PRESTO
June 16, 1923
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SMALL GOODS AND SUPPLIES
Orpheum banjos, Martin guitars and mandolins, Lud-
wig and Leedy drums, Robert, Pensel-Muller and
Buffet clarinets, Haines, Christensen and Pensel-
Muller flutes and Christensen oboes.
SMALL GOODS IN OREGON
Harmonica Contest Over Radio Productive of Sales
Results in Portland.
The Oregonian is staging a harmonica contest over
their radio broadcasting station and the scope of the
contest has been enlarged. One contest will be for
boys and girls under 17 years of age and a second How to Produce That Desirable Characteristic Sug-
gested by Columbia Music Roll Co.
contest for those over that age, and a third grand
championship contest for the six winners of the A line of Columbia Word Rolls is the mark of a
other two contests.
busy roll department according to a statement by
Prizes of cash and harmonicas are offered for the the Columbia Music Roll Co., 22 South Peoria street,
best five in each of the two contests and a gold Chicago. The company provides convincing reasons
medal for the winner of the grand championship.» why success in sales follow the placing of the Colum-
The medal is offered by the Hohner company and bia rolls in stock in any music store. The subjects
three are prizes of harmonicas. The Oregonian offers are timely, well-selected and well played for one
cash prizes and the Seiberling, Lucas Music Co. will thing. A glance through the bulletin in any month
give three of the prizes in harmonicas. Three judges will prove the alertness and'timeliness of the com-
will decide the winners. W. D. Fenton of Seiberling, pany.
Lucas, and Alex Reilley of the Sherman, Clay & Co.
But there is also an element of price that attracts
are two of the judges and they will select the third.
the dealer keen for sure profits. Additional advan-
The musical merchandise department of the Sher- tages cited by the Columbia Music Roll Co., are that
man, Clay & Co.'s store at Portland, Ore., is being the rolls are "made from the best materials obtainable,
installed by T. G. Towner, musical merchandise de- will please trade and double the dealer's sales." In
partment manager of the Oakland, Cal., branch. Mr. short the fact presented is that "quality and price
Towner has just completed installing a department at make Columbia rolls the dealer's best profit-producer
the Seattle branch and expects to be able to have in a roll department."
the opening at the Portland store in conjunction with
the opening of the new sheet music department June
18. The department will carry, according to Mr.
AUSTRIA'S "MUSIC STAMPS."
Towner, King band instruments, Bacon, Vega and
A series of "music stamps" has been issued by Aus-
tria, according to the New York Times, which says
the stomps are the most artistic of the postage kind
which has come from Europe in many a day. There
arc seven values, each bearing the head of an emi-
nent Austrian composer, among whom is Beethoven,
who, although a native of Bonn, Germany, spent most
AND
of his time in Vienna and did the most of his musical
ACCESSORIES
work there. Haydn, Mozart, Shubert, Anton, Bruck-
ner, Johann Strauss the younger, and Hugo Wolf are
The Recognized Standard
other composers whose heads appear on the stamps.
Drums of distinctive design to retail at a
THE BUSY ROLL DEPARTMENT
WILSON DRUMS
very moderate price. Each is the fin-
ished result of expert craftsmen work-
ing towards an ideal. Piano dealers find
that the addition of WILSON products
means new customers, greater profits and
more sales.
A DESIRABLE MUSIC WIRE.
As a proof of the excellence of the celebrated Felten
& Guillaume imported music wire, Hammacher,
Schlemmer & Co., New York, the representatives of
the wire in this country, impress the fact in its adver-
tising that the F & G blue label brand is again being
used by Rudolph C. Koch in the manufacture of the
Reinwarth covered bass strings. The wire in black,
blue and green label varieties is stocked and sold by
the Hammacher, Schlemmer Co.
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218-20-22 N. May St.
CHICAGO, ILL.
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The "F & G" Blue Label Brand is
again being used by Rudolph C.
Koch in the manufacture en the
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HAMMACHER, SCHLEMMER & CO.
P2ANO and PLAYER, HARDWARE, FELTS and TOOLS
NEW YORK, SINCE 1848
4th Aw. and 13th St.
NEWS OF SMALL GOODS FIELD
Many New Names Appear in Musical Instrument
Business and Old Ones Continue in Activities.
The Grimes-Lowing Piano Co., Fort Worth, Tex.,
has added a radio department.
Donald Crosby is a new man in the sales staff of
the United Talking Machine Co., New London, Mass.
Louis & Co., Victor dealers, Seventh and G streets,
Washington, D. C, have completed plans for ex-
panding the business.
It was a great boost for the musical merchandise
business last week when 110 bands, 60 drum corps, 75
glee clubs, in all 320 musical bodies, filled the air of
Washington, D. C, with joyous melody.
Benjamin Kossover, winner of the recent national
contest for harmonica players, is billed for a week's
engagement at Keith's Royal Theater, New York.
An assignment for the benefit of creditors was re-
cently made by Phillip Jacobson, head of the New
England Musical Instrument Trading Corporation,
New York. The house handled musical merchandise
in a wholesale way.
The Brunswick line of phonographs has been added
by Kohler & Chase, San Francisco.
Tremblum's Phonograph Shop, Hartford, Conn.,
will move to new quarters at the completion of a
building being erected by the company.
Extensions in the business of the Carey Music
Shop, Golden Gate avenue, San Francisco, as now
planned, include a mezzanine floor.
The D. J. Meggcnburg Department Store, Manches-
ter, la., has added a line of talking machines.
L. H. Webber has purchased the Hartford Music
Co., Hartford, Conn.
The Hall-Ekfelt Co., talking machine dealer, Water-
loo, la., has moved to larger quarters.
Kohler & Chase, San Francisco, prominently fea-
ture the phonographs of the Burnham Phonograph
Co., Los Angeles.
John Kanrich, music dealer, 124 Fifth street, Mil-
waukee, Wis., has added talking machines and records
to his music goods line.
BEGINS MAKING RECORDS.
The Story Record Corporation, New York, has
leased the Galvanthe Building, Point Pleasant, N. Y.,
and, according to the Lakewood, N. J., Times and
Journal, 'will manufacture phonograph records at a
speed declared to be 100 times as fast as the former
output."
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