September, 1931
PRESTO-TIMES
10
Well Merited Praise
Copy of a letter to PRESTO-TIMES
under date of Aug. 12, 1931, from a well known authority
on Piano Construction, Piano Quality and Piano Selling
"/ played on some of the Schiller goods recently
and they sure deserve the good word Presto-Times
has said for them. Fine quality and deserving ot
recognition."
The
JESSE FRENCH
JUNIOR
This Schiller Super Grand is a
six-foot model and combines
quality workmanship and spec-
ifications of the finest Grand
Pianos built. Its unsurpassed
tone is the result of the
Schiller suspended construc-
tion, an exclusive Schiller fea-
ture. Made in Mahogany and
Walnut rubbed to Satin Finish.
''They Have Made
Their Way By
The Way They
Are Made"
Super Grand Style 15 Artist Model
SCHILLER PIANO COMPANY
Manufacturers
AN INTERESTING CONTEST
The Milwaukee branch store of the Baldwin Piano
Co. recently offered prizes for articles describing
the piano as an instrument of usefulness and of ne-
cessity, which brought many replies and many well
written articles on the subjects suggested. The main
prize was a grand piano and others of special value
were given. This event was inaugurated and carried
out by T. R. Huston of the Milwaukee store and.
as he says, it brought many letters and was a success
from a prospect-getting point of view, and also from
the fact that it set the customers to studying the
Baldwin line, and it has already resulted in several
sales. We also obtained some very good selling
arguments both to be used in selling our line and
as a reason why every child should learn to play a
piano.
OREGON, ILLINOIS
GLAD TO GET BACK
Mr. William Hartman. arranger for the Clark-
Orchestra Roll Co., De Kalb, 111., and music roll
expert, arrived home on August 30. accompanied by
Mrs. Hartman, from a six weeks' trip to England.
They sailed from New York and returned by way
of Montreal. They hired an automobile and toured
the country, visiting, of course, many places of great
interest. Years ago Mr. Hartman resided in England,
where he was associated with Perforated Music Roll
Co., of London, and naturally he met many old-time
friends and acquaintances on this tour which helped
to make the trip interesting and valuable.
Mr. Hartman says that conditions in the piano trade
and prospects for piano and gramaphone trade there
seem to be "pretty fair." as he puts it.
"Radio and wireless are not so far advanced as in
America and their programs given over the air are
NEW MUSIC STORE AT NEW ALBANY
not so varied as here. A tax must be paid by every
Carl R. Eckhart, who recently took over the musi- wireless owner." Mr. Hartman was quite amused to
cal department of Bettmann Bros., 204-206 East Main
see so many small automobiles in use over there.
street, New Albany, Ind., has enlarged and rearranged
Little cars like the Austin; many of them almost like
it in his new place of business, 211 East Main. miniature automobiles and having a sliding roof to
Mr. Eckhart is well known in New Albany as one let the sunlight in. Mr. and Mrs. Hartman were
of its finest violinists, and teachers. He has played in
heartily greeted upon their return to De Kalb, and
various Falls Cities theaters, and over Radio Station
while having a wonderfully good time abroad are
WHAS with the Williamson Entertainers last season. delighted to get back.
PRESIDENT WEEKS NOTES IMPROVEMENT
Air. D. L. Loomis, secretary of the National Asso-
ciation of Music Merchants, who w r as recently guest
of President Weeks of the National Association,
writes that President Weeks makes a very encour-
aging report of business in all of the departments
of his store. The Weeks and Dickinson establish-
ment consists of a complete music store where not
only pianos, but all kinds of musical instruments are
handled, together with a very fine stock of sheet
music, both standard teaching and popular numbers
MR. HUNT SELLS HIS BUSINESS
There Is Quality
In tine Midget Field
SO SAYS LEVEL-HEADED PIANO MAN
H. C. Dickinson, head of the Chicago house of the
Baldwin Piano Co., while conservatively optimistic, is
not the least particle pessimistic in the outlook, as
he sees it, for the piano industry. He believes that
when the pendulum of business in general starts on
its upward swing once again, the piano business will
rise with the rest. The piano industry is not in back
of other businesses; in fact, it is rather advanced
over many in the sense of recuperation, and when the
revival comes it will follow along with the rest.
The proof is in the
Junior—a small precision
built radio with the
same fine features found
in the most expensive
consoles.
Quality of performance
and appearance mark it
as the aristocrat of the
small radio field—
and it is backed by 55
years of experience in the
building of fine pianos.
THE JESSE FRENCH and
SONS PIANO COMPANY
The death is announced of C. S. York, who for
The Hunt Music Store at Corydon, Iowa, has been
many years was in business at Brazil, Ind., where he
sold to Benjamin Grismore, who is the manager of
died at the Clay County Hospital after a brief illness
the. Singer Sewing Machine Shop at Corydon. Mr. of pneumonia at the age of 75 years. Mr. York
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supplies from Mr. Hunt. Mr. and Mrs. Hunt are
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