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PRESTO
Schumann
PIANOS and PLAYER PIANOS
Have no superiors in appearance, tone
power or other essentials of strictly
leaders in the trade.
Warning to Infringers
TftllO I MARK
This Trade Mark is cast
in the plate and also ap-
pears upon the fall board
of all genuine Schumann
Pianos, and all infringers
will be prosecuted. Beware
of imitations such as Schu-
mann & Company, Schu-
mann & Son, and also
Shuman,
as
all
stencil
shops, dealers and users of
pianos bearing a name in
imitation
of
the
name
Schumann with the inten-
tion of deceiving the public
will be prosecuted to the
fullest extent of the law.
Schumann Piano Co.
W. N. VAN MATRE, President
Rockford, 111.
OTTO R. TREFZ, Jr.
Manufacturer of
PIANO
BASS STRINGS
21st St. and Fairmount Ave.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
May 15, 1920.
NATIONAL ADVERTISING OF
GULBRANSEN=DICKINSON
It Tells Why Playerpiano Brings Better Music to
Everybody.
The Gulbransen-Dickinson Company, Chicago, has
a full-page advertisement in this week's Saturday
Evening Post—the issue of May IS. It shows a
gentleman at a Gulbransen playerpiano, while his
wife is sitting in an easy chair in a distant part of
the room enjoying the music. Under the picture
the following statements are made:
You can play the Gulbransen better than you ever
could have played by hand.
That is true of nearly everybody. Because play-
ing the piano is a two-sided art. The mechanical art
of "reading" and "fingering"'—and the mental art
of playing the music interestingly.
One has no connection with the other—except that
notes must be struck by some means before we con-
sider how they shall sound. In fact, until correct
striking notes is accomplished—whether by hand or
by mechanism—only then does interesting music be-
come a possibility.
The Gulbransen starts you off at the point in mu-
sical education where perfect command of the piano
is accomplished. It strikes the right notes unfailing-
ly. And it enables you to play them in any desired
style of shading, phrasing or rhythm. It offers
every degree of tone value. It gives you full con-
trol of all of these.
A reproduction of this ad and one of April 17,
also of the Saturday Evening Post series, has been
sent out in circular form to Gulbransen dealers, who
are advised to "Link up locally with this big national
campaign."
The Gulbransen-Dickinson Company has just sup-
plied to its dealers enlargements of the Saturday
Evening Post's ad of May 15 for their window dis-
plays. These enlargements are 28 by 38 inches in
size, and the man at the playerpiano can be seen dis-
tinctly across any street of ordinary width.
TO MOVE IN TOLEDO, O.
The Cable Piano Co., 311 Superior street, Toledo,
will move to 344-46 Summit street, some time after
next January 1. The Cable Piano Company has
leased the building from Edwin M. Rosenthal, of
Detroit, for 10 years, at the rate of $15,000 a year
for the first five years and $17,000 a year for the
second five years. The first and second floors will
be occupied by the Cable *Piano Company. H. D.
Pulfrey is manager.
Henry G. Hall, formerly for many years engaged
in the piano manufacturing industry in Roxbury,
Mass.. died recently at the age of seventy-one years.
Mr. Hall was born in Roxbury.
PRICE & TEEPLE PIANO CO
Price & Teeple Piano Co.
218 South Wabash Avenue
CHICAGO
A LIVE LINE FOR LIVE DEALERS
WEBSTER
PIANOS AND PLAYERS
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Profit to the Dealer
and Satisfaction to
His Customers.
NOTHING BETTER FOR YOUR TRADE
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THE WEBSTER PIANO CO.
450 Fifth Ave., NEW YORK CITY
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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
W. P. HAINES & CO.
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