Classic Mode

Presto

Issue: 1922 1900

Page 15 Text:

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PRESTO
December 23, 1922.
lows to F. Radle Co., Inc., with a special compliment
for style D:
"We are now in receipt of all pianos and desire to
compliment you on the style D. It looks like a real
seller and has met with the approval of all. We are
enclosing our check for the entire amount and ex-
pect that we will soon be in the market for more
Winning Line Draws Enthusiastic Testimony pianos."
Another Satisfied Customer.
From Dealers in Different Sections and
Style D Specially Commended for Its
That the J. H. Walters Co., Somerset, Pa., is a
satisfied and enthusiastic customer of the F. Radle
Admirable Selling Qualities.
Co., Inc., is plainly told in this letter from the Somer-
The fine pianos and playerpianos of F. Radlc, Inc., set dealer to the New York manufacturers under
609-611 West Thirty-Sixth street, New York, have date of Dec. 11:
"Gentlemen:—In reply to your letter of October
long been widely known as instruments of un-
challanged merits of tone and construction. From will first beg of you to pardon my delay in replying
the very beginning of the piano making industry in sooner to your letter, which plainly indicates the in-
America the F. Radle piano has had an honored terest you have in knowing if you have a satisfied
place. It is a matter of general knowledge in the customer. I have delayed writing to you, thinking
trade that the consistent ambition of the company is that some one would find some fault, but I am glad
daily realized but the written evidences of earnest to say that the many who have looked at the piano
music merchants are always as gratifying to the and the ones who have knowledge of music say it is
manufacturers as they art convincing to prospective the finest and easiest instrument that they have yet
seen; fine in tone and beautiful to look at.
buyers.
"You can truthfully, -honestly and proudly boast
Here is a letter from O. H. Fox, Barnesville,
O., to F. Radle, Inc., which expresses the feelings of your pianos for the public must admit when they
see and hear the Radle that it is the best. I think
of the dealer:
"Enclosed find draft in payment of the pianos that I can land a few sales in the near future and I
sent me. I am glad to say, that I really am in leve will gladly place what I can get with you. Trusting
with these pianos, and the customers are perfectly that I may be able to serve you with more orders,
delighted with them. In my opinion the RADLE is I beg to remain, Truly yours,
"J. H. WALTERS."
a wonderful piano. It has the tone and quality as
well as finish and style. They please the eye and ear
all at once.
KNABE IN PASADENA.
"Please ship to me at once, or as soon as. possible
More floor space for its piano department has
one baby Radle as I have sold another to the public
been added by the Hancock Music Company, Pasa-
school here."
dena, Calif. An additional story has been added to
Tacoma Dealer Writes.
the building occupied by the company at 331 East
The satisfaction of another from C. C. Cain & Co., Colorado street. The increase in business of the
Tacoma, Wash., is warmly expressed in this letter company necessitated the building plans. The new
to the F. Radle Co., Inc., under date of December 9: rooms on the added floor are devoted to artistically
"Gentlemen—Our new Radle piano, style D, ar- arranged display of Knabe pianos with the Ampico.
rived November 29th and it surely is a beauty, both
in appearance and tone quality, and we can assure
GRAND SALES ENCOURAGED.
you that just as soon as we dispose of the piano we
will be ready to order more, and you will hear from
Baby grand pianos are being vigorously advertised
us again in the near future. I like your products by S. Hamilton Co., Pittsburgh, Pa. The Sunday
and enjoy dealing with a house where I feel ac- newspapers usually carry big displays for the models
quainted. Thanking you for your fair dealing and carried by the house. Burt Hengeveld, manager of
satisfactory products."
the piano sales department, is satisfied over the man-
The Glenville Phonograph & Piano Co., Cleve- ner in which the fall business has started and is of
land, O., under date of December 9, wrote as fol- the opinion that a brisk season is ahead.
WRITTEN EVIDENCE
OF R RADLE MERITS
A STORY OF PLAYERPIANO DELIVERY
MUSIC DEALERS' COOPERATION
IS FULLY APPRECIATED
Organization Returns Thanks to Fitzgerald Music
Company in Los Angeles, California.
