Presto

September-October, 1932
PRESTO-TIMES
16
DR. BOGUSLAWSKI SAYS MUSIC
HAS AN INSPIRING EFFECT ON
MENTAL DEPRESSION
MR. BETZ'S LATEST AND MOST IM-
PORTANT IMPROVEMENT IN
GRAND PIANO ACTION
CONSTRUCTION
The Frank W. Shireman Music Company at Cory-
don, Ind., have been meeting with success in the sale
of the Majestic refrigerators, and the Conrad & Son
Piano Company, also at Corydon, are agents for the
Kelvinator electrical refrigerators. This concern also
handles the Philco radios and the Conn line of band
instruments. Both houses made exhibitions at the
county fair.
Another well-known music house, the Kuyper's
Music House, of Pella, Iowa, that substantial Iowa
town first settled by Hollanders, has been pushing
with success the refrigerator business and recently has
had a special sale on for the Norge equipment.
In a recent issue of America's great music teachers'
W. G. Betz, superintendent of the Straube Piano
publication, "The Etude," Dr. Moissaye Boguslawski,
Factory, Hammond, Ind., where he has been located
eminent pianist, musical theorist and critic, has an for the past twelve or fifteen years, has taken out
essay bearing the caption "Music as a Cure for Mental papers for a new and greatly improved grand piano
Depression," an essay which seems to fit amazingly action. In describing his improvements on the regular
well into conditions which exist in the depression
grand action he says that in his invention "The basic
struggle now going on all over the world. Notwith- principal functions of the standard type grand action
standing Dr. Boguslawski's article has direct reference have been maintained."
to patients endeavoring to overcome mental depres-
There are many other improvements noted by Mr.
sion, what he says is applicable to the widespread
The Butler Music Co., of Marion, Ind., has opened
Betz and among them the statement that "Many parts
feeling of discontent now prevalent. All in all this
out a special department and given an entire room
article is well worth reading and well worth studying. and operations have been eliminated and this action
to its electric refrigerator line of business, carrying in
unquestionably is less costly to manufacture, but the stock the Majestic product.
Dr. Roguslawski has also interested himself in
various ways to aid and benefit his fellow citizens. greatest saving is in labor cost of installing same.
One of his latest manifestations was a concert to aid There is also a saving in the keys, no doubling and
many pounds less leads."
the Daily News Fresh Air Sanitarium in Lincoln
Park, Chicago, where he played for the children. He
Mr. Betz is an inventor of many successful devices
had a concert grand sent for the occasion and bore
in pianos and particularly in piano action construc-
all the incidental expenses in connection with the tion, and his player actions were not excelled in all
recital for the children which he staged, but, hearing the long list of inventions and player construction
of the event, many mothers of the children were while the player piano was an active factor in the
present so that there was a good sprinkling of grown
piano business.
people. The Chicago Daily News, speaking of this
event, closed its story as follows: "Throughout the
vast open room the melodies of the ages floated, ren- ANOTHER BAND INSTRUMENT BUSI-
NESS FOR ELKHART
dered as only a master can. For more than an hour
not a child whispered, and seldom was there even a
cry. When the last number was finished and the Another band instrument factory is on the way for
spell was broken, cheers resounded and the concert
establishment at Elkhart, Ind., in which R. S. Stryker
master smiled. 'I greatly enjoyed it,' said Boguslaw- of the Stryker Investment Company, S. B. White of
ski, 'and next year I want the privilege of repeating
Niles, Mich., and Wilson H. Dennison of Elkhart
it. I feel that music can help heal the sick as well as are interested. It is expected that F. A. Buescher,
medicine and nursing.' Nurses and doctors averred
who has been engaged in the band instrument busi-
that the program did their little patients a lot of good. ness for over half a century, will be the general
As he left, Boguslawski said that he would tell other manager.
