Presto
Issue: 1928 2188 - Page 6
July 7, 1928
P R E S T 0-T I M E S
QULBRANSEN COMPANY'S
SEMI-ANNUAL DIVIDEND
ENSEMBLE IDEA HELPS SALES
The Regular Seven Per Cent Dividend on Pre-
ferred Stock, Payable July 1, Represents
Unbroken Record of Payments.
The Gulbransen Company, Chicago, has declared
the regular semi-annual 7 per cent dividend on pre-
ferred stock, payable July 1, to stockholders of record.
This represents an unbroken record of payments on
the preferred stock.
From many sections of the country reports are
being received of a natural stimulus in piano interest
and sales. This, coming at this time of the year
particularly, augurs well for the earnings of the com-
pany during the balance of 1928.
Renewed interest in active piano selling is being
shown by many merchants from whom orders have
been very sparse during the past six or eight months.
Re-possessed instruments are being sold out and mer-
chants' stocks are in a healthier condition than in a
year.
While radio activities in the Gulbransen factory
are kept separate from piano activities, the radio pro-
duction is utilizing the capacity of the plant in excess
of normal piano production, and this should be re-
flected in increased earnings by the company and
greater values to dealers.
CHEERFUL ATTITUDE
OF HOWARD C. RICE
President of C. Kurtzmann & Co., Buffalo,
Says Consistently High Grade Piano Pro-
duction Is Assurance of Contin- -
uous Sales.
A Presto-Times Eastern correspondent made a call
last week upon Howard C. Rice, president of Kurtz-
mann & Co., Buffalo, N. Y. This is one of the few
piano factories in America that has not felt to any
great extent the sting of depression in business as
keenly as many others have. Mr. Rice has man-
aged his business carefully; his customers are men
of honor; his terms have been fair but not ruinous to
himself, and as for his goods they have been made in
the best possible manner, of the best of materials.
The most recent Kurtzmanns have been the best
the company ever turned out from the big plant, and
Mr. Rice says this high-grade standard of production
is to be kept up right along, for he believes there is
no future for cheap or trashy instruments. Kurtz-
manns have always been leaders, so the downfall
of the cheap instrument is no concern of the man-
agement of the Kurtzmann factory.
Mr. Rice says the trade of the Kurtzmann Piano
Company has kept right on in a remarkable manner,
considering what other manufacturers have been saying
about their various businesses. But he says he real-
izes that the company is one of a few that can truth-
fully make this favorable report. He attributes the
measure of success achieved in 1928 by the Kurtz-
mann concern to the merit of the goods and the
character of the men who are handling the instru-
ments of that make.
CHRISTMAN PIANO COMPANY
ISSUES VALUABLE LEAFLET
Good Advice Is Given to Parents to Continue Music
Studies Through the Summer Vacation.
"Vacation Time and Music" is the title of a very
instructive and suggestive leaflet by H. J. Bookman,
Studio of the Piano, 706 Riverside drive, New York
city and issued by the Christman Piano Co., 597 East
137th street, in the same city. This is said:
"The school vacation was adopted many years ago,
when most families grew and raised their own food.
The children were needed to assist in the fields during
harvest and were thus trained at an early age to
share the family responsibilities. This need no longer
exists in cosmopolitan life and the vacation has be-
come an established institution.
"Vacation is the ideal time to begin such studies
that could not be considered during the school term,
for the present school system cramps and crowds our
children so persistently that they are hard put to
undertake, or keep up progressively, with any subject
studied under private teachers. Wise parents will
map out a short constructive summer program, em-
bracing those school subjects that require further
study, and enroll their children in the summer schools
if available.
"The study of instrumental music cannot wait until
JESSE FRENCH & SONS' QUREN ANNE ENSEMBLE.
Progressive piano dealers for a long time have
provided suitable backgrounds when showing fine
pianos. Decorations and furnishings of warerooms
have been made appropriate as far as possible to the
character of the instruments shown. But the Jesse
French Piano Company, New Castle, Ind., has devel-
oped the idea in a way that provides a sensation in
piano presentation to the trade.
In its new scheme the Jesse French Piano Com-
pany goes further than merely providing accurate
Period models for exacting piano customers; it accom-
panies the correct styles with other artistic units of
furniture to make alluring ensembles. For instance
a Queen Anne grand -is part of an ensemble made up
of a bench, cabinet, chair and lamp.
