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POSITION WANT ML) by business woman with general
music store experience. Address K, care of PRESTO-
TIM KS.
WANTED—Man to take charge of Refrigerator and
Radio Division of a general music business.
Address:
R-R. care of Presto-Times, Chicago.
PIANO MAN of wide experience in sales and credit
department of piano manufacturing concern is open for
engagement.
A valuable man for piano manufacturing
concern working on trade extension.
Address Box 17,
care of PKKSTO-TIAIES.
NEW AND SECOND-HAND 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.
SALESMAN WANTED
Opening for a good piano salesman on commission. For
a sober man and business getter; country and town
trade, to work among substantial people; many excellent
prospects; desire salesman to furnish his own car. Good
commission. .1. W. Ilollingsworib. Newton, N. Car.
Have you a cutomer that wants a particular type of
any M-coiRi-liand Instrument?
Advertise for it i
the
PRESTO-TTMES classified columns
Piano Key Re-covering
and Band Instrument
Repairing
52 Keys recovered as low as
$5.75
52 Fronts
2.50
New Sharps
3.00
Our Motto, "Not the Cheapest, But
Fine Workmanship"
Gold Lacquers on band instruments
(brass); exact image of real gold.
Trumpets highly polished and gold
lacquered
$2.75
Try this job; money back if not satisfied.
McMackin Piano Service
1719-21 Mondamin Ave., Des Moines, la.
KEY-NU
Resurface Your Old Piano Keys
with
KEY-NU
Simply flow It Over the Old Ivories.
Dries, wears and looks like Ivory.
No Huffing or Polishing Necessary. Full
instructions with each package.
Trial package, enough for 3 Sets of
Keys, $1.50; Package for 10 Sets, $3.50.
FOR SALE
Another Supply of Repos-
sessed Pianos and Players
WELL KNOWN MAKES
Money-Mafcing Bargains for Dealers
General Auction Exchange, Inc.
129 Chartres Street New Orleans, La.
PIANO KEY REPAIR WORK
Recovering Keys, Fronts, Sharps,
Bushing, on Short Notice and
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Our Prices Are the Lowest Possible
Consistent with First-Class Work
52 Keys Recovered with Ivorine,
50/1000
$4.50
Scrape and polish full set
2.00
52 Fronts Recovered
1.50
Special Price for Whitening
Keys and all other key work.
Lowest Price for New Ivory Keys, one to full set.
VICTOR E. NELSON
904 South Sixth Ave.
St. Charles, 111.
Sold and Distributed by
Froess Bros. Music House
1809 State St., Erie, Penna. U. S. A.
RECENT GULBRANSEN DEALER
ADVANTAGES
Gulbransen Company is now furnishing their rep-
resentatives with mats suitable for newspaper adver-
tising of Gulbransen pianos. The latest proofs of
these are one for a Gulbransen grand model, the
other th£ Minuet upright. Both are attractive and
being intended particularly for country newspapers
make appeal especially to the home. Each cut bears
the caption, "Every boy and girl has a natural right
to a musical education." A blank space of about
three inches gives ample space for insertion of the
dealer's copy and they all make excellent dealer copy.
The Gulbransen piano of today is an elegant and
salable group of uprights and grands in the manu-
facture of which Gulbransen has incorporated those
vital features of quality and salability which will ma-
terially aid the Gulbransen dealer in securing an early
advantage of the market at this time through the
medium of having available for the trade for quick
delivery these readily salable types of pianos.
Victor Nelson, whose card appears in Presto-Times
announces first class key repairing, recovering and
facing and at the lowest prices possible consistent
with high grade material used and superior work-
manship. Dealers will rind it-to their advantage to
get in touch with Mr. Nelson, 904 South 6th avenue,
St. Charles, Illinois.
WHEN PATRONIZING OUR ADVER-
T I S E R S , KINDLY MENTION THE
PRESTO-TIMES.
Complete Your Line of
"COMEBACKS"
March-April, 1935
PRESTO-TIMES SERVICE BUREAU
Presto-Times carries on a Service Department
which is open and free for advice and information to
its readers, patrons, friends and anyone interested,
concerning manufacturers in the music industries, their
capacity for production and estimates of their prod-
ucts, so far as such information is obtainable and
available.
For many years this paper has tendered its services
toward aiding individuals and firms in various ways;
in business associations, in certain line of purchases,
agency and distributor connections, and various con-
fidential angles that often arise in "getting together."
