Presto
Issue: 1930 2250 - Page 11
September, 1930
NOISE ISN'T MUSIC
C omplaints have been considered by the city com-
mission of Bismarck, N. D., from people residing in
the down-town districts of that city regarding the
playing of mechanical instruments in restaurants and
other places of business that are open all night. The
board has been asked to prohibit the playing of such
instruments between 12 midnight and 6 o'clock in the
morning.
The Health Department of Hartford, Conn., has
found that combination radio and phonograph sets
have been added to the lists of instruments in the ros-
ter of complaints tiled at the Health offices.
A letter received by Dr. Charles P. BotsfoFd, su-
perintendent of the Health Board of Hartford, charges
that "there arc days when we feel like giving up and
running away like crazy men, because of two loud
speakers (combination sets—radio and phonograph)
located in two different stores—and it is a continuous
noise from morning until night, the phonograph and
the radio alternating." This particular rcmonstance
was submitted by a property owner on Front street.
K. S., in a letter to the Chicago Tribune, written
in Milwaukee, says in part:
"Almost entirely neglected because silently suffered
by an inarticulate majority, the effects of radio devel-
opment have been devastating.
"Apartment house dwellers are at once the most
reckless offenders and the most oppressed victims.
The hazards of downtown traffic are kindergarten
play compared to the chaos of five or six radios run-
ning at top strength from early morning till late at
night, apartment No. 1 trying to drown out apartment
\ T o. 2, and apartments live, s ; x, and seven going neck
and neck to drown out all others.
"Anti-noise and anti-nuisance statutes probably can-
not be stretched to reach into a man's private home
so long as radio music is considered legitimate enter-
tainment. Still, it is hardly logical to enforce laws
against other disturbances and permit these offenses
to pass unchallenged because they come from within
private homes.
"If unnecessary automobile horn tooting makes one
subject to arrest in Milwaukee, why should unneces-
sary radio hooting be exempt?
"At least radio speedsters might respect their neigh-
bors and confine their entertainment to their own
rooms, instead of blanketing the whole neighborhood
with noise."
WANT ADDRESS OF MRS. NORTHROP.
An inquiry trying to locate Mrs. John W. Xorthrop,
who became a widow some years ago through the
death of her husband, John W. Northrop, well-known
piano man, has come to Presto-Times from a firm in
Boston, Mass. Mr. Northrop was a piano manufac-
turer, a salesman and manager of piano agencies for
several years and was with the VV. W. Kimball Co.,
and later with the Emerson Piano Co. as its Chicago
manager; later still with Arthur J. King in Chicago.
He had operated a silver mine in Colorado as a side
line for a time and was a famous fisherman, having
caught some mighty big tarpon off the coast of Cata-
lina Island in the Pacific Ocean. The Boston firm
making the inquiry seem to be solicitors who may
have some property to give to Mrs. Northrop. Any-
body knowing her whereabouts, kindly notify Presto-
rimes, 417 South Dearborn street, Chicago.
The Leading and Most Popular
Pianos and Players
Grands, Players, Uprights and
Reproducing Pianos
The Results of Over Forty Years'
of Experience.
Kreiter Pianos Cover the Entire Line
and no Piano Dealer who tries these in-
struments would supplant them by any
others. A trial will convince.
Kreiter Mfg. Co., Inc.
310-312 W. Water St., Milwaukee, Wis.
Factory: Marinette, Wla.
Schumann
PIANOS and PLAYER PIANOS
GRANDS and UPRIGHTS
Have no superiors in appearance, tons
power or other essentials of strictly
leaders in the trade.
Warning to Infringe™
This Trade Hark [• east
In the plate and also ap-
pear* upon the fall boari
of all genuine Sckumain
Pianoa, and all In fringers
will be prosecuted. Beware
of Imitations suck as Sckn-
Dikia A Company, Schu-
mann Jk SOB, and also
Bhuman,
as
all
steadl
skops, dealers and users of
pianos bearing a name In
imitation
of
the
name
Schumann with the inten-
tion of 44celvlng the public
will fee "««>ci>*»^ _i tma
fullest extent of tke law.
