Presto
Issue: 1928 2176 - Page 10
10
April 14, 1928
PRESTO-TIMES
INDIANAPOLIS PREPARES
FOR BIG CELEBRATION
Music Merchants' Association There Plan
Music Week Events—Piano Displays at
Show—Other Music Trade News.
Announcement was made by H. G. Hook, president
of the Indianapolis Music Merchants' Association, that
preparations are being made, and committees have
been appointed for National Music Week activities.
The committees are: H. G. Hook, general chairman;
Bert Saring, chairman of committees; J. B. Ryde,
chairman of public school and noon concert commit-
tee; C. V. Herdman and Frank Davis, chairmen of
the theater program; William Christena, chairman of
women's clubs committee; H. J. Jenkins, chairman of
radio committee, Ira Williams, chairman of church
committee. The program is well under way and co-
operation from the local newspapers has been guaran-
teed.
Home Show Displays.
The Pearson Piano Company has arranged a very
attractive display at the Realtors Home Show, now
being held in the manufacturers building at the State
Fair grounds. In the midst of attractive surround-
ings, the Steinway & Sons, Weber Duo-Art and
Everett pianos are being displayed. The Baldwin
Piano Company have a very attractive display at the
exhibition where some of the very finest styles of
Baldwin, Ellington and Howard instruments are on
display.
Kingsbury Chosen.
The Carlin Music Company was very fortunate
during the past week in placing one of the Kingsbury
Spanish Renaissance instruments, in a newly con-
structed Spanish style home. Competition from every
dealer in the city entered into the deal, but the Kings-
bury piano was finally decided on.
Frank Carlin reports an unusual demand for used
instruments; it is brought about by the way the com-
pany rebuild these pianos, and the method has proven
very profitable. Every instrument that comes into
the store is thoroughly overhauled and put in good
condition before it is offered for sale.
Signs of Spring.
The Wilking Music Company has just comp'eted
its annual spring house cleaning, and its warerooms
have taken on clean atmosphere. Mr. Wilking an-
nounces the arrival of the new Wurlitzer upright
style 825. which is a medium size piano for which
there is an excellent demand at present. Wlliiam
1>. Morrison, formerly with the Rapp & Lennox Com-
pany, has joined the Wilking sales force and has been
quite successful, it is reported.
Rapp & Lennox are busy cleaning up the remains of
its stock of Knabe, J. & C. Fischer and other in-
struments on hand, and preparing for a new line
which will be announced very soon.
Mr. J. Schi'ler of the Lester Piano Company of
Philadelphia was a visitor in Indianapolis during the
past week, and called on the Pearson Piano Com-
pany, local representatives for the Lester Piano in
Indianapolis.
LETTER TO WILL COLLINS
RECALLS ARMAND CRABBE
the Chicago Civic Opera Company. He used to come
often with his friends in the trade to the piano lunch-
eons, generally in company with Will 11. Collins. Mr.
Collins has kept up a correspondence with Mr. Crabbe
ever since he left Chicago.
Last week he received an interesting letter from
the singer written from Nice, where he had been
filling engagements with a Spanish opera company.
Mr. Crabbe has now returned to his home at Paris
and is preparing for an extensive tour of South
America, the West Tndies and Mexico, as leading
baritone oi a French-Spanish opera company. In
fact, it is announced from Paris that this organiza-
tion is already en route to its destination in the
Antilles. M. Crabbe started work early in life as a
workman in a piano factory at Brussels. Belgium,
lie met with an accident in which he broke an arm,
which unfitted him for duties as tuner and regulator,
whereupon he took up seriously the study of music,
joined an opera company in London and has reaped
tame and fortune in his chosen profession.
Kreiter Mfg. Co., Inc.
Grands - Reproducing Grands
Player-Pianos
and Pianos
The Line That Sells Easily
and Satisfies Always
BRINKERHOFF PIANO CO.
