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Presto

Issue: 1925 2050

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November 7, 1925.
PRESTO
THE PRESTO'S WANT ADVS.
VIRGINIA TRAVELER WANTED.
Wholesale representative to cover Virginia and adjacent
territory. Experienced man to establish new accounts
and assist present dealers. Salary and commission.
The Baldwin Piano Company, 142 West 4th St., Cin-
cinnati, Ohio.
MANAGER WANTED.
Branch store manager is wanted. Must thoroughly un-
derstand the piano business and be a good closer. Is
wanted to manage one of Chicago's largest branch
piano stores in chain store organization. A real money
opportunity. Phone, write or wire "Outlet Piano
Stores," 1389 Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, III. Phone
Brunswick 2021.
MANUFACTURER'S OPPORTUNITY.
FOR SALE—Piano factory making baby grands exclusive-
ly. Full line of machinery and equipment. Have other
Interests and wish to retire from manufacturing bus-
iness. Here is your chance to get a real high-grade
outfit at a bargain price. Address "Manufacturer,"
Box 1, PRESTO Office, 417 S. Dearborn St., Chicago.
TRAVELING SALESMAN.
An established piano industry wants a competent traveler
in the central states, including Illinois, Indiana, Iowa,
Wisconsin and Michigan. A strictly commission prop-
osition and a profitable one for the right man. A d -
dress "Commission," Box 11, PRESTO Publishing Co.,
417 S. Dearborn St., Chicago.
MANAGER WANTS POSITION.
WANTED—Position as manager of music store. Can take
complete charge. Twenty years' experience, seven
years as manager. Can give best of references. A d -
dress "Complete," Box 11, PRESTO Office, 417 S.
Dearborn St., Chicago.
TUNER WANTS POSITION.
POSITION WANTED—Piano tuner. Piano tuner wants
steady position in high grade piano factory or with
first-class music house. Thoroughly experienced in
factory work. Proficient in every way and can sat-
isfy the most particular. Address "Factory Tuner,"
care PRESTO, 417 S. Dearborn St., Chicago.
SALESMEN WANTED.
Opportunity in California for experienced piano salesmen
with prominent chain store organization.
Highest
grade institution; extensive advertisers; best known
piano agencies. Hustlers will find good chances ahead.
Address "Hustlers," Box 17, PRESTO Office, 417 S.
Dearborn St., Chicago.
PROMOTIONAL WORKER WANTED.
WANTED—Man with knowledge of sales promotion and
advertising to take charge of promotional work for
prominent piano manufacturing concern in the middle
west. This is a splendid opportunity for the right
man to make a permanent and profitable connection.
Ideal surroundings and fine organization to work with.
Those who have had experience in merchandising mu-
sical instruments at both wholesale and retail will
be given preference. Write to " J . D.,"
Box 22,
PRESTO Publishing Company, 417 S. Dearborn St.,
Chicago. State fully your qualifications, experience
and salary requirements.
TUNER WANTS POSITION.
Tuner and player man wishes position with -first-class
firm. Twenty years' experience inside and outside.
Work on all makes of pianos and players. Can han-
dle Welte, Ampico and most expression players. Mem-
ber N. A. P. T. Age 37 and married. Address "Ca-
pable," Box 9, PRESTO Office, 417 S. Dearborn St.,
Chicago.
HELP WANTED.
WANTED, TUNER—Must be able to repair pianos, play-
ers and talking machines. Permanent position. Can
make commission on side at selling. Address Sam-
uels-Bittel Music Co., Inc., 112 West Second St.,
Owensboro, Ky.
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY.
Piano and music business for sale. Established 53 years.
Owners 78 and 80 years. Stock about $10,000 (secured
contracts $60,000, included or not, to suit customer).
Population 25,000. Territory covers 200,000. Excellent
opportunity for big business. Address Box 50, PRES-
TO Publishing Co., 417 S. Dearborn St., Chicago, III.
ENCOURAGING BAND MUSIC.
Sherman, Clay & Co., San Francisco, has issued the
first number of a new monthly publication to be
called "The School Musician of California," which has
been sent free of charge to California schools. The
new publication, which emanates from the musical
merchandise department, will be made of value to
school heads and music superintendents, in providing
information about the instruments and how to pro-
mote interest in music among the pupils.
SIDE LINE FOR TRAVELER.
WANTED—Traveler in the music industries, piano trav-
eler preferred, to take on a side line; something es-
sential In every piano and general music store. Sat-
isfactory arrangements; commission or otherwise. Ad-
dress "Side Line No. 6," care PRESTO, 417 S. Dear-
born St., Chicago.
