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Presto

Issue: 1923 1909

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PRESTO
February 24, 1923
CHRISTMAN
BALDWIN PIANO FOR GOVERNOR
—It's the instrument you
want to sell your friends
The First Touch Tells"
Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.
STYLE K BALDWIN GRAND.
Recently purchased by the State of Kentucky, as it
appears in the Governor's mansion.
The illustrations herewith feature the sale of a sonal use in the White House.
Baldwin Style-K, Grand, to the State of Kentucky,
The pictures of the Statehouse at Frankfort and
to be placed in the governor's mansion.
the governor's mansion add to the interest of the
This splendid instrument is the same size and picture. Rut the item of chief and musical interest
style of case as the Baldwin Grand piano which was is the Baldwin Grand which will make its influence
selected by Mrs. Warren G. Harding for her per-
felt on many a state and social occasion.
CHRISTMAN
SCHOOL PUPILS VISIT
NEW YORK PIANO FACTORY
STUDIO GRAND
Plan Adopted by Weser Bros., Inc., for Obviating
Skilled Labor Shortage in Future.
Wonderful Little Piano but 5
feet long but as powerful as a
Parlor Grand. Your trade will
be delighted with it.
CHRISTMAN
REPRODUCING PIANOS
Remarkable in their distinctive
qualities of master interpreta-
tion, case designs and exclu-
sive features. Made in both
Grands and Uprights.
Enhance Your Future Prosper-
ity By Investigating the
Irresistible Appeal of
CHRISTMAN
GRANDS, UPRIGHTS
PLAYERS
and
REPRODUCING PIANOS
Christman Piano Co.
597 East 137th St.
New York
^ Weser Bros, factory, 520 to 528 W. 43d street,
New York, was visited during the past week by
the pupils of the H. Manning Carpenter School for
the purpose of familiarizing the pupils with modern
piano construction methods.
It is a part of the plan of Weser Bros, to have
pupils from the various vocational schools visit their
establishment as frequently as possible in order to
stimulate interest amongst the rising generation in
the adoption of piano manufacturing as a desirable
means of earning a livelihood. The plan is designed
to overcome, to an extent in the future, the labor
shortage conditions under which the piano manu-
facturing industry is working at the present time.
MUCH INTEREST AROUSED
IN ADVERTISING TROPHIES
Twenty-two Awards in Retail Contest Will Be
Announced at Chicago Convention.
Two first prizes for the best retail advertising in
separated classes of small town and large city music
merchants will be awarded at the Chicago conven-
tion in June, and there will be also ten honor award
certificates in each class, or twenty-two awards in
all. Some of the entries already received show
evidence of the constructive arguments for music in
the home which have been circulated by the National
Bureau for the Advancement of Music.
The chairman of the Retail Advertising Contest
committee, Thomas H. Fletcher, of the Aeolian Co.,
says:
"In gathering together this exhibit of Retail musi-
cal advertising from all parts of the country cover-
ing a period of a full calendar year, the Music In-
dustries Chamber of Commerce has in view not only
the moral influence upon advertising standards in
the trade, but also the great value of such a sym-
posium from the educational standpoint that it may
be helpful to many who have not at their command
the equipment available—say in larger communities.
"There are still a great many music merchants
who have not yet responded to the appeal of the
Chamber in this matter which, properly considered,
concerns all of us so vitally.
"If this contest could be made an annual affair
1 am quite confident that a growing and cumulative
interest in the great question of improved advertis-
ing w r ould steadily become more and more apparent,
to the lasting benefit of the business as a whole and
to every form and individual in it."
The standards, by which the advertising will be
judged, are announced as follows:
1. Sales Appeal—Creating interest, desire and ac-
tion.
2. Prestige Value—Commanding confidence and
good will.
3. Attractiveness—Attention value, illustrations,
language and typography.
4. Truthfulness—Freedom from exaggerated price
claims or quality comparisons—Fairness to competi-
tors.
5. Individuality—Evidence of originality and in-
genuity in illustrations and copy, personality, per-
sistence and continuity of character, in expressing re-
tail service.
BANKING AND CREDIT.
A new book by Davis R. Dewey and Martin J.