THIEVES ROB MUSIC MEN.
Harry Schultz of 4450 Commonwealth avenue, To-
ledo, Ohio, was robbed a few days ago of $400 in
"negotiable notes." Mr. Schultz, who is conductor
of Eddie Erfer's band at Lasalle Park, had parked his
car and while he was absent from the machine a thief
removed a case containing $400 worth of sheet music,
entire repertoire of the band. That Toledo's thieves
are going in for the finer things of life was further
evidenced by the discovery of T. H. Dennis, piano
tuner, of 2317 Chase street, that he had been robbed
of all his tuning instruments. Dennis' car was stolen
and recovered a day later by police, but the valuable
case of instruments, left in the car, had been removed
before the machine was abandoned.
A PICTURE PLAYER FOR CHILDREN.
A new development in children's playthings, con-
sisting of a portable phonograph combined with an
automatic film projector, is now being displayed at the
Du Pont Products Exhibit on the Boardwalk at At-
lantic City, N. J. The phonographs on display are
enclosed in grained fabrikoid cabinets of various
colors. This new plaything is known as Pal Picture
Player and is sold by the Plaza Music Co. of New
York city.
HEATON'S TRIBUTE TO DANIELS.
President Otto B. Heaton of the National Associa-
tion of Music Merchants extended on behalf of the
CONSOLATION IN APPRECIATION.
association condolences in connection with the recent
To the producer of an article of merchandise, espe- passing away of William H. Daniels, president of Den-
cially anything as fine as a piano, it is a matter of ex- ton, Cottier & Daniels, Inc., Buffalo, N. Y., one of the
treme satisfaction to have that product appreciated. past presidents of the national association, and for
The critic who can estimate justly and put the true years a prominent association man. Mr. Heaton's
value on the piano thus becomes a friend and his com- letter follows:
ments bring satisfaction. So Charles Stanley, for a
August 12, 1930.
long time a piano builder, whose home town is now
Denton, Cottier & Daniels, Inc.,
(irand Haven, Mich., was pleased when he received
32 Court Street,
a letter from a tuner the other day, saying: "I bought
Buffalo, N. Y.
in an old Stanley & Sons' piano recently at an auction Gentlemen:
sale, and after overhaling, cleaning and tuning it, I
I'lease extend to the bereaved and loved ones my
lind it has a tone equal to almost any piano I have
sincerest sympathies in the death of William H. Dan-
ever played, listened to or repaired." Such a reputa- iels, past president of the National Association of
tion for an instrument of Mr. Stanley's own construc-
Music Merchants.
tion after all those years is just cause for Mr. Stan-
Life itself is entirely too great to accomplish its
ley's pride in.good work and eminent skill.
ultimate purpose here. We must not forget that when
the earthly purpose of a life is fulfilled it must be
PLATT CO.'S SILVER JUBILEE.
merged into the ultimate purpose. Other than death
Hundreds of letters and telegrams have poured in
no process is known by which this merging with its
congratulating the I'latt Music Co., of Los Angeles, ultimate purpose can be accomplished. If, when the
on the occasion of its twenty-fifth anniversary. Mes- shock comes, we are not spiritual enough to get com-
sages from all parts of the United States, many of
fort and strength from this knowledge the cold fact
them addressed to Benjamin Platt personally, repre- of it forces us through the pangs of sorrow to adjust
sented prominent manufacturers of musical instru- ourselves to the change in our lives which the death
ments and financial institutions. Mr. Platt, who es- of the loved one necessitates.
tablished the company in 1905 and has set up branch
Sincerely,
stores in all parts of Southern California, entertained
OTTO B. HEATON,
the entire personnel of his organization at a Silver
President National Association of Music Merchants.
lubilee partv.
