PERSONAL MENTION
ATTRACTIVE MOTTOES AND
SLOGANS
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June-July, 1935
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MANNER and style
of how business con-
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cial world by mottoes,
slogans, precepts, in
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newspaper advertising,
office stationery and other forms of publicity, is of
more or less general trade interest and quite inter-
esting as between one firm and another operating in
the same business.
With this thought in mind Presto-Times reprints
herewith numerous expressive slogans linked with the
music trade. Duplicates are numerous and conse-
quently many firms are not named because of this
common use of the same sentence or the same ex-
pressive sentiment. For instance, the lines, "Every-
thing in Music," "Everything Musical," and "Direct
Service on Everything Musical" are used by scores
of firms besides the one named on this list. "The
Richest Child Is Poor Without a Musical Educa-
tion" is also common to many firms.
Presto-Times solicits for publication any motto,
slogan or attractive catch-line used in this trade so
that by their publication dealers may know what and
how others in their line of activity are doing in this
manner of popularizing and extending business and
prestige. Some of these expressive sentiments so far
received are:
The House of Music; McCoy's. Hartford, Conn.
The Mecca of Music; Payne's for Music, Greenville.
S. Car.
Everything Pertaining to Music; Peirce Piano Co.,
Lawrence, Kans.
For Your Music; Joseph Jiran, 1333 W. 18th St., Chi-
cago.
"Headquarters for Everything Musical"*; Stark Piano
Co.. Birmingham, Wash.
"Every Transaction Guaranteed"; Stoner Piano Co.,
Des Moines, Ta.
"Where Harmony Prevails"; Stout's Music House,
Kirksville, Mo.
"Quality-Service-Price"; Sumter Music House (H. P».
Curtis), Sumter, S. Car.
"Steinway Representatives for More Than 7f> Years ;
Louis Grunewalcl. New Orleans. La.
"Steinway and Aeolian Co. Representatives"; Tusting
Piano Co., Asbury Park, N. J.
"Steinway Representatives"; Griffith Piano Co.. New-
ark, N. J.
"The Richest Child Ts Poor Without a Musical Educa-
tion"; Guisinger Music House, Fay.etteville, Ark.
"The Home of True Value"; Lester Piano Co., Atlanta,
Ga.
"Everything: in Music and Instruments"; Covelles Music
Store, Crosby, N. Dak.
"Everything Musical for Everybody"; Harry N. Curtis,
Lynn. Mass.
"All Things Musical"; Day's Music Store, Elyria, O.
"Steinway and Other Leading Pianos"; E. F. Droop &
Sons Co., Washington, D. C.
"Everything Known in Music"; Baker Music House,
Ottumwa, la.
"The House of Musical Prestige"; Young's Music Store,
McAllen, Tex.
"The Home of the Steinway; The Best of Everything
in Music"; Weeks & Dickinson Music Store, Binghamton.
N. Y.
"The House of Steinway; What Better Investment for
the Future"; Chas. E. Wells Music Co., Denver, Colo.
"The Apollo"; Wilking Music Company, Indianapolis,
lnd.
"A Piano Is an Investment for the Future"; Coyne's
Piano Store. Muncie, Tnd.
"The House of Music"; Emerson Piano Company, De-
catur, 111.
"The Reliable Piano Merchant"; Howard Farwell &
Co.. St. Paul, Minn.
"Home of Good Music"; Wilder Music Store, Kissim-
mee, Fla.
"The Music Lovers' Shop"; Richardson & Martin, Inc.,
Los Angeles, Cal.
"The Place to Buy Everything in Music"; Dickinson
Music Shop, Dickinson, N. Dak.
"The House of the Square Deal"; P. S. Berrie, Houlton,
Me.
"The Richest Child Is Poor Without a Musical Train-
ing"; Clark's Music Company, Syracuse, N. Y.; Hum-
phrey's Music Co., Long Beach, Cal.
"Steinway and Other Noted Pianos"; Heaton's Music
Store. Columbus, O.
"Factory Distributors"; Collins Music House, Muskegan,
Mich.
"33 Years' TCxperience Finding the Pianos Suitable for
This Dry Climate"; El Paso Piano Co., El Paso, Tex.
"Creators-Builders"; Haddorff Piano Co., Rockford. 111.
"The Music House"; Dallas Music Company, Dallas,
Tex.
"Selected Pianos"; Charles C. Perry, Grand Island. Neb.
"A Musical Institution"; Jemerson. E. St. Louis, 111.
"A Complete and Modern Music House"; Albermarle
Music Store, Inc.. Albermarle. N. Car.
"A Message from Gene Redewell"; Redewell, Phoenix,
Ariz.
"Look for the Colonial Yellow Front"; Geo. W. Morris,
Marietta, O.
"Akron's Greatest Store"; The M. O'Neill Co., Akron,
O
"Largest Stock of Pianos Within One Hundred Miles";
G. A. Swanson, Ironwood, Mich.
"Baldwin, the Artists' Choice"; Duluth Piano Co., Du-
luth, Minn.
