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January, 1930
P R E S T 0-TI M E S
Accessories Manufacturers took place at the Green-
brier Hotel, White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., March
22 and 23.
Paul Quattlander resigned as vice-president and
treasurer of the American Piano Co., New York.
George Sundberg died suddenly on March 22 in
Detroit.
APRIL
At the luncheon meeting April 1 of the Piano Club
of Chicago Dr. J. Francis Brown, director of music
in the Chicago public schools, expounded conditions
and progress in piano class lessons in the schools.
Sherman, Clay & Co., San Francisco, and Platt
Music Company, Los Angeles, were perfecting ar-
rangements for joint purchasing plan, not to include
pianos.
R. C. Ball, advertising manager for The Starr Piano
Company, Richmond, Ind., returned from a meeting
of the National Education Association, department
of superintendence, held in Cleveland, February 23
to 28; the Southern Music Supervisors' conference at
Asheville, N. C, March 5 to 8; the Eastern Music
Supervisors in Philadelphia March 12 to 15.
Cyril L. Farny of the Wurlitzer Grand Piano Com-
pany, De Kalb, 111., returned from a three weeks' trip
to Mexico with Mrs. Farny.
The Chicago Piano & Organ Association at a meet-
ing March 22 at the Great Northern Hotel named
Adam Schneider executive secretary.
Gust. Ad. Anderson, widely known in the piano
industry and prominent Van Wert, Ohio, business
man, died at the family home after being long in
failing health.
The death of Mrs. Clara Wingate Bent Meikle,
widow of the late Ernest Grant Meikle, occurred
April 1 at Pasadena, Calif. She was the eldest daugh-
ter of George P. Bent.
Herman C. Spain was appointed general manager
of Ampico Hall, on Boylston street, Boston.
Glenn L. Alspach was elected president of the Bal-
keit Radio Co.
Arthur Coe, pioneer piano dealer of Cleveland, died
at his residence, 13205 Detroit avenue, Lakewood, O.
W. L. Pace, president of the Pace Piano Co., of
Beaumont and Houston, Tex., died at his home on
April 3.
The Grigsby-Grunow Company, Chicago, engaged
the services of Prof. Reginald A. Fessenden as con-
sulting engineer.
W. N. Van Matre, chairman board of directors of
the Schumann Piano Company, Rockford, 111., accom-
panied by Mrs. Van Matre, returned to their home at
Lake Bluff, 111, from a summer sojourn in Florida.
An interesting incident of the trade in Chicago was
the opening, March 15, of the Piano Style Show of
the Cable Piano Company, featuring the Cable Midget
Upright in an alluring variety of colors and finishes.
The S. W. Miller Piano Company, Sheboygan, Wis.,
placed on the market a combination piano and radio.
A committee was appointed by Hermann Irion,
president of the Music Industries Chamber of Com-
merce, to exploit the new music slogan, "The Richest
Child Is Poor Without Musical Training."
Louis C. Wagner took charge of retail merchan-
dising for the Ampico Hall chain.
The American Piano Company, opened a new Am-
pico Hall at 1005 Olive street, St. Louis, on April 1,
R. W. Elam is the manager.
A meeting was held April 8 at the Congressional
Country Club near Washington, D. C, to discuss a
request upon the Government at Washington to estab-
lish a department of fine arts. Frederick Philip Stieff,
head of Chas. M. Stieff, Inc., of Baltimore, Md., pre-
sided.
William Ludwig of Ludwig & Ludwig, drum man-
ufacturers, Chicago, returned from a month's visit
to Havana and points in Florida.
The Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co., Chicago, pur-
chased the entire capital stock of the Bremer-Tully
Manufacturing Company, Chicago.
A list of new reduced wholesale prices for all Pan-
American dealers was announced.
Band instrument exports from the Linked States
reached a new level in 1928.
The United States exports of organs during 1928
amounted to $501,874, a substantial increase over 1927
and 1926.
MAY
The E. Leins Piano Company, Inc., New York,
closed out its retail business to devote all energies in
future to the manufacturing phase of the business.
A piano contest opened to the 200.000 pupils of
Catholic schools in Chicago and suburbs to stimulate
interest in the study of music during music week.
The Cable Company, Chicago, sold to the Elec-
trical Research Laboratories, Inc., its entire Chicago
manufacturing property, situated at Paulina and West
22nd streets.
Choose Your Piano As The Artists Do
George W. Lawrence of Chicago, for many years
in the Chicago Division of The Baldwin Piano Com-
pany, was appointed the head of the St. Louis
Division of that company.
Owing to overwhelming expressions of satisfaction
from public, Baldwin Hour over an extensive radio
chain, was continued.
Rembert Wurlitzer, a director of the Rudolph Wur-
litzer Company, Cincinnati visited Los Angeles to
study the sales trend of a new style instrument re-
cently marketed.