KREITER
11
PRESTO-TIMES
The Name
STRICH & ZEIDLER
on a piano
is a guarantee of
QUALITY
Expert piano makers of distinction
strive to preserve the reputation for
thoroughness achieved by the Up-
rights and Grands bearing the
STRICH & ZEIDLER NAME
The Homer Piano, also made by
Strlch & Zeidler, Inc., has the guar-
antee of dependability which dis-
tinguishes all the products of the
STRICH & ZEIDLER, INC.
740-742 East 136th Street,
NEW YORK CITY, U. S. A.
• •w Catalogue oa Request.
Schumann Piano Co.
W. N. VAN MATRE, President
Rockford, I1L
SCHILLER
A GREAT NAME—A GREAT PIANO
THE SCHILLER
Makes Friends, Makes Customers, Makes
Money, for the Dealer
Super-Grands, Medium Grands, Small
Grands. Full Plate Uprights; Medium
Uprights; Small (3:7) Uprights.
Reproducing Grands, Uprights and
Players
Grands with the Famous Bauer
Patented Construction
The SCHILLER PIANO challenges
superiority in tone quality as in construc-
tion, workmanship, finish and appearance.
For Agency Proposition and All
Particulars, address
SCHILLER PIANO COMPANY
Factory and General Offices:
OREGON, ILLINOIS
CHICAGO OFFICB:
State and Adams tit*.
•82 B«publl« BUg.
NEW YORK OFFICE:
ISO W. 42nd St.
Hugh Terminal Dldg.
3 Famous Song Hits 3
Prof's Clamor for Them
"CAROLINA" ( r m c T T^ u Back )
"DREAMS, JUST DREAMS" (ESS)
"DO LIKE
D O " (Fox-Trot)
Featured by over 1000 teams, from Maine
to California
Dealers Get Them on Your
Counters Now and Make Money
J. S. UNGER, M. H. PUB.
Reading
-
Pennsylvania
Refer to Presto Buyers' Guide for in-
for mation about all Pianos, Players and
Reproducing 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/
NOISE ISN'T MUSIC
C omplaints have been considered by the city com-
mission of Bismarck, N. D., from people residing in
the down-town districts of that city regarding the
playing of mechanical instruments in restaurants and
other places of business that are open all night. The
board has been asked to prohibit the playing of such
instruments between 12 midnight and 6 o'clock in the
morning.
The Health Department of Hartford, Conn., has
found that combination radio and phonograph sets
have been added to the lists of instruments in the ros-
ter of complaints tiled at the Health offices.
A letter received by Dr. Charles P. BotsfoFd, su-
perintendent of the Health Board of Hartford, charges
that "there arc days when we feel like giving up and
running away like crazy men, because of two loud
speakers (combination sets—radio and phonograph)
located in two different stores—and it is a continuous
noise from morning until night, the phonograph and
the radio alternating." This particular rcmonstance
was submitted by a property owner on Front street.
K. S., in a letter to the Chicago Tribune, written
in Milwaukee, says in part:
"Almost entirely neglected because silently suffered
by an inarticulate majority, the effects of radio devel-
opment have been devastating.
"Apartment house dwellers are at once the most
reckless offenders and the most oppressed victims.
The hazards of downtown traffic are kindergarten
play compared to the chaos of five or six radios run-
ning at top strength from early morning till late at
night, apartment No. 1 trying to drown out apartment
\ T o. 2, and apartments live, s ; x, and seven going neck
and neck to drown out all others.
"Anti-noise and anti-nuisance statutes probably can-
not be stretched to reach into a man's private home
so long as radio music is considered legitimate enter-
tainment. Still, it is hardly logical to enforce laws
against other disturbances and permit these offenses
to pass unchallenged because they come from within
private homes.
"If unnecessary automobile horn tooting makes one
subject to arrest in Milwaukee, why should unneces-
sary radio hooting be exempt?
"At least radio speedsters might respect their neigh-
bors and confine their entertainment to their own
rooms, instead of blanketing the whole neighborhood
with noise."
