Presto
Issue: 1930 2251 - Page 7
October, 1930
P R E S T O-T I M E S
SCHOOLS USING WURLITZER STUDIO PIANOS
The Washington School is one of the newest
schools in Ogdensburg, N. Y., and in this beautiful
new school they are now using thirteen Wurlitzer
Studio pianos—one in the Auditorium and twelve in
the class-rooms.
The Wurlitzer small piano was selected because of
its quality of tone, its durability of construction. The
price was a secondary consideration.
The larger picture shows an interior view of the
assembly hall in the Washington School, just before
the audience of interested pupils assembled for a
music performance, and as the acoustic properties of
this big new school are good, it was a treat to hear
the Wurlitzer music.
The Wurlitzer small piano is very popular with
the music classes of this school as it is everywhere
else where it is introduced. Hundreds of Wurlitzers
have been installed throughout the country in various
There are Many Reasons Why the
M. SCHULZ CO.
Line of Pianos
GRANDS, UPRIGHTS
PLAYERS
Are Easy Sellers
They Combine Quality
with Appearance in a
Most Remarkable
Manner.
—A Line That Gives
Satisfaction to the Pub-
lic and Is a Money-
Maker for the Dealer.
Their G R A N D S Are
W o n d e r f u l . Their
UPRIGHTS Are Stand-
ards of Excellence.
M. SCHULZ CO.
711 Milwaukee Avenue
CHICAGO
INT10IIIOR OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL, OGDENSBUUG.
WHEN TONE
IS DESIRED THE
STATUS OF JACOB DOLL & SONS
While in the Hands of Receivers in Equity, There
Is a Chance for Reorganization.
The business of manufacturing- pianos at the Doll
factory is going on, although Jacob Poll & Sons are
in the hands of the Irving Trust Co. and Harry Meix-
ell, receivers in equity, who were recently appointed
by Federal Judge Alfred C. Coxc.
The book value of the assets amounts to $1,193,000,
the complaint states, and the liabilities of the cor-
poration, which is capitalized at $1,000,000, consist
of mortgages aggregating $220,000, a liability of $298,-
889 to the Premier Grand Piano Corporation, and
debts owing to merchandise creditors amounting to
$300,000.
The location of the plant in the path of the pro-
jected Triborough Bridge affords encouraging pros-
pects of a reorganization of the business.
These figures of conditions show that the Premier
Grand Piano Corporation is really a creditor of the
Doll concern, and as the Premier is running as well
as the Hallet & Davis Co., another independent allied
company, there is still great business strength behind
the Doll brothers and their business associates, which
gives rise to the hope that they will soon be sailing
in clear waters once more, having outridden the pres-
ent storm.
UNGER MUSIC MUCH IN DEMAND
The following letter from the director of a big Phil-
adelphia orchestra is typical of many that the J. S.
Unger Music House, music publishers, Reading, Pa.,
receive right along from many points in the United
States, telling the story better than by anything the
Unger house might say:
"J. S. Unger Music House,
"Greetings:
"I have heard much about your new tunes, but T
haven't heard them played here in Philly. and I would
like to be one of the first to present them to the music
gang here in town. Not only are we located at
Danceland Hall, but we are jobbing around exten-
sively, so if you can let us have orchestrations and
'Prof.' piano copies of your numbers, we will plug
them everv opportunity we get, not only at the hall
but on the radio.
"
HARRY C. DUNN,
"Director of the Peiin-Delphians Orchestra."
Carder's 32nd anniversary sale of pianos at 27
Pryor street, N. E., Atlanta, Ga., was held last month
and a good many fine instruments were sold. The
customers had the choice of Hardman. Baldwin,
Kurtzmann, Straube, Hobart M. Cable. Milton,
Crown, Wurlitzer, Steinway, Knabe, Hallet & Davis
and many otheis, new and used, to choose from.
F. RADLE
FULFILS THE
REQUIREMENTS
WASHINGTON SCHOOL, OGDENSBURG.
schools—every one of which is giving the utmost
satisfaction.
Valley's Music Store at Ogdensburg is the dealer
who sold the Wurlitzer pianos to the Washington
school.
CORRECTION AS TO ORGAN PRIORITY.
