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May 15, 1920.
ARTISTS ENDORSE THE
A. B. CHASE PIANO
Miss Cora Tracy and Miss Ruth Miller Add
Their Testimony to the Evidence of the
Piano's Merits.
When the manufacture of the A. B. Chase piano
was begun in 1875 its producers formulated a policy
and created an aim to make an instrument as nearly
finite details required to produce an artistic instru-
ment.
The world of music is familiar with the
triumphs of Miss Ruth Miller, who first achieved
success as an artist in her native Portland, Ore.
Many years ago, Sherman-Clay Company of San
Francisco, Calif., sold to Miss Miller an A. B. Chase
upright. Miss Miller moved to New York, took her
piano with her, and still has it in her home under
constant usage. Miss Miller, who has recently be-
come quite a famous artist, has endorsed the A. B.
Chase very highly.
PITHY NEWS OF PIANO MEN
RELATED IN BRIEF ITEMS
QUALITY FIRST
AND
FIRST QUALITY
Jesse French & Sons Piano Co.
Trade Members from Various Sections of the Coun-
try Shown "Hard at It."
The A. B. Chase piano is now handled by Peters
Brothers, Lanark, III.
Anderson & Co., 291 Livingston street, Brooklyn,
N. Y., has just closed a very successful special sale
of used pianos.
William A. Byrne, well known in the piano busi-
ness in Boston, is now associated with Chickering &
Sons, at the retail warerooms, 169 Tremont street.
May & Co., Dayton, O., offers free with each
player purchased "twenty-five new rolls, large size
bench and fine velvet scarf."
The agency for the A. B. Chase piano was recently
placed with Peters Brothers, Lanark, 111.
James H. Maxwell has returned to the staff of the
May Company's piano department in Cleveland, O.
In the interval since he left the May Company, Mr.
Maxwell has been in business in the South. An-
other new member of the May Company's piano de-
partment is W. O. Schaeffer, formerly with B.
Dreher & Sons Co.
R. T. Rogers, an accomplished performer of the
guitar, is now salesman and teacher of stringed in-
struments in the Oregon Eilers Music House, Port-
land, Ore.
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DECLARES FOR NEW YORK.
Joseph T. Griffin, principal of the Vandewater
school, New York, has written the following verses
characterizing that city:
Generous-hearted, gullible, gay,
Earnest in work and strenuous in play—
Liberal, tolerant, an easy mark
For fake and humbug, a Noah's ark.
Victim of the bullyraggers,
MISS CORA TRACY.
Haven of all carpetbaggers.
Clean in soul and brave in spirit,
perfect as possible. The company achieved and con-
Swayed by smooth-tongued hypocrite.
tinues to sustain a character for musical merit for
O gentle to punish piker and grafter,
the A. B. Chase piano that gives it an honored place
For polished plunderer only laughter—
Thoughtless, guileless, nevertheless,
among the high-grade American pianos. The de-
Its sons agree it is not faultless;
termination to deserve resulted in the winning of
But spite of vilifier and press censorious,
the approval of the most critical piano customers.
New York is sober, sane and glorious.
Every year has brought its quota of enthusiastic
testimonials from appreciative owners and users.
NEW TOLEDO MANAGER.
Recently Miss Cora Tracy, the famous American
singer, who has been delighting large audiences at
Edward J. Austin has been made manager of the
the Park Theater, New York, contributed a spon- Starr Piano Co.'s branch in Toledo, O., with which
taneous endorsement of the A. B. Chase piano. Ap- he has been connected for seven years in the sales
preciation from that artist is a eulogy that epitomizes department. Mr. Austin succeeds Howard E. Craw-
the skill and feeling and patient attention to the in- ford.
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