Presto

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Teddy Hale
POPULAR ARTISTS
BRING FAVOR TO STORYTONE
(. Russel Robinson, America's greatest authority on the blues,
jazz, and swing, performed with his associate pianist, Teddy Hale,
at the Story & Clark Exhibit, playing twin Storytones equipped
with the Solovox, during the National Music Merchants Conven-
tion.
J. Russel Robinson was the pianist for America's first famous
jazz band, T H E ORIGINAL DIXIELAND BAND. This band
is conceded by all authorities of popular, swing, blues and jazz
music to be the first to originate this type of music. Mr. Robinson
is equally famous as the composer of "Margie" and other song
Mr. I: mil Valazco the K'cll-knoivn Nezv York organist playing the
ORGIANA at the exhibit of Central Commercial Company, (Chi-
cago, III.) during the Convention.
SEI'TEMUER, 1941
./. Russell Robinson
hits, being a well rated ASCAP member.
The great team of Robinson and Hale is beginning to do things
with the Storytone electronic piano and the Solovox which has
New York's Radio and Record Talent Scout agog. Visitors to
the Convention heard music from these artists that was positively
new and interesting. Arrangements are now under way to pay
tribute to this great and popular pianist. |. Russel Robinson has
made thousands of phonograph records and music rolls. Their
program included the better types of blues music. They also played
the sweet popular Jerome Kern's songs and made them more at-
tractive than ever before.
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ORGIANO,
COMBINES
PIANO
& ORGAN
One of the interesting features of the Convention was the
ORGIANO, a new contribution to the musical world. It combines
the delicate and dynamic characteristics of the piano with full, rich,
majestic, sustained tones of the organ.
ORGIANO has been developed by engineers and executives of
Central Commercial Company of Chicago in collaboration with the
Electrical Engineering Department of the Michigan College of
Mining and Technology.
The piano tones of ORGIANO are actual and it develops the
closest approximation to organ tones.
Anyone with piano technique can play the ORGIANO immedi-
ately. Organ technique is entirely unnecessary and no special in-
struction is required. You may play either the piano or the organ
alone or both simultaneously without interruption or confusion.
ORGIANO is designed for the home and yet it develops ample
volume for any church, auditorium, or theatre. Dance halls, night
clubs and restaurants will also find that ORGIANO gives the
harmony of multiple instrumentation.
The ORGIANO can be attached or built in to anv standard
piano, upright, spinet, or grand, without structural alterations. An
amplifying system suitable to the accoustics or sound area is sup-
plied, but the organ tones of the ORGIANO can be co-ordinated
with any existent radio of good tonal quality and volume.
The ORGIANO operates on the principal of electronics which
synchronises exactly with each and every note on the piano so
that the wide range of organ tones will always be in precise har-
mony with the piano.
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