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Presto

Issue: 1924 1967

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PRESTO
April 5, 1924.
John McCormack
f a m o u s tenor, says,
"The Mieaaner Piano certainly fills a 'ong-felt want, the
wmnt of a imall piano with a splendid action and lovely tone"
Writ* Today for Mietmner catalogt**, price* an I full
information
^MIESSNER
The IJttl. Piano with tha Bis Tons
MIESSNER PIANO CO.
General Offices & Factory, 126 Reed St.
MILWAUKEE, WIS.
STR1CH & ZEIDLER, Inc.
GRAND, UPRIGHT and PLAYER
AND
HOMER PIANOS
740-742 East 136th Street
NEW YORK
WHAT ABOUT YOUR
BUSINESS LETTER HEADS
Usually They May Be Made to Carry Your
Message with More Force and Efficiency
Than an Ordinary Circular.
What purpose does your letterhead serve? asks
Chas. E. Lyon in "Commercial Reports." Is it meant
to impress your correspondent with your own im-
portance or is it a business getter? Does it show
your plant in full blasts framed in by a long list of
directors and department heads, a list of trade asso-
ciation memberships, your trade slogan and that of
the community, and finally a fine-print statement that
your terms are cash and that no responsibility can be
accepted for certain contingencies? If so, you have
merely blown a horn, not solicited profitable
business.
But if, on the other hand, your letterhead gives
your firm name, its leading lines, with a neat marginal
reproduction of your firm's "chop" or trade-mark, as
stenciled on crates, as well as your leading brands
and patents, and if you quote telephone, telegraph and
cable addresses, and also cable code, then your cor-
respondent is supplied with data that will be useful
for his files and may be expected to lead to further
business.
One or two further points should be noted in the
interests of better letterheads. They may often take
the place of circulars and represent a saving of money
and of good will, as circulars are subject to import
duty in some countries, while letters never are so
taxed. The foreign firm is not happy at the thought
of paying such a duty. Again, letters are seen by
members of* the firm, whereas a circular is lucky to
get past the office boy. Letters should identify both
the firm gnd the product. The utmost care, there-
fore, should be taken to make the letterhead most
effective, as the simplest means of identification.
THE TEN POINTS IN
PIANO SALESMANSHIP
GRAND PIANO
SI InchM Long
he b u t exponent of the preeent Baby Grand Age.
a t o n e — i n lines — its restricted space requirement end
S attractive
price—
trepr
MAKE IT THE PREMIER AGENCY
Get full details of this valuable telling franchise NOW.
Premier Grand Piano Corporation
Largest Institution in the World Building Grand
Pianos Exdasively
WALTKK C. HEPPERLl
Freriieat
JUSTUS HATTBMBR
Viee-Freitleat
510-532 West /3rd Street
NEW YORK
What to Do and How as Told By a Member of the
Staff.
If anyone is qualified to tell just how salesmanship
is developed and made resourceful, the practical piano
salesman should be able to do it. Following are some
rules, as laid down by W. H. Eucker, in the "Story
Book," of the Story & Clark Piano Co. Other piano
salesmen may profit by them:
1. Hold a sales pep meeting every morning.
2. Show enthusiasm, energy in every approach.
Be enthusiastic. No other house is offering such
wonderful bargains.
3. Smile—even if you feel death at dawn is none
too bad for your customer.
4. Remember at all times you are representing an
institution. Let your conversation be of business.
5. Canvass your friends, and the "butcher, the
baker, the candlestick maker" daily for new prospects.
6. Important—make call-backs in case the husband
is not at home during the day.
7. Follow through. Get what you go after. If
you came to make an appointment with a prospective
customer—stick!
8. Be on time and prompt in your appointments.
Give your customers your best attention when in the
store.
9. Be sure the piano under discussion is in stock.
Show the customer the piano you interested him in.
10. Remember—your house is the best house in
the world. Every customer receives a square deal
always, and no other house will do as much for a
customer as yours.
CELEBRATES THIRD ANNIVERSARY.
A recent issue of the News, Wheeling, W. Va., had
a full-page advertisement to mark the third anniver-
sary of the founding of the Burkham & Stamm Piano
Co., in that city. This thriving piano company was
founded by four Wheeling men, E. C. Burkham, H. G.
