25
PRESTO
March 3, 1925
COINOLAS
FOR
RESTAURANTS, CAFES and
A M U S E M E N T CENTERS
DEALERS AIDED BY
NEW STROHBER BOOKLET
petition was in response to invitations to bid by the
School Board.
The Jordan Music Co.. Charleston, S. C, is now in
larger quarters at 368 King street.
A new store in Fort Collins, Colo., opened recently
by Frank Brown and W. E. Runge features the
Baldwin Piano Co. line.
The J. H. Peterson Department Store, Davenport,
la., has added music goods.
J. W. Martin & Bro., Rochester, N. Y., has opened
a branch in Ovid, X. Y.
Samuel Kemp, Jr., is proprietor of a new music
store opened in South xManchester, Conn.
Variety and Merit of Fine Line from North Mil-
waukee Factories Set Forth.
Dealers in many places are making excellent uses
of the Strohber booklet provided for the trade by the
Strohber Piano Co., 1872 Clybourn avenue, Chicago,
with factories in North Milwaukee, Wis. The book-
let is a powerful incentive to purchase by the pros-
pective buyer into whose hands it falls. Six Strohber
piano styles, four Strohber player styles, the Strohber
Diminutive and the Strohber Miniature grand are
shown in half-tone cuts, which admirably show the
finely designed lines of the instruments.
The advantages of the Strohber Diminutive are set
J. R. Hunckins Recognized the Unmistakeable Marks
forth in the booklet, which says:
"Standing alone in its field as the most wonderful
of Joe Kelty Even at a Distance.
of the small pianos, the Strohber Diminutive is the
J.
R.
Hunckins,
traveler for the Straube Piano Co.,
ideal instrument for schools, summer homes, small
apartments, bungalows, yachts, apartment hotels, Hammond, Ind., last year took a vacation in Brown
studios, chapels, churches, clubs, missions and lodges. County, Ind. It was the first week in July and he
Its small size has not impaired the richness nor the considered it a nice quiet time to look up a piano
trade friend he knew was canvassing in the White
fullness of the tone. The volume and the quality of
the Strohber piano stand out fully in the Strohber Creek district.
Ou the fourth he arrived by buggy at the little
Diminutive." The possibilities of the Strohber
town of Dermot Bluff, where his piano trade friend
Diminutive as a playerpiano are also made clear.
Touching upon the claims of the Strohber Grand on had recently opened headquarters for a round-up of
the surrounding hill country. He purposed paying
the discriminative buyer this is said:
"No expense has been spared in its manufacture, no a little social call before proceeding further along
refinement passed unnoticed, until you are offered in the river to the fishing spot.
But the town was strangely quiet. Even for a
the Strohber Grand an instrument of quality that is
White River town the air of somnolency was surpris-
unsurpassed."
The latest product of the Strohber Piano Com- ing. No sign of human occupancy was visible. At
pany is the Strohber Reproducing Piano, of which the last in the shade of a big elm in front of his friend's
store he found a lone negro. The store was closed.
booklet says.:
"This town seems to be deserted. Is everybody
"In the Strohber Reproducing Piano all the delicate
phrasings and fine shadings of the present-day mas- asleep or dead or what?" asked Mr. Hunckins.
"No, suh. Dey's all alibe and suttenly kickin',''
ters are preserved for you. Sitting in your home you
can hear the world's greatest living artists. The answered the colored man, sitting up.
"Well, there isn't much evidence of it," doubted
Strohber Reproducing Piano brings to your home
Paderewski, Hoffman, Ganz, Grainger, Bauer, Mr. Hunckins. "Where's everybody, anyway?"
"Dey's all at de speakin', suh. De Fou'th speakin',
Gabrilowitsch, Novaes, Courtot, Lehvinne and many
: y'know, boss. Ev'body's right down at Rapp's
others.
"All the wonderful skill and artistry of the greatest Landin' eatin' an' listenin'."
"Who's the great orator who could empty a
musicians, all r the world's greatest compositions
played by well known artists, are at your command. town?" asked the Straube man.
