Presto Buyers' Guide
Analyzes and Classifies
All American Pianos
and in Detail Tells of
Their Makers.
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CHICAGO, SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1923
TWO REMARKABLY BEAUTIFUL KNABE GRANDS
STYLE AGE.
STYLE A.
The two beautiful Grands here displayed were among the foremost contributions of the art pianos of last year. They
are leaders in the trade, and the Knabe Ampico has played a large part in the concert field, and has created so pronounced a
sensation in the trade wherever the famous Baltimore instruments are represented. The two beautiful Knabe pianos here
pictured are models of architectural designs, and it need not be said that, in details of construction, they are no less refined
and perfect. These pictures will interest every man who sells pianos.
NEW EXCELTONE MODEL
MADE BY CHASE=HACKLEY CO.
New
Style of Muskegon Manufacturers Can Be
Stamped With the Dealer's Name.
The Chase-Hackley Piano Co., Muskegon, Mich.,
is now producing a new style of the Exceltone in-
strument, called style 31, which has two outstanding
advantages and attractions to dealers; the first is a
special price, and the other is the possibility of hav-
ing the dealer's name or style name on the fall
board.
The new Exceltone playerpiano has intrinsic ad-
vantages of sound and durable construction, high
class workmanship, excellent material, and beauty of
case, which recommend it to the observer and to the
musician. It is brass-trimmed, and is equipped with
a transforming device and with convenient and effi-
cient controls. The keys are of genuine ivory, the
same as the keys on the Chase Brothers instruments,
and the sharps are of a composition of high grade.
The back of the instrument is unusually smooth and
clean.
This is the only instrument manufactured by the
Chase-Hackley Piano Co. on which the manufactur-
ers give the dealer the privilege of his name on the
plate, if ordered in sufficient quantities.
The offering of a special price indicates the willing-
ness of the manufacturer to give the dealer the best
possible value for the price asked. For a medium
priced piano, the Exceltone offers advantages in which
the Muskegon company takes justifiable pride, and
which dealers are approving' by the early orders for
this style. It is furnished in either walnut, mahogany
or oak. One of the instruments has been received
by the Chicago branch for display purposes, and is
now in the Chase-Hackley office and salesroom in
the Republic Building.
MAKING AMERICA.
Under the heading, "Industrial Plants That Afe
Making America," the Manufacturers News, a week-
ly devoted to the interests of manufacturing estab-
lishments of all kinds, prints a page of photographs
of plants which afe outstanding in their industries.
In the issue of Feb. 17, the two factories of The
Cable Company, Chicago, are featured. These two
plants, one in Chicago, the other in St. Charles, 111.,
have successfully demonstrated their prominence,
not only in the manufacturing of pianos, but in the
general field of manufacturing of all kinds.
ORDERS BEST REPORTS.
"The best kind of reports from dealers are orders
for goods," declared Secretary E. M. Love, of Story
& Clark Piano Co., Chicago, this week. "Our deal-
ers are not prone to send in optimistic reports and
eager statements of the orders they are going to get;
they are sending in orders which tell us that they
are doing the best March business in years."
FROM MCGREGOR, IOWA.
George F. Freeman, of the Freeman Piano Co.,
McGregor, Iowa, was a visitor in Chicago this week,
selecting new pianos for shipment to his store. The
situation in Iowa is practically unchanged, Mr. Free-
man reported. No surprising amount of purchasing
is expected before another crop is harvested.
JESSE FRENCH WRITES
FROM SANTIAGO, CHILE
Head of Big Industry at New Castle Is Enjoying
South American Trip.
By a coincidence, not an hour after the interview
with Carlos Doggenweiler in Presto offices, which ap-
pears in another column this week, a communication
came from that gentleman's home in Chile, written
by President Jesse French, of the big piano industry
at New Castle, Ind. Mr. French reached Santiago,
Chile, last week and left for Buenos Aires on Satur-
day at 4 p. m.
''Just to let you know," wrote Mr. French in face-
tious vein, "that 'though a wayward youth wandering
in foreign lands, I shall never get too far away to
forget the friends of 'auld lang syne.' I have had
a splendid trip thus far. Start across the Andes for
Buenos Aires at 4 p. m., and travelers say the best
is yet to come."
Mr. French has made a very complete tour of
South America and in many of the leading cities he
has found representatives of the instruments from
New Castle. No doubt he also called at the music
house of Doggenweiler and, it is to be hoped, added
the instruments of his own industry to the line
already represented there as noted in another col-
umn.
J. L. Judy, formerly manager of the J. W. Jenkins
Sons' Music Co. branch store in Salina, Kan., has
resigned that position to join the organization of
the Wilev B. Allen Co. in San Francisco.
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