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PRESTO-TIMES
July, 1930
MUSIC TRADE PICK-UPS
H. A. Wright, Lexington, Va., lias bought the
Weinberg Music Store, Rocky Mount, Ya.
The stock of the L. H. Beck Music Co., Carthage,
Mo., has been purchased by the McMillan Music Co. of
Joplin, Mo. Mr. Beck retains possession of the
building, which he has heretofore occupied till the
expration of the lease, when he will engage in an-
other line of business.
The Dupuis Piano Co., New Bedford, Mass., is
advertising a "$75,000 liquidating sale to raise imme-
diate cash."
The Alden B. Smith Co.. 32 South Seneca avenue,
Alliance, Ohio, say: "We have twelve pianos to loan,
including upright, player and grand pianos, both new
and used If you wish to find out whether your chil-
dren will learn to play or not, this is an excellent
opportunity for you."
Bush & Gerts Music Co.. Bush Temple, Dallas,
Tex., are advertising a "re-organization sale of
pianos," featuring Schumann grands, Settergren
Midgets, and imported Bechstein grands.
The P. A. Starck Piano Co., 1018 Olive street, St.
Louis, Mo., offer "double trade-in allowance for your
old musical instrument during a special sale."
Adams-Bennett Co., Wichita, Kan., say: "The
finest pianos in the world may be seen and fairly
compared here in our store side by side."
The Sampson Music House of Nampa. Idaho, is
advertising the Packard piano, referring in their ad-
vertising to the refinancing conditions of the Packard
Piano Co.
The Robeleu Piano Co., Wilmington, Del., head
their daily advertising by a child's appeal to its
parents, asking of its mother, "Why can't we have a
beautiful grand piano?" This house is advertising
the American Piano Corp. line.
Frederickson & Kroh Music Co. of Oklahoma City,
Okla.. make this announcement in their daily paper
advertisement: "Yo.ir purchase of a new Kimball
piano will help your church or organization." Just
how this works out the advertisement does not
specify.
H. A. Wright and A. C. Livick have purchased the
Weinberg Music Store at Suffolk. Va.
Charles Lee, a well-known salesman of Spring-
field, III., and vicinity has joined the salesforce of
The Music Shop, 414 East Monroe street, that city.
Mr. Sutton, the manager of The Music Shop, says
that, due to the increase in business, as a result of
the present piano campaign it became necessary to
employ another salesman and that the store is fortu-
nate to have secured the services of so competent a
man as Mr. Lee. Mr. Lee has formerly been asso-
ciated with different music houses of that city.
Grinnell Brothers at their Muskegon, Michigan,
store are making a special drive for the sale of player
pianos. They state that their offer of a player at
$197.00 cleared out a "roomful" of instruments in
two days.
The Lord Piano Company, 208 Broad street, Provi-
dence, Rhode Island, is also making a drive for busi-
ness, using the number 7 word puzzle and prizes as
a special attraction.
In pushing for player piano business the Griffith
Piano Company from their Broad street, Newark,
New Jersey, store, say "the pleasure of making music
is so much greater than just listening! Anybody can
enjoy the thrill of making music if they have one of
our player pianos."
Brook, Mays Company, at their Texarkana store
where Fred T. Wilks is manager, say in a Chicker-
ing and Knabe advertisement that "a world of pleas-
ure lies at the finger tips of those who can play the
piano."
Grunewald's Music House, New Orleans, is adver-
tising a grand "removal sale." They are to vacate
their present premises this month and locate in their
new home at 123 Carondelet street. They mention
this sale as "the greatest selling event in the history
of our house."
The F. A. North Co. of Philadelphia, Pa., has
opened a branch store at 23 Rittenhouse place, Ard-
more. Pa., to handle Lester and Leonard pianos. Roy
Schow is the local manager.
Walter D. Krienke. 1209 W T est Broadway, Minne-
apolis, is a manufacturer of violins. In his work he
copies after the methods of the old masters. His
woods come from Germany, Italy, Switzerland and
Czechoslovakia.
While other state employes spend Saturday after-
noons on vacation, E. C. Simmons, a surveyor in the
office of Land Commissioner Swanson, Lincoln, Neb.,
is carving and curving the body of a violin. Simmons
is able to play as well as to carve.
George W. Kellmer, trading as the Kellmer Piano
Co., Hazelton, Pa., filed a voluntary petition in bank-
ruptcy last month. He listed his liabilities at $7,602
and his assets at $34,248.
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The Cushmg Music Co., Inc., recently took over the
assets of the Cowman-Hughes Music Co. at Wewoka,
Okla.