"The business of piano selling will receive a stim-
ulus when this advantageous style of piano merchan-
dising gets under way" is the assurance of the Jesse
French & Sons Piano Co., expressed in its message to
the trade.
The idea of selling furniture to match the piano
is another of the original ideas which characterizes
the selling aids to dealers of the Jesse French &
Sons Piano Co. Tts excellence is commended by
leading music merchants and interior decorators. The
innovation is the more valuable when backed by the
conservative reputation of the New Castle company.
The ensemble scheme increases the appeal of the
fine Period and other Art pianos of the company,
always notable for its artistic case designs. The
Jesse French & Sons pianos have had an equal appeal
to the fine musicians and the owners of fine homes.
The pianos with the name on the fallboard are artis-
tic productions, the culmination of years of experi-
ence in the production of high class pianos. The
ensemble feature in presenting the product is another
phase of the desire to further identify the line with
the idea of "Quality First and First Quality."
after the elementary school graduation. It must be
studied during the school period no matter how
heavily taxed the child may be with the regular
scholastic work. For it is what the young, fertile
and retentive mind absorbs willingly or unwillingly,
that is best remembered through life.
"If possible, the music student should not take a
vacation from music. It is an expensive departure,
not so much in money, as in time and patience. In
September, the studies at school will resume where
they left off. But a ten-week vacation from music
will result in a depreciation in the art and in a loss
of valuable time before confidence is regained.
"Parents are badly advised in waiting until the re-
opening of school to start their children in the study
of music. This refers, of course, to those whose
children will spend the entire, or most of the vaca-
tion, at home.
"For the beginner, the vacation offers an excellent
opportunity to establish a careful unhurried founda-
tion, for the child's mind is not then burdened with
numerous school duties. With twenty-four lessons
during the three months, and time for at least twice
as much study, not only can six months' progress be
accomplished in three, at a saving of 100 per cent,
but three additional months' time can be saved
through the earlier start.
"The point to bear in mind is that children can do
themselves far better justice when unhampered dur-
ing vacation, than in the fall in conjunction with the
full scholastic program when a greater effort is neces-
sary to obtain equal results. In September, when
time will be limited, they will be playing the kind of
music they enjoy and will therefore study willingly.
A good start is important and the vacation is the
logical time for it."
FEATURES THE ORCHESTROPE
IN SHEBOYGAN, WIS., STORE
BALDWIN FOR ORCHESTRA.
The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, which has
chosen Baldwin as the official piano, was organized
in 1895, following years of artistic growth and devel-
opment of music in Cincinnati, the Cincinnati Sym-
phony Orchestra stands today at the apex of achieve-
ment, many of the members being solo artists of note.
Wonderful Product of the Capehart Automatic Phono-
graph Corporation, Huntington, Ind.,
Interests the Public.
The Buchheim's Music Store has been appointed
dealer in Sheboygan and Fond du Lac, Wis., for the
new automatic phonograph, the Orchestrope. This
instrument, which is now on display at Buchheim's,
has been greeted with unusual enthusiasm by those
who have been privileged to view it in operation.
The Orchestrope is an amazing talking machine
for it plays a total of twenty-eight records without
attention. It plays the records, turns them and plays
the reverse side, operating continuously without the
slightest attention on the part of the owner. It is
entirely electrically equipped and providing a volume
in any desired quantity. Once it is loaded with a
magazine of records, it will play for hours without
attention or repeating, for one loading means fifty-six
selections.
This instrument is the masterpiece of the Cape-
hart Automatic Phonograph Corporation, and is the
result of a considerable engineering research.
THE U. S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Better teamwork among all phases of business as
the most effective means of maintaining local and
national prosperity will be the central theme of the
Sixteenth Annual meeting of the Chamber of Com-
merce of the United States to be held in Washing-
ton, May 7 to 11. More than 1,500 business organiza-
tions, representing all lines of industry, finance and
commerce, as well as every section of the country,
have been invited to send delegates. In addition, in-
vitations have been sent to several hundred of the
country's outstanding business leaders.
Samuel Adams' store has been moved to the Levy
& Sleeper block on Main street, Belfast, Maine.
