Presto
Issue: 1923 1916 - Page 10
April 14, 1923
PRESTO
10
LATE TRADE NEWS IN
THE RETAIL DEPARTMENT
Items of General Interest from Correspondents and
Exchanges in Various Sections.
P. B. Lynch, a well known piano salesman of South
Bend, Ind., has joined the forces of Elbel Bros.
The Morgan Music House, Murphysboro, 111., has
opened a branch store in the Oldani Building, Her-
rin, 111.
Robert A. Kinnihgham is now settled in his new
music store in Danville, 111., where he carries a large
and varied musical goods stock in fine warerooms at
210 North Vermilion street.
Ernest E. Erb has purchased the interest of his
brother, John E. Erb, in Erb's Music Store, Hamil-
ton, O.
Extensive alterations were recently made on the
store of the Chillicothe Music Co., Chillicothe, Mo.
S. P. DeBois Fontaine is a new piano salesman on
the staff of the Blackman Music Co., Kansas City,
Mo.
Arthur J. Hook is a new salesman in the piano de-
partment oi the Kansas City, Mo., branch of the
Smith, Barnes & Strohber Co.
The Lindholm Furniture Co., Sioux City, la., has
installed a music department.
W. J. Burnett is manager of the new Muscatine
Music House, Muscatine, la.
Cornelius Abelowitz has purchased the stock of the
Ansonia Music Shop, Inc., 2130 Broadway, New
York.
C. J. LaRoche, the- Fresno, Cal., representative of
the piano and phonograph lines of the Hallet &
The Good Old
Davis Piano Co., has his store in a twelve-room resi-
dence at 1744 J street.
J. E. St. Clair, Laconia, N. Y., recently opened new
music rooms.
L. K. Snyder recently opened a music store on
Monument street, Baltimore, Md.
THIS PIANO LOADER GOOD
ON THE WORST ROADS
Statements of Dealers Using Bowen Verify Claims
of Manufacturers.
A PIANO TRADE MIDAS.
In all parts of the country are dealers who express
satisfaction with the Bowcn One-Man Loader and
Carrier. "Used with a Ford runabout it is the best
thing for transporting pianos on any kind of road,"
is the opinion of one dealer, which opinion is echoed
by every user of a Bowen One-Man Loader and
Carrier.
The statement of the makers, the Bowen Piano
Loader Co., Winston-Salem, N. C, that "you can go
through mudholes as well loaded" as empty," is veri-
fied in a convincing way by owners of the device.
The company adds: "The load makes no appreciable
difference wjth the tires if kept properly inflated. It
UNIQUE HARDMAN DISPLAY.
is an easy, matter to run out fifty or seventy-five
A recent display in the show windows of Hard- miles, sell the piano and get back home the same
man, Peck & Co., New York, 433 Fifth avenue, day."
showed a Hardman small grand decorated in Japan-
In a letter to the Bowen Piano Loader Co., Ste-
ese lacquer by one of the best known decorative art- phens & Barnes, the Lumberton, N. C, dealers
ists in the United States. At the right was a phono- wrote: "Gentlemen: We have four of your One-
graph similarly decorated. At the back and sides Man Loader and Carriers, and find it does the work.
were rich gold hangings, with springs of apple blos- One man can load or unload a piano with ease."
some here and there to add touches of color. In the
drapery at the back was a small opening, affording
NEW HALLETT & DAVIS OFFICES.
a view of the showroom to persons outside looking
in and of the window to persons inside looking out.
The wholesale offices of the Hallet & Davis Piano
Co. will be located at 661 Boylston street, Boston,
after May 1. Three floors will be used in the build-
FACTORY FIRE DIDN'T WORRY.
There was a joke on Lem Kline one night re- ing which was leased recently. The offices of John L.
cently—or was it on the Chicago fire department? Cotter, vice president and wholesale manager; R. O.