The Walt ham Piano Co. has opened a "factory
store" on McMahan avenue, Newport, Tenn.
Grunewald's, New Orleans, La., says: "The Stein-
way is one of the pianos whose popularity is so wide
as to warrant being manufactured on two continents."
The Griffith Piano Co., 605-607 Broad street, New-
ark, N. J., says: "Any man or woman can distinguish
the tone of the Steinway from all other pianos."
Announcing Steinway pianos, the Whittle Music
Co., 1213 Elm street, Dallas, Texas, says: "It's easy
to own the hest on Whittle's budget plan."
Rorabaugh-Wiley's, Hutchinson, Kan., claims to be
exclusive southwestern distributors for Mason & Ham-
lin, Chickenng, M. Schulz Co., Starr. Richmond and
other fine pianos: also Majestic, At water Kent and
Brunswick radios.
The Lauter Piano Co.'s Paterson, N. J., store at
185 Main street, that city, is conducting a sale of
Lauter-Humana player-pianos.
The Richardson Music Co., 7th street between
Hope and Flower streets, Los Angeles, Calif., is con-
ducting a sale of Behr Bros., Hazelton, Helming and
Stultz & Bauer pianos.
"A half hour in our store any afternoon will show
you the magic of the Audio-Graphic Duo-Art Piano,"
says the Birkel Music Co., 446-448 South Broadway,
Los Angeles, Calif.
The Kelley Music Co., 710 Cherry street, Chatta-
nooga, Tenn., is featuring the Straube player-piano.
New Lenox Small Grand Pianos are featured in the
sale that is now being conducted by the Lauter Piano
Co. at its store in Newark, N. J.—591-593 Pearl street.
Shackleton's, Louisville, Ky.. says: "The Steinway,
heart of the cultured home."
Denholm & McKay Co., Worcester, Mass., is con-
ducting a department manager's sale of pianos.
The Brown Music Co., 3018 East Ninety-first street.
Chicago, is doing a mail-order business in selling
pianos. R. M. Brown is the president.
The St. Louis Music Co., St. Louis, Mo., is doing
a mail order business in phonograph records.
The Wurlitzer store at Louisville, Ky., is conduct-
ing a special sale of grand pianos in that city.
The San Antonio Music Co., 316 West Commerce
street, San Antonio, Texas, is conducting a piano sale
at $10 down and $10 monthly.
The McKee Music Co., Charleston, W. V., is car-
rying on a sale "to clear our rooms of these A-l
pianos."
The Lehman Piano Co., 1101 Olive street, St. Louis,
Mo., announces that it is exclusive distributor for
Sohmer, Brambach and Bechstein pianos.
Bailey's Music Rooms, Inc., 217 College street,
Burlington, Vt., says: "We are showing the world's
finest small grand Baldwin, the piano that is featured
in the radio programs, Howard, E. P. Mason and
Everett."
The Hunt-Gaskill Co., Bridgeton, N. J., is demon-
strating and selling the Gulbransen pianos.
Speaking of the Steinway, the Jenkins Music Co.,
Oklahoma City, Okla., says: "An instrument such
as this is an investment that pays for itself—what-
ever the price—many, many times over."
L. C. Tiller is now doing a piano business at 206
Capitol boulevard, Nashville. Tenn.
Walter D. Moses & Co., Richmond, Va., calls itself
"The Steinway House."
The Levy-Page Co., Portsmouth, Va., has closed
a piano sale at that city. Among the instruments sold
were Mehlin, Straube, Weber, George Steck, Milton
and Francis Bacon instruments.
The New England Piano Co. moved from 156
Boylston street, Boston, on July 1.
The Walter Simon Publishing Co. opened its new
sheet music department in the Wurlitzer store in St.
Louis, Mo., on June 15.
The Winter Piano Co., Erie, Pa., has just closed
a sale of grand pianos. It represents the American
Piano Corp.'s line.
The Oliver H. Ross Piano Co., Fort Worth, Texas,
recently conducted a player clearance sale.
The Cable Piano Co.. 84 North Broad street, Atlan-
ta, Ga., says: "The Cable Midget upright is a piano
all children love."
Kohler & Chase, 111 O'Farrell street, San Fran-
cisco, Calif., recently carried out a "great sale of
grand pianos."
The Emerson-Hiltbruner Music Co., Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, says: "We are headquarters for Steinway,
Conover and Schulz pianos."
The Goerke Co., Newark, N. J., is offering a player-
piano for "$1 down, small weekly payment, no in-
terest."
When the Leedy drum factory, which is moving
from Indianapolis to Elkhart, Ind., and begins its op-
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