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December 15, 1929 PRESTO-TIMES YEARS AGO IN THE PRESTO THIRTY YEARS AGO U Local newspapers everywhere are bristling with Christmas piano advertising. The holiday season doesn't hurt the local papers and it is certain that this (From "THE PRESTO," December 14, 1899.) holiday advertising helps the piano dealers. This The London trade papers refer to the "United season will be a good one wherever piano men are States PRESTO" when this paper is quoted. That is alive. pretty nearly right. The death of Sylvester Tower removed one of the The Strich & Zeidler art piano, an illustration of conspicuous characters in the piano industry of a few which was printed in a recent issue of THE PRESTO, years back. was on Tuesday placed on exhibition at Falk's phoThere are more stencil pianos in the trade today tographic studio, in the Waldorf-Astoria, 34th Street than ever before. and Fifth Avenue, New York. The Story & Clark factory enlargement at Grand The Story & Clark Piano Co. are now shipping Haven, Michigan, is an addition two stories high and pianos from their temporary factory premises at fifty feet long. Dixon, 111. Mr. Luther, general traveling representative of "I suppose we'll have to wait a few months," said Wood & Brooks, ivory cutters, piano hammer makers, Mr. W. W. Kimball this morning to a PRESTO etc., Buffalo, N. Y., was m, 'Chicago this week. representative, referring to the lock-out and strike. A. E. Johnson, secretary of the Haddorff Piano Co., It's as well to look at it philosophically and not hurry Rockford, made a hurrie-l trip to Chicago Tuesday, things too much. All things come to him who waits, returning to Rockford the same evening. it is said, and perhaps the boys will come to their W. N. Van Matre, president of the Schumann Piano senses in time. Company, arrived in Chicago this morning from a Jacob Doll's mammoth factory is now completed short trip in Michigan. Mr. Van Matre finds Schuinside and out. The machinery was moved into the mann trade excellent whe.ever he goes. new part last week and now the big plant presents At an election of office ts of the Elmer Post, G. A. the appearance of an enormous beehive. Only twenty- R., at Elkhart, Indiana, Irs* week, C. G. Conn, manutwo pianos a day now. About seven thousand per facturer of the Wonder "jaad instruments, the largest year. Pretty good output, isn't it? industry of the kind it. chc v/orld, was re-elected It is said that the Steinertone will soon be on ex- Commander. hibition at the Knabe warerooms. J. Frank Conover is st.-i1. i'. the South in the interF. Radle, the piano manufacturer at 611 West ests of his department hi The Cable Company's facThirty-sixth street, New York, has a good selling tories. Last week Mr. Conover was in Columbia, product in his new "F. Radle" pianos. The instru- S. C, and treated the locil piano men there with one ments! are well constructed and of good tone. of his talks on pianos in general and the Conover Paderewski called at the Steinway warerooms, piano in particular. The Charleston, S. C, "News" of New York, on Wednesday of last week to select his December 4th, contained the following: "J. Frank concert grand. Mr. Charles H. Steinway, speaking to Conover, the originator of .he Conover piano and a THE PRESTO of the incident, said: "It is a rare prominent member of the ft. mo as house of Cable, the treat, but enjoyed by only a few. Paderewski gave largest piano and organ nutters in the world, is in quite an impromptu while selecting his instrument and Charleston on a visit to tl ; agency of The Cable he showed himself to be possessed of more power Company, and is now eon trading a tour which has than ever. He looks healthier than when here before covered nearly the entire South and a score of and seems to have even more vigor." agencies have been visited. We take great pleasure in presenting herewith a Edward H. Jones & Son l a \ e leased the building portrait of Mr. W. G. Vaughan Robinson, of the Rob- at 416 East Locust Street, i)es Moines, Iowa, and inson Piano Co., Hong Kong. The Robinson Piano will open a new piano and music store similar in Co., which was established in 1875, has branch stores many respects to the one cotiducted by them in the at Singapore, at Shanghai, at Delhi, and other points. Marquardt building, Iowa City. We present herewith a fac-simile of an advertisement of the house of Jose Mendes Leite & Co., of Para, Brazil, as it appeared in a recent paper of Brazil. It shows that the art of advertising is understood in that country and that the music industry is not behind in its application. (From the San Juan, Porto Rico, "News.") Vivid Historical High-Lights Touched Upon Which THE PRESTO, the musical trade paper published Presto-Times Would Extend. in Chicago, has produced one of the loveliest and largest editions ever undertaken by a weekly newsA very interesting article written by Arthur Bispaper. It is endeavoring to enter the Porto Rican sell, piano man of Chicago, appeared one day last field and it should be welcome. Thirty-nine pages are month in the magazine section of the Chicago Daily in the Spanish language. News, under the title, "My Musical Memories." He (From "The Anglo-American," Mexico City, Nov. mentioned meetings with Theodore Thomas, Mme. 26.)The Trade (Export) edition of THE PRESTO Nordica, Fritzi Scheff, Paderewski, Calve. Carreno, has been received at this office. It is exceedingly Florenz Ziegfeld, who founded the Chicago Musical well gotten up and