Presto
Issue: 1923 1929 - Page 5
PRESTO
July 14, 1923
CHRISTMAN
Grand
IMPORTANT PURCHASE
BY J. H. WILLIAMS
Business of the C. B. Noon Co., Inc., Balti-
more, Acquired by President of United
Piano Corporation.
J. H Williams, president of the United Piano Cor-
poration, New York, who recently purchased the
Boschen-Smith Piano Co., Baltimore, Md., last week
announced the purchase of the C. B. Noon Co., Inc.,
in the same city, and also acquired a long lease of
the large store occupied by the firm. The store is
at 325 North Charles street, and is one of the most
commodious and attractive in Baltimore. It has a
wide frontage, which permits fine displays of music
goods. The deal is considered a very important one
in the Maryland city.
According to the plans of Mr. Williams, announced
last week, the stock of the Boschen-Smith Piano Co.
will 1 e moved to the store of the C. R. Noon Co..
when embodied with
Has The Appeal That
WINS THE BEST TRADE
The Summer Season is Made
Profitable to Dealers who
Sell this Remarkable Instru-
ment, for it has many Points
that no Other can claim.
YOU ARE LOSING SALES
Every day you are without
the influence of the
CHRISTMAN
Studio Grand
A WONDERFUL SMALL GRAND
only five feet long which embodies all
the advantages of the larger grands
and possessing a tone volume and
range of expression surprisingly broad.
Musicians quickly recognize the
characteristic tone qualities of the
CHRISTMAN GRAND
SEEING IS BELIEVING
"The First Touch Tells' 9
Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.
Christ man Piano Co.
597 East 137th St.
New York
creased and other shipments arc expected within the
next few weeks following Mr. Stark's trip to eastern
piano factories. The firm handles the Cable-Nelson
and W. W. KimbaH pianos and playerpianos and the
Gulbransen-Dickinson Registering Piano.
"Piano selling is an out-of-door game all the year
round in Washington," said Mr. Stark, and failure
to get the piano orders cannot be blamed on the
weather. Here, as elsewhere the bulk of business is
that discovered by the outside salesmen and the
aggregate of sales depends on their activity. The
Stark Piano Co. is fortunate in possessing a staff of
hustlers who have a pride in their performances and
their ability to find the prospects and close the sales
is shown in the big business this summer."
EVIDENCE THAT DEMAND
FOR ORGAN IS GOOD
Prospect for a "Crown" Asks Where Results of
"Cent Sent Bent" May Be Found.
If there is a demand for any reed organ, it is cer-
tain that the instrument must be the one which
was responsible for countless results of the "cent
sent Bent." That was the Crown organ. And there
is so much interest—reed-organ and other—in the
following characteristic extract from a letter from
Geo. P. Bent that Presto is g'ad of the opportunity
to pass it along:
I hope the Harrisonherg, 111., dealer will be able
to find a Crown organ such as he desires, but style
500 is now extinct and, of course, I am not making
them and am no longer interested in the making of
any of the present styles of Crown organs.
In fact, I am hunting one myself. I want a Crown
organ in chapel style, with the largest action I built
for chapel use. I think that the reason I cannot dis-
cover one is that I made them so good they are
still in use and have not been traded in.
I finally secured, in San Francisco, a parlor style,
but it is not the style we wished to have. If you
can put me on the track of one such as I wish I
shall be glad.
I may be back in Chicago in the fall, but am not
sure as to that.
Yerv trulv yours. ,;
GEORGE P. BENT.
WOOD BROTHERS OPENS
NEW PITTSFIELD WAREROOMS
Formal Opening Event Takes Place This Week at
421 North -Street, .-„.
J. H. WILLIAMS.
Inc., and the Boschen-Smith Co. store leased for
other purposes. In the fine warerooms at 325 North
Charles street big preparations are being made to
give strong featuring to the A. B. Chase, Emerson
and Lindeman & Sons pianos and the Celco repro-
during medium, the line of the United Piano Cor-
poration. The house will go after the high class
reproducing piano business of the city.
The newly acquired business will be operated by
Edwin S. Williams, son of J. H. Williams. Young
Mr. Williams has been in charge of the Boschen-
Smith Co.'s store since it was acquired by J. H.
Williams a few months ago. He has progressive
ideas, a fact which is evident in the up-to-date
methods employed in the business of which he has
charge.
C. B. Noon, who was president of the C. B. Noon
Co., Inc., is, like J. H. Williams, prominent in the
music business of Baltimore and. is well-known to
the trade in other cities. He was formerly head of
the music department of Hahne & Co., Newark,
N. J., and of the music department of Stix, Baer &
Fuller, St. Louis. Before" establishing the C. B.
Noon Co., he was general manager of the Kranz-
Smith Piano Co., Baltimore.
