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Issue: 1929 2239 - Page 13
November 15, 1929
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P R E S T O-T I M E S
died in 1890, and his widow succeeded to his interest.
On the death of DeWitt Gibbons in 1919, the business
was incorporated with Arthur J. Gibbons as president.
Gibbons & Stone has issued several piano catalogs
embodying a list of owners that reads like a directory
of notables in the musical, civic, business, and educa-
Oldest Music House in Rochester, N. Y., tional circles of Western New York.
Levis Music Store History.
Which Manufactured Pianos as Early
The history of the Levis Music Store, the new
as 1861, Changes Hands.
owners of Gibbons & Stone, dates back to 1903', when
The 68-year-old music business of Gibbons & Samuel H. Levis, for thirty years with the old Mackie
Stone, Rochester, N. Y., has been purchased by the Piano & Music Company, resigned as manager and
Levis Music Store, William H. Levis has announced. established his own business in West Main street.
This is the third Rochester music house acquired by Afterward he removed to South avenue, where the
the Levis Music Store in the last few years. The store has been enlarged several times. Upon his
Balcom Music Company was purchased in 1924 and death in 1912, his son, William H. Levis, and his
J. W. Martin & Brother in 1927.
daughter, Ruth I. Levis, assumed management. In
1921, the continued growth in business led to the
Gibbons Was Starr's Superintendent.
Founded in 1861, Gibbons & Stone is the oldest opening of a second store, at 412 Main street East.
music house in Rochester. Dwight Gibbons came
to Rochester in the early forties and entered the em-
OWENSBORO IS MUSICAL.
ploy of Comfort Starr, a cabinet maker and furniture
Owensboro,
Ky., known as the home of many
man, who, inspired by a series of concerts by such
celebrities of the day as Jenny Lind, L. M. Gotts- lovers of music, took definite steps last week to be-
chalk, Mine. Anna Bishop, Ole Bull, and the 9-year- come more widely known as a musical city when the
Civic Music Association was formed. Mrs. Ruth
old Adelina Patti, in 1851 began the manufacture of
the Starr piano. In those days pianos were made to Swarthout, of the Civic Concert Service, Inc., Chi-
order only. Dwight Gibbons was Mr. Starr's super- cago, was present at the formation meeting and ex-
plained the plan of procedure. The following officers
intendent.
were elected: President, the Rev. Howard Stephen-
Gibbons & Stone Formed.
son; first vice-president, Mrs. John Gilmour; second
In 1861, Mr. Gibbons formed an alliance with Ly- vice president, Charles C. Mitchell; third vice-presi-
man Stone of Spencerport under the name of Gibbons dent, Mrs. Virginia Duncan; fourth vice president, La
& Stone, and the manufacturing of the Gibbons & Vega Clenments; treasurer, Miss Mattie Cottrell;
Stone piano was begun. The original Gibbons & secretary, Mrs. Yewell Bottorf. These officers con-
Stone factory was a frame building on the site of stitute the executive board. The president appointed
the United building at Main and Water streets. the following chairman: Organization, Miss Mary
Afterward the factory was moved to South avenue Elizabeth Yager; assistant, E. W. Smith; appoint-
near Ely street, and then to the present building, 19 ments, Mrs. Henry Petit; publicity, Mrs. Virginia
Duncan, Miss Mabel Brown. The great advantage of
Industrial street.
When the factory was moved to Industrial street, the Civic Music Association plan is that it makes an
a general retail store was opened by Gibbons & Stone artist series a permanent thing, thus assuring the
in State street. This store was afterward removed to musical and artistic advancement of the city.
110 East Main street, the Edwards Store site, and in
1919 to 172 East Main street, and in 1927 to the
PADEREWSKI'S VILLA
present location at 76 Clinton avenue North.
Ignace Jan Paderewski, the pianist, owns a villa at
Sons Enter Firm in 1874.
Morges, above Lake Geneva, Switzerland. His cha-
The sons of Dwight Gibbons, Arthur J. and De- teau, four stories high, with a wooden chalet roof,
Witt C, were admitted to the firm in 1874. Mr. Stone was built bv the Count de Maaroes and stands on a
LEVIS MUSIC STORE
GETS GIBBONS & STONE
Choose Your Piano As The Artists Do
site first used by Joseph Fouche, Duke of Otranto,
Napoleon's Minister of the Interior. From the terrace
the ground tapers away into a shadowy skirt of pines,
cedar, lindens he laid out himself—the park. With
his Polish land sold, now that Pilsudski is in power
there, this place has become to the painist, far more
than his property at Nyon or his ranches in California,
important as the background of his comfort.
JESSE FRENCH ENSEMBLE SETS.
