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PRESTO
November 28, 1925.
NEW STARR STYLE D
IS PAINTED PIANO
Trend of Taste in Decorative Effects Sug-
gested Latest Novelty in Case Presented
by Starr Piano Co.
Style D painted upright piano is a new and attrac-
tive number in the line of the Starr Piano Co., Rich-
mond, Ind. It marks the alertness of the company
in keeping pace with current phases in public taste.
Progressive methods and a careful detail of work-
manship are characteristic of the company, which rec-
ture is a new requirement met in a characteristically
effective way by the Starr Piano Co.
With a variety of matchless color combinations
the Starr piano Style D will prove a delight as an
addition to the boudoir, the sun room, the nursery,
etc., where colorful effects are depended on to en-
hance the decorative scheme.
Cognizant of the trend in colorful home decora-
tion, the Starr Piano Company offers these attractive
combinations, knowing they will meet a popular de-
mand as a novel departure in home furnishing. There
is a note of distinction and elegance about them that
commands the admiration of all who see them. They
typify the highest degree of craftsmanship in tone
and design.
The Starr Style D may be had in the following
combinations: Ivory and blue, lettuce green and
apricot, French gray and mauve, peacock blue and
ivory, peach blow and Chinese red, ebony with gold
candelabra.
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ARTISTIC
IN EVERY
CHAS. E. BYRNE WANTS
PLAYING CONTESTS
Secretary-Treasurer of Steger & Sons House
Says Children Would Take Hold Eagerly
and Sales Would Result.
STARR STYLE D IN PAINTED CASE.
ognizes the importance of piano cases timely in fin-
ish as well as artistic in design. The new Style D
painted piano will be welcomed by dealers who are
quick to observe the variations in taste in the public
and prompt in presenting the novelties to their
customers.
The constant addition to the number of apartment
buildings and the prevalence of the bungalow type of
home are accountable for many changes in house fur-
nishing and decoration within recent years. Archi-
tectural plans are more flexible than they used to be
and decorators have made innovations the rule. Piano
case designers have always closely watched the styles
and varieties of wood in furniture. Latterly the fin-
ishing departments in the progressive piano factories
have been interested in the decorative and color
schemes evolved by the artistic decorators. The
painted piano case to harmonize with painted furni-
DECKER
mJ
EST. 1856
& SON
Grand, Upright
and
Welte-Mignon
(Licensee)
Reproducing
(Electric)
Pianos and Players
of Recognized
Artistic Character
Mad* by • Decker Since 1856
699-703 East 135th Street
New York
KREITER
The Leading and Most Popular
Pianos and Players
Grands, Players, Uprights and
Reproducing Pianos
The Results of Over Forty Years'
of Experience.
Kreiter Piano* Cover the Entire Line
and no Piano Dealer who tries these in-
struments would supplant them by any
others. A trial will convince.
Kreiter Mfg. Co., Inc.
310-312 W. Water St., Milwaukee, Wis.
Factory: Marinette, Wi«.
Charles E. Byrne, secretary-treasurer of Steger &
Sons Piano Manufacturing Company, sixth floor of
the Steger building, Chicago, is enthusiastic in his
promulgation of propaganda for musical contests
among the children of America, as a means of stimu-
lating trade in the straight hand-played piano.
Mr. Byrne's contention is that, with 250,000 music
teachers now at work in the United States, the poten-
tialities of salesmanship can be mightily increased by
enlisting the interest of this mighty army of intelli-
gent and musically-cultured people.
He says it is a generation in which the young peo-
ple assume a great degree of dictation to their elders
as to what they, the young people, want to do;
therefore their interest and co-operation is necessary.
A financing plan, with cash prizes, would have to
be devised; different kinds of awards would stimulate
the contests, and the whole plan would have to be
carried out on a business basis.
Mr. Byrne's attention was called to the recent
spelling contests at Detroit and in Michigan gener-
ally, in which the winners went to Washington, D. C,
without cost to themselves, and shook President
Coolidge's right hand and were photographed stand-
ing alongside of him. The two little girls, one from
Detroit and the other from Springwells, a Detroit
suburb, as champion spellers, had these and other
advantages of this trip, so wonderful to a child, free.
Their pictures appeared in the Detroit Sunday papers
with Gov. Groesbeck, of Michigan, presenting them
with their tickets for the round trip.
Mr. Byrne believes the same sort of rewards ought
to go to the winners of piano-playing contests; that
the activities of the children in this regard would be
nation-wide, and that the sale of pianos would be
greatly augmented thereby.
DETAIL
HADDORFF PIANO CO.
EOCKFORD,ILL.
Wholesale Offices:
N«w T.rk Ch
130 W. 42nd S*
Chirac*
410 S. Micnigan Ava.
Sao Pran^isei'
111 Caliiarnia Si.
Schaff Bros.
Players • ad Pianos have won their stand-
ing with trade and public by 54 years of
steadfast striving to excel. They repre-
sent the
LARGEST COMPETITIVE VALUE
because «»f their beauty, reliability, tone
and moderate price. They are profitable
to sell and satisfactory when sold.
Brighten Your Line with the
SCHAFF BROS.
The Schaff Bros. Co,
MOVES IN OKLAHOMA CITY.
Established 1868
Handsome new quarters were recently occupied in
Oklahoma City, Okla., by the Frederickson-Kroh
Music Co., which carries a big line of pianos, phono-
graphs and organs. The oddity of the building ma-
terial gives a handsome and striking appearance to
the exterior. The front is of black brick trimmed
with white stone. The main salesrooms are on the
first floor, the offices on the mezzanine floor and
pianos, players and reproducing pianos on the third.
There is a recital hall in the basement.
Huntington, Ind.
A general music house has been opened in the Cone
Building, Bennington, Vt., by Abe Noveck, under
the name of the Noveck Studio.
The Good Old
SMITH & NIXON
Pianos and Player Pianos
E. Leins Piano Co.
Makers of Pianos and
Player Pianos That Are
Established L e a d e r s .
Correspondence from Reliable
Dealers Invited
Factory and Offices, 304 W. 42nd Si
NEW YORK
Better than ever, with the same
"Grand Tone In Upright Case."
Grands and Players that every deal-
er likes to sell, for Satisfaction and
Profit,
Smith Ik Nixon Piano Co.
1229 Miller St., Chicago
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