Presto
Issue: 1928 2212 - Page 9
P R E S T 0-T I M E S
December 22, 1928
R. C. BOLLINGER'S
WORK AT FT. SMITH
proud. For the R. C. Bollinger establishment is one
of the largest of its kind in the entire Southwest.
The fact that he is at the head of the music com-
pany and has accumulated wealth, has not changed
Rudolph Bollinger. All Fort Smith has grown to
love him for his infectious smile and plain, unaffected
manner. For Rudolph Bollinger is a plain American
Achievements of Veteran of the Music Trade
in Lively Arkansas City Recalled by
Neighbors and Friends at Celebra-
tion of Half Century's Work. .
CIVIC OPERA CONDUCTOR
PRAISES PIANO CLASSES
Henry G. Weber, in Radio Talk, Points to the
Advantages of Young Boys and
Girls Today.
An instructive feature of the broadcasting of the
opera "La Juive" at the Chicago Civic Opera Com-
pany's performance at the Auditorium Theater last
Wednesday night was the talk by Henry G. Weber,
the conductor of the evening. Mr. Weber, who was
born in Chicago, said his musical successes were as-
sured by the firmness of his parents is making him
stick to his piano practice while the other boys were
playing baseball in the nearby vacant lot. He re-
called how incensed he used to feel, but later thanked
the "ordeals" for the groundwork that made his later
studies abroad easier and more interesting.
"The children who study piano today are fortunate
in that the methods are of a more alluring kind for
the youthful pupils," said Mr. Weber, "and it is
cheering to see the way in which the efforts of the
promoters of piano classes appeal to the rising gen-
eration. The future of music is safe when the youth
of a country are made enthusiastic for its expression
by means of the piano or any musical instrument."
The R. C. Bollinger Music-Radio Co., Ft. Smith,
Ark., has just concluded a half-century of responsible
service to music lovers. The company has been cel-
ebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of
the business.
It is interesting to note that this wonderful house
has been promoting the sale of Knabe pianos for over
forty-one years, and has handled the J. & C. Fischer
for more than forty-three years. With the expan-
sion of its business it has expanded the line of mer-
chandise and in addition to a complete line of radio
and band instruments are agents for the following
pianos: the Mason & Hamlin, the Knabe, the d i c k -
ering, the J. & C. Fischer, the Ampico, the Marshall
& Wendell, the Gulbransen, the Milton, the Secburg
and Ivers & Pond.
The company is distributor for the C. G. Conn line
of band instruments, the RCA Radiolas and Kolster
GREETINGS FROM FRIENDS
R. C. BOLLINGER.
citizen, a man who is of the people and who loves
the people.
Perhaps that smile has not faded throughout all
the years, because Mr. Bollinger chose a line of work
in which he is deeply interested. He is very fond of
music, and in the atmosphere of the Bollinger music
house he is perfectly content. Sitting at his desk,
while the familiar strains of a classic float down from
the piano room above or an opened door in a music
booth releases a bit of phonograph music, Mr. Bol-
linger is happy. Behind his office in the alley prob-
ably husky negroes are loading a piano for delivery
111 town. He will shout out a hasty command, "De-
liver that piano at the side door," and then return to
his work, smiling.
THE BOLL1XGER STORE.
radios. They are the oldest dealers of Victor prod-
ucts in Arkansas or Oklahoma. They also handle
Brunswicks, Columbias and Edisons.
A Native Son.
A pioneer music dealer of the West, native born
Fort Smith Man and all-round American citizen, Ru-
dolph C. Bollinger of the R. C. Bollinger Music-
Radio Company of Fort Smith, has achieved distinc-
tion in his line of work, and now, on the occasion of
the fiftieth anniversary of the company's establish-
ment, he has a record of which any man might be
A Colorful Place.
In the front entrance, perhaps, a pianist will start
playing jazz, and a Fort Smith youth begins a soft-
shoe dance. On the next floor, a salesman plays a
phonograph for some interested customer. Suddenly
the sonorous notes of one of the old masters will roll
forth from the piano room. People come and go.
It is colorful in the Bollinger Music-Radio Com-
pany's store.
The personality of Mr. Bollinger colors the entire
establishment. His is the hand that has erected the
giant music business which makes Fort Smith out-
standing in musical circles. The growth of his busi-
ness has not been eclipsed by his love for music. Mr.
Bollinger is absorbed in it, and every musical event
in Fort Smith finds him in attendance.
Wm. Eschenbaum of La Salle, 111., has purchased
the stock and business of Grove's Music Store, 633
Second street, in the same city, and plans to open a
conservatory in connection with the store. Arthur
Groves, from whom he bought the business, has be-
come manager of the music department of McFar-
land & Co., Burlington, Ta.
