fulv 11. 1925.
PRESTO
PROVES DURABILITY
OF PREMIER GRAND
ond unrig
Goldsmith Co., Columbus, O., Forwards ,Ex-
p esdcn of Orchestra Leaders' Opinion
of Piano's Merits.
CT
The Goldsmith Company, prominent music mer-
chants of Columbus, Ohio, recently sold a Premier
Baby Grand piano to Birkheimer's Dancing Palace,
one of the largest and most important dance halls in
the state of Ohio. Bennie Krueger's well known
orchestra, which enjoys a national reputation, re-
cently payed at this dance hall in Columbus, and
used the Premier Baby Grand in connection with the
program. The instrument was the same one sold to
this dancing palace several years ago.
The Goldsmith Company report that this piano
was used live nights out of the week and was played
on from three to four hours every night with orches-
tra work, which, naturally, emphasizes the durability
of the Premier.
In forwarding Bennie Krueger's comment on this
instrument, the Goldsmith Company stated, "You can
see what we think of the Premier out here. We are
just sending the remarks of Mr. Krueger to you, in
appreciation for the manner in which you co-operate
w'ith and help the salesman to sell the popular
Premier." Mr. Krueger's remarks regarding the
Premier Baby Grand were as follows: "We wish to
compliment you on the little Premier Grand which I
used at Birkheimer's Dance Palace during my en-
gagement there.
"It is one of the nicest little pianos I have had the
pleasure to play on, on my tours."
The HHardman £ine
is a complete line
It comprises a range of artisti-
cally worthy instruments to
please practically every purse:
The Hardman, official piano of
the Metropolitan Opera House;
the Harrington and the Hensel
Pianos in which is found that in-
builtdurabilitythatcharacterizes
all Hardman-made instruments;
the wonderful Hardman Repro-
ducing Piano; the Hardman
Autotone (the perfect player-
piano); and the popular Playo-
tone.
SAN FRANCISCO TRADE
PROUD OF "BILL" ASPE
O. R. Bowman, Sales Manager for Kohler &
Chase, Bears Witness to Efficiency of
Well Known Delivery Man.
NEW YORK.
The LEADING LINE
WEAVER PIANOS
Grand*. Uprights and Playeri
Finest and most artistic
piano in design tone and
construction that -an b«
made
YORK PIANOS
uprighta and P ayer Piano*
A high grade piano of great
vamt- ttud with charming tone quality
Livingston Pianos— Upright* and Plaver Piano*
A p< ipular piano at a popular price.
Ovoi /0.000 instruments made by this company are sinu-
mu their own praises in all parts of the civilised world.
Write foi catalogues and state on what terms you would
like to deal, add we will make vou • proposition if vt u arr
located in oien territory.
WEAVEK PIANO CO., Inc
Factory: YORK,
EatabUshud 1870
P
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W. P. Haines & Co*
Manufacturers of
BRADBURY, WEBSTER
and
W. P. HAINES & CO.
Grand, Upright and Reproducing
Pianos
138th Street and Walton Avenue
NEW YORK
A QUALITY PRODUCT
FOR OVER
QUARTER OFA CENTURY
The genius of the inventor in the piano factory, the
deftness of the craftsman who fashions the instru-
ments, the selling prowess of the piano traveler, the
sales ingenuity of the dealer have all been themes of
the trade paper writer, but few have thumped a type-
writer to tell about the efficient man behind the sales
organization—the delivery department head. So be-
lieves O. R. Bowman, sales manager of Kohler &
Chase, San Francisco, who enthusiastically recites the
importance of William Aspe, a modest man with a
genius for solving delivery and transportation prob-
lems of piano dealers and manufacturers.
"Only a few of the men in large businesses can be
conspicuous as leaders. Those who cannot head the
organization and stand in the high places, work be-
hind the lines and this I know to be a fact and I am
sure that it is worth mentioning to the trade papers,"
said Mr. Bowman this week.
"The delivery department or warehouse and piano
delivery department is usually forgotten in a big
business as far as any real publicity is concerned. In
the past few months I have been making an accurate
and careful study of the piano delivery department of
Kohler & Chase.
"William Aspe has been delivering pianos for
Kohler & Chase for over twenty years. He is known
as Bill. He is a 'South of Market Street boy,' run-
ning with the same gang as David Warfield, David
Belasco, Senator James Phelan, Mayor Rolph of San
Francisco, Chief of Police Daniel O'Brien, and many
other very prominent business men that were so-
called, "South of Market Street Boys.'
