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March, 1932
PRESTO-TIMES
are made about as fast as finished pianos can be
turned out from the factory complete and ready for
the customer.
This is what may be termed extremely clean busi-
ness; everything new and complete from the finishing
rooms as shipped to the customers.
B. K. Settergren Activity; New Settergren
A new line of Settergrens is introduced this season
and this month witnesses two or three of these late
Models
designs ready for the trade, one of which is shown
In a New Year's greeting sent out by the B. K. designs ready for the trade.
Settergren Co., Bluffton, Ind., they expressed in this
However, and to make a brief story briefer, we
greeting:
cannot do better in calling the attention of the trade
"Implicit confidence in the future of the piano busi- to these Suttergren activities than to repeat the text of
ness, with the assurance that we shall continue our the half page display announcement of the B. K. Set-
OPTIMISTIC SUGGESTION
VERIFIED
RARE MANUSCRIPTS FOR SALE
This advertiser has for sale a collec-
tion of letters, most of them entirely
written and signed by such personages
as ex-Presidents Martin Van Buren,
James Madison, John Quincy Adams,
James Buchanan; two letters from La
Fayette, and letters from Josef Bona-
parte (brother of Napoleon Bonaparte),
Edward Everett, Washington Irving, J.
Fenimore Cooper, Daniel W e b s t e r ,
Henry Clay, L. H. Sigourney, and many
others. Anyone interested in securing
such a collection may address: Auto-
graph, care of Presto-Times.
MANUSCRIPTS FOR SALE
For Sale: Two letters and several verses
of poetry written by Lorenzo da Ponte, the
librettist of Mozart's leading grand operas,
such as "Marriage of Figaro," "Don Juan";
also autograph manuscript by Jules Massenet
from first act of "Manon," and autograph
manuscripts of other musical celebrities.
Address Presto Publishing Co., 417 South
Dearborn St., Chicago, 111.
MORE ABOUT THE HALLBAUER CHROMON-
ICA HOLDER
I'resto-Times again calls
the attention of its readers
and particularly the atten-
tion of dealers to the chro-
monica and string instru-
ment holder made by the
H a l l bauer Manufacturing
Company, 1535 Wellston
A XKW SETTERGREX CKEATIOX.
avenue, St. Louis, Mo.
This is an appliance which
endeavors to serve the music dealer with merchandise tergren Company in this issue of Presto Times which
dealers will find a good,
reads:
that will be a credit to his business and ours."
salable article; something
Now, after the lapse of over two months the sug-
The Suttergren Grand Pianos
that amateurs and profes-
gestion indicated in the Settergren greeting is being
For 1932
sionals in stringed musical instruments will appreciate.
fulfilled and the Settergren business has continued
Are Models of
The Hallbauer attachment must not be confused as
to grow and the Settergren factory has continued to
Elegance and Excellence
being a harmonica holder, of which there are several
T
keep pace w ith this continued prosperity, with the
Investigate the Settergren Proposition.
now on the market. The Hallbauer is a chromonica
result that very little accumulation of instruments is
B. K. Settergren Co.
holder which, incidentally, has the advantage of hold-
ever noticeable at the Settergren plant, for shipments
Bluffton. Ind., U. S. A.
ing harmonicas also. The super-chromonica holder
is intended for all stringed musical instruments and
using Hohner chromonicas and harmonicas of all sizes
The small, cheap grand is having hard times. in combination with guitar, banjo, ukelele, etc.
CORRESPONDENT SENDS TWO IN- years.
The class of people who would buy cheap pianos is
Presto-Times begs to refer its readers to the Hall-
TERESTING TEXAS ITEMS
out of the market and they cannot afford to pay the
A piano teacher who recently visiter the Diggans price of a first-class instrument. Naturally, too, the bauer advertisement on another page of this issue
Music Store at San Antonio, Tex., writes that he salesman who bends his efforts to sell cheap goods is and to recommend that dealers communicate with
found a force of piano men which he describes as in the dumps. This house is looking forward to a the manufacturers.
"real, honest-to-God piano men" who believe as many nice business this year and it is already starting off
pianos can be sold today as two in three years ago well."
INFORMATION ON A FIVE AND SIX
by using extra effort and real "try-hard" work. The
OCTAVE MODEL
By the way, Mr. Snyder says that he was a reader
correspondent writes and quotes Mr. E. C. Diggans of Presto for many years. In fact, he has had the
as saying: "I am afraid that so many of us were paper sent to his home since away back in 1892. Letters have come to Presto-Times asking where
spoiled by the easy resistance of the past few years Think of that! And, of course, he has had Presto- the small five and six octave pianos can be obtained
that it is hard for us to get into a working harness." Times right along since its consolidation with Presto. at first hands, to which inquiries Presto-Times is
pleased to refer to the Kohler-Brambach Piano Com-
Mr. Diggans said also that he had been a reader
Mr. Diggans said that he himself and his two part- pany, which manufactures the well known small in-
and admirer of Presto-Times for many years.
ners had been readers and admirers of Presto-Times
This same correspondent also writes an interest- for many years and that copies of the Presto Buyers' struments known as the "Tom Thumb" models. Their
ing story of a chat he had with George H. Snyder Guide "are on our sales desks, likewise, at all times." six octave piano of this model known as the Louis
XVI style has proven itself to be a very popular
of the D. L. Whittle Music Company, 1213 Elm street,
design.
Its delicate line is accepted as an art model
MR. McMACKIN OF DES MOINES SAYS
Dallas, Tex., in which Mr. Snyder is quoted as saying
by many conservative homes who wish to deviate
SOMETHING
that "notwithstanding the depression has hit the
piano business pretty hard in Texas, where a good
Mr. McMackin informs a Presto-Times correspon- from colonial lines, and yet do not wish to be out
many lirms have gone out of business, nevertheless it dent that within the past ten days or two weeks a of step with the over-stuffed furniture such as found
looks now like we are on the upgrade and that busi- remarkable improvement is seen in his business; that in the modern home. It is decorative and dainty.
ness in the better class of pianos will improve. "In orders are coming from different parts of the coun-
Have you a cutomer that wants a particular type of
fact," he says, "we are selling more high-grade grand try indicating that the piano key covering business,
any second-hand instrument? Advertise for it L the
pianos now than we have in the past three or four at least, is getting better.
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