Presto

PHONOGRAPH MAKERS TO
PRODUCE BABY GRANDS
Columbia Cabinet Co., Chicago, to Start Manufacture
of Small Grand Pianos.
A new grand piano will soon be on the market from
the factory of the Columbia Cabinet Co., 400 West
Erie street, Chicago. A few of this model, which is
to be a "baby grand," have been in process of manu-
facture for some time, but are not for sale yet. The
manufacturers expect to have preparations made
within the next three weeks to inanufacture these in-
struments in sufficient quantities to supply demands.
The Columbia Cabinet Co. has been in the phono-
graph manufacturing business since 1914, according
to A. Nordling, manager of the factory. The new en-
terprise is looked upon as one with great possibilities
by the Columbia Cabinet Co., as phonograph manu-
facturing has been successful during the nine years
of its existence.
PROPOSITION TO CREDITORS OF
THE CLOUGH & WARREN CO.
Attorney for the Adrian, Mich., Company in Letter
States Purpose to End Indebtedness.
A communication recently from Franklin J. Rus-
sell, attorney for the Clough & Warren Co., Adrian,
Mich., to creditors of the company made a proposi-
tion which the attorney said was in the endeavor to
get the company back on a substantial operating
basis. Mr. Russell offered preferred stock of the
company to creditors for the company's indebtedness
at 85 per cent of its par value and in addition a two-
year note, with interest payable quarterly or semi-
annually, reserving the privilege to make payments
on the notes.
The business of the Clough & Warren Co. has
practically been at a standstill for the past two years,
although it has a well-equipped plant. The idea of
the company, back of Mr. Russell's proposition, is to
utilize the factory for the manufacture of bedroom
furniture instead of pianos and phonographs, with
which it was previously identified.
WHAT IS A STORM WHEN
A MAN NEEDS PIANOS?
Indiana Retailer Drives to Chicago Through Storm,
of Soft Snow and Sharp Winds.
In the face of a driving wind, and a storm of
slushy snow which played havoc with the highways,
a piano dealer from Crawfordsville, Ind., arrived in
Chicago one night recently, having covered the en-
tire distance in an automobile. M. L. Claypool is a
member of the Claypool-Lacey Music House of
Crawfordsville, and he made the trip to fill up piano
stock with instruments from the factories of Chicago
manufacturers.
The Claypool-Lacey house is one of the most en-
terprising of Crawfordsville's business houses, and
has branches in other parts of the state, and the
pianos are much needed by the stores represented
by the late arrival of Sunday night.
Since the extent of a man's effort in order to ob-
tain music has not been definitely determined, this
might be entered as Exhibit A. However, the auto-
mobile was not brought out with the intention of
being driven through the storm, Mr. Claypool said,
so that the story is somewhat marred. When he left
Crawfordsville, the weather was calm and benignant,
with no indication of adverse winds on the road to
Chicago. If the storm had arrived before his de-
parture, the story would have been different alto-
gether.
LATE FACTS GATHERED
IN THE MUSIC TRADE
Brief Items of Activities in the Business Collected
in Many States.
A complete repair department for musical mer-
chandise has been installed by the Goldsmith Music
Co., Columbus, O. Floyd Miller is manager.
The Ritchie Music Co.. Casper, Wyo., has filed a
voluntary petition in bankruptcy. The liabilities are
$23,506.01 and assets, $22,762.70.
The Packard and Gulbransen lines are now pre-
sented by the Phonograph Co., an Edison jobbing
house in Kansas City, Mo.
Don C. Preston, Bakerslield, Cal., recently opened
a branch store in Taft, Cal.
R. E. Small, a retired piano dealer of Westfield,
Mass., died recently at the age of 75. He retired from
business in 1918.
Duluth, Minn , music dealers are taking an active
part in the Festival Week, in May.
The Wagner Music Shop was opened last week
in East Liberty, Pa.
The Lester A. Gunst Piano Co., Dallas, has ob--
tained a lease on the store at 500 Houston street,
Fort Worth, Tex., and will open a branch there this
week.
The Hecht Co., a big department store in Wash-
ington, D. C, gives over a complete floor in its new
building for a bigger music department.
Fire and water damaged stock in the Fenderber
Music Store, Duquesne, Pa., recently.
