Presto
Issue: 1920 1793 - Page 12
PRESTO
12
HOLIDAY TRADE GOOD WITH
MEMPHIS, TENN., COMPANY
Plans for Big Christmas Sales Are Being Realized
by the Bell-Welburn Piano Company.
The Bell-Welburn Piano Co., known as the Chick-
ering Warerooms, in Memphis, Tenn., has enjoyed
good business since the formal opening of its new
store about a month ago. Every day the expecta-
tions for a lively holiday trade is being realized.
Both Allan Welburn, president, and Frank Bell,
secretary and treasurer of the company, are well
known in the music trade of Tennessee. Mr. Wel-
burn was connected with the Nashville branch of
the O. K. Houck Piano Co. for fifteen years and Mr.
Bell was connected with Henry & Bell, Springfield,
Tenn., for a number of years. J. V. Day, the sales
manager.of the Bell-Welburn Piano Co., was for-
merly manager of the O. K. Houck Piano Co.'s store
in Memphis. In addition to the Chickering line the
company handles the Hardman, Conover, Bush &
Gerts, Wellington, Armstrong and Harrington
pianos.
LOS ANGELES BUSINESS
PLEASES THE PIANO TRADE
I. N. Rice, Piano Traveler, Tells Other Things in
Interesting Letter from California City.
In a letter written in Los Angeles, Cal., last week,
I. N. Rice, the piano traveler, reports good business
with the Los Angeles piano dealers and excellent
possibilities for the entire holiday season. Mr. Rice
says H* is giving a good deal of his time to the
business of pleasure and the opportunities confront
him at every turn. The day he wrote his letter he
was going to Long Beach to dine with an aunt who
proudly confessed to eighty-eight years, but might
pass for fifty without the aid of the beauty parlor
experts Or the camouflages of the ladies' tailor.
The reason for this adherence to the graces of
youth or the more sedate physical favors of middle
age is easily and willingly explained by any Cali-
forian of conversational standing. Mr. Rice says
that the piano men are so loyal to their weather they
will interrupt a piano sale any time to tell of its
potency under all circumstances.
Mr. Rice was glad at the arrival of his family
from the East and was surprised that they made
the trip by automobile with so few mishaps. The
trip was made in twenty-four days and was by way
of Phoenix instead of Flagstaff, as planned. Snow
in the Flagstaff region caused the change of plans.
At a dinner at the Jonathan Club, Los Angeles.
Mr. Rice and a jolly crowd of men of the music
trade said au revoir to George P. Bent at his de-
parture on a trip around the world.
THE TRADE FOR NEXT YEAR.
Dr. Alex. Jameson, wholesale representative of the
Emerson Piano Company, Boston, Mass., was in
Chicago on Tuesday of this week. He had been on a
trip through the Central West. At Canton and Ak-
ron, Ohio, he found deflation processes in full swing
so far as factory activities were concerned, but at
Youngstown and Dayton he found business as active
as it was months ago. Dr. Jameson looks for a
spurt of active piano trade between the present time
and Christmas. He conservatively predicted a grad-
ual readjustment during the first six months of the
new year to something approaching pre-war condi-
tions of wages and prices.
TO MEET JOHN MARTIN.
The Fred P. Watson Co., Mt. Vernon, 111., invited
the musical public last week to come to the store
and hear John Martin show the possibilities of the
Gulbransen playerpiano. This was printed in the
local newspapers: "When you hear John Martin
play the Gulbransen you are at liberty to do all the
dreaming you wish about being able to do the same
thing. For weeks of study instead of years will make
a musician of you if you have a Gulbransen and the
Martin Method instruction rolls."
FOR CHRISTMAS DELIVERY.
"We have just received another big shipment of
fine playerpianos for the Xmas trade," says the Horn
Piano Co., Staunton, 111. "It is not too soon to se-
lect your player. We will deliver it on Christmas
Eve, or any time you wish."
FEATURING GRANDS IN DAVENPORT, IOWA
December 4, 1920.
QUALITY FIRST
AND
FIRST QUALITY
Je we French & Sons Piano Co.
FACTORIES at New Cattle, Ind.
AUSTRALIAN OPFICE:
§4 Pitt 5L, Sy*My, N. S. W.
1171"
A N I M W«H
STEGER
The Most Vdludblc Piano in theWMd
Steger & Sons
Leads
Others Follow
STIOER BUILDING
Jackson and Wabash
The Piano Center of America
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
AMERICAN
PIANO SUPPLY
COMPANY
The Baxter Piano Company, Davenport, Iowa,
believes that the Brambach baby grand piano offers a
means of distinctive window displays, a judgment
evidently right as shown in the accompanying illus-
tration.
A close study of the window will convince read-
ers that this progressive Brambach dealer is care-
ful about the use of correct properties. The entire
back paneling of this window is finished in mahog-
any, combining most beautifully with the satin finish
of the case. The lamp, the Wilton rugs and the
other details of this display were all as carefully
chosen and combined into a setting which stopped
every passer-by.
This without a doubt created in many a specta-
tor's mind a new desire to own a baby grand piano
and resulted in many interesting inquiries which
will ultimately reflect themselves in the sales of the
organization. Displays of this character are trade
builders and progressive dealers in the United States
have long recognized the possibilities of their win-
dows. The Baxter Piano Company has shown that
wonderful results can be attained by careful thought
in the use of artistic surroundings for the pianos
shown in windows and warerooms.
Felts, Cloths, Hammers,
Punchings, Music Wire, Tun-
ing Pins, Player Parts, Hinges,
Casters.
A Full Line of Material* for Piano* and
Organs
When in Need of Supplies
Communicate with Us.
American Piano Supply Co.
