Presto

Issue: 1920 1772

July 10, 1920.
J. P. SEEBURG PIANO CO.
PIANO AND PLAYER
HARDWARE, FELTS <& TOOLS
Manufacturers of
COIN-OPERATED ORCHESTRIONS
Ask for Catalog No. 154
Phonograph Cabinet Hardware
And Up-to-Date
Aak for Catalog No. 185
PLAYER-PIANOS
Let us quote on your "special" parts—we have
excellent facilities for making all manner of Turn-
ings, Stampings, Small Castings, Wire Goods, Etc.
HAMMACHER, SCHLEMMER & CO.
N.w York Sine* 1848
4ih Av« <& 13th St.
QUALITY
in Name and in Fact
TONE, MATERIALS, CONSTRUCTION, WORKMANSHIP,
DESIGN—all in accord with the broadest experience—are the
elements which give character to Bush & Lane Products.
take high place, therefore, in any comparison of high grade
pianos because of the individuality of character which distin-
guishes them in all essentials of merit and value.
and
PIANOS
Holland, Mich.
We are making these distinctive
leaders as low as any good ones
can be produced. We may sur-
prise you. Investigate and see.
YOU WILL WANT THEM LATER, IF NOT RIGHT
AWAY. SO MAKE YOUR ARRANGEMENTS NOW.
In the field for SO years
MORRISON-WATERS PIANO CO.
924 McLean Avenue
419 West Erie Street
CHICAGO
Offer Opportunities Surpassing All Others for Dealers
who Appreciate Fine Instruments at Fair Prices.
SMITH & NIXON
PLAYERS
J. P. SEEBURG PIANO CO.
GOLDSMITH
BUSH & LANE PIANOS
BUSH & LANE CECIL IAN PLAYER PIANOS
BUSH & LANE PIANO CO.
Money-makers for the trade in which there are Novelty
and High-grade Standardized Merit.
Dealers can not afford to neglect the opportunities
offered by the SEEBURG MIDGET ORCHESTRION.
There are live prospects wherever there are picture
shows or other places of refined indoor entertainment.
Send for Catalogues.
CINCINNATI, OHIO
Chase-Hackley Piano Co.
No charge for the name, .
Than which few are so well known
GOLDSMITH PIANO CO., 1223-1227 Miller St.,Chicago
Get This Name Clearly in Your Mind
Made by Chickering Brothers, Chicago
THE UPRIGHT WITH GRAND QUALITIES—THE GRAND THAT IS
INCOMPARABLY GREAT.
In Every Community a Few People Appreciate
and Will Pay for The Best.
REPRESENT SOMETHING EXCLUSIVE
OFFICE AND FACTORY:
South Park Avenue and East 23rd Street,
CHICAGO, ILL.
(ESTABLISHED 1863—THE PIONEER PIANO INDUSTRY OF THE WEST)
KNOWN THE WORLD OVER
MANUFACTURERS OF
R. S- HOWARD CO
Chase Bros.. Hackley and
Carlisle Pianos
Chase Bros. Player de Luxe
Exceltone Player-Pianos
PIANOS and PLAYERS
Wonderful Tone Quality.
Best Materials and Workmanship.
M a i n O f f i c e s : 485 East 133rd Street, NEW YORK CITY
Write us for Catalogues
A FULL LINE OF FIVE LEADERS FOR THE TRADE
Factory and Main Offices:
MUSKEGON. MICHIGAN
RICHMOND, VA.
CHICAGO
Virginia Power and Railway
Building
932 Republic Building
State and Adams Sts.
STARR
PIANOS
Our new designs are models of artistic piano
•onstruction. More than fifty designs, a
ftyle for every need at a price for every purse.
Kindler & Collins
Pianos
5M-524 W. 48Mi t
NBWYOUK
*£iP PLAYER-PIANOS
Correspondence with dealers solicited.
THE STARR PIANO CO.
Manufacturer* tf
Bttlers find unmatched selling
OTARR, RICHMOND, TRAYSER and
REMINGTON PLAYER-PIANOS
STARR and RICHMOND GRAND PIANOS
STARR. RICHMOND, TRAYSER and REMINQTON
WANOS and PLAYER-PIANOS
Factories :
RICHMOND, INDIANA
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July 10, 1920.
PRESTO
The Waiting Policy In The Piano Trade
Now is the Time for Piano Manufacturers who Have too much
Trade to Do Some Weeding Out, to Improve their Profits by Getting
Better Prices, to Increase their Influence by Boosting their Names and
Quality-Standing by More and Better Trade Advertising.
"Piano Merchants are Buying as Little as Possible, Vainly Hoping
for a Lowering of Prices—Business is Good, because the Market is
almost Bare of Pianos, even Second-hand Stuff is hard to get."—From
a Letter by a Prominent Piano Traveler, in Presto, March 25.
Piano Dealers Who Expect to Do Business by Wait-
ing till Prices are Lower will Find Profitable Food for Re-
flection in the following by Men who make it a Business
to Study Industrial and Commercial Conditions.
"Prices will never return to the old pre-war levels. Business men who
are holding back, waiting for the old prices are chasing a rainbow. Busi-
ness men should face the facts. To talk reverently of 1913-14 prices is to
speak a dead language today. The buyers of the country have made an
unexampled attack upon prices through their waiting attitude, and yet,
price recessions have been insignificant. The reason is that we are on a
new high price level, which will be found a stubborn reality. Business men
are going to find out that the clever man is not the man who waits, but
one who finds out the new price facts, and acts accordingly."
Prof. Irving Fisher, in "Colliers."
"Prices are not coming down in America. The manufacturer who is
halting upon the theory that the bottom is going to drop out of raw ma-
terial will find the bottom out of his business before it is out of raw ma-
terial. The retail merchant who is waiting until he can purchase cheap-
er goods will have his store closed by the sheriff and no way to get the
cheaper goods upon his shelves.
"The man who has denied himself and stinted himself during the period
of the war and is now husbanding his resources upon the theory that prices
are going to take a tumble may succeed in washing his shirt to shreds be-
fore he can buy a much cheaper one." Vice-President Thomas R. Marshall.
As Edward Mott Wolley Also Said in "Colliers:"
"Lets All Stop Worrying and Get To Work"
Advertise for Better Business in a Better Way. Let
Presto Help You. Presto Will Prepare Campaigns and
Submit Copy That Will Push Your Instruments to the
Front and Keep Them There.
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