The Zenith Radio Corporation, Chicago, staged its
Sixth Annual Distributors' Convention at the Palmer
House, April 9 to 11.
At a meeting of the New York Piano Trade Asso-
ciation, the following officers were elected: Joseph
L. Pettinato, president; Charles H. Jacob, vice-presi-
dent; Valentine J. Faeth, treasurer; Albert Behning,
secretary.
A group of new Chickering piano models were
announced by Chickering & Sons: A Colonial grand,
a Florentine grand, a Sheraton grand and a Colonial
grand with the Ampico.
Steinway & Sons were honored with the distinction
of having Henry Juuge of their organization intrusted
by Mrs. Hoover with pertinent details in connection
with White House musical functions.
The B. K. Settergren Company mailed to stockhold-
ers the semi-annual dividend for the second stock divi-
dend for 1928.
More "straight" pianos, both in grands and up-
rights, were sold in 1928 by the Baldwin Company,
Cincinnati, than at any time in its history.
The Radio-Victor Corporation of America, a wholly
owned subsidiary of the Radio Corporation of Amer-
ica, was incorporated in Maryland to take over sales
activities of the Radio Corporation of America and
the Victor Talking Machine Company.
Nelson-Wiggen Piano Company, manufacturers of
automatic pianos and organs, moved their factory and
headquarters to Rockford, 111., and became more
closely associated with the Haddorff Piano Company
of that city.
Traugott F. Weber was honored at a noon meeting
of the Piano Club of Chicago in commemoration of
his 55th year in the music business.
Radio jobbers from all parts of the United States
attended the annual spring convention of the Apex
division of the United States Radio and Television
Corporation at Indianapolis.
Through Generations
Have Come Ludwig Ideals
HE Ludwigs, the Ericssons-
and the Perrys created,
nearly a century ago, the stand-
ards to which the Ludwig has
been built. Their ideas and ideals have been car-
ried forward by the pjesent 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
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
(Foremost American Ptoatot) writes i—
If H "take* great audiences to make great poets"... .It certainly takes
a great piano to make great music. That piano Is the STEINERT I
M. STEINERT & SONS
STHNERT HALL
fhe distinctive features of
Mathushek construction fur-
nish selling points not found
in other makes of pianos.
BOSTON, MASS.
MATHUSHEK PIANO MFG. CO.
132nd Street and Alexander Avenue
NEW YORK
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January, 1930
P R E S T 0-TI M E S
Accessories Manufacturers took place at the Green-
brier Hotel, White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., March
22 and 23.
Paul Quattlander resigned as vice-president and
treasurer of the American Piano Co., New York.
George Sundberg died suddenly on March 22 in
Detroit.
APRIL
At the luncheon meeting April 1 of the Piano Club
of Chicago Dr. J. Francis Brown, director of music
in the Chicago public schools, expounded conditions
and progress in piano class lessons in the schools.
Sherman, Clay & Co., San Francisco, and Platt
Music Company, Los Angeles, were perfecting ar-
rangements for joint purchasing plan, not to include
pianos.
R. C. Ball, advertising manager for The Starr Piano
Company, Richmond, Ind., returned from a meeting
of the National Education Association, department
of superintendence, held in Cleveland, February 23
to 28; the Southern Music Supervisors' conference at
Asheville, N. C, March 5 to 8; the Eastern Music
Supervisors in Philadelphia March 12 to 15.
Cyril L. Farny of the Wurlitzer Grand Piano Com-
pany, De Kalb, 111., returned from a three weeks' trip
to Mexico with Mrs. Farny.
The Chicago Piano & Organ Association at a meet-
ing March 22 at the Great Northern Hotel named
Adam Schneider executive secretary.
Gust. Ad. Anderson, widely known in the piano
industry and prominent Van Wert, Ohio, business
man, died at the family home after being long in
failing health.
The death of Mrs. Clara Wingate Bent Meikle,
widow of the late Ernest Grant Meikle, occurred
April 1 at Pasadena, Calif. She was the eldest daugh-
ter of George P. Bent.
Herman C. Spain was appointed general manager
of Ampico Hall, on Boylston street, Boston.
Glenn L. Alspach was elected president of the Bal-
keit Radio Co.
Arthur Coe, pioneer piano dealer of Cleveland, died
at his residence, 13205 Detroit avenue, Lakewood, O.
W. L. Pace, president of the Pace Piano Co., of
Beaumont and Houston, Tex., died at his home on
April 3.
The Grigsby-Grunow Company, Chicago, engaged
the services of Prof. Reginald A. Fessenden as con-
sulting engineer.
W. N. Van Matre, chairman board of directors of
the Schumann Piano Company, Rockford, 111., accom-
panied by Mrs. Van Matre, returned to their home at
Lake Bluff, 111, from a summer sojourn in Florida.
