Presto

Issue: 1924 1970

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Carries More Piano Advs. Than Any Other Trade Paper—Read Presto Ads
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NUMBER 1970.p o s t Office, Chicago, under Act of Mar. 3, 1879.
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Published weekly by Presto Publishing
Co., 417 S. Dearborn St., Chicago, 111.
STEINWAY
The Instrument of the Immortals
The greatest pianoforte successes of the world have been
achieved on the STEINWAY.
The STEINWAY is the Piano for those who want only
the BEST.
The STEINWAY is the standard by which all other
Pianos are judged.
The most artistic homes are graced by the STEINWAY.
STEINWA Y & SONS
NEW YORK
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YEAR
P R E S T O
April 26, 1924.
2,283,053
Saturday Evening Posts
For April 19, 1924
and
1,600,000
Designers and Delineators
For June, 1924
Son—^4 5 We// .As Father—Can Play
This Delightful Instrument So Easily! The
Story & Clark
Repro-Phraso
must hear it, and see how eas-
ily it plays—just as though it
were alive — to appreciate it
truly. You will marvel at the
beautiful expression you can
obtain. And you will marvel
when you hear the melody sing
out with bell-like beauty agairst
the whispering background of
No need for Dad to drum out accompaniment.
chords or pick out an idle tune.
Visit your nearest Story &z
No need for Sonny to hate
practice time. They'll have Clark dealer. He will be glad
great fun in playing their fav- to show you the Repro-Phraso,
and from him you can purchase
orite tunes!
one on terms within your in-
There is no other instrument come. Your present piano will
like the Repro-Phraso. You be accepted in part payment.
personal reproducing piano re-
quires no special music
rolls. You can insert any
88-note music roll in this
beautiful piano, and by a
simple, new and exclusively
patented means play the music
you like best.
Price—$650.00 and upward.
Freight added.
Instruments of finest quality since 1857
The Story & Claris Piano Company
General Offices, 3/5-3/7 South Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Illinois
If you are a prospective purchaser of a piano or a player-piano, we will gladly send you
a beautiful brochure—FREE. Story 6> Clark Piano Company, Dept. D. D.J., 315-317
South Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Illinois: Please send me the brochure showing the various
styles of your instruments, and the name of your nearest dealer, because I am interested
in buying a grand • an upright • a player-piano • the Repro-Phraso •
Name
State
will tell the story of the new
S toiy& Clark wonder instru-
ment—the Repro-Phraso. The
beautiful advertisement repro-
duced here contains the second
in a series of unusual LaDriere
drawings, drawings that have
aroused unusual interest among
readers everywhere.
The series will be reproduced
not only in the Saturday Eve-
ning Post and Designer and
Delineator, but in the Farmer's
Wife, Red Book, Cosmopolitan,
Successful Farming, and other
representative national pub-
lications.
Dealers who have found the
Repro-Phraso a big drawing-
card in their 1924 selling cam-
paign will find Story & Clark
national advertising an ever-
present help.
You can't af-
ford not to carry this nationally
advertised line of quality in-
struments!
THE STORY & CLARK
PIANO COMPANY
- i-
315-317 South Wabash Avenue
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
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