Presto
Issue: 1924 1968 - Page 15
PRESTO
April 12, 1924.
RETURN TO ACTIVITY
OF GEORGE P. BENT
Always Popular Manufacturer Has Been "Re-
incarnated," to Employ His Own Word,
and Will Travel in Western States.
A "CROWN" REVIVAL
He Is Not Only Interested in the "Bent Music Shop,"
Chicago, But Also in Louisville
Industry.
ARTISTIC
s? S
I
JPIA.JVO
IN EVERT
DETAIL
Telling a Presto representative more about his
return to the piano industry and trade, George P.
Rent referred to his "come back" as a "reincarnation."
And it is certain that none of the Prodigal Sons of the
piano could be more deserving of fatted calves, or
could be more warmly welcomed back home, with
the difference that the scriptural story doesn't fit at
2
HADDORFF PIANO CO.
ROCKFORD,ILL.
Wholesale Offices:
NawTMfcGSt
I»W.«adS*.
410 S. Mfebifu kw.
Sll C M M V I A S I .
are being placed for pianos, especially for the Straube
Artronome players, made by the Straube Piano Co.,
Hammond, Tnd.
The Maivern, Ark., branch of the Arkansas Music
Co. ha.s been moved to Fordyce, but an office will be
maintained in Malvern.
The Claycomb Music Store is a new music business
on East North street, Marshall, Mo.
New quarters have been obtained by the Hunter
Music Co. at 321 South Ludlow street, Dayton, Ohio.
NEW BRANCH OF THE
MANUFACTURERS' OUTLET
Enterprising Milwaukee Piano House Opens Fine
Store on Lincoln Avenue, in Cream City.
A new branch store of the Manufacturers Outlet
Piano Store has been opened at 3323 Lincoln avenue,
Milwaukee. The main store is at 1389 Milwaukee
avenue. The new branch is located in the new flat-
iron bank building, with two store fronts, one on
Lincoln avenue and the other on Marshfield avenue.
The interior is finished beautifully and the ceiling is
22 feet high with large drooping bank light fixtures.
The manager of the new Lincoln avenue branch
store will be L. G. Reisiner, formerly a floor salesman
at the Milwaukee avenue store. Because of Mr. Reis-
iner's ability, he has been given this promotion, and
feels that there is a great opportunity for sales in
this district.
The Manufacturers' Outlet Piano Store, Inc., is
made up entirely of hard-workers. The Baldwin
Piano Co., Inc., line and the Smith, Barnes &
Strohber Co. line are handled and the house is a
great booster for these two lines of high-grade pianos.
OHIO PIANO MERCHANTS
AID MUSIC MEMORY CONTEST
Schaff Bros.
Many Respond Generously to Request of Promoters
for Suitable Prizes.
Players 9 nd Pianos have won their stand-
ing with trade and public by 54 years of
steadfast striving to excel. They repre-
sent the
LARGEST COMPETITIVE VALUE
because of their beauty, reliability, tone
and moderate price. They are profitable
to sell and satisfactory when sold.
Brighten Your Line with the
SCHAFF BROS.
The Schaff Bros. Co.
Established 1868
Huntington, Ind.
GRAND PIANOS
EXCLUSIVELY
One Style—One Quality
giving you the
Unequaled Grand
at
Unequaled Price
Already being sold by leading dealers
throughout the country
Write today—tell us your next year's re-
quirements and we will meet your demands
with prompt and efficient service.
Columbian Grand Piano Mfg. Co.
400 W. Erie St.
CHICAGO
GEO.
P. BENT.
all, because Air, Bent has never gone astray, nor
eaten any husks of any kind.
But the point is that George P. Bent, who retired
from the music trade in 1916, refuses to stay retired.
Last Fall he bought out his son's partners in the
retail business, conducted under the name of Bent
Music Shop, at 214-216 South Wabash avenue, Chi-
cago, and recently he has become a stockholder in and
vice-president of the George P. Bent Co., of Louis-
ville, Ky.
Mr. Bent, who for the convenience of his friends,
was christened George P., is to represent the Bent
Company in the Pacific Coast territory, which in-
cludes the states of Idaho, Washington, California,
Utah, Oregon and Nevada.
This means also a return to great activity of the
"Geo. P. Bent" and the "Crown" pianos in which
Air. Bent won distinction years ago, and which dis-
tinction still remains and will continue to grow.
Mr. Bent may be addressed at either the factory,
at Louisville, Ky., or at his home, 2205 South Gram-
ercy Place, Los Angeles, Cal.
NEWSY FACTS ABOUT THE
MEN WHO RETAIL PIANOS
Items gathered From Various Sources Relate Inci-
dents in the Trade Activities.
Jos. F. Budrick, 3343 South Halsted street, Chicago,
has remodeled his music store. Mr. Budrick recently
added the H. C. Bay reproducing grand, and it is at-
tractively featured in the window.
