Presto
Issue: 1920 1778 - Page 7
PRESTO
August 21, 1920.
MOVEMENTS OF MEN
OF THE TRADE NOTED
Brief Items Recording the Whereabouts of Promi-
nent Ones.
F. J. Sheldon, office manager of the M. Schulz
Company, Chicago, is on his summer vacation ai
Mercer, Wis.
E. M. Prinz, northwestern traveler for the M.
Schulz Company, who makes his headquarters in
Milwaukee, Wis., was in Chicago on Tuesday of this
week, and he left for a trip through Iowa.
G. C. Kavanagh, vice-president of the Foster-Arm-
strong Company, East Rochester, N. Y., made a
brief tour of the West this week. He will call at a
few of the larger cities before returning to Roch-
ester.
E. Achenbach, advertising manager of the Pack-
ard Piano Company, Fort Wayne, Ind., was in Chi-
cago on Wednesday of this week.
D. Walter Harris succeeds E. R. Potter as Pacific
Coast representative for Lyon & Healy, Chicago.
H. M. Hulme, of Omaha, Neb., traveler for the
Packard Piano Company, Fort Wavne, Ind., was in
Chicago on Wednesday of this week on his way to
Fort Wayne and the factory.
D. A. Hennessee, manager of Kohler & Chase, San
Francisco, Calif., recently returned from a month's
trip to Texas and other southwestern territory in
the interest of his firm. Mr. Hennessee reports
splendid business success.
R. S. Fringer is acting as general manager of the
Montelius Music House, Seattle, Wash.
J. H. Hammer, manager of the Spokane, Wash.,
branch of Sherman, Clay & Co., was recently ap-
pointed president of the Spokane unit of the Wash-
ington State Retailers' Association.
WARNING TO DEALERS.
A man is reported operating throughout the West,
using a printed card showing him to be Vice-Presi-
dent of the Lester Piano Co., of Philadelphia, and
securing money from dealers on various pretexts.
He was reported by the Clive Music Co., Blackfoot,
Idaho; La Junta Music Company, La Junta, Colo-
rado, and the Eccles Hotel Co., Logan, Utah. The
Lester Piano Co., advises us that they do not know
the party; that he is an imposter and everything
possible should be done to head off his operations.
C. L. DENNIS, Secretary,
National Association of Music Merchants.
NOTICE!
CONTINUED, INCREASING
D E M A N D FOR QUALITY
MAKES THE A. B. CHASE
FRANCHISE A VALUABLE
ASSET.
If you are located in available
territory, NOW is the time to
adopt the A. B. Chase as your
leading line.
POSSIBLY
YOU ARE
IN AVAIL-
ABLE TERRI-
TORY AND DO
NOT REALIZE
THE OPPORTU-
NITY AT HAND.
Increased production in Up-
rights, Grands, Players and
Reproducing Pianos warrants
your doing this at once, as
well as the advisability of
securing stock to take
care of your trade thru
the best year in the
piano business.
Place your initial or-
der for stock before
any possible trans-
portation conges-
tion or embargoes
cause delay.
Correspondence Invited.
A. B. Chase Piano Co., inc.
Executive Offices:
9 East 45th St., N. Y. City
Factory
Norwalk
Ohio
SPOKEN ABOUT IN
DEALERS' PUBLICITY
How the Merits of the Piano and Players Are
Set Forth in the Newspaper
Displays.
1'he Estey playerpiano is the subject of a clever
newspaper display this week by the Fred Leithold
Piano Co., La Crosse, Wis. This is said: "Like a
close personal friend is the Estey playerpiano. It
is wonderful how closely you will become attached
to your Estey playerpiano as you get to know it
better and to see its fine points of quality develop
beneath your daily employment and enjoyment of
it. Handsome, sweet-toned and artistic enough to
fall in love with at first sight, yet it possesses fea-
tures that will endear it to you and your family more
and more the longer you have it. For the Estey is
made to wear well and to preserve for years the
purity of tone and beauty of finish that have made
it famous, so that it will become a treasured heir-
loom in your family as it has in thousands of
others."
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In advertising the Gulbransen
player this week, the Young &
Chaffee Furniture Co., Grand Rap-
ids, Mich., says: "Everything is
in your favor. Just a few short
weeks and the children will be
back in school. Just a few short
weeks and your friends' and neigh-
bors' children will be starting
their music lessons."