Jesse French & Sons, piano and radio manufac-
turers at New Castle, Ind., chose a wise course a few
years ago when they began to manufacture complete
outfits for the piano room—giving with the piano a
set of furniture to match and making the charge mod-
erate. These sets were pleasing and as they were
matched the purchasers did not tire of them. Some
of the furniture makers have been running to the
bizarre and the freakish styles that have not given
permanent satisfaction. Forty men and women, with
almost as many viewpoints, met in the Furniture
Mart in Chicago on Thursday of last week at a con-
ference about furniture styles. Parker Norse Hooper,
editor of Good Furniture and Decoration, said: "Util-
itarianism, after all produces the most beautiful lines,
and we are getting away from the freakishness of
early modern furniture to the good solid lines of the
past."
R. A. BURKE STILL ON ROAD.
Shortly after returning from his trip to the Pacific
Coast states, R. A. Burke, sales manager of the
Story & Clark Piano Company, Chicago, left recently
for a visit to dealers in Texas and other states in
the Southwest. Trade there, it is learned from other
sources, is more than fair; and it is to be expected
that this veteran traveler will win many orders for
the Story & Clark Piano Company. When Mr.
Burke has completed his present tour, he will return
to plan for his annual invasion of Porto Rico.
NEW STORE AT GOSHEN.
V. H. Nelson, who was manager of the Templin
Music Store at Goshen, Ind., for the last six years,
has opened a business for himself at 307 South Main
street, Goshen. He will make a specialty of radios
and equipment.
Through Generations
Have Come Ludwig Ideals
HE Ludwigs, the Ericssons-
and the Perrys created,
nearly a century ago, the stand-
v
ards to which the Ludwig has
been built. Their ideas and ideals have been car-
ried forward by the present generation and today
the direct descendants of those early builders of artis-
tic pianos are the men directing the destiny of the
Ludwig Piano.
T
Ludwig &TCo.
THE BALDWIN PIANO COMPANY
Cincinnati
Chicago
New York
Indianapolis
San Francisco
Willow Ave. and 136th St.
NEW YORK
St. Louis
Louisville
Dallas
Denver
The Famous
Established IMS
STEINERT PIANOS
CAROL ROBINSON
Write for catalogue
(Forwnoat American Pianist) vrheai—
If H "takes great audiences to make great poets"... .It certainly takes
• treat piano to make great music. That piano Is the STEINERT I
M. STEINERT & SONS
ST1INKRT HALL
fhe distinctive features of
Mathushek construction fur-
nish selling points not found
in other makes of pianos.
BOSTON, MASS.
MATHUSHEK PIANO MFG. CO.
I32nd Street and Alexander Arenue
NEW YORK
Presto Buyers' Guide Analyzes All Pianos
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P R E S T O-T I M E S
died in 1890, and his widow succeeded to his interest.
On the death of DeWitt Gibbons in 1919, the business
was incorporated with Arthur J. Gibbons as president.
Gibbons & Stone has issued several piano catalogs
embodying a list of owners that reads like a directory
of notables in the musical, civic, business, and educa-
Oldest Music House in Rochester, N. Y., tional circles of Western New York.
Levis Music Store History.
Which Manufactured Pianos as Early
The history of the Levis Music Store, the new
as 1861, Changes Hands.
owners of Gibbons & Stone, dates back to 1903', when
The 68-year-old music business of Gibbons & Samuel H. Levis, for thirty years with the old Mackie
Stone, Rochester, N. Y., has been purchased by the Piano & Music Company, resigned as manager and
Levis Music Store, William H. Levis has announced. established his own business in West Main street.
This is the third Rochester music house acquired by Afterward he removed to South avenue, where the
the Levis Music Store in the last few years. The store has been enlarged several times. Upon his
Balcom Music Company was purchased in 1924 and death in 1912, his son, William H. Levis, and his
J. W. Martin & Brother in 1927.
daughter, Ruth I. Levis, assumed management. In
1921, the continued growth in business led to the
Gibbons Was Starr's Superintendent.
Founded in 1861, Gibbons & Stone is the oldest opening of a second store, at 412 Main street East.
music house in Rochester. Dwight Gibbons came
to Rochester in the early forties and entered the em-
OWENSBORO IS MUSICAL.
ploy of Comfort Starr, a cabinet maker and furniture
Owensboro,
Ky., known as the home of many
man, who, inspired by a series of concerts by such
celebrities of the day as Jenny Lind, L. M. Gotts- lovers of music, took definite steps last week to be-
chalk, Mine. Anna Bishop, Ole Bull, and the 9-year- come more widely known as a musical city when the
Civic Music Association was formed. Mrs. Ruth
old Adelina Patti, in 1851 began the manufacture of
the Starr piano. In those days pianos were made to Swarthout, of the Civic Concert Service, Inc., Chi-
order only. Dwight Gibbons was Mr. Starr's super- cago, was present at the formation meeting and ex-
plained the plan of procedure. The following officers
intendent.
were elected: President, the Rev. Howard Stephen-
Gibbons & Stone Formed.
