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PRESTO-TIMES
PRESTO-TIMES WANT ADVS.
AVAILABLE
Traveler or Retail Sales Manager; Piano Department.
Exceptional sales record ; broad experience. Ten years'
wholesale and special sales work assisting dealers East
and West. Excellent references. Address "Available,"
Box 1-7, Presto-Times, Chicago.
WANTED: Superintendent for Middle West factory.
Must be first class, thoroughly experienced all depart-
ments. Write details, age and salary expected. Address:
Factory Superintendent, care of Presto-Times.
STORY & CLARK PROGRESS
The Story & Clark illustrated advertisement in this
issue of Presto-Times bearing the caption, "Tradition
—Sincerity," and showing immediately under this
heading- an illustration of a new Story & Clark grand
model, speaks for itself; it epitomizes the story of
this eminent piano manufacturing house as fully and
completely as a column of reading matter might do.
The record of Story & Clark stands out boldly for
progress, development, accomplishment, extending
over a long period of years. Seventy-seven years is
a long time for a business to have been so closely
cemented together and to have continued family own-
ership and management during this time.
The year 1934 seems to mark a particular period in
the progress of Story & Clark. At the factory at
Grand Haven during the past two or three years, all
through 1932 and 1933, every model of the older in-
struments was disposed of and 1934 has seen inaugu-
rated a complete and absolutely new line of instru-
ments, both grands and uprights. The present facili-
ties of manufacture prove the Story & Clark line
moneymakers and satisfactory in the highest degree.
It is gratifying to the Story & Clark regime headed
by F. F. Story, president, and ably assisted by L. P.
Bull, vice-pres., and E. F. Story, treasurer, to find so
many of the old-time Story & Clark customers who
have again united their efforts on Story & Clark-
sales. These, with the scores of new houses, as a
rule the cream of the trade, are featuring the new
Story & Clark line of instruments throughout the
country.
President F. F. Story has been doing a great deal
of traveling in the last year or two and his more re-
cent trips indicate a new era has dawned in the piano
business placing the piano manufacturing industry as
one of the leading industries of the country where it
rightfully belongs.
A CHICKERING CONTEST AT BOSTON
Ampico Hall, Boston, headquarters for the Chicker-
ing piano, has been a busy place of late owing in part
to a Chickering piano contest which has been going
on there. Trials are conducted daily at the Chicker-
ing showrooms and the following are the judges for
the contests: Cyrus W. Durgin, A. H. Mayers, War-
ren Storey Smith and Moses Smith.
WANTED: Capable piano and music trade man as
manager for branch store in city of 25,000 population.
Man ef general music business experience. Address: Man-
ager, Box O, care of Presto-Times.
UPRIGHTS WANTED: Wanted carload or more; fif-
teen to twenty-five upright pianos, small or medium size.
One trucklqad can be sent from Chicago. Give condition
and approximate price. Address : Upright Buyer, care of
Presto-Times.
THE NEW P. A. STARCK PIANO
STORE ON BOUL-MICH.,
CHICAGO
In the P. A. Starck Piano Co.'s new store and main
offices at 18 N. Michigan Blvd., Chicago, this long
established piano house has come into especial promi-
nence; for the location—first floor sales and display
room with extensive street and entrance frontage
place the store in a limelight of attraction by day
and night; a prominence that will enable the house
to cut a big figure among piano establishments of
this city. The store is in an ideal Michigan Avenue
location; just about far enough north and not too
far south on this fashionable promenade to be called
a perfect home for a piano store.
The assortment and display of instruments on the
first floor is a gorgeous array in novel designs;
colonial and international models, a showing worthy
of admiration.
Thus Starck sets the pace for a Michigan Ave-
nue line of music emporiums.
A successful school of music pupils is taking ad-
vantage of the Rudolph Wurlitzer Company's in-
struction on piano and other musical instruments at
the Rudolph Wurlitzer store, 122 S. Second St.,
Hamilton, Ohio. Among the teachers for the Rudolph
Wurlitzer School of Instruction are Sarah Keller
Marvin, Irvine Taylor, Martin Kolstedt and George
Adams. Miss Marvin, of this group, is a graduate of
the Cincinnati College of Music and she teaches piano-
accordion and violin as well as the piano.
Hoffmann's Music House, 537 Wood St., Pitts-
burgh, Pa., says that "traditional Hoffmann quality is
reflected in the fine line of pianos carried by this
house."
The gross estate of the late William G. Haussler,
former president of the American branch of the M.
