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PRESTO
March 8, 1924.
organizations to induce the Government to prohibit
the export of second-hand instruments, especially
those which were sold in large numbers by former
members of military bands; as these instruments,
however, fetch a much higher price abroad than in
Conditions in United States Never Better, Says H. E. Germany they continue to leave the country.
Millar, Manufacturer of Specialties.
NEW YORK TRADE TRAVELER
FINDS BUSINESS BOOMING
Returning from his annual ten weeks' business trip
through the South, Southwest, Mississippi Valley and
eastern states, Herbert E. Millar, a New York manu-
facturer, adds to the optimistic comments on the busi-
ness outlook for 1924. Mr. Millar makes it a point
to meet bankers, farmers and storekeepers every-
where on his trips.
"In every section, except perhaps the communities
entirely dependent on wheat-raising, the conditions are
splendid right now," said Mr. Millar. "Wheat, how-
ever, is but 6 per cent of the total raised by the
farmer, so that it seems to me too much is made of
the present slump here. But cotton, corn, stock-rais-
ing, the building program and other things going to
make substantial business, are favorable in every
section.
"Wages are high, and will go higher if there is no
soldier bonus; employment is at 100 per cent, meaning
big buying power to move the stocks of merchandise;
Coolidge will undoubtedly be re-elected. Indeed,,
there is nothing to stop solidly prosperous conditions
for the country for the next few years, in my opinion.
"I have been traveling the country over for many
years and I never saw conditions and indications as
they now are."
SIX MILLION MARKS PRICE
OF PIANO IN GERMANY
Disadvantages of Musicians Realized When Hire
of Instrument Amounts to 20,000 per Month.
APPEAL TO PARENTS.
The Griffith Piano Co., Newark, N. J., prints power-
ful ads in the newspapers and the arguments are
potent for results in piano sales. This was said last
week: "It is said that the first eight years of a
child's life are the most important. Parents, have
you thought of yourselves as the moulders of these
young hearts and minds? Will your children have
the right ideas about music and dancing? Will their
primitive motions run away with them? . . . or
will they understand, and understanding appreciate
how man in his spiritual and intellectual struggles
for beauty and nobility has been inspired to create
exalting music to minister to the greater needs of
his soul? It seems a long w r ay from the tom-tom and
war dance to the beautiful, soul-satisfying pianos
gathered together in our warerooms."
FOR FOREIGN COMMERCE SERVICE.
The establishment in the Bureau of Foreign and
Domestic Commerce of the Department of Com-
merce of a foreign commerce service is provided for
in a bill introduced in the House of Representatives
by Congressman Winslow, of Massachusetts, The
new bureau would be designed to promote foreign
commerce with the United States, and would take
over the work which is now being performed. The
main object of the measure is to provide adequate
salaries for foreign trade officials more in keeping
with the work they perform than the present salary
scale.
STANDARD PLAYER ACTIONS.
The League of Nations Committee on Intellectual
Co-operation, which includes amongst its members
Mme. Curie (Poland), Professor Bergson (France),
Professor Gilbert Murray (Great Britain), M. Jules
£>estree (Belgium), and Dr. Robert A. Millikan
(United States), has concluded an inquiry into the
condition and the economic position of musicians in
15 different countries, says London "Music."
The difficulties which musicians have to face are
naturally greatest in ex-enemy countries, and their
extent may be gathered from the fact that, even a
year ago in Germany, a piano cost from three to six
million marks, while the hire of an instrument
amounted to 20,000 marks a month. Various unsuc-
cessful attempts have been made by the musicians'
A. R. Farmer, representative of the Standard Pneu-
matic Action Company, of New York, left for a busi-
ness trip through the middle-western states, on March
2nd. He will be gone for two or three weeks and
during that time will visit many of the manufacturers
who install the Standard Player Action in their
playerpianos.
PIANOS AT BRITISH FAIR.
A space of 9,000 feet has been allotted the music
goods exhibits in the British Industries Fair to be
held in London from April 28 to May 9. Thirty-
seven music goods manufacturers, most of them
makers of pianos, will be represented.
SWAN PIANOS
SWAN ORGANS
are of the highest grade
t h a t c a n be obtained
through over 50 years of
p r a c t i c a l experience in
piano and organ building.
Illustrations a n d c a t a -
logues of various styles
will be furnished p i a n o
merchants on application
The tremendous superi-
ority of the SWAN Reed
Organs over all others lies
in the absolute mechanism
and scientific perfection m
the bellows action and stop
action, making it the best
value in modern o r g a n
building.
*V ftfla /"V i
PRIZES ASKED FOR OHIO
MUSIC MEMORY CONTEST
Helen Roberts, Chairman of Prize Committee, Ap-
peals to Dealers and Others for Contributions.
The Prize Committee of the Ohio State Music
Memory Contest is asking for text books to offer as
prizes in the forthcoming contest, which ends March
29, in Columbus. The children from nearly every
county in the state are entered in the contest, and
are anxiously awaiting the announcement of prizes.
