PRESTO
April 28, 1923
Many a Dealer
Is Finding
Real
Actual
Prosperity
And
Financial
Independence
With The
SEEBURG
The Nationally
Known Line.
Write Us Today
J. P. SEEBURG PIANO CO.
Leaders in the Automatic Field
1510-1516 Dayton Street
CHICAGO
BIDDLE PIANO CO. CHANGES
ITS CORPORATE NAME
invitation is extended with the privilege of inviting
members of your family to enjoy an evening of un-
alloyed pleasure and delightful music, with the as-
surance that every courtesy will be extended and that
accommodations will be ample."
New York Industry Takes Out Papers Under
Style of Biddle Mfg. Corpo-
ration.
SCHAFF BROS. TW0=T0NE
FINISH CASES WIN EAST
Among last week's New York incorporations is the
Biddle Mfg. Corporation, Manhattan, to make player-
pianos, 2,000 shares preferred stock, $100 each; 3,000
common, no par value; active capital, $5,000; H. Ed-
wards, S. K. Abrahams, H. Greenspan. (Attorneys, S.
B. Plante, IS William St.)
The Biddle Piano Company has been in success-
ful operation since 1860 and was incorporated under
that name in 1903. The present change is due to
death of the founder, John Biddle, and to expand the
industry. The office and factory are at 105-111 East
128th street, New York. Biddle pianos are well
known throughout the trade.
T. L. FLOYD=JONES ENJOYS
TWO RECENT TRIPS
President of W. P. Haines & Co., Inc., New York,
Finds Pleasure in Reports of Dealers.
T. L. Floyd-Jones, president of W. P. Haines &
Co., Inc., New York, has repeated the pleasures of a
recent trip through several midwest states in a more
recent one through the eastern part of New England.
In his later trip Mr. Floyd-Jones visited the factory
at Leoniinster, Mass., where the instruments of the
Bradbury and Webster divisions of the company are
manufactured. There he found every department
being operated to its full capacity.
Apart from actual orders taken by himself, the
pleasures alluded to were the evidences of the good
feeling of the midwest and New England trade for all
the instruments in the line of W. P. Haines & Co.,
Inc. Everywhere he found the W. P. Haines & Co.
piano considered of unchallenged quality by repre-
sentative dealers. The playerpiano bearing the name
is equally commended by progressive dealers who
are daily proving its fine selling qualities.
The association of the name Bradbury with the
W. P. Haines Piano Co., Inc., continues to be a
mutual advantage to the company, and the fine old
instrument which has become one of the great names
in the American piano industry. Everywhere Mr.
Floyd-Jones encountered loyal Bradbury representa-
tives, some of whom have been Bradbury dealers
since the introduction of the Bradbury piano by F. G.
Smith over half a century ago. The admirable sell-
ing qualities of the Webster pianos and players were
other facts told by dealers which added to the pleas-
ures of Mr. Floyd-Jones' recent trips.
MAKES DALLAS ACQUAINTED
WITH ITS OWN ARTISTS
Pleasant Scheme of Bush & Gerts Piano Company
Inaugurated Last Week.
The Bush & Gerts Piano Co., Dallas, Tex., is en-
gaged in the admirable task of making Dallas artists
better known to music lovers. Last week in Stein-
way Hall, Bush Temple, in that city, the first of a
series of "Guest Recitals," was given to an invited
audience. The excellent program was made possible
through the gracious courtesy of the following artists
—each occupying a prominent part in the musical
life of the city: Mrs. Robert Morton, Soprano, and
Hedly Cooper, Violinist. The accompanist was the
Reproducing Instrument.
"These artists will be ably assisted through the
wonderful and artistic reproducing qualities of the
most modern reproducing instruments known to the
musical world, and all accompaniments for these well-
known artists will be rendered through the medium
of the reproducing instrument," was the statement on
the program. "Most interesting is the fact that the
song accompaniments were especially recorded by
the artist, Mrs. Robert H. Morton, upon the occa-
sion of her last visit to New York City in the studios
of the Auto De Luxe Roll Corporation."