If there is any doubt that the efforts of music
dealers to co-operate with musical events of their
cities are not wholly appreciated and excellent propa-
ganda, the following letters ought to destroy them
immediately. The Fitzgerald Music Company, of
Los Angeles, California, makes a point of joining in
the current musical activities of the community, and
of giving whatever help is in its power. The fur-
nishing of a Knabe brought back this letter:
The piano that was used on the stage with the
presentation of "The Holy City" . . . added
greatly to the success of the rendition. We wish to
thank you for that kindness and also to mention that
the note of appreciation was printed on the Church
programs. Special mention was made also at the
service.
Two days later, in acknowledgment of a similar
service to the Professional Women's Club of Los
Angeles, this testimonial arrived:
At the regular meeting of the Professional
Women's Club, at the Mary Louise Tea Rooms, on
the evening of November 13th, the members unani-
mously expressed a desire to extend to the Fitzger-
ald .Music Company their hearty thanks for the cour-
tesy extended them by your company.
The members not only appreciated the favor, but
thoroughly enjoyed the concert numbers on the
Knabe Ampico, as well as the marvelous accompani-
ments played for Madam Balfour. It was indeed a
delightful evening, for which we thank you all.
The Lyon & Healy
Reproducing Piano
A moderate priced reproducing piano,
beautiful in design and rich in tone.
Write for our new explanatory Chart,
the most complete and simple treat-
ment of the reproducing action.
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Twenty-four Gulbran-
sens and benches
loaded in baggage car.
GRAND-PIANO
98 Inches Long
e car be-
ingToaded, on
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inson Co. private
switch track.
The best exponent of the present Baby Grand Age.
Its tone — ita lines — its restricted apace requirement and
attractive price—
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Get full details of this valuable selling franchise NOW.
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Largest Institution in the World Building
Pianos Exclusively
New York Central passenger train of type which
carried 24 Gulbransens, by express, to Bon Marche
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President
Grand
JUSTUS HATTEMEI
510-532 West/3rd Street
NEW YORK
A QUALITY PRODUCT
FOR OVER
QUARTER OFA CENTURY
POOLE
-BOSTON-
AND UPRIGHT PIANOS
AND
PLAYER PIANOS
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PRESTO
December 23, 1922.
and now that I am a man I am ordained to carry on,
to carry on. Out of the past—with history as my
guard 1 carry on.
Tn the window of our store lies the book of my
youth. Turn the pages and see the kings of the past
in their beauty before you. See the great countess,
the lover of Louis XV, with a king at her feet. As
Seattle Piano Man Throws Open Book of
you come to know the greatest milliner the world
has ever known "Du Barry, countess of loveliness
Crowned Heads with Which to Bring
whose name shall live forevermore." Out of such
recollection shall come again a milliner to women—
Business to His Store.
born in the spirit of art and beauty. Soon, yes soon
to live again. Prepared again to take the world in
A genius in the retail piano trade is certain to stir
millinery, as far, just as far as it wants to go—but
things up. A piano trade genius at Seattle, Washing-
it will never go as far in style again as a Du Barry
ton, is, we regret to say, again preparing to desert
went once upon a time, I don't believe. But we are
the "piano game," for the, as he thinks, more lucra-
with you anyway.
tive business of selling ladies' hats.
Good comes of everything. Time is the soil in
which good things grow. Out of the past all wealth
In a recent issue of a Seattle newspaper the piano
is taken—as from the future we secure only that
genius, and fine gentleman also, has a large adver-
which the past has taught us to make use of—from
tisement headed "Du Barry Playing with Kings."
the dear, dear days beyond recall our lives are made
The advertisement is a better story than usually ap-
—each fleeing hour has branded its incidents of value
pears in the Sunday supplements, and so it is here
to our lives as we go our way along, everyone of us.
reproduced in part, just to show of what material
Those who control the lives of children have
the piano trade is sometimes made. Read on:
precious spirits trusted in their care—has it not been
truly said by wise men that the product of your child
Come with me through a hundred and fifty pages
is in your cultivation of your child today?
likened unto a page for every passing year as 1770 tomorrow
the heart beats young place music in the con-
comes before us again. Comes now Du Barry— While
struction of your child's life—and Du Barry will help
Linden, chevalier of 37 duels—who for the first and
you now as he never has helped music lovers before.
only time in written history of man has four crowned
heads seated at his table.
A trip of inspection of Jerome H. Remick & Co.'s
As in my youth I turned my fancy to family
stores and departments representing the Remick line
romances—1 see it now that these sacred days of
of sheet music, was recently made by Eddy Adams of
childhood gave poor me the spirit of those living
books and painted recollections upon my very soul— the New York office.
