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Issue: 1924 1954

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PRESTO
January 5, 1924.
SMALL GOODS AND SUPPLIES
plants and always to the glory and profit of enter-
prising dealers.
The popularity of the saxophone has resulted in
the systematic formation of groups of players by
Stimulation Created by Big Convention Tour- dealers. And this has developed the small orchestra
in families, church organizations and otherwise. The
nament in Chicago Last Spring Spreads
help of alert dealers in many places has made groups
to All Parts of Country.
of customers into amateur orchestras with the enthu-
siastic spirit that assures earnest effort.
One notable trade feature that characterizes the
The general custom is for the saxophone customer
musical merchandise business today is the spread of
to buy his instrument first and find an instructor
the band spirit to every corner of the country. But afterwards. Wise dealers see that this custom is not
the growth in the number of bands is not a spontane- conducive to bigger sales and their plan is to assure
ous affair, but something which reflects credit on the prospective buyer of proper instruction before-
many energetic dealers and on the effective propa- hand. The saxophone teacher is the most important
ganda and work of the National Association of Band
part in the equipment of the musical merchandise
Instrument Manufacturers.
store.
Carl D. Greenleaf, president of C. G. Conn, Ltd.,
A new scheme for the encouragement of band con-
Elkhart, Ind., who is also president of the national tests was recently announced by the National Asso-
association of band instrument manufacturers, is ciation of Band Instrument Manufacturers, which is
proud of an unusually active year in band formation to distribute prizes to winning bands in contests or-
due to the co-operation of the national organization ganized by local organizations. The vehicle for tbe
and the retailers. Since the big band tournament distribution of the prizes will be the Music In-
during the music trade conventions in Chicago, last dustries Chamber of Commerce, of which the na-
spring, the stimulative force created has been directed tional band instrument manufacturers' association is
to great achievements. Within the year hundreds of a division member.
bands have been formed in schools and industrial
NEW KOKOMO VIOLIN SHOP.
Miss Rebecca Fredrick has opened up a line of
violins, violin accessories, instruction books and
sheet music at the Lavender Gift Shop, 108
West
Mulberry street, Kokomo, Ind. This
new business is only temporarily housed in the Laven-
der Shop, Miss Fredrick said this week, explaining
that the demand among violin pupils, teachers and
players of that instrument was so insistent that she
rushed in a line of goods in order to accommodate
them immediately. Miss Fredrick intends to occupy
larger quarters at an early date. Miss Fredrick an-
nounces that she will also take orders for all kinds of
sheet music.
BAND FORMATION SPIRIT
PRACTICAL PIANO MOVING SUPPLIES
INCREASE SELLING POWER
One-Man Steel Cable Hoist; Two-in-One
Loaders, Trucks, Covers, etc.
Get Our New CU ul»r» and Pric*»
PIANO MOVERS SUPPLY COMPANY
LANCASTER, PA.
SPECIAL Q R S RELEASE.
A special Q R S Music Co. release is No. 2529—
"In Fair Hawaii." This splendid number will be
delivered in Chicago this week and will sell big.
"Order enough to lose no sales. You can exchange
any of those you don't sell in four months," is the
suggestion of the Q R S Music Co.
ARTHUR BROS.' ADVICE.
Ask for Vocalstylc Song Rolls Nos. 12395, 12403,
12462, 12562—all Arthur hits. Ask for U. S. Word
Rolls Xos. 41466 and 41409—big Arthur hits.
THE CELEBRATED
(Felten & GuilUaum*;
IMPORTED
MUSIC WIRE
in Black, Red and Green
Label Brands is
UNEXCELLED
The "F & G" Blue Label Brand is
again being used by Rudolph C.
Koch in the manufacture of the
Reinwarth Covered Ease Strings.
HAMMACHER, SCHLEMMER & CO.
PIANO and PLAYER, HARDWARE. FELTS and TOOLS
NEW YORK, SINCE 1848
4th Ave. and 13th St.
PHONOGRAPH REPAIR PARTS
Procuring Catalog of Phonograph Accessories Is
Good Way to Start New Year.
A good preparation for the business of the new
year is providing the means to preparedness. The
talking machine dealer who knows where he can
quickly replace a necessary phonograph part in the
shortest possible time has the power to serve his
repair trade. That phase of the talking machine
deaier's business is continually becoming of greater
importance, so that preparedness really consists in
the ability to procure needed parts of superior quality
with a minimum of delay.
