Presto
Issue: 1929 2230 - Page 16
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PRESTO-TIMES
WINDOW DISPLAY SHOWS
A BEAUTIFUL STRAUBE
July 1, 1929
In the Place of Honor—
STEINWAY and LYON & HEALY
Straube Piano Interestingly Displayed in Store Win-
dow by J. Bart Johnson Co., Jacksonville, 111.
The artistic trend in piano designing is well dem-
ontsrated in the handsome display now being fea-
tured by the J. Bart Johnson Co., of Jacksonville, 111.
The instrument pictured is an Artist Model Straube
Grand Piano in Florentine design. The instrument is
in mahogany, furnished with a beautiful satin finish.
It is of decidedly graceful appearance.
The J. Bart Johnson Co., of which Mr. Leo John-
son is now proprietor, following the footsteps of his
HEN the flcct-limted youth of Athens excelled
in tne Orecian games ol old, lie wore •with justify
able pride the living circlet of laurel
looay in Chicago s go J den age of music, honor is
conferred more signally—more gloriously . . . One
of the leading schools of music—THE CHICAGO
MUSICAL COLLEGE — will prcsm«t its students in
the annual Prize Contest at Orchestra fxall on the
evening of JVLiy Eleventh. The country's leading
musical authorities will sit in itldgment... to award
world-famous instruments as prices
•*. •'. r -' •• * ' .
Fitting it is, then, that M.r. ^VS^itherspoon, JMr.
Lranz and -MJ\ ibametuu sliould nave chosen to honor
the successful candidates with the finest of piano*—
the Steimvay and L,yon & Jtlealy.
ARTIST MODEL STRAUBE GRAND.
father who established the business many years ago,
is one of the most widely known music houses in
the Central West.
In speaking about the Straube piano, Mr. Johnson
said:
"It has always been the custom of our firm to fea-
ture instruments of superiority. For over 50 years
the name value and reputation of the Straube has
been of the highest character. During the past few
years especially the Straube has enjoyed pronounced
preference by the public.
"It is our custom to visit the various factories and
personally acquaint ourselves with each detail of man-
ufacture, also the personnel of the institution manu-
facturing the instruments we sell. Anyone visiting
the Straube Piano Company, as we have done, fre-
quently, could not help but be favorably impressed
with the infinite care exercised in the making of
Straube pianos to insure the utmost musical and
structural excellence.
"It is not only a pleasure to sell an instrument of
•this type but a piano such as the Straube is a sure
evidence of social and cultural refinement on the
part of the owner."
NEW BANDS FORMED.
The younger children of the Hoagland School, Fort
Wayne, Ind., have organized a brass band. One of
the largest, if not the largest, municipal bands is the
aim of the Northwest Parks Qistrict commissioners,
Chicago, 111. The American Legion Drum Corps,
Mechanicsburg, Ohio, was reorganized last week and
in the future will be known as the American Legion
Band. A campaign for $1,000 has been launched at
Paducah, Ky., to finance band concerts this summer.
Fifty young Paducah musicians will be organized
into a concert band. The Sheboygan, Mich., Munici-
pal Band has been organized.
Healy
at Jackson BuitUiHu-J
THE ABOVE WAS THE RECENT ANNOUNCEMENT MADE BY LYON & HEALY,
CHICAGO, OF THE 1 SIGNAL HONOR ABOUT TO BE CONFERRED ON CONTEST
WINNERS—THE GIFT OF STEINWAY AND LYON & HEALY PIANOS AS PRIZES.
JULIUS P. WITMARK DIES AT 59.
SELLS LOT OF 13 WURLITZERS.
The Clark Orchestra Roll Company, DeKalb, 111.,
is now announcing in a new bulletin a list of its new
records. Dealers who handle Clark rolls and users
of automatic playing instruments always get satis-
faction in purchasing Clark Rolls.
FAIRBANKS
THE PACKARD PIANO COMPANY, Fort Wayne, Ind.
Dealers and Their Salesmen Find
PRESTO BUYERS' GUIDE
A Great Help in Closing Sales.
Fifty Cents a Copy.
PIAN0 PLATES
THE FAIRBANKS CO., Springfield, Ohio
"// there'$ no Harmony in the
Factory there will be None
in the Piano."
The Harmony in the Pack-
ard b Reflected in the Har
atony among the Dealers
who Sell them.