artists of his delightful experience and suggest to
It was in 1929 that Mr. Buescher retired from the
them that they 'go and do likewise.' "
industry with intention of taking life easy for the
rest of his days, but while he rested, while he played
golf, while he fished and while he traveled, band in-
MUSIC ROLL EXPERT GETS HIS
struments were always uppermost in his mind, and
DEGREE IN MUSIC
some of his finest improvements, most of which have
William F. Hartman, who for several years past been patented, but have not yet been presented to
has been associated with the Clark Orchestra Roll the public in general, he has created and developed
Company as expert arranger and transcriber of musi- during the time he has been in retirement.
cal composition, and who during this time has been
a diligent student of music, the piano being his lead-
L.et me PRESTO-TIMES classified columns help dear
ing study, has now become a musician of prominence,
having recently graduated from the Boguslawski your shelves of old stock, of items that are a real bargain
to some dealer who can place them with his trade.
College of Music, Chicago, with the degree of Mas- Dealers
wishing 1 to conceal their identity can use a "box
ter of Music. Mr. Hartman began training for a number" until they know with whom they are dealing.
musical career as a young man, his first studies being
in New York city, where he was born. Later he
STYLE O OXFORD MODEL
studied abroad, spending seven years as a student of
music in England while with the Imperial Player Roll
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Company of London.
Starr Freeze Electric Refrigerators are an
Mr. Hartman has written several musical compo-
achievement in the development of mechanical
sitions and two of his songs were heard at the Sta-
refrigeration.
dium during the Democratic National Convention
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We're Coming Back" and "You Can't Blame Tam-
many for That."
able performance. You may depend on any
ing and Engraving
Mr. Hartman will follow the profession of music,
one of the models to meet every requirement.
Establishment
for which by training and natural talent he is well
Here is a refrigerator for music merchants,
fitted.
Composers and arrangers of music, as
radio men and others, to handle as comple-
well as music publishing houses generally,
mentary and supplemental to their business.
MR. RODMAN'S PERMANENT ADDRESS
are interested in the mechanical produc-
Presto-Times recently stated in the list of "come-
THOROUGH QUALITY, MODERATELY
tion and appearance of their composi-
backs" printed in these columns that mail directed
PRICED.
tions and publications. So, it is quite
to Jack Rodman at Ames, Iowa, did not reach him
essential in placing musical compositions
and that he had left that city leaving no forwarding
address. The fact of the matter is that the perma-
on the market that first-class work be
nent address of Mr. Rodman, who is a general travel-
done. First-class work, coupled with
RICHMOND, INDIANA
ing representative for the Baldwin Piano Company,
liberal rates and prices, are essential
is Box 405, Kansas Citv, Mo.
requisites in the production of sheet
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THE STARR PIANO CO.
NEWS THAT ISN'T MUCH NEWS
In a reply to a postscript to a letter to a salesman
with a big New York department store asking "What's
the news?'' he write as follows:
"There isn't any news; a 'defunct-in-summer' indus-
try could not be expected to produce news. Dealers
tell me they are repossessing more pianos this sum-
mer than they are selling new ones. They might tell
YOU differently. And here is another item; person-
ally I know five earnest-minded music students who
need pianos and would like to buy. Their musical
progress is halted because of pianos lacking; but they
are without purchasing capacity; not earning any
money now. So that's that. In the meantime the
jazz singers and crooners are collecting fat salaries
from misguided advertisers and who believe they are
directing destinies. S'funny, isn't it?"
And this is the kind of news that has been coming
to us these hot summer days now leaving us.
J. R. Maynard, head of the Maynard Music Store,
Salisbury, N. C , is one of the oldest business men
in his line in the state. He started out in Greensboro
in 1900 and two years later opened up in Salisbury.
music, music books, and other publications
of music.
In this connection Presto-Times takes
pleasure in referring parties interested in
placing music before the public, or ar-
rangers of music for bands and orches-
tras, to communicate with the great music
printing and engraving establishment of
Otto Zimmerman & Son, Cincinnati,
Ohio, America's leading house in this line
of work, whose advertisement appears on
another page of this issue.
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For the dealer who demands consumer satis-
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If you are that kind of a dealer, you are in-
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The Headquarters of the Otto Zimmerman
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