23
FREST
October 2, 1920.
LIVE IOWA HOUSE GETS
AFTER PLAYER ROLL BUYERS
Decorah Music Shop Collects Names of Playerpiano
Owners in Roll Selling Campaign.
The Decorah Music Shop, of Decorah, Iowa, is
deserving of honorable mention as wideawake and
progressive dealers in player rolls. The early part
of September they advertised in thirty-six newspa-
pers in their vicinity, which brought them exceed-
ingly big returns.
The copy which was used in the thirty-six news-
papers speaks plainly for itself for originality. It
read: "Announcement: To anyone sending us the
name and address of five playerpiano owners, we
will send one player roll gratis." This was followed
by twelve blank lines for the insertion of the names
of the ten piano owners and that of the person sup-
plying them.
W. B. Coup, manager of the Decorah Music Shop,
says there is player roll business to be had and his
house is going after it.
CREDIT BUREAU OF THE
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Service to Be Inaugurated Some Time in October
Along Lines Already Outlined.
The Credit Committee of the Musical Supply As-
sociation met in New York Friday, Sept. 24, in
the offices of the Musical Industries Chamber of
Commerce for the purpose of deciding upon details of
credit reporting service to be installed and operated
by the association.
It is expected that the service will be in operation
not later than the middle of October. It now ap-
pears that, at least until the service has become de-
veloped over a considerable period of time, members
of the association will not be requested to report lists
of customers and new customers. When a request
for credit information is received information will
be asked of all members of the association upon
regular blanks to be provided for that purpose; and
a summary statement of the information received,
without any reference to its source, will be sent to
the member making inquiry and those co-operating
in supplying the credit information.
REPUBLIC GETS CALIFORNIA BOOST.
The following extract from a letter from H. D.
Shoemaker, of Sacramento, Calif., would suggest
that Republic rolls have friends in that city: "I
have a customer who insists on a certain make of
roll, because of its superior musical arrangement. 1
left him four makes of rolls, including his favorite
and a Republic 'Hold Me.' When I called for them,
he said, 'Some roll'! I said, 'Which'? He quietly
and smilingly handed me the three—but the 'Repub-
lic' was missing."
LEASES LUMBER YARD.
The Wood & Brooks piano key manufacturing
company of Buffalo, N. Y., has arranged to estab-
lish a large lumber yard in North Tonawanda, N. Y.
The company has leased the property purchased by
the Federal Milling Company, of Lockport, several
years ago and will bring in about 5,000,000 feet
of lumber before the close of lake navigation. The
yard has a large dock frontage on the Niagara
River.
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REPUBLIC ROLLS TO
TEACH "THE CAT STEP"
New York Industry Inserts Full Directions with
Every Roll of "That Cat Step."
The Republic Player Roll Corporation, of New
York, has realized that there are thousands, if not
tens of thousands, of people throughout the country
who are interested in the new dance, "The Cat Step,"
but who will have little opportunity to be correctly in-
structed as to its proper execution.
To offer such instruction in a clear and concise
way the Republic Player Roll Corporation has made
arrangements whereby they will distribute clearly
printed instructions with every roll of "That Cat
Step" which leaves their factory. The instructions
are authoritative and furnished to the Republic
Player Roll Corporation through the co-operation of
the publishers, Belvin, of New York City.
The new dance, "The Cat Step," was recently
adopted at the convention of the Dancing Instruc-
tors of the United States, which was held at the
Hotel Astor, New York City. This new and fas-
cinating step was originated by Alexis Kesleff, of
the Imperial Russian Ballet, and is offered as the
probable successor to the present-day dance music
and dances.
The inserting of these instructions mark an inno-
vation in dance music, and is evidence of the progres-
sive and up-to-the-minute policy of the Republic
Player Roll Corporation.
The J. W. Jenkins' Sons Music Co., Fort Smith,
Ark., quotes John McCormack's estimate of the
Steinway piano in a convincing advertisement this
week: In my estimation the Steinway stands un-
challenged in its ideal supremacy."
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When you take on the Newman line of pianos and players you
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