In addition to the newspaper advertisement, the
prizes are to be displayed in a prominent window in
Columbus at least a week before the final contest, and
they are to be placed on the stage in Memorial Hall,
Columbus, the day of the final contest, where hun-
dreds of children, music supervisors, and other adults
from all over the state will be present.
There are four classes of competitors, and the com-
mittees hope to get many more this year because it is
asking for them much earlier, thereby giving longer
advertisement. "If you cannot give a prize alone,
perhaps you can give one together with other dis-
tributors and dealers in this state," is the suggestion
in letter of Helen Roberts, to possible contributors.
Mark P. Campbell, president of the Brambach
Piano Co., New York, has donated a baby grand
piano to be given as first prize.
MT. VERNON, WASH., STORE REOPENS
The Vernon Piano Company, Mt. Vernon, Wash.,
which gave up its location in that city last year be-
cause of the inability to secure sufficient stocks of
merchandise at the time, announces the re-opening of
a retail store and the display of pianos and players in
the building at 615 Second street. F. A. Ellsworth,
the proprietor, has been engaged in the sale of pianos
in Mount Vernon and vicinity for several years. The
lines he will represent in the new store will be the
Gttlbransen, Kimball, Behr Bros., and Marshall &
Wendell.
NEW STORE AT WENATCHEE, WASH.
A new music store and record exchange has been
opened in Wenatchee, Wash. A full line of sheet
music will be carried at all times. H is also planned
to operate a record exchange where both new and
used records suitable for all tone reproducing ma-
chines may be obtained or exchanged. The new ven-
ture will be managed by A. II. Parmelee, local vocal-
ist, who has been connected with the Edison Phono-
graph Co. in Wenatchee for some time.
QUALITY with QUANTITY
S. N. SWAN ft SOUS, » - * * « * FREEPORT, ILL
Maximum Value in
PLAYERS, REPRODUCERS and GRANDS
GOLDSMITH
Players and Pianos
Have Every Advantage in Quality and Results
to the Dealers
An Investigation Will Prove It
GOLDSMITH
PIANO
CHICAGO, ILL.
COMPANY
1225-1227 Miller Street, CHICAGO
A QUALITY PRODUCT
FOR OVER
QUARTER OFA CENTURY
Offices: $02-4 Republic Bldg.
Place That Want Ad in The Presto
POOLE
•^BOSTON —
GRAND AND UPRIGHT PIANOS "
AND
PLAYER PIANOS
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PRESTO
March 8, 1924.
organizations to induce the Government to prohibit
the export of second-hand instruments, especially
those which were sold in large numbers by former
members of military bands; as these instruments,
however, fetch a much higher price abroad than in
Conditions in United States Never Better, Says H. E. Germany they continue to leave the country.
Millar, Manufacturer of Specialties.
NEW YORK TRADE TRAVELER
FINDS BUSINESS BOOMING
Returning from his annual ten weeks' business trip
through the South, Southwest, Mississippi Valley and
eastern states, Herbert E. Millar, a New York manu-
facturer, adds to the optimistic comments on the busi-
ness outlook for 1924. Mr. Millar makes it a point
to meet bankers, farmers and storekeepers every-
where on his trips.
"In every section, except perhaps the communities
entirely dependent on wheat-raising, the conditions are
splendid right now," said Mr. Millar. "Wheat, how-
ever, is but 6 per cent of the total raised by the
farmer, so that it seems to me too much is made of
the present slump here. But cotton, corn, stock-rais-
ing, the building program and other things going to
make substantial business, are favorable in every
section.
"Wages are high, and will go higher if there is no
soldier bonus; employment is at 100 per cent, meaning
big buying power to move the stocks of merchandise;
Coolidge will undoubtedly be re-elected. Indeed,,
there is nothing to stop solidly prosperous conditions
for the country for the next few years, in my opinion.
"I have been traveling the country over for many
years and I never saw conditions and indications as
they now are."
SIX MILLION MARKS PRICE
OF PIANO IN GERMANY
Disadvantages of Musicians Realized When Hire
of Instrument Amounts to 20,000 per Month.
APPEAL TO PARENTS.
The Griffith Piano Co., Newark, N. J., prints power-
ful ads in the newspapers and the arguments are
potent for results in piano sales. This was said last
week: "It is said that the first eight years of a
child's life are the most important. Parents, have
you thought of yourselves as the moulders of these
young hearts and minds? Will your children have
the right ideas about music and dancing? Will their
primitive motions run away with them? . . . or
will they understand, and understanding appreciate
how man in his spiritual and intellectual struggles
for beauty and nobility has been inspired to create
exalting music to minister to the greater needs of
his soul? It seems a long w r ay from the tom-tom and
war dance to the beautiful, soul-satisfying pianos
gathered together in our warerooms."
FOR FOREIGN COMMERCE SERVICE.