Presto-Times has received a letter from S. L. De-
balta, publicity manager, 1203' Loew Building, New
York, asking this paper to correct a statement used
in its September issue about the first installation of
pipe organs for instruction in public schools. The
href notice was a little misleading, as Mr. Debalta
states. His letter says: "The M. P. Moller 'Artiste'
automatic organ has been installed as early as 1928
in the New York Military Academy in Cornwall,
N. Y. Another 'Artiste' has been installed in 1929
in the Ogontz School for Girls, near Philadelphia, and
a few months ago an 'Artiste' has been installed in
the Central High School, Newark, N. J. If the laurels
of pioneer organ building for schools be bestowed,
they are due, in all fairness, to the M. P. Moller
Organ Co. of Hagerstown, Md." Notwithstanding
the chronological points brought out by Mr. Debalta,
the Estcy Piano Co. of Brattlcboro, Yt, was suc-
cessful in placing pipe organs in public schools at
an early day.
PIANO PRICES GOING UP.
An indication of vitality in the piano trade is found
in the higher prices over former prices quoted for
Brambach Baby Grands. One reason for piano trade
dullness in the last two years has been price-cutting,
price-slashing. Neither the manufacturer nor the
dealer can stand that very long—something is bound
to snap. The Kohler-Brambach Piano Co., Inc., has
taken a jump ahead in a reasonable price for its fine
instruments and that their trade is increasing rapidly
in certain styles shows that the demand exists and
that the public is not only willing but eager to pay a
fair price for the right goods.
The piano is the result of long ex-
perience and ambition to attain a
position of eminence.
CLEAR, BEAUTIFUL TONE
is a distinctive feature of F. Radle
Pianos and the case designs are
always original.
F. RADLE, Inc.
ESTABLISHED 1850
609 - 611 W. 30TH STREET
NEW YORK, U. S. A.
Worry Over Player Details
is avoided by the manufac-
turer who uses the
A. C. Cheney Player Action
in his products. He knows
everything is all rigjht and
that the best musical quali-
ties of his pianos are develop-
ed by the use of this player
mechanism.
A. C. CHENEY
PIANO ACTION COMPANY
CASTLETON, N. Y.
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P R E S T O-T I M E S
SCHOOLS USING WURLITZER STUDIO PIANOS
The Washington School is one of the newest
schools in Ogdensburg, N. Y., and in this beautiful
new school they are now using thirteen Wurlitzer
Studio pianos—one in the Auditorium and twelve in
the class-rooms.
The Wurlitzer small piano was selected because of
its quality of tone, its durability of construction. The
price was a secondary consideration.
The larger picture shows an interior view of the
assembly hall in the Washington School, just before
the audience of interested pupils assembled for a
music performance, and as the acoustic properties of
this big new school are good, it was a treat to hear
the Wurlitzer music.
The Wurlitzer small piano is very popular with
the music classes of this school as it is everywhere
else where it is introduced. Hundreds of Wurlitzers
have been installed throughout the country in various
There are Many Reasons Why the
M. SCHULZ CO.
Line of Pianos
GRANDS, UPRIGHTS
PLAYERS
Are Easy Sellers
They Combine Quality
with Appearance in a
Most Remarkable
Manner.
—A Line That Gives
Satisfaction to the Pub-
lic and Is a Money-
Maker for the Dealer.
Their G R A N D S Are
W o n d e r f u l . Their
UPRIGHTS Are Stand-
ards of Excellence.
M. SCHULZ CO.
711 Milwaukee Avenue
CHICAGO
INT10IIIOR OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL, OGDENSBUUG.
WHEN TONE
IS DESIRED THE
STATUS OF JACOB DOLL & SONS
While in the Hands of Receivers in Equity, There
Is a Chance for Reorganization.
The business of manufacturing- pianos at the Doll
factory is going on, although Jacob Poll & Sons are
in the hands of the Irving Trust Co. and Harry Meix-
ell, receivers in equity, who were recently appointed
by Federal Judge Alfred C. Coxc.
The book value of the assets amounts to $1,193,000,
the complaint states, and the liabilities of the cor-
poration, which is capitalized at $1,000,000, consist
of mortgages aggregating $220,000, a liability of $298,-
889 to the Premier Grand Piano Corporation, and
debts owing to merchandise creditors amounting to
$300,000.