WANT ADDRESS OF MRS. NORTHROP.
An inquiry trying to locate Mrs. John W. Xorthrop,
who became a widow some years ago through the
death of her husband, John W. Northrop, well-known
piano man, has come to Presto-Times from a firm in
Boston, Mass. Mr. Northrop was a piano manufac-
turer, a salesman and manager of piano agencies for
several years and was with the VV. W. Kimball Co.,
and later with the Emerson Piano Co. as its Chicago
manager; later still with Arthur J. King in Chicago.
He had operated a silver mine in Colorado as a side
line for a time and was a famous fisherman, having
caught some mighty big tarpon off the coast of Cata-
lina Island in the Pacific Ocean. The Boston firm
making the inquiry seem to be solicitors who may
have some property to give to Mrs. Northrop. Any-
body knowing her whereabouts, kindly notify Presto-
rimes, 417 South Dearborn street, Chicago.
The Leading and Most Popular
Pianos and Players
Grands, Players, Uprights and
Reproducing Pianos
The Results of Over Forty Years'
of Experience.
Kreiter Pianos Cover the Entire Line
and no Piano Dealer who tries these in-
struments would supplant them by any
others. A trial will convince.
Kreiter Mfg. Co., Inc.
310-312 W. Water St., Milwaukee, Wis.
Factory: Marinette, Wla.
Schumann
PIANOS and PLAYER PIANOS
GRANDS and UPRIGHTS
Have no superiors in appearance, tons
power or other essentials of strictly
leaders in the trade.
Warning to Infringe™
This Trade Hark [• east
In the plate and also ap-
pear* upon the fall boari
of all genuine Sckumain
Pianoa, and all In fringers
will be prosecuted. Beware
of Imitations suck as Sckn-
Dikia A Company, Schu-
mann Jk SOB, and also
Bhuman,
as
all
steadl
skops, dealers and users of
pianos bearing a name In
imitation
of
the
name
Schumann with the inten-
tion of 44celvlng the public
will fee "««>ci>*»^ _i tma
fullest extent of tke law.
THIEVES ROB MUSIC MEN.
Harry Schultz of 4450 Commonwealth avenue, To-
ledo, Ohio, was robbed a few days ago of $400 in
"negotiable notes." Mr. Schultz, who is conductor
of Eddie Erfer's band at Lasalle Park, had parked his
car and while he was absent from the machine a thief
removed a case containing $400 worth of sheet music,
entire repertoire of the band. That Toledo's thieves
are going in for the finer things of life was further
evidenced by the discovery of T. H. Dennis, piano
tuner, of 2317 Chase street, that he had been robbed
of all his tuning instruments. Dennis' car was stolen
and recovered a day later by police, but the valuable
case of instruments, left in the car, had been removed
before the machine was abandoned.
A PICTURE PLAYER FOR CHILDREN.
A new development in children's playthings, con-
sisting of a portable phonograph combined with an
automatic film projector, is now being displayed at the
Du Pont Products Exhibit on the Boardwalk at At-
lantic City, N. J. The phonographs on display are
enclosed in grained fabrikoid cabinets of various
colors. This new plaything is known as Pal Picture
Player and is sold by the Plaza Music Co. of New
York city.
HEATON'S TRIBUTE TO DANIELS.
President Otto B. Heaton of the National Associa-
tion of Music Merchants extended on behalf of the
CONSOLATION IN APPRECIATION.
association condolences in connection with the recent
To the producer of an article of merchandise, espe- passing away of William H. Daniels, president of Den-
cially anything as fine as a piano, it is a matter of ex- ton, Cottier & Daniels, Inc., Buffalo, N. Y., one of the
treme satisfaction to have that product appreciated. past presidents of the national association, and for
The critic who can estimate justly and put the true years a prominent association man. Mr. Heaton's
value on the piano thus becomes a friend and his com- letter follows:
ments bring satisfaction. So Charles Stanley, for a
August 12, 1930.
