29
PRESTO
May .8. 1920.
PIANO AND PLAYERPIANO
HELP SOLVE A PROBLEM
Seattle, Wash., Dealer Points Out to Parents Easy
Way to "Keep Kids Good."
While the Du Barry Piano Co., Seattle, Wash., be-
lieves in the potency of the salesman, it also has
considerable faith in the indirect appeal to piano
prospects. The plan of indirect appeals to prospec-
tive piano buyers is being applied with success by
the DuBarry Piano Co., the general manager of
which company is George H. Barry.
Some time ago Mr. Barry wrote a booklet which
he has been circulating freely in his territory. The
results have been so good that other dealers have
issued similar bits of publicity.
Mr. Barry's booklet is entitled, "Keep the Young
Folks Off the Street," and it was "compiled and
printed by a society of musicians who are seeking
to show the beneficial influence of music, in making
a better generation of young folks."
"Young folks hunger for music. When they don't
know how to play or sing themselves, naturally they
crave to go where they can hear it," says the book-
let. "Music is most often the very attraction that
lures them away from the family circle—away per-
haps never to return. How sad that parents over-
look the importance of a musical education for their
children (and yet by this very influence their chil-
dren might be taught to make the home parlor the
dearest of places.
"Teach the children while they are but little tots
to merrily play and sing. Then is the only time to
inculcate the home entertainment spirit. As the twig
is gently bent, so the tree inclines, and if they grow
Established 1867
Strauch Bros.
All Well-posted Piano
Dealers and Salesmen
recognize the value of this name on a
Piano Action.
For more than 50 years it has been associ-
ated with the best products of the Piano
industry. It has always represented
Quality and Merit
When a Piano Action bears the name of
Strauch Bros, it is an additional guarantee
of the quality of the instrument containing it.
STRAUCH BROS.
Piano Actions, Hammers and Repairs
22 to 30 Tenth Avenue
New York
up entertaining themselves and friends in the home
parlor they will not forsake it when they grow up.
The average child at the age of seven will learn to
play the piano easier than at any future time in its
life. This fact we have learned from thousands of
cases. The younger the child the more retentive is
its mind, the more supple its fingers.
"Hence they will learn while young with far less
trouble to themselves and expense to you. After
the first few lessons are over they start to produce
simple harmony—become fascinated with the music
they are producing, and scarcely any case has been
recorded where children have reached the point
where they are producing even the simple melody
and then failed to really enjoy playing and prac-
ticing."
QUALITY FIRST
AND
FIRST QUALITY
Jesse French & Sons Piano Co.
'YOURS IN GULDICKS" IS
A NEW WAY OF SIGNING
Signer Is a Repairman Who Finds Gulbransen an
Excellent Product.
The Gulbransen-Dickinson Company, Chicago, is
proud of the following letter which it received a
short time ago:
830 S. 29th street,
San Diego, Cal.,
March 5, 1920.
Gulbransen-Dickinson,
Chicago, 111.,
Gentlemen:
Am writing my appreciation for your "Bulletin"
and am glad to know I am on your mailing list.
My daily labor is "Gul-Dick" Players and sure en-
joy the simple tasks called upon the repairman to
make minor adjustments on your players. Empha-
sis on the word minor as that is all there is.
I think Gul-Dick Players are the most practicable
and simplest Players on the market and what a joy
for the tuner when I can let down the spoolbox.
Words cannot express my estimation of your prod-
uct.
Note my change of address from 3150 Logan Ave.,
to above.
' Yours in Gul-Dicks,
JAMES E. WHITTAKER.
P. S. Please never forget me on your mailing list.
Thank you.
BUYING GERMAN PIANOS.
The American consul in Liverpool, England, says
the piano dealers of the big seaport city are not
perpetuating any anti-German feeling. The consul
says there are more German-made pianos than Eng-
lish ones in the music stores there. The pianos are
of the cheap grades, but they appeal to customers
who evidently do not bother themselves about their
origin.
FACTORIES at New Cattle, Ind.
AUSTRALIAN OFFICE:
§4 Pitt St. SJIMT, N. S. W.
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Steger & Sons
Leads
Others Follow
EXTENDS IN ATHENS, GA.
The stock and building of the Hilley Furniture
Co., Athens. Ga., has been purchased by Flanagan
& Flanagan, dealers in all kinds of musical instru-
ments and music accessories. The plans of H. A.
Manning, manager of the latter company include ex-
tensive improvements in all departments and the
addition of a large recital hall.
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It is an ever-ready private
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With your desk covered
by a confusion of miscellane-
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