Mr. Kline was afar in dreamland when his 'phone Ainslie, secretary, and E. R. Jones, manager of whole-
rang loudly and he jumped out of bed to be told that sale distribution of the Hallet & Davis phonographs,
his "factory is on fire." The factory on Larrabee will be on the second floor. The Angelus depart-
street, Chicago, has been closed for several weeks, ment, under the management of Mr. Ainslie, will also
but had the report been true Mr. Kline would not be on the second floor. The advertising department
have worried hard, for he has been out of it so long under the management of Arthur Forbes will be on
that he has ceased to nurse regrets. Anyway, it was the third floor.
April Fool's-day-in-the-morning.
E. M. Frcligh, of the Bankers Commercial Security
Co., New York, has been in Chicago all this week,
helping along the cheerful condition which pervades
the piano business generally. Mr. Freligh Represents
the first and the most successful financial institution
to make piano paper a basis of monetary support.
He fits his delicate work well, and makes friends in
all he meets, and he meets many who appreciate a
friend. He knows "piano paper" from everything
else made of papyrus, and often welcomes it in large
proportions.
COLUMBUS HEALY MARRIES.
RETURNS FROM SOUTHWEST.
SMITH a NIXON
CINCINNATI
Pianos and Player Pianos
Howard F. Adams, wholesale sales manager of the
piano department of Lyon & Healy, Inc., Chicago,
returned Monday from a several weeks' trip through
the southern and southwestern states. The prospects
for these states are encouraging, Mr. Adams said,
and the business being done is fair. Mr. Adams
visited dealers in Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Ar-
kansas, and Tennessee.
WEBSTER PIANOS
Better than ever, with the same
"Grand Tone In Upright Case."
Grands and Players that every deal-
er likes to sell, for Satisfaction and
Profit.
Smith & Nixon Piano Co.
1229 Miller St., Chicago
Columbus Healy, vice president of Lyon & Healy,
Inc., Chicago, was married recently to Miss Harriet
Partridge, also of Chicago, with Marquette Healy,
president of the large instrument manufacturing cor-
poration, as best man. Mr. and Mrs. Columbus
Healy will spend their honeymoon in Europe.
Noted for Their Musical Beauty
of Tone and Artistic Style
ATTRACTIVE
Factory
Leominster,
Mass.
PRICES
Executive Offices
138th St. and Walton Ave.
New York
Division W. P. HAINES & CO* Inc.
The Lyon & Healy
Reproducing Piano
A moderate priced reproducing piano,
beautiful in design and rich in tone.
Write for our new explanatory Chart,
the most complete and simple treat-
ment of the reproducing action.
STR1CH & ZE1DLER, Inc.
Wabash at Jackson - - - Chicago
AND
GRAND, UPRIGHT and PLAYER
HOMER PIANOS
KREITER
GRAND PIANO
58 Inches Long
The best exponent of the present Baby Grand Age.
It* tone — it* line* — Hi restricted space requirement and
Attractive price—
MAKE IT THE PREMIER AGENCY
Get full details of this valuable telling franchise NOW.
Pianos and Players
Have No Competition Where
Beauty of Cases and Tone
Sustain Profit Making Prices.
Premier Grand Piano Corporation
Everything the Highest but
the Price.
Largest Institution in the World Building Grand
Pianos Exclusively
Inspect them Carefully and See.
WALTER C HBPPERLA
Pr*f»ea(
JUSTUS HATTEMER
Vic«-Pmifaat
510-532 West /3rd Street
NEW YORK
740-742 East 136th Street
NEW YORK
Kreiter
John McCormack
famous tenor, says,
"The Miessner Piano certainly fills a long-felt want, the
want of a small piano with a splendid action and lovely tone"
Write Today for Miessner catalogue, prices an! full
information
^MIESSNER
Mfg. Co., Inc.
320-322 W. Water St., Milwaukee, Wis.
Factory: Marinette, Wis.
The Little Piano with the Big: Tone
MIESSNER PIANO CO.
General Offices & Factory, 126 Reed St.
