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REVIEW
THE
VOL. LXXXII. No. 25 Published Every Saturday. Edward Lyman Bill, Inc., 383 Madison Aye., New York, N. Y., Jane 19, 1926 " " t f f e i U ' " "
How Mason & Risch Are Winning
the Support of Music Teachers
Toronto, Can., Piano Merchant Undertakes Extensive Advertising Campaign Directed to Winning the Good
Will of the Music Teacher in the Territory Which It Covers—Display Advertising in the
Daily Press Supplemented hy Booklet Entitled "Some Music Every Day"
OME time ago the Mason & Risch Piano
& Risch, Ltd., and the arrangement of the copy
Co., Ltd., of Toronto, Can., came to a
was left in the hands of Claude Sanagan, the
realization of the fact that the music company's advertising representative. It may
teacher is such an important factor in the de-
velopment of interest in the piano and piano
music, and consequently in the cultivation of a
market for piano sales, that it was well worth
vvhile to direct a campaign of advertising along
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chants, but the idea of directing an entire ad-
vertising campaign in support of the work of
the teacher and giving up a company's entire
display advertising space in local newspapers to
the campaign is distinctly a novelty, with the
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of continuing instruction at regular intervals.
These booklets have been distributed freely
through the Mason & Risch store.
In commenting upon the idea back of the
campaign and the manner in which it is being
carried out, Mr. Pepler said in an interview:
"We started with the thought that our adver-
tising should go further than merely impressing
those already contemplating the purchase of a
piano—it should create a desire among those
who had not thought of music at all. In other
words, we should attempt to arouse interest in
music generally—to urge the appreciation ut
good music particularly—to prompt a desire to
play the piano. So in nearly all of our adver-
tising we have been endeavoring, first of all, to
sell the benefits of music.
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contented mind and therefore ror
greater progreu at ichoo!. Then unleu
the child 11 caught muaic, parena rnay be
unaware of latent talent of the h^heat
Finally it may be aikad why. nor let the
mUMCtUy inclined leam to play by ear *
Every child rhouU be "taught' , „ pby
the piano becaiae only by proper training
can one acoum a knowledge of reading
nuMc—and irrirrer>t»r«ang it.
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in the von—or perhapa the muaic that
readier, too, ejercran a wonderful influence
child will evrnrually e n d ra will U
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pupil, . h . did
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be said right here that in the development of
the idea there was no tendency toward stingi-
ness, for the copy used occupied space in the
or jam nafhtorhaxlf
newspapers four columns wide and twelve and
a half inches deep, with striking layout of a
character to demand attention.
Not only was the advertising campaign fea-
tured in the Toronto papers, but was used in
the various other Canadian cities where Mason
& Risch maintain branches and has been highly
commended by scores of teachers who went out
of their way to express their appreciation.
MASON £rRISCH
The display advertising itself was supple-
MASON 6rPJSCH
mented by an attractive booklet under the title
Jjtniteti
"Some Music 'Every Day," in which has been
merit that it has worked out most satisfactorily
incorporated a series of "business editorials" paign, it is true, but we calculate that in the
in the case of Mason & Risch at least.
vast majority of instances where newspaper
pointing out the need of piano study, first, for
The idea of advertising to create good will
children, and, secondly, for adults. In every readers are influenced by our advertising, they
among the music teaching profession was de- case emphasis is placed upon the value of ob- will naturally associate our name with good
veloped by H. W. E. Pepler, secretary of Mason
(Continued on page 4)
taining the services of a competent teacher and
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violin or nine other aietnioeni.
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a part in Ue, parcno aukr no nuitake in
having i ouakbed nacher wurrucr rheir
cvrrv child for the rearon rhat.
rlvlnran at rh. art of ubving the puno