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PRESTO
August 15, 1925.
SMALL GOODS AND SUPPLIES
WHAT DENVER IS DOING
Items of Interest From Colorado's Metropolis
Where Pianos Are Sold for Cash and
Banjos Keep Dry.
another alluring element in its interest for the piano
dealer, repairman and tuner. The dealer with a key-
board repair job should send for estimates to the
American Agencies Find Profitable Business and Are
United Specialty Co.
PLACING AUSTRALIAN AGENCIES
Found in Most Principal Centers.
FIDDLE DEALERS' PITFALL.
There is one pitfall which the dealer who proposes
to study this question must avoid, i. e., the antique
The Radio Sales & Supply Company, Denver, has value of violins, writes Robert Alton in the Music
been incorporated; capitalization $50,000. Incorpora- Makers' Review of London. His advice is applicable
tors, C. E. Wallick, John A. Nelson, W. C. Benton.
by dealers on this side of the Atlantic. The prices
Hollywood Phonograph Record Company, 6725 of old violins have been forced up during recent
Santa Monica boulevard, Hollywood, California, years by interested parties far beyond their actual
writes the Denver Chamber of Commerce asking for values, and the dealer who tries to obtain heavy
the names of music stores, department and chain profits on worthless old fiddles will find that he is
stores with music departments.
creating an atmosphere little conducive to good or
Here's an item that says: "An electric light in the lasting trade. Should he come into possession of old
head of a banjo keeps the strings dry." I wonder if fiddles cheaply, it will be to his interest to dispose
this wouldn't be a good instrument for an accompani- of these as cheaply, consistent with a due measure of
ment to: "How Dry I AM!" First you know the profit. If these instruments are. badly damaged, he
will most probably have to pay a skilled maker to
prohibs will be putting a Volstead onto the banjo.
The fact that the Denver College of Music is to repair, and this cost will, of course (together with his
push the pipe organ is joy to the correspondent of profit on outlay) be added to the first cost of the
Presto. All music dealers ought to have better sales fiddle. But finally, and most important, is the fact
of organs, and they would if they would push for that he must study the instrument on its own merits,
and not merely treat it as one of the small goods
sales.
tribe, whose only function is to make a profit.
UNITED SPECIALTY COMPANY
Excellent Work in Key Repairing and Rebushing
Performed by Active Monticello, Ind., Firm.
The United Specialty Co., Monticello, Ind., is daily
giving the music trade the most convincing evidences
of its ability to serve its patrons in a practical way.
The company provides experienced factory service
for recovering and rebushing piano and organ keys
and repairing pneumatics. That the company "makes
them same as new" is a statement in the advertising
proved in every day's operation of the shop.
Here are a few quotations clipped from the price
list: Fifty-two heads and tails (best heavy pyralin
ivory), $8; fifty-two fronts, $2.50; eighty-eight keys
rehashed, $4; and fifty-two fronts cleaned and pol-
ished, $1.
The company guarantees fast service, which adds
ADVERTISING FAKE MAHOGANY.
Among the July complaints coming within the
Federal Trade Commission at Washington were four
against lumber companies. The charge in each case
was "advertising as Philippine mahogany wood that
is not mahogany." The lumber concerns against
which the misleading charge was brought are: Pacific
Southwest Import Co., Los Angeles; Kirschmann
Hardwood Co., San Francisco; Hammond Lumber
Co., Los Angeles; Robert Dollar Co., San Francisco,
Cal.
NEW NAME FOR NORWICH FIRM.
A change of name of the Talking Machine Shop,
24 to 32 Franklin street, Norwich, Conn., has been
announced following a reorganization. In future
the business will be known as the Hanover-Curlan
Co. An increase in the musical merchandise stock is
a new feature of the store.
WESSELL, NICKEL & GROSS
Manufacturers of
PIANO ACTIONS
The placing of American agencies in Australia is
comparatively easy. Australian importers are always
on the lookout for good American lines, and many of
them do not wait to be approached.
Practically any article that sells in the United
States sells equally well in Australia, since topog-
raphy, climate, language, and standards of living are
almost identical with our own. Most Australians
either emigrated from Great Britain, or have rela-
tives there, and, for that reason, frequent visits are
made to England. Most of them go to Australia by
way of Suez, and, therefore, they like to make the
return trip by way of America.
Numerous American lines of goods have been taken
back to Australia by these travelers, and, in almost
every instance, the connection has been satisfactory
and the prestige of American products has been en-
hanced. Agencies are placed in all the principal cen-
ters of Australia, but Sydney offers perhaps the best
opportunities.
ERA OF BLACK DRUMMERS.
A curious innovation in the British military bands
about 1830 was the introduction of black men to play
the percussion instruments, such as the cymbals,
tambourines, drums, and the old "Jingling Johnnie"—
a pole surmounted by a crescent from which de-
pended bells which were shaken by the negro who
carried them in the band, producing a jingling noise
similar to a collection of sleigh bells—hence the nick-
name "Jingling Johnnie." It was considered "good
style" to have these blacks in the band, and regi-
ments tried to outdo each other by the extravagant
way in which they clothed them, with gorgeous
slashed tunics, loose jackets and high-feathered tur-
bans. They used to cut all kinds of capers when
playing their percussion instruments on the march.
This was considered quite the thing. Cymbals, by
the way, were then called "Clash-pans." These black
men were employed in the Guards' bands up to the
Crimean War, but they ceased to appear in most
bands after 1837.
The (new) Buckeye Sill Piano Truck
The New Buckeye Sill
For Grands and Uprights and best for
stair work.
ONE GRADE ONLY
HIGHEST GRADE
The Wessell, Nickel & Gross action is a
guarantee of the grade of the instrument
in which it is found.
FACTORIES:
1\JP\A/ Y O R K"
45th St., 10th ATe. &W46lh. H E J YV
OFFICE;
I WIVIV
4 g 7
w. 43th Street
Comstock, Cheney & Co.
Better your SERVICE with a new Buckeye Sill. We have re-
built and greatly improved, for longer service, the handles, center
rock shaft and the uprights of both ends.
Send for circular.
Eight styles of End Trucks, Piano Hoists, Covers and special
made straps.
Ivory Cutters and Manufacturers
Manufactured by
Piano Keys, Actions and Hammers
Self Lifting Piano Truck Co.
FINDLAY, OHIO
IVORY AND COMPOSITION-COVERED ORGAN KEYS
Th« only Company Furnishing the Keys, Actions, Hammers and Brackets Complete
Telegraph and R. R. Station: Essex, Conn.
Office and Factories: Ivoryton, Conn.
THE O S. KELLY CO.
Manufacturers
of
High
Grade
PIANO PLATES
SPRINGFIELD
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OHIO
JULIUS BRECKWOLDT & SON, INC,
Manufacturers of
*nd
Tupper Ltjke
Piano B a c k s , Boards, Bridges, Bars,
Traplevers and Mouldings
SOLE AGENTS FOR RUDOLF GIESE WIRE
WESTERN REPRESENTATIVE:
CENTRAL STEEL & WIRE CO.,
119-127 N. Peorla Street,
J. BRECKWOLDT, Pre«.
Chicago, III.
W. A. BRECKWOLDT, Sec. & Trea..
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