"Allegro Estato con Affetto"; (Lively, Exact, with Ap-
preciation): Dallas Music Co.. Inc., Dallas, Tex.
"Established 1S59; Incorporated 1903"; Schmoller &
Mueller Piano Co.. Omaha-Sioux City.
"Established 11KH": .1. R. Reed Music Co., Austin, Tex.
"An Exclusive Music Store"; Maytield Music Co.,
Hutehinson, Kans.
"Music Is Xot Inherited Hut Is the Result of Environ-
ment at the Very Beginning of the Child's Life."
"Wise People Buy at Keller's"; Keller's Music House,
Easton, Pa.
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WILLIAM F. OSTHEIM, who some weeks ago
joined the Winter Piano Co. forces at Erie, Pa., as
manager of the piano department, has been associated
with the piano business for some twenty-seven years
and more recently was at the Steinway & Sons sales-
rooms in New York City.
GEORGE W. MORRIS, many years a music dealer
at Marietta, Ohio, indicates a well known trait of
modesty in his make-up by complimenting a Chicago
friend with these words: "You know about pianos
and the music game much that I have yet to learn,"
and continued by admitting that he had "only been
selling pianos and music since 1875 and I am sure
I don't know it all yet."
J. R. REED, proprietor of the J. R. Reed Music
House, Austin, Texas, enjoyed a day's visit with
friends in Chicago recently when enroute home front
New York. Mr. Reed was brought up in the music
business. Years ago he was associated with Bush &
Gerts store which was established at Dallas, Texas,
by that ever fluent effulgent and radiating long-time
favorite of the Chicago music trade, Will L. Bush.
Mr. Reed was placed in charge of a Bush & Gerts
branch store at Austin, Texas, and later purchased
that business and established the J. R. Reed Music
House, an institution that has been brought to a dis-
tinct position in the music trade of the country as well
as of the Lone Star State.
SALES MANAGER
STEWART
MEETS WURLITZER DIS-
TRIBUTOR STOTLER
Probably the first interesting episode in the ex-
perience of Hugh A. Stewart after he had joined the
Wurlitzer piano interests to occupy the position as
sales manager and a vice-president of the Wurlitzer
Grand Piano Company, was to go down to Tulsa,
Oklahoma, and attend the Tulsa Piano Carnival,
sponsored by the Music Department of Tulsa Uni-
versity and assisted by Raymond Stotler, the dis-
tinguished Wurlitzer dealer of that city.
One hundred new pianos were played ensemble by
two hundred players, all of the 200 pianos coming
from the Wurlitzer factories. The Tulsa Piano
Carnival has come to be a conspicuous affair in music
and one that has brought about a great deal of wide-
spread publicity. The event is strictly a piano play-
ing carnival and is considered to be an event of
great importance to the University and great musical
development. It is particularly notable as being the
only event of its kind to be given an exclusive coast
to coast radio broadcast.
Telling about his stay at Tulsa and delightful visit
with Raymond Stotler, Mr. Stewart says:
"This was a most enjoyable event to attend and
likewise a most inspiring sight to see. Photographs
alone do not tell the story adequately because they
do not indicate the enthusiasm that existed nor do
they reflect the intense interest by all in attendance.
While the young folks who played the pianos will
probably remember their participation in the concert
as long as they live, a good many fathers and mothers
will likewise live over again many times the thrill
that went through their hearts as little sons and
daughters were applauded for their fine efforts and
appearance.
"Those of us associated with Wurlitzer were
naturally proud to see 100 Wurlitzer pianos on the
great stage and demonstrated under such a glorious
and eventful conditions. I am sure, too, that those
in attendance representing other piano concerns were
as pleased as we were over the tremendous piano
interest displayed on this occasion."
A SPINET GRAND ENSEMBLE PERFORM-
ANCE CONCERT GIVEN ON SIXTEEN
SPINET GRANDS, TWO PLAYERS
AT EACH INSTRUMENT
A remarkable display of Mathushek pianos was re-
cently given at a concert in Newark, N. J., where
sixteen Spinet grands were used for several ensemble
piano numbers, two performers to each piano in en-
semble performance. This was really an impressive
performance and the music given was raptuously
applauded. The Spinet grand is doing wonders in
various concert performances all over the country.
The recently installed musical instrument depart-
ment at the Boston Store. Chicago, is as yet a rather
crowded location but plenty of room is promised in
the near future when a grand opening is planned.
Manager Schwartz is much pleased over the contin-
ued trade that has greeted this new branch of the
Boston Store. As yet no special display of pianos is
made. The only line carried at the present time is
the Straube of which they have a limited assortment.
A line from Louis Dederick, now associated with
Harold Pracht. 508 Slitter St., San Francisco. Calif.,
says: "Retail piano business has been picking up con-
siderably of late and conditions look favorable for
continued improvement."
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