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M. Schulz Co., 711 Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, 111.
(Embracing Werner Piano Co., Brinkerhoff
Piano Co.)
Schumann Piano Co., Rockford, 111.
B. K. Settergren Co., Bluffton, Ind.
Sohmer & Co., Sohmer Bldg., 31 W. 57th St., New
York.
P. A. Starck Piano Co., Starck Bldg., 228 S. Wa-
bash Ave., Chicago, 111.
Starr Piano Co., Richmond, Ind.
Steinway & Sons, 109-11 W. 57th St., New York.
M. Steinert & Sons Co., Boston, Mass.
Chas. M. Stieff, Inc., Baltimore, Md.
Straube Piano Co., Hammond, Ind.
Chas. Frederick Stein, 3047 Carroll Ave., Chicago,
Illinois.
Story & Clark Piano Co. Factory Grand Haven,
Mich. Offices, 172 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, 111.
Strich & Zeidler, Inc. Offices, 117 W. 57th St., New
York. S. L. Curtis, Inc.
Tonk Piano Co., 8-10 W. 37th St., New York, N. Y.
Spector & Son Piano Co., New York.
(No replies to inquiries; mail not delivered at
factory location.)
H. B. Morenus Piano Co., La Porte, Ind.
Horace Waters & Co., New York, N. Y.
Vose & Sons Piano Co., Watertown-Boston, Mass.
Horace Waters & Co., New York, N. Y.
Winter & Co., New York.
Waltham Piano Co., Milwaukee, Wis.
Weaver Piano Co., Inc., York, Pa.
Weiser & Sons Piano Co.. 2100 S. Kedzie Ave.,
Chicago, 111.
Weser Bros., Inc., 520 43rd St., New York, N. Y.
P. S. Wick Co., North St. Paul, Minn.
Wurlitzer Grand Piano Co. Factory and offices,
De Kail), III.
The Rud. Wurlitzer Mfg. Co. Factory and offices,
North Tonawanda, N. Y.
Wilfred Piano Co., 156th St. and Whitlock Ave.,
New York.
O. W. Wuertz Co., New York.
Wing & Son, New York.
Wissner Piano Co., Inc., 1068 Atlantic Ave., Brook-
lyn, N. Y. Offices, 59 Flatbush Ave., Brooklyn.
STEINWAY AT THE M. T. N. A. CONVENTION
IN DETROIT
At the convention of Music Teachers' National As-
sociation, held at Book-Cadillac Hotel, Detroit, the
last week in December, an interesting Steinway ex-
hibit was one of the outstanding events of the con-
vention. This exhibit was by Grinnell Brothers,
Michigan Steinway agents, and was in charge of L. G.
Grinnell, who is the assistant secretary of Grinnell
Brothers. He was assisted at the exhibit by his
cousin, Henry Grinnell. The Steinway exhibit was
in a roomy suite at the Book-Cadillac, and consisted
of a Style M, a Style L, and a Style A, all in grands.
Also there was a Steinway B in the concert hall and
two B's and two A's in concert rooms in the hotel.
Steinways were used in all the programs.
Steinways had an exhibit to show the action, the
length of the keys, a cross section of a Concert
Grand, an art case exhibit. Also piano parts in
bronze, brass and iron, cast in Steinway & Sons own
factory at Riker avenue in Long Island City, New
York; piano keys, upright and grand; damper hook,
pivot plate, key-block plate, action bracket, grand
hanger, which holds the hammer rail, regulating rail
and back rail (it is made of phosphor bronze). The
exhibit included duplex scales, the T. R. screw\s, and
an upright hanger. Also samples of the treble bell,
to accent the treble and bring up the treble for more
power; grand pedals, upright pedals, action post,
action side bracket, upright Capadastro bar, one of
Steinway & Sons own patents; soft pedal lever. Each
sort of the parts exhibits were shown on two boards
—one showing the castings in the rough, the other
the finished products.
Percy Grainger was in at the Steinway exhibit and
spent several hours there teaching the young folks
how the Steinway pianos "work."
Many other notable musical people visited the ex-
hibit on the day that Presto-Times' correspondent
was there.
The convention as a whole was a great success.
January, 1932
FLORIDA DELIGHTS
CHARLES JACOB
Chas. Jacob, of Jacob Bros. Co., New York, and
long identified with other piano manufacturing inter-
ests before his retirement from active music trade
interests on December 30, spent several weeks in
Florida last month. He was at Miami most of
the time during his stay in Florida, where he
had the pleasure of visiting often his friend, Mr.