Cochran, P. A. Anthony and E. F. Stamm. All are
experienced and practical piano men, having been for
a large number of years engaged in buying, selling,
tuning, or repairing musical merchandise. Some of
them have also had factory experience. The full-page
advertisement in the Wheeling News shows how this
live organization has grown from the four organizers
to a personnel of twenty-two people. The company
started with a capitalization of $100,000, but has today
doubled this amount, its present capitalization being
$200,000.
CHANGE IN OTTAWA.
The Hentrich Music Co., Ottawa, Til., has pur-
chased the Victrola department of the Bannon Music
Shop, of the same city, and the equipment of the
shop has been moved from the Bannon shop in the
Moloney Building, where it has been located, to the
Hentrich store on La Salic street. With the sale of
his Victrola department Mr. Bannon has closed out
his Ottawa shop and will devote his time to his Morris
music store.
Western Music Shop, 2451 W. 47th street, is one
of the active music stores in Chicago. Roman F.
Michalak is the proprietor, and the store carries the
line of Kimball pianos and phonographs.
BRINKERHOFF
Player-Pianos
and Pianos
The Line That Sells Easily
and Satisfies Always
BRINKERHOFF PIANO CO.
OFFICES, REPUBLIC BLDG.
209 State Street
CHICAGO
The Good Old
SMITH & NIXON
Pianos and Player Pianos
Better than ever, with the same
"Grand Tone In Upright Case."
Grands and Players that every deal-
er likes to sell, for Satisfaction and
Profit.
Smith & Nixon Piano Co.
1229 Miller St., Chicago
WEBSTER PIANOS
Noted for Their Musical Beauty
of Tone and Artistic Style
ATTRACTIVE
Factory
Leominster,
Mast.
PRICES
Executive Offices
138th St. and Walton Ave.
New York
Manufacturers of
HIGH GRADE PIANOS
and PLAYER PIANOS
Factory and Warerooms
Division W. P. HAINES * CO., Inc.
767-769 Tenth Avenue, New York
HIGH GRADE
WILLIAMS
Folding Organs
School Organs
Practice Keyboards
When in doubt refer to
PRESTO BUYERS GUIDE
Becker Bros.
DnUrt* Attention Solicited
A. L. WHITE MFG. CO.
215 Enciewood Ave., CHICAGO, ILL.
PIANOS
The policy of the Williams House is and always
has been to depend upon excellence of product
instead of alluring price. Such a policy does not
attract bargain hunters. It does, however, win the
hearty approval and support of a very desirable
•ad substantial palronage.
WIIIIAUK Maker* of WillUma Pianos.
WILLIAMS Epworth Pi.no. and Organs
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PRESTO
20
April 5, 1924.
SMALL GOODS, SUPPLIES AND RADIO
THE CONN-BOSTON STORE
This Week Headquarters for the New England Ter-
ritory Will Be Opened at 488 Boylston Street.
Beginning this week the New England business in
the instruments of C. G. Conn, Ltd., Elkhart, Ind.,
will be transacted from the Conn-Boston Store, 488
Boylston street, Boston. The C. C. Ward store at 249
Columbus avenue will be continued to handle the
goods at retail. At the completion of the clearing out
sale at the latter number last week, Mr. Ward said
goodby to the business he has loved and ably served.
On retiring from active business he will live at his
beautiful home in Newton, Mass.
The main store of the Conn-Boston Store will be
at 488 Boyston street, where the wholesale and retail
phases of the business have adequate space to grow.
The old Ward store at 249 Columbus avenue will be
continued until the big Conn clientele get familiar
with the new location of the Boston business of the
C. G. Conn Co. The retention of the old store is
considered necessary for a time as it has been asso-
ciated with the sale of Conn instruments for the past
thirty-eight years.
LATEST QENNETT RECORDS
New Popular Songs and Dances and Foreign Num-
bers Comprised in Salable Records.
New dance melodies, songs and foreign numbers
are included in the list of Gennett records released
this week by the Starr Piano Company, Richmond,
Ind.
In the new dance melodies are: Ringelberg Blues,
fox-trot (Gerbrecht-Bandue-Hartmann), and Ain't
That Hateful, fox-trot (Creger-Gerbrecht-Bauduc),
Naylor's Seven Aces (5393). Baptistown Crawl, fox-
trot (May-M. Neal-Hitch), and Ethiopian Nightmare,
fox-trot (Bump-D. Neal), The Happy Harmonists
(5402).
Latest Popular Songs—Say It Again (Conrad and
Friedlander) and It's a Man Ev'ry Time It's a Man
(Dubin, McHugh and Dash), sung by Lewis James
(5400). Maybe (She'll Write Me) (Turk-Snyder-
Ahlert), and You're in Kentucky (Little-Gillespie-
Shay), sung by Jack Kaufman (5398).