SUMMER BUSINESS GOOD
FOR THE PIANO DEALERS
Active Firm in Washington State Finds Possibilities
of the Trade Are All Desired.
The Stark Piano Co., Bellingham, Wash., reports
an unusually lively summer business and the reason,
according to G. Sidney Stark, president and general
manager of the company, is the refusal of himself
and his salesmen to consider summer months as poor
months for piano sales. The prospective piano
buyer is as amenable to the salesman's argument in
June, July or August as in the other months is the
belief of Mr. Stark, and the belief is shared by every
member of the sales staff.
The stock of pianos and playerpianos in the store
of the Stark Piano Co. has been considerably in-
Wood Brothers gave wide publicity to the formal
opening and inspection of the new warerooms in the
Wood Bros, building, 421 North street, Pittsfield,
Mass., Saturday of this week. A special program
was provided from 1 to 9 o'clock, July 14.
The lirm of Wood Brothers in its new location in
the Woods building has installed every aid to pleas-
ant buying and efficiency is accompanied by efficiency
in every instance. The house has established an ad-
mirable character for fair dealing and the ability to
present what a discriminating clientele wants in the
music line.
NEW BOOKS FOR EXPORTERS.
American manufacturers of musical instruments on
request will be furnished with a new list of foreign
importers by the Bureau of Foreign -and Domestic
Commerce. The lists include dealers in pianos, talk-
ing machines, rolls, records and musical accessories.
The following lists are now available: Importers of
and dealers in musical instruments in South Africa.
Ask for file No. BE-2023-A and importers and deal-
ers in Yucatan, Mexico. File No. CI-74.
JUDGMENT AGAINST MUSIC HOUSE.
An anonymous correspondent writing from Cleve-
land, Ohio, says that David Gilchrist, a piano sales-
man, of Pittsburgh, recently obtained judgment from
the courts of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania,
against a very conspicuous general music house with
many branches, for commissions due him on the sale
of pianos. The item would be interesting had the
sender added his name and authority, for it might
have appeared in its entirety.
ADDS ANOTHER LINK.
The Pearson Piano Co., Indianapolis, has estab-
lished the eighteenth link in a chain of stores that
stretches over a wide section of Indiana. This is the
branch at 200 South Meridian street, Portland, Ind.
The new store is in charge of T. B. Reddington, who
is familiar with the nature of the trade in that sec-
tion.
W. R. Hoffman, Norfolk, Va., has sold his busi-
ness to the Greeg-Andrews Furniture Co.
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July 14, 1923
CHRISTMAN
Grand
IMPORTANT PURCHASE
BY J. H. WILLIAMS
Business of the C. B. Noon Co., Inc., Balti-
more, Acquired by President of United
Piano Corporation.
J. H Williams, president of the United Piano Cor-
poration, New York, who recently purchased the
Boschen-Smith Piano Co., Baltimore, Md., last week
announced the purchase of the C. B. Noon Co., Inc.,
in the same city, and also acquired a long lease of
the large store occupied by the firm. The store is
at 325 North Charles street, and is one of the most
commodious and attractive in Baltimore. It has a
wide frontage, which permits fine displays of music
goods. The deal is considered a very important one
in the Maryland city.
According to the plans of Mr. Williams, announced
last week, the stock of the Boschen-Smith Piano Co.
will 1 e moved to the store of the C. R. Noon Co..
when embodied with
Has The Appeal That
WINS THE BEST TRADE
The Summer Season is Made
Profitable to Dealers who
Sell this Remarkable Instru-
ment, for it has many Points
that no Other can claim.
YOU ARE LOSING SALES
Every day you are without
the influence of the
CHRISTMAN
Studio Grand
A WONDERFUL SMALL GRAND
only five feet long which embodies all
the advantages of the larger grands
and possessing a tone volume and
range of expression surprisingly broad.
Musicians quickly recognize the
characteristic tone qualities of the
CHRISTMAN GRAND
SEEING IS BELIEVING
"The First Touch Tells' 9
Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.
Christ man Piano Co.
597 East 137th St.
New York
creased and other shipments arc expected within the
next few weeks following Mr. Stark's trip to eastern
piano factories. The firm handles the Cable-Nelson
and W. W. KimbaH pianos and playerpianos and the
Gulbransen-Dickinson Registering Piano.
"Piano selling is an out-of-door game all the year
round in Washington," said Mr. Stark, and failure
to get the piano orders cannot be blamed on the
weather. Here, as elsewhere the bulk of business is
that discovered by the outside salesmen and the
aggregate of sales depends on their activity. The
Stark Piano Co. is fortunate in possessing a staff of
hustlers who have a pride in their performances and
their ability to find the prospects and close the sales
is shown in the big business this summer."
EVIDENCE THAT DEMAND
FOR ORGAN IS GOOD
Prospect for a "Crown" Asks Where Results of
"Cent Sent Bent" May Be Found.