TUNER AND PLAYER MAN.
First-class tuner and player mechanic, at present em-
ployed by the foremost music house on Pacific Coast,
wants steady year-'round position with some large
firm in Chicago. Understands well coin operated and
other automatic instruments.
Address
"Reliable,"
Box 2, PRESTO Office, 417 S. Dearborn St., Chicago.
SCHOOL ADVERTISES CONN.
The Conn iine of band instruments is favored in the
Dreyer's Band School, New Albany, Ind., which has
an announcement in the newspapers this week which
says the school "has trained hundreds of students on
wind instruments for twenty years. Some playing in
Sousa's Band and the most celebrated organizations
of the world. Why not buy your instruments, too,
from one who is an authority on the selection of the
best in band instruments? The Conn, best in the
world, costs no more at Dreyer's Band School, 819
East Main street."
ADVERTISING RADIO IN ATLANTA.
An effective feature of the booth of the Ludden &
Bates Music Co., Atlanta, Ga., at the recent South-
western Fair, held in Atlanta, was the receiving
station, which provided entertainment at all hours'.
Weather reports, concerts, baseball returns, and
dance music, alternated in a diversified program
which proved a great bit of radio selling publicity for
the firm.
U. S. ROLL FAVORITES.
The following numbers in the November bulletin
of the United States Music Co., Chicago, are big
sellers with dealers:
Library Edition—Word Rolls: A Wee Deoch an
Doris (Harry Lauder)—Scotch Song, Robert Bill-
ings. From the Land of the Sky-Blue Water (Eber-
hart-Cadman)—American Indian Song, Robert Bill-
ings. The Holy City (Stephen Adams)—Song, Rob-
ert Billings. Rose in the Bud (Barrow-Forster—
Song, Robert Billings. The Wee Hoose 'Mang the
Heather (Wells-Lauder)—Scotch Song, Robert Bill-
ings. When the Swallows Homeward Fly (Franz
Abt)—Song, Robert Billings.
The Romano Radio Co. is the name of a general
music store in Joliet, 111., which was recently incor-
porated with a capitalization of $10,000. The follow-
ing are the officers of the company: Roy Cousins,
Peter Blazio and Dominic Romano.
r
THE KOHLERINDUST
of NEW YORK
AFFILIATED
MANAGER DESIRES CHANGE.
Thoroughly experienced, piano man, managing selling,
charge of canvassers, and executive end. Finest cre-
dentials. Hard worker. Reliable, honest and straight-
forward. Can go anywhere. Address "Worker," Box
11, PRESTO Office, 417 S. Dearborn St., Chicago.
COMPANIES
anufacturing for the trade
OPPORTUNITY FOR SALESMAN.
WANTED—A piano salesman for a live business in a live
city in Illinois not far from Chicago. Fine opportunity
for salesman who can sell good pianos to good class
of prospects. An old house and a permanent posi-
tion to the right man. Address "Class," Box 5, PRES-
TO Office, 417 S. Dearborn St., Chicago.
Upright and Grand Pianos
Plaver Pianos
Welte Mignon (Licensee) Repro-
ducing Pianos
De Luxe Player Actions
Standard Player Actions
Welte Mignon (Licensee) Repro-
ducing Actions
Expression Player Actions
Piano Hammers
Bass Strings
MANAGER WANTED.
Branch store manager. Experienced in handling all de-
tails of large piano and phonograph business. Per-
manent, better salary to start than you are now earn-
ing.
Wonderful opportunity for quick advancement.
All replies strictly confidential. Address "Permanent,"
Box 22, PRESTO Office, 417 S. Dearborn St., Chicago.
SALESMEN, ATTENTION!
WANTED — Piano or phonograph salesmen calling on
western music dealers to handle a side line of band
and string instruments for a prominent importing
firm, on commission basis. Good opportunity for right
men.
Those chosen will be assigned exclusive t e r r i -
tory. Address full particulars to Box 14, PRESTO
Office, 417 S. Dearborn St., Chicago.
TUNER-SALESMAN WANTS POSITION.
Excellent all-around retail store man desires a position
where he can stimulate his desire to become a first-
class salesman. Has had selling experience and de-
sires a location with house in central states that em-
ploys no regular salesman. Will work on salary and
commission basis. Employed at present as tuner, but
is looking for bigger game. Address "Ambitious,"
Box 11, PRESTO Office, 417 S. Dearborn St., Chi-
cago, III.
