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Established 1884
Phone Harrison 0234
PRESTO-TIMES
417 South Dearborn Street, Chicago
The American Music Trades Journal
WANTED: Tuner and repair man, one capable of fin-
ishing pianos and putting- in good condition for resale.
One who has some selling ability preferred. Good open-
ing for this kind of a man. Location in the Northwest.
Address: Tuner-Repairer, care Presto Times.
POSITION WANTED—An office man with years of ex-
perience in accounting, credits, and collections, open for
permanent connection with retail piano house. Best of
references; salary, in line with present conditions. Ad-
dress Office Man, care Presto-Times, Chicago.
AVAILABLE
TRAVELER OR RETAIL SALES MANAGER. Piano
Department. Exceptional sales record; broad experience.
Ten years wholesale and special sales work assisting deal-
ers East and West. Excellent references. Address
AVAILABLE, Box 1-7, PRESTO-TIMES, Chicago.
DEALER-MAKER OPPORTUNITY
This advertiser is able to bring about a Denier-Maker
piano agency or distributing center that can be made
a very ] rofitable business. Good references and a littU*
money are the essential requirements. Address "'Dealer-
Maker Representative." care Presto-Times.
Leonard
W U R L I T Z E R MANUFACTURING
CO. ANNOUNCES NEW AUTO-
MATIC PHONOGRAPH
Nov.-Dec, 1933
HERE'S HOW THE BUYERS' GUIDE
WORKS
A piano salesman, connected with an important Chi-
cago house, known as a successful piano man, tells
of an interesting experience in connection with the
use of the Presto Buyers' Guide in helping him make
a sale recently. His customer insisted upon being
convinced in some "authoritative way" of the value
and standing of the piano he was offering and the
standing and reputation of the manufacturers of the
instrument as well as a record on the origin of the
instrument his opponent was endeavoring to sell.
Salesman number one suggested to the lady that she
call the Better Business Bureau which was immediate-
ly done by telephone. That office in supplying the
information requested read to the inquirer over the
telephone the description and estimate of the pianos
in question as given in the Buyers' Guide as being
authentic and reliable. This settled the matter to the
entire satisfaction of the customer resulting, of course,
in an immediate sale by salesman number one.
* * *
And almost as these lines are written another inci-
The Rudolph Y\ urlitzer Manufactur'ng Com-
pany is now reported in full production on the "Wur- dent in which the Buyers' Guide figures as a deciding
litzer" Simplex automatic phonograph. The new factor has just occurred. It is a story of an intended
Simplex is handsome in design and its amplifying purchaser of a piano labelled "Mason & Farrell" and
and reproducing units are said to have been so per- which Mr. Farrell, known as A. M. Farrell, was en-
fected that it is almost impossible to distinguish the deavoring to sell. This party, the intended purchaser,
a resident of the south side in Chicago, had made a
music from that of a real orchestra.
Reports from the Wurlitzer factory at North Tona- deposit on the Mason & Farrell instrument but the
wanda, New York, indicate that the demand for day after he had done this he heard some stories
automatic coin-operated phonographs is constantly about the Farrell and the Mason & Farrell business.
increasing. This new activity in the coin-operated He was advised to refer to the Presto Buyers' Guide
field seems to prove that Wurlitzer was right in as- and thereupon came to this office for information and
to verify the Buyers' Guide record as it had been re-
lated to him. So unfavorable was the report he secured
at the Presto-Times office that he immediately de-
FOR SALE TO DEALERS.
manded return of the deposit he had made on the
Second-hand uprights and players, $10 to $25 each.
Mason & Farrell piano and at last accounts lie had
Cable Piano Company, Wabash at Jackson, Chicago, 111.
bargained for a recognized standard piano.
PRESTO-TIMES SERVICE BUREAU
And a day after the incident above, a would-be
purchaser who was attracted to a sale offered at the
Presto-Times carries on a Service Department
Kimball factory over-flow salesrooms where ex-
whrch is open and free for advice and information to
changed and repossessed instruments are stored, has
its readers, patrons, friends and anyone interested,
called at the Presto-Times office to inquire about a
concerning manufacturers in the music industries, their
piano advertised and offered at a low price. This
capacity for production and estimates of their prod-
party was advised to read the estimate on the piano
ucts, so far as such information is obtainable and
offered contained in the Buyers' Guide. He was given
available.
a copy of the book containing a record of the piano
For many years this paper has tendered its services
in question and in all probability he will have made
toward aiding individuals and firms in various ways;
the purchase before this appears in print.
in business associations, in certain line of purchases,
agency and distributor connections, and various con-
And just as these lines are written a would-be
fidential angles that often arise in "getting together."
purchaser attracted to a sale offered at the Kimball
factory salesrooms calls at the Presto-Times office to
Presto-Times is often in a position to render appre-
inquire about a piano taken in exchange and offered
ciable service of direct advantage to the parties con-
at a low price. This inquirer was advised to read
cerned, something we are always ready and glad to do.
the Buyers' Guide estimate on this instrument. He
This service is voluntarily offered, having in view
did this at the Presto office and probably concluded
the mutual advantage to principal and agent and, vice
the purchase of the instrument offered him at a fair
versa, to agent and principal, holding all communica-
and reasonable price.
tions and relations in the strictest confidence.