Hohner Company, harmonica manufacturers, was ap-
praised at $629,369.00.
The late Augustus S. Peabody, of the investment
house of Peabody Houghteling Company and later
Peabody & Company, Inc., was a patron of music
and well known among many friends in the music
trades and industries who will cherish the memory
of acquaintance with this patron of music and musical
development.
SPECIAL TWO-PIANO ATTRACTION
April-May, 1934
A NEW WURLITZER PIANO SALON
The new Wurlitzer Piano Salon located on the third
floor of the Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. store, 110 E. Sec-
ond St., Youngstown, Ohio, is referred to in the
"Vindicator" of that city as "one of the most beauti-
ful in the state." The design was by Ralph Ellis, a
local artist, and has attracted a great deal of atten-
tion. A very handsome likeness of Rudolph Wurlit-
zer, the founder of the Wurlitzer Company in
America, appears as an interesting mosaic on one of
the walls of the Salon.
WAINWRIGHT IN BIG FIRE AT MARIETTA
Marietta. Ohio, has had a big $300,000.00 fire; a con-
flagration that just about wiped out the Wainwright
Music Company and its furniture department, with
an estimated loss of $25,000. It was a big fire and
threatened the entire business district of Marietta.
There was no piano loss.
Mr. F. Affholder, the able representative for the
Baldwin line of pianos at Lansing, Michigan, was in
Chicago a day or two recently, coming here to stock
up on certain lines of small goods, musical merchan-
dise and to get a view at the Chicago Baldwin ware-
rooms of some late models of Baldwin and Hamilton
pianos, thus saving him a trip to the factory at Cin-
cinnati. Mr. Affholder's store at Lansing is located
at 523 N. Washington Avenue.
R. L. Jones, proprietor of the Jones Music House.
Spencer, Iowa, is now celebrating his thirty-fifth year
in business at Spencer. To be exact, Mr. Jones sold
his first organ on April 2, 1900, to a Miss Maggie
Davis, Linn Grove, in that county, and from that
time on he has been active in the music business.
The Chas. E. Roat Music Company of Battle Creek,
Michigan, has an extensive band instrument repair
shop in connection with their business. The Roat
Music House has carried on an active business in
band instruments for many years and its repair de-
partment brings in orders from far and near.
The Binion-Stocker Music Company of Monett,
Missouri, is to occupy a new and enlarged place of
business on the completion of their new location in
the Davis & Chapell Building at 402 Broadway that
city.
Mr. Larson, who has been teaching music in Lan-
caster, Ohio, for several years past, has opened a
music store at 103 North Maple Street, that city.
Mr. Larson has been very successful as a teacher in
that vicinity for several years past and he now be-
lieves that he has fine prospects for a successful busi-
ness career.
The Sannebeck & Son Music Company, Mexico,
Missouri, has recently moved to a new location which
gives them many added facilities. The junior member
of the firm, Ralph T. Sannebeck, is an accomplished
pianist and a new piano parlor has been established.
The building about to be put up by the Davis
Company at 324-326 South Wabash Avenue, Chicago,
replaces the store of Julius Bauer & Company occu-
pied prior to their removal across the street at number
305 South Wabash Avenue.
E. M. Hewitt, manager of the Anderson (Indiana)
branch of the Pearson Piano Company, says that his
general music business has been exceptionally good
of late, adding that "if all Anderson business is as
good as ours, prosperity is not around the corner, it is
knocking at the door."
H. B. Sowell of Seattle, Washington, recently be-
came proprietor of the Newton (Kansas) Music Com-
pany, an establishment that has been in business at
Newton since 1900, this being the second change of
ownership since the business was established thirty-
four years ago.
The Arthur Jordan Piano Company, Washington,
D. C , is carrying out a plan for piano instruction
for children giving a course of free lessons and the
opportunity of learning how to play "the most de-
sirable of all musical instruments: the piano."
Mary C. Lepara, music publisher, at 51 Lincoln
Street, North Adams, Mass., has several copyrights
of both songs and instrumental selections both well
suited for popular music. Publishers who are looking
for suitable music for sheet music sales are invited
to correspond with Miss Lepera.
The Famous Noller-Straub Piano Twins who broadcast from the Wilking Piano
Store, Indianapolis.
The Charles Frederick Stein grand piano was used
for the Sacred concert of the combined boy choirs of
the Episcopal Church of Chicago, recently held at
Orchestral Hall under direction of the Chicago Choir
Masters Association and sponsored by Bishop George
Craig Stewart and other clergy and notables of the
Episcopal Church.
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