Presto
Issue: 1929 2236 - Page 14
October 1, 1929
P R E S T 0-T I M E S
14
ALL PLAYING IS INDIVIDUAL.
FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY
OF MAYER MUSIC HOUSE
At the time of the Tune convention in Chicago, Presto-
Times gave a. report of the demonstration by William
Braid White, acoustic engineer of the American Steel
& Wire Company, of his development of the Osiso, a
de\ ice for making sound wave photographs. Since the
middle of September, Mr. White and C. Anderson, engi-
neer of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing
Company, have been exhibiting the work of the device
at Steinway Hall, New York. One of the things demon-
strated is that each artist produces patterns as individual
as his signature, and though others may be able to
imitate these patterns fairly well, apparenly no one else
can reproduce them exactly. The Osiso is designed to
calibrate the harmony of musical instruments, and detect
imperfections, whether in tones from wires or strings,
or reverberations of sounding boards. Mr. White said it
is found sounding boards sometimes reverberate better
at some points in the scale than others.
Paris, Texas, Gives Honor to Henry P. Mayer and
Dinner Horn Toots Praise.
On the occasion of the celebration of the anniver-
sary of the Henry P.. Mayer Music House, Paris,
Texas, friends and business contemporaries paid trib-
ute to Henry P. Mayer, the founder of the business.
September 24 was the date of the celebration.
Fellow merchants of Paris extended the glad hand
by means of a two-page advertisement in the Paris
Dinner Horn, closely packed with messages of felici-
tation.
A congratulatory party arranged by the Paris
Chamber of Commerce was held on the evening of
the anniversary at the Mayer Music House. Numer-
ous floral baskets, the gifts of his townsmen, were
decked about the shop on that occasion.
The Paris Morning News paid a lengthy tribute to
Mr. Mayer. It spoke in glowing terms of his suc-
cess, of the untiring efforts which hade made his
one of the really substantial music houses of Texas,
of his civic spirit that prompted him to bring to
Paris many of. the great musical organizations of the
country, and to devote much of his valuable time to
the business management of the Paris school board.
In addition, as past president of the Chamber of Com-
merce there, he contributed much to the up-building
of Paris.
The Presto-Times joins with the fellow townsmen
of Henry P. Mayer in wishing him many more years
of growth and prosperity.
"PENNANT WINNER" POPULAR.
Judging from the number of orders received by the
Clark Orchestra Roll Co., De Kalb, 111., for "The
Pennant Winner" it looks as though this all-hit roll
containing twelve of the most popular song-hits of
the day will outsell all other music rolls. It's a
snappy arrangement of twelve catchy tunes such as
"Pagan Love Song," "Louise," etc. That explains
its phenomenal success.
APPRECIATIVE LETTERS
TO UNGER MUSIC CO.
"Dreams, Just Dreams" Seems to Be a Prime
Favorite Among the Singers and Conductors.
The J. S. Unger Music Company, Reading, Pa., has
recently received some very complimentary letters from
different musicians and artists in various parts of the
country. Among them is one from "Hip" Haynes and
his Commanders of Mitchell, S. D., from which the fol-
lowing is an abstract:
"Mitchell, S. D., August 19, 1929.
"Received your copy of the waltz, 'Dreams, Just
Dreams,' words and music by Don Fina, from Miss
Genevicve Martin, Kenosha, Wis., and I wish to state that
the number is a very nice waltz and makes a lovely
composition to add to our library.
"Would you kindly get in touch with the composer,
Don Fina, and thank him very kindly for me and tell
him that I appreciate the ballad he wrote and will do
all I can to help him move it.
(Signed) "L. H. HAYNES."
IS YOUR TOWN "PICKED CLEAN?"
PRESENT "FAVORITE MUSIC"
The Edisongsters, heard every Monday evening
during the Edison Radio presentations of "Favorite
Music of Famous Persons," constitute a trio of solo-
ists of exceptional quality—Jack Packer, Frank Lu-
Contributing to the steady growth of Atwatcr-
Kent is such sales advice as this, issued monthly tc
that firm's dealers:
There is many a city in the United States which
salesmen will tell you has been "picked clean." And
yet, away from the main street, there is a Polish
section, or an Italian section, or a Jewish section, or
a Finnish section. It may not look prosperous. But
go and look at the stores. They are filled not only
with merchandise, but with customers. The raer-
And this letter is from Vella Cook, Chicago's famous
contralto:
Chicago, 111., August 21, 1929.
"J. S. Unger Publishing Co.,
"Reading, Pa.
"Dear Sirs :
"I am very much in love with one of your songs,
'Dreams, Just Dreams,' by Don Fina. Someone hap-
pened to send it to my accompanist, Roy Farr, who is
the staff organist on WCFL. Believe it was sent from
Milwaukee. He played it last Sunday, and I thought it
beautiful and just my kind of a song. Being that I am
a contralto, I wonder if you would send me a lower key
copy; it is written in four flats, and think one flat would
be O. K. for me. Send words and piano copy.
"If you have anything else for a contralto, I would
appreciate the words and piano in low key. I sing over
WCFL every Sunday from 2:15 to 2:45 and 3 p. m.,
with Roy Farr accompanying at the Barton organ.
