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Presto

Issue: 1925 2022

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April 25, 1925.
P R E S T O
MUSIC TRADE FACTS
FROM PORTLAND, ORE.
Incidents in Recent Trade Activities in Busy
Northwest City Show Lively Ambitions
to Effect Big Piano Sales.
The Wiley B. Allen Co. of Portland, Ore., featured
a handsome window display recently presenting to the
public the fact of their acquirement recently of the
Ampico in the Mason & Hamlin and Haines Bros.
The central feature of the window was a Mason &
Hamlin Ampico which was continually playing the
Rachmaninoff Prelude in C sharp minor. This was
kept going all day and evening during the featuring
and the public was invited to go inside and enjoy
the recordings of Rachmaninoff and the other famous
artist in their handsome Ampico studio which was
recently installed.
The "Upstairs Piano Store" in the Ungar building,
Portland, Ore., of which J. J. Collins and W. A.
Erwin, both experienced piano men of many
years in the trade, are proprietors, is making good.
According to Mr. Erwin the firm is not trying to do
all the business but is demanding good cash pay-
ments and short time installments. During Febru-
ary the first payments amounted to over 40 per cent
and while the record for March was not as good yet
it was satisfactory. The firm handles the Henry F.
Miller, Pease, Bradbury, Webster, National and the
Hazelton Bros, pianos, being the exclusive agents of
the Hazelton Bros. A Hazelton Bros, reproduction
Welte Mignon was recently placed in the handsome
home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Goodwin and a
Henry F. Miller grand in the studio of Mabel Whit-
comb, a prominent Portland teacher who instructs a
large class of pupils.
Among the prominent visitors of the music trade in
Portland, Ore., recently was Charles A. Ericsson,
E. Leins Piano Co.
Makers of Pianos and
Player Pianos That Are
Established L e a d e r s .
Correspondence from Reliable
Dealers Invited
Factory and Offices, 304 W. 42nd Si
NEW YORK
president of the Ludwig Piano Co. of New York, who
stopped off in the Rose City and spent several days
there in conference with B. R. Brassfield, manager of
the Wiley B. Allen branch in that city. Mr. Eric-
sson was en route home after making a tour of the
entire country, visiting the Ludwig agencies.
In order to speed up the services of his employes,
E. B. Hyatt, of the Hyatt Music Co. of Portland,
Ore., has nut up a handsome silver trophy cup to be
contested for by his employes during the three
spring months. All errors are to be noted and the
employe having the fewest black marks is to be
awarded the prize. Among the things to be marked
are getting to work late, forgetting to ring up the
(.ash register, errors in computing, etc. The contest
will end July 1.
Traffic came to a standstill one day last week when
Ted Emerson, the market editor of the Portland,
Ore., Telegram, appeared in the downtown district
of that city at the noon lunch hour carrying a suitcase
which emitted music. He visited the prominent res-
taurants of that city and it developed that his suit-
case was a Zenith portable radio, a six tube set, bat-
teries, loup and loud speaker all built inside the case,
which weighs about twenty pounds.
Fine Electric Self-Players of eye-
catching design and perfect perform-
ance. Also
COIN OPERATED
S. PHILPITT & SON
OPEN NEW BUILDING
KREITER
Stil Harcourt, traveler for the Story and Clark Piano
Co.. and with the title of R. P. M. L. F. O. which
means "Repro-Phraso Man Looking for Orders," re-
cently departed from the Chicago headquarters, for
an extended trip through the south with Florida as
his destination. There he will remain the greater
part of the summer visiting dealers and exploiting
the Repro-Phraso instrument.
The Good Old
SMITH & NIXON
for places of entertainment, Theatres,
Movies, Ice Cream Parlors, Etc., Etc.
The best line including the famous
Pianos and Player Pianos
"PIAN-O-GRAND"
"BANJ-O-GRAND"
and "HARP-O-GRAND"
Better than ever, with the same
"Grand Tone In Upright Case."
Wide-awake Piano D e a l e r s find
them easy sellers in every community.
Send for illustrated
descriptive circulars.
Big Association of the Six States in Widely
Distributed Circular Urge Music Dealers
and Others to Attend.
The Xcw England Music Trade Association is act-
ing in an effective way to stimulate interest among
the New England trade in the annual conventions of
the music trade and industry to be held at the Drake
Hotel, Chicago, in the week beginning June Sunday.
June 7. Not only is the membership of the New
England Music Trade Association being urged to
attend the big gathering in Chicago but the music
merchants, music publishers and music instrument
manufacturers generally are being circularized to the
same effect.
In a letter signed by William Merrill, secretary,
sent out from the headquarters of the association
it is stated that "not only piano manufacturers but
pipe organ builders, band and string instrument
manufacturers, music publishers, music dealers, phono-
graph dealers, jobbers, and in fact the entire music
trade of New England is talking and planning to be
present."