Profit-Producing Facts 011 Appli
cation. Make it your Leader
Send for o v "BaDetin."
•D
Official action on the proposal to change the name
of tjjp Chicago World's Fair Centennial Celebration
Corporation to that of "A Century of Progress,"
was taken at a special meeting of the founder and
sustaining members of the Fair which was held in
Room 500, Burnham Building, Chicago, at 3 o'clock
in the afternoon of June 28.
Leo A. Valley, Wurlitzer representative for
Ogdensburg, N. Y., and vicinity, has been awarded a
DAMROSCH GIVEN DEGREE.
contract for the installation of 13 Wurlitzer small
Walter Johannes Damrosch, musician and director,
pianos in the schools of North Tonawanda, N. Y. New York, was given the honorary degree of Doctor
Mr. Valley is the proprietor of a modern music store of Music by Princeton University on June 19 at the
at 418 Lincoln Ave., North Tonawanda.
182nd annual commencement exercises at that New
Jersey institution.
YORKVILLE RADIO CO. GROWS.
Increasing business has made it necessary for the
SCOTLAND HONORS FRITZ KREISLER.
Yorkville Radio Company to move to larger quarters
An associated Press dispatch on June 20 brings the
at 149 East Eighty-sixth street, New York city, ac-
cording to Sidney Vorzimer, president. The company information that Fritz Kreisler, violinist, had just
is said to do a radio business of more than $750,000 received the honorary degree of doctor of laws at
Glasgow University, Scotland.
yearly.
CLARK ROLLS GOING WELL.
•a
CHANGING CORPORATION'S NAME.
Julius P. Witmark, founder of Witmark & Sons,
music publishers, died suddenly on June 15 at the
Park West Hospital, New York city, in his fifty-
ninth year. He established the publishing firm thirty
years ago. Funeral services were held on June 17.
DO
DO
tarck
Grand, Upright and Player-Pianos
Strictly High Grade. Many Exclusive Selling Points.
Attractive Proposition for Dealers. Send for Catalog.
A S k #
i.*nufacturers, CHICAGO, ILL.
New York W.reroom.: 112-114 Wait 42nd St.
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PRESTO-TIMES
WINDOW DISPLAY SHOWS
A BEAUTIFUL STRAUBE
July 1, 1929
In the Place of Honor—
STEINWAY and LYON & HEALY
Straube Piano Interestingly Displayed in Store Win-
dow by J. Bart Johnson Co., Jacksonville, 111.
The artistic trend in piano designing is well dem-
ontsrated in the handsome display now being fea-
tured by the J. Bart Johnson Co., of Jacksonville, 111.
The instrument pictured is an Artist Model Straube
Grand Piano in Florentine design. The instrument is
in mahogany, furnished with a beautiful satin finish.
It is of decidedly graceful appearance.
The J. Bart Johnson Co., of which Mr. Leo John-
son is now proprietor, following the footsteps of his
HEN the flcct-limted youth of Athens excelled
in tne Orecian games ol old, lie wore •with justify
able pride the living circlet of laurel
looay in Chicago s go J den age of music, honor is
conferred more signally—more gloriously . . . One
of the leading schools of music—THE CHICAGO
MUSICAL COLLEGE — will prcsm«t its students in
the annual Prize Contest at Orchestra fxall on the
evening of JVLiy Eleventh. The country's leading
musical authorities will sit in itldgment... to award
world-famous instruments as prices
•*. •'. r -' •• * ' .
Fitting it is, then, that M.r. ^VS^itherspoon, JMr.
Lranz and -MJ\ ibametuu sliould nave chosen to honor
the successful candidates with the finest of piano*—
the Steimvay and L,yon & Jtlealy.
ARTIST MODEL STRAUBE GRAND.
father who established the business many years ago,
is one of the most widely known music houses in
the Central West.
In speaking about the Straube piano, Mr. Johnson
said:
"It has always been the custom of our firm to fea-
ture instruments of superiority. For over 50 years
the name value and reputation of the Straube has
been of the highest character. During the past few
years especially the Straube has enjoyed pronounced
preference by the public.
