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P R E S T 0-T I M E S
PIANOS BOUGHT BY THE
BUSH CONSERVATORY
Famous Music Teaching Institution Big User
of Pianos in Close to
Thirty Years.
The following list, contributed by W. L. Bush,
includes pianos bought and owned by Bush Con-
servatory of Music during close to thirty years in
Chicago and Dallas schools, in which a 6,000 enroll-
ment of students was reported. Three hundred pianos
and five pipe organs in use.
In 1901, Bush & Gerts, Steinway, Victor and W. L.
Bush.
During 1905 were added Crown, Bush & Lane, Con-
cord and Kimball.
Added in 1906, Mason & Hamlin, Hardman, Mil-
ton, Estey, Aeolian, Weber, Starr, Jesse French,
Emerson, Seybold, Marshall, Ricca.
In 1910, Baldwin, Wissner.
1914—Bush & Gerts, Brinkerhoff, Hensel, Harring-
ton.
1917—Steinert Grands, Vose, Lagonda, A. B. Chase,
Henry F. Miller, Mason & Hamlin, Conover, Cable.
1924—Kimball, Rush & Lane, W. L. Bush.
1925—Steinert, Vose, A. B. Chase, Henry F. Miller.
1928—M. Schulz Grand, M. Schuiz Upright.
ARTISTS ENDORSE KRANICH & BACH.
The Kranich & Bach Chicago store, 77 East Jack-
son boulevard, in its advertising mentions Sousa,
Sundelius, Claussen, Lazzari, Easton and Eddy as
"a few of the names of a long list of great artists
and impresarios in the front rank of present-day
musicians who indorse Kranich & Bach pianos. A
musical instrument must be extraordinarily fine to
November 10, 1928
deserve such commendation. Try the Kranich &
Bach piano yourself. Listen to its marvelous tone—
test its sympathetic responsiveness of touch and
action."
NEW "Y" BUILDING USES
IVERS & POND PIANOS
NEW INCORPORATIONS
IN MUSIC GOODS TRADE
Crowning Feature of Furnishing the New Y. M. C. A.
at Middletown, Conn., Two Fine Pianos.
Alexis A. Mahan, of the Ivers & Pond Piano Com-
pany, Boston, Mass., who makes regular calls upon
New and Old Concerns Secure Charters in Various
the piano dealers of New England, favored Presto-
Places.
Times this week with a copy of an advertisement
Rex Music Shop, Inc., Gary, Tnd.,, with a capital clipped from the Middletown, (Conn.) Press of Octo-
stock of $10,000; objects, sellings, leasing and con- ber 20, which is extremely interesting to the Ivers &
signment of radios and the accessories thereto. Don Pond people as well as to their Middletown dealer,
Hall's Music Shop. . .
Whitman, Orvile Shelton, Mrs. P. M. Shelton.
The ad. was illustrated with a cut of a beautiful
Ye Music Box, Inc., Martinsville, Ind., to operate
Ivers & Pond Grand, which showed up well, as it was
a music store.
The Music Shop, Inc., East Point, Ga.; Brower in the rotogravure section of the paper, in the new
Y. M. C. A. dedication number. And it said:
Thomas, owner.
"Hall's Music Shop, 275 Main street, leads again.
The Brunswick Music Shop, 424 South Third street,
Ivers & Pond pianos chosen for the new Y. M. C. A.
Baltimore, Md., with 500 shares of no par value.
Hamilton S. Jordon, 33 East 21st street, New York, Two beautiful Ivers & Pond grand pianos have been
installed in the new 'Y' by Hall's Music Shop. The
to operate a music store; $40,000.
The Supreme Radio & Phonograph Co., Inc., 880 'Y' officials sought instruments, combining power and
sweetness of tone with beauty of case design.
Amsterdam avenue. New York City; $20,000.
"After an extensive canvass and careful study they
The English W. Goldman Co., 928 Spruce street,
chose two Ivers & Pond instruments, which, because
Philadelphia; $25,000.
of their enduring quality, would, they felt, be in
keeping with the beauty and carefully selected equip-
ment of our ne* r 'Y' building.