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P R E S T 0-T I M E S
QULBRANSEN COMPANY'S
SEMI-ANNUAL DIVIDEND
ENSEMBLE IDEA HELPS SALES
The Regular Seven Per Cent Dividend on Pre-
ferred Stock, Payable July 1, Represents
Unbroken Record of Payments.
The Gulbransen Company, Chicago, has declared
the regular semi-annual 7 per cent dividend on pre-
ferred stock, payable July 1, to stockholders of record.
This represents an unbroken record of payments on
the preferred stock.
From many sections of the country reports are
being received of a natural stimulus in piano interest
and sales. This, coming at this time of the year
particularly, augurs well for the earnings of the com-
pany during the balance of 1928.
Renewed interest in active piano selling is being
shown by many merchants from whom orders have
been very sparse during the past six or eight months.
Re-possessed instruments are being sold out and mer-
chants' stocks are in a healthier condition than in a
year.
While radio activities in the Gulbransen factory
are kept separate from piano activities, the radio pro-
duction is utilizing the capacity of the plant in excess
of normal piano production, and this should be re-
flected in increased earnings by the company and
greater values to dealers.
CHEERFUL ATTITUDE
OF HOWARD C. RICE
President of C. Kurtzmann & Co., Buffalo,
Says Consistently High Grade Piano Pro-
duction Is Assurance of Contin- -
uous Sales.
A Presto-Times Eastern correspondent made a call
last week upon Howard C. Rice, president of Kurtz-
mann & Co., Buffalo, N. Y. This is one of the few
piano factories in America that has not felt to any
great extent the sting of depression in business as
keenly as many others have. Mr. Rice has man-
aged his business carefully; his customers are men
of honor; his terms have been fair but not ruinous to
himself, and as for his goods they have been made in
the best possible manner, of the best of materials.
The most recent Kurtzmanns have been the best
the company ever turned out from the big plant, and
Mr. Rice says this high-grade standard of production
is to be kept up right along, for he believes there is
no future for cheap or trashy instruments. Kurtz-
manns have always been leaders, so the downfall
of the cheap instrument is no concern of the man-
agement of the Kurtzmann factory.
Mr. Rice says the trade of the Kurtzmann Piano
Company has kept right on in a remarkable manner,
considering what other manufacturers have been saying
about their various businesses. But he says he real-
izes that the company is one of a few that can truth-
fully make this favorable report. He attributes the
measure of success achieved in 1928 by the Kurtz-
mann concern to the merit of the goods and the
character of the men who are handling the instru-
ments of that make.
CHRISTMAN PIANO COMPANY
ISSUES VALUABLE LEAFLET
Good Advice Is Given to Parents to Continue Music
Studies Through the Summer Vacation.
"Vacation Time and Music" is the title of a very
instructive and suggestive leaflet by H. J. Bookman,
Studio of the Piano, 706 Riverside drive, New York
city and issued by the Christman Piano Co., 597 East
137th street, in the same city. This is said:
"The school vacation was adopted many years ago,
when most families grew and raised their own food.
The children were needed to assist in the fields during
harvest and were thus trained at an early age to
share the family responsibilities. This need no longer
exists in cosmopolitan life and the vacation has be-
come an established institution.
"Vacation is the ideal time to begin such studies
that could not be considered during the school term,
for the present school system cramps and crowds our
children so persistently that they are hard put to
undertake, or keep up progressively, with any subject
studied under private teachers. Wise parents will
map out a short constructive summer program, em-
bracing those school subjects that require further
study, and enroll their children in the summer schools
if available.
"The study of instrumental music cannot wait until
JESSE FRENCH & SONS' QUREN ANNE ENSEMBLE.
Progressive piano dealers for a long time have
provided suitable backgrounds when showing fine
pianos. Decorations and furnishings of warerooms
have been made appropriate as far as possible to the
character of the instruments shown. But the Jesse
French Piano Company, New Castle, Ind., has devel-
oped the idea in a way that provides a sensation in
piano presentation to the trade.
In its new scheme the Jesse French Piano Com-
pany goes further than merely providing accurate
Period models for exacting piano customers; it accom-
panies the correct styles with other artistic units of
furniture to make alluring ensembles. For instance
a Queen Anne grand -is part of an ensemble made up
of a bench, cabinet, chair and lamp.
