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PRESTO-TIMES
PRESTO TIMES WANT ADVS.
PIANOS WANTED
SfiMincl-hancl and special iots of new and repos-
sessed grand and uinisht pianos. We refinish and
put in first-class salable condition for dealers. Deal-
ers' trade desired.
I'jntire stocks of new, second-hand, distressed
pianos bought for cash.
Receiver's sales of instruments solicited.
Studio and period models of grands from factory,
dealer or warehouse particularly desirable.
Write what you have to sell and what you want to
buy. Address:
"Buyer-Seller." care of. I'resto-Times.
XEVV AND SECOND-HANI) STOCKS WANTED.
WANT to get in touch with manufacturer or large
dealer who has a large stock of new and second-hand
pianos that he wants turned into paying paper. Have
just completed over six hundred sales within the last two
years. Want only straight commission proposition. What
have you to offer a producer? Address: PRODUCER, care
of PRESTO-TIMES, Chicago. Illinois.
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,"
Hox 1-7, Presto-Times, Chicago.
UPRIGHTS WANTED: Wanted carload or more; fif-
teen to twenty-five upright pianos, small or medium size.
One truckload can be sent from Chicago. Give condition
and approximate price. Address: Upright Buyer, care of
Presto-Timis.
LARGE UPRTGHTS WANTED
THIS advertiser is in the market for about a dozen
uprights standard m:ike, size 4'1" to 4'6". They must
have ivory key fronts, copper wound bass strings, spruce
sounding boards and a Rood tone and musical quality.
Address UPRIGHT BUYKR. care of PRESTO-TIMES.
Have you a cutomer that wants a particular type of
any second-hand instrument? Advertise for it i; the
PRESTO-TIMES classified columns
AN EXPERT WHO IS CARRYING ON
AN EXPERT BUSINESS
ANOTHER NOTABLE SPINET GRAND
AGENCY
In announcing the exclusive representation of the
Mathushek Spinet grand piano the J. W. Green Com-
pany, Toledo, Ohio, say that "in this new and dif-
ferent type of piano you find the graceful lines of
the old Spinet of our grandmother's day. In it has
been incorporated a somewhat different modern in-
strument that has a keyboard of eighty-five notes.
It has a beautiful tone and is an extremely graceful
piece of furniture."
L. E. McMackin, proprietor of the McMackin
Piano Service, the well-known piano key recovering
business of Des Moines, Iowa, is not only interested
in commercial and industrial pursuits of the trade but
he is a musician of repute. For many years Mr.
McMackin has played on various band and orchestral
instruments and is always interested in professional
musical enterprises.
In writing of the great competitive band conven-
tion recently held at Des Moines, Mr. McMackin
says: "I heard several of the performances given at
this convention and I take my hat ofif to them. Some
of the performances were really great and for young-
sters, boys and girls, much of their work astonishingly
excellent.' Continuing in a letter recently received
from Mr. McMackin he writes: "Who dares to say
that we should cut music out of the schools. Has
such an individual ever played a horn; does he know
the thrill one gets who plays some kind of a musical
instrument? And does such a person realize or if
he does realize does he appreciate the mental activity
required in studying music? I sincerely believe, as
tests have already shown, that students who play in
band or orchestra develop quicker thinking and are
more successful in their grades and all studies than
those who are not musical and do not take any in-
terest in music."
Mr. McMackin has had a wide experience in music
as well as in his business activities. He first took
up the violin, then the baritone horn, playing in vari-
ous bands and orchestras and has clone a good deal
of work in church music. Finally after drifting about
he went with the Smith & Barnes Piano Company,
Chicago, and worked in other piano factories. Mr.
McMackin says that the small goods department of
a music store helps materially in the promotion of
pianos. The small goods, cornets, trumpets, saxo-
phones, sheet music and all kinds of musical instru-
ments help to bring the piano into the home. It will
be readily seen and appreciated that the McMackin
Piano Service under the personal direction of Mr.
L. F. McMackin is well fitted to give the most satis-
tactory service to its patrons.
THREE ARE STILL HERE; TWO ARE THERE
Upwards of a quarter of a century ago five men,
each of whom gained distinctive prominence in the
music trades and industries, were working together
side by side, bench to bench, hammer to hammer,
and string to string, in a then active Chicago piano
factory, a manufacturing enterprise that was forging
ahead at high pressure under the push and activity
of Will L. Rush. Of these Bush & Gerts factory co-
workers, J. P. Seeburg was an action foreman, Max
Richsteig was a regulator foreman, Charles Stanley,
assistanct factory foreman, G. H. Reichert was a tone
regulator and H. P. Nelson, foreman in a case-making
department. The first three of these gentlemen named
are still alive and consequently happy, but Nelson and
Reichert, good and jolly souls they were, "ain't here
no more."
THEY ARE GLAD TO GREET HIM AGAIN
After an early-summer vacation, Charles Howe of
the Wurlitzer Grand Piano Company staff of sales
representatives, is back in the field of active work
and has recently been visiting the trade in central
west territory. Mr. Howe is bringing about some
excellent trade connections and current delivery or-
ders, a trade which indicates that he is going to do
his share toward making 1934 a record year of pro-
duction at the big Wurlitzer factories of De Kalb,
Illinois.
Irving Peterson has opened a piano and repair shop
at 4145 Lawrence avenue, Chicago.
