Presto
Issue: 1929 2238 - Page 6
November 1, 1929
P R E S T O-T I M E S
STANDING COMMITTEES
OF CHICAGO PIANO CLUB
President Gurney R. Brownell Makes Judicious
Selection of Men Fitted by Experi-
ence to Serve.
G. R. Brownell, president of the Piano Club of Chi-
cago, announces the following as the standing com-
mittees to serve the club for the 1929-30 term:
By-Laws, Adam Schneider.
Finance. James T. Bristol, Gordon Laughead,
Roger O'Connor.
Resolutions, Adam Schneider, Frank P. Whitmore.
Membership, Ben F. Duval, chairman; Clarence A.
Johnson, Ben Strub, E. A. Leveille, Theodore Lorenz,
V. V. Hrdlicka, C. E. Jackson. F. E. Johnston, Dr.
G. A. Pockett. (Other names to be added.)
Promotion of Music, Henry E. Weisert, chairmau;
Eugene Whelan, associate chairman; Chas. E. Byrne,
Roy J. Cook, Henry D. Hewitt, Gordon Laughead,
John S. Gorman, Percy A. Tonk, Walter M. Gotsch,
T. F. Weber, Jas. T* Bristol, Nels C. Boe, Chas.
Frederick Stein, L. C. Wiswell, W. M. Gamble, Geo.
S. McLaughlin, E. R. Jacobson, Noel M. Seeburg,
Roy W. Hibshman, F. M. Hood, F. C. Johnson, L.
Schoenwald, H. C. Dickinson, Ben F. Duval, Edw.
E. Benedict, Adam Schneider, Roger O'Connor.
Morris Blink, general chairman for entertainment
and speakers.
Entertainment, S. D. Harris, associate chairman;
E. A. Fearn, associate chairman; Albert J. Heath,
associate chairman; John J. Shea, associate chairman;
Axel Christensen, Jack Kapp, Carl S. Weber, W. F.
Ludwig, W. E. Bondeson, W. P. Redmond, Walter
Wilson (Uncle Bob), Geo. B. Lufkin, Fred L. Ryder.
W. M. Gamble.
Speakers, E. F. Lapham, chairman; E. V. Galla-
way, associate chairman.
Ex-Officio Entertainment Committee, Edward E.
Benedict.
Publicity, Music Trades, Music Trade Indicator,
Music Trade Review, Piano Trade Magazine, Presto-
Times.
Two more committees are to be appointed in the
near future.
At its noon luncheon on October 21. the Piano
Club of Chicago enjoyed itself laughing at a film of
rare comics—much funnier than those that usually
pass for comics in the theaters. This amusing enter-
tainment was furnished through the courtesy of the
W. W. Kimball Company by Ted Benedict, of that
house. The characters got into the most ridiculous
kinds of troubles and the laughter of the tired busi-
ness men was uproarious.
Gordon Laughead, of Wurlitzer's, reported a mes-
sage from Walter Kiehn, now of Toronto, Out.,
representing Q R S interests in the Dominion of Can-
ada. At a recent visit to Mr. Kiehn that ex-Chi-
cagoan had asked Mr. Laughead to convey his regards
to all the members of the club. Mr. Kiehn had said
that of all the groups that he had associated with
in Chicago he missed the Piano Club probably the
most.
KARSTEN BACK FROM HONEYMOON.
Norman M. Karsten, assistant advertising manager
of Gulbransen's, Chicago, is back from his wedding
trip. He and his bride motored through the part of
the Ozarks made famous by Harold Bell Wright in
his book, "The Shepherd of the Hills." They
drove past Lake Taney Como (named for the Ozark
pioneer Taney and for Lake Como in the province of
Lombardy, Italy). They were at Hollister in the
southern ,part of Taney County, Mo., and drove
through Barry County. They crossed the rutty road
on the side of which the "shepherd's" cabin was located
and would have visited it, but Mr. Karsten says it had
rained and the drive up would have been next to
impossible it was so steep. Leaving that for another
visit, they passed on.
CHAS. JACOB IN CLOUDLAND
The accompanying cut shows Charles Jacob, presi-
dent of Jacob Bros., piauo manufacturers, New York,
and a 13-year-old girl from Boston, ascending that
most famous one of the Alps, the Jungfrau. In this
P?£NOS CING
CHARLES JACOB ASCENDING THE JTNGFRAU.
instance, no one would be justified in saying, "Decem-
ber and May." Really a more descriptive expression
would be, "Youth and Beauty."