That is why the talking machine dealer should start
the new year possessing the new descriptive catalog
of the Specialties Phonograph & Accessories Co., 210
and 212 East 113th street, New York. The company
manufacturers "Specialty Brand" products, necessary
to the dealer ambitious to serve the repair wants of
the phonograph owners. The "Specialty Brand"
products include main springs, motors and all repair
parts and superior quality is a characteristic of every
commodity. The descriptive catalog and price list of
the company is of great interest and value to every
dealer.
LEATHER
FOR
PLAYERS
ORGANS
PIANOS
PNEUMATIC LEATHERS A SPECIALTY
Packing, Valves, All Special Tanned
Bellows Leather
T. L. LUTKINS, Inc.
40 Spruce Street
NEW YORK
TRUCKS
That Are Labor Savers
Your equipment is not complete without our TRUCKS for handling
Pianos and Talking Machines.
Sill Trucks and End Trucks
for Pianos
With the LEA TALKING MACHINE TRUCK, one man can
handle the Edison Chippendale, Victor No. 17, Cheney No. 6 Queen
Anne, and other large makes, from show-room to any apartment
floor.
Atk for Circular
Factory and Office
DOLGEVILLE, N.Y
JULIUS BREGKWOLDT & SON, ING.
Manufacturers of
Saw Mills
Fulton Chain
and
Tupper Lake
Piano B a c k s , Boards, Bridges, Bars,
Traplevers and Mouldings
SOLE AGENTS FOR RUDOLF GIESE WIRE
CENTRAL STEEL & WIRE CO.,
J. BRECKWOLDT. Pres.
SELF-LIFTING PIANO TRUCK CO.
FINDLAY, OHIO
THE
O S. KELLY
Manufacturer*
WESTERN REPRESENTATIVE:
119-127 N. Peoria Street,
MADE ONLY BY
Chicago, III.
W. A. BRECKWOLDT, Sec. & Treas.
of
CO
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PIANO PLATES
SPRINGFIELD
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OHIO.
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22
PRESTO
January 5, 1924.
NEW QENNETT RECORDS
Where Supply
aliuaijs meets
the Demand j
[Hardware, Felts, Cloths, Hammers, etc.
for Pianos, Organs, Players, Talking
Machines, Special Stampings, Turn-
ings, etc., when you order from us.
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The American Piano Supply Co., Inc.
No. 112 East 13th Street
NEW YORK CITY
SCHAFF
Piano String Co.
Manufacturers of
Piano Bass Strings
2009-2021 CLYBOURN AVENUE
Corner Lewis Street
CHICAGO
PERFECT PUNCHINGS
This Week Starr Piano Co. Announces Several Addi-
tions to Winning Numbers.
The Starr Piano Co., Richmond, Ind., this week an-
nounces the following list of new Gennett records:
Character Vocal—Me No Speak-a Good English
(Pease, Nelson and Schenck) and Mickey Donohue
(Hughes and McConnell), Jack Kaufman. Foreign
(Italian)—Irene (Mazurka) (Palumbo) and Sulle
Rive Dell' Isonzo (A. De Bernardis), De Bernardis
and Napolitano De Luxe Dance Orchestra. This is
the first record by De Bernardis and Napolitano De
Luxe Dance Orchestra. These melodies are brisk
and lively and you'll note this organization has a
style all its own.
Popular Dance—The Waltz of Long Ago (waltz)
(Irving Berlin), The Lucky Strike Orchestra
and Little Butterfly (fox trot) (Irving Ber-
lin), Nathan Glantz and His Orchestra. From
the "Music Box Revue" 1923-1924 are taken these
selections, one a waltz and the other a fox-trot, mak-
ing an appropriate combination for you to have from
the latest "Revue." The waltz is played with most
striking effects, while "Little Butterfly" is a dance
number you'll never tire of. Arcady (fox-trot) (Al
Jolson) and You're in Kentucky (Sure as You're
Born) (fox-trot) (Little.Shay and Gillespie), Bailey's
Lucky Seven. Irish Fiddler—Medley of Irish Reels
(Bonnie Kate, Miss Lyons Fancy, Haymaker) and
Medley of Irish Jigs (Apples in Winter, Friar's
Breeches), James Morrison, Irish Fiddler.