"Thanking you very kindly, I am,
"Very sincerely,
(Signed) "VELLA COOK.
"Chicago, 111."
Here is a letter from Bill Frederick of St. Louis, Mo.:
"J. S. Unger Music Co.
"(ientlemen :
"Just received your numbers with the greatest of
pleasure. I will use them to the best advantage, I can
assure you. Possibly in the near future you can again
accommodate me. I will close here. Hoping to hear
from you in the near future, 1 am,
"Very truly yours for co-operation.
"(Signed) "BILL FREDERICK.
"St. Louis. Mo."
HE DID HIS BEST.
ther and Phil Dewey—whose ensemble work has
the range and broad strength of a quartette. The
fourth member of the Edisongsters is their arranger
and accompanist, Will Donaldson, whose unusual
scoring of the numbers the Edisongsters sing so aptly
captures the real feelings of the songs' composers.
Each member of the Edisongsters is a trained artist,
with an established reputation in radio, theatrical, con-
cert and record circles.
Two essentials to success in business are dollars
and sense.
chant who owns the store may not be up on golf,
but he knows value when he sees it.
These foreign sections are great business pro-
ducers for merchants and salesmen who go after the
business intelligently. Find a real salesman who
talks the language of the people among whom he is
to work—and watch results.
F. A. LaBaw is general sales manager of the Mar-
vin Radio Tube Corporation, 225 Broadway, Xew
York.
The office correspondent of a business concern had
been invited to dinner and was asked to say grace.
This was an entirely new experience, but he took it
valiantly. "Dear Lord," he began, "we thank You
for all Your favors of recent date. Accept our heart-
felt gratitude. We trust that we may continue to
merit Your confidence, and that we shall receive
many more blessings from You in the future. Amen."
— Mid-West Review.
PROOF ENOUGH.
Magistrate—Are you sure he was intoxicated?
Policeman—No, sir, not positive, but his wife says
lie brought home a manhole cover and tried to play
it on the gramaphonc!—Loughborough, England
Herald.
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT ON PIANO KEY SERVICE
A Friend in Need IS a Friend Indeed
Dealers throughout the country; manufacturers and piano repair shops requiring piano keys
repaired and recovered or piano key service of any kind, will find such a friend in the
McMAGKIN PIANO SERVICE
1719-21 MONDAMIN AVENUE
DES MOINES, IOWA
Accommodating experts are to be found here who understand recovering piano keys and
general key repairs, black and white, etc., as well as ivory sanding, polishing and re-gluing.
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).
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P R E S T 0-T I M E S
14
ALL PLAYING IS INDIVIDUAL.
FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY
OF MAYER MUSIC HOUSE
At the time of the Tune convention in Chicago, Presto-
Times gave a. report of the demonstration by William
Braid White, acoustic engineer of the American Steel
& Wire Company, of his development of the Osiso, a
de\ ice for making sound wave photographs. Since the
middle of September, Mr. White and C. Anderson, engi-
neer of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing
Company, have been exhibiting the work of the device
at Steinway Hall, New York. One of the things demon-
strated is that each artist produces patterns as individual
as his signature, and though others may be able to
imitate these patterns fairly well, apparenly no one else
can reproduce them exactly. The Osiso is designed to
calibrate the harmony of musical instruments, and detect
imperfections, whether in tones from wires or strings,
or reverberations of sounding boards. Mr. White said it
is found sounding boards sometimes reverberate better
at some points in the scale than others.
Paris, Texas, Gives Honor to Henry P. Mayer and
Dinner Horn Toots Praise.
On the occasion of the celebration of the anniver-
sary of the Henry P.. Mayer Music House, Paris,
Texas, friends and business contemporaries paid trib-
ute to Henry P. Mayer, the founder of the business.
September 24 was the date of the celebration.
Fellow merchants of Paris extended the glad hand
by means of a two-page advertisement in the Paris
Dinner Horn, closely packed with messages of felici-
tation.
A congratulatory party arranged by the Paris
Chamber of Commerce was held on the evening of
the anniversary at the Mayer Music House. Numer-
ous floral baskets, the gifts of his townsmen, were
decked about the shop on that occasion.
The Paris Morning News paid a lengthy tribute to
Mr. Mayer. It spoke in glowing terms of his suc-
cess, of the untiring efforts which hade made his
one of the really substantial music houses of Texas,
of his civic spirit that prompted him to bring to
Paris many of. the great musical organizations of the
country, and to devote much of his valuable time to
the business management of the Paris school board.
In addition, as past president of the Chamber of Com-
merce there, he contributed much to the up-building
of Paris.
The Presto-Times joins with the fellow townsmen
of Henry P. Mayer in wishing him many more years
of growth and prosperity.
"PENNANT WINNER" POPULAR.
Judging from the number of orders received by the
Clark Orchestra Roll Co., De Kalb, 111., for "The
Pennant Winner" it looks as though this all-hit roll
containing twelve of the most popular song-hits of
the day will outsell all other music rolls. It's a
snappy arrangement of twelve catchy tunes such as
"Pagan Love Song," "Louise," etc. That explains
its phenomenal success.