MILWAUKEE, WIS.
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PRESTO
10
LATE TRADE NEWS IN
THE RETAIL DEPARTMENT
Items of General Interest from Correspondents and
Exchanges in Various Sections.
P. B. Lynch, a well known piano salesman of South
Bend, Ind., has joined the forces of Elbel Bros.
The Morgan Music House, Murphysboro, 111., has
opened a branch store in the Oldani Building, Her-
rin, 111.
Robert A. Kinnihgham is now settled in his new
music store in Danville, 111., where he carries a large
and varied musical goods stock in fine warerooms at
210 North Vermilion street.
Ernest E. Erb has purchased the interest of his
brother, John E. Erb, in Erb's Music Store, Hamil-
ton, O.
Extensive alterations were recently made on the
store of the Chillicothe Music Co., Chillicothe, Mo.
S. P. DeBois Fontaine is a new piano salesman on
the staff of the Blackman Music Co., Kansas City,
Mo.
Arthur J. Hook is a new salesman in the piano de-
partment oi the Kansas City, Mo., branch of the
Smith, Barnes & Strohber Co.
The Lindholm Furniture Co., Sioux City, la., has
installed a music department.
W. J. Burnett is manager of the new Muscatine
Music House, Muscatine, la.
Cornelius Abelowitz has purchased the stock of the
Ansonia Music Shop, Inc., 2130 Broadway, New
York.
C. J. LaRoche, the- Fresno, Cal., representative of
the piano and phonograph lines of the Hallet &
The Good Old
Davis Piano Co., has his store in a twelve-room resi-
dence at 1744 J street.
J. E. St. Clair, Laconia, N. Y., recently opened new
music rooms.
L. K. Snyder recently opened a music store on
Monument street, Baltimore, Md.
THIS PIANO LOADER GOOD
ON THE WORST ROADS
Statements of Dealers Using Bowen Verify Claims
of Manufacturers.
A PIANO TRADE MIDAS.
In all parts of the country are dealers who express
satisfaction with the Bowcn One-Man Loader and
Carrier. "Used with a Ford runabout it is the best
thing for transporting pianos on any kind of road,"
is the opinion of one dealer, which opinion is echoed
by every user of a Bowen One-Man Loader and
Carrier.
The statement of the makers, the Bowen Piano
Loader Co., Winston-Salem, N. C, that "you can go
through mudholes as well loaded" as empty," is veri-
fied in a convincing way by owners of the device.
The company adds: "The load makes no appreciable
difference wjth the tires if kept properly inflated. It
UNIQUE HARDMAN DISPLAY.
is an easy, matter to run out fifty or seventy-five
A recent display in the show windows of Hard- miles, sell the piano and get back home the same
man, Peck & Co., New York, 433 Fifth avenue, day."
showed a Hardman small grand decorated in Japan-
In a letter to the Bowen Piano Loader Co., Ste-
ese lacquer by one of the best known decorative art- phens & Barnes, the Lumberton, N. C, dealers
ists in the United States. At the right was a phono- wrote: "Gentlemen: We have four of your One-
graph similarly decorated. At the back and sides Man Loader and Carriers, and find it does the work.
were rich gold hangings, with springs of apple blos- One man can load or unload a piano with ease."
some here and there to add touches of color. In the
drapery at the back was a small opening, affording
NEW HALLETT & DAVIS OFFICES.
a view of the showroom to persons outside looking
in and of the window to persons inside looking out.
The wholesale offices of the Hallet & Davis Piano
Co. will be located at 661 Boylston street, Boston,
after May 1. Three floors will be used in the build-
FACTORY FIRE DIDN'T WORRY.
There was a joke on Lem Kline one night re- ing which was leased recently. The offices of John L.
cently—or was it on the Chicago fire department? Cotter, vice president and wholesale manager; R. O.