deserves the appreciation in which College in 1869, Frederick W. R ot, and many others. it is held throughout the republic of Mexico by music All this is adapted to excite historical curiosity, but dealers and others interested in music matters. there is a field for another chapter if Mr. Bissell Clarence Eddy on the Lyon & Healy Harp. cares to write it. He could leil a great deal more A letter recently written by the great organist con- about pere Ziegfeld, father of "Flo" Ziegfeld, and tains the following spontaneous tribute to the play- also of this son's great success . s head of the Zieging of Clara Murray on the Lyon & Healy harp: feld Follies; of Lillian Russell a d her visits to Chi"At Cincinnati, O., last evening I had the pleasure cago; of Anton Dvorak, the Bol; mian composer, who of listening to some remarkably fine harp playing by often visited Chicago during hi; .several years' resiMrs. Clara Murray. Her superb Lyon & Healy harp dence in this country, and of 1 s( compositions comwas in excellent tune, and she produced many charmr posed here. ing effects with truly admirable skill. The large Mr. Bissell in his next artieV could speak of the audience filling the great music hall, was enthusias- time when Paderewski's celebrate 3 minuet was played tic and recalled Mrs. Murray several times after each by him in Chicago for the initial time in public and selection.Clarence Eddy. at the Chicago Auditorium during the World's Fair of 1893. He could tell something about Reginald De Koven, composer of "Robin Hood" and other light operas (From THE PRESTO, December 15, 1904.) that were successful. Surely a second or even a The Baldwin piano is very prominent in the con- third chapter will be necessary from the typewriter cert room this season. At the recitals of DePach- of Mr. Bissell. In the article referred to Mr. Bissell pays a tribmann, the Russian pianist, in Music Hall, Chicago, this week the Baldwin aided largely in the delight of ute to one of the brightest men in the music publishing business, Aloysius Limbach, for many years the audience. At the recent explosion which wrecked the rooms with the Clayton F. Summy Companya man who of The Cable Company in Knoxville, Tenn., pianos has at his tongue's-end almost any musical compoand pig iron were juggled in strange fashion. A sition one could name. He is masterful as a comMason & Hamlin grand standing in the window of pendium of useful information about all music and the warerooms had a leg torn off, carried through the musical publications of the entire world. window and up over through the building to the rear. ADVERTISING THE WASHBURN. It isn't fair. Here's a house in Northfield, Minn advertising a "Henderson" piano in which the firm "Christmas time is piano time around the world," claims to be interested. The real Henderson piano says a Lyion & Healy ad in Chicago. "No other has been produced and promoted for years by Mr. gift gives such a thrillno other gives such long J. C. Henderson, of Ann Arbor. and continued pleasure." ARTHUR BISSELL'S MUSICAL MEMORIES TWENTY=FIVE YEARS AGO MUSIC SUPERVISORS CONFERENCE IN CHICAGO For Five Days, Beginning March 24, at Stevens Hotel, This Will Be Great Meeting. First facts on the forthcoming Music Supervisors' National Conference have been made known by Miss Mabelle Glenn, director of music of the Kansas City, Mo., public schools and president of the conference. The meeting will be held in Chicago for five days beginning March 24, 1930. Headquarters of the conference will be in the world's largest hotel, the* Stevens. An attendance of 7,000 school music supervisor4. is anticipated. It is expected that every school iierson interested in the future of American music 'md his own work will be there. Chicago is planning to outdo herself in providing entertainment for the visiting supervisors. Dr. 1 rodcrick Stock will conduct his Symphony Orche-ii'i in a complimentary concert. Two glee clubs from Northwestern University will sing. The Chicago University Chorus will give a concert in their beautiful new chapel, and arrangements are under way with the Paulist Choristers for a concert. A fine program is also promised by the Chicago public school music department for its Tuesday evening concert. ORCHESTRA CONTEST WINNERS ANNOUNCED Competition for Camp Places at Interlochen Keener Than Ever for Next Year. Winners in the solo contest and ensemble playing contests at the 1929 National High School Orchestra and Band Camp. Interlochen, Mich., have been announced by J. E. Maddy, musical director. Gold, silver and bronze medals, purchased out of contributions to the Camp's "blanket" fund, were awarded to first, second and third place winners in the contests. A special medal was awarded to Campsie Killam. of Duluth, Minn., as the "best all-round Camper." Mr. Maddy reports that membership applications are coming in good numbers. Selection of candidaacs, he said, would begin immediately after the first of the year. Because of the large number of students in the 1929 camp who have expressed a desire also to attend the 1930 camp, competition for camp places next season is expected to be keener than ever. Music teachers having pupils qualified to attend the camp are urged to get in touch immediately with Air. Maddv at Ann Arbor. Mrs. Vilpha Barnes Wood, composer and conductor, died in her home in New York on December 11. She once directed the activities of the Grand Opera Society of New York, which she organized in 1915. 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