If there is a demand for any reed organ, it is cer-
tain that the instrument must be the one which
was responsible for countless results of the "cent
sent Bent." That was the Crown organ. And there
is so much interest—reed-organ and other—in the
following characteristic extract from a letter from
Geo. P. Bent that Presto is g'ad of the opportunity
to pass it along:
I hope the Harrisonherg, 111., dealer will be able
to find a Crown organ such as he desires, but style
500 is now extinct and, of course, I am not making
them and am no longer interested in the making of
any of the present styles of Crown organs.
In fact, I am hunting one myself. I want a Crown
organ in chapel style, with the largest action I built
for chapel use. I think that the reason I cannot dis-
cover one is that I made them so good they are
still in use and have not been traded in.
I finally secured, in San Francisco, a parlor style,
but it is not the style we wished to have. If you
can put me on the track of one such as I wish I
shall be glad.
I may be back in Chicago in the fall, but am not
sure as to that.
Yerv trulv yours. ,;
GEORGE P. BENT.
WOOD BROTHERS OPENS
NEW PITTSFIELD WAREROOMS
Formal Opening Event Takes Place This Week at
421 North -Street, .-„.
J. H. WILLIAMS.
Inc., and the Boschen-Smith Co. store leased for
other purposes. In the fine warerooms at 325 North
Charles street big preparations are being made to
give strong featuring to the A. B. Chase, Emerson
and Lindeman & Sons pianos and the Celco repro-
during medium, the line of the United Piano Cor-
poration. The house will go after the high class
reproducing piano business of the city.
The newly acquired business will be operated by
Edwin S. Williams, son of J. H. Williams. Young
Mr. Williams has been in charge of the Boschen-
Smith Co.'s store since it was acquired by J. H.
Williams a few months ago. He has progressive
ideas, a fact which is evident in the up-to-date
methods employed in the business of which he has
charge.
C. B. Noon, who was president of the C. B. Noon
Co., Inc., is, like J. H. Williams, prominent in the
music business of Baltimore and. is well-known to
the trade in other cities. He was formerly head of
the music department of Hahne & Co., Newark,
N. J., and of the music department of Stix, Baer &
Fuller, St. Louis. Before" establishing the C. B.
Noon Co., he was general manager of the Kranz-
Smith Piano Co., Baltimore.
SUMMER BUSINESS GOOD
FOR THE PIANO DEALERS
Active Firm in Washington State Finds Possibilities
of the Trade Are All Desired.
The Stark Piano Co., Bellingham, Wash., reports
an unusually lively summer business and the reason,
according to G. Sidney Stark, president and general
manager of the company, is the refusal of himself
and his salesmen to consider summer months as poor
months for piano sales. The prospective piano
buyer is as amenable to the salesman's argument in
June, July or August as in the other months is the
belief of Mr. Stark, and the belief is shared by every
member of the sales staff.
The stock of pianos and playerpianos in the store
of the Stark Piano Co. has been considerably in-
Wood Brothers gave wide publicity to the formal
opening and inspection of the new warerooms in the
Wood Bros, building, 421 North street, Pittsfield,
Mass., Saturday of this week. A special program
was provided from 1 to 9 o'clock, July 14.
The lirm of Wood Brothers in its new location in
the Woods building has installed every aid to pleas-
ant buying and efficiency is accompanied by efficiency
in every instance. The house has established an ad-
mirable character for fair dealing and the ability to
present what a discriminating clientele wants in the
music line.
NEW BOOKS FOR EXPORTERS.
American manufacturers of musical instruments on
request will be furnished with a new list of foreign
importers by the Bureau of Foreign -and Domestic
Commerce. The lists include dealers in pianos, talk-
ing machines, rolls, records and musical accessories.
The following lists are now available: Importers of
and dealers in musical instruments in South Africa.
Ask for file No. BE-2023-A and importers and deal-
ers in Yucatan, Mexico. File No. CI-74.
JUDGMENT AGAINST MUSIC HOUSE.
An anonymous correspondent writing from Cleve-
land, Ohio, says that David Gilchrist, a piano sales-
man, of Pittsburgh, recently obtained judgment from
the courts of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania,
against a very conspicuous general music house with
many branches, for commissions due him on the sale
of pianos. The item would be interesting had the
sender added his name and authority, for it might
have appeared in its entirety.
ADDS ANOTHER LINK.
The Pearson Piano Co., Indianapolis, has estab-
lished the eighteenth link in a chain of stores that
stretches over a wide section of Indiana. This is the
branch at 200 South Meridian street, Portland, Ind.
The new store is in charge of T. B. Reddington, who
is familiar with the nature of the trade in that sec-
tion.
W. R. Hoffman, Norfolk, Va., has sold his busi-
ness to the Greeg-Andrews Furniture Co.
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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/
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