Presto
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PRESTO
May 31, 1924.
The LPnette Player Grand
will be on display during the National
Music Trades Convention, June 2-9,1924
at Room 368
Hotel McAlpin, New York
One Footpower model will be shown,
and probably also our latest product, a
Drawer-type, Tone-shading U'nette.
U'nette
The Sensible Player
Grand—
Good Looking,
Easy Playing,
Closely Priced.
You are cordially invited to inspect them.
THOMPSON-U'NETTE PIANO CO. . . . CHICAGO
2652 W. LAKE STREET
THE CONVENTION
WEEK DISPLAYS
have a display of the already famous small grand in
Room 479, McAlpin Hotel, during convention week.
Dealers will be interested in this announcement, for
both Mr. Settergren and Mr. Anderson will be pres-
ent. The little grand has created a sensation in the
trade.
(Continued from page 6.)
the most modern lines and that he has succeeded he
is prepared to show the convention visitors to Room
479 of the McAlpin during the big week in New
York. Mr. Settergren and Mr. Anderson, who is
recognized as one of the foremost acousticians in
the industry, will display the claims of the B. K. Set-
tergren baby grands to interested dealers.
The fine line of grands, uprights, players and re-
producing pianos of the Poole Piano Company, Bos-
ton, will be on display during the week of the trade
convention in New York, June 1 to 7, at the ware-
rooms of C. H. Ditson & Company, 8-12 East 34th
street. The array of Poole instruments in the special
show will prove their character for distinction in
appearance and pleasing tone. The Poole Piano Com-
pany makes "one grade only" and that the best that
can be produced by artistic piano builders equipped
with the most approved methods and with selected
materials of the highest quality.
•
*
*
•
Of course visiting piano dealers in New York will
take advantage of the opportunity to viiit the piano
warerooms on Forty-second street. And they will
be enabled to see the full line of the P. A. Starck
Piano Co., in the house of that industry on Forty-
second street, near Sixth avenue. It's a line well
worth looking into.
'
* * *
C. G. Conn, Ltd., Elkhart, Ind., will be ably repre-
sented at the convention by C. D. Greenleaf, presi-
dent, and J. F. Boyer, secretary of the company, who
will be registered at the convention headquarters, the
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
The great number of dealers interested in band
instrument goods who will be present in New York
the week of June 1 will find pleasure and satisfaction
in the display of C. G. Conn products at the H. & A.
Selmer Co. on 46th street and the Conn-New York
Co. on 47th street.
* * *
The Weaver Piano Co., Inc., York, Pa., will be
represented at the music trade convention at the
Waldorf-Astoria, New York, June 2 to 6, by C. D.
Bond, who will be registered at the headquarters
hotel.
* * *
The Columbian Grand Piano Co., Chicago, will be
represented at the convention of the music trades in
New York by J. A. Lund, who will be a guest at the
Waldorf-Astoria. The Columbian Grand Piano Co.
will have a display of Columbian grand pianos and
the products of the Excel Phonograph Mfg. Co.
* * *
E. Settergren Co., Inc., of Bluffton, Indiana, will
•
*
*
*
•
The dealers visiting New York during convention
week will find an unusually pleasurable sight in the
special displays of pianos, players and the Repro-
Phraso at the New York headquarters of the Story &
Clark Piano Co., on 57th street. Complete details of
the display is printed elsewhere.
George H.
Beverly, eastern wholesale manager, and Louis
Schoenewald, general manager of the New York divi-
sion have prepared plans for a showing of the line
that will interest the trade from all sections of the
country attending the convention.
* * *
The Premier Grand Piano Corporation, 510-532
West 23rd street, New York, will give a luncheon
Thursday, June 5, to dealers visiting the city during
the convention.
The Premier Grand Piano Corporation, 510-532
West 23rd street, New York, is but ten minutes from
the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria—1924 National Conven-
tion headquarters. Special Premier taxi service will
convey you direct from convention headquarters to
the Premier plant.
* * *
Martin Austin of the Estey Organ Company, Brat-
tlebo.ro, Vt., will be registered at the Waldorf-Astoria
during the days of the big meeting and will be pleased
to meet all Estey organ representatives and inquiring
merchants generally. Apart from the excellences of
the Estey Organ Company's line, Mr. Austin has the
faculty for showing the organ way to profits to deal-
ers still unaware of the opportunities. The fine line
of Estey organs may be seen by the visiting dealer
at teh retail warerooms of the company at 11 West
Forty-ninth street. There all the chapel models and
the two-manual line are shown. The dealers will be
made welcome there and experts will demonstrate the
musical merits and salable qualities of the Estey line.
