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PRESTO
January 5, 1924.
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for Pianos, Organs, Players, Talking
Machines, Special Stampings, Turn-
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No. 112 East 13th Street
NEW YORK CITY
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Piano String Co.
Manufacturers of
Piano Bass Strings
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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
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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.
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