The establishment in the Bureau of Foreign and
Domestic Commerce of the Department of Com-
merce of a foreign commerce service is provided for
in a bill introduced in the House of Representatives
by Congressman Winslow, of Massachusetts, The
new bureau would be designed to promote foreign
commerce with the United States, and would take
over the work which is now being performed. The
main object of the measure is to provide adequate
salaries for foreign trade officials more in keeping
with the work they perform than the present salary
scale.
STANDARD PLAYER ACTIONS.
The League of Nations Committee on Intellectual
Co-operation, which includes amongst its members
Mme. Curie (Poland), Professor Bergson (France),
Professor Gilbert Murray (Great Britain), M. Jules
£>estree (Belgium), and Dr. Robert A. Millikan
(United States), has concluded an inquiry into the
condition and the economic position of musicians in
15 different countries, says London "Music."
The difficulties which musicians have to face are
naturally greatest in ex-enemy countries, and their
extent may be gathered from the fact that, even a
year ago in Germany, a piano cost from three to six
million marks, while the hire of an instrument
amounted to 20,000 marks a month. Various unsuc-
cessful attempts have been made by the musicians'
A. R. Farmer, representative of the Standard Pneu-
matic Action Company, of New York, left for a busi-
ness trip through the middle-western states, on March
2nd. He will be gone for two or three weeks and
during that time will visit many of the manufacturers
who install the Standard Player Action in their
playerpianos.
PIANOS AT BRITISH FAIR.
A space of 9,000 feet has been allotted the music
goods exhibits in the British Industries Fair to be
held in London from April 28 to May 9. Thirty-
seven music goods manufacturers, most of them
makers of pianos, will be represented.
SWAN PIANOS
SWAN ORGANS
are of the highest grade
t h a t c a n be obtained
through over 50 years of
p r a c t i c a l experience in
piano and organ building.
Illustrations a n d c a t a -
logues of various styles
will be furnished p i a n o
merchants on application
The tremendous superi-
ority of the SWAN Reed
Organs over all others lies
in the absolute mechanism
and scientific perfection m
the bellows action and stop
action, making it the best
value in modern o r g a n
building.
*V ftfla /"V i
PRIZES ASKED FOR OHIO
MUSIC MEMORY CONTEST
Helen Roberts, Chairman of Prize Committee, Ap-
peals to Dealers and Others for Contributions.
The Prize Committee of the Ohio State Music
Memory Contest is asking for text books to offer as
prizes in the forthcoming contest, which ends March
29, in Columbus. The children from nearly every
county in the state are entered in the contest, and
are anxiously awaiting the announcement of prizes.
In addition to the newspaper advertisement, the
prizes are to be displayed in a prominent window in
Columbus at least a week before the final contest, and
they are to be placed on the stage in Memorial Hall,
Columbus, the day of the final contest, where hun-
dreds of children, music supervisors, and other adults
from all over the state will be present.
There are four classes of competitors, and the com-
mittees hope to get many more this year because it is
asking for them much earlier, thereby giving longer
advertisement. "If you cannot give a prize alone,
perhaps you can give one together with other dis-
tributors and dealers in this state," is the suggestion
in letter of Helen Roberts, to possible contributors.
Mark P. Campbell, president of the Brambach
Piano Co., New York, has donated a baby grand
piano to be given as first prize.
MT. VERNON, WASH., STORE REOPENS
The Vernon Piano Company, Mt. Vernon, Wash.,
which gave up its location in that city last year be-
cause of the inability to secure sufficient stocks of
merchandise at the time, announces the re-opening of
a retail store and the display of pianos and players in
the building at 615 Second street. F. A. Ellsworth,
the proprietor, has been engaged in the sale of pianos
in Mount Vernon and vicinity for several years. The
lines he will represent in the new store will be the
Gttlbransen, Kimball, Behr Bros., and Marshall &
Wendell.
NEW STORE AT WENATCHEE, WASH.
A new music store and record exchange has been
opened in Wenatchee, Wash. A full line of sheet
music will be carried at all times. H is also planned
to operate a record exchange where both new and
used records suitable for all tone reproducing ma-
chines may be obtained or exchanged. The new ven-
ture will be managed by A. II. Parmelee, local vocal-
ist, who has been connected with the Edison Phono-
graph Co. in Wenatchee for some time.
QUALITY with QUANTITY
S. N. SWAN ft SOUS, » - * * « * FREEPORT, ILL
Maximum Value in
PLAYERS, REPRODUCERS and GRANDS
GOLDSMITH
Players and Pianos
Have Every Advantage in Quality and Results
to the Dealers
An Investigation Will Prove It
GOLDSMITH
PIANO
CHICAGO, ILL.
COMPANY
1225-1227 Miller Street, CHICAGO
A QUALITY PRODUCT
FOR OVER
QUARTER OFA CENTURY
Offices: $02-4 Republic Bldg.
Place That Want Ad in The Presto
POOLE
•^BOSTON —
GRAND AND UPRIGHT PIANOS "
AND
PLAYER PIANOS
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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).
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