This week a number of Christmas greetings have
reached Presto-Times office, but most of them too
late for any notice further than this acknowledgment.
We beg to acknowledge receipt of cards and holiday
reminders from:
Gulbransen Company, Chicago. 111.
The Mills Company.
Otto Zimmerman.
Chas. M. Sticff, Inc., Baltimore.
C. L. Roberts, president Music Merchants' Na-
tional Association.
Arthur L. Wessell.
Fernando A. Wessell.
Wessell, Nickel & Gross.
J. P. Simmons, Louisville, Ky.
Waltham Piano Company, Milwaukee, W r is.
Piano Trade Magazine.
Walter Kiehn, publicity department Gulbransen
Company.
Chas. E. Byrne, care Steger & Sons.
C. G. Steger, care Steger & Sons.
D. B. Loomis.
Atwater Kent.
The O. K. Houck Piano Co., Nashville, Tenn.
W. T. Sutherland.
H. EDGAR FRENCH RETURNS.
H. Edgar French, president of the Jesse French &
Sons Piano Co. of Newcastle, Ind., recently returned
from an extensive automobile tour accompanied by
Mrs. French, Mrs. Jesse French, Jr., and Mrs. Jesse
French. Sr. The party drove across Kentucky to
Abingdon, Va., to visit Mr. French's daughter, who
is attending the Martha Washington College. A
beautlfui trip was taken across the Cumberland Gap
section, stops were made at Elizabethton. Kingsport,
Tenn.; Bristol, Tenn.; Athens, Tenn., and Atlanta.
P. F. Schneider, music dealer, at 17 North Second
street, Vincennes, Ind., is advertising a close-out
piano sale and is enlarging his radio department.
The store will be kept open until 9 o'clock at night
until the close of the sale.
New Edition for 1929 In Preparation
PRESTO BUYERS' GUIDE
Will Contain Full Lists with Concise Classification and Description of all
American Pianos, Players and Reproducing Pianos, with Sketches of their
Makers. Essential to All Salemen. Price 50 cents, post paid.
NO PIANO DEALER OR PROSPECT CAN AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT IT.
PRESTO PUBLISHING CO.,
417 S. Dearborn St., CHICAGO
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December 22, 1928
R. C. BOLLINGER'S
WORK AT FT. SMITH
proud. For the R. C. Bollinger establishment is one
of the largest of its kind in the entire Southwest.
The fact that he is at the head of the music com-
pany and has accumulated wealth, has not changed
Rudolph Bollinger. All Fort Smith has grown to
love him for his infectious smile and plain, unaffected
manner. For Rudolph Bollinger is a plain American
Achievements of Veteran of the Music Trade
in Lively Arkansas City Recalled by
Neighbors and Friends at Celebra-
tion of Half Century's Work. .
CIVIC OPERA CONDUCTOR
PRAISES PIANO CLASSES
Henry G. Weber, in Radio Talk, Points to the
Advantages of Young Boys and
Girls Today.
An instructive feature of the broadcasting of the
opera "La Juive" at the Chicago Civic Opera Com-
pany's performance at the Auditorium Theater last
Wednesday night was the talk by Henry G. Weber,
the conductor of the evening. Mr. Weber, who was
born in Chicago, said his musical successes were as-
sured by the firmness of his parents is making him
stick to his piano practice while the other boys were
playing baseball in the nearby vacant lot. He re-
called how incensed he used to feel, but later thanked
the "ordeals" for the groundwork that made his later
studies abroad easier and more interesting.
"The children who study piano today are fortunate
in that the methods are of a more alluring kind for
the youthful pupils," said Mr. Weber, "and it is
cheering to see the way in which the efforts of the
promoters of piano classes appeal to the rising gen-
eration. The future of music is safe when the youth
of a country are made enthusiastic for its expression
by means of the piano or any musical instrument."
The R. C. Bollinger Music-Radio Co., Ft. Smith,
Ark., has just concluded a half-century of responsible
service to music lovers. The company has been cel-
ebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of
the business.
It is interesting to note that this wonderful house
has been promoting the sale of Knabe pianos for over
forty-one years, and has handled the J. & C. Fischer
for more than forty-three years. With the expan-
sion of its business it has expanded the line of mer-
chandise and in addition to a complete line of radio
and band instruments are agents for the following
pianos: the Mason & Hamlin, the Knabe, the d i c k -
ering, the J. & C. Fischer, the Ampico, the Marshall
& Wendell, the Gulbransen, the Milton, the Secburg
and Ivers & Pond.
