Presto
Issue: 1930 2243 - Page 7
P R E S T O-T I M E S
February, 1930
C. G. CONN COMPANY
WANAMAKER SECURES THE KRAKAUER BROS. BUY
WELTE FACTORY CONTENTS
REPRESENTS ITALIAN CO. AMERICAN PIANO CO. LINE
Announcement has been made by C. G. Conn, Ltd.,
Elkhart, Ind., of the completion of arrangements with
Settimio Saprani and Figli of Casteliidardo, Italy, for
the exclusive representation in North America and
other parts of the world for the sale of Soprani accor-
dions. The business in this country will be conducted
by a new company which has just been incorporated
under the name "Soprani, Incorporated," of which the
Conn company has controlling interest. The presi-
Great Retail Mercantile House Gets Agency
for Philadelphia and Vicinity for
American Piano Co.'s Goods
Announcement has been made that the Philadel-
phia agency for the American Piano Co.'s full line of
instruments has again been secured by the house of
John Wanamaker.
Here, in the piano department of this great and
beautiful store, will be found the complete American
Piano Co. line of instruments.
The taking over of the American Piano Company
agency by the house of Wanamaker is further evi-
dence of the present day value of the American Piano
Company franchise with the piano trade.
PLEASED WITH PUPILS' PIANO.
A letter was received last week from Dr. J. Lewis
Browne, director of music in the Chicago public
schools, by the Piano Club of Chicago, highly compli-
menting that organization for furnishing a fine piano
for the use of the pupils at the Washburne School.
He says: "Please allow me to express my great grati-
fication of the fine grand piano delivered to the Wash-
burne Continuation School. This instrument is more
than satisfactory in every detail and all concerned
will be very grateful for the use of it. The writer
wishes also to express his sense of personal apprecia-
tion."
GOVERNOR GREEN'S BUSINESS TALK.
MAHIO SOPRANI.
dent will be Arthur B. Miller of Seattle, Wash., who
for several years has had charge of the Soprani busi-
ness in this country. Alfred L. Smith, executive vice-
president of C. G. Conn, Ltd., will be vice-president
and secretary. Soprani, Incorporated, will have its
jobbing connection with the Continental Music Co.,
which has offices in New York, Chicago and San
Francisco.
The Continental company's salesmen
cover the entire United States. Mario Soprani, the
present head of Settimio Soprani and Gigli, visited in
Klkhart last month.
Any industry or institution within an industry that
is trying to solve its problems by reducing wages or
lengthening hours is guilty of an unfriendly act to-
ward industry and the American nation, Gov. Fred
W. Green of Michigan told the Chicago Rotary Club
meeting at the Hotel Sherman, Chicago, recently. He
declared, however, that "our best market is our own
market," and said that the only way to make that
market stable is to "assure to American workers
steady employment at wages that will enable them
to buy what we produce and on a working schedule
that leaves them enough leisure in which to use those
goods, wear them out and come back for more."
Entire Contents of Welte Mignon Factory Purchased
and Grands Will Be Finished.
Krakauer Bros., piano manufacturers at Cypress
avenue, 136th and 137th streets, New York, have pur-
chased the entire contents of the Welte Mignon fac-
tory at 297 East 133rd street. In it there are several
hundred unfinished grand pianos which Krakauer
Bros, intend to finish up both in mahogany and
walnut, Colonial and Period designs, but they will be
sold under the names of Welte or Welte Mignon.
ROOSEVELT AIDS MUSIC WEEK.
An addition to the National Music Week Commit-
tee of important new members has been made. The
honorary committee of governors has been aug-
mented by the name of Theodore Roosevelt, governor
of Porto Rico. Heads of various national organiza-
tions have been added to the active committee, as
follows: O. L. Bodenhamer, American Legion; Mrs.
Lowell Fletcher Hobart, Daughters of the American
Revolution; Horace W. McDavid, Kiwanis Inter-
national; Parham Werlein, National Association of
Music Merchants; Mrs. Frances P. Parks, National
Council of Women; and Mrs. Elmer James Ottaway,
National Federation of Music Clubs.