"Well, well!" exclaimed one of Mr. Jacob's friends
in the piano trade when he got a glimpse of the photo-
graph, "Charlie looks to be about 25 in that picture.
Honestly, he does. It's Charles Jacob all right." His
face expresses the bonhommie of the vacationer en-
joying himself as much as is the little girl seated with
him in the great cutter that is used to transport
passengers to the snowy peaks, and give them occa-
sional tobogganing glides down some of the lesser
declivities.
AUSTRALIAN VISITS GULBRANSEN'S.
George E. Horton, of E. F. Wilks, music dealers of
Sydney, Australia, was a visitor at the Gulbransen
Company's Chicago offices on October 22. He said
that trade conditions are fair in that portion of the
southern hemisphere.
The extract here given is from the American Piano
Company's folio telling of the wonders of the Ampico:
"Throughout dinner, the new Ampico now pours
forth a brilliant panorama of gorgeous music without
the necessity of changing a roll! Incomparable music
to charm aside the crowding, clamorous world and
to drive dreariness away!
"Solo after solo by the man of all men you want
most to play for you—whether he be Orloff, Rosen-
thai, Schmitz, Lopez, Delcamp, Arden, or any of two
hundred other masters, of the classics or of jazz!
"The new Ampico not only strikes the same key
which the artist struck when he made the recording.
"It strikes that key with the same fillip, touch,
stroke or bold attack—with exactly the timing and
finger-energy—of the artist himself.
"The new Ampico thus reproduces with photo-
graphic clarity all the feeling, all the poetry, all the
expression of the artist's interpretation.
"No wonder Rachmaninoff has said, 'I will record
only for the Ampico!'
"No wonder Kreisler has written, 'The Ampico is
the artistic mirror of myself!' "
A. HARDMAN JOINS GULBRANSEN'S.
Albert Hardman is now an assistant to Advertising
Manager Alexander at the Gulbransen Company, Chi-
cago. Mr. Hardman's latest experience was with the
Wayne Compiling Corporation, 610 West Van Buren
street, Chicago, compiling auto and radio catalogues.
The Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler Memorial was dedi-
cated last week in the Chicago Woman's Club, 72
East 11th street, Chicago. Mrs. Zeisler was known
Alert dealers take note of the shifting population
for years as the greatest woman pianist in the world. in their communities.
HALLET & DAVIS PIANO CO.
Established 183S—Boston
FACTORIES - - NEW YORK CITY
Executive Offices and Wholesale Warerooms
6 East 39th St. (at 5th Ave.)
New York City
£VANOS
Established Reputation and Quality Since 1873
FACTORY
OFFICES & SALESROOMS
Corner of Kostner Avenue
New Adam Schaaf Building
319-321 So. Wabash Ave.,
CHICAGO, ILL.
XH E
The residents of the Oranges, New Jersey, in which
locality Thomas A. Edison has made his home for
more than forty years, held community gatherings on
the evening of October 21, in honor of their most
distinguished neighbor and business associate.
As the inventor's home-town tributes were coinci-
dent with the major Light's Golden Jubilee Celebra-
tion at Dearborn, Mich., the program featured the
ceremonies broadcast from Henry Ford's recon-
structed "Menlo Park." The impressive Dearborn
broadcast was received on Edison radios donated for
the occasion by the local Edison radio dealers, Mor-
rison & Turbitt of South Orange; Orange Music
Box of Orange; and R. A. Cadby of East Orange.
Prominent Orange dignitaries made brief speeches
in which Mr. Edison was not only honored for his
notable achievements, but also for his own, and his
family's active interest in the communal affairs of
the Oranges.
Musical selections were played, consisting mainly
of Mr. Edison's favorite numbers. The gatherings
also joined in singing several of the songs.
The programs concluded with the reading of con-
gratulatory telegrams that had been dispatched to
Mr. Edison.
So Wrote Fritz Kreisler, While Rachmaninoff Said
"I Will Record Only for the Ampico."
GRANDS AND UPRIGHTS
4343 Fifth Avenue
Edison Radios Bring Dearborn Broadcast to
Jubilee Gatherings of Inventor's
Neighbors
THE NEW AMPICO MIRRORS
ITSELF ARTISTICALLY
ADAM SCHAAF, Inc.
RE
EDISON HONORED
BY HIS COMMUNITY
CO MSTOCK,
CH I E NET 1 Y
IVORYTON, CONN.
& CO.