A card enclosed with each invitation and program
from the Bush & Gerts Piano Co., said: "This pro-
gram has been arranged to emphasize the distin-
guished success and popularity of our Dallas musi-
cians who will participate in presenting novelties arid
musical numbers of exceptional excellence, and is
the first of a series of these invitation affairs that will
be given throughout a period of several months under
the auspices of this company. We' want our patrons
and friends to know and become acquainted with
Dallas musicians who have distinguished themselves
not only locally, but throughout the country. This
Curtis S. Miller, Vice-President and Sales Manager
of Company Ends Satisfactory Trip.
\ Curtis S. Miller, vice-president of the Schaff Bros.
Co., Huntington, Ind., returned last week from a trip
through eastern states which included visits to New
York City and Philadelphia. It was a pleasant round
of inspections which showed the steady progress of
sales of Schaff Bros, instruments over a large section
of the country within recent years. For the greater
part of his trip Mr. Miller was accompanied by A. ¥>.
Hart, in charge of the eastern office of the company
at 117 East Thirty-fourth street, New York City.
The fine representative character of the dealers
handling the pianos and players of the Schaff Bros.
Co. was particularly gratifying to Mr. Miller who is
sales manager of the Huntington industry and active
in promoting a wider sale of the Schaff Bros, instru-
ments in the eastern section. Many admirable quali-
ties draw the attention of the new dealers to the line.
The musical merits of the instruments have been
proved in many years of perfect satisfaction. The
case designs are characteristically chaste and appeal
to cultured people.
A feature of business in Schaff Bros, instruments
at the present time in the east is the prominence given
to the two-tone case finish in Schaff Bros, pianos
which have been received enthusiastically by the
trade and please the customers at sight. To visiting
dealers the exhibit of two-tone pianos in the New
York offices proves a constant source of attraction.
For the benefit of dealers centering on Philadelphia,
an exhibit of two-tone Schaff Bros, instruments is
being arranged at the Bellak store in that city.
TRAVELERS AND EXPRESS RATES.
Quite a number of traffic groups arc engaged in a
constructive campaign for gathering and presenting
evidence before the Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion, revealing the deplorable conditions of express
service, and the urgent need to the nation's indus-
tries for its improvement, and particularly referring
to the vigorous opposition to any increase in the pres-
ent tariff of express rates. The National Council of
Traveling Salesmen of which the National Associa-
tion of Piano Travelers is an important unit heartily
endorses the efforts of the active traffic groups and
at a recent meeting passed a resolution to that effect
and "offering "its services and the good offices of the
memberships of its thirty-two affiliated trade and ter-
ritorial organizations of Commercial Travelers, in
the furtherance of any plan or measures recom-
mended for the accomplishment of relief in this
direction."
CORLEY CO.'S FORMAL OPENING.
Next week the Corley Co., Richmond, Va., will
hold a formal opening of its newly remodeled and
decorated store at 213 Broad street. The store was
seriously damaged in a tire last November and since
that time the company has occupied temporary quar-
ters. The remodeling plans which have been carried
out included a rearrangement of the floors and a
better disposition of space all through the building.
In its equipment the newly remodeled store of the
Corley Co. is the last word is modernity. The exhibit
of new goods on opening day will show the enlarged
scope of the business of this progressive Richmond
firm.
PIANOS FOR HOTEL.
The Hotel Burlington, Burlington, la., recently
purchased a Chickering piano and Packard piano for
use in its main dining room and grill room, from the
Guest Piano Co., in that city. In stating the fact
the Burlington Hawkeye says: "The Guest Piano
Co. and Hotel Burlington, were close neighbors for
many years, but the association of friendliness and
good spirit remains between the two institutions re-
gardless of the fact that the Guest Piano Co. has
moved back to its old building at 106 North Main
street.
PLAYERPIANO IN SOUTH AFRICA.
• American playerpianos are making headway in the
South African market against keen German competi-
tion, and, while these still come largely from Ger-
many, American playerpianos are finding increasing-
favor as the demand becomes more widespread. There
is reason to believe that playerpianos ranging in
price from $300 to $350 f.o.b. New York would find
favor, says Consul G. K. Donald, Johannesburg, in
a report to the Commerce Department.
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