February 17, 1923
11
PRESTO
STORY & CLARK IN
NATIONAL ADVERTISING
John R. Bailey in Story Book Tells How Com-
pany Fulfills Rigid Requirements of
Leading Magazines.
In an entertaining artic4a»don the requirement of the
leading national magazines in advertising as well as
stories and articles, John R. Bailey tells some en-
lightening facts in the February number of the Story
Book, published by the Story & Clark Piano Co.,
Chicago.
"The publishers of all magazines keep in mind that
to please their particular clientele, it is necessary for
them to print the truth in their advertising as well as
in their editorial matter. And these various pub-
lishers will not accept merely for the sake of getting
the business, but they make a thorough investigation
as to the quality of the product and what the manu-
facturers have to say for it," says Mr. Bailey. Con-
tinuing, Mr. Bailey writes:
In all my experience as an advertising man never
have I seen a company more jealous of guarding the
quality of its products and the truth that is printed
about them than Story & Clark.
Never have I seen a concern whose views are so
far-seeing, or who look farther into the future than
Story & Clark. I have visited several piano factories
in the last year, and there is not one of them that
takes greater pride in producing instruments of the
very best materials as carefully as they can be made.
The ownership of this company is vested in the
Story family. For several generations this good name
and its high traditions of piano manufacture have
been handed down to members of the family who in
The Good Old
SMITH A NIXON
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Pianos and Player Pianos
Better than ever, with the same
"Grand Tone In Upright Case."
Grands and Players that every deal-
er likes to sell, for Satisfaction and
Profit.
Smith & Nixon Piano Co.
1229 Miller St., Chicago
turn have cherished and prolonged the good name of
Story by building high quality instruments.
This brings to my mind an interesting fact. _ How
many manufacturers today manufacture the instru-
ments which bear their own names? Very, very
few! The names of the old master builders of pianos
still linger on, but the master builders are long a part
of the dead past. Their companies have been ab-
sorbed by other companies—outsiders—men who can-
not take the same deep interest in the instrument and
its production as they would, did it bear their names.
With Story & Clark there are no outsiders. The
Storys of today are building for the future—and for
the Storys of the future who will then inherit the
business. Their business today cannot but be part
of the business of ten, twenty, thirty years hence!
GEORGE H. MAXON DIES
IN PORT HURON, MICH.
Manager of Bush & Lane Piano Co.'s Branch Suc-
cumbs to Pneumonia.
George Hedly Maxon, 43, for eight years manager
of the Port Huron, Mich., branch of the Bush & Lane
Piano Co., died last week, after a week's illness from
pneumonia.
During his eight years residence in Port Huron Mr.
Maxon won many friendships in business, social and
fraternal circles. He was one of the charter mem-
bers of the Kiwanis Club. Mr. Maxon went to Port
Huron from Seattle, Washington, to take charge of
the local branch of the Bush & Lane Piano Co.
Mr. Maxon was prominently identified with the
music circles of the city, and was a member of the
First M. E. Church Choir. He leaves a widow; one
son, Arthur; a daughter, Jeanne Shirley; his mother,
Mrs. Jane Maxon, and four brothers.
Funeral services were held at his home, 911 Court
street, and his associates in the Bush & Lane Piano
Co. officiated as pallbearers.
W. R. POWELL OF POLK'S SCHOOL.
Willard R. Powell, secretary and treasurer of
Polk's School of Piano Tuning, of Valparaiso, Ind.,
was in Chicago last Saturday. He said to a Presto
representative that the well established old institution
is doing a large business this season. As many as
eighteen pupils recently arrived in Valparaiso within
a week's time. The oldest of all piano tuning schools,
and the most thoroughly equipped, Polk's draws its
pupils from all over the country—in fact, pupils
come from nearly all over the world.
CHANGE IN NEW ORLEANS.
D. J. Tremblay, who recently purchased a con-
trolling interest in the Collins Piano Co., New Or-
leans, La., has reorganized and incorporated the
business. Mr. Tremblay is president, E. W. Wilson,
vice-president, and Mrs. B. J. Tremblay, secretary
and treasurer.
Pianos, players, talking machines,
rolls and records are handled.
M. SCHULZ CO.'S BOOK FOR
TUNER AND REPAIRMAN
New Pocket-Size Manual Solves Every Problem
That May Confront the Repair Force.
The Tuner's and Repairman's Manual, recently
published by the M. Schulz Co., Chicago, is an in-
valuable mine of information for the fortunate people
for whom it was compiled. It is pocket size, cleanly
printed and well supplied with illustrations of various
parts in the piano and playerpiano action.
Equipped with the manual, solution of problems
in repairing becomes easier for the repairman any-
where. The book is the work of an expert who is
cleverly able to describe the processes in plain and
simple terms and avoids the use of technical terms
except where necessity demands them.
The table of contents is a key to the solution of
every problem and the clearing up of every situation
that may arise in the tuner's or repairman's experi-
ences. There is also a chapter which the salesman
might read with advantage to himself and the player-
pianos he subsequently may sell. "What to Tell the
Owner of a Playerpiano" is full of the kind of wis-
dom that makes the piano business a pleasanter
career for those who possess it.
R. R. HARRIS IN DENVER.
R. R. Harris, manager of the Chicago office of the
Henry G. Johnson Piano Mfg. Co., is out of the
office for about two weeks, representing the company
in Denver, Colo. The Johnson company reports
continual business and heavy ordering.
Our Motto: "He prof its most who Mires
best."
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