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STRICH & ZEIDLER, Inc.
GRAND, UPRIGHT and PLAYER
AND
HOMER PIANOS
740-742 East 136th Street
NEW YORK
all about Mica, its uses and what it means to many-
phonograph manufacturers of diaphragm reproduc-
ers, and names of the many manufacturers of
phonograph parts that obtain their supplies from
the International Mica Co., it would fill several
pages of Presto. This unique display at the Music
Show was in charge of James H. Greeley, Jr., and
L. H. Crabtree.
The Kleernote.
The American Device Mfg. Co., St. Louis, Mo.,
showed a Kleernote "for your Piano Player" which
looked simple and efficient. It is guaranteed to
make every note play. This display created inter-
est and "A Kleernote" will be heard louder now
than ever.
The LEADING LINE
WEAVER PIANOS
Orands, Uprights and Players
Finest and most artistic
piano in design, tone and
construction that can be
made.
Y O R K PIANOS
Uprights and Player Pianos
A high grade piano of great
value and with charming tone quality.
Livingston Pianos— Uprights and Player Pianos
A popular piano at a popular price.
Over 70,000 instrument* made by this company are sing-
iag their own praises in all parts of the civilised world.
Write for catalogues and state on what terms you would
like to deal, and we will make you a proposition if yot. are
located in open territory.
WEAVER PIANO CO., Inc.
Factory: YORK, PA.
Established 1870
"Built on Family Pride"
Doll & Sons
Represent the Artistic
in Piano and Player Piano
Construction
JACOB DOLL & SONS
STODDART
WELLSMORE
Jacob Doll & Sons, Inc.
Southern Boulevard, E. 133rd St.
E. 134th St. and Cypress Ave.
NEW YORK
TRADE MARK
Factory and Gcntral Offices *. ROCHFORD, ILL
CHICAGO WARCIOOMSi NORTH AMERICAN ILDC.
Warning to lnfrlngers
This Trade Mark it caat in the plate and also
appears upon the fall bos/d ol all genuine
gcfninuutn Pianos, and all infringers will b*
ojosecuted.
Beware of mutations such as
ScnurDsinn & Company, Schumann « Son,
and also Shi^man. as all stencil styppjb dealers
and users o! pianos bearing a nacn* in imitation
of th* name Schumann with tt» intention of
deceiving the pubic will be prosecuted to the
fuDwt extent of the law.
SCHUMANN PIANO COMPANY
W. V. Vl4a«t
W. R. Long is the new manager of the talking
machine department of the Will A. Watkin Co.,
Dallas, Tex.
Every branch of the J. W. Jenkins Sons' Music
Co., whose main house is in Kansas City, Mo., has
a Yictrola department. Representatives of thirty
branches had a "get together" meeting in the city
named recently.
The Victor Talking Machine Co., Camden, N. J.,
has opened the 1920 series of classes for Victor
salesmen. The first class began February 1. Periods
of two weeks will be alternately for men and
women.
The Emerson Phonograph Co. will occupy the
entire building at 206 Fifth avenue, New York
City, about March 1. The building is five stories
in height, provides ample facilities for the com-
pany's growing trade.
John McCormack's early struggles to be a great
singer are told in a book transcribed from his own
words, by Pierre V. R. Key.
A. C. Boatman is manager of the phonograph
department of the Chamberlin-Johnson-Du Bose
Co., Atlanta, Ga. Mr. Boatman has been with the
company close on to twenty years.
J. E. Detrick is the new manager of the record
department of the Starr Piano Co., Cincinnati.
Harvey Orr is a new salesman in the phono-
graph department of Sherman, Clay & Co., San
Francisco.
The John Elliott Clark Co., Salt Lake City, Utah,
is making extensive improvements in its fine ware-
rooms at 150 South Main street.
Talking machine manufacturers have been in-
vited to exhibit their machines at the exhibition to
be held in Seattle, Wash., and Los Angeles, Calif.,
next May, in connection with the Seventh National
Foreign Trade Convention to be held in San Fran-
cisco.
PATHE FRERES STOCK.
Montgomery & Co.. New York, are offering at 100
and accrued dividend to yield 8 per cent, $1,000,000
Pathe Freres Phonograph Company 8 per cent cu-
mulative sinking fund debenture stock. The com-
pany also has outstanding $1,117,000 preferred 7 per
cent stock and $1,230,000 common stock, each hav-
ing a par value of $100. The company was incor-
porated in 1912 and owns a plant in Brooklyn, New
York, where it manufactures about 30,000 records
daily, together with the sound reproducing devices,
etc., for its talking machines. Unfilled orders at
present exceed the gross business of any previous
year.
PATHE EARNINGS.
It is said that the net earnings of Pathe Freres
Phonograph Company for the quarter ending Jan-
uary 1 are reported as more than ten times the divi-
dend requirements on the $1,500,000 8 per cent first
preferred stock recently issued, says the New York
Journal. The company reports orders on hand as
three times those of this time last year.
AN IOWA DELEGATE.
A. S. Street, manager of the piano and phono-
graph department of Davidson Bros. Co., Sioux
City, la., visited New York City during convention
week in the interests of his department. Mr. Street
visited the Victrola factory at Camden, N. J., and
the Edison factory at Orange, N. J., before return-
ing home.
FEATURES THE STARR.
The Starr phonograph and Gennett records are
ably featured in advertising and demonstrations by
the Weaver Music Co., St. Catherines, Out. Blake
K. Weaver is proprietor,
February 19, 1920.
NEW PHONOGRAPH STORES
Cavanaugh & Kendrick is the name of a new
talking machine store in West Washington, D. C.
(Old Georgetown).
Three demonstration rooms have been added to
the equipment of the Gus Blass Co., Little Rock,
Ark., which has enlarged the phonograph depart-
ment generally.
The F. P. May Hardware Co., Washington, D. C,
has taken on the line of Pathe phonographs and
records.
The Lakewood Music Co., and the Euclid Music
Co., Cleveland, have been merged. The stores spe-
cialize in the Victor line.
A phonograph department will be included in the
music rooms the Davis Piano Co. to open in the
old Seigel-Cooper Building, State and Van Buren
streets, Chicago, about March 1.
The Victor line is carried by the Boyer Music
Co.. in its new home in Elkhart, Ind. The store is
at 417 South Main street.
Harry Boxberger, a phonograph repair man at
Ft. Wayne, Ind., and who, for the past twelve years,
has been connected with some of the largest music
houses in that city, has opened a new exclusive
phonograph repair shop at 107 West Breckenridge
street, just off Calhoun. The new repair shop is
located in the same building with O. V. Heath, the
expert violin maker.
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Price & Teeple Piano Co.
218 South Wabash Avenue
CHICAGO
A LIVE LINE FOR LIVE DEALERS
WEBSTER
PIANOS AND PLAYERS
Fulfill Every Promise of
Profit to the Dealer
and Satisfaction to
His Customers.
NOTHING BETTER FOR YOUR TRADE
Manufactured by
THE WEBSTER PIANO CO.
450 Fifth Ave., NEW YORK CITY
W. P. HAINES & CO.
(INCORPORATED)
PLAYERS and PIANOS
138th Street and Walton Avenue
NEW YORK CITY
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