Presto

PRESTO
28
Schumann
PIANOS and PLAYER PIANOS
Have no superiors in appearance, tone
power or other essentials of strictly
leaders in the trade.
Warning to Infringers
TRIDB MUK
This Trade Mark is cast
in the plate and also ap-
pears upon the fall board
of all genuine Schumann
Pianos, and all infringers
will be prosecuted. Beware
of imitations such as Schu-
mann & Company, Schu-
mann & Son, and also
Shuman,
as
all
stencil
shops, dealers and users of
pianos bearing a name in
imitation
of
the
name
Schumann with the inten-
tion of deceiving the public
will be prosecuted to the
fullest extent of the law.
Schumann Piano Co.
W. N. VAN MATRE, President
Rockford, 111.
OTTO R. TREFZ, Jr.
Manufacturer of
PIANO
BASS STRINGS
1
21st St. and Fairmount Ave.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
K i l t on Family
Pride"
Doll & Sons
Represent the Artistic
in Piano and Player Piano
Construction
JACOB DOLL & SONS
STODDART
WELLSMORE
Jacob Doll & Sons, Inc
Southern Boulevard, E. 133rd St.
E. 134th St. and Cypreas Ave.
NEW YORK
W. P. HAINES & CO.
BUSH & OERTS PIANO CO.
TAKES HOPEFUL LOOK AHEAD
Many Orders for Grands Coming in, Which Inspires
Company to Efforts.
"We have many orders in for grand pianos," said
W. S. Miller to a Presto representative on Tuesday
of this week at the Bush & Gerts Piano Company's
office, Weed and Dayton sts., Chicago. "Our busi-
ness has gone away ahead of any previous year, and
ahead of our anticipations. These orders are not
local to any particular section of the country, but
are from all over the nation, and some from foreign
lands."
By the way, Bush & Gerts have issued a new
catalogue, in which the manufacture of grand pianos
is referred to in the company's own terminology.
The following is an extract from this new cata-
logue:
It is said that the next five years promise to be
the most prosperous and successful of any like
period in our country's history. Manufacturers in
all lines, awake to the tremendous responsibilities
and opportunities of the present, are planning to
meet the situation in a manner that will build an
enduring prestige in home and foreign markets for
their products.
Progress is ever the close comrade of success.
So, at the very outset of this most inspiring and
glowing future for American industrial effort, Bush
& Gerts Piano Company announces the culminating
achievement of more than a generation devoted to
the making of artistic pianos, in the presentation to
the trade of its EQUAL TENSION SCALE, em-
bodied in a beautiful six-foot Parlor Grand.
The bringing out of a new Grand Piano is an
event fraught with great anxiety—mingling of hope
and apprehension—to those engaged in the task.
The outcome of many months of earnest and pains-
taking application is a creation which we now
proudly present to the music industry of the world.
LABOR INFORMATION BUREAU.
The Inter-Racial Council, an information service
for the benefit of employers of foreign-born labor,
and for the workers themselves, has been established
by The Inter-Racial Council, Woolworth Building,
New York City. One of the objects is to check
the tendency of the foreign-born to return to their
native lands under the mistaken impression that
prices are lower and living conditions better there
than in America. While helping to stabilize immi-
grant labor, the effort is in line with constant effort
for the welfare of the foreign born by promoting
better relations between the various races in Amer-
ica and the native born. Presto has been asked by
President William H. Barr to place the facts re-
garding this service before managers of plants and
other employers of foreign-born labor.
138th Street and Walton Avenue
NEW YORK CITY
ADDRESS-
PRICE & TEEPLE PIANO CO
CHICAGO USA,
Price & Teeple Piano Co.
218 South Wabash Avenue
CHICAGO
A LIVE LINE FOR LIVE DEALERS
WEBSTER
PIANOS AND PLAYERS
Fulfill Every Promise of
Profit to the Dealer
and Satisfaction to
His Customers.
NOTHING BETTER FOR YOUR TRADE
Manufactured by
THE WEBSTER PIANO CO.
450 Fifth Ave., NEW YORK CITY
Your Prospective Customers
CREDIT TO GOTTLIEB.
"The next time you go to church or into a pic-
ture show of the modern pattern and listen to the
soft tones of the organ coming from you know not
where, ponder what makes these tones," says the
American Forestry Association, of Washington, "for
these tones in most cases come from wood. To a
Philadelphia!! goes the credit for discovering the
possibilities of getting tones from wood in this fash-
ion. Strange as it may seem, the discovery is due
to the soft patter of rain drops on a cedar shingles
roof. When Philadelphia's roofs were mostly cov-
ered with shingles Gottlieb Hittelberger listened to
the rain fall and noted the different sounds, and
from that he worked out the pipe organ."
Send Them Sales Letters
Ross-Gould
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Mciiling
S*. Louis
PRESTO
Paragon Piano Plates
Buyers' Guide
Absolutely Dependable
Best of Service
Indispensable to
dealers and salesmen
Western manufacturers find that our facilities
and experience afford the best source of supplies.
(INCORPORATED)
PLAYERS and PIANOS
July 3, 1920.
50cts.thecopy
Get Your Plates From Oregon
PARAGON FOUNDRIES COMPANY
OREGON, ILL.
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