Presto
Issue: 1930 2251 - Page 5
October, 1930
P R E S T O-T I M E S
FURTHERING MUSIC
APPRECIATION
H. A. STEWART, GULBRANSEN
PIANO SALES MANAGER
On September IS, H. A. Stewart returned to the
position of sales manager of the piano division of
the Gulbransen Co., Chicago. This appointment is
regarded as one carrying far-reaching interest, as Mr.
Stewart, known from coast to coast, has always been
a piano man—retail and wholesale, traveling and
advertising.
The first years of his former experience at Gul-
bransen's he had charge of the advertising, a tre-
mendous task, and later he was in charge of the
wholesale end of the work. He now resumes the
former position as sales manager.
Mr. Stewart, in the intervening years, was asso-
ciated with another large piano manufacturing con-
cern as sales manager. But wherever he is, he makes
friends and sales, and his thousands of friends will
be glad to learn that he is back at Gulbransen's—the
house where he made a wonderful record for himself.
MOVING
P ROBLEMS
SOLVED
A new departure which Leon M. Lang will head
has been instituted by Lyon & Healy, old established
music house of Chicago and Cleveland, and will be
known as the Division for Advancement of Music, ac-
cording to Clyde H. DeAcres, first vice-president and
general manager of Lyon & Healy, in making the
announcement public.
"Here at Lyon & Healy, we have reversed the
usual order of things," said Mr. DeAcres. "The in-
MORE PUPILS ARE EAGER FOR
PIANO CLASS LESSONS
The Work of Adam Schneider and Others in Chicago
Is Arousing Many to Seek the Privilege.
Preparations are being made on an extensive scale
for further increases in class instruction in piano les-
sons in the public schools of Chicago during the
sc'.iool year just begun. Many applications were made
at the recent opening of the schools for this depart-
ment of study and more are ready to apply.
This eagerness among musically-inclined pupils con-
by the
ADAM SCHNEIDER.
cerns the Chicago piano trade, whose members so far
have furnished, complimentary, some 200 to 300 pianos
for use in the schools, and the Piano Club of Chicago
a few months ago had a beautiful piano built and
placed in a leading school.
Among the houses that so far are lined up in this
progressive movement are the American Piano Cor-
poration and the houses of Baldwin, Cable, Kimball,
Kranich & Bach, Meyer & Weber, Lyon & Healy,
Wurlitzer, Starck, Reichart and several others. The
heads of the schools almost unanimously agree that
the most valuable part of a pupil's training is in his
music lessons and that those who take such lessons
have an average marking in other studies higher than
those who do not take music.
Inasmuch as the future of the piano business lies
with the young, this interest which is being taken by
more than 12.0C0 piano pupils in the city of Chicago
alone, is a very gratifying sign of the musical trend.
Much of the credit for keeping the fires burning in
the camps of the amateur pianists is due to the inde-
fatigable efforts of Adam Schneider, known as "the
perpetual treasurer" of many piano organizations, and
who has the support of school authorities and of the
Chicago trade generally and of its enthusiasts par-
ticularly.
Charles C. Spanier, one of the well-known piano
road men, is now out on a trip for Weser Bros., Inc.,
of West 43rd street, New York.
The Chenoweth & Green Music Co., Enid, Okla., is
holding a factory co-operative piano sale.
SELF-
LIFTING
PIANO
TRUCK
CO.
For all particulars, literature,
prices,
ADDRESS
Self-Lifting Piano
Truck Co.
FINDLAY, OHIO
LKON M. L.ANG.
terest of the new division is not to be centered in the
sale of pianos, band and orchestra instruments, sheet
music, harps or other musical goods, hut entirely in
furthering a deep appreciation of the happiness that
music gives and the means through which it is ob-
tained. We expect the far-reaching effect of this
viewpoint to make itself felt in retail and wholesale
contacts, in both Chicago and Cleveland."
"Through the persuasion of Steinway & Sons, we
were able to bring- Mr. Lang to Chicago for a series
of conferences dealing with the promotion of music
and we became so impressed with his ideas and ability
that we immediately proposed a permanent connec-
tion. He will devote eight months a year to this new
activity, the remaining four months lie will spend in
special promotion for the Steinway piano and in con-
tinuing his social service work."
ACTIVITY AT PERFECTION CO. PLANT.
The Perfection Furniture Co.'s plant at 2267-69 Cly-
bourn avenue, Chicago, is like Chicago itself—always
busy. Just now the company, in addition to manu-
facturing radio cabinets and piano benches, is meeting
with fine success in making beautiful breakfast and
dinette tables, suitable for modern small apartments.
Also pier cabinets. President F. S. Smith is out and
in, but Hugo Blend, the foreman in charge, is at the
factory all the time. Mr. Blend learned his trade as
a cabinet maker in Germany, and he has perfected
the art here, He has finished as high as 100 chairs
in a day.
MADE RECORD FOR FIRST PHONOGRAPH.
Charles W. Ford, 70 years old, who was retired
last month in Chicago from the railway mail service
on a pension, made one of the first phonograph
records the world ever heard. He was a page in the
United States Senate at the time Thomas A. Edison
left his original phonograph at Washington in con-
nection with an application for a patent. The boy
tried it out timidly, but later his speech was made into
a record, and Edison appreciated his curiosity so
much that he made him a present of the record.
W. E. Knightly is now on the road for the Aeolian
Co. of New York, traveling in the interests of the
Mason & Hamlin pianos. Mr. Knightly has served
the Aeolian Co. long and faithfully, and as he is a
great admirer of the Mason & Hamlin his success is
a matter to be expected.