711 Milwaukee Ave., CHICAGO, ILL.
EDWIN WEICKERT PLANS
TRIP TO UNITED STATES
Member of Leipzig Firm Which Makes
Famous Line cf Piano Felts Will Be
Here fcr Convention.
Edwin Weickert of
L e i p z i g , Germany, is
planning another trip
to America and will ar-
rive late in April and
avail himself of an op-
portunity to visit the
entire piano trade prior
to the conventions to be
held in June at the Ho-
tel Commodore, X e w
York.
Mr. Weickert is a son
of Fritz Weickert, well
known to many in the
industry, and a grand-
son of Otto Weickert,
senior member and still
active head of the felt
manufacturing firm of
KDWIN WKICKKRT.
.1. D. Weickert. makers
ot the world-renowned
extensive line of Hammer and Damper Felts.
Mr. Weickert will make his headquarters with
Philip W. Oetting & Son, Inc., 213 East 19th street.
New York, American agents for J. D. Weickert.
Accompanying Mr. Weickert on his pre-convention
trip to many of the chief cities of the United States
will be Mr. betting and William M. Shailer, treasurer
of Philip W. Oetting, Inc. Included in their itinerary
will be Albany, Buffalo, Detroit. Chicago, Milwaukee,
Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Boston and a dozen or
more other piano using and piano manufacturing cen-
ters—a trip of business with the pleasures of the
road at a most inviting season of the year.
R. W. LAWRENCE ENTERTAINS
VISITING ENGLISHMEN
Luncheon at National Republican Club Is Acknowl-
edgment of Hospitality of British Friends
Chicago Piano Men Who Used to Attend Noon
During Recent Trip Abroad.
Luncheon at Stratford Hotel Remember Singer.
Returning the hospitality extended to him during
one of his recent visits to England, Richard W. Law-
Many men in the Chicago music trade who used rence gave a luncheon on Wednesday of this week
to attend the piano mcns' daily luncheons at the at the National Republican Club in honor of Ernest
Stratford Hotel will remember Armand Crabbe, the Marshall, managing director of Sir Herbert Marshall
young Belgian singer, a member in those days of
& Sons, Ltd., London, England, past president of
the British Associated Piano Makers and a member
of the general council of the Foundation of British
Music Industries.
Other guests at the luncheon were Hermann Irion
of Steinway & Sons, president of the Music Industries
Chamber of Commerce; Herbert Simpson, president
Kohler & Campbell, treasurer of the Music Indus-
The Leading and Most Popular
tries Chamber of Commerce; William J. Haussler of
C. Bruno & Son. Inc., director National Bureau for
Pianos and Players
the Advancement of Music; Charles E. Gorham, Am-
Grands, Players, Uprights and
pico Co., Ltd., London. England; Charley Allen of
Reproducing Pianos
I\. R. Preston & Son, chartered accountants, Leices-
ter, England; Charles Jacob, Jacob Brothers, New
The Results of Over Forty Years'
York; Max De Rochemont. treasurer of the Laffarguc
of Experience.
Company, and director of the Music Industries Cham-
ber of Commerce; Edward De Rochemont; Delhert
Kreiter Piano* Cover the Entire Line
and no Piano Dealer who tries these in-
L. Loomis, executive secretary of the National Asso-
strutnents would supplant them by any
ciation of Music Merchants.
others. A trial will convince.
Following the luncheon, there was an informal
discussion of trade subjects. Mr. Marshall took occa-
sion to say that he believed the music merchant and
the manufacturers of musical instruments in England
310-312 W. Water St., Milwaukee, Wis.
have much the same problem to meet as are presented
Factory: Marinette, WIB.
to American members of the trade.
KREITER
BRINKERHOFF
STRICH & ZEIDLER, Inc.
GRAND, UPRIGHT and PLAYER
AND
HOMER PIANOS
740-742 East 136th Street
NEW YORK
Becker Bros.
Manufacturers ot
HIGH GRADE PIANOS
and PLAYER PIANOS
Factory and Warerooim
767-769 Tenth Avenue, New York
Wanted: Young Men!