Mr. Kline was afar in dreamland when his 'phone Ainslie, secretary, and E. R. Jones, manager of whole-
rang loudly and he jumped out of bed to be told that sale distribution of the Hallet & Davis phonographs,
his "factory is on fire." The factory on Larrabee will be on the second floor. The Angelus depart-
street, Chicago, has been closed for several weeks, ment, under the management of Mr. Ainslie, will also
but had the report been true Mr. Kline would not be on the second floor. The advertising department
have worried hard, for he has been out of it so long under the management of Arthur Forbes will be on
that he has ceased to nurse regrets. Anyway, it was the third floor.
April Fool's-day-in-the-morning.
E. M. Frcligh, of the Bankers Commercial Security
Co., New York, has been in Chicago all this week,
helping along the cheerful condition which pervades
the piano business generally. Mr. Freligh Represents
the first and the most successful financial institution
to make piano paper a basis of monetary support.
He fits his delicate work well, and makes friends in
all he meets, and he meets many who appreciate a
friend. He knows "piano paper" from everything
else made of papyrus, and often welcomes it in large
proportions.
COLUMBUS HEALY MARRIES.
RETURNS FROM SOUTHWEST.
SMITH a NIXON
CINCINNATI
Pianos and Player Pianos
Howard F. Adams, wholesale sales manager of the
piano department of Lyon & Healy, Inc., Chicago,
returned Monday from a several weeks' trip through
the southern and southwestern states. The prospects
for these states are encouraging, Mr. Adams said,
and the business being done is fair. Mr. Adams
visited dealers in Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Ar-
kansas, and Tennessee.
WEBSTER PIANOS
Better than ever, with the same
"Grand Tone In Upright Case."
Grands and Players that every deal-
er likes to sell, for Satisfaction and
Profit.
Smith & Nixon Piano Co.
1229 Miller St., Chicago
Columbus Healy, vice president of Lyon & Healy,
Inc., Chicago, was married recently to Miss Harriet
Partridge, also of Chicago, with Marquette Healy,
president of the large instrument manufacturing cor-
poration, as best man. Mr. and Mrs. Columbus
Healy will spend their honeymoon in Europe.
Noted for Their Musical Beauty
of Tone and Artistic Style
ATTRACTIVE
Factory
Leominster,
Mass.
PRICES
Executive Offices
138th St. and Walton Ave.
New York
Division W. P. HAINES & CO* Inc.
The Lyon & Healy
Reproducing Piano
A moderate priced reproducing piano,
beautiful in design and rich in tone.
Write for our new explanatory Chart,
the most complete and simple treat-
ment of the reproducing action.
STR1CH & ZE1DLER, Inc.
Wabash at Jackson - - - Chicago
AND
GRAND, UPRIGHT and PLAYER
HOMER PIANOS
KREITER
GRAND PIANO
58 Inches Long
The best exponent of the present Baby Grand Age.
It* tone — it* line* — Hi restricted space requirement and
Attractive price—
MAKE IT THE PREMIER AGENCY
Get full details of this valuable telling franchise NOW.
Pianos and Players
Have No Competition Where
Beauty of Cases and Tone
Sustain Profit Making Prices.
Premier Grand Piano Corporation
Everything the Highest but
the Price.
Largest Institution in the World Building Grand
Pianos Exclusively
Inspect them Carefully and See.
WALTER C HBPPERLA
Pr*f»ea(
JUSTUS HATTEMER
Vic«-Pmifaat
510-532 West /3rd Street
NEW YORK
740-742 East 136th Street
NEW YORK
Kreiter
John McCormack
famous tenor, says,
"The Miessner Piano certainly fills a long-felt want, the
want of a small piano with a splendid action and lovely tone"
Write Today for Miessner catalogue, prices an! full
information
^MIESSNER
Mfg. Co., Inc.
320-322 W. Water St., Milwaukee, Wis.
Factory: Marinette, Wis.
The Little Piano with the Big: Tone
MIESSNER PIANO CO.
General Offices & Factory, 126 Reed St.
MILWAUKEE, WIS.
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).