"The fact that we also furnished two grands for the
New Middlesex and two grands for the Capitol, shows
that our instruments appeal in high quality and dollar-
Genuine Revival Assured to Trade with Truthful for-dol!ar value."
Presentation of the Instruments.
BUSINESS GOOD FOR
HUSTLER, SAYS W. L BUSH
"What ails the piano business? What ails piano
men, salesmen, dealers and manufacturers? Disor-
ganization. Sixty or more per cent fear that the
comparison of reprehensible advertising, juggling
with 'one-price' systems, the camouflage of trade in
prices, as compared with cash values," writes W. L.
Bush this week.
"The remedy for trade evils which is ever ready
and available, is sparsely used and applied. There
can only be a genuine revival of and restoration of
volume business in pianos through a truthful, con-
vincing, sane and cleanly offering of pianos of all
kinds upon a basis of intrinsic money value with terms
based upon a reasonable interest computation of car-
rying and collection charges. Eliminate all the bunk
regarding name value, and place the piano upon a
basis of actual value musically and constructively,
plus a sane overhead; figure depreciation 10 per cent
per annum instead of 25 per cent as upon the over-
worked automobile; get down to earth on overhead,
and maintain it at a maximum of 20 per cent—not
35 to 60 per cent, which is now so frequently dis-
closed by certified audit.
"The piano business is just as good as it has ever
been for a good hustler retailing directly from several
factories with no show-room or display except cata-
logs, circulars and correspondence."
ADAM SCHAAF STYLE A.
In advertising the Adam Schaaf grand piano, Style
A, in the Chicago Daily News, the company says:
"A piano for the moderate-sized home, built with the
glorious rich tone of a full-sized concert grand. Made
by master craftsmen in a number of distinguished
period designs for different schemes of interior decora-
tion. Available to you at once for the coming winter
evenings—on a deferred payment plan if you find
this method more convenient. The Adam Schaaf
Grand Style 'A' for small apartments is beautifully
finished in the new shades of English brown mahog-
any and burl walnut."
RESULT OF SCHOOL PLAYING.
ALWAYS
a p r o d u c t w o r t h y of
"A Name Well Known Since
1875"
JESSE FRENCH & SONS PIANO CO.
NEW CASTLE, INDIANA
Traugott F. Weber, head of the firm of Meyer &
Weber, 174 Xorth Michigan boulevard, Chicago,
found direct benefit in the preliminary piano lessons
a little girl had learned in group instruction in one
of the public schools of Chicago. One day last week
a proud father, and well-to-do, walked into the Meyer
& Weber store and after paying the compliments of
the day to Mr. Weber, who is an old acquaintance,
informed that piano man that his little daughter had
learned to play simple pieces at school and had im-
portuned him to come to the §tore and buy her a
piano. Of course, Mr. Weber welcomed the cus-
tomer and sold him one of the finest pianos in the
store, for the man said he wanted the best. No one
could now convince Mr. Weber that there is no ben-
efit to a piano dealer in class lessons in the schools,
for here was a concrete case of a sale directly caused
by the persistent importuning of the child, brought
to realize her necessity.
STRONG STEINWAY AD.
TheCABLECOMPANY
Makers of Grand, Upright
and Inner'Player Pianos,
including Conover, Cable,
Kingsbury, Wellington and
Euphona.
Chicago
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In an attractive display in the Chicago Sunday
newspapers, Lyon & Healy, Chicago, offered "88
Keys to Happiness." This is said: "Sitting before a
Steinway, you have at your fingers' tips 88 keys to
happiness. They will admit you to the magic realms
of music, with all its changing moods and emotions.
They will release for your enjoyment the most lovely
tone that a piano ever produced."
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OPENS NEW MUSIC STORE.
The Toupin music shop, Lake Linden, Mich., the
first music establishment to be opened there, is now
ready for business. The grand opening of the store,
however, will not take place until Saturday of this
week. • -
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