110-112 E. 13th St.
New York
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12
HOLIDAY TRADE GOOD WITH
MEMPHIS, TENN., COMPANY
Plans for Big Christmas Sales Are Being Realized
by the Bell-Welburn Piano Company.
The Bell-Welburn Piano Co., known as the Chick-
ering Warerooms, in Memphis, Tenn., has enjoyed
good business since the formal opening of its new
store about a month ago. Every day the expecta-
tions for a lively holiday trade is being realized.
Both Allan Welburn, president, and Frank Bell,
secretary and treasurer of the company, are well
known in the music trade of Tennessee. Mr. Wel-
burn was connected with the Nashville branch of
the O. K. Houck Piano Co. for fifteen years and Mr.
Bell was connected with Henry & Bell, Springfield,
Tenn., for a number of years. J. V. Day, the sales
manager.of the Bell-Welburn Piano Co., was for-
merly manager of the O. K. Houck Piano Co.'s store
in Memphis. In addition to the Chickering line the
company handles the Hardman, Conover, Bush &
Gerts, Wellington, Armstrong and Harrington
pianos.
LOS ANGELES BUSINESS
PLEASES THE PIANO TRADE
I. N. Rice, Piano Traveler, Tells Other Things in
Interesting Letter from California City.
In a letter written in Los Angeles, Cal., last week,
I. N. Rice, the piano traveler, reports good business
with the Los Angeles piano dealers and excellent
possibilities for the entire holiday season. Mr. Rice
says H* is giving a good deal of his time to the
business of pleasure and the opportunities confront
him at every turn. The day he wrote his letter he
was going to Long Beach to dine with an aunt who
proudly confessed to eighty-eight years, but might
pass for fifty without the aid of the beauty parlor
experts Or the camouflages of the ladies' tailor.
The reason for this adherence to the graces of
youth or the more sedate physical favors of middle
age is easily and willingly explained by any Cali-
forian of conversational standing. Mr. Rice says
that the piano men are so loyal to their weather they
will interrupt a piano sale any time to tell of its
potency under all circumstances.
Mr. Rice was glad at the arrival of his family
from the East and was surprised that they made
the trip by automobile with so few mishaps. The
trip was made in twenty-four days and was by way
of Phoenix instead of Flagstaff, as planned. Snow
in the Flagstaff region caused the change of plans.
At a dinner at the Jonathan Club, Los Angeles.
Mr. Rice and a jolly crowd of men of the music
trade said au revoir to George P. Bent at his de-
parture on a trip around the world.
THE TRADE FOR NEXT YEAR.
Dr. Alex. Jameson, wholesale representative of the
Emerson Piano Company, Boston, Mass., was in
Chicago on Tuesday of this week. He had been on a
trip through the Central West. At Canton and Ak-
ron, Ohio, he found deflation processes in full swing
so far as factory activities were concerned, but at
Youngstown and Dayton he found business as active
as it was months ago. Dr. Jameson looks for a
spurt of active piano trade between the present time
and Christmas. He conservatively predicted a grad-
ual readjustment during the first six months of the
new year to something approaching pre-war condi-
tions of wages and prices.
TO MEET JOHN MARTIN.
The Fred P. Watson Co., Mt. Vernon, 111., invited
the musical public last week to come to the store
and hear John Martin show the possibilities of the
Gulbransen playerpiano. This was printed in the
local newspapers: "When you hear John Martin
play the Gulbransen you are at liberty to do all the
dreaming you wish about being able to do the same
thing. For weeks of study instead of years will make
a musician of you if you have a Gulbransen and the
Martin Method instruction rolls."
FOR CHRISTMAS DELIVERY.
"We have just received another big shipment of
fine playerpianos for the Xmas trade," says the Horn
Piano Co., Staunton, 111. "It is not too soon to se-
lect your player. We will deliver it on Christmas
Eve, or any time you wish."
FEATURING GRANDS IN DAVENPORT, IOWA
December 4, 1920.
QUALITY FIRST
AND
FIRST QUALITY
Je we French & Sons Piano Co.
FACTORIES at New Cattle, Ind.
AUSTRALIAN OPFICE:
§4 Pitt 5L, Sy*My, N. S. W.
1171"
A N I M W«H
STEGER
The Most Vdludblc Piano in theWMd
Steger & Sons
Leads
Others Follow
STIOER BUILDING
Jackson and Wabash
The Piano Center of America
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
AMERICAN
PIANO SUPPLY
COMPANY
The Baxter Piano Company, Davenport, Iowa,
believes that the Brambach baby grand piano offers a
means of distinctive window displays, a judgment
evidently right as shown in the accompanying illus-
tration.
A close study of the window will convince read-
ers that this progressive Brambach dealer is care-
ful about the use of correct properties. The entire
back paneling of this window is finished in mahog-
any, combining most beautifully with the satin finish
of the case. The lamp, the Wilton rugs and the
other details of this display were all as carefully
chosen and combined into a setting which stopped
every passer-by.
This without a doubt created in many a specta-
tor's mind a new desire to own a baby grand piano
and resulted in many interesting inquiries which
will ultimately reflect themselves in the sales of the
organization. Displays of this character are trade
builders and progressive dealers in the United States
have long recognized the possibilities of their win-
dows. The Baxter Piano Company has shown that
wonderful results can be attained by careful thought
in the use of artistic surroundings for the pianos
shown in windows and warerooms.
Felts, Cloths, Hammers,
Punchings, Music Wire, Tun-
ing Pins, Player Parts, Hinges,
Casters.
A Full Line of Material* for Piano* and
Organs
When in Need of Supplies
Communicate with Us.
American Piano Supply Co.
110-112 E. 13th St.
New York
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).