The company is distributor for the C. G. Conn line
of band instruments, the RCA Radiolas and Kolster
GREETINGS FROM FRIENDS
R. C. BOLLINGER.
citizen, a man who is of the people and who loves
the people.
Perhaps that smile has not faded throughout all
the years, because Mr. Bollinger chose a line of work
in which he is deeply interested. He is very fond of
music, and in the atmosphere of the Bollinger music
house he is perfectly content. Sitting at his desk,
while the familiar strains of a classic float down from
the piano room above or an opened door in a music
booth releases a bit of phonograph music, Mr. Bol-
linger is happy. Behind his office in the alley prob-
ably husky negroes are loading a piano for delivery
111 town. He will shout out a hasty command, "De-
liver that piano at the side door," and then return to
his work, smiling.
THE BOLL1XGER STORE.
radios. They are the oldest dealers of Victor prod-
ucts in Arkansas or Oklahoma. They also handle
Brunswicks, Columbias and Edisons.
A Native Son.
A pioneer music dealer of the West, native born
Fort Smith Man and all-round American citizen, Ru-
dolph C. Bollinger of the R. C. Bollinger Music-
Radio Company of Fort Smith, has achieved distinc-
tion in his line of work, and now, on the occasion of
the fiftieth anniversary of the company's establish-
ment, he has a record of which any man might be
A Colorful Place.
In the front entrance, perhaps, a pianist will start
playing jazz, and a Fort Smith youth begins a soft-
shoe dance. On the next floor, a salesman plays a
phonograph for some interested customer. Suddenly
the sonorous notes of one of the old masters will roll
forth from the piano room. People come and go.
It is colorful in the Bollinger Music-Radio Com-
pany's store.
The personality of Mr. Bollinger colors the entire
establishment. His is the hand that has erected the
giant music business which makes Fort Smith out-
standing in musical circles. The growth of his busi-
ness has not been eclipsed by his love for music. Mr.
Bollinger is absorbed in it, and every musical event
in Fort Smith finds him in attendance.
Wm. Eschenbaum of La Salle, 111., has purchased
the stock and business of Grove's Music Store, 633
Second street, in the same city, and plans to open a
conservatory in connection with the store. Arthur
Groves, from whom he bought the business, has be-
come manager of the music department of McFar-
land & Co., Burlington, Ta.
This week a number of Christmas greetings have
reached Presto-Times office, but most of them too
late for any notice further than this acknowledgment.
We beg to acknowledge receipt of cards and holiday
reminders from:
Gulbransen Company, Chicago. 111.
The Mills Company.
Otto Zimmerman.
Chas. M. Sticff, Inc., Baltimore.
C. L. Roberts, president Music Merchants' Na-
tional Association.
Arthur L. Wessell.
Fernando A. Wessell.
Wessell, Nickel & Gross.
J. P. Simmons, Louisville, Ky.
Waltham Piano Company, Milwaukee, W r is.
Piano Trade Magazine.
Walter Kiehn, publicity department Gulbransen
Company.
Chas. E. Byrne, care Steger & Sons.
C. G. Steger, care Steger & Sons.
D. B. Loomis.
Atwater Kent.
The O. K. Houck Piano Co., Nashville, Tenn.
W. T. Sutherland.
H. EDGAR FRENCH RETURNS.
H. Edgar French, president of the Jesse French &
Sons Piano Co. of Newcastle, Ind., recently returned
from an extensive automobile tour accompanied by
Mrs. French, Mrs. Jesse French, Jr., and Mrs. Jesse
French. Sr. The party drove across Kentucky to
Abingdon, Va., to visit Mr. French's daughter, who
is attending the Martha Washington College. A
beautlfui trip was taken across the Cumberland Gap
section, stops were made at Elizabethton. Kingsport,
Tenn.; Bristol, Tenn.; Athens, Tenn., and Atlanta.
P. F. Schneider, music dealer, at 17 North Second
street, Vincennes, Ind., is advertising a close-out
piano sale and is enlarging his radio department.
The store will be kept open until 9 o'clock at night
until the close of the sale.
New Edition for 1929 In Preparation
PRESTO BUYERS' GUIDE
Will Contain Full Lists with Concise Classification and Description of all
American Pianos, Players and Reproducing Pianos, with Sketches of their
Makers. Essential to All Salemen. Price 50 cents, post paid.
NO PIANO DEALER OR PROSPECT CAN AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT IT.
PRESTO PUBLISHING CO.,
417 S. Dearborn St., CHICAGO
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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/
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