APPRECIATIVE LETTERS
TO UNGER MUSIC CO.
"Dreams, Just Dreams" Seems to Be a Prime
Favorite Among the Singers and Conductors.
The J. S. Unger Music Company, Reading, Pa., has
recently received some very complimentary letters from
different musicians and artists in various parts of the
country. Among them is one from "Hip" Haynes and
his Commanders of Mitchell, S. D., from which the fol-
lowing is an abstract:
"Mitchell, S. D., August 19, 1929.
"Received your copy of the waltz, 'Dreams, Just
Dreams,' words and music by Don Fina, from Miss
Genevicve Martin, Kenosha, Wis., and I wish to state that
the number is a very nice waltz and makes a lovely
composition to add to our library.
"Would you kindly get in touch with the composer,
Don Fina, and thank him very kindly for me and tell
him that I appreciate the ballad he wrote and will do
all I can to help him move it.
(Signed) "L. H. HAYNES."
IS YOUR TOWN "PICKED CLEAN?"
PRESENT "FAVORITE MUSIC"
The Edisongsters, heard every Monday evening
during the Edison Radio presentations of "Favorite
Music of Famous Persons," constitute a trio of solo-
ists of exceptional quality—Jack Packer, Frank Lu-
Contributing to the steady growth of Atwatcr-
Kent is such sales advice as this, issued monthly tc
that firm's dealers:
There is many a city in the United States which
salesmen will tell you has been "picked clean." And
yet, away from the main street, there is a Polish
section, or an Italian section, or a Jewish section, or
a Finnish section. It may not look prosperous. But
go and look at the stores. They are filled not only
with merchandise, but with customers. The raer-
And this letter is from Vella Cook, Chicago's famous
contralto:
Chicago, 111., August 21, 1929.
"J. S. Unger Publishing Co.,
"Reading, Pa.
"Dear Sirs :
"I am very much in love with one of your songs,
'Dreams, Just Dreams,' by Don Fina. Someone hap-
pened to send it to my accompanist, Roy Farr, who is
the staff organist on WCFL. Believe it was sent from
Milwaukee. He played it last Sunday, and I thought it
beautiful and just my kind of a song. Being that I am
a contralto, I wonder if you would send me a lower key
copy; it is written in four flats, and think one flat would
be O. K. for me. Send words and piano copy.
"If you have anything else for a contralto, I would
appreciate the words and piano in low key. I sing over
WCFL every Sunday from 2:15 to 2:45 and 3 p. m.,
with Roy Farr accompanying at the Barton organ.
"Thanking you very kindly, I am,
"Very sincerely,
(Signed) "VELLA COOK.
"Chicago, 111."
Here is a letter from Bill Frederick of St. Louis, Mo.:
"J. S. Unger Music Co.
"(ientlemen :
"Just received your numbers with the greatest of
pleasure. I will use them to the best advantage, I can
assure you. Possibly in the near future you can again
accommodate me. I will close here. Hoping to hear
from you in the near future, 1 am,
"Very truly yours for co-operation.
"(Signed) "BILL FREDERICK.
"St. Louis. Mo."
HE DID HIS BEST.
ther and Phil Dewey—whose ensemble work has
the range and broad strength of a quartette. The
fourth member of the Edisongsters is their arranger
and accompanist, Will Donaldson, whose unusual
scoring of the numbers the Edisongsters sing so aptly
captures the real feelings of the songs' composers.
Each member of the Edisongsters is a trained artist,
with an established reputation in radio, theatrical, con-
cert and record circles.
Two essentials to success in business are dollars
and sense.
chant who owns the store may not be up on golf,
but he knows value when he sees it.
These foreign sections are great business pro-
ducers for merchants and salesmen who go after the
business intelligently. Find a real salesman who
talks the language of the people among whom he is
to work—and watch results.
F. A. LaBaw is general sales manager of the Mar-
vin Radio Tube Corporation, 225 Broadway, Xew
York.
The office correspondent of a business concern had
been invited to dinner and was asked to say grace.
This was an entirely new experience, but he took it
valiantly. "Dear Lord," he began, "we thank You
for all Your favors of recent date. Accept our heart-
felt gratitude. We trust that we may continue to
merit Your confidence, and that we shall receive
many more blessings from You in the future. Amen."
— Mid-West Review.
PROOF ENOUGH.
Magistrate—Are you sure he was intoxicated?
Policeman—No, sir, not positive, but his wife says
lie brought home a manhole cover and tried to play
it on the gramaphonc!—Loughborough, England
Herald.
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT ON PIANO KEY SERVICE
A Friend in Need IS a Friend Indeed
Dealers throughout the country; manufacturers and piano repair shops requiring piano keys
repaired and recovered or piano key service of any kind, will find such a friend in the
McMAGKIN PIANO SERVICE
1719-21 MONDAMIN AVENUE
DES MOINES, IOWA
Accommodating experts are to be found here who understand recovering piano keys and
general key repairs, black and white, etc., as well as ivory sanding, polishing and re-gluing.
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).