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PRESTO
April 21, 1923
UPSTAIRS MUSIC FIRM
MOVES TO STREET LEVEL
Successful Gibson, McConnell Co., San Francisco,
Leases Two Lower Floors on Sutter Street.
An "upstairs" music store in San Francisco, the
Gibson, McConnell Co., will no longer have that dis-
tinctiveness. It comes down to the street level at
315-317 Sutter street, but goes up in importance in
the scheme of things. Some time within the next
few weeks the firm will move to the two lower floors,
which will be remodeled to suit the requirements of
the progressive music firm.
The Gibson, McConnell Co. has shown the possi-
bility of building up a piano business on any floor
level accessible to the interested piano prospect. It
was formed in 1915 by Gibson, McConnell and George
Fraser, both of the sales staff of the J. T. Bowers &
Son, when the latter discontinued.
The beginning
was made upstairs at the number stated and success
was assured from the start. Mr. McConnell assumed
full ownership when Mr. Fraser died and the name of
the firm was changed to the Gibson, McConnell Co.
BUSH & GERTS POPULAR IN
ALL PARTS OF COUNTRY
Pianos of Bush & Gerts Piano Co., Chicago, 111., Find
Market in All States of Union.
Although the demand for Bush & Gerts pianos is
very strong from Texas, where the retail stores of
the Bush & Gerts Co., of Texas, are located, this does
not prevent dealers in other states from sending in
heavy orders, as is the custom this season. The line
of pianos and playerpianos of the Bush & Gerts
Piano Co. factory in Chicago has the advantage of
a long reputation for quality and serviceability, and
the record shows results in the orders.
"The Bush Temple in Dallas and the branch of
the Bush & Gerts Piano Co., of Texas, in Houston,
furnish a great part of our pianos, but our business
is universally good," said W. S. Miller, vice-president
and general manager of the manufacturing Co. "Our
S. W. MILLER PIANO CO.
Makers of
S. W. MILLER
PIANOS and PLAYERS
Dealers who Sell Them an:
Satisfied with Results and
are Profit-makers.
New Catalog Ready
S. W. MILLER PIANO CO.
SHEBOYGAN, WIS.
THE
W. P. HAINES & COMPANY
PIANOS
THE PIANOS OF QUALITY
Three Generations of Piano Makers
All Styles—Ready Sellers
Attractive Prices
GRANDS
REPRODUCING GRANDS
UPRIGHTS and PLAYERS
AVAILABLE TERRITORY OPEN
W. P. HAINES & CO., Inc.
138th St. and Walton Ave.
New York City
dealers seem to be in a very fair shape this year."
The Bush & Gerts Piano Co. is at present making
plans for the suite of rooms which have been engaged
in the Drake Hotel for the four days of the music
industries convention in Chicago from June 4 to 7.
Part of the space will be devoted to a display of
players, uprights and grands made by this factory,
and the rest of the space will be utilized in entertain-
ing Bush & (ierts guests.
PIANO MANUFACTURER'S
FORTUNE GOES TO CHARITY
ASSOCIATING LOCAL AND
NATIONAL ADVERTISING EFFORT
Accompanying Cut of Buffalo Display an Instance
of Unity of Purpose.
In the national campaign inaugurated recently by
the Auto Pneumatic Action Co., New York, to
identify local advertising with the wide scope of
publicity for the Welte-Mignon (Licensee) reproduc-
ing medium, the accompanying display appeared in
Chicago Charities Share in Estate of Mrs. Evaline M.
Kimball, Widow of Piano Manufacturer.
The estate of Mrs. Evaline M. Kimball of Chicago,
who died January 13, 1921, and was the widow of
W. W. Kimball, founder of the W. W. Kimball
Company, was appraised in Xew York City Friday
of last week, showing that she left the bulk of her
estate of $2,796,940 to charities, public organizations
and friends. She had $112,962 taxable in New York,
consisting of 1,291 shares of the Western Union Tele-
graph Company. The other items in the estate were
not disclosed in the appraisal.
Mrs. Kimball gave her art collection, valued at
$332,250, to the Art Institute of Chicago, with the
request that it be displayed in the "W. W. Kimball
room." She left $100,000 to the Newsboys' and Boot-
blacks' Association of Chicago, and $50,000 each to
the Children's Memorial Hospital and Visiting
Xnrses' Association. The Fortnightly of Chicago got
$10,000.
The will gave scores of bequests of $10,000 and
more to friends, and set apart $200,000 in trust for
her brother, Irving H. Cone. The remainder of the
estate went to nephews and nieces and their children.
SOME VERY LATE OPENINGS
IN THE RETAIL MUSIC TRADE
A Few of the New Ventures in the Best Business in
the World.
