Presto

Issue: 1924 1982

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NUMBER 1982. p o s t Office, Chicago, under Act of Mar. 3, 1879.
CHICAGO, JULY 19, 1924
Published weekly by Presto Publishing
Co., 417 S. Dearborn St., Chicaeo, IlL
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STEINWAY
THE INSTRUMENT OF THE IMMORTALS
Beneath his hands 'the most renowned
pianos of the world' have voiced their
greatest glory. His genius has tested every
great piano-maker's work. Yet, for Alfred
Cortot, there is but 'one perfect instrument,
the Steinway.' You who are about to
select a piano, do you not find conviction
in the experience of this master? What
need that you experiment? What guide
more sure than this: that since Henry
Steinway made his first piano the greatest
artists have preferred above all others the
instrument that bears his name ? Franz
Liszt! Wagner! Rubinstein! The Stein-
way was their piano. It is played and
oved by Paderewski, by Hofmann, by
Rachmaninoff.
Friedman and Levit:ki
will have no other. Successively each
generation of the Steinway family has pre-
served the purpose that its product shall
be as truiv the piano of the home as it is
the chosen instrument of the concert stage.
The qualities that have endeared it to the
masters are embodied in every Steinway
that is made. For your home there is a
Steinway, either grand or upright, which
in tone and touch and action matches that
which Cortot plays. Once you have set
fingers to such an instrument, once you
have known the beauty of its response, for
you, thereafter, there can be ' but one per-
fect piano, the Steinway.'
There is a Steinway dealer in your community or near you through whom you may
purchase a new Steinway piano with a cash deposit of iy'7f, nnd the balance will
be extended over a period of two years. Used pianos accepted in partial exchange.
Prices: Uprights, $875 and up; Grands, $1425 and up; plus freight
STEINWAY & SONS, STEINWAY HALL
107-109 East Fourteenth Street
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NEW YORK
REPRESENTED BY THE FOREMOST DEALERS EVERYWHERE
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PRESTO
J u l y 19, 192-1
KURTZMANN
THE PIANO THAT ENDURES
KURTZMANiN
GRANDS
in authentic period designs,
possess an artistic value that
is in keeping with their mu-
sical excellence.
Why Kurtzmann Dealers
SELL Kurtzmann Pianos
TALK to any one of the hundreds of dealers who sell Kurtzmann Pianos and you will hear
an unusual story.
They will tell you, once they have Kurtzmann Instruments on the floor, the Kurtz-
mann becomes their leading piano.
This is not a new discovery, of course, for the Kurtzmann has been a favorite piano
ever since the first one was made seventy-five years ago.
Kurtzmann dealers may or may not put in Kurtzmann Pianos as their leading instru-
ments, but the constant quality and sensible price of the Kurtzmann cause it to take that
position soon after a dealer's salesmen and customers gain an intimate knowledge of its
musical merit and inbuilt stamina.
The piano dealer who seeks to erect an enduring business structure in his community
can not choose a more trustworthy corner-stone than the Kurtzmann. It is as much of a
friendmaker as it is a moneymaker—a piano that has as warm an appeal for the unin-
structed as it has for the music master.
The details of the Kurtzmann Introductory Proposition should be on your desk. May
we send them now?
C. KURTZMANN & COMPANY
BUFFALO, N. Y.
KURTZMANN
PLAYERS
are a credit to the piano in-
dustry, because they combine
a perfected mechanical mech-
anism with a piano ri *fue
merit.
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