The location of the plant in the path of the pro-
jected Triborough Bridge affords encouraging pros-
pects of a reorganization of the business.
These figures of conditions show that the Premier
Grand Piano Corporation is really a creditor of the
Doll concern, and as the Premier is running as well
as the Hallet & Davis Co., another independent allied
company, there is still great business strength behind
the Doll brothers and their business associates, which
gives rise to the hope that they will soon be sailing
in clear waters once more, having outridden the pres-
ent storm.
UNGER MUSIC MUCH IN DEMAND
The following letter from the director of a big Phil-
adelphia orchestra is typical of many that the J. S.
Unger Music House, music publishers, Reading, Pa.,
receive right along from many points in the United
States, telling the story better than by anything the
Unger house might say:
"J. S. Unger Music House,
"Greetings:
"I have heard much about your new tunes, but T
haven't heard them played here in Philly. and I would
like to be one of the first to present them to the music
gang here in town. Not only are we located at
Danceland Hall, but we are jobbing around exten-
sively, so if you can let us have orchestrations and
'Prof.' piano copies of your numbers, we will plug
them everv opportunity we get, not only at the hall
but on the radio.
"
HARRY C. DUNN,
"Director of the Peiin-Delphians Orchestra."
Carder's 32nd anniversary sale of pianos at 27
Pryor street, N. E., Atlanta, Ga., was held last month
and a good many fine instruments were sold. The
customers had the choice of Hardman. Baldwin,
Kurtzmann, Straube, Hobart M. Cable. Milton,
Crown, Wurlitzer, Steinway, Knabe, Hallet & Davis
and many otheis, new and used, to choose from.
F. RADLE
FULFILS THE
REQUIREMENTS
WASHINGTON SCHOOL, OGDENSBURG.
schools—every one of which is giving the utmost
satisfaction.
Valley's Music Store at Ogdensburg is the dealer
who sold the Wurlitzer pianos to the Washington
school.
CORRECTION AS TO ORGAN PRIORITY.
Presto-Times has received a letter from S. L. De-
balta, publicity manager, 1203' Loew Building, New
York, asking this paper to correct a statement used
in its September issue about the first installation of
pipe organs for instruction in public schools. The
href notice was a little misleading, as Mr. Debalta
states. His letter says: "The M. P. Moller 'Artiste'
automatic organ has been installed as early as 1928
in the New York Military Academy in Cornwall,
N. Y. Another 'Artiste' has been installed in 1929
in the Ogontz School for Girls, near Philadelphia, and
a few months ago an 'Artiste' has been installed in
the Central High School, Newark, N. J. If the laurels
of pioneer organ building for schools be bestowed,
they are due, in all fairness, to the M. P. Moller
Organ Co. of Hagerstown, Md." Notwithstanding
the chronological points brought out by Mr. Debalta,
the Estcy Piano Co. of Brattlcboro, Yt, was suc-
cessful in placing pipe organs in public schools at
an early day.
PIANO PRICES GOING UP.
An indication of vitality in the piano trade is found
in the higher prices over former prices quoted for
Brambach Baby Grands. One reason for piano trade
dullness in the last two years has been price-cutting,
price-slashing. Neither the manufacturer nor the
dealer can stand that very long—something is bound
to snap. The Kohler-Brambach Piano Co., Inc., has
taken a jump ahead in a reasonable price for its fine
instruments and that their trade is increasing rapidly
in certain styles shows that the demand exists and
that the public is not only willing but eager to pay a
fair price for the right goods.
The piano is the result of long ex-
perience and ambition to attain a
position of eminence.
CLEAR, BEAUTIFUL TONE
is a distinctive feature of F. Radle
Pianos and the case designs are
always original.
F. RADLE, Inc.
ESTABLISHED 1850
609 - 611 W. 30TH STREET
NEW YORK, U. S. A.
Worry Over Player Details
is avoided by the manufac-
turer who uses the
A. C. Cheney Player Action
in his products. He knows
everything is all rigjht and
that the best musical quali-
ties of his pianos are develop-
ed by the use of this player
mechanism.
A. C. CHENEY
PIANO ACTION COMPANY
CASTLETON, 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).