convince.
Kreiter Mfg. Co., Inc.
310-312 W. Water St., Milwaukee, Wis.
Factory: Marinette, Wis.
E. Leins Piano Co.
Makera 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
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.
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).
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