Wholesale Chicago Office and Service ^Departments
KOHLER INDUSTRIES
San Francisco Office
462 cpbelan "Building
TWO TRADE WINNERS
HARTFORD
I CHURCHILL
If you want Good Goods at Right Prices, here are two
that will meet your requirements—Players and Pianos.
RELIABLE — FINE TONE — BEAUTIFUL
Made By
HARTFORD PIANO COMPANY
1223-1227 MILLER STREET, CHICAGO
1222 KIMBALL B U I L D I N G
CHICAGO
The Entirely New 1926 Edition of
PRESTO BUYERS' GUIDE
"The Book That Sells Pianos"
is in Preparation and Manufacturers are urged to promptly re-
turn information blanks which are now being sent them.
There will be no Piano Advertising, but a limited amount of
space will be devoted to small goods and music publishers.
PRESTO PUBLISHING COMPANY
Chicago, 111.
417 So. Dearborn St.
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PRESTO
November 7, 1925.
SHEET MUSIC AND RADIO
BROADCASTING POPULAR SONGS
The Effectiveness and Availability of Radio Advertis-
ing for Songs Still Discussed in Trade.
Radio was a topic considerably discussed in rela-
tion to song broadcasting at the convention of Michi-
gan dealers in Grand Rapids this week. Sheet music
dealers and publishers find it an all-the-year-round
topic. Songs and radio are so closely related that
one hardly thinks of one without a thought for the
other.
The possibilities of advertising a song by means of
radio were about the first considerations suggested
when radio came into use, but the abuse of the pur-
poses were condemned long before the convention this
week and the circumstances arising from the broad-
casting had given cause for complaint to the publish-
ers and composers.
But the publishers and sheet music dealers admitted
that radio broadcasting may be a valuable aid to
demonstrating a song in a wide manner. One can
conceive no quicker way of acquainting the public
w T ith the musical and lyrical merits of a composition
than radio.
All the same there is such a thing as killing a song
by too much radio plugging. If a song is sung over
and over, from one station to another, the effects of
the first hearing are nullified. People at the receiv-
ing end may continue to listen with pleasure to the
second and even the third performance of the song,
but their feelings change at the subsequent hearings,
listeners get bored, tired of the repetition and in the
end so disgusted that the very title of the song is
abhorrent.
The trade was presented with another view of the
matter that involved the limitations of radio. There
are times when the weather governs the radio send-
ing processes. At such a time the publisher's prized
song is at the mercy of electrical disturbances, his
audiences at the receiving end hear a muffled vocali-
zation of the song accompanied by derisive hoots and
other weird sounds. In fact, the weather man as
well as the broadcasting stations should be consulted
before a song is given to the radio audiences.
SHEET MUSIC TRADE NOTES
A Few Items Interesting to People in Sheet Music
Department Are Printed.
At least one composition of prominent Western
composers will be broadcasted by Marshall W. Gisel-
man, organist of the California Palace of the Legion
of Honor, San Francisco, in his regular Sunday
programs.
Walter J. Hearn, of the Outlet Piano Co., Provi-
dence, R. I., and well known in that section as a
singer and composer, died recently following an auto-
mobile accident.
The music library of Fortunato Santini, one of the
largest in the world, containing 5,275 volumes, ac-
quired by Bishop Miiller, of Minister, has been trans-
Manufacturers of
RADIO
Tables
Cabinets
Consoles
Elgin Phonograph & Novelty Co.
Elgin, 111.
ferred from the Munster Cathedral to the University
in the same town, and is open to the public, says
Musikalienhandel.
The Radio Sales Corporation has opened a new
store at 2802 East New York street, Indianapolis.
The McCrory store at Richmond, Va., has opened
a sheet music department with Larry Norrett, for-
merly of the Cleveland branch, as manager.
The Forster Music Co., Chicago, moved this week
from 235 South Wabash avenue, to the McClurg
building.
Jack Little, writer of "Jealous," "Because They All
Love You," "Where Is My Sweetie Hiding?" and
many other favorites, was one of the vocalists broad-
casting over WIBO this week.
Week & Winge is the name of a new music pub-
lishing house in Seattle, Wash. The partners are
Harold Weeks of the Brunswick Music Shop and
Carl Winge, a local composer.
WHO SELLS POPULARS?
A new York City sheet music dealer last week said
that his estimate was that between 60 and 75 per cent
of popular music is sold outside of the legitimate
trade. "This estimate is purely my own personal
opinion," he explained, "and the only way to get
accurate figures on the subject would be to take the
statistics of four or five of the popular houses and
average their figures. After this is done there is a
possibility of my having estimated a high percentage
of sales for the dealer. To start with, unless popular
music is sold in large quantities it is very unprofit-
able because of the fact that in meeting competition
the margin of profit is very small and its life very
short. All of this is 'old stuff' but it brings into the
subject our competitors. They are principally, as
we all know, the syndicate stores, department stores
and song shops."
