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PRESTO
March 17, 1023
NEW BUILDING OCCUPIED
BY BIG PORTLAND FIRM
Pianos and General Music Goods Stock Shown Ad-
vantageously at 151 Fourth Street.
over to teacher studios in one, two and three room
suites.
The Seiberling-Lucas Music Co. started in business
in 1909 on a small scale and has increased its space
as business justified so that now it has one of the
most complete stores in the Northwest with a ten-
year lease, and as Mr. Lucas says, "with a corps of
loyal employes and resources of a million and a
quarter behind us we anticipate still greater growth
in the next ten years."
The Seiberling-Lucas Music Company, Portland,
Ore., had a formal opening of the new establishment
at 151 Fourth street on February 23, under very fa-
vorable circumstances. A musical program was
HUNDRED NEW BILLBOARDS.
given continuously from 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. and among
One hundred and five new billboards advertising
the orchestras featured were the George Olsen or-
chestra of the Hotel Portland, an exclusive Buescher the Gulbransen playerpiano, went up in Chicago on
organization; the Webber Juvenile orchestra, featur- the first of March, erected by retailers in co-operation
ing the Gibson instruments, and the Ladies' Columbia with the Gulbransen-Dickinson Co., Chicago, manu-
orchestra. Brunswick and Victor recitals were also facturers of this instrument. The signs are distrib-
given during the day and prominent local musicians uted through the south side, west side, north side,
and the suburbs touching on the city limits. This co-
were presented.
The company has a four-story concrete building, operation is one of the distinctive methods of sales
modern in every respect. No expense has been spared promotion effectively employed by the Gulbransen-
and the result is a modern and complete music store Dickinson Co. and its dealers.
in every particular.
A display roo'm for the Kranich & Bach grand
BUILDS IN BECKLEY, W. VA.
pianos is on the main floor and other piano rooms
A. Z. Lilly, the Beckley, W. Va., music dealer, re-
for the display of the Haddorff, Clarendon and cently completed a handsome, modern four-story
Kohler & Campbell pianos are on the mezzanine building into which he has moved his business. He
floor. The Seiberling & Lucas Music Co. expects to established his business in a small way twenty years
do more in the piano line than they have in the past. ago on the basis of good service and square dealing.
The phonograph department, displaying a complete Today he is one of the influential men of Beckley
line of Brunswick and Victor machines is on the with a piano business extending throughout the
mezzanine floor. Eight audition rooms and one greater part of the county. He handles the Baldwin
large demonstrating room have been installed and line exclusively.
artistically decorated and furnished.
The Q. R. S. roll department and the offices are
The Baker Music House, Albany, N. Y., recently
also on the mezzanine. On the third floor is a large
recital hall and on the fourth floor is a large band opened a branch store at Ballston Spa, N. Y.
room and stock rooms and repair rooms. The bal-
ance of the second, third and fourth floors is given
The Good Old
SMITH A NIXON
CINCINNATI
WEBSTER PIANOS
ANDERSON PIANO CO.
TO MOVE IN DAYTON, 0 .
Progressive Ohio Music Firm to Occupy Old Quar-
ters of Aeolian Co., When Remodeled.
The Anderson Piano Co., Dayton, O., which re-
cently purchased the local branch of the Aeolian Co.,
114 North Main street, will move from 111 East
Third street to the store of the Aeolian Co., when
remodeling plans have been completed. The Ander-
son Piano Co., which has been capitalized for $100,-
000, will continue to carry the lines handled by the
Aeolian Co., which include the Steinway, Duo-Art re-
producing piano, Weber, Steck, Wheelock and Aeo-
lian pianolas. In addition the Anderson Piano Co.
will carry the C. Kurtzmann, Packard, Milton and
Mehlin pianos, Q R S rolls, phonographs, band in-
struments, including Ludwig drums.
C. L. Anderson, head of the Anderson Piano Co., is
an admirable type of piano man who knows what he
wants and proceeds along the lines of industry and
straight dealing until he reaches it. His first associa-
tion with the business was with the old Fetterly
Music Co., in Dayton. And in the interval between
his first event in the business and the latest one as
purchaser of the Aeolian Co.'s interests in that city,
with some of the most prominent business men of
the city as his associates, he has learned the piano
business practically from the ground up. In addition
to being a keen-minded man of business, Mr, Ander-
son is also an expert repairman and tuner, and a
salesman of the highest type.
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