Presto
Issue: 1928 2206 - Page 9
November 10, 1928
PRESTO-TIMES
the Colonial government, whose idea is to maintain
BUY BALDWIN PIANOS
price of ivory and conserve the supply.
COMSTOCK, CHENEY & CO. by the The
cutting of ivory in the plant of Comstock,
Cheney & Company is very interesting, both as to
FOR BIG THEATER
Name of This Famous Old Supply Firm Sug- its history as well as its development over a period
gested When Use of Ivory in Piano and
Organ Keys Is Discussed.
Comstock, Cheney & Company, Ivoryton, Conn.,
is a manufacturing industry with a history that goes
back ninety-four years: close to a century in which its
association to the music trade has been close, constant
and satisfactory. The simple fact of the duration of
time in manufacturing products required in the music
trade is in itself important, but the character of the
goods from the beginning has been the permanent
and enduring fact.
Comstock, Cheney & Company has been famed as
an ivory cutter since 1834, a fact which suggests
thoughts of the origin of the principal product and
the processes used in preparing it for the purposes
of industry. It is real ivory that manufacturers de-
mand for fine pianos and that is why they look to
Comstock, Cheney & Company for keys made from
that desirable commodity.
All the ivory for piano keys comes from the cen-
tral part of Africa and a large part of it is shipped
to London, where it is sold at auction at certain
periods of the year. The ivory that comes to us is
new ivory, and not the buried kind which is found to
some extent. There are still large numbers of wild
elephants in Africa and they are very carefully pro-
tected, too. The killing of elephants is well regulated
of ninety-four years. Saws as thin as paper are
used and the most rigid care is used to prevent waste.
Each tusk contains numerous grades of ivory. Cer-
tain processes of "pickling" and bleaching are neces-
sary before the ivory is ready for use in piano and
organ key making. Grand and upright piano keys,
actions and hammers are made in the big Ivoryton
plant.
OPENS IN WICHITA, KAN.
A. P. Woodford and Ira Herring have opened a
new piano exchange, the Woodford-Herring Piano
Exchange, at 1017 West Douglas avenue, Wichita,
Kan. Mr. Woodford has been in the music business
in Wichita for the past 25 years. Mr. Herring has
been a public entertainer. After covering 20,000
miles in his travels, he decided Wichita was the
place to settle.
TO MOVE IN PORTLAND.
Collins & Erwin, Portland, Ore., upstairs piano
men. will move January 1, 1929, at the expiration of
their present lease in the Ungar Building to the new
Alderway Building now being constructed at Alder
and Broadway in the very heart of the business dis-
trict. The firm carries a wide line, including the Bald-
win, Straube, Kroeger and Wurlitzer pianos.
PIANOS SHOWN AT RADIO SHOW
Two Grands and One Reproducing Grand In-
stalled Last Week in Prominent Posi-
tion in New Louisville Theater.
The Baldwin Piano Co.. Cincinnati, has announced
that two Baldwin grand pianos and one Baldwin Re-
producing Welte-Mignon (Licensee) grand have been
installed in the million dollar and a half Loew's State
Theater in Louisville, Ky.
The action of the Loew Theater management dupli-
cates that of a great many other theater owners who
have endorsed the musical merits of the Baldwin
piano. The Baldwin piano has peculiar merits which
influence the choice of theater owner and school
heads; those of reliable construction added to those
ow admirable tone.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY IS
ERECTING MUSIC BUILDING
Theodore Presser Foundation of Philadelphia, Gave
$75,000 Towards It.
Work of excavating for the $200,000 Music Building
at Illinois Wesleyan University at Bloomington, 111.,
is in progress. It is expected that the project will be
completed for the next school year.
The new Music Building was made possible by the
Theodore Presser Foundation of Philadelphia, Pa.
More than a year ago they offered to give $75,000 to-
ward a new building on condition that the university
would raise an equal amount. More than that amount
was raised by the administration and when completed
the Music Building will cost $200,000.
LESLIE STORE IN NEW QUARTERS.
The F. M. Leslie music and radio store, Ur-
bana, 111., has been moved temporarily into the
old First State Bank while alterations are being
made in the building formerly occupied by the
store. It is expected that the changes will be
completed within two weeks, at which time Mr.
