February 7, 1925.
MUSIC DEALERS VISIT
WHOLESALE DEPARTMENT
Representatives of Stores in Many Places Place
Orders with Lyon & Healy, Chicago.
The following dealers were recent visitors to the
Lyon & Healy wholesale department in Chicago:
Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Klug, Luebtow's Music Store,
Milwaukee, Wis.; Mr. Middleton of Middleton Music
Company, Eagle Grove, Iowa; George V. Terry,
Union Music Company, Toledo, Ohio; W. A. Spring,
Spring Bros., Eaton, Ohio; J. A. Burke, Winona,
Minn.; E. H. Von Qualer, Pontiac Music Company,
and West Side Furniture Company, Dwight, 111.;
Mr. Ebersole, Middleport, Ohio; Mr. Hart of May,
Stern & Company, Pittsburgh, Pa., and a representa-
tive of the Smith Furniture Company, Menominee
Falls, Wisconsin.
NEWS ABOUT THE MEN
WHO RETAIL THE PIANOS
Brief Items of Trade News Gathered Here and
There in Music Field.
The Baldwin Piano Company has moved their store
from Hartford City, Ind,, to Muncie, Ind.
The Griffith Piano Co., Newark, N. J., has opened
a branch store at 2850 Hudson County boulevard.
The S. Hamilton Co., Pittsburgh, Pa., was recently
elected to membership in the Chamber of Commerce
of Cambridge.
J. B. Denraan has purchased the controlling inter-
est in Denraan Bros. Piano Co., Anniston, Ala.
Sherman, Clay & Co. recently opened a branch
store at Telegraph avenue and Channing Way,
Berkeley, Cal.
B. A. Rose, 41 South Sixth street, Minneapolis,
Minn., has purchased the stock of music goods owned
by the Bungalow Music Shop, which recently re-
tired from business.
The Cable Piano Co., 209 Superior street, Toledo,
has given out a contract for remodeling its ware-
rooms.
The De Moll Piano Co., Washington, D. C, is
carrying and remodeling plans for its building at
QUALITY
in Name and in Fact
TONE, MATERIALS, CONSTRUCTION,
WORKMANSHIP, DESIGN—all in ac-
cord with the broadest experience—are
the elements which give character to
Bush & Lane Products.
BUSH&LANE PIANOS
BUSH & LANE CECILIAN PLAYER PIANOS
take high place, therefore, in any com-
parison of high grade pianos because of
the individuality of character which dis-
tinguishes them in all essentials of merit
and value.
BUSH & LANE PIANO GO.
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PRESTO
Holland, Midi.
Twelfth and G streets, made necessary when fine
furniture was added to the music goods lines.
The Campus Harmony Shop was opened recently
at 619 State street, Madison, Wis., recently by Oscar
Hael and Roy McNeany.
NEW INCORPORATIONS
IN MUSIC QOODS TRADE
New and Old Concerns Secure Charters in Various
Places.
Hall Music Company, Abilene, Tex.; capital stock
$50,000. Mrs. Ozia Hall, Emmett Hall, Elmon Hall.
The Bonnel Schairer Piano Co., Cambridge, O.;
$25,000; to wholesale and retail musical instruments.
E. M. Bonnell, James Lemley, Charles A. Schairer,
Carl B. Barr and Wilma Townsend.
Continental Music Co., 339 South Wabash avenue,
Chicago. Capital, $100,000. Deal in musical radio
and phonograph instruments and other merchandise.
Incorporators: Paul M. Gazley, John L. Luellen,
C. D. Greenleaf. Correspondent: Loesch, Scofield,
Loesch and Richards, 1540, 10 South LaSalle street,
Chicago.
Strauch Piano Co., Bronx, New York; $15,000; A.
T. and M. and A. T. Strauch, Jr. Attorney, M.
Singer, New York.
A HOBART M. CABLE TRAVELER.
P. L. Hanson, southern traveler for the Hobart
M. Cable Company, of La Porte, Ind., was in Chi-
cago on special business before returning to his
territory. Mr. Hanson was for several years a dealer
in the West and he made a success of it to such an
extent that he burned to help other dealers win also.
To that end he is selling them the Hobart M. Cable
line—and that always wins.
COLLINS NOT WITH PRESTO.
For good and sufficient reasons, L. J. Collins, who,
until recently, had been soliciting advertising for
Presto, is no longer authorized to represent this paper
in any capacity. Anyone interested who may have
done business with Mr. Collins is requested to send
iu\y complaints direct to this office and not to in-
dividuals.
A DIRECTORS' MEETING.
A directors' meeting of the Price & Teeple Piano
Co. is called to be held at the offices of the company
in Chicago the latter part of this week.
FEATURING CECILIAN
IN SEATTLE NEWSPAPER
Big Sales of Fine Playerpianos Achieved by Strong
Publicity for Two Stores.
Cecilian Playerpianos are admirably advertised in
Seattle, Wash., by the Bush & Lane Piano Co. of
that city. "Everything pertaining to music," is the
phrase used in the publicity of the two stores of the
company. The downtown store at 1179-23 Third
avenue and the University store at East 45th and
Brooklyn.
"The finest playerpiano that musical art can de-
vise or that money can buy" is the attractive caption
to a cut of the instrument in the local newspapers.
This is added:
"If it were possible to make a stronger statement
about the Bush & Lane 'Cecilian' playerpiano, we
would make it—because it is impossible to exaggerate
the mechanical and musical perfection of this mar-
velous instrument.
"The exclusive all-metal action of the 'Cecilian' puts
it easily first from a constructional point of view and
adds many years to its life and usefulness.
"The tone elegance and the perfect interpretative
playing afforded by the 'Cecilian' playerpiano is the
delight of pianists and musical authorities in thou-
sands of American homes. We invite you to come
in and hear this masterpiece and to see the beautiful
designs of the several models of the instrument."
POLK SCHOOL INCORPORATES.
The Polk College of Piano Tuning, capitalized at
$20,000, has been granted articles of incorporation.
As has been told in Presto the tuning school will soon
remove from Valparaiso, Indiana, to LaPorte, in the
same state. A large building for Folk's College of
Piano Tuning is in course of construction. President
Powell will continue in control and the future of the
famous institution looks brighter than ever before
since it was founded forty years ago.
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MAKERS OF
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SUPERIOR QUALITY
Entail #ranb
BRINKERHOFF
WASHINGTON, NEW JERSEY
Grands - Reproducing Grands
Player-Pianos
and Pianos
WILLIAMS
PIANOS
The Line That Sells Easily
and Satisfies Always
BRINKERHOFF PIANO CO.
OFFICES, REPUBLIC BLDG.
209 State Street
CHICAGO
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
and substantial patronage.
JK
WIIMAMS Maker, of Williams Pianos.
WILLIWTI3 Epworth Pianos atkd Organ,
KURTZMANN
The True Test
Grands—Players
Compare the new Jesse French & Sons Piano
with any other strictly high grade piano in tone,
touch and general construction, and you will be
convinced at once that t h e y offer the most
exceptional v a l u e s to be found anywhere.
Manufactured by
C. KURTZMANN & CO.
Jesse French & Son* Style BB
Factories and General Offices
526-536 Niagara Street
BUFFALO, N. Y.
Write today fci catalog and prices
"They are the one best buy on the market"
JESSE FRENCH & SONS PIANO CO.
NEW CASTIE,
INDIANA
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