"I don' know de gemman's name, suh, but he
For the music lover and the student the Strohber
sholy
gives a powe'ful fine reckmendashion to his-
Reproducing piano is invaluable. This superb instru-
ment is furnished in the Strohber, Style M, upright self,"' grinned the colored voter.
"He does, eh? I guess I know where I can locate
and the Strohber Grand."
my friend Joe Kelty, the piano man. Fine free-
mouthed recommendation, huh? That's Joe! Say,
where did you say the speakin' was?"
STRAUBE TRAVELER LOCATED
FRIEND BY HIS NOISE
Style SO
FROM THE BIGGEST
ORCHESTRION
LATE FACTS GATHERED
IN THE MUSIC TRADE
Tiny Coinola
THE SMALLEST
KEYLESS
Manufactured by
The Operators Piano Co.
16 to 22 South Peoria St.
CHICAGO
Brief Items of Activities in the Business Collected
in Many States.
All the leading piano houses in Seattle are mem-
bers of the Seattle Better Business Bureau.
F. B ; Bernhard, the Geneva, O., music dealer, has
taken into association with him B. I. Friedline, sales
manager of the Janssen Piano Co., New York. The
partnership becomes effective at once. In future the
firm will bear the name of Bernhard & Friedline.
The line of pianos and playerpianos made by the
Starr Piano Co., Richmond, Ind., is now ably fea-
tured by Fielder's Furniture Store, Knoxville, Tenn.
The firm is a spirited advertiser and has a clientele
extending over a wide territory.
H. W. Mahnke and A. B. Croll are in charge of the
Two Rivers Music Co., recently opened in Two
Rivers, W'is.
The El Paso Piano Co., El Paso, Texas, features
the Kaddorff piano.
A novel display of the Meier & Frank Co., Port-
land, Ore., recently was a window in which a com-
plete apartment was shown, living-room, bedroom,
dining-room and kitchen. One of the prominent fea-
tures of the display was a Knabe grand piano which
the host played in entertaining her friends.
Oscar Springer is proprietor of the Galveston Music
House, Galveston, Tex.
The National Piano Co., Missoula, Mont., is cre-
ating greater piano interest in' that section by vigor-
ous advertising. Ralph L. Pettit is manager.
D. M. Hennessy, 2704 Mission street, San Fran-
cisco, has been succeeded by the Union Music Co.,
Inc.
Lauerman Bros, is the successor to the Schroeder
Music House, Marinette, Wis.
More commodious quarters occupied by Rein-
hardt's 23 South Main street, Memphis, Tenn., afford
facilities for a more energetic pursuit of business.
D. D. Allard, Bakersfield, Calif., recently acquired
a new building adjoining his store and enlarged his
music goods departments.
Three concert grand Knabe pianos, two Vose &
Sons' upright and one Meissner upright were re-
cently supplied for the use of the public schools of
San Diego, Calif., by the Thearle Music Company.
The pianos were placed in high schools. The com-
BADGER SHOP PROSPERS.
The Badger Shop, a thriving music company of
Milwaukee, continues to do its unusual amount of
business in the northern neighbor of Chicago. Man-
ager Parker was a visitor in Chicago this week, and
reported that a market exists for a large number of
pianos and other instruments.
CABLE BUSINESS GOOD.
Orders for the pianos manufactured by The Cable
Company, Chicago, continue to hold a high level, ac-
cording to Sales Manager C. E. Jackson. "The busi-
ness has rushed us for several months, and we are
glad to report that it shows no sign of slackening,"
Mr. Jackson said.
FROM GREEN BAY, WIS.
L. E. Stargcr, piano dealer of Green Bay, Wis.,
was a purchaser in Chicago this week. Mr. Starger
called on prominent manufacturers of the city and
made a number of selections for the replenishing of
his stock.
WHEN WE LOOK BACK.
According to statistics just published, this country
uses 45,000,000,000 feet of lumber every year. That
will be something to be proud of when we grow just
as much lumber annually to replace it.
The annual banquet of the Cleveland Music Trade
Association, was held last week at the Hermit Club.
HIGH GRADE
Folding Organs
School Organs
Practice Keyboards
Dealers' Attention Solicited
A. L. WHITE MFG. CO.
215 Englewood Ave., CHICAGO, ILL.
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