The letter states that the New England Music
Trades Association is being flooded with inquiries
about the trip to Chicago, and Mr. Merrill advises
the inquiring music trade folk that the very best train
Formal Occupation of Its Own Structure Made service
procurable will be provided. ''The very latest
Special Event Which Drew Congratulatory
Pullman compartment cars will be given the New
England music trade men and their families and serv-
Messages from Friends in Trade.
ice and low cost will be the slogan of the committee,"
On April 17, S. Ernest Philpitt & Son, ex- is the assurance of Mr. Merrill.
clusive Florida distributors of Steinway pianos,
Miami, Fla., formally opened the new Philpitt build-
FORBISH WITH BRINKERHOFF.
ing located on Lincoln Road .and Jefferson avenue,
The Brinkerhoff Piano Co., 209 South State street,
Miami Beach. While this building is only one story, Chicago, has engaged W. W. Forbish to represent
it is rather a pretentious and imposing one, and that popular industry in the territory west of Chi-
located on what will be the most prominent business cago. Mr. Forbish has been a wholesale piano trav-
corner in Miami Beach, fronting fifty feet on Lincoln eler for many years, and is well known in this terri-
Road and with a depth of one hundred and five feet tory. The Brinkerhoff line has won great favor with
on Jefferson avenue. The ceiling height is eighteen a progressive class of dealers and President Will T.
feet, and this building has been erected at a cost of Brinkerhoff has the credit of building up a large busi-
something over seventy thousand dollars.
ness of profitable kind to his customers.
In constructing this building the company has made
provision to go up six more floors as time and
Joe B. Kelly, recently located at Altoona, Pa., and
finances may permit. This is the first attempt of
S. Ernest Philpitt & Son to house its own business known there as a crack piano seller, has moved to
in any city in Florida, and the company is naturally Girard, Ohio, where he is doing some special work
for E. H. Lotze & Co., of that place.
proud of the building and its equipment.
The store was opened with a musical program, and
the event was signalized with the presence of some
of the manufacturers and music publishers which the
company represents. Many not able to be repre-
sented, sent congratulatory telegraph messages on
that day.
STIL HARCOURT IN FLORIDA.
There's Money
for the Dealer in
Automatic Pianos
NEW ENGLANDERS MAKE
CONVENTION PLANS
Grands and Players that every deal-
er likes to sell, for Satisfaction and
Profit
Nelson-Wiggen Piano Co.
Smith & Nixon Piano Co.
1731 Belmont Ave.,
CHICAGO
1229 Miller St., Chicago
The Leading and Most Popular
Pianos and Players
Grands, Players, Uprights and
Reproducing Pianos
The Results of Over Forty Years'
of Experience.
Kreiter Pianos Cover the Entire Line
and no Piano Dealer who tries these in'
struments would supplant them by any
others. A trial will convince.
Kreiter Mfg. Co., Inc.
310-312 W. Water St., Milwaukee, Wis.
Factory: Marinette, Wis.
The Lyon & Healy
Reproducing Piano
A moderate priced reproducing piano,
beautiful in design and rich in -tone.
Write for our new explanatory Chart,
the most complete and simple treat- ~
ment of the reproducing action.
Wabash at Jackson
. . .
Chicago
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April 25, 1925.
13
P R E S T O
GEORGE CLEVELAND
FORMS VOSE PRESERVE
Energetic Salesman for Marcellus Roper Com-
pany, Worcester, Mass., Particularly Suc-
cessful in Sales of Famous Piano.
George Cleveland, an energetic salesman for the
fine old house of Marcellus Roper Company, Worces-
ter, Mass., is the hero of a story of progressive piano
selling which has just come to hand, but not through
Mr. Cleveland himself, who is as modest as he is
triumphant in the sales field.
If you know the Lenox section of Worcester you
will better appreciate the character of Mr. Cleveland's
selling ambitions. Lenox is to Worcester what Back
Bay is to Boston, Riverside Drive to New York and
the Gold Coast to Chicago—an exclusive region in-
habited by people of wealth and refinement to whom
fine pianos are among the absolute necessities.
The piano sales possibilities of Lenox have long
been clear to Mr. Cleveland and so far has realized
on them in a very satisfactory manner. Within the
past few months he has vigorously played his inter-
esting game of progressive piano selling and is still
playing it.
One day he sold a fine Vose piano to one of the
splendid homes of Lenox. Two days later he sold
another fine Vose piano to another family two houses
removed from there. The gap disturbed him. Three
of a kind always beats a pair when Mr. Lenox plays
a Vose hand. But he was distracted from his object
of filling the gap by two good tips from the latest
of his Lenox customers. Two families at the other
side of the street were promising. Vose prospects,
the customer informed him.
Inside of a few days he sold to one of the prospects
and, while calling after the piano had been installed,
he had the good luck of meeting the lady who occu-
pied the house he then alluded to as the "gap." She
had an old grand, of concert size, a fine instrument,
but for a long time she had experienced a craving
to replace it with a new baby grand. Mr. Cleveland
did what an alert salesman would do in such a for-
tunate circumstance. It was too easy! Within a
week the objectionable gap across the street was
filled with a Vose baby grand.
Four Vose sales in that fine section of Lenox in
something over a month was a heartening situation.