Commercial Service of
Presto Publishing Company,
The Whittle Music House, Dallas, Tex., is ad-
417 S. Dearborn St., Chicago.
vertising its 21st anniversary and is just now doing a
considerable amount of newspaper and other adver-
tising. As newly organized, the Whittle Music Com-
WILL COLLINS' LAST RESTING PLACE
pany, which succeeded the I). L. Whittle Music Com-
The body of Will Collins, whose passing was previ-
pany, seems to be forging ahead in a successful man-
ously announced, now lies in the newly constructed
ner under the control of Howard Beasley. Jr.
and beautiful mausoleum at Peoria, Illinois, in which
city he spent some of the early days of his life. He
was born at Litchneld, Illinois, but had been located
FOR SALE
in Chicago since the days of the World's Columbian
200 player pianos of well-known make
Exposition, when he was associated with Lyon &
standard actions; all in A-l condition.
Healy and had charge of the Lyon & Healy booth
200 Orthophonic victrolas.
in Section I of the 1893 Exposition.
THE XKW Wl'RLlTZER AUTOMATIC PHONOGRAPH
Will quote close prices to cash buyers.
MODEL
Will Collins was a dear boy, beloved by all and
Address :
who in return had a very warm affection for his sr.ming that the return of beer would mean renewed
"DEALERS", No. 8 North Market Square,
friends and for everything musical, and all the enter- interest in automatic phonographs for use in restau-
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
prises and associations of the Chicago music trade.
rants, beer gardens and other places of amusement
Harry Taylor, owner of the Taylor Music Com- made popular by 3.2.
The Rudolph Wurlitzer Mfg. Company claims that
pany, Duluth, Minn., dear to many in the trade and
a warm friend of scores in the piano industry, passed the new and improved Simplex automatic phonograph
away November 1. Years ago he worked with the old is the most completely selective coin-operated auto-
Yellow key-boards whitened or
Hallet & Davis Piano Company in Boston and matic phonograph ever developed.
The
Simplex
has
a
magazine
of
ten
full-sized
traveled for that house for many years. Later he
recovered
joined the Price & Teeple Piano Company, Chicago, records and according to Wurlitzer engineers any
and continued with that house until he went into combination of these records can be played. All selec-
PY-RO-LAC—the new key whitener, looks like
business for himself at Duluth, establishing the Taylor tion of records can be made at the same time; the
a number one ivory—send for sample.
Music Company which has become a well-known in- machine accepts from one to twenty nickels at once.
In this way, the need for constantly getting up to
stitution at Duluth. He was a genial gentleman of
select another record or put another coin in the
52 tops and fronts whitened
$3.50
kind personality and, as a friend said, "a marvelous
slot is entirely eliminated. Absolute fidelity of repro-
salesman both retail and wholesale."
On this job only ivories glued, each . .
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duction is also claimed for the Simplex.
Officials
of
the
Rudolph
Wurlitzer
Mfg.
Company
36 sharps lacquer-sprayed black
1.00
A JESSE FRENCH SHIPMENT
report that the Simplex automatic phonograph is
A correspondent at Xew Castle, I ml., sends to being enthusiastically received throughout the country.
Write lor prices on recovering, as our mate-
Presto-Times a photograph showing a line-up along
Mr. H. E. Capehart, the distinguished automatic
the Jesse French piano factory of pianos, mostly musical instrument expert and director, since he be-
rials and labor are much higher.
uprights, just as they were about ready to be put on
came general sales manager of the Rudolph Wur-
motor trucks for the Jesse French store at Mobile,
litzer Mfg. Company, is delighted with the work
Ala. Jesse French 111 is doing some lively hustling which he finds at the great Wurlitzer institution, the
McMackin Piano Service
in the Mobile territory and says, "Believe it or not, factories and laboratories at North Tonawanda. He
these pianos will all be sold by a clay or two after
1719-21 Mondamin Ave., Des Moines, la.
finds there the best opportunities of his life for putting
New Years' next."
into action his energies and versatility.
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