BUT ONE LYON & HEALY.
An advertisement in the Chicago Sunday Tribune
says: "The world is wide; our country large. There
are hundreds of piano stores, thousands of radio shops.
There is but one Lyon & Hleay. No other house lays
claim to such completeness. Here—as the aisles
widen—everything in music comes to view. No visitor
is disappointed. No guest is delayed. This musical
completeness immediately impresses the most casual.
It has won a higher place for service among music
loving friends."
CLUB'S ANNUAL LADIES' PARTY.
The board of directors of the Piano Club of Chi-
cago has authorized the club to give its annual ladies'
party some time before the 5th of March, which :s
Ash Wednesday. Roger O'Connor has offered to put
it on in the ladies' dining room of the Mcdinah Ath-
letic Club. The tickets will cost $3.50 each. The date
has not been set.
DOES IT MEAN ANYTHING
TO YOU
To be able to obtain all of your repair materials, tools and
supplies from one source, on one order, in one shipment?
MUSIC WIRE—We are Sole Agents for the celebrated Felten & Guilleaume and also
Moritz Poehlmann Imported Steel Music Wire, world renowned for tonal qualities—put up
especially in Y\-\b. coils for repair purposes, also in 1-lb. and 5-lb. coils.
As a guarantee
PLAT IN A Wire,
against
rust, specify
Poehlmann
It is non-corrosive and will not tarnish.
TUNING PINS—Genuine Fly Brand Pins—guaranteed absolutely uniform in size and per-
fectly round.
TOOLS for TUNING, REGULATING and REPAIRING
ESTABLISHED SINCE 1848—Means a Lot to People Who Want A-l Products — One
Kind of Prices and Dependable Service.
To Dealers and Tuners—
We have a separate department devoted exclusively to taking- care of your special needs of all
supplies for tuning, regulating- and repairing. Mail orders are given prompt attention.
AMERICAN PIANO SUPPLY CO.
Division of
HAMMACHER, SCHLEMMER & CO.
104-106 East 13th St.
New York, N. Y.
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February, 1930
C. G. CONN COMPANY
WANAMAKER SECURES THE KRAKAUER BROS. BUY
WELTE FACTORY CONTENTS
REPRESENTS ITALIAN CO. AMERICAN PIANO CO. LINE
Announcement has been made by C. G. Conn, Ltd.,
Elkhart, Ind., of the completion of arrangements with
Settimio Saprani and Figli of Casteliidardo, Italy, for
the exclusive representation in North America and
other parts of the world for the sale of Soprani accor-
dions. The business in this country will be conducted
by a new company which has just been incorporated
under the name "Soprani, Incorporated," of which the
Conn company has controlling interest. The presi-
Great Retail Mercantile House Gets Agency
for Philadelphia and Vicinity for
American Piano Co.'s Goods
Announcement has been made that the Philadel-
phia agency for the American Piano Co.'s full line of
instruments has again been secured by the house of
John Wanamaker.
Here, in the piano department of this great and
beautiful store, will be found the complete American
Piano Co. line of instruments.
The taking over of the American Piano Company
agency by the house of Wanamaker is further evi-
dence of the present day value of the American Piano
Company franchise with the piano trade.
PLEASED WITH PUPILS' PIANO.
A letter was received last week from Dr. J. Lewis
Browne, director of music in the Chicago public
schools, by the Piano Club of Chicago, highly compli-
menting that organization for furnishing a fine piano
for the use of the pupils at the Washburne School.
He says: "Please allow me to express my great grati-
fication of the fine grand piano delivered to the Wash-
burne Continuation School. This instrument is more
than satisfactory in every detail and all concerned
will be very grateful for the use of it. The writer
wishes also to express his sense of personal apprecia-
tion."
GOVERNOR GREEN'S BUSINESS TALK.
MAHIO SOPRANI.
dent will be Arthur B. Miller of Seattle, Wash., who
for several years has had charge of the Soprani busi-
ness in this country. Alfred L. Smith, executive vice-
president of C. G. Conn, Ltd., will be vice-president
and secretary. Soprani, Incorporated, will have its
jobbing connection with the Continental Music Co.,
which has offices in New York, Chicago and San
Francisco.