INSTRUMENTS TAKEN IN TRADE
Dealers with Accumulation of Used Pianos Prepare
Them for Resale.
The busy season of piano and playerpiano sales that
accompanies the approach of Christmas has naturally
brought a large number of used instruments to the
dealers' storerooms. The accumulation of the used
piano is inevitable in running a piano store or a
phonograph store, and the dealer naturally turns to
an available means to again put the taken-in-trade
instruments in use and with profit to himself.
Of course the answer to that is "start a repair shop"
and that is what a great many dealers have long ago
done. But all deaiers are not in a position to supply
such an important annex to their businesses. A re-
pair shop for pianos and phonographs requires space
and expensive equipment. Where the dealer's trade
is big and the number of used pianos and phono-
graphs accumulated is considerable, it is wisdom to
establish a repair shop. But for the average dealer
whose time is more profitably taken up with selling
new instruments, the wise course is to seek an estab-
lished repair shop to serve him.
This the dealers in a wide radius around Chicago
find in the Piano Repair Shop, 445 South Wabash
avenue, where pianos and phonographs are rebuilt by
expert workmen. In the scheme of service for the
dealers player actions are installed, instruments re-
finished or remodeled and actions and keys repaired.
The work is guaranteed and the prices are
reasonable.
PORTUGUESE WANT FONOGRAPHS
AT
CEGOEPEUCO
T
137 E A S T I3 -H ST.
NE.WYORK
U. S. Vice-Consul in Lisbon Suggests Way for Amer-
ican Manufacturers to Share in Trade.
A good market exists in Portugal for phonographs
and records, says a report from Vice Consul H. T.
Mooers at Lisbon. At the present time Portugal
imports all of these supplies. The United States has
led in this trade and at the present time two of its
leading manufacturers of phonographs have exclusive
agents in Lisbon, but Germany has recently come
to the fore and now occupies first place. The reason
for this is due not only to the matter of price, but
also to the German method in Lisbon of advertising
and selling its phonographic goods. German repre-
sentatives who are well acquainted with the Portu-
guese language and customs visit all of the leading
and even the smaller music stores at regular inter-
vals. Credit is granted, but rarely ever exclusive
representation to any one concerned, no matter how
well equipped he may appear to be to take charge
of a line. Instead, all of the stores are sold by the
representative of the manufacturer, in this case a
salesman, and by this means the goods become more
quickly known and can be better obtained.
So far as phonograph records are concerned, there
is a large demand for dance records, with operatic
records second. Italian is the most popular lan-
guage with French and Spanish next in order. Rec-
ords in German or English do not sell well.
There is no question but that American phono-
graphs and records, at least among the better class
of people, enjoy an excellent reputation and would
be bought in larger quantities if there were more
places in which they could be purchased.
To increase sales in the market, extensive advertis-
ing should be clone and care should be taken to see
that the American product is widely scattered not
only through music stores but through the depart-
ment stores as well. A particularly good market ex-
ists for dance music and rag-time and as such it
should be cultivated.
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
When a Piano Action bears the name of
Strauch Bros, it is an additional guarantee
of the quality of the instrument containing it.
STRAUCH BROS.,Inc.
Piano Action*, Hammer* and Repair*
327 to 347 Walnut Ave., at 141st Street
NEW YORK
Paragon Foundries
Company
Manufacturers of
Paragon Piano Plates
Oregon, Illinois
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Comstock, Cheney & Co.
WESSELL, NICKEL & GROSS
Ivory Cutters and Manufacturers
Manufacturers of
Piano Keys, Actions and Hammers
PIANO ACTIONS
IVORY AND COMPOSITION-COVERED ORGAN KEYS
The only Company Furnishing tho Keys, Actions, Hammers and Brackets Complete
Telegraph and R. R. Station: Essex, Conn.
Office and Factories: Ivoryton, Conn.
HIGHEST GRADE
ONE GRADE ONLY
The Wcssell, Nickel & Gross action is a
guarantee of the grade of the instrument
in which it is found.
FACTORIES:
1\JI7W Y O R K "
45th St., Mil Aw. &W4fith. i * I - i W
* V-HVIV
OFFICE:
457 w. 45th StKri
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