Shugrue has been published by the Ronald Press,
New York. While primarily a textbook it is intended
also for the practical use of business men. The
scope of the work is restricted to the practical phases
of the subject, since, as the preface states, "It is
written primarily to meet the needs of the individual
who uses the bank for credit accomodation." Little
attention is, therefore, given to the historical and
theoretical phases of banking and credit. The char-
acter of the treatise is indicated further by the fol-
lowing typical chapter titles: Commercial loans,
security for loans, the credit statement, analysis ratio,
individual items of a credit statement, analysis of
tvpical credit statements, acceptances, typical foreign
exchange transactions.
SHIPPING REED ORGANS.
Nacc's Music Stores, Inc., of Hanover, Pa., shipped
a carload of organs to South Carolina recently. This
music firm ships a carload of organs about every
60 days. The organs are traded in on pianos and
other musical instruments. They say every organ
shipped out of their territory makes an opening for
.some other instrument.
GOOD WESTERN REPORT.
An encouraging report on the improvement in busi-
ness in the Rocky Mountain region was made recently
by Alvin A. Beesley .president of the Beesley Muf^
Co., Salt Lake City, Utah. Utah and Idaho were in-
cluded by the well known piano man who is usually
conservative in his estimates. Business in the states
named is increasing and collections are becoming
easier with the passing of every week, he said, and
his words are considered significant when it is re-
membered that his investigations were made in a
region of farmer customers.
FROM WICHITA, KANS.
J. C). Adams, head of the J. O, Adams Music Co.,
Wichita, Kans., was a welcome visitor in Chicago
this week, spending some time with The Cable Com-'
pany. Wichita is located in one of the most fruitful
parts of the country, and should provide a good mar-
ket for pianos, Mr. Adams thinks.
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PRESTO
ROY R. ROATH TO TRAVEL
FOR LESTER PIANO CO.
Four States Included in the Territory of the Widely
Known Roadman.
Roy R. Roath, well known piano traveler, will
represent the Lester Piano Co., Philadelphia, as a
roadman for the states of Michigan, Indiana,' Ohio
ar/d West Virginia. Several days' last week were
spent by him in the warerooms and dffices, Chestnut
and Thirteenth streets, and the factories at Lester,
P&., posting himself generally on Lester methods and
getting better acquainted with the line. The player-
pianos and small grands particularly evoked the ad-
miration of the new Lester traveler. '
Mr. Roath has a wide acquaintance in the trade
and counts his friends in every state. He resided in
Chicago for several years and is among the most
popular members of the Piano Club of Chicago. He
left on his first trip for the Lester Piano Co., on Mon-
dav of this week.
MUSIC MERCHANTS' TERMS
ON INSTALLMENT SALES
Complete Instructions How to Prepare Them Set
Forth in New Chamber Booklet.
How to prepare federal income tax returns on in-
stallment sales is the subject of a booklet just issued
to and prepared specially for retail music merchants
by the Trade Service Bureau of the Music Industries
Chamber of Commerce.
The pamphlet is intended to assist music merchants
and their attorneys and accountants, in making out
federal income tax returns, because of problems due
particularly to the complexities of the Treasury De-
partment regulations with respect to reporting in-
stallment sales.
Many merchants have made reports in such a way
as to result in excess tax payments, and in some
February 24, 1923
cases changes can now be made in their methods,
amended returns filed, and recovery made of part of
the taxes previously paid.
The pamphlet was prepared by the Bureau of
which the following act as an advisory committee:
Carle C. Conway, chairman; C. E. Byrne, Harry
Bibb, J. Edwin Butler, Kenneth C. Curtis, W. E.
Guylee, William F. Lamb, H. E. Lawrence, Joseph
F. Meade, E. A. Parks, C. J. Roberts, Alfred L.
Smith, general manager and C. L. Dennes, manager.
SCHAFF BROS. COMPANY
HOLDS ANNUAL ELECTION
President Jacob Dick Points Out to Directors Won-
derful Possibilities of New Finish.