The piano department of Gimbel Bros., Philadel-
phia, under the management of Robert S. McCarthy,
has inaugurated a series of public recitals.
As Easter is approaching the Bridgeport Furn. Co.,
3224 South Halsted street, Chicago, reports big orders
The Ohio music dealers generously responded to
the call for prizes for the state-wide music memory
contest held in Columbus, March 29. The following
Ohio retailers donated prizes: The Yahrling-Rayner
Music Co., Youngstown; Wm. V. Crowe, Columbus;
The Kratz Piano Co., Akron; The Jackson-Guldan
Violin Co., Columbus; The Dreher Piano Co., Cleve-
land; C. C. Baker, Columbus; The J. W. Greene Co-
Toledo; John F. Renner, Sandusky; The Ackerman
Piano Co., Marion; Knabe Warerooms, Cleveland;
The Otto Grau Piano Co., Cincinnati; The Alford &
Fryar Piano Co., Canton.
Mark P. Campbell, president of the Brambach
Piano Co., of New York, and a member of the Music
Merchants Association of Ohio, donated a baby grand
piano for the first prize.
UNDELIVERED MAIL CAUSED
BY WRONG ADDRESSES
Postmaster of Chicago Suggests That All Merchants
Should Revise Mailing Lists.
More than 600,000 changes of address were Wed
with the Chicago post office during the year just
past, according to a statement issued by Postmaster
Arthur C. Lueder, but there were many thousands
who moved and did not file a change of address with
the post office with the result that many pieces of
first-class mail and parcel post remained undelivered,
and great quantities of circular matter and news-
papers were destroyed.
Postmaster Arthur C. Lueder, Chicago, has asked
Presto's aid in preventing the unnecessary waste in
the post office which results in loss to publishers and
patrons.
%
"It would surprise you if you would come to the
post office and see how much mail, including second-
class matter, remains undelivered because people
have moved and failed to provide the post office with
their new address," writes the Postmaster, who sug-
gests we impress upon our subscribers and corre-
spondents the necessity of recording any changes of
address.
IMPROVING VIRGINIA STORE.
An extensive plan of alterations and improvements
have been completed in Kelley's Music Store, Fair-
mont, Va. An unusually attractive display window
is one of the features added. The new window will
be devoted to a display of phonographs and records
and is provided with a hardwood floor. Pianos are
on display in the large room in the body of the store.
The Christopher Music Shop was recently opened in
Meridian, Miss.
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April 12, 1924.
RETURN TO ACTIVITY
OF GEORGE P. BENT
Always Popular Manufacturer Has Been "Re-
incarnated," to Employ His Own Word,
and Will Travel in Western States.
A "CROWN" REVIVAL
He Is Not Only Interested in the "Bent Music Shop,"
Chicago, But Also in Louisville
Industry.
ARTISTIC
s? S
I
JPIA.JVO
IN EVERT
DETAIL
Telling a Presto representative more about his
return to the piano industry and trade, George P.
Rent referred to his "come back" as a "reincarnation."
And it is certain that none of the Prodigal Sons of the
piano could be more deserving of fatted calves, or
could be more warmly welcomed back home, with
the difference that the scriptural story doesn't fit at
2
HADDORFF PIANO CO.
ROCKFORD,ILL.
Wholesale Offices:
NawTMfcGSt
I»W.«adS*.
410 S. Mfebifu kw.
Sll C M M V I A S I .
are being placed for pianos, especially for the Straube
Artronome players, made by the Straube Piano Co.,
Hammond, Tnd.
The Maivern, Ark., branch of the Arkansas Music
Co. ha.s been moved to Fordyce, but an office will be
maintained in Malvern.
The Claycomb Music Store is a new music business
on East North street, Marshall, Mo.
New quarters have been obtained by the Hunter
Music Co. at 321 South Ludlow street, Dayton, Ohio.
NEW BRANCH OF THE
MANUFACTURERS' OUTLET
Enterprising Milwaukee Piano House Opens Fine
Store on Lincoln Avenue, in Cream City.
A new branch store of the Manufacturers Outlet
Piano Store has been opened at 3323 Lincoln avenue,
Milwaukee. The main store is at 1389 Milwaukee
avenue. The new branch is located in the new flat-
iron bank building, with two store fronts, one on
Lincoln avenue and the other on Marshfield avenue.
The interior is finished beautifully and the ceiling is
22 feet high with large drooping bank light fixtures.
The manager of the new Lincoln avenue branch
store will be L. G. Reisiner, formerly a floor salesman
at the Milwaukee avenue store. Because of Mr. Reis-
iner's ability, he has been given this promotion, and
feels that there is a great opportunity for sales in
this district.
The Manufacturers' Outlet Piano Store, Inc., is
made up entirely of hard-workers. The Baldwin
Piano Co., Inc., line and the Smith, Barnes &
Strohber Co. line are handled and the house is a
great booster for these two lines of high-grade pianos.
