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PRESTO
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AMERICAN
PIANO SUPPLY
COMPANY
Felts, Cloths, Hammers,Punchings,
Music Wire, Tuning Pins, Player
Parts, Hinges, Casters
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American Piano Supply Co.
110-112 E. 13th St.
New York
SCHAFF
Piano String Co.
Manufacturers of
Piano Bass Strings
2009-2021 CLYBOURN AVENUE
Corner Lewis Street
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June 16, 1923
0 R S ROLLS IN BUFFALO
New Location on Main Street Is Seen as a Further
Aid to Sales There.
The new location of the Q R S Music Co., in
Buffalo, 775 Main street, is considered one of the
most desirable in that city for a business like that of
the Q R S Co. It is convenient for both the com-
pany and the dealers, in the opinion of district sales
manager, Robert Hollins. Its position opposite the
Teck Theater is advantageous from a publicity stand-
point, and the space at the disposal of Mr. Hollins is
much greater than that available at the old stand at
81 Ellicott street.
A big and continuous call for the Educator series
of Q R S rolls is a striking feature of the business.
Every day the dealers and salesmen in the piano de-
partments become more alive to the advantages of the
rolls and the scheme of sales.
SUCCESS OF CREDIT PLAN
Musical Supply Association's Scheme for Helping
Through a Credit Service an Assured Success.
The operation of the Credit Adjustment Plan of the
Musical Supply Association has been the most im-
portant work in the regular credit service of the asso-
ciation, but general matters pertaining to credit have
not been neglected. According to figures supplied by
the chairman of the Credit Service Committee, re-
ports on 89 firms were made during the twelve
months ending June 1.
The committee again appeals to all members for
co-operation and great promptness in all credit work
of the association, and adds:
"Let each member appoint himself a committee of
one to boost our organization and to remind himself
and associate members they should communicate im-
mediately with the association if a firm becomes de-
linquent in his payments or whenever the slightest
fear is felt concerning the safety of an account. All
matters are held strictly confidential, the committee
realizing its importance. This association is built
along definite, constructive lines and can only be a
success on this basis.
"One thing more that should be said in regard to
assistance in the matter of credit, the most unfair
competition which manufacturers as a class can suffer
is that which is offered by a rival who can undersell
them or offer better terms than they give because it
has been granted undue extensions of credit, and even
more disastrous than this is the competition which
arises from the throwing on the market of goods at
cut prices in order to liquidate the affairs of bank-
rupt concerns. And it is the piano manufacturer's
consideration of these aspects of the case which has
led them as a class to recognize at once the advan-
tages inherent in the plans of the supply association
and to give it their whole-hearted support in every
case in which it has been found. This plan which
we are asking you to adopt, and which has been in
actual execution by the present committee, has revo-
lutionized the whole subject of credit in the music
industry and placed it on a firmer financial basis than
it ever has enjoyed before."
TAKING CARE OF TRADE-INS.
The facilities afforded to piano dealers by the Piano
Repair Shop, 425 South Wabash avenue, Chicago, are
becoming matters of wider knowledge, to judge by
the great increase in the business of the shop. The
greater number of the jobs now going through the
shop came from out-of-town dealers who have found
in the Piano Repair Shop the solution of a trade-in
problem. The shop has a corps of experts who fin-
ish and remodel instruments, install player actions
and make over pianos, players or phonographs in a
way to render them readily salable.
NEW ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT.
A. H. Fleishman, manager of the talking machine
department of the William Hengerer Co!, Buffalo,
N. Y., was recently elected president of the Victrola
'Dealers' Association in that city. Charles Liske was
elected vice-president, J. M. Kohler secretary, and
Albert Swegler treasurer.
SPECIAL PHONOGRAPH SALE.
A special sale of phonographs of discontinued mod-
els was a feature of the sixty-sixth anniversary sale
of the Meier & Frank Co., Portland, Ore., recently.
The Victor, Columbia and Vocalion lines of talking
machines are carried by the firm. All old stock was
cleaned out in the well-advertised sale.
A QUARTER CENTURY OF
TUNING PIN MANUFACTURING MEANS
Quality, Service and Value
Used in the World's Finest
Pianos
AMERICAN MUSICAL SUPPLY CO.
451 Communipaw Ave.
JERSEY CITY, N. J.
Established 1867
Strauch Bros.
All Well-posted Piano Dealers, Sales-
men, and the Piano Buying Public
recognize the value of this name on a
Piano Action,
For more than 55 years it has been associ-
ated with the best products of the Piano
industry. It has always represented
Quality and Merit
Paragon Foundries
Company
When a Piano Action bears the name of
Strauch Bros, it is an additional guarantee
of the quality of the instrument containing it.
Manufacturers of
STRAUCH BROS.,Inc.
Paragon Piano Plates
Oregon, Illinois
Piano Actions, Hammers and Repairs
327 to 347 Walnut Ave., at 141*t Street
NEW YORK
N E.W YORK
Comstock, Cheney & Co.
Ivory Cutters and Manufacturers
Piano Keys, Actions and Hammers
IVORY AND COMPOSITION-COVERED ORGAN KEYS
The only Company Furnishing the Keys, Actions, Hammers and Brackets Complete
Telegraph and R. R. Station: Essex, Conn.
Office and Factories: Ivoryton, Conn.
WESSELL, NICKEL & GROSS
Manufacturers of
PIANO ACTIONS
HIGHEST GRADE
ONE GRADE ONLY
The Wessefl, Nickel & Gross action is a
guarantee of the grade of the instrument
in which it is found.
FACTORIES:
45th St., 10th Ave. &W 46th.
MFW
Y O R \C
OFFICE:
457 W. 45th Street
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