"In my estimation, in his line of work William
Aspe has perfected the art of handling and delivering
pianos. He is a diplomat himself and has taught the
men on his trucks to be polite and courteous and just
for example, when delivering a playerpiano or
Ampico the head man on the truck or the man in
charge of the car making the delivery, connects up
the instrument, tries it out and shows the customer
how to use it. In other words, he leaves the impres-
sion that the customer has purchased a very beautiful
instrument and it makes it easy to collect money from
satisfied customers.
"I could write a long story about Bill Aspe and
his piano moving, but I am not going to do so at this
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time. Mr. Aspe's services are in such a demand that
he is now doing the hauling of instruments for the
Chickcring warerooms of Lee S. Roberts, Inc., and
Kohler & Chase besides.
"The Aspe Transfer Co. handles exports that come
to San Francisco. Manufacturers know that when
they ask Bill Aspe to take care of every instrument
in transferring them from the San Francisco docks
going to foreign countries that the job will be done
promptly and in a satisfactory condition. In my
estimation, the music houses should train their deliv-
ery department to use a little selling judgment and a
little diplomacy in delivering pianos and the entering
of people's homes wh'o have purchased pianos it
would go a long way towards getting new sales and
making satisfied customers."
PIONEER KANSAS CITY
PIANO DEALER DIES
George W. Strope, Had Interesting Life in Different
Phases of Piano Business for Seventy Years.
George W. Strope, Kansas City, Mo., 85 years old,
one of the oldest men in the piano business in that
city, died at his home. 3530 Forest avenue recently,
following a stroke of paralysis. Mr. Strope was in
the piano business for seventy years. His last store
was operated at 511 West 12th street. He was one
of Kansas City's early settlers and a charter mem-
ber of the Ararat Temple. He leaves his widow,
Mrs. Ida Strope, and daughter, Miss Shirley Strope,
both of the home.
When Mr. Strope was 16 his parents moved to
Ft. Wayne, Ind., from Buffalo. He began to travel,
selling Mitchell's General Atlases. In Goshen, Ind.,
he found two men who were not interested in atlases;
one wanted to buy a piano and another wanted to
sell one. Mr. Strope acted as middleman and made
$200 profit. Then he changed to dealing in pianos
and never changed his work the next seventy years
of his life.
In 1876 he went to work for the Kimball Com-
pany and was one of the first piano salesmen to
travel west of the Mississippi. He settled in Kansas
City, and later went into business for himself.
NEW INCORPORATIONS
IN MUSIC GOODS TRADE
New and Old Concerns Secure Charters in Various
Places.
Ware Radio Corp., Manhattan, New York City,
75,000 shares to 200,000 common, no par; 5,000 shares,
$100 each, same as heretofore.
The C. O. Knight Co., Williston, N. D.; $25,000; to
deal in pianos, phonographs and radio. C. O. Knight,
Fllen J. Knight and N. B. Ludoiwesc.
Radio Testing Laboratories, Upper Montclair, N.
J., supplies; $100,000; Charles Landerman, Brooklyn;
James V. Kiloe, Alonzo L. Tyler, New York.
Burrhus Music Publishers, New York; $5,000;
J. W. and M. S. and J. Steel.
American Composers, Wilmington, Del., music;
$1,000,000.
Turner Music Company, Tampa, Fla; $330,000, 8
per cent cumulative preferred; $170,000 common;
existence, perpetual; limit of indebtedness, $1,000,000.
Officers and directors: J. A. Turner, president; J.
W. Lee, vice-president; Marion E. L. Turner, secre-
tary; Cecile T. Lee, treasurer.
Olfrey Music Shop, Inc., Brooklyn, N. Y.; capital,
125 shares common stock having no par value. H. A.
Freyman, 217 Broadway, Manhattan.
The Bruck Piano Co., Akron, O.; Henry D. Furst
and Samuel Friedman.
A. Weber & Sons Co., Lawrence, Kans.; to make
and sell pianos. A. Weber, president; A. M. Wil-
son, vice-president and H. C. Polhannus, secretary.
The Delaware Piano Company of Muncie; $250,-
000 preferred, $12,500 shares no par common. Peter
K. Morrison, Clarence G. Wood, Olin Bell, B. W. L.
Robinson and Charles Houston.
The Kansas City Music Company, $25,000; general
retail merchandise business; Sidney H. Blood, C. H.
Wornall and William E. Edwards.
Among vacation specials advertised by Chas. C.
Adams & Co., Peoria, HI., are a hand-made tenor
banjo and a portable phonograph.
GRAND AND UPRIGHT PIANOS
AND
PLAYER PIANOS
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