The annual meeting of the Schaff Bros. Co., Hun-
tington, Ind., was held in the offices o f the company
last week. At the election of officers Jacob Dick was
chosen president; Curtis S. Miller, vice president and
FREIGHT CAR SITUATION.
salesmanager, and Julius M. Martin secretary and
In the week ended February 10, 79 locomotives, treasurer. The board of directors is composed of
2,010 freight cars and 16 passenger cars were ordered
the foregoing and Peter Martin and J. M. Hicks.
by the railroads, according to "Railway Age." Re-
This line old industry is now considered one of
ports received this w y eek from the Car Service Divi- the foremost and most desirable in the lively Indiana
sion of the American Railway Association from the city where it has given evidences of continuous
carriers of the country showed little change in the growth for over twenty years. Now the Schaff Bros,
situation as to the surplus and shortage in box cars pianos are represented by responsible music houses
•on January 31, compared with that on January 23. in all parts of the country. Dull periods have not
The number of cars loaded with revenue freight dur- been experienced by the Schaff Bros. Co., even dur-
ing the first four weeks in January this year showed
ing the years when the pessimistic reports from
an increase of more than 21 per cent over the same piano industries were common things. The plant has
period last year, according to reports filed by the been kept running steadily to supply a healthy de-
carriers with the Car Service Division of the Ameri- mand.
can Railway Association.
At the recent meeting the reports of the officers
were very satisfactory. Orders- from dealers and
VACATION IN FLORIDA.
roadmen continue to come in in a steady stream that
Dr. J. R. Wolfeiiderr, vice president of the Smith, taxes the efforts of the various departments in the
Barnes & Strohber Co., left last Saturday for Flor- factory to keep up. Excellent work on the road is
being performed by H. A. Griffin, A. B. Hart and
ida, where he will spend several weeks in a vacation
R. N. Oates.
and rest. Dr. Wolfenden has been on the verge of
President Dick told of the great interest expressed
illness several times during the winter, and decided
to lay aside all business cares for some time. He is by the retail piano trade in the new style, two-tone
finish in the cases of the Schaff Bros, pianos. The
accompanied on his vacation by Mrs. Wolfenden.
trade, he said, realizes the possibilities of the new
styles
for making sales.
JAMES A. STITT IN PORTLAND.
James A. Stitt, western representative of the Hal-
lett & Davis Piano Company, Boston, spent several
days in Portland, Ore., recently with the Reed
French Piano Company, the Portland representatives
of the Boston manufacturers, on his return from a
visit to the Boston factory. Mr. Stitt has his head-
quarters in Riverside, Cal.
ESCANABA DEALER A BUYER.
President Scbrader of the Schrader Piano Co., a
thriving music house of Escanaba, Mich., was a visi-
tor in Chicago last week. Conditions are improving,
and a good spring and summer business are expec-
tations, Mr. Schrader told wholesalers on whom he
BAUER PIANOS
The
JULIUS BAUER © COMPANY
Reproducing Medium
TRADE MARK
Factory
Altacld Street. CHICAGO
Office nnd W%k*er»
Old N u m b e r , 2 U IV abash m*m,
New N u m b e r . *O5 S. Wsba*h *«*-
in the
A. B. Chase
Established 1875
Emerson
Lindeman & Sons
Established 1849
Established 1836
The Celco Reproducing Medium in these
nationally known pianos offers a complete line,
characterized by distinction and controlled
exclusively by you. Write for open territory.
Corporation-
20 West 45th Street
New York City
KROEGER
(Established 1552)
The name atone is enough to suggest to deaiers- the Besi
Artistic and Commercial Values.
The New Styl« Players Are F-'iest Yet. If you can
get the Agency you ought to F :ve it.
KROEGER P ANO CO.
frOrth, N. V.
and
STAMFORD Cdftft
BRINKERHOFF
Quick Sales and
Satisfied Customers
Player-Pianos
when you sell Straubc-
That's what you want and that's what you
made players and pianos.
The constant and growing demand for StraLbe-made instruments is
due to their high quality which is indicated by the kind of people
who buy them. You can see that they are being selected by those
who choose most carefully.
As a dealer you know the advantage of selling a line of instruments
with a standing of this sort. Let us tall you about our interesting
dealer proposition.
BRINKERHOf F PIANO CO. wrK %^^'" i - CHICAGO
For QUALITY, SATISFACTION and PROFIT
NEWMAN BROTHERS PIANOS
STRAUBE PIANO CO., Hammond, Ind.
NEWMAN BROS. CO.
Established 1870
STULTZ & BAUER
Grand—Upright—Player Pianos
and Pianos
The Line That Sells Easily and Satisfies Always
Factories, 816 DIX ST., Chicago, II
Leins Piano Company
Makers of Pianos That Are Leaders
in Any Reliable Store
FACTORW 304 W. 42nd St.. NEW VORK
A WORLD'S CHOICE PIANO
338-240 East 31st S reet
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NEW YORK
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