IVORY CUTTERS SINCE 1834
MANUFACTURERS OF
Grand Keys, Actions and Hammers, Upright Keys
Actions and Hammer , Pipe Organ Keys
Piano Forte Ivory for the Trade
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P R E S T O-T I M E S
STANDING COMMITTEES
OF CHICAGO PIANO CLUB
President Gurney R. Brownell Makes Judicious
Selection of Men Fitted by Experi-
ence to Serve.
G. R. Brownell, president of the Piano Club of Chi-
cago, announces the following as the standing com-
mittees to serve the club for the 1929-30 term:
By-Laws, Adam Schneider.
Finance. James T. Bristol, Gordon Laughead,
Roger O'Connor.
Resolutions, Adam Schneider, Frank P. Whitmore.
Membership, Ben F. Duval, chairman; Clarence A.
Johnson, Ben Strub, E. A. Leveille, Theodore Lorenz,
V. V. Hrdlicka, C. E. Jackson. F. E. Johnston, Dr.
G. A. Pockett. (Other names to be added.)
Promotion of Music, Henry E. Weisert, chairmau;
Eugene Whelan, associate chairman; Chas. E. Byrne,
Roy J. Cook, Henry D. Hewitt, Gordon Laughead,
John S. Gorman, Percy A. Tonk, Walter M. Gotsch,
T. F. Weber, Jas. T* Bristol, Nels C. Boe, Chas.
Frederick Stein, L. C. Wiswell, W. M. Gamble, Geo.
S. McLaughlin, E. R. Jacobson, Noel M. Seeburg,
Roy W. Hibshman, F. M. Hood, F. C. Johnson, L.
Schoenwald, H. C. Dickinson, Ben F. Duval, Edw.
E. Benedict, Adam Schneider, Roger O'Connor.
Morris Blink, general chairman for entertainment
and speakers.
Entertainment, S. D. Harris, associate chairman;
E. A. Fearn, associate chairman; Albert J. Heath,
associate chairman; John J. Shea, associate chairman;
Axel Christensen, Jack Kapp, Carl S. Weber, W. F.
Ludwig, W. E. Bondeson, W. P. Redmond, Walter
Wilson (Uncle Bob), Geo. B. Lufkin, Fred L. Ryder.
W. M. Gamble.
Speakers, E. F. Lapham, chairman; E. V. Galla-
way, associate chairman.
Ex-Officio Entertainment Committee, Edward E.
Benedict.
Publicity, Music Trades, Music Trade Indicator,
Music Trade Review, Piano Trade Magazine, Presto-
Times.
Two more committees are to be appointed in the
near future.
At its noon luncheon on October 21. the Piano
Club of Chicago enjoyed itself laughing at a film of
rare comics—much funnier than those that usually
pass for comics in the theaters. This amusing enter-
tainment was furnished through the courtesy of the
W. W. Kimball Company by Ted Benedict, of that
house. The characters got into the most ridiculous
kinds of troubles and the laughter of the tired busi-
ness men was uproarious.
Gordon Laughead, of Wurlitzer's, reported a mes-
sage from Walter Kiehn, now of Toronto, Out.,
representing Q R S interests in the Dominion of Can-
ada. At a recent visit to Mr. Kiehn that ex-Chi-
cagoan had asked Mr. Laughead to convey his regards
to all the members of the club. Mr. Kiehn had said
that of all the groups that he had associated with
in Chicago he missed the Piano Club probably the
most.
KARSTEN BACK FROM HONEYMOON.
Norman M. Karsten, assistant advertising manager
of Gulbransen's, Chicago, is back from his wedding
trip. He and his bride motored through the part of
the Ozarks made famous by Harold Bell Wright in
his book, "The Shepherd of the Hills." They
drove past Lake Taney Como (named for the Ozark
pioneer Taney and for Lake Como in the province of
Lombardy, Italy). They were at Hollister in the
southern ,part of Taney County, Mo., and drove
through Barry County. They crossed the rutty road
on the side of which the "shepherd's" cabin was located
and would have visited it, but Mr. Karsten says it had
rained and the drive up would have been next to
impossible it was so steep. Leaving that for another
visit, they passed on.
CHAS. JACOB IN CLOUDLAND
The accompanying cut shows Charles Jacob, presi-
dent of Jacob Bros., piauo manufacturers, New York,
and a 13-year-old girl from Boston, ascending that
most famous one of the Alps, the Jungfrau. In this
P?£NOS CING
CHARLES JACOB ASCENDING THE JTNGFRAU.
instance, no one would be justified in saying, "Decem-
ber and May." Really a more descriptive expression
would be, "Youth and Beauty."
"Well, well!" exclaimed one of Mr. Jacob's friends
in the piano trade when he got a glimpse of the photo-
graph, "Charlie looks to be about 25 in that picture.
