Presto

July 18, 1925.
PRESTO
CHRISTMAN
"The First Touch Tells"
CHRISTMAN
Reproducing Grand
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SUMMER STIMULATIONS
IN DENVER TRADE
Inducement to Customers to Buy Pianos, Pho-
nographs and Radio Sets Make Advertising
Pages of Newspapers Interesting.
The Denver Music Company, 1526-40 Stout street,
Denver, Colo., is celebrating its forty-first anni-
versary and mid-summer clearance sale. Phono-
graphs and the most popular makes of radios are
listed at half-price, and concessions on piano prices
are also in order during this sale. One of the agree-
ments is: "Any used piano, grand or player, pur-
chased at this sale, may be returned to us«in one
year for credit at what you pay for it, on any new
instrument of higher price. Now, while waiting for
your new grand or player, take one of these good
used instruments." This certainly is loaning an in-
strument for one year, a year when any well disposed
person may learn to use the intended new instru-
ment.
The Sharp Music Company with a special sale for
Friday, July 3, sold well known "talking machines"
at one dollar down, the price less than one-third in
some cases, the instruments slightly used, and as an
inducement there was given one dozen records of
the customer's choice. A fat man who ordered one
of them sent home, remarked: "If it's all the same
to you, please give me: "The Snow, Snow, Beautiful
Snow." It was rather a warm day.
Cassell's, 1518 California street, Denver, recently
had a three-day sale special sale playerpiano. There
went free with some of the bargains, handsome full
size floor lamp, shade, fully equipped. Also duet
bench, roll cabinet and twenty-five rolls of music.
BIG MUSIC STORE TO
OPEN IN NEWARK, N. J.
PIANO
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Action
Is a marvel of tone and expressive
interpretation of all classes of com-
position, reproducing perfectly the
performances of the world's great-
est pianists.
Put New Life Into Your Trade
By Selling the Famous
Studio Grand
(only 5 ft. long)
It will Fascinate any Discriminat-
ing Customer and Insure the Sale.
CHRISTMAN
GRANDS, UPRIGHTS
PLAYERS
AND
REPRODUCING PIANOS
"The First Touch Tells"
1U*. U. t. Pit. Off.
Christman Piano Co*
597 East 137th St.
New York
Property Involving Investment of $500,000
Secured by New York House for Addition
to Chain of Stores.
Landay Bros., Inc., dealers in musical instruments,
with main store in New York City, has purchased
the southeast corner of Broad and Canal streets,
Newark, N. J., and will erect a three-story building
to be known as Landay Hall. It will be from plans
by S. B. Eisendrath, architect, and is said will involve
an investment of $500,000.
The main floor will be designed for sales service.
The upper floors will contain spacious showrooms
and private demonstrating booths.
Landay Bros., Inc., secured its present big prop-
erty in New York about a year ago and is one of the
largest general music houses in the East. It does a
general music business and represents some of the
strongest lines of pianos in existence.
GERMAN MUSIC GOODS
EXPORTS INCREASE
Industry Which Suffered Badly During the
Great War Has Staged a Come-Back,
According to Commerce Reports.
The number of German musical instruments now
in use in foreign countries is more than in 1914, ac-
cording to an estimate made by the Industrie und
Handelszeitung, says Commerce Reports. This in-
dustry, which suffered severely during the wartime
and in the following years, has been rapidly ap-
proaching its former strength. German musical in-
struments are competing successfully in Scandinavia,
the Balkans, and Russia. However, direct sales from
Germany to foreign consumers are not as large as
indirect sales through French, British, and particu-
larly Italian dealers, and many foreign customers are
unaware that the instruments they are handling are
actually produced in Germany.
Australia is now proving an excellent market but
the business must chiefly be handled through British
firms, because of the possibility of a revival of legis-
lation against German-made products.
Japan is buying about sixty per cent of its former
amount of purchase from Germany; particularly
South German factories are working on Japanese
orders.
Sales to China are considered very satisfactory and
increased 784,000 gold marks in 1924. It is said that
in the French and Portuguese colonies in Africa,
sales through dealers are preferred, while in British
Africa, German instruments can be sold direct to the
consumer. Italian competition is strong in Egypt,
while in South Africa, British and Dutch stringed in-
struments, as well as horns, are strong competitors.