long time a piano builder, whose home town is now
Denton, Cottier & Daniels, Inc.,
(irand Haven, Mich., was pleased when he received
32 Court Street,
a letter from a tuner the other day, saying: "I bought
Buffalo, N. Y.
in an old Stanley & Sons' piano recently at an auction Gentlemen:
sale, and after overhaling, cleaning and tuning it, I
I'lease extend to the bereaved and loved ones my
lind it has a tone equal to almost any piano I have
sincerest sympathies in the death of William H. Dan-
ever played, listened to or repaired." Such a reputa- iels, past president of the National Association of
tion for an instrument of Mr. Stanley's own construc-
Music Merchants.
tion after all those years is just cause for Mr. Stan-
Life itself is entirely too great to accomplish its
ley's pride in.good work and eminent skill.
ultimate purpose here. We must not forget that when
the earthly purpose of a life is fulfilled it must be
PLATT CO.'S SILVER JUBILEE.
merged into the ultimate purpose. Other than death
Hundreds of letters and telegrams have poured in
no process is known by which this merging with its
congratulating the I'latt Music Co., of Los Angeles, ultimate purpose can be accomplished. If, when the
on the occasion of its twenty-fifth anniversary. Mes- shock comes, we are not spiritual enough to get com-
sages from all parts of the United States, many of
fort and strength from this knowledge the cold fact
them addressed to Benjamin Platt personally, repre- of it forces us through the pangs of sorrow to adjust
sented prominent manufacturers of musical instru- ourselves to the change in our lives which the death
ments and financial institutions. Mr. Platt, who es- of the loved one necessitates.
tablished the company in 1905 and has set up branch
Sincerely,
stores in all parts of Southern California, entertained
OTTO B. HEATON,
the entire personnel of his organization at a Silver
President National Association of Music Merchants.
lubilee partv.
KREITER
11
PRESTO-TIMES
The Name
STRICH & ZEIDLER
on a piano
is a guarantee of
QUALITY
Expert piano makers of distinction
strive to preserve the reputation for
thoroughness achieved by the Up-
rights and Grands bearing the
STRICH & ZEIDLER NAME
The Homer Piano, also made by
Strlch & Zeidler, Inc., has the guar-
antee of dependability which dis-
tinguishes all the products of the
STRICH & ZEIDLER, INC.
740-742 East 136th Street,
NEW YORK CITY, U. S. A.
• •w Catalogue oa Request.
Schumann Piano Co.
W. N. VAN MATRE, President
Rockford, I1L
SCHILLER
A GREAT NAME—A GREAT PIANO
THE SCHILLER
Makes Friends, Makes Customers, Makes
Money, for the Dealer
Super-Grands, Medium Grands, Small
Grands. Full Plate Uprights; Medium
Uprights; Small (3:7) Uprights.
Reproducing Grands, Uprights and
Players
Grands with the Famous Bauer
Patented Construction
The SCHILLER PIANO challenges
superiority in tone quality as in construc-
tion, workmanship, finish and appearance.
For Agency Proposition and All
Particulars, address
SCHILLER PIANO COMPANY
Factory and General Offices:
OREGON, ILLINOIS
CHICAGO OFFICB:
State and Adams tit*.
•82 B«publl« BUg.
NEW YORK OFFICE:
ISO W. 42nd St.
Hugh Terminal Dldg.
3 Famous Song Hits 3
Prof's Clamor for Them
"CAROLINA" ( r m c T T^ u Back )
"DREAMS, JUST DREAMS" (ESS)
"DO LIKE
D O " (Fox-Trot)
Featured by over 1000 teams, from Maine
to California
Dealers Get Them on Your
Counters Now and Make Money
J. S. UNGER, M. H. PUB.
Reading
-
Pennsylvania
Refer to Presto Buyers' Guide for in-
for mation about all Pianos, Players and
Reproducing 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).