son; first vice-president, Mrs. John Gilmour; second
In 1861, Mr. Gibbons formed an alliance with Ly- vice president, Charles C. Mitchell; third vice-presi-
man Stone of Spencerport under the name of Gibbons dent, Mrs. Virginia Duncan; fourth vice president, La
& Stone, and the manufacturing of the Gibbons & Vega Clenments; treasurer, Miss Mattie Cottrell;
Stone piano was begun. The original Gibbons & secretary, Mrs. Yewell Bottorf. These officers con-
Stone factory was a frame building on the site of stitute the executive board. The president appointed
the United building at Main and Water streets. the following chairman: Organization, Miss Mary
Afterward the factory was moved to South avenue Elizabeth Yager; assistant, E. W. Smith; appoint-
near Ely street, and then to the present building, 19 ments, Mrs. Henry Petit; publicity, Mrs. Virginia
Duncan, Miss Mabel Brown. The great advantage of
Industrial street.
When the factory was moved to Industrial street, the Civic Music Association plan is that it makes an
a general retail store was opened by Gibbons & Stone artist series a permanent thing, thus assuring the
in State street. This store was afterward removed to musical and artistic advancement of the city.
110 East Main street, the Edwards Store site, and in
1919 to 172 East Main street, and in 1927 to the
PADEREWSKI'S VILLA
present location at 76 Clinton avenue North.
Ignace Jan Paderewski, the pianist, owns a villa at
Sons Enter Firm in 1874.
Morges, above Lake Geneva, Switzerland. His cha-
The sons of Dwight Gibbons, Arthur J. and De- teau, four stories high, with a wooden chalet roof,
Witt C, were admitted to the firm in 1874. Mr. Stone was built bv the Count de Maaroes and stands on a
LEVIS MUSIC STORE
GETS GIBBONS & STONE
Choose Your Piano As The Artists Do
site first used by Joseph Fouche, Duke of Otranto,
Napoleon's Minister of the Interior. From the terrace
the ground tapers away into a shadowy skirt of pines,
cedar, lindens he laid out himself—the park. With
his Polish land sold, now that Pilsudski is in power
there, this place has become to the painist, far more
than his property at Nyon or his ranches in California,
important as the background of his comfort.
JESSE FRENCH ENSEMBLE SETS.
Jesse French & Sons, piano and radio manufac-
turers at New Castle, Ind., chose a wise course a few
years ago when they began to manufacture complete
outfits for the piano room—giving with the piano a
set of furniture to match and making the charge mod-
erate. These sets were pleasing and as they were
matched the purchasers did not tire of them. Some
of the furniture makers have been running to the
bizarre and the freakish styles that have not given
permanent satisfaction. Forty men and women, with
almost as many viewpoints, met in the Furniture
Mart in Chicago on Thursday of last week at a con-
ference about furniture styles. Parker Norse Hooper,
editor of Good Furniture and Decoration, said: "Util-
itarianism, after all produces the most beautiful lines,
and we are getting away from the freakishness of
early modern furniture to the good solid lines of the
past."
R. A. BURKE STILL ON ROAD.
Shortly after returning from his trip to the Pacific
Coast states, R. A. Burke, sales manager of the
Story & Clark Piano Company, Chicago, left recently
for a visit to dealers in Texas and other states in
the Southwest. Trade there, it is learned from other
sources, is more than fair; and it is to be expected
that this veteran traveler will win many orders for
the Story & Clark Piano Company. When Mr.
Burke has completed his present tour, he will return
to plan for his annual invasion of Porto Rico.
NEW STORE AT GOSHEN.
V. H. Nelson, who was manager of the Templin
Music Store at Goshen, Ind., for the last six years,
has opened a business for himself at 307 South Main
street, Goshen. He will make a specialty of radios
and equipment.
Through Generations
Have Come Ludwig Ideals
HE Ludwigs, the Ericssons-
and the Perrys created,
nearly a century ago, the stand-
v
ards to which the Ludwig has
been built. Their ideas and ideals have been car-
ried forward by the present generation and today
the direct descendants of those early builders of artis-
tic pianos are the men directing the destiny of the
Ludwig Piano.
T
Ludwig &TCo.
THE BALDWIN PIANO COMPANY
Cincinnati
Chicago
New York
Indianapolis
San Francisco
Willow Ave. and 136th St.
NEW YORK
St. Louis
Louisville
Dallas
Denver
The Famous
Established IMS
STEINERT PIANOS
CAROL ROBINSON
Write for catalogue
(Forwnoat American Pianist) vrheai—
If H "takes great audiences to make great poets"... .It certainly takes
• treat piano to make great music. That piano Is the STEINERT I
M. STEINERT & SONS
ST1INKRT HALL
fhe distinctive features of
Mathushek construction fur-
nish selling points not found
in other makes of pianos.
BOSTON, MASS.
MATHUSHEK PIANO MFG. CO.
I32nd Street and Alexander Arenue
NEW YORK
Presto Buyers' Guide Analyzes All Pianos
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).