"It is our custom to visit the various factories and
personally acquaint ourselves with each detail of man-
ufacture, also the personnel of the institution manu-
facturing the instruments we sell. Anyone visiting
the Straube Piano Company, as we have done, fre-
quently, could not help but be favorably impressed
with the infinite care exercised in the making of
Straube pianos to insure the utmost musical and
structural excellence.
"It is not only a pleasure to sell an instrument of
•this type but a piano such as the Straube is a sure
evidence of social and cultural refinement on the
part of the owner."
NEW BANDS FORMED.
The younger children of the Hoagland School, Fort
Wayne, Ind., have organized a brass band. One of
the largest, if not the largest, municipal bands is the
aim of the Northwest Parks Qistrict commissioners,
Chicago, 111. The American Legion Drum Corps,
Mechanicsburg, Ohio, was reorganized last week and
in the future will be known as the American Legion
Band. A campaign for $1,000 has been launched at
Paducah, Ky., to finance band concerts this summer.
Fifty young Paducah musicians will be organized
into a concert band. The Sheboygan, Mich., Munici-
pal Band has been organized.
Healy
at Jackson BuitUiHu-J
THE ABOVE WAS THE RECENT ANNOUNCEMENT MADE BY LYON & HEALY,
CHICAGO, OF THE 1 SIGNAL HONOR ABOUT TO BE CONFERRED ON CONTEST
WINNERS—THE GIFT OF STEINWAY AND LYON & HEALY PIANOS AS PRIZES.
JULIUS P. WITMARK DIES AT 59.
SELLS LOT OF 13 WURLITZERS.
The Clark Orchestra Roll Company, DeKalb, 111.,
is now announcing in a new bulletin a list of its new
records. Dealers who handle Clark rolls and users
of automatic playing instruments always get satis-
faction in purchasing Clark Rolls.
FAIRBANKS
THE PACKARD PIANO COMPANY, Fort Wayne, Ind.
Dealers and Their Salesmen Find
PRESTO BUYERS' GUIDE
A Great Help in Closing Sales.
Fifty Cents a Copy.
PIAN0 PLATES
THE FAIRBANKS CO., Springfield, Ohio
"// there'$ no Harmony in the
Factory there will be None
in the Piano."
The Harmony in the Pack-
ard b Reflected in the Har
atony among the Dealers
who Sell them.
Profit-Producing Facts 011 Appli
cation. Make it your Leader
Send for o v "BaDetin."
•D
Official action on the proposal to change the name
of tjjp Chicago World's Fair Centennial Celebration
Corporation to that of "A Century of Progress,"
was taken at a special meeting of the founder and
sustaining members of the Fair which was held in
Room 500, Burnham Building, Chicago, at 3 o'clock
in the afternoon of June 28.
Leo A. Valley, Wurlitzer representative for
Ogdensburg, N. Y., and vicinity, has been awarded a
DAMROSCH GIVEN DEGREE.
contract for the installation of 13 Wurlitzer small
Walter Johannes Damrosch, musician and director,
pianos in the schools of North Tonawanda, N. Y. New York, was given the honorary degree of Doctor
Mr. Valley is the proprietor of a modern music store of Music by Princeton University on June 19 at the
at 418 Lincoln Ave., North Tonawanda.
182nd annual commencement exercises at that New
Jersey institution.
YORKVILLE RADIO CO. GROWS.
Increasing business has made it necessary for the
SCOTLAND HONORS FRITZ KREISLER.
Yorkville Radio Company to move to larger quarters
An associated Press dispatch on June 20 brings the
at 149 East Eighty-sixth street, New York city, ac-
cording to Sidney Vorzimer, president. The company information that Fritz Kreisler, violinist, had just
is said to do a radio business of more than $750,000 received the honorary degree of doctor of laws at
Glasgow University, Scotland.
yearly.
CLARK ROLLS GOING WELL.
•a
CHANGING CORPORATION'S NAME.
Julius P. Witmark, founder of Witmark & Sons,
music publishers, died suddenly on June 15 at the
Park West Hospital, New York city, in his fifty-
ninth year. He established the publishing firm thirty
years ago. Funeral services were held on June 17.
DO
DO
tarck
Grand, Upright and Player-Pianos
Strictly High Grade. Many Exclusive Selling Points.
Attractive Proposition for Dealers. Send for Catalog.
A S k #
i.*nufacturers, CHICAGO, ILL.
New York W.reroom.: 112-114 Wait 42nd St.
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).