PIANO ADV. READS LIKE
LEGENDARY LORE OF OLD
:LER INDUST:
of NEW YORK
AFFILIATED
COMPANIES
COMPETITORS! SHOULD BE
THE BEST OF FRIENDS
Head of Large Industry Addresses Contempo-
raries on the Broad Spirit of Service Which
Results in Success.
In the old days of the piano trade it was not un-
common to find neighbor dealers "at swords points."
They were not merely competitors, but bitter ene-
mies. The success of one was the cause of rage to
another. Competition with them meant warfare, and
in their determination to spoil the other sales, prices
were slashed until, often, the seller even lost money
by doing business.
This has largely been changed. The local piano
dealers are no longer enemies, but often the warmest
of friends. By co-operation they get along better
and faster. A big man in industry recently touched
upon this matter in language which should be use-
ful. B. C. Hardy, of the Olds Motor Works, as
an invited guest at a banquet of other automotive
heads, spoke in part as follows:
" 'Competition' is likely to be much keener in the
smaller, concentrated communities, where a man's
next door neighbor may be in the same business as
he is, and under his close observation. It is the big
men who see past their immediate competitors to the
good of an industry as a whole. They have learned
that a competitor is no longer necessarily an enemy.
On the contrary, he may be, and very often is, a
good and valued friend.
"The broad spirit of service to the industry as a
whole prompts the interchange of ideas among the
manufacturers, and any manifestation of this spirit is
very much to be desired. Leaders in the field are
coming more and more to see that in the last analy-
sis, ability to serve is measured by equipment. Dis-
cussion of the right kind breeds action—and results
in benefit to the consumer of the products of the in-
dustry that is broad-minded enough to take every
opportunity to increase its story of accurate knowl-
edge."
PROSPEROUS PENNSYLVANIA CO.
arm factoring for the trade
Upright and Grand Pianos
Player Pianos
Reproducing Pianos
Auto De Luxe Player A&ions
Standard Player Adions
Art De Luxe Reproducing Adions
Parts and Accessories
Emery's Music House, which was established some
time ago at 430 Locust street, Columbia, Pa., has
outgrown its initial location and has been moved into
its new home in the Harlem Bldg., at 438 Locust
street. The town never had a more up-to-date music
store than Emery's, says the Columbia News. It is
doing a good business in pianos and phonographs.
BALDWIN IN FARGO.
The stock and fixtures of the J. M. Wylie Piano
Co., Fargo, N. D., were purchased recently by F. M.
Nelson of Minneapolis, Minn., who has secured new
and more commodious quarters on Broadway. Mr.
Nelson features the Baldwin line of pianos and the
Manualo playerpiano.
LIVELY WISCONSIN FIRM.
Wholesale Chicago Office and Service
Departments
KOHLER INDUSTRIES
S'an^rancisco Office
^fVhelcm
building
1222 KIMBALL B U I L D I N G
CHICAGO
i
The Paulus Piano Co., Manitowoc, Wis., is now
owned entirely by Herman A. Paulus. The business
was reorganized in 1900 by Walter and Herman A.
Paulus when they took over the business established
years before by their father, Carl Paulus, and Wil-
liam (jr. Esch.
Chamber L. Hyland is the name of a new music
firm in Stockton, Calif. The store is at 420 E. Weber
avenue.
CABLE-NELSON PIANO CO
Manufactures fine pianos and player-pianos and
. Wholesales them at fair prices and terms.
209 S. State St., Republic Bldg., CHICAGO
ADAM SCHAAF, Inc
B
E s t a b l i s h e d 1872
MANUFACTURERS OF HIGH-GRADE
,
UPRIGHTS and PLAYER-PIANOS
\ Factory:
al PafkAv»rand'Fillmore St.
and BT* O . c-?r. R. R.
CHICAGO
Office and Calesrooms
NEW YORK
THE NECESSARY WANTS
- The agency is a source of both profit and prestige.
. ,,>••'.
.••"'-
,
& Collins
Pianos
500-524 W. 48Hi S
If you want a Salesman or Workers
in any branch of the Business; if
you want a Factory, try a Want Ad
and get it. Presto Want Ads get
results and get them quick.
.
331 So. Wabash Avenue
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