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P R E S T O-T I M E S
FURTHERING MUSIC
APPRECIATION
H. A. STEWART, GULBRANSEN
PIANO SALES MANAGER
On September IS, H. A. Stewart returned to the
position of sales manager of the piano division of
the Gulbransen Co., Chicago. This appointment is
regarded as one carrying far-reaching interest, as Mr.
Stewart, known from coast to coast, has always been
a piano man—retail and wholesale, traveling and
advertising.
The first years of his former experience at Gul-
bransen's he had charge of the advertising, a tre-
mendous task, and later he was in charge of the
wholesale end of the work. He now resumes the
former position as sales manager.
Mr. Stewart, in the intervening years, was asso-
ciated with another large piano manufacturing con-
cern as sales manager. But wherever he is, he makes
friends and sales, and his thousands of friends will
be glad to learn that he is back at Gulbransen's—the
house where he made a wonderful record for himself.
MOVING
P ROBLEMS
SOLVED
A new departure which Leon M. Lang will head
has been instituted by Lyon & Healy, old established
music house of Chicago and Cleveland, and will be
known as the Division for Advancement of Music, ac-
cording to Clyde H. DeAcres, first vice-president and
general manager of Lyon & Healy, in making the
announcement public.
"Here at Lyon & Healy, we have reversed the
usual order of things," said Mr. DeAcres. "The in-
MORE PUPILS ARE EAGER FOR
PIANO CLASS LESSONS
The Work of Adam Schneider and Others in Chicago
Is Arousing Many to Seek the Privilege.
Preparations are being made on an extensive scale
for further increases in class instruction in piano les-
sons in the public schools of Chicago during the
sc'.iool year just begun. Many applications were made
at the recent opening of the schools for this depart-
ment of study and more are ready to apply.
This eagerness among musically-inclined pupils con-
by the
ADAM SCHNEIDER.
cerns the Chicago piano trade, whose members so far
have furnished, complimentary, some 200 to 300 pianos
for use in the schools, and the Piano Club of Chicago
a few months ago had a beautiful piano built and
placed in a leading school.
Among the houses that so far are lined up in this
progressive movement are the American Piano Cor-
poration and the houses of Baldwin, Cable, Kimball,
Kranich & Bach, Meyer & Weber, Lyon & Healy,
Wurlitzer, Starck, Reichart and several others. The
heads of the schools almost unanimously agree that
the most valuable part of a pupil's training is in his
music lessons and that those who take such lessons
have an average marking in other studies higher than
those who do not take music.
Inasmuch as the future of the piano business lies
with the young, this interest which is being taken by
more than 12.0C0 piano pupils in the city of Chicago
alone, is a very gratifying sign of the musical trend.
Much of the credit for keeping the fires burning in
the camps of the amateur pianists is due to the inde-
fatigable efforts of Adam Schneider, known as "the
perpetual treasurer" of many piano organizations, and
who has the support of school authorities and of the
Chicago trade generally and of its enthusiasts par-
ticularly.
Charles C. Spanier, one of the well-known piano
road men, is now out on a trip for Weser Bros., Inc.,
of West 43rd street, New York.
The Chenoweth & Green Music Co., Enid, Okla., is
holding a factory co-operative piano sale.
SELF-
LIFTING
PIANO
TRUCK
CO.
For all particulars, literature,
prices,
ADDRESS
Self-Lifting Piano
Truck Co.
FINDLAY, OHIO
LKON M. L.ANG.
terest of the new division is not to be centered in the
sale of pianos, band and orchestra instruments, sheet
music, harps or other musical goods, hut entirely in
furthering a deep appreciation of the happiness that
music gives and the means through which it is ob-
tained. We expect the far-reaching effect of this
viewpoint to make itself felt in retail and wholesale
contacts, in both Chicago and Cleveland."
"Through the persuasion of Steinway & Sons, we
were able to bring- Mr. Lang to Chicago for a series
of conferences dealing with the promotion of music
and we became so impressed with his ideas and ability
that we immediately proposed a permanent connec-
tion. He will devote eight months a year to this new
activity, the remaining four months lie will spend in
special promotion for the Steinway piano and in con-
tinuing his social service work."
ACTIVITY AT PERFECTION CO. PLANT.
The Perfection Furniture Co.'s plant at 2267-69 Cly-
bourn avenue, Chicago, is like Chicago itself—always
busy. Just now the company, in addition to manu-
facturing radio cabinets and piano benches, is meeting
with fine success in making beautiful breakfast and
dinette tables, suitable for modern small apartments.
Also pier cabinets. President F. S. Smith is out and
in, but Hugo Blend, the foreman in charge, is at the
factory all the time. Mr. Blend learned his trade as
a cabinet maker in Germany, and he has perfected
the art here, He has finished as high as 100 chairs
in a day.
MADE RECORD FOR FIRST PHONOGRAPH.
Charles W. Ford, 70 years old, who was retired
last month in Chicago from the railway mail service
on a pension, made one of the first phonograph
records the world ever heard. He was a page in the
United States Senate at the time Thomas A. Edison
left his original phonograph at Washington in con-
nection with an application for a patent. The boy
tried it out timidly, but later his speech was made into
a record, and Edison appreciated his curiosity so
much that he made him a present of the record.
W. E. Knightly is now on the road for the Aeolian
Co. of New York, traveling in the interests of the
Mason & Hamlin pianos. Mr. Knightly has served
the Aeolian Co. long and faithfully, and as he is a
great admirer of the Mason & Hamlin his success is
a matter to be expected.
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).