The Kelley Music Store, Fairmont, W. Va., has
been remodeled.
D. M. Hooker, Hoopeston, 111., will soon move to
new and larger quarters.
A. R. Martin recently opened a music store in the
People's Bank building, Enderlin, N. D.
E. S. Sanford, who has been associated with Henry
L. Chambers in the piano business at 221 North
Washington street, Lansing, Mich., has retired. The
business will be continued by Mr. Chambers.
R. L. Byars has succeeded R. L. Byars & Son,
dealers in musical instruments, Shelbyville, Mo.
The Johnson Music Co., 6102 Penn avenue, East
Liberty, Pa., has closed a lease on a new location for
its rapidly growing business.
The Henry G. Trent Furniture Co., 30 East Market
square, Knoxville, Tenn., is preparing to add an ex-
tensive music department.
Construction has started on a new building to be
erected for Mark Payette, music merchant, on Wish-
kah avenue, Aberdeen, Wash.
Desautel's Music House, 1094 Elm street, Manches-
ter, N. H., was recently damaged by fire.
Geraldine Austin has opened a retail music busi-
ness in the Hohman block, Salamanca, N. Y.
The Saunders-Stewart Jewelry & Music Store is
the style name of a new concern recently opened at
714 Second street, Fort Madison, Iowa.
The New Jersey Piano Co., 311 West Front street,
Plainfield, N. J., has moved to new quarters in the
building in which it has been located for some years.
OPENS IN CANTON, N. Y.
Floyd T. Sherwin, a former resident of Canton,
N. Y., who has been associated for the past eleven
years with the Clark Music Company, of Syracuse,
X. Y., will enter the retail music business in Canton
this week. Mr. Sherwin will carry a line of pianos
and musical merchandise. There has been no such
store in this village since G. E. Sims, for many years
in the piano business in connection with his other
store, sold out, and the need has been greatly felt.
DISPLAYS AT SWISS FAIR.
Announcement has been made by the Swiss Lega-
tion, Washington, D. C, that there will be placed on
exhibition at the Swiss Sample Fair, to be held at
Basle, Switzerland, April 14 to 24, a number of dis-
plays of United States musical instruments and music.
BRUCE PIANO CO. BRANCH.
The Bruce Piano Co., of Springfield, 111., is now
occupying a new store in Virden, II!. This company
will thoroughly canvass the field in the Virden dis-
trict for prospects for the extensive line of pianos
and phonographs.
Only one in a thousand knows
what a Reproducing Piano really is
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You Can Have the
W e l t e - M i g n O n (Licensee)
in the
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When you read or hear about the famous
Welte-Mignon (Licensee), remember that this
renowned action is employed in the Buffalo
plants of the old reliable Kurtzmann company
to create the Kurtzmann Reproducing Piano.
You are invited to visit the Kurtzmann fac-
tories and see how this wondrous action, in
combination with the dependable and endur-
ing Kurtzmann piano, produces an instru-
ment that is recognized as man's nearest
approach to endowing inanimate materials
with human life.
If you pride yourself on knowing the secret of
the radio, victrola, telephone and other mar-
vels of the age, don't neglect to step into the
Kurtzmann Factory Store at 6S1 Main street
and become acquainted with the Kurtzmann
Reproducing Piano the greatest marvel of
them all!
Kurtzmann Piano Company
Factories at Pennsylvania, Hudson and Seventh Sts. Established 1848
FACTORY STORE: €51 Main Street
(New Pierce Bid*.)
Op»n Ev.nino
Buffalo, N. Y., newspapers. The C. Kurtzmann ad-
vertisement is only one of many newspaper displays
showing the dealers' recognition of linking local ad-
vertising with a well-planned national campaign.
LIBERAL FOREST POLICY.
Liberality in the policies of the taxation of forest
lands by the states should be made the basis for the
extension of Federal aid in forestry protection, Presi-
dent Harding suggested recently in a letter to Repre-
sentative Clarke, Republican, New York, commenting
favorably upon th proposed bill to provide co-opera-
tion between the Federal Government, the states and
timber land owners for the protection and reforesta-
tion of denuded lands. State policy as to the taxa-
tion of privately owned forest lands, the President
declared, differs widely, although some of the states
have by very liberal methods recognized that many
years are required to grow timber to merchantable
size, and' that there is little inducement to owners
to incur the heavy expense of protection and taxes
for decades.
NEW LUDWIG ADVERTISING MAN.
The new chief of advertising for Ludwig & Co.,
Xew York, is Howard Pemberton, who is widely
known in the field of publicity and especially in the
phase covering the music trade. Mr. Pemberton has
been head of an advertising agency in Baltimore for
several years.
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