S. Ernest Philpitt of the Philpitt & Son Music
House, and others identified with music trade in-
terests, among them Robert Waud, formerly super-
intendent of the American Piano Corporation factory
at Rochester and now a resident of Miami, where
he has a beautiful winter home. Mr. Jacob also had
a pleasant visit with William Bjur, piano manufac-
turer of New York up to a few years ago. While
in Miami Charlie became a member of the "Three-
Score-and-Ten Club Code of Ethics."
This club has twenty cardinal points worthy of
living up to. Number one is "Friendship begets
Friendship—be friendly and others will be friendly
to you," and the last, number twenty—"In many
stores and offices we notice the sign, 'Keep Smiling'
—how beautiful is a smile on the face of old age."
Charlie's return to New York was by aeroplane
from Jacksonville, which point he left on a Wednes-
day morning and arrived at the Newark, N. J., air-
port that afternoon. Mr. Jacob, in relating his ex-
periences said of the air trip that: "It was my first
experience in an aeroplane and I found it a comfort-
able and profitable way to travel. The plane left
Jacksonville at 9:20 a. m. and arrived in Newark
airport at about 7:05. During the last hour and a
half of our flight it was dark. We had thirty minutes'
lunch at Raleigh; stopped at one other point about
ten minutes, and Savannah, Florence, Richmond,
Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia for five minutes
Two recent fires did some damage to music houses at each place."
last month—one the Grinnell Music Store at 210 W.
Mr. Jacob is so thoroughly pleased with life in
Michigan avenue, Ypsilanti, Mich., and the other Florida that it is more than probable he will be-
damaging the stock of the Era Music Company, Okla- come a resident of that commonwealth. New York
homa City, Okla.
and Florida are easy of access to each other and
he is delighted with the climate; in fact, he is, as he
says, in love with it and he is returning to Florida
for another visit this month.
A BALDWIN ADVERTISING
LAY-OUT
OUR PIANO
(A sequel to "My Piano" and "Your Piano")
"Your Piano" should be our piano.
Most treasured possession in
every home.
Enjoyed by each member—from
the wee tot so gay
To him who has travelled jar
along life's highway.
Ready to share each emotional
feeling;
Ready to soothe with sweet har-
mony's healing;
A comfort in sorrow, a sharer of
pleasure;
No wonder it is a most cherished
treasure;
This friend sympathetic and always
on call.
Help, then, to make "Our Piano"
essential to all.
Presto-Times recently received one of the most
attractive and successful pieces of advertising formu-
lae that has appeared in the past year. The adver-
tising department of the Baldwin Piano Company is
certainly to be congratulated upon the skill with
which they are presenting the new Sargent piano,
as well as upon the close cooperation they are afford-
ing their dealers.
A dealer receiving a packet containing a complete
and attractive window display, with the entire lay-
out and instructions, such as ca,n be used to intro-
duce the piano, cannot help but become enthusiastic
over the make of instrument he proposes to handle.
In addition to containing an attractive mat for use
in local newspaper advertising the packet contains
stickers for placing on the display window, while rib-
bons run from these stickers to the various parts of
the piano that are explained on the stickers. Hand-
some display signs are also furnished and by display-
ing a new Sargent in the window a display can be
created that will practically sell pianos from the
window.
ACTIVITIES OF ONE OF CHICAGO'S
LEADING PIANO MANU-
FACTURERS
Among the piano men along Chicago's piano row,
which extends about three blocks along Wabash
avenue, is a gentleman of whom the trade hears
comparatively very little, as an individual, yet for
years has been one of the predominating men in
piano manufacturing and selling. P. T. Starck, of
the P. A. Starck Piano Company, is one of those
quiet workers who develops his ideas without blare
of trumpets, save when his advertisements appear in
type, and when he has finished, a profitable turn-
over, has accomplished something.
The elder Starck and former head of the P. A.
Starck Piano Company was one of the thoroughly
posted men and one of the best liked, as well as
shrewdest, in the piano trade of his day and who,
like his son, was a tireless worker, conducting his
business along conservative lines, a trait passed on
to his son, the present head of the house, who has
not only followed along in the footsteps of his worthy
parent, but is doing his share in the development of
the piano industry and the P. A. Starck Piano Com-
pany.
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