The pianos in place, too, were excellent talking points
and Mr. Cleveland made the most of them with his
fast increasing circle of prospects. And every customer
talked for him. It is a tribute to his diplomatic
sense that they were organized into a fund of Vose
propagandists without knowing it.
There was nothing dramatic in the fifth sale, or the
sixth, or in any sale up to the twelfth sale closed last
week within three blocks on either side of Lenox
avenue. He celebrated the closing of a round dozen
of Vose sales by absenting himself from his Vose
preserve for a day to visit the store of the Marcellus
Roper Co., where he enjoyed himself watching the
other fellows work while he just sat in an easy chair
t?king a rest.
F. P. BASSETT RETURNS
FROM BLUE RIDGE MTS.
M. Schulz Co. Official Spends Several Days
with Sons at Military Academy, Staunton,
Va., and visits North Carolina Dealer.
F. P. Bassett, secretary and treasurer of the M.
Schulz Co., 711 Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, returned
recently from a two weeks' visit to Virginia and
North Carolina, where he enjoyed himself immensely
in the cool, clear air of the Blue Ridge Mts. The
object, however, of Mr. Bassett's trip, was to see his
two sons who are students at the Staunton Military
Academy, Staunton, Va., and who are always anxious
see their dad from Chicago. After spending a few
Good Topic for Convention. Discussion Sug- to
days with the boys and viewing the forest fires rag-
gested by Percy Tonk in Interesting
ing in the Blue Ridge hills, Mr. Bassett set out for
North Carolina, visiting M. Schulz dealers in the
Little House Organ.
western section of that state.
A new phase of national advertising is suggested by
On the return trip Mr. Bassett called on the Otto
Tonk Topics, the interesting little periodical at the Grau Music Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, and found that
Tonk Manufacturing Co., Chicago. It alludes to the progressive firm to be doing a thriving business and
feat of the "less enterprising music merchants" about ve r y optimistic.
the competition from the automobile and radio, and
offers a suggestion.
PAUL J. HEALY'S ESTATE.
"If the industry were well announced to the possi-
Paul J. Healy, son of the founder of the music firm
bilities of both of these bugaboos as a medium for
spreading the gospel of music, this seeming distrac- of Lyon & Healy. Chicago, left his widow an estate
tion might be made the source of more and better valued at $540,000 in stocks and bonds, an inventory
business. What the industry needs is to have their filed last week by Mrs. Marie Alexander Healy, the
attention drawn to the salient necessity of music that widow, as an administratrix, showed. Mr. Healy
is born in the heart of the individual and can only died in January. The estate consisted largely of
find proper expression when one knows how to per- stock in the houses of Lyon & Healy.
form upon an instrument." This suggestion is made:
This fact told interestingly and frequently on the
radio would arouse in many persons the desire to
learn to play. Better still, if you can, make parents
realize the benefits that come to those who learn
to play while they arc young.
It would pay big benefits to the entire musical
world in general, and to piano manufacturers in
particular, if on every highway, in plain view from
passing automobiles, great billboards not too far
apart, would proclaim the advantages of knowing
how to play the piano, the foundation instrument
of musical training.
No matter what musical instrument one intends
and
to specialize on, it is better to first learn to play
the piano.
Why not get together on a real advertising pol-
icy? The music industry as a whole could easily
(Licensee)
afford to have the romance of music and its in-
numerable benefits broadcasted almost nightly over
Reproducing
all the radio broadcasting stations. There are thou-
(Electric)
sands of fascinating stories the telling of which
would arouse the desire to learn to play a musical
instrument in the hearts of every child and many
adults.
of Recognized
The oft repeated statement: "Learn to play the
piano while your are young and everybody will
Artistic
Character
love you when you get old," emblazoned in great
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letters from beautifully illustrated billboards will
create a demand for pianos in the home that will
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pay the cos* many times over.
Why can't this be done?
HOW TO OVERCOME
TRADE DISTRACTIONS
DECKER
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Grand, Upright
Welte-Mignon
Pianos and Players
Grand and
Reproducing
Grand Pianos
are the last word in
musical perfection.
Lester Piano Co.
1806 Chestnut St.
Philadelphia
A QUALITY PRODUCT
FOR OVER
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Preparations Are Made for Occupying of the
New and Improved Quarters at
234 S. Wabash Avenue.
The Chicago store of the Starr Piano Co., Rich-
mond, Ind., announces the removal this week to its
new location at 234 S. Wabash avenue, in the heart
at Chicago's "Piano Row."
"The decision to occupy the quarters we have now
obtained, came rather suddenly," said Mr. Hunt,
manager of the store to a Presto reporter early this
week. "We are to occupy the fourth floor of the
Davidson Talking Machine Shop at 234 S. Wabash
avenue, which company will represent the Starr piano
in a retail capacity. Our time will be devoted to the
wholesale business, for which plans for expansion
will be carried out.
"Gennett records will continue to be retailed on the
fourth floor, where a fine record department is now
being established," continued Mr. Hunt.
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will increase your sales and
solve your financing problems.
Write to the nearest office
for prices.
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AND
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