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May 2, 1925.
PRESTO
'b 1882
The Background
Making Bush & Gerts Pianos for Forty-two years!
Making Bush & Gerts Grands for Thirty-eight years!
Made first Concert Grand Thirty-two years ago!
Received highest award, World's Fair, Chicago, 1893!
Celebrated the manufacture of the 50,000th Bush & Gerts
Piano, a Louis XV Grand, in 1911!
Bush & Gerts Pianos have been used and endorsed by hundreds
of eminent artists and public institutions, among which are:
New England Conservatory of Music,
Boston, Mass.
The Hamilton College, Lexington, Ky.
Cotte College, Nevada, Mo. - - -
The management states: "We have used the
Bush & Gerts piano for the past fifteen years and
pronounce it in every sense of the word a most sat-
isfactory instrument in enduring the severe uses to
which it is naturally subjected."
After having purchased over fifty Bush & Gerts
uprights during a period of twenty years, purchased
a parlor grand Bush & Gerts thus demonstrating
the recognized standardized value of the Bush &
Gerts piano.
Western Normal College,
Shenandoah, Iowa - -
After having used Bush & Gerts pianos exclusively
for a period of twenty years manifested their opin-
ion of Bush & Gerts quality by a single purchase of
ten new pianos of the same make.
Southwestern Conservatory,
Dallas, Texas
Using Bush & Gerts pianos exclusively and con-
sider them superior to any piano that has ever been
used for school work.
Drake University Conservatory of
Music, Des Moines, Iowa - - -
Frederick Howard, as Dean, states: "The large
order of thirty-two Bush & Gerts pianos we pur-
chased from you have proved themselves by hard
usage to which they were put exactly suited to our
needs. Whether on the concert platform, teacher
studio or in the practicing room, they give the full-
est measure of satisfaction and convince us all of
the wisdom in our selection of your instrument."
Bush Temple of Music School,
Chicago
Founded by Mr. W. H. Bush, founder of Bush &
Gerts. Among the artists of first rank who have
used and endorsed Bush & Gerts pianos at this
school:—Madame Julie Rive-King, Esther Nelson,
Louise Love, Harold von Mickwitz, Madame Justine
Wagner—and others.
For forty-two years Bush & Gerts tone, touch and durability,
have been increasing Bush & Gerts quality prestige amongst
American people. The high quality and beauty of the 1925
product illuminates this background of achievement.
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