May, 1931
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P R E S T 0-T I M E S
building, now known as the Studebaker building, 410
South Michigan Avenue.
W. W. Kimball Co.
(Chicago)
The W. W. Kimball Co. will welcome visitors at its
main stores in Kimball Hall at Wabash avenue and
Jackson boulevard.
Gulbransen Co.
(Chicago)
See Stevens Hotel exhibits. Their full line of pianos
and radios will also be on display at their factory,
Chicago and Kedzie avenues.
Kranich & Bach
(New York-Chicago)
Kranich & Bach will extend their welcome to visit-
ors at their Chicago headquarters in the Kranich &
Bach store at 77 East Jackson boulevard in the Straus
building.
GENERAL INDEPENDENT EXHIBITS
The following houses will have displays of their
products independent of the Palmer House and
Stevens Hotel exhibits.
The Cable Co.
(Chicago)
The Cable Co., whose headquarters are less than
two blocks from the Palmer House, will have displays
at its warerooms, Jackson and Wabash, of Cable,
Conover and Kingsbury instruments. Here Presi-
dent George J. Dowling, W. E. Guylee, George L.
Hall, George W. Eddy, C. W. Schild and a force of
salesmen will be glad to welcome their friends.
Haddorff Piano Co.
(Rockford, 111.)
A full line of Haddorff pianos will be shown at the
Haddorff agency in Chicago, located in the Fine Arts
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Lyon & Healy
(Chicago)
Lyon & Healy will have a full line of Steinway,
the Chickering and other instruments of their line at
their store, Wabash avenue and Jackson boulevard.
Also Lyon & Healy pianos and small goods and
"everything in music"? Several piano manufacturers
will also hold exhibits in the Lyon & Healy building.
Schiller Piano Co.
The Schiller Piano Co., which plans to make quite
an elaborate and certainly representative exhibit at
the salesrooms of the Wyman Piano Co., the Chicago
agency for the Schiller, located in the Republic build-
ing, will be represented there by Edgar B. Jones,
assisted by his son and by the secretary of the com-
pany, B. F. Shelly. Really, had Mr. Jones intended
to exhibit at the Palmer House, the cost would have
been almost prohibitive, for at the regular Wyman
warerooms he will have on exhibition some half a
dozen designs, including the late model shown in this
issue of Presto-Times.
Story & Clark Piano Co.
(Chicago)
The Story & Clark exhibit at the headquarters, 173
North Michigan avenue, will consist of the Louis XVI
grand style 52; Style 52 English; Style 46 Petite
grand, English and Early American; Styles 15 and 23
upright; Style 23 Jacobean; Style 23 English, and the
complete line of Story & Clark radios.
M. Schulz Co.
(Chicago)
The M. Schulz Co. is planning a fine display of its
line of pianos, including the Brinkerhoff and Werner
pianos, at its warerooms, 711 Milwaukee avenue—an
exhibit that will probably not be excelled by any other
house. President Emil W. Wolff, Secretary and
Treasurer Fred P. Bassett, Vice-President Otto
Schulz, Jr., and General Salesman Henry Hewitt will
be on hand to show the new styles and give visitors
a glad welcome. Their new Diminutive Upright and
new classy designs in grands will be on exhibition.
P. A. Starck Piano Co.
(Chicago)
The P. A. Starck Piano Co. is planning a notable
exhibit of the P. A. Starck Co.'s line of grand and up-
right pianos. They have several novelties to show,
both in case designs and attractive veneers. The ware-
rooms of the Starck company are at 228 South Wa-
bash avenue, only a block from the Palmer House
and two or three blocks from the Stevens Hotel, and
the factory is at 3859 South Ashland avenue, Chicago.
A trip to the Starck factory will be well worth while
to the visitor.
Piano class instruction throughout the country is
constantly and rapidly gaining. Reports about this
encouraging prospect for- future piano sales have
reached Presto-Times from Louisville, Ky., from
Williamsburg and Lexington, Ky., from Pontiac,
Mich., and several other cities and towns. At Pon-
tiac, Mich., 26 piano classes, with an enrolloment of:
10 pupils in each class, are in operation in the public
schools.
C. J. Ennis, manager at Columbus, Ohio, for the
Wurlitzer Music Co., has leased a building at 1078
Cassingham road, that city.
PIANO KEY RECOVERING
CONSISTENT WITH PRICE REDUCTIONS ON MATERIALS WE USE AN INSTALLATION OF IM-
PROVED MACHINERY, WE ARE OFFERING OUR SERVICE OF RECOVERING PIANO KEYS WITH
IMITATION IVORY AT A REDUCTION IN PRICE. SAMPLE ON REQUEST.
$7.00
NO CHARGE FOR FRONTS
WHEN KEYS ARE RECOVERED WE MAKE NO ADDITIONAL CHARGE FOR NEW FRONTS, IF THEY ARE
NECESSARY. WE PUT THE FRONTS IN FIRST CLASS SHAPE WITHOUT ADDITIONAL CHARGE.
SPECIAL
The following articles will be sent you upon request, gratis, while they last, with a set of keys sent us for covering or repair.
1—15 inch laminated maple straight edge.
1 quick changeable sand file.
1 Ivorine covered touch block.
Useful articles to any tuner or dealer doing repair work.
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INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
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