"The business of piano selling will receive a stim-
ulus when this advantageous style of piano merchan-
dising gets under way" is the assurance of the Jesse
French & Sons Piano Co., expressed in its message to
the trade.
The idea of selling furniture to match the piano
is another of the original ideas which characterizes
the selling aids to dealers of the Jesse French &
Sons Piano Co. Tts excellence is commended by
leading music merchants and interior decorators. The
innovation is the more valuable when backed by the
conservative reputation of the New Castle company.
The ensemble scheme increases the appeal of the
fine Period and other Art pianos of the company,
always notable for its artistic case designs. The
Jesse French & Sons pianos have had an equal appeal
to the fine musicians and the owners of fine homes.
The pianos with the name on the fallboard are artis-
tic productions, the culmination of years of experi-
ence in the production of high class pianos. The
ensemble feature in presenting the product is another
phase of the desire to further identify the line with
the idea of "Quality First and First Quality."
after the elementary school graduation. It must be
studied during the school period no matter how
heavily taxed the child may be with the regular
scholastic work. For it is what the young, fertile
and retentive mind absorbs willingly or unwillingly,
that is best remembered through life.
"If possible, the music student should not take a
vacation from music. It is an expensive departure,
not so much in money, as in time and patience. In
September, the studies at school will resume where
they left off. But a ten-week vacation from music
will result in a depreciation in the art and in a loss
of valuable time before confidence is regained.
"Parents are badly advised in waiting until the re-
opening of school to start their children in the study
of music. This refers, of course, to those whose
children will spend the entire, or most of the vaca-
tion, at home.
"For the beginner, the vacation offers an excellent
opportunity to establish a careful unhurried founda-
tion, for the child's mind is not then burdened with
numerous school duties. With twenty-four lessons
during the three months, and time for at least twice
as much study, not only can six months' progress be
accomplished in three, at a saving of 100 per cent,
but three additional months' time can be saved
through the earlier start.
"The point to bear in mind is that children can do
themselves far better justice when unhampered dur-
ing vacation, than in the fall in conjunction with the
full scholastic program when a greater effort is neces-
sary to obtain equal results. In September, when
time will be limited, they will be playing the kind of
music they enjoy and will therefore study willingly.
A good start is important and the vacation is the
logical time for it."
FEATURES THE ORCHESTROPE
IN SHEBOYGAN, WIS., STORE
BALDWIN FOR ORCHESTRA.
The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, which has
chosen Baldwin as the official piano, was organized
in 1895, following years of artistic growth and devel-
opment of music in Cincinnati, the Cincinnati Sym-
phony Orchestra stands today at the apex of achieve-
ment, many of the members being solo artists of note.
Wonderful Product of the Capehart Automatic Phono-
graph Corporation, Huntington, Ind.,
Interests the Public.
The Buchheim's Music Store has been appointed
dealer in Sheboygan and Fond du Lac, Wis., for the
new automatic phonograph, the Orchestrope. This
instrument, which is now on display at Buchheim's,
has been greeted with unusual enthusiasm by those
who have been privileged to view it in operation.
The Orchestrope is an amazing talking machine
for it plays a total of twenty-eight records without
attention. It plays the records, turns them and plays
the reverse side, operating continuously without the
slightest attention on the part of the owner. It is
entirely electrically equipped and providing a volume
in any desired quantity. Once it is loaded with a
magazine of records, it will play for hours without
attention or repeating, for one loading means fifty-six
selections.
This instrument is the masterpiece of the Cape-
hart Automatic Phonograph Corporation, and is the
result of a considerable engineering research.
THE U. S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Better teamwork among all phases of business as
the most effective means of maintaining local and
national prosperity will be the central theme of the
Sixteenth Annual meeting of the Chamber of Com-
merce of the United States to be held in Washing-
ton, May 7 to 11. More than 1,500 business organiza-
tions, representing all lines of industry, finance and
commerce, as well as every section of the country,
have been invited to send delegates. In addition, in-
vitations have been sent to several hundred of the
country's outstanding business leaders.
Samuel Adams' store has been moved to the Levy
& Sleeper block on Main street, Belfast, Maine.
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).