The best customer for German musical instruments
in Latin America is Mexico, which is now taking 30
per cent more than before the war. German sales in
this market are in proportion of eight, three and two,
as compared with Italian and Spanish competitors.
Honduras has recently been purchasing in the Ger-
man market, although formerly such orders were
placed in England.
In general, French and Italian competition is im-
portant in South America, on account of the depre-
ciated exchanges of those countries. Brazil remains
a good customer for German goods, although Span-
ish, Italian, and Portuguese instruments are also im-
ported. Chile bought 1,500,000 gold marks worth of
German musical instruments in 1924, as compared
with 900,000 marks in the previous year. At the
same time, the German exports of these articles in-
creased twenty-six per cent to Argentina; eight per
cent to Uruguay; five per cent to Paraguay; thir-
teen per cent to Peru; and nineteen per cent to the
remaining parts of South America.
HARDMAN REPRODUCING
PIANO IN RECITAL
Finc Instrument with Welte-Mignon (Li-
censee) Action Is Admirable Feature at
Orienta Beach Club, Mamaroneck.
On Sunday evening, June 28, at the Orienta Beach
Club of Mamaroneck, N. Y., one of the most exclu-
sive clubs in the country, a musicale was given by
the aid of the Hardman Welte-Mignon (Licensee)
Reproducing piano, made by Hardman, Peck & Co.,
New York.
Vee Lawnhurst, the young American pianist so
well known through her frequent radio recitals, was
featured in the program. As a member of Roxy's
group broadcasting from the Capitol Theater, she
has made innumerable friends. Miss Lawnhurst
records her playing exclusively for the Welte-Mignon
(Licensee).
The musicale was received with great enthusiasm
by the members, who are numbered among the
wealthiest and most prominent members of New
York Society. The perfect reproduction of Miss
Lawnhurst's playing by the Hardman Welte-Mignon
(Licensee) caused a great deal of favorable com-
ment. One number in particular, the popular hit,
"Will You Remember Me," which was first played
by Miss Lawnhurst and then repeated by the Welte-
Mignon (Licensee) was vigorously applauded.
As another innovation the Hardman Welte-Mig-
non (Licensee) was used as an accompanist to vocal
selections, a severe test for even an accomplished
pianist. The Welte-Mignon (Licensee) came through
this ordeal with flying colors.
Not once did the singer need to wait for the
piano, every note, every measure was synchronized
as exactly as if a master pianist were playing instead
of a music record. Several numbers were well ren-
dered and all were well received with praise for this
wonderful reproducing mechanism.
NEWS OF PROMINENT MEN
IN RETAIL MUSIC TRADE
Activities of Some Leading Figures in Important
Branch of the Business.
Julius Koss, 184 South Main street, Waterbury,
Conn., is now located in his new building, where
he now carries a complete line of musical instru-
ments, phonographs and records.
The outlook for a vacation phonograph business
this summer is good, reports the Texas-Oklahoma
Phonograph Co. of Dallas, distributor of the Edison.
A sale on pianos is being held by the Bush & Gerts
Co. of Dallas Tex., preparatory to the remodeling of
the interior of the building. Paul M. Burling is man-
ager of the piano department.
Music dealers in Canton, Ohio, are planning ex-
hibits at the annual Stark County Fair, to be held
the first week in September at the fair grounds.
Richard Reed is the new manager of the Pontiac
Music Shop, Pontiac, 111., succeeding Edward
O'Connor.
C. Durkee has leased the Baker Building on Supe-
rior street, Alma, Mich., and will open an up-to-date
music store there.
NEW BALDWIN HOME.
The Baldwin Piano Co. of Indiana moved last
week to its new four-story building in Indianapolis.
E. G. Bereth, vice-president and general manager
of the company, superintended the arrangement in
the new quarters. In addition to the full line of
Baldwin pianos, players and reproducing pianos a
line of talking machines, including the Edison,
Brunswick and Victor will be carried.
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