The Continental company's salesmen
cover the entire United States. Mario Soprani, the
present head of Settimio Soprani and Gigli, visited in
Klkhart last month.
Any industry or institution within an industry that
is trying to solve its problems by reducing wages or
lengthening hours is guilty of an unfriendly act to-
ward industry and the American nation, Gov. Fred
W. Green of Michigan told the Chicago Rotary Club
meeting at the Hotel Sherman, Chicago, recently. He
declared, however, that "our best market is our own
market," and said that the only way to make that
market stable is to "assure to American workers
steady employment at wages that will enable them
to buy what we produce and on a working schedule
that leaves them enough leisure in which to use those
goods, wear them out and come back for more."
Entire Contents of Welte Mignon Factory Purchased
and Grands Will Be Finished.
Krakauer Bros., piano manufacturers at Cypress
avenue, 136th and 137th streets, New York, have pur-
chased the entire contents of the Welte Mignon fac-
tory at 297 East 133rd street. In it there are several
hundred unfinished grand pianos which Krakauer
Bros, intend to finish up both in mahogany and
walnut, Colonial and Period designs, but they will be
sold under the names of Welte or Welte Mignon.
ROOSEVELT AIDS MUSIC WEEK.
An addition to the National Music Week Commit-
tee of important new members has been made. The
honorary committee of governors has been aug-
mented by the name of Theodore Roosevelt, governor
of Porto Rico. Heads of various national organiza-
tions have been added to the active committee, as
follows: O. L. Bodenhamer, American Legion; Mrs.
Lowell Fletcher Hobart, Daughters of the American
Revolution; Horace W. McDavid, Kiwanis Inter-
national; Parham Werlein, National Association of
Music Merchants; Mrs. Frances P. Parks, National
Council of Women; and Mrs. Elmer James Ottaway,
National Federation of Music Clubs.
BUT ONE LYON & HEALY.
An advertisement in the Chicago Sunday Tribune
says: "The world is wide; our country large. There
are hundreds of piano stores, thousands of radio shops.
There is but one Lyon & Hleay. No other house lays
claim to such completeness. Here—as the aisles
widen—everything in music comes to view. No visitor
is disappointed. No guest is delayed. This musical
completeness immediately impresses the most casual.
It has won a higher place for service among music
loving friends."
CLUB'S ANNUAL LADIES' PARTY.
The board of directors of the Piano Club of Chi-
cago has authorized the club to give its annual ladies'
party some time before the 5th of March, which :s
Ash Wednesday. Roger O'Connor has offered to put
it on in the ladies' dining room of the Mcdinah Ath-
letic Club. The tickets will cost $3.50 each. The date
has not been set.
DOES IT MEAN ANYTHING
TO YOU
To be able to obtain all of your repair materials, tools and
supplies from one source, on one order, in one shipment?
MUSIC WIRE—We are Sole Agents for the celebrated Felten & Guilleaume and also
Moritz Poehlmann Imported Steel Music Wire, world renowned for tonal qualities—put up
especially in Y\-\b. coils for repair purposes, also in 1-lb. and 5-lb. coils.
As a guarantee
PLAT IN A Wire,
against
rust, specify
Poehlmann
It is non-corrosive and will not tarnish.
TUNING PINS—Genuine Fly Brand Pins—guaranteed absolutely uniform in size and per-
fectly round.
TOOLS for TUNING, REGULATING and REPAIRING
ESTABLISHED SINCE 1848—Means a Lot to People Who Want A-l Products — One
Kind of Prices and Dependable Service.
To Dealers and Tuners—
We have a separate department devoted exclusively to taking- care of your special needs of all
supplies for tuning, regulating- and repairing. Mail orders are given prompt attention.
AMERICAN PIANO SUPPLY CO.
Division of
HAMMACHER, SCHLEMMER & CO.
104-106 East 13th St.
New York, N. Y.
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).