TWO GOOD STEINS—OF MUSIC.
As one hears the broadcast of entertainments of
the day at A Century of Progress Exposition it is
well to bear in mind that the "Charles Stein recital,"
as announced, is for the demonstration of the There-
min and Emicon instruments, while a Charles Fred-
erick Stein announcement would be a piano recital
of the Charles Frederick Stein exhibit. The There-
min and Emicon demonstration by Mr. Stein is an
exposition attraction sponsored by the exposition as
one of its own features while the Charles Frederick
Stein piano is a regular exhibit located in building
number 3 of General Exhibits Building.
THE AMPICO STILL MUCH ALIVE
The Will A. Watkins Company, Dallas, Texas, in
speaking of the Ampico player of the Chickering and
other Aeolian-American instruments sold by Watkin,
quote a Dallas teacher who recently made this state-
ment concerning the Ampico: "Of all the many serv-
ices you render teachers, the finest of all is the oppor-
tunity offered them and their pupils of hearing the
great pianists on the Ampico at your store."
A GOOD ITEM FOR WINSTON-SALEM
A new piano and general music store is opening at
Winston-Salem, N. Car., the proprietor of which is
a piano man of long experience and who has been
connected with prominent music houses. This gentle-
man recently visited New York where he made new
purchases for his business and is looking forward to
a visit to Chicago and other Western points.
He also anticipates several days' visit at A Century
of Progress Exposition.
The Story & Clark Piano Company are aiding their
representatives very materially in the splendid ad-
vertising service which they render for their dealers,
a service which aids them greatly in their advertising
and in attracting customers. This service consists of
a layout of advertising matter for systematic use
which can be used to great advantage by every Story
& Clark dealer and is a service well worth making
use of.
Story & Clark dealers or ethers interested in a
Story & Clark agency should write to Story & Clark
Piano Company. 173 North Michigan avenue. Chi-
cago, for further information on this advertising and
publicity help to dealers.
July-August, 19
KURTZMANN
The Purchase by Wurlitzer of the Piano
Inventory of C. Kurtzmann & Co.,
Consisting of Several Hundred
Grand and Upright Pianos, To-
gether with all the Scales, Pat-
terns, Forms, Jigs and Dies
Necessary for Continuing
the Manufacture of
Kurtzmann Pianos.
Important in music trade events of late was the
purchase by Wurlitzer of the entire piano inventory
of C. Kurtzmann & Company, Buffalo, consisting of
several hundred Kurtzmann grand and upright pianos
and all scales, patterns and other paraphernalia of
every kind necessary in manufacturing the Kurtzmann
pianos. In securing this famous piano Wurlitzer in-
terests come into possession of an important and in-
teresting asset; a product and a name that have been
for many years bright in the fame and history of
Buffalo.
No one name in all the legends and records of the
Niagara metropolis; no industry or enterprise has
contributed more to the fame of Buffalo in far away
lands as well as at home or clone more to keep that
city on the commercial and industrial map than the
name Kurtzmann; the Kurtzmann piano.
More than a quarter of a million of Kurtzmann
pianos have passed out of Buffalo, distributed to
every commonwealth of the Union; to all important
cities, to musical and cultural centers, thus finding
their way to thousands of homes where the name,
Kurtzmann, "The Piano that Endures," has been
familiarized.
The Kurtzmann piano was established in the late
forties of the last century and thus, for more than
eighty years, has been a product of American piano
manufacture and for many of these years a prime
favorite. In the early years of its manufacture vari-
ous important improvements were added; one of
these was a lengthening of the keys whereby, without
producing any disparity of action or of key move-
ment, a lighter and easier touch was gained. A patent
was also taken out on a wrest plank, and another on
a type of agraffe bar which, as stated at the time,
secured a steady and reliable tone production without
liability to rattle. It goes without saying, then, that
the Kurtzmann manufacturers, the makers at the
bench, in office and salesroom, have long lived up to
the ideal that every Kurtzmann piano should be a
musical and artistic masterpiece of which it could
be truthfully said that, "it is a piano higher in value
than it is in price."
But the trade generally and Kurtzmann dealers in
particular will want to know, "How about the Kurtz-
mann today"; how about being supplied with Kurtz-
mann pianos for our present needs. Presto-Times
is informed that a sufficient supply of all models,
grands and uprights, is on hand to meet demands for
a considerable length of time ahead. Other information
from the Wurlitzer Grand Piano Company, De Kalb,
Illinois, where the entire inventory has been shipped,
is that continuing manufacture on Kurtzmann's will
probably not start before the end of this year or in
early 1935. As already stated there is an extensive
supply of all models ready for immediate shipment.
It is advisable, therefore, to get in correspondence
with the Wurlitzer Grand Piano Company, De Kalb,
Illinois, concerning Kurtzmann agencies and all re-
quirements of regular Kurtzmann dealers. All data
at hand show that Kurtzmann business generally
and Kurtzmann sales are proceeding right along in
the regular way and that dealers can be supplied with
instruments as long as the present supply lasts.
The Kalamazoo Musical Instrument Company is
opening a music store and a school of instruction at
412 South Burdick street, that city. This business is
operated by E. G. Cornhill and Charles Martelle.
Several studios have been arranged in the store where
instructions will be given in the playing of various
musical instruments.
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