Leslie will resume business at the old stand with new
and enlarged equipment.
Somewhat of a novelty at a radio show was the
presence of a Gulbransen 4 foot 6 inch Art Grand
in handsome walnut, as shown in the accompanying
illustration. In the foreground and to the left is the
Gulbransen Console type radio, Model 260-C. The
handsome cabinets, exquisite examples of Gulbransen
craftsmanship, are the Ivanhoe model radio cabinet;
models 350, 380 and 270.
MILTON G. WOLF HAS MOVED.
The Standard Musical Specialties Company, headed
by Milton G. Wolf, has moved from 1527 Kimball
Building, Chicago, to 816 Kimball Building. Mr.
Wolf specializes in the Milton G. Wolf "Quality
Supreme Banjo Head." "Business has been very
good," said Mr. Wolf to a Presto-Times representa-
tive on Tuesday of this week, "I have been down in
the new place only two weeks and we have had
wonderful sales in that short time."
Other features of the Gulbransen exhibit at the
Radio Show at the Coliseum, Chicago, were specially
MOVES TO REMODEL STORE.
prepared signs, electric signs and the inevitable and
The Rudolph H. Schweppe Piano Co., Chicago, last
popular Gulbransen Baby trade-mark. A background
week held a formal opening of its remodeled store,
with modernistic treatment and illuminated through
an indirect lighting system made an attractive setting 6319-21 South Ashland avenue. The company car-
for the Gulbransen products.
ries the Hallet & Davis, Bush & Gerts, Starr, Cable-
Nelson and Rauworth pianos.
QUICK WAY TO PIANO SALES
The best method of reaching the piano prospects in order to show and demonstrate the
pianos is the BOWEN PIANO LOADER way. A Bowen. One-Man Loader and Carrier at-
tached to a Ford roadster enables the dealer to bring the store to the customer. The combina-
tion also provides the quickest, safest and best delivery system for music dealers in city or
country. Write for particulars to
BOWEN PIANO LOADER CO.
Winston-Salem, N. C.
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PRESTO-TIMES
the Colonial government, whose idea is to maintain
BUY BALDWIN PIANOS
price of ivory and conserve the supply.
COMSTOCK, CHENEY & CO. by the The
cutting of ivory in the plant of Comstock,
Cheney & Company is very interesting, both as to
FOR BIG THEATER
Name of This Famous Old Supply Firm Sug- its history as well as its development over a period
gested When Use of Ivory in Piano and
Organ Keys Is Discussed.
Comstock, Cheney & Company, Ivoryton, Conn.,
is a manufacturing industry with a history that goes
back ninety-four years: close to a century in which its
association to the music trade has been close, constant
and satisfactory. The simple fact of the duration of
time in manufacturing products required in the music
trade is in itself important, but the character of the
goods from the beginning has been the permanent
and enduring fact.
Comstock, Cheney & Company has been famed as
an ivory cutter since 1834, a fact which suggests
thoughts of the origin of the principal product and
the processes used in preparing it for the purposes
of industry. It is real ivory that manufacturers de-
mand for fine pianos and that is why they look to
Comstock, Cheney & Company for keys made from
that desirable commodity.
All the ivory for piano keys comes from the cen-
tral part of Africa and a large part of it is shipped
to London, where it is sold at auction at certain
periods of the year. The ivory that comes to us is
new ivory, and not the buried kind which is found to
some extent. There are still large numbers of wild
elephants in Africa and they are very carefully pro-
tected, too. The killing of elephants is well regulated
of ninety-four years. Saws as thin as paper are
used and the most rigid care is used to prevent waste.
Each tusk contains numerous grades of ivory. Cer-
tain processes of "pickling" and bleaching are neces-
sary before the ivory is ready for use in piano and
organ key making. Grand and upright piano keys,
actions and hammers are made in the big Ivoryton
plant.
OPENS IN WICHITA, KAN.
