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PRESTO-TIMES WANT AD VS.
SPECIAL SALES SALESMAN
WANTED—Special .sale on pianos for manufacturers
who want to unload. 10 to 20 piano shiprnent sales guar-
anteed. Address Special Sales, % Presto-Times.
POSITION WANTED by business woman with general
music store experience. Address E, care of PRESTO-
TIMES.
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 PRESTO-TIMES.
PIANO DISPLAY AT DEEP RIVER, CONN.
Incidental to an exhibition and demonstration of
musical instruments illustrating the evolution of the
piano from early days to the present time, which takes
place at Deep River, Conn., an interesting part of the
exhibit was a new piano action just placed on the
market by Pratt, Reed & Co. of Deep River. This
new grand piano action is called the "Finholm" and
was interesting in connection with the display of
antique instruments. An audience of more than a
hundred celebrities, including Governor Cross, Pro-
fessor Albert Einstein and numerous other invited
guests from the musical and literary world, were there
to be the guests for a special view of the instruments
displayed, and the demonstration by Miss Lotta Van
Buren of New York and several assistants who gave
a recital using instruments of the sixteenth and early
seventeenth centuries as well as modern pianos. An
interesting piano on exhibition was one used by
Beethoven, and another used by Jenny Lind when
she visited America.
IF YOU NEED ANY SECOND-HANDS
Dealers who are interested in replenishing their
stocks of salable second-hands, particularly attractive
upright pianos, will find an advantageous place to
negotiate for this line of pianos by getting in touch
with the Lawrence Avenue Exchange, 4145 Lawrence
Avenue, Chicago. The proprietor of this business is
a piano man well known the country over. He is re-
liable and always dependable. Orders and instructions
given to him willl have careful attention. This is a
good place for any second-hand business required.
Resurface Your Old Piano Keys
with
KEY-NU
Supplementing an announci-incnt of the Froess
Bros. Music House, Erie, Pa., on a key renewing
process of which they are the sole distributors,
PRESTO-TIMES will add that this process of key
renewing is the invention of a gentleman who for
many years worked at the bench as a piano maker,
Mr. Jacob J. Froess. Mr. Froess is known as a man
who understands piano construction from "A to Z"
and who for a long time has been recognized as a
Have you a cutomer that wants a particular type of leading piano tuner of the country.
any second-hand instrument? Advertise for it i» the
PRESTO-TIMES has heard many commendations
PRESTO-TIMES classified columns.
on the Froess process, known as "Key-Nu," and these
have been supplemented by letters which the Froess
Bros. Music House have sent us in verification of
The American Automatic Phonograph Corp.; of-
statements they make about their product. Of these,
fices, 44 E. 23rd street, New York City; Philip Horo- the Cline Piano Company, San Francisco, Cal.,
witz, manager. Eisler's, Inc., for radio equipment
writes: "Please send two large cans of Key-Nu to
business, New Brunswick, N. J. Albert Page Co.,
Cline Piano Company, 347 13th St., Oakland, Cal.
Inc., capital stock $10,000, 310 W. 80th street, N. Y., We find your product most satisfactory for the pur-
general musical instruments. Harley Booth and Ed-
pose of any we have tried."
win Zastrow have opened in the Musicians' Supply
The Whittle Music Company, Dallas, Texas,
Company at Clinton, Iowa.
writes: "We have been using Key-Nu for refinishing
of piano keys and we find it very satisfactory."
J. D. Pope, Searcy, Ark., and by the way this
gentleman is well able to judge and what lie says is
correct, writes: "Enclosed you will find my check for
more Key-Nu. 1 want you to know that I am well
pleased with this work."
Recovering Keys, Fronts, Sharps,
These and others which the Froess Bros, have
shown us of recent date are substantial evidence that
Bushing, on Short Notice and
"Key-Nu" is what its manufacturers and distributors
claim it to be and on the basis of this PRESTO-
Satisfaction Guaranteed
TIMES would like very much if its friends ami
readers would get in correspondence with this house.
Our Prices Are the Lowest Possible
Samples of the work "Key-Nu" does will be mailed
Consistent with First-Class Work
to dealers, tuners, repair houses and others interested.
PIANO KEY REPAIR 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.
904 South Sixth Ave.
St. Charles, 111.
Complete Your Line of
"COMEBACKS"
(Grands and Uprights)
WITH
MADE NEW INSTRUMENTS
(Grands and Uprights)
Simply flow It Over the Old Ivories.
Dries, wears and looks like Ivory.
No Buffing or Polishing Necessary. Full
instructions with each package.
Trial package, enough for 3 Sets of
Keys, $1.50; Package for 10 Sets, $3.50.
Agencies Wanted in All Foreign Countries
Sold and Distributed by
Froess Bros. Music House
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
FOR SALE
1809 State St., Erie, Penna. U. S. A.
USED UPRIGHTS IN
GOOD CONDITION
FOR SALE
ROLL-PLAYING REED ORGAN
FOR SALE
4 sets of reeds; 12 stops. Many rolls of
standard music. Rich mahogany veneer
case. Slight bellows repair only. Bargain
for anyone interested. Address,
"Automatic," % Presto-Times.
COMMENTS ON "KEY-NU" FOR PIANO KEYS
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.
VICTOR E. NELSON
KEY-NU
June-July, 1935
Bargains for Dealers
Prices and Particulars on
Application
LAWRENCE AVENUE EXCHANGE
4145 Lawrence Avenue
Chicago
AN INEXPENSIVE BUT VALUABLE
IMPROVEMENT
It has been said anent piano construction and
equipment and inventions that have been added to
the piano from time to time that an equipment or
intended improvement that sustains a record of merit
and continues to hold good for as long a period as
one year, such an appliance may be considered as
valuable and "worth while."
In a column display advertisement in this issue of
Presto-Times appears an illustration of an invention
that shows at a glance how the appliance works and
what it does. This equipment, known as the "Stay-
in-Tune Stabilizer," has been a part of the equipment
of the Estey piano for several years and more than
meets the rule referred to above. The illustration
shows how the stabilizer unites the inner rims of the
piano into an unyielding and flexible unit producing
a solidity and rigidity of the inner rim or back which
will hold the crown much longer than if constructed
in the usual manner. Thus it is that the manufacturers
of the Estey claim for that instrument that it is
remarkable for remaining long in exact tune. The
Estey Piano Company invites inquiries and corre-
spondence.
Christian Steger, who recently died in Milwaukee,
was a brother of the late J. V. Steger and for several
years was associated with the Steger piano at Steger,
111., the factory home town of the Steger pianos.
Piano Key Re-covering
and Band Instrument
Repairing
See Prices on All Key Work on Another
Page of This Paper
OUR MOTTO:
"NOT THE CHEAPEST BUT
FINE WORKMANSHIP"
Good Lacquers on Band Instruments
(Brass), Exact Imitation of Real Gold.
Trumpets Highly Polished and Gold
Lacquered $2.75.
Try This Job; Money Back if Not
Satisfied.
Re-number old keys before sending.
See Special Notice on Coupons with
One Dollar Credit.
McMACKIN PIANO SERVICE
1719-21 Mondamin Ave., Des Moines, la.
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