—to become specialists in a field which will not
only pay them exceptionally well but which
will give them social standing and prominence!
T
O young men looking for such an opportunity we
have an unusyml (itl'.i. Fight now in numberless
cities and towi a in thu Unutd States, 'here is a jtrtat
shortage of piano experts, technicians and tuners.
The few masters there are, are earning Jartre salaries
for tnlr, rvceptionally pleasant work. Their time is
irrNp—'
theirown. Th^y moot the beftpeo-
rKtC
plf and sonn establish a wealthy elien-
„
*el«. We nan fit you for this profession
Send for free book- in . nroximately 12 short weeks' tinsel
•t which tells, all
Now ilon't say you are not a musician!
about our practical Y oa don'i. n-ed to be. In fact. 51) p «
ana thorough ti aln- c e n t o f ( l u r K a , i u l ) t p s n e v e r took a music
i n * course. Sund l es , O n And now thry are earning from
for -t now I
j 2 5 0 t o $BjU a m , , n l H
This is the opportunity you ar- lookimr for. I'ull yourself out
[ the rut. Make a place for yourself Hm.nst the
bostpeoiile. Our complete course, in nurnew #-5,
MPO.OO laboratory fits you for a real paying pro-
fession You can riV it. Others have «'flh n . i W t r r
backing than vim have. Find out the fads anyway.
POLK COLLEGE OF PIANO TUNING
i Building. DapHO
La Port*. Ind.
•oik Oollert >f Piano Tuning, La I'orte. Tnd.
V'lease send me a copy of your free bookle>
like the idea of becoming a professions
tiano expert.
Name.
Artdr,
WILLIAMS
PIANOS
The policy of the Williams House is and always
has been to depend upon excellence of product
instead of alluring price. Such a policy does not
attract bargain hunters. It does, however, win the
hearty approval and support of a very desirable
and substantial patronage.
1A/MIIAHK
Pianos,
WILLIAMS Makers of Williams Ortfans
E p w o r t h PianO9 a n d
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/
April 14, 1928
PRESTO-TIMES
INDIANAPOLIS PREPARES
FOR BIG CELEBRATION
Music Merchants' Association There Plan
Music Week Events—Piano Displays at
Show—Other Music Trade News.
Announcement was made by H. G. Hook, president
of the Indianapolis Music Merchants' Association, that
preparations are being made, and committees have
been appointed for National Music Week activities.
The committees are: H. G. Hook, general chairman;
Bert Saring, chairman of committees; J. B. Ryde,
chairman of public school and noon concert commit-
tee; C. V. Herdman and Frank Davis, chairmen of
the theater program; William Christena, chairman of
women's clubs committee; H. J. Jenkins, chairman of
radio committee, Ira Williams, chairman of church
committee. The program is well under way and co-
operation from the local newspapers has been guaran-
teed.
Home Show Displays.
The Pearson Piano Company has arranged a very
attractive display at the Realtors Home Show, now
being held in the manufacturers building at the State
Fair grounds. In the midst of attractive surround-
ings, the Steinway & Sons, Weber Duo-Art and
Everett pianos are being displayed. The Baldwin
Piano Company have a very attractive display at the
exhibition where some of the very finest styles of
Baldwin, Ellington and Howard instruments are on
display.
Kingsbury Chosen.
The Carlin Music Company was very fortunate
during the past week in placing one of the Kingsbury
Spanish Renaissance instruments, in a newly con-
structed Spanish style home. Competition from every
dealer in the city entered into the deal, but the Kings-
bury piano was finally decided on.
Frank Carlin reports an unusual demand for used
instruments; it is brought about by the way the com-
pany rebuild these pianos, and the method has proven
very profitable. Every instrument that comes into
the store is thoroughly overhauled and put in good
condition before it is offered for sale.
Signs of Spring.
