Presto

March 19, 1927.
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PRESTO-TIMES
COINOLAS
FOR
RESTAURANTS, CAFES and
A M U S E M E N T CENTERS
FACTS ABOUT THE BUYERS
Proportion of Women Purchasers of Musical In-
struments a Surprising Thing Revealed by Survey.
Out of every ten instruments sold by musical mer-
chandise dealers, ten are sold to women. The fact
is revealed in a survey recently made by the Conn
Music Center, Elkhart, Ind, among the dealers in
twenty cities. The estimate of women as buyers is
made from the results of 320 actual transaction,.
A surprising thing to many is that the preferences
of the fair buyers were similar to those of the male
purchasers of musical instruments. One might con-
sider, however, that nine per cent of the trombone
buyers out of the 320 transactions was a big num-
ber, or that sixteen per cent of trumpet buyers was
equally surprising. Fifty-two per cent of the women
bought saxophones.
Other interesting facts that may enlighten the
musical merchandise dealer in his pursuit of business
is that 74 per cent of the buyers were under thirty
years of age. Fully thirty-four per cent were under
twenty-one years of ago, nineteen per cent between
twenty-one and twenty-Jive and twenty-one per cent
between twenty-five and thirty.
MAKING TOWN BANDS
Style C-2
FROM THE BIGGEST
ORCHESTRION
New Method Distributes Cost and Is Proving Great
Stimulation to Local Music Enthusiasm.
The guiding principle behind the law that permits
a community or town band is that the cost of
maintaining that band is shared by all, and this makes
the individual cost a matter of a few cents a year.
In this way, it is easy to build up and maintain a
musical organization which a town can be proud of
without placing the burden of its support on any one
element in the community.
This new method of maintaining bands has received
the indorsement of numerous business men and or-
ganizations throughout Illinois. By this means, a
specified sum is made available for band purposes
each year.
Under the older method, local business men made
up an annual purse for the support of the band, on
the theory that whatever stimulates community activ-
ity reacts to the benefit of business. This arrange-
ment made the financing of a band hard, uncertain
and unjust. The new plan is being welcomed in
many places as the most equitable, democratic, as
well as most practical method. The bill was made a
law on June 27, 1925.
TALKING MACHINE EXPORTS
Value of Machines Sent to Foreign Countries in 1926
Shows Increase Over 1925.
Exports of American talking machines for 1926 ex-
ceeded those of 1925 by a million dollars, according
to figures published by the Bureau of Foreign and
Domestic Commerce. The total value of the talking
machines shipped abroad during 1926 was $3,280,000
compared with $2,270,000 in 1925.
The increase in 'the exports of talking machine rec-
ords for 1926 compared with 1925 was equally well
marked. The total number for 1926 was 5,538,000,
valued at $2,222,000, as compared with $1,720,000
in 1925.
Mexico was our best customer for talking machines
last year and bought $420,000 worth, just double that
purchased in the year before. Australia bought ma-
chines .to the value of $330,000 in 1926; Cuba, $263>
682; Argentine, $243,000, and Columbia, $290,000.
A BANJO DEMONSTRATION.
A $5,000 display of custom built banjos was ex-
hibited and demonstrated at the Harding & Miller
Music Company's store, 524 Main street, Evansville,
Ind., on March 5, by Ralph Dexter of Kalamazoo,
Mich. Dexter was formerly with the Paul Whiteman
and Vincent Lopez orchestras and also has appeared
in vaudeville with a banjo specialty act.
HENRY DREHER GIVES PRIZE.
A grand piano has been awarded by Henry Dreher,
head of the Dreher Piano Co., Cleveland, O , to be
offered as a prize in the choral contests to be held
at the national gathering of the German choral so-
cieties in Cleveland next June. Other valuable prizes
will be donated by Cleveland music dealers in the
contests in which four thousand people will partici-
pate.
A CONN TRADE MARK.
C. G. Conn, Ltd., Elkhart, Ind., has applied to the
United States Patent Office for registration of the
name C. G. Conn, Ltd., as a trade mark for the
following instruments: Trumpets, alto horns, cor-
nets, French horns, tenor horns, valve trombones,
slide trombones, baritone horns, euphoniums, bass
horns, sousaphones, bugles, saxophones, clarinets,
oboes, flutes, piccolos, 'cellos and carrusophones.
OPENS SAN FRANCISCO BRANCH.
A branch of the Continental Music Co., Chicago,
musical merchandise jobbers, has been opened at 140
Second street, San Francisco. Paul M. Gazeley, sec-
retary of the company, is manager of the branch,
which will take care of all business west of the
Rockies. A complete stock of all lines handled by
the jobbing house will be carried.
NEW TENOR UKULELE.
Rutan, Inc., Kansas City. Mo., manufacturers of
professional ukuleles, is now introducing a tenor-
ukulele which is said to be meeting with a good
demand. John Rutan, head of the company, who is
traveling in the west, reports a lively interest among
dealers and professional players in the new instru-
ment.
Philip W. Oetting & Son, Inc.
213 East 19th Street, New York
HIGH GRADE
Folding Organs
School Organs
Sole Agents for
WEICKERT
Hammer and Damper Felts
Practice Keyboards
Grand and Upright Ham-
mer* Made of Weickert Felt
Dealers 1 Attention Solicited
A. L. WHITE MFG. CO.
215 Englewood Ave., CHICAGO, ILL.
Fine Action Bushing Cloths, etc
KEYS RECOVERED AND REBVSHED
Tiny Coinola
THE SMALLEST
KEYLESS
FRIELD MILLER & COMPANY
Samples of Work on Request
Prompt and Efficient Service
3355 North Illinois Street, INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
Manufactured by
The Operators Piano Co.
715-721 N. Kedzie Ave.
CHICAGO
FAIRBANKS
THE FAIRBANKS CO., Springfield, Ohio
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