An interesting incident of the trade in Chicago was
the opening, March 15, of the Piano Style Show of
the Cable Piano Company, featuring the Cable Midget
Upright in an alluring variety of colors and finishes.
The S. W. Miller Piano Company, Sheboygan, Wis.,
placed on the market a combination piano and radio.
A committee was appointed by Hermann Irion,
president of the Music Industries Chamber of Com-
merce, to exploit the new music slogan, "The Richest
Child Is Poor Without Musical Training."
Louis C. Wagner took charge of retail merchan-
dising for the Ampico Hall chain.
The American Piano Company, opened a new Am-
pico Hall at 1005 Olive street, St. Louis, on April 1,
R. W. Elam is the manager.
A meeting was held April 8 at the Congressional
Country Club near Washington, D. C, to discuss a
request upon the Government at Washington to estab-
lish a department of fine arts. Frederick Philip Stieff,
head of Chas. M. Stieff, Inc., of Baltimore, Md., pre-
sided.
William Ludwig of Ludwig & Ludwig, drum man-
ufacturers, Chicago, returned from a month's visit
to Havana and points in Florida.
The Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co., Chicago, pur-
chased the entire capital stock of the Bremer-Tully
Manufacturing Company, Chicago.
A list of new reduced wholesale prices for all Pan-
American dealers was announced.
Band instrument exports from the Linked States
reached a new level in 1928.
The United States exports of organs during 1928
amounted to $501,874, a substantial increase over 1927
and 1926.
MAY
The E. Leins Piano Company, Inc., New York,
closed out its retail business to devote all energies in
future to the manufacturing phase of the business.
A piano contest opened to the 200.000 pupils of
Catholic schools in Chicago and suburbs to stimulate
interest in the study of music during music week.
The Cable Company, Chicago, sold to the Elec-
trical Research Laboratories, Inc., its entire Chicago
manufacturing property, situated at Paulina and West
22nd streets.
Choose Your Piano As The Artists Do
George W. Lawrence of Chicago, for many years
in the Chicago Division of The Baldwin Piano Com-
pany, was appointed the head of the St. Louis
Division of that company.
Owing to overwhelming expressions of satisfaction
from public, Baldwin Hour over an extensive radio
chain, was continued.
Rembert Wurlitzer, a director of the Rudolph Wur-
litzer Company, Cincinnati visited Los Angeles to
study the sales trend of a new style instrument re-
cently marketed.
The Zenith Radio Corporation, Chicago, staged its
Sixth Annual Distributors' Convention at the Palmer
House, April 9 to 11.
At a meeting of the New York Piano Trade Asso-
ciation, the following officers were elected: Joseph
L. Pettinato, president; Charles H. Jacob, vice-presi-
dent; Valentine J. Faeth, treasurer; Albert Behning,
secretary.
A group of new Chickering piano models were
announced by Chickering & Sons: A Colonial grand,
a Florentine grand, a Sheraton grand and a Colonial
grand with the Ampico.
Steinway & Sons were honored with the distinction
of having Henry Juuge of their organization intrusted
by Mrs. Hoover with pertinent details in connection
with White House musical functions.
The B. K. Settergren Company mailed to stockhold-
ers the semi-annual dividend for the second stock divi-
dend for 1928.
More "straight" pianos, both in grands and up-
rights, were sold in 1928 by the Baldwin Company,
Cincinnati, than at any time in its history.
The Radio-Victor Corporation of America, a wholly
owned subsidiary of the Radio Corporation of Amer-
ica, was incorporated in Maryland to take over sales
activities of the Radio Corporation of America and
the Victor Talking Machine Company.
Nelson-Wiggen Piano Company, manufacturers of
automatic pianos and organs, moved their factory and
headquarters to Rockford, 111., and became more
closely associated with the Haddorff Piano Company
of that city.
Traugott F. Weber was honored at a noon meeting
of the Piano Club of Chicago in commemoration of
his 55th year in the music business.
Radio jobbers from all parts of the United States
attended the annual spring convention of the Apex
division of the United States Radio and Television
Corporation at Indianapolis.
Through Generations
Have Come Ludwig Ideals
HE Ludwigs, the Ericssons-
and the Perrys created,
nearly a century ago, the stand-
ards to which the Ludwig has
been built. Their ideas and ideals have been car-
ried forward by the pjesent 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
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
(Foremost American Ptoatot) writes i—
If H "take* great audiences to make great poets"... .It certainly takes
a great piano to make great music. That piano Is the STEINERT I
M. STEINERT & SONS
STHNERT HALL
fhe distinctive features of
Mathushek construction fur-
nish selling points not found
in other makes of pianos.
BOSTON, MASS.
MATHUSHEK PIANO MFG. CO.
132nd Street and Alexander Avenue
NEW YORK
Presto Buyers' Guide Analyzes All Pian >t
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/
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