OHIO PIANO MERCHANTS
AID MUSIC MEMORY CONTEST
Schaff Bros.
Many Respond Generously to Request of Promoters
for Suitable Prizes.
Players 9 nd Pianos have won their stand-
ing with trade and public by 54 years of
steadfast striving to excel. They repre-
sent the
LARGEST COMPETITIVE VALUE
because of their beauty, reliability, tone
and moderate price. They are profitable
to sell and satisfactory when sold.
Brighten Your Line with the
SCHAFF BROS.
The Schaff Bros. Co.
Established 1868
Huntington, Ind.
GRAND PIANOS
EXCLUSIVELY
One Style—One Quality
giving you the
Unequaled Grand
at
Unequaled Price
Already being sold by leading dealers
throughout the country
Write today—tell us your next year's re-
quirements and we will meet your demands
with prompt and efficient service.
Columbian Grand Piano Mfg. Co.
400 W. Erie St.
CHICAGO
GEO.
P. BENT.
all, because Air, Bent has never gone astray, nor
eaten any husks of any kind.
But the point is that George P. Bent, who retired
from the music trade in 1916, refuses to stay retired.
Last Fall he bought out his son's partners in the
retail business, conducted under the name of Bent
Music Shop, at 214-216 South Wabash avenue, Chi-
cago, and recently he has become a stockholder in and
vice-president of the George P. Bent Co., of Louis-
ville, Ky.
Mr. Bent, who for the convenience of his friends,
was christened George P., is to represent the Bent
Company in the Pacific Coast territory, which in-
cludes the states of Idaho, Washington, California,
Utah, Oregon and Nevada.
This means also a return to great activity of the
"Geo. P. Bent" and the "Crown" pianos in which
Air. Bent won distinction years ago, and which dis-
tinction still remains and will continue to grow.
Mr. Bent may be addressed at either the factory,
at Louisville, Ky., or at his home, 2205 South Gram-
ercy Place, Los Angeles, Cal.
NEWSY FACTS ABOUT THE
MEN WHO RETAIL PIANOS
Items gathered From Various Sources Relate Inci-
dents in the Trade Activities.
Jos. F. Budrick, 3343 South Halsted street, Chicago,
has remodeled his music store. Mr. Budrick recently
added the H. C. Bay reproducing grand, and it is at-
tractively featured in the window.
The piano department of Gimbel Bros., Philadel-
phia, under the management of Robert S. McCarthy,
has inaugurated a series of public recitals.
As Easter is approaching the Bridgeport Furn. Co.,
3224 South Halsted street, Chicago, reports big orders
The Ohio music dealers generously responded to
the call for prizes for the state-wide music memory
contest held in Columbus, March 29. The following
Ohio retailers donated prizes: The Yahrling-Rayner
Music Co., Youngstown; Wm. V. Crowe, Columbus;
The Kratz Piano Co., Akron; The Jackson-Guldan
Violin Co., Columbus; The Dreher Piano Co., Cleve-
land; C. C. Baker, Columbus; The J. W. Greene Co-
Toledo; John F. Renner, Sandusky; The Ackerman
Piano Co., Marion; Knabe Warerooms, Cleveland;
The Otto Grau Piano Co., Cincinnati; The Alford &
Fryar Piano Co., Canton.
Mark P. Campbell, president of the Brambach
Piano Co., of New York, and a member of the Music
Merchants Association of Ohio, donated a baby grand
piano for the first prize.
UNDELIVERED MAIL CAUSED
BY WRONG ADDRESSES
Postmaster of Chicago Suggests That All Merchants
Should Revise Mailing Lists.
More than 600,000 changes of address were Wed
with the Chicago post office during the year just
past, according to a statement issued by Postmaster
Arthur C. Lueder, but there were many thousands
who moved and did not file a change of address with
the post office with the result that many pieces of
first-class mail and parcel post remained undelivered,
and great quantities of circular matter and news-
papers were destroyed.
Postmaster Arthur C. Lueder, Chicago, has asked
Presto's aid in preventing the unnecessary waste in
the post office which results in loss to publishers and
patrons.
%
"It would surprise you if you would come to the
post office and see how much mail, including second-
class matter, remains undelivered because people
have moved and failed to provide the post office with
their new address," writes the Postmaster, who sug-
gests we impress upon our subscribers and corre-
spondents the necessity of recording any changes of
address.
IMPROVING VIRGINIA STORE.
An extensive plan of alterations and improvements
have been completed in Kelley's Music Store, Fair-
mont, Va. An unusually attractive display window
is one of the features added. The new window will
be devoted to a display of phonographs and records
and is provided with a hardwood floor. Pianos are
on display in the large room in the body of the store.
The Christopher Music Shop was recently opened in
Meridian, Miss.
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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/
Future scanning projects are planned by the International Arcade Museum Library (IAML).