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PRESTO
April 24, 1920.
PROGRESSIVE GEORGIA HOUSE
HAS AMBITIOUS PLANS
Auditorium in Equipment of the Remodeled Build-
ing of the L. A. Russell Piano Co.
The L. A. Russell Piano Co., Augusta, Ga., which
is the representative of the A. B. Chase piano in
that city and a wide section adjoining, has com-
pleted plans that will make its store one of the most
complete establishments in the South. The com-
pany recently purchased from Ty Cobb, the base-
ball player, valuable property at the southeast cor-
ner of Broad and Mclntosh streets. This will be
altered and improved by the company to suit the
purposes of a progressive piano firm.
In addition to spacious warerooms and demon-
stration parlors for pianos, players and talking ma-
chines, one of the upper floors will be converted
into an auditorium for concerts and recitals. In
fact, the L. A. Russell Piano Co. purpose making
the store the hub of things musical in the Georgia
city.
NEW VENTURES SHARE
FAVOR OF BUYERS
Late Additions to Forces of Piano Distribution
Show Liveliness of Trade.
M. L. Laster has opened a music store on West
Main street, Clarksville, Ark.
George P. Gross will open the store at 1232 Vine
street, Cincinnati, and devote it to music goods.
Fenwick & Delany have opened a music store in
Lacon, 111.
The Lamb Piano Co. has opened for business in
Cairo, 111.
Roy Weldon and Horace Achor are principals in
a new store opened recently in Modesto, Cal. The
line of the Wiley B. Allen Co., San Francisco, is
carried.
The Baird-Ross Music Company, San Francisco,
has opened a branch at Walla Walla, Wash.
The Hockett-Bristol Piano Company, Fresno,
Cal., opened a branch in Visalia, April 1.
Millard D. Coffin has opened a music store at 701
West Eighth street, Wilmington, Del.
A new music department has been opened in the
Craycraft Dry Goods store, Noblesville, Ind.
A. L. Miller has opened The Mandel Phonograph
Shop at 941 Main street, Spencer, Ind.
A pretty music room has been added to the Stew-
art Bros, furniture store, Portland, Ind., for the
demonstration of the Edison and Victor machines.
The Keifer Music Co. has opened a new music
store in Washington, Ind.
BUSINESS PAPER CONVENTION.
There is to be a meeting of the business paper
publishers, as a part of the Increased Production
Convention of the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States, at Atlantic City, April 26 to 29. It is
expected that there will be a full attendance of pub-
lishers at the meeting and subjects to be discussed
will concern every branch of trade and activity.
OTTO SCHULZ TO GO EAST.
Otto Schulz, president of the M. Schulz Company,
711 Milwaukee avenue, Chicago, will go to New York
next week to attend a meeting of the officers of the
Music Industries Chamber of Commerce at the
headquarters of the general manager, 105 West For-
tieth street. The date of the meeting is Friday,
April 30, and the hour is at 3 p. m.
FREDERICK BUSCH DIES.
Frederick Busch, a musical instrument manufac-
turer, died last week at his residence in Weehawken,
N. J. Mr. Busch was in his seventy-fifth year.
HOW TO GO AFTER THE
PLAYER ROLL TRADE
One of the Follow-Up Letters of the Weaver
Piano Co., Designed to Stir Up Co-
Operation of the Trade.
The importance of the player-roll business to
every retail piano dealer is too obvious to require
any special emphasis. It is interesting to note how
some of the live concerns are stimulating the re-
tailers to get after their customers in that depart-
ment. Following is a late form letter sent out by
the Weaver Piano Co.. Inc., of York, Pa., to the rep-
resentatives of that industry:
York, Pa., April 14, 1920.
Gentlemen:—
Do you have a list of the names of every owner
of a playerpiano in your territory?
Do you mail monthly supplements of Imperial
Player Rolls to them regularly?
Do you feature Imperial Rolls in your windows
and advertisments?
The demand for good player-rolls is increasing
by leaps and bounds and the business is very profit-
able.
Are you getting your share?
Let us co-operate with you in building up this
part of the business
We are the Eastern Distributors of the Imperial
line and carry a complete stock at York, Pa. We
can furnish you with attractive window display ma-
terial, complete catalogues, monthly supplements,
cuts and copy for newspapers or circulars.
Examine carefully the catalogue and supplements
we send you herewith and send us your order on the
enclosed order blank for a number of rolls.
Imperial is "First with the Latest." We are
equipped to give YOU SERVICE.
Very truly yours,
WEAVER PIANO CO., INC.,
Wm. T. Huntsman, Mgr. Imperial Dept.
CONVENIENT SOUVENIR
FOR BALDWIN DEALERS
Manualo Pocket-Book Suggests the Prosperity that
Attends Sales of Good Instruments.
P L A Y E R P I A N O Combined
with the P H O N O G R A P H
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T S HE Playerpiano Phonograph is the good
A
old standard Pianista with a first class
talking machine built into it. Think of the
selling possibilities of this triple instrument,
all-in-one. Think of your saving in floor space,
saving in investments, increase in profits!
One sale of the Playerpiano Phonograph : s equal to the salt- of
a player piano and the sale of a talking machine.
You sell them both in one transaction and reap an additional
profit without the necessity of making an additional sale.
Write for details and prices.
THE AUTOPIANO COMPANY
PAUL B. KLUGH, President
On-the-Hudson at 51st Street
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The Baldwin Piano Company is sending a novelty
that has very practical uses to its customers. It is
a pocket-book of stiff paper, of the size for the coat
pocket. There is a pouch for bills where they can be
placed at full length, and the company promises to
furnish a new pocket-book each week for paper
money, letters, notes, etc. Under the head of "Fil-
ing," the company says:
"After you have finished the week, transfer the
contents you need for the coming week to a new
pocket-book. Leave letters and papers disposed of
in the old book, and put in your desk or grip for
future reference."
There is space to write in receipts—from whom
and the amount—a place for day expense, a place to
write in matters requiring attention, and a place to
write down engagements on any one of the week
days. The tops and bottoms are used to advertise
the Baldwin pianos, the Hamilton pianos, the Elling-
ton pianos and the Manualo playerpianos.
The
company also says on the pocket-books: "Over 100
styles made in Baldwin factories to select from."
A souvenir of the kind described always suggests
prosperity. It is certain that the dealer who needs
such a convenience must have money, and other
collateral. And it is equally certain that all piano
dealers who sell the Baldwin line need just such a
pocket-book as the Cincinnati house and its branches
are sending to them.
HELPS SOCIAL SERVICE.
The HaddorrT Piano Co., Rockford. 111., is
of the contributors to the fund being raised in
city for the Social Service Federation. The
piano factory was among the first visited by
four-minute men who asked pledges from the
ployes of the Haddorff Piano Co.
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CHICAGO STRIKE IS DYING.
NEW YORK, N. Y.
The piano dealers of Chicago declare that the
strike of the piano movers is so near an end that it
will be declared off within the next day or two.
They have felt the embargo more keenly during the
last week than before, for no Eastern pianos have
been delivered from depots to Wabash avenue
stores, and those that were in stock have been sold
out.
F'.arl H. Holland, western sales manager for the
Q R S Company, Chicago, went to Cincinnati, Ohio,
on a business trip on Monday night of this week.
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