NEW RADIO MANAGER.
George H. Bogart, Jr., head of the radio depart-
ment of the Robelen Piano Co., Wilmington, Del.,
has become a member of the firm of Alexander &
McDaniel, Inc., 825 Shipley street, electrical engi-
neers and radio dealers, in the same city. He will
have charge of the radio department there, handling
Zenith, Fada, Atwater Kent, Stewart Warner and the
products of the Radio Corporation of America.
A HARP MUSIC COMPETITION.
The National Assaciation of Harpists, Inc., which
by propaganda of various forms, recitals, encourage-
ment of harp instruction in schools and articles in
magazines and music journals, has done much to pro-
mote interest in harp music, and incidentally the sale
of harps, now offers a prize of $1,000 for a com-
position for that instrument. The competition will
be international, and the latest date on which manu-
scripts will be received is December 15, 1926.
CANTON RADIO SHOW.
The Canton, O., Daily News Radio Show opened
in the City Auditorium November 2. Practically
every music store in the city had a booth at the
show. Retail music firms represented include Wil-
liam R. Zollinger Co., George C. Willie Co., Custer
Music House, Rhines Edison Shop, Home Music Co.,
D. W. Lerch Co., as well as a number of exclusive
radio houses.
To Piano Makers
and Dealers/
For best advertising Song Books for Grand
Openings, Special Occasions, Holidays, Quanti-
ties for Country Schools, Societies, etc., write
to the Illinois State Register, Dept. P, Spring-
field, Illinois.
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RADIO CONFERENCE NOV. 9
Difficulties of Broadcasters and Problems of Wave
Length Allotment to Be Considered.
The Fourth Annual Radio conference will get
under way on November 9 at Washington, D, C,
at the call of Secretary Hoover. Its purpose is to
iron out, if possible, all the difficulties which now
confront the broadcasters and the listeners. There
are many of these difficulties but the fireworks un-
doubtedly will come when the question of regulating
the number of broadcasting stations is brought up.
The American listener has been fortunate in that
Congress has kept its hand out of radio. There has
been no legislation to hamper the broadcaster; the
radio set owner does not have to pay any license fee
for the privilege of listening in; and Mr. Hoover has
been opposed to congress taking a hand in the situa-
tion, preferring to let the radio industry work out
its own problem.
But radio experts now say that the department of
commerce is confronted with a problem
which is
giving it considerable worry and w r ill probably take
legislation to correct. Tbat question is the matter
of broadcasting stations. Under the present system
the department is compelled to issue a license to any
individual or corporation to operate a broadcasting
station after certain rules are complied with. The
issuing of a license doesn't mean that the company
can broadcast, however, for in addition to having a
the license a wave length or band is necessary and
all the wave lengths are now gone.
RADIO BY TELEPHONE.
The Hague has the distinction of being tbc first
European city to offer its citizens radio by telephone.
As a result of a new discovery which makes it pos-
sible to hook the telephone system in with the broad-
casting station, the municipal telephone system will
put at the disposal of its subscribers the entire pro-
gram of the local and other broadcasting stations.
THE REDTOP FOLDER.
The Q R S Music Co., Chicago, with branches in
New York, San Francisco and Toronto, reports ex-
cellent results from the distribution of a new folder
devoted to the Q R S Redtop Radio Tube. Why the
Redtop excels is convincingly told in clear, non-
technical language, illustrated with line drawings.
NEW REMICK MANAGER.
The new manager of the Jerome H. Remick &
Co.'s branch in Chicago is William Thompson, who
succeeds William Cripps, who joins the professional
force in New York. Harry Werthan, the oldest in
point of service in the Remick forces, continues as
general manager of the Chicago offices.
COMPOSER MADE MAYOR.
The popular song beat the fountain pen by 400,000
votes on Tuesday of this week when Jimmy Walker,
the song writer, beat Frank D. Waterman, fountain
pen manufacturer at the election for mayor of New
York.
REMICK SONG HITS
Sometime
By the Light of the Stars
Sweet Georgia Brown
If I Had a Girl Like You
Got No Time
You Told Me To Go
Mother Me Tennessee
Oh Lovey Be Mine
On the Bam Bam Bamy Shore
Good Mornin'
I'm Going to Charleston, Back to
Charleston
Let's Wander Away
When Eyes of Blue Are Fooling You
J. H. REMICK & CO.
New York
Chicago
Detroit
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