Foreign Numbers of Charm—Spanish—Martinez
(Tango) (D. Fortunato) and La Cruz De Guerra,
one-step, La Orquesta de Nava (no. S-5368).
Italian—Turbine D'Amore (Valzer) (Filosa) and
Vita Artistica (Mazurka Sentimentale) (Rapisarda),
G. Iasilli and His Orchestra (I-53?8).
Welsh—Y Bwthyn Bach To Gwelll (Welsh Song)
and Can Y Llanc Chwerthinllyd (Welsh Song), David
Brazell (5381).
OPENS IN WATERVILLE, ME.
Charles Odell and Francis B. Odell, Waterville,
Me., are owners of the Brunswick Shop, Inc., opened
last week in a desirable location in the business center.
The left side of the store is to be utilized for the
selling of Brunswick phonographs and records. Three
sound-proof booths are being constructed with double
windows and at the end of the room are other booths
which will be used for stock rooms. A beautiful
lighting scheme with an arch at the lower end of the
room will add much to the appearance of the place.
RECORDS IN CORNER STORE.
Five phonograph records containing jazz music
and the offerings of famous artists, a package of
needles for the same, a strip of movie film, and Chi-
cago newspapers bearing the March 25 date line—
all representative of civilization as it obtains in 1924
—were sealed away in the corner stone of the thirty-
two story Straus building at Michigan avenue and
Jackson boulevard, Chicago, this week.
Manufacturers of
PIANO ACTIONS
ONE GRADE ONLY
The Wessell, Nickel & Gross action is a
guarantee of the grade of the instrument
in which it is found.
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Another Winning List Includes Latest Fox-Trots,
Waltzes, One-Steps and Blues.
The artists who recorded the Columbia music rolls
for April are old favorites with Columbian roll buy-
ers and the success of the roll products of the Colum-
bia Music Roll Co., 721 N. Kedzie avenue, Chicago,
is considerably aided by the pepful manner in which
its rolls are recorded. Here is the list of April win-
ners with the name of the recording artist stated:
Tell Me You'll Forgive Me, waltz, Harry Geise;
Boy Scouts Parade, march—one-step; Nine O'Clock
Sal, one-step, Harry Geise; Lost My Baby Blues, blue
fox-trot, Harry Geise; —Maybe She'll Write Me—
She'll Phone Me, fox-trot, Billy Fitch; You Can Take
Me Away From Dixie, fox-trot, Harry Geise; Sad
Hawaiian Sea, marimba waltz, Clarence Johnson; My
Dream Moon, fox-trot, Harry Geise; California, Here
I Come, fox-trot, Clarence Johnson; Kentucky Sure
as You're Born, fox-trot, Billy Fitch; Hoo Doo Blues,
blue, Harry Geise; Twelve O'Clock at Night, fox-
trot, Clarence Johnson; Hawaiian Memories, marimba
waltz, Billy Fitch; Until Tomorrow, waltz, Clarence
Johnson; Nobody's Sweetheart, one-step, Harry
Geise; Immigration Rose, fox-trot, Everett Robbins;
Land of My Sunset Dreams, waltz, Harry Geise;
Steppin' Out, fox-trot, Clarence Johnson; Egyptian
Rose, fox-trot, Everett Robbins; Twilight Rose, fox-
trot, Harry Geise; Eileen, fox-trot, Clarence John-
son; I'm Goin' South, fox trot, Harry Geise; Blue
Island Blues, blue, Clarence Johnson; When Mother
Sings Sweet and Low, fox-trot, James Blythe.
HARP FROM BABYLON WATERS.
FILM SHOWS ROLLS IN MAKING.
The Louvre, in Paris, France, has received from
A motion picture company which specializes in
Syria a harp the strings of which have been mute for films made in industrial plants recently took a movie
3,700 years. It was unearthed on the banks of the snap in the San Francisco factory of the Q R S
Euphrates by the archaeologist, Franz Oumont.
Music Co. It is one of an educational series and
shows every step in the making of music rolls from
The McDowell & Castator Music Co. has recently the recording of the master roll by the pianist to the
opened a store at 106 East Adams street, Arkansas mechanical work in the plants of the company in
Chicago and San Francisco.
City, Kan.
WESSELL, NICKEL & GROSS
HIGHEST GRADE
COLUMBIA ROLLS FOR APRIL
OFFICE
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