Walter King, music dealer, San Francisco, has
moved his business from 147 Valencia street to 416
Hayes street.
Kohler & Chase, San Francisco, has perfected
plans for remodeling the lower floor of its store.
AGAINST "WASTEFUL VARIETY."
The campaign against "wasteful variety" in manu-
factured articles is now actively afoot in nearly two
score industries which turn out everything from
coffins to carpet tacks, according to a bulletin issued
by the Fabricated Production Department of the
Chamber of Commerce of the United States, which is
co-operating with the Department of Commerce to
minimize this form of industrial waste. Not only
have the manufacturers among themselves taken up
the movement generally, the bulletin says, but "very
real progress" has been made in recent conferencs at
the Commerce Department.
A Valuable Agency
UNSURPASSED IN TONE and GENERAL
CONSTRUCTION and UNEQUALED IN PRICE,
make the JESSE FRENCH & SONS line of pianos
the MOST ATTRACTIVE AGENCY ON THE
MARKET. INVESTIGATE THIS CLAIM and
you will readily agree to its correctness.
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PRESTO
March 24, 1923
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JESSE FRENCH & SONS PIANO CO.
NEW CASTLE, INDIANA
A QUALITY PRODUCT
FOR OVER
QUARTER OFA CENTURY
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G. I. SELLERS' CONOVER
REPRODUCING GRAND
Maker of World Known Kitchen Cabinets in
Letter States His Opinion of The Cable
Co.'s Instrument.
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A recent effective bit of printed publicity of The
Cable Company, Chicago, is a testimonial folder
about the Conover Reproducing Grand. It is an ex-
pression of warm appreciation of a fine instrument
from a nationally known manufacturer whose musi-
cal taste and ability to show it are known to a large
circle of friends. Geo. Sellers, head of the G. I.
Sellers & Sons Company, Elwood, Ind., makers ol
the Sellers Kitchen Cabinet, is the competent ex-
ponent of the merits of the Conover Welte-Mignoli
Reproducing Grand. His letter to The Cable Com-
pany is an excellent reason for the issuance of the
latest "testimonial folder" from the vigilant advertis-
ing department of the company. Mr. Seller's letter
follows:
"Gentlemen: We are well pleased with the Cono-
ver Reproducing Grand Piano recently purchased
through your representative, R. L. Leeson & Sons
Company, of Elwood. This instrument has a re-
markable tone and everyone who has heard it com-
mented upon the absolute control at all times oi the
reproducing device.
"We have also had favorable comment upon the
flexibility (the touch) of the keyboard which is sur-
prising to a person accustomed to the ordinary playei-
piano."
The credit for the sale is attributed to F. E. Craw-
ford, the efficient manager of the R. L. Leeson &
Sons Co., Elwood, Ind., which firm is one of the
most energetic and successful distributors of the
pianos, players and reproducing pianos of The Cable
Co. The city of Elwood is naturally proud of its big
industry, the G. I. Sellers & Sons Co., which makes
the name Elwood familiar to hundreds of thousands
of the best people in the country.
The title of the folder, "Marvelous Pianos and
Wonderful Kitchen Cabinets" suggests the associa-
tion of two admirable things in the happy, well-
managed home—a Conover Reproducing Grand in
the parlor or music room and a Sellers Kitchen Cabi-
.net in the kitchen. With the facsimile letter of Mr.
Sellers also is shown a picture of the Sellers resi-
dence in the Indiana city, a joyful kitchen interior
properly equipped with a Sellers cabinet and a Con-
over Reproducing Grand in its tasteful surroundings.
The Conover Reproducing Grand is fitted with the
De Luxe Welte-Mignon (Licensed) Reproducing
Action and has available a library of over three thou-
sand rolls representing the work of the world's great-
est artists. This action is specially built according
to the specifications and to suit the requirements of
The Cable Co.. and installed in its own factory by its
own experts. Several exclusive features are embodied
in the combination which contribute to making this
reproducing piano worthy of choice by the most dis-
criminative purchaser.
The library available with this reproducing piano
covers every variety of music—the classic, the popu-
lar light opera, the present-day sentimental ballad,
and the dance melodies so immensely popular with
the public today.
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Over 70,000 instruments made by this company t i e sing-
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