Presto

September 26, 1925.
ERNEST LEINS PROUD
OF LEINS PIANO MERITS
Expert Manufacturer of the Old School Com-
bines Rare Business Ability with Widely
Recognized Skill in Piano Making.
The leading position among musical instruments
is accorded to the piano by Ernest Leins, president
of the E. Leins Piano Co., New York, who completed
fifty years in the industry on September 1. It was a
day on wtrch Mr. Leins received the greetings of a
host of friends and recalled interesting incidents from
E. LEINS AT WORK.
his store of recollections. But the claim for the piano
as the standard musical instrument is a feeling he
expresses every day.
Mr. Leins is one of the old school of piano ex-
perts who knows every factory process from the raw
material to the final finish of an instrument. That
he has pride in his knowledge was a fact made plain
to trade paper visitors to the factory. He is par-
ticularly proud of the instruments bearing his name.
His pride in the Leins piano is that of the expert,
the skilled craftsman whose genius, aided by infinite
patience and untiring energy, has evolved an instru-
ment of recognized merit.
The Leins piano is the embodiment of careful
workmanship and ambition to excel. Every Leins
piano is the result of deliberation and care. It is
a distinction that the progress of Leins pianos
through the' factory, from the raw material to the
finished product, is superintended by expert and ex-
perienced piano makers.
The continuous success of the E. Leins Piano Co.
is due to the fact that, coupled with piano making
expertness and experience, Mr. Leins has the instincts
of the progressive business man. That phase of his
abilities is evident in the Leins warerooms which are
models of orderliness and the energetic methods that
make the merits of the Leins pianos and playerpianos
well known to discriminating prospects.
September 1, 1875, was the eventful day he began
his association with the piano manufacturing industry
in the old J. P. Hale factory at 515 West Thirty-fifth
street, New York. Among his associates in the fac-
tory were men who since have become prominent in
piano making. In turn Mr. Leins was associated with
the making of the Hardman, Kranich & Bach, Pease,
Schaeffer and other famous pianos.
Mr. Leins began business for himself in 1889,
at Thirty-fifth street and Seventh avenue, in a factory
which soon proved too small for a growing business,
so a move was made to Eighth avenue and Thirty-
sixth street, where the industry remained until the
occupation twelve years ago of the present and well
equipped factory at 304-306 West Forty-second
street.
FACTORY
526-536 Niagara Street
BUFFALO, N. Y.
Factories and General Offices
Better roads and more paved highways benefit busi-
ness generally but the keenly observing music mer-
chant sees in these improvements opportunities for in-
creased travel and stimulation in the sale of automatic
•nstruments of the coin-slot variety. This is the day
of the electric piano, and its lively sale suggests a
« greater and ever-increasing business. The new roads
inean more places of call and greater competition
where the special attractions prevail in the entertain-
ment features. People who ride out in automobiles
for a day of pleasure expect attractive and pleasure-
able service in roadside cafes and they will not stop
where they do not find it.
The J. P. Seeburg Piano Co., Chicago, is one of
the observant manufacturers of automatic instruments
noting the relation of new roads, and improved old
roads, to the sale of their product. Increased travel
means more and better places of call along the high-
ways, and the enterprise of the ow r ners prompts them
lo make music a prime feature of the places. Not
every place can afford an orchestra, but every place
can afford a coin-slot instrument of some sort.
The J. P. Seeburg Piano Co. enables the music
dealer to supply every want of the owners of cafes,
ice cream parlors and other public places. The line
is a large and varied one and, while the s'ze of the
instruments and prices vary, the quality character
distinguishes them all. And it is a profitable part of
the piano dealers to find and supply the places of
roadside resort.
One of the big sellers of the J. P. Seeburg Piano
Co. just now is the newly-designed style "L," a piano
and mandolin instrument of great sw r eetness of tone
and amazing power considering its dimensions:
height, fifty-one and a half inches; width, thirty-six
and a half inches; and depth, twenty-three and a
quarter inches. It is of a size to save space, a con-
sideration with many purchasers of coin-operated in-
struments. The popular style is another opportunity
for the enterprising dealers to present a profit-making
instrument to the new trade which better roads create
every day.
STRICH & ZEIDLER, Inc.
GRAND, UPRIGHT and PLAYER
AND
HOMER PIANOS
740-742 East 136th Street
NEW YORK
BRINKERHOFF
Grands - Reproducing Grands
Player-Pianos
a n d Pianos
The Line That Sells Easily
and Satisfies Always
BRINKERHOFF PIANO CO.
OFFICES, REPUBLIC BLDG.
209 State Street
CHICAGO
AT PIANO CLUB LUNCHEON.
L, I. Johnson, secretary of the Haddorff Piano Co.,
of Rockford, 111., and Hoyne Wells, of the Schumann
Piano Company, of the same city, visited Chicago
last Monday to attend the Illinois Music Merchants'
luncheon given by the Chicago Piano Club at the Illi-
nois Athletic Association. The gentlemen also met
President James Lacey, president of the Illinois Music
Merchants' Association, who was the guest of honor.
Mr. Lacey went to Rockford the same afternoon to
confer w T ith the local committee on arrangements for
ihe Rockford meeting next week.
SHOW ADVERTISING AWARD.
The perpetual trophy awarded annually by the
Pacific Coast Advertising Club to a Pacific Coast
firm whose advertising for the year has been the most
comprehensive and constructive was won by Sher-
man, Clay & Co., who was considered the most de-
serving of the award this year. Neil C. Wilson,
under whose direction all advertising for Sherman,
Clay & Co. is prepared, is coming in for praise from
many quarters for the general excellence of his copy,
which has won national as well as local recognition.
PLAYER
PIANOS
OFFICES AND SALESROOMS
319-321 So. Wabash Ave.,
CHICAGO, ILL.
Manufactured by
Fast and Continuous Increase in Mileage of
Good Roads and Paved Highways Pro-
vide New Customers for Dealers.
Established Reputation and Quality Since 1873
Corner Fillmore Street
Grands—Players
C. KURTZMANN & CO.
GRANDS AND UPRIGHTS
1020 So. Central Park Ave.,
KURTZMANN
BUSINESS IN SEEBURG
AUTOMATICS GROWS
ADAM SCHAAF, Inc.
REPRODUCING
PIANOS
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PRESTO
Yhe Heppe, Marcellus and Bdouaid Jules Ptano
manufactured by the
HEPPE PIANO COMPANY
are the only pianos !n the world with
Three Sounding Boards.
i?»tented In the United States, Great Brltalfii
Prance, Germany and Canada.
Liberal arrangements to responsible agents only.
Main Office, 1117 Chestnut St.
PHILADELPHIA PA.
RADLE TONE—The Musician's Delight
Whenever you hear the name RADLE you immediately
think of a wonderful tone quality, durabili y and design.
Musicians insist on RADLE
New Adam Schaaf Building,
F. RADLE, Inc. Est. 1850.
609-11 W. 36th St., New York City
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