The Bishop Furniture Co., Mus-
kegon, Mich., tells about the de-
sirability of the playerpiano and
argues in this way:
"Can you
think of a better use for your
money than to buy with it the
greatest single pleasure that can
be provided for your whole fam-
ily? Music changes the entire
course of family life. It keeps the
"home" together. It supplies that
element of sentiment that keeps
affections bright. It supplies that
element of entertainment
that
keeps the young folks at home."
You can easily own a piano be-
cause of "The Jenkins Plan," says
the J. W. Jenkins Sons' Music Co.,
Oklahoma City, Okla., this week.
The plan includes: "One price—
lowest in U. S.—No commission if
you buy your piano of us. Okla-
homa's One-Price Music House."
The Schumann, Holland and
Hobart M. Cable pianos are sold
by E. L. Pierce, the Paxton, 111.,
dealer.
Behr Bros, baby grand pianos
are featured in a special way this
week by the Fitzgerald Music Co.,
Los Angeles, Calif.
The Soward-Anderson Co. ad-
vertises "everything in music,"
and this week calls attention to
the prices in a mid-summer sale.
A suggestion from the musical
i n s t r u m e n t department says:
"Now is the time to organize a
novelty jazz orchestra or glee
club. We will furnish you prac-
tical instruction and coaching, and
aid you in organizing. We are
exclusive agents for C. G. Conn,
Ltd., saxophones, cornets, trom-
bones, etc."
The music store of the J. L.
Hudson Co., Detroit, Mich., re-
cently notified the public of the
"last chance to get a Gulbransen
playerpiano at its present price."
The necessity of a piano in the
home was eloquently stated this
week by Grinnell Bros., Detroit,
Mich. "Its beauty as an article
of home furnishing; the joy which
all the family find in its melody:
the splendid refining influence of
music in the lives of the children
of the home and the great value
to them of being able to play,
combine to make it highly desir-
able that you no longer put off
bringing a piano into your home
—and home-life!"
The Hollenberg Music Co., Lit-
tle Rock, Ark., commenting on
the desirability of the firm's line
of pianos and players, says: "And
every one an instrument of quality."
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August 21, 1920.
MOVEMENTS OF MEN
OF THE TRADE NOTED
Brief Items Recording the Whereabouts of Promi-
nent Ones.
F. J. Sheldon, office manager of the M. Schulz
Company, Chicago, is on his summer vacation ai
Mercer, Wis.
E. M. Prinz, northwestern traveler for the M.
Schulz Company, who makes his headquarters in
Milwaukee, Wis., was in Chicago on Tuesday of this
week, and he left for a trip through Iowa.
G. C. Kavanagh, vice-president of the Foster-Arm-
strong Company, East Rochester, N. Y., made a
brief tour of the West this week. He will call at a
few of the larger cities before returning to Roch-
ester.
E. Achenbach, advertising manager of the Pack-
ard Piano Company, Fort Wayne, Ind., was in Chi-
cago on Wednesday of this week.
D. Walter Harris succeeds E. R. Potter as Pacific
Coast representative for Lyon & Healy, Chicago.
H. M. Hulme, of Omaha, Neb., traveler for the
Packard Piano Company, Fort Wavne, Ind., was in
Chicago on Wednesday of this week on his way to
Fort Wayne and the factory.
D. A. Hennessee, manager of Kohler & Chase, San
Francisco, Calif., recently returned from a month's
trip to Texas and other southwestern territory in
the interest of his firm. Mr. Hennessee reports
splendid business success.
R. S. Fringer is acting as general manager of the
Montelius Music House, Seattle, Wash.
J. H. Hammer, manager of the Spokane, Wash.,
branch of Sherman, Clay & Co., was recently ap-
pointed president of the Spokane unit of the Wash-
ington State Retailers' Association.
WARNING TO DEALERS.
A man is reported operating throughout the West,
using a printed card showing him to be Vice-Presi-
dent of the Lester Piano Co., of Philadelphia, and
securing money from dealers on various pretexts.
He was reported by the Clive Music Co., Blackfoot,
Idaho; La Junta Music Company, La Junta, Colo-
rado, and the Eccles Hotel Co., Logan, Utah. The
Lester Piano Co., advises us that they do not know
the party; that he is an imposter and everything
possible should be done to head off his operations.
C. L. DENNIS, Secretary,
National Association of Music Merchants.
NOTICE!
CONTINUED, INCREASING
D E M A N D FOR QUALITY
MAKES THE A. B. CHASE
FRANCHISE A VALUABLE
ASSET.
If you are located in available
territory, NOW is the time to
adopt the A. B. Chase as your
leading line.