A. P. Woodford and Ira Herring have opened a
new piano exchange, the Woodford-Herring Piano
Exchange, at 1017 West Douglas avenue, Wichita,
Kan. Mr. Woodford has been in the music business
in Wichita for the past 25 years. Mr. Herring has
been a public entertainer. After covering 20,000
miles in his travels, he decided Wichita was the
place to settle.
TO MOVE IN PORTLAND.
Collins & Erwin, Portland, Ore., upstairs piano
men. will move January 1, 1929, at the expiration of
their present lease in the Ungar Building to the new
Alderway Building now being constructed at Alder
and Broadway in the very heart of the business dis-
trict. The firm carries a wide line, including the Bald-
win, Straube, Kroeger and Wurlitzer pianos.
PIANOS SHOWN AT RADIO SHOW
Two Grands and One Reproducing Grand In-
stalled Last Week in Prominent Posi-
tion in New Louisville Theater.
The Baldwin Piano Co.. Cincinnati, has announced
that two Baldwin grand pianos and one Baldwin Re-
producing Welte-Mignon (Licensee) grand have been
installed in the million dollar and a half Loew's State
Theater in Louisville, Ky.
The action of the Loew Theater management dupli-
cates that of a great many other theater owners who
have endorsed the musical merits of the Baldwin
piano. The Baldwin piano has peculiar merits which
influence the choice of theater owner and school
heads; those of reliable construction added to those
ow admirable tone.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY IS
ERECTING MUSIC BUILDING
Theodore Presser Foundation of Philadelphia, Gave
$75,000 Towards It.
Work of excavating for the $200,000 Music Building
at Illinois Wesleyan University at Bloomington, 111.,
is in progress. It is expected that the project will be
completed for the next school year.
The new Music Building was made possible by the
Theodore Presser Foundation of Philadelphia, Pa.
More than a year ago they offered to give $75,000 to-
ward a new building on condition that the university
would raise an equal amount. More than that amount
was raised by the administration and when completed
the Music Building will cost $200,000.
LESLIE STORE IN NEW QUARTERS.
The F. M. Leslie music and radio store, Ur-
bana, 111., has been moved temporarily into the
old First State Bank while alterations are being
made in the building formerly occupied by the
store. It is expected that the changes will be
completed within two weeks, at which time Mr.
Leslie will resume business at the old stand with new
and enlarged equipment.
Somewhat of a novelty at a radio show was the
presence of a Gulbransen 4 foot 6 inch Art Grand
in handsome walnut, as shown in the accompanying
illustration. In the foreground and to the left is the
Gulbransen Console type radio, Model 260-C. The
handsome cabinets, exquisite examples of Gulbransen
craftsmanship, are the Ivanhoe model radio cabinet;
models 350, 380 and 270.
MILTON G. WOLF HAS MOVED.
The Standard Musical Specialties Company, headed
by Milton G. Wolf, has moved from 1527 Kimball
Building, Chicago, to 816 Kimball Building. Mr.
Wolf specializes in the Milton G. Wolf "Quality
Supreme Banjo Head." "Business has been very
good," said Mr. Wolf to a Presto-Times representa-
tive on Tuesday of this week, "I have been down in
the new place only two weeks and we have had
wonderful sales in that short time."
Other features of the Gulbransen exhibit at the
Radio Show at the Coliseum, Chicago, were specially
MOVES TO REMODEL STORE.
prepared signs, electric signs and the inevitable and
The Rudolph H. Schweppe Piano Co., Chicago, last
popular Gulbransen Baby trade-mark. A background
week held a formal opening of its remodeled store,
with modernistic treatment and illuminated through
an indirect lighting system made an attractive setting 6319-21 South Ashland avenue. The company car-
for the Gulbransen products.
ries the Hallet & Davis, Bush & Gerts, Starr, Cable-
Nelson and Rauworth pianos.
QUICK WAY TO PIANO SALES
The best method of reaching the piano prospects in order to show and demonstrate the
pianos is the BOWEN PIANO LOADER way. A Bowen. One-Man Loader and Carrier at-
tached to a Ford roadster enables the dealer to bring the store to the customer. The combina-
tion also provides the quickest, safest and best delivery system for music dealers in city or
country. Write for particulars to
BOWEN PIANO LOADER CO.
Winston-Salem, N. C.
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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