The Wilking Music Company has just comp'eted
its annual spring house cleaning, and its warerooms
have taken on clean atmosphere. Mr. Wilking an-
nounces the arrival of the new Wurlitzer upright
style 825. which is a medium size piano for which
there is an excellent demand at present. Wlliiam
1>. Morrison, formerly with the Rapp & Lennox Com-
pany, has joined the Wilking sales force and has been
quite successful, it is reported.
Rapp & Lennox are busy cleaning up the remains of
its stock of Knabe, J. & C. Fischer and other in-
struments on hand, and preparing for a new line
which will be announced very soon.
Mr. J. Schi'ler of the Lester Piano Company of
Philadelphia was a visitor in Indianapolis during the
past week, and called on the Pearson Piano Com-
pany, local representatives for the Lester Piano in
Indianapolis.
LETTER TO WILL COLLINS
RECALLS ARMAND CRABBE
the Chicago Civic Opera Company. He used to come
often with his friends in the trade to the piano lunch-
eons, generally in company with Will 11. Collins. Mr.
Collins has kept up a correspondence with Mr. Crabbe
ever since he left Chicago.
Last week he received an interesting letter from
the singer written from Nice, where he had been
filling engagements with a Spanish opera company.
Mr. Crabbe has now returned to his home at Paris
and is preparing for an extensive tour of South
America, the West Tndies and Mexico, as leading
baritone oi a French-Spanish opera company. In
fact, it is announced from Paris that this organiza-
tion is already en route to its destination in the
Antilles. M. Crabbe started work early in life as a
workman in a piano factory at Brussels. Belgium,
lie met with an accident in which he broke an arm,
which unfitted him for duties as tuner and regulator,
whereupon he took up seriously the study of music,
joined an opera company in London and has reaped
tame and fortune in his chosen profession.
Kreiter Mfg. Co., Inc.
Grands - Reproducing Grands
Player-Pianos
and Pianos
The Line That Sells Easily
and Satisfies Always
BRINKERHOFF PIANO CO.
711 Milwaukee Ave., CHICAGO, ILL.
EDWIN WEICKERT PLANS
TRIP TO UNITED STATES
Member of Leipzig Firm Which Makes
Famous Line cf Piano Felts Will Be
Here fcr Convention.
Edwin Weickert of
L e i p z i g , Germany, is
planning another trip
to America and will ar-
rive late in April and
avail himself of an op-
portunity to visit the
entire piano trade prior
to the conventions to be
held in June at the Ho-
tel Commodore, X e w
York.
Mr. Weickert is a son
of Fritz Weickert, well
known to many in the
industry, and a grand-
son of Otto Weickert,
senior member and still
active head of the felt
manufacturing firm of
KDWIN WKICKKRT.
.1. D. Weickert. makers
ot the world-renowned
extensive line of Hammer and Damper Felts.
Mr. Weickert will make his headquarters with
Philip W. Oetting & Son, Inc., 213 East 19th street.
New York, American agents for J. D. Weickert.
Accompanying Mr. Weickert on his pre-convention
trip to many of the chief cities of the United States
will be Mr. betting and William M. Shailer, treasurer
of Philip W. Oetting, Inc. Included in their itinerary
will be Albany, Buffalo, Detroit. Chicago, Milwaukee,
Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Boston and a dozen or
more other piano using and piano manufacturing cen-
ters—a trip of business with the pleasures of the
road at a most inviting season of the year.
R. W. LAWRENCE ENTERTAINS
VISITING ENGLISHMEN
Luncheon at National Republican Club Is Acknowl-
edgment of Hospitality of British Friends
Chicago Piano Men Who Used to Attend Noon
During Recent Trip Abroad.
Luncheon at Stratford Hotel Remember Singer.
Returning the hospitality extended to him during
one of his recent visits to England, Richard W. Law-
Many men in the Chicago music trade who used rence gave a luncheon on Wednesday of this week
to attend the piano mcns' daily luncheons at the at the National Republican Club in honor of Ernest
Stratford Hotel will remember Armand Crabbe, the Marshall, managing director of Sir Herbert Marshall
young Belgian singer, a member in those days of
& Sons, Ltd., London, England, past president of
the British Associated Piano Makers and a member
of the general council of the Foundation of British
Music Industries.