Honestly, he does. It's Charles Jacob all right." His
face expresses the bonhommie of the vacationer en-
joying himself as much as is the little girl seated with
him in the great cutter that is used to transport
passengers to the snowy peaks, and give them occa-
sional tobogganing glides down some of the lesser
declivities.
AUSTRALIAN VISITS GULBRANSEN'S.
George E. Horton, of E. F. Wilks, music dealers of
Sydney, Australia, was a visitor at the Gulbransen
Company's Chicago offices on October 22. He said
that trade conditions are fair in that portion of the
southern hemisphere.
The extract here given is from the American Piano
Company's folio telling of the wonders of the Ampico:
"Throughout dinner, the new Ampico now pours
forth a brilliant panorama of gorgeous music without
the necessity of changing a roll! Incomparable music
to charm aside the crowding, clamorous world and
to drive dreariness away!
"Solo after solo by the man of all men you want
most to play for you—whether he be Orloff, Rosen-
thai, Schmitz, Lopez, Delcamp, Arden, or any of two
hundred other masters, of the classics or of jazz!
"The new Ampico not only strikes the same key
which the artist struck when he made the recording.
"It strikes that key with the same fillip, touch,
stroke or bold attack—with exactly the timing and
finger-energy—of the artist himself.
"The new Ampico thus reproduces with photo-
graphic clarity all the feeling, all the poetry, all the
expression of the artist's interpretation.
"No wonder Rachmaninoff has said, 'I will record
only for the Ampico!'
"No wonder Kreisler has written, 'The Ampico is
the artistic mirror of myself!' "
A. HARDMAN JOINS GULBRANSEN'S.
Albert Hardman is now an assistant to Advertising
Manager Alexander at the Gulbransen Company, Chi-
cago. Mr. Hardman's latest experience was with the
Wayne Compiling Corporation, 610 West Van Buren
street, Chicago, compiling auto and radio catalogues.
The Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler Memorial was dedi-
cated last week in the Chicago Woman's Club, 72
East 11th street, Chicago. Mrs. Zeisler was known
Alert dealers take note of the shifting population
for years as the greatest woman pianist in the world. in their communities.
HALLET & DAVIS PIANO CO.
Established 183S—Boston
FACTORIES - - NEW YORK CITY
Executive Offices and Wholesale Warerooms
6 East 39th St. (at 5th Ave.)
New York City
£VANOS
Established Reputation and Quality Since 1873
FACTORY
OFFICES & SALESROOMS
Corner of Kostner Avenue
New Adam Schaaf Building
319-321 So. Wabash Ave.,
CHICAGO, ILL.
XH E
The residents of the Oranges, New Jersey, in which
locality Thomas A. Edison has made his home for
more than forty years, held community gatherings on
the evening of October 21, in honor of their most
distinguished neighbor and business associate.
As the inventor's home-town tributes were coinci-
dent with the major Light's Golden Jubilee Celebra-
tion at Dearborn, Mich., the program featured the
ceremonies broadcast from Henry Ford's recon-
structed "Menlo Park." The impressive Dearborn
broadcast was received on Edison radios donated for
the occasion by the local Edison radio dealers, Mor-
rison & Turbitt of South Orange; Orange Music
Box of Orange; and R. A. Cadby of East Orange.
Prominent Orange dignitaries made brief speeches
in which Mr. Edison was not only honored for his
notable achievements, but also for his own, and his
family's active interest in the communal affairs of
the Oranges.
Musical selections were played, consisting mainly
of Mr. Edison's favorite numbers. The gatherings
also joined in singing several of the songs.
The programs concluded with the reading of con-
gratulatory telegrams that had been dispatched to
Mr. Edison.
So Wrote Fritz Kreisler, While Rachmaninoff Said
"I Will Record Only for the Ampico."
GRANDS AND UPRIGHTS
4343 Fifth Avenue
Edison Radios Bring Dearborn Broadcast to
Jubilee Gatherings of Inventor's
Neighbors
THE NEW AMPICO MIRRORS
ITSELF ARTISTICALLY
ADAM SCHAAF, Inc.
RE
EDISON HONORED
BY HIS COMMUNITY
CO MSTOCK,
CH I E NET 1 Y
IVORYTON, CONN.
& CO.
IVORY CUTTERS SINCE 1834
MANUFACTURERS OF
Grand Keys, Actions and Hammers, Upright Keys
Actions and Hammer , Pipe Organ Keys
Piano Forte Ivory for the Trade
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).