POSSIBLY
YOU ARE
IN AVAIL-
ABLE TERRI-
TORY AND DO
NOT REALIZE
THE OPPORTU-
NITY AT HAND.
Increased production in Up-
rights, Grands, Players and
Reproducing Pianos warrants
your doing this at once, as
well as the advisability of
securing stock to take
care of your trade thru
the best year in the
piano business.
Place your initial or-
der for stock before
any possible trans-
portation conges-
tion or embargoes
cause delay.
Correspondence Invited.
A. B. Chase Piano Co., inc.
Executive Offices:
9 East 45th St., N. Y. City
Factory
Norwalk
Ohio
SPOKEN ABOUT IN
DEALERS' PUBLICITY
How the Merits of the Piano and Players Are
Set Forth in the Newspaper
Displays.
1'he Estey playerpiano is the subject of a clever
newspaper display this week by the Fred Leithold
Piano Co., La Crosse, Wis. This is said: "Like a
close personal friend is the Estey playerpiano. It
is wonderful how closely you will become attached
to your Estey playerpiano as you get to know it
better and to see its fine points of quality develop
beneath your daily employment and enjoyment of
it. Handsome, sweet-toned and artistic enough to
fall in love with at first sight, yet it possesses fea-
tures that will endear it to you and your family more
and more the longer you have it. For the Estey is
made to wear well and to preserve for years the
purity of tone and beauty of finish that have made
it famous, so that it will become a treasured heir-
loom in your family as it has in thousands of
others."
__ m ^^^ mmm
In advertising the Gulbransen
player this week, the Young &
Chaffee Furniture Co., Grand Rap-
ids, Mich., says: "Everything is
in your favor. Just a few short
weeks and the children will be
back in school. Just a few short
weeks and your friends' and neigh-
bors' children will be starting
their music lessons."
The Bishop Furniture Co., Mus-
kegon, Mich., tells about the de-
sirability of the playerpiano and
argues in this way:
"Can you
think of a better use for your
money than to buy with it the
greatest single pleasure that can
be provided for your whole fam-
ily? Music changes the entire
course of family life. It keeps the
"home" together. It supplies that
element of sentiment that keeps
affections bright. It supplies that
element of entertainment
that
keeps the young folks at home."
You can easily own a piano be-
cause of "The Jenkins Plan," says
the J. W. Jenkins Sons' Music Co.,
Oklahoma City, Okla., this week.
The plan includes: "One price—
lowest in U. S.—No commission if
you buy your piano of us. Okla-
homa's One-Price Music House."
The Schumann, Holland and
Hobart M. Cable pianos are sold
by E. L. Pierce, the Paxton, 111.,
dealer.
Behr Bros, baby grand pianos
are featured in a special way this
week by the Fitzgerald Music Co.,
Los Angeles, Calif.
The Soward-Anderson Co. ad-
vertises "everything in music,"
and this week calls attention to
the prices in a mid-summer sale.
A suggestion from the musical
i n s t r u m e n t department says:
"Now is the time to organize a
novelty jazz orchestra or glee
club. We will furnish you prac-
tical instruction and coaching, and
aid you in organizing. We are
exclusive agents for C. G. Conn,
Ltd., saxophones, cornets, trom-
bones, etc."
The music store of the J. L.
Hudson Co., Detroit, Mich., re-
cently notified the public of the
"last chance to get a Gulbransen
playerpiano at its present price."
The necessity of a piano in the
home was eloquently stated this
week by Grinnell Bros., Detroit,
Mich. "Its beauty as an article
of home furnishing; the joy which
all the family find in its melody:
the splendid refining influence of
music in the lives of the children
of the home and the great value
to them of being able to play,
combine to make it highly desir-
able that you no longer put off
bringing a piano into your home
—and home-life!"
The Hollenberg Music Co., Lit-
tle Rock, Ark., commenting on
the desirability of the firm's line
of pianos and players, says: "And
every one an instrument of quality."
Enhanced content © 2008-2009 and presented by MBSI - The Musical Box Society International (www.mbsi.org) and the International Arcade Museum (www.arcade-museum.com).
All Rights Reserved. Digitized from the archives of the MBSI with support from NAMM - The International Music Products Association (www.namm.org).
Additional enhancement, optimization, and distribution by the International Arcade Museum. An extensive collection of Presto can be found online at http://www.arcade-museum.com/library/
Future scanning projects are planned by the International Arcade Museum Library (IAML).