Other guests at the luncheon were Hermann Irion
of Steinway & Sons, president of the Music Industries
Chamber of Commerce; Herbert Simpson, president
Kohler & Campbell, treasurer of the Music Indus-
The Leading and Most Popular
tries Chamber of Commerce; William J. Haussler of
C. Bruno & Son. Inc., director National Bureau for
Pianos and Players
the Advancement of Music; Charles E. Gorham, Am-
Grands, Players, Uprights and
pico Co., Ltd., London. England; Charley Allen of
Reproducing Pianos
I\. R. Preston & Son, chartered accountants, Leices-
ter, England; Charles Jacob, Jacob Brothers, New
The Results of Over Forty Years'
York; Max De Rochemont. treasurer of the Laffarguc
of Experience.
Company, and director of the Music Industries Cham-
ber of Commerce; Edward De Rochemont; Delhert
Kreiter Piano* Cover the Entire Line
and no Piano Dealer who tries these in-
L. Loomis, executive secretary of the National Asso-
strutnents would supplant them by any
ciation of Music Merchants.
others. A trial will convince.
Following the luncheon, there was an informal
discussion of trade subjects. Mr. Marshall took occa-
sion to say that he believed the music merchant and
the manufacturers of musical instruments in England
310-312 W. Water St., Milwaukee, Wis.
have much the same problem to meet as are presented
Factory: Marinette, WIB.
to American members of the trade.
KREITER
BRINKERHOFF
STRICH & ZEIDLER, Inc.
GRAND, UPRIGHT and PLAYER
AND
HOMER PIANOS
740-742 East 136th Street
NEW YORK
Becker Bros.
Manufacturers ot
HIGH GRADE PIANOS
and PLAYER PIANOS
Factory and Warerooim
767-769 Tenth Avenue, New York
Wanted: Young Men!
—to become specialists in a field which will not
only pay them exceptionally well but which
will give them social standing and prominence!
T
O young men looking for such an opportunity we
have an unusyml (itl'.i. Fight now in numberless
cities and towi a in thu Unutd States, 'here is a jtrtat
shortage of piano experts, technicians and tuners.
The few masters there are, are earning Jartre salaries
for tnlr, rvceptionally pleasant work. Their time is
irrNp—'
theirown. Th^y moot the beftpeo-
rKtC
plf and sonn establish a wealthy elien-
„
*el«. We nan fit you for this profession
Send for free book- in . nroximately 12 short weeks' tinsel
•t which tells, all
Now ilon't say you are not a musician!
about our practical Y oa don'i. n-ed to be. In fact. 51) p «
ana thorough ti aln- c e n t o f ( l u r K a , i u l ) t p s n e v e r took a music
i n * course. Sund l es , O n And now thry are earning from
for -t now I
j 2 5 0 t o $BjU a m , , n l H
This is the opportunity you ar- lookimr for. I'ull yourself out
[ the rut. Make a place for yourself Hm.nst the
bostpeoiile. Our complete course, in nurnew #-5,
MPO.OO laboratory fits you for a real paying pro-
fession You can riV it. Others have «'flh n . i W t r r
backing than vim have. Find out the fads anyway.
POLK COLLEGE OF PIANO TUNING
i Building. DapHO
La Port*. Ind.
•oik Oollert >f Piano Tuning, La I'orte. Tnd.
V'lease send me a copy of your free bookle>
like the idea of becoming a professions
tiano expert.
Name.
Artdr,
WILLIAMS
PIANOS
The policy of the Williams House is and always
has been to depend upon excellence of product
instead of alluring price. Such a policy does not
attract bargain hunters. It does, however, win the
hearty approval and support of a very desirable
and substantial patronage.
1A/MIIAHK
Pianos,
WILLIAMS Makers of Williams Ortfans
E p w o r t h PianO9 a n d
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).