Presto-Times is often in a position to render appre-
ciable service of direct advantage to the parties con-
cerned, something we are always ready and glad to do.
This service is voluntarily offered, having in view
the mutual advantage to principal and agent and, vice
versa, to agent and principal, holding all communica-
tions and relations in the strictest confidence.
Commercial Service of
Presto Publishing Company,
417 S. Dearborn St., Chicago.
GOOD KEY WORK RECOGNIZED
Here is one of many tributes paid to the work be-
ing supplied music dealers all over the country by
the McMackin Piano Service of Des Moines. Iowa.
This letter is written by Arthur Henderson of the
Henderson Furniture Company, Story City, Iowa, a
concern which has been handling a considerable quan-
tity of second-hand pianos and has had a good deal
of work in replacing piano keys, tops and facings and
other keyboard work. Here is what they say of Mc-
Mackin Piano Service work: "We are sending you
today another batch of piano keys to be recovered
like the last order sent you. We were more than
satisfied with the work you did for us and believe
me if a dealer wants to turn pianos quickly let Mc-
Mackin fit up the keys for him."
Among numerous other letters received is one from
the Carder Music Company, Atlanta, Ga., which says,
"your work on recovering keys on grand is more
than satisfactory." K. Toutjian, pipe organ builder,
Oakland, Calif., says. "I was well pleased with the
pipe organ key job and am sending another set." Mr.
McMackin facetiously remarks that he really never
had but one "kick" and this was from the Benedict
Piano Company, Clarinda, Iowa, which headed its
letter to Mr. McMackin, "Complaint," and reads:
"Friend McMackin: Your work is sure fine, but it is
too good for many of the old pianos of today. You
ought to use some very common material for these
old $25, $35 and $45 pianos." However, the Benedict
Company admitted that when a key covering job was
added to a $25 second-hand piano, the instrument
could be sold at a good price. But, McMackin uses
the best quality of materials or. all pianos.
SHOWN IN A DU PONT EXHIBIT
A group of musical instruments manufactured by
Gibson, Inc., Kalamazoo, Michigan, formed a recent
display at the Du Pont Exhibit on the Boardwalk at
Atlantic City. It included the "All American" banjo
and another model showing the resonator, finger
board and pig head all decorated with Pyralin. The
rest of the instruments shown had finger boards and
pig heads with the same decoration.
(Grands and Uprights)
WITH
MADE NEW INSTRUMENTS
(Grands and Uprights)
The undersigned can supply on short notice,
single or carload orders for grands, up-
rights, players, and reproducing pianos in
numerous designs, veneers and finish, at
sales-making prices.
Address:
WHOLESALE PIANOS
Care of PRESTO-TIMES
When in doubt refer to
PRESTO BUYERS GUIDE
A peculiar suit was brought against the Aeolian-
American Corporation at East Rochester, N. Y., a
Mrs. Luchterhand suing the piano company to recover
damages in the death of her husband, claiming that
he contracted a fatal lung disease by inhaling dust
particles while employed in the Aeolian-American
factory at East Rochester, N. Y.
The great Kimball organ built for the city of
Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa, is now on the high
seas enroute to its destination. Shipment was made
from New Orleans the last week in March. Passing
through the Panama Canal the steamer heads for
the African port of Lourenco Marques and from that
point is forwarded by railroad to Pretoria, the famous
former Dutch capital of Transvaal-land. The ship-
ment from the factory and transfer to steamer at New
Orleans was looked after by Wallace Kimball of the
W. W. Kimball Company.
The great space and magnificent manufacturing
facilities of the Wurlitzer plant at North Tonawanda
permit the new line of furniture manufacturing to be
established there without in any way interfering or
discommoding the musical instrument manufacturing
operations of these great factories. In fact this line
of fine furniture production is a vital aid in the hum
of activities which prevails there.
Garner's Music Store and Studios has leased a
shop at 719 Olive street, which they will use beside
their Manchester avenue place of business. The Gar-
ner Company puts on a Guitar Band from a St. Louis
radio broadcasting station.
The purchase by the Baldwin Piano Com-
pany of the property, 20 East 54th St., New
York City, the location of the Baldwin branch
store in that city for years past, is a 20 x 100 ft.
lot and was assessed in 1934 at $158,000.
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