*
*
•
The B. K. Settergren Co., Bluffton, Ind., will have
an exhibit of its baby grand pianos in Room 479,
McAlpin Hotel, New York, during the music trades
convention from June 1 to 7. B. K. Settergren, presi-
dent of the company, and Gust A. Anderson, vice-
president, will be in charge and delighted at all times
to show the merits of the line to visiting dealers. The
B. Settergren Co. makes small grand pianos exclu-
sively and the name of the instrument is that of an
expert piano builder who has had thirty-five years'
experience at the practical work of piano making in
some of the foremost industries.
* * *
L. M. Newman, president and treasurer of New-
man Bros., Chicago, will represent the progressive
company during the days of the convention at the
Waldorf-Astoria, New York. Mr. Newman is a
young man, but his house is an old one and many of
the Newman Bros, dealers he will meet at the head--
quarters hotel will have had an association with the
old Chicago house dating back over fifty years. A
convention gathering always brings a big crowd of
friends of the Newman Bros, pianos, so Mr. Newman
expects a busy handshaking time.
* * *
The Gulbransen Co., Chicago and Kedzie avenues,
Chicago, will have a very special and complete adver-
tising exhibit in addition to the regular exhibit of Gul-
bransen reproducing and upright pianos. The offi-
cers of the company that will be on hand to greet
the visitors will be:
A. G. Gulbransen, president; T. J. Mercer, sales
manager; Walter Kiehn, advertising manager; John
Martin, Gulbransen dealer of Los Angeles, Calif.;
B. E. Gossett, of the Martin Music Co., Los Angeles,
Calif., and salesman H. C. Dinmore, C. W. Ruby,
A. W. Musser and W. E. Brown.
The nationally priced instrument from Chicago will
of course be of special interest to all dealers from its
many attractive exclusive features. The famous Baby
at the Pedals is known the world over. The display
may be seen at Room 306-308, McAlpin Hotel.
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PRESTO
May 31, 1924.
The LPnette Player Grand
will be on display during the National
Music Trades Convention, June 2-9,1924
at Room 368
Hotel McAlpin, New York
One Footpower model will be shown,
and probably also our latest product, a
Drawer-type, Tone-shading U'nette.
U'nette
The Sensible Player
Grand—
Good Looking,
Easy Playing,
Closely Priced.
You are cordially invited to inspect them.
THOMPSON-U'NETTE PIANO CO. . . . CHICAGO
2652 W. LAKE STREET
THE CONVENTION
WEEK DISPLAYS
have a display of the already famous small grand in
Room 479, McAlpin Hotel, during convention week.
Dealers will be interested in this announcement, for
both Mr. Settergren and Mr. Anderson will be pres-
ent. The little grand has created a sensation in the
trade.
(Continued from page 6.)
the most modern lines and that he has succeeded he
is prepared to show the convention visitors to Room
479 of the McAlpin during the big week in New
York. Mr. Settergren and Mr. Anderson, who is
recognized as one of the foremost acousticians in
the industry, will display the claims of the B. K. Set-
tergren baby grands to interested dealers.
The fine line of grands, uprights, players and re-
producing pianos of the Poole Piano Company, Bos-
ton, will be on display during the week of the trade
convention in New York, June 1 to 7, at the ware-
rooms of C. H. Ditson & Company, 8-12 East 34th
street. The array of Poole instruments in the special
show will prove their character for distinction in
appearance and pleasing tone. The Poole Piano Com-
pany makes "one grade only" and that the best that
can be produced by artistic piano builders equipped
with the most approved methods and with selected
materials of the highest quality.
•
*
*
•
Of course visiting piano dealers in New York will
take advantage of the opportunity to viiit the piano
warerooms on Forty-second street. And they will
be enabled to see the full line of the P. A. Starck
Piano Co., in the house of that industry on Forty-
second street, near Sixth avenue. It's a line well
worth looking into.
'
* * *
C. G. Conn, Ltd., Elkhart, Ind., will be ably repre-
sented at the convention by C. D. Greenleaf, presi-
dent, and J. F. Boyer, secretary of the company, who
will be registered at the convention headquarters, the
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
The great number of dealers interested in band
instrument goods who will be present in New York
the week of June 1 will find pleasure and satisfaction
in the display of C. G. Conn products at the H. & A.
Selmer Co. on 46th street and the Conn-New York
Co. on 47th street.
* * *
The Weaver Piano Co., Inc., York, Pa., will be
represented at the music trade convention at the
Waldorf-Astoria, New York, June 2 to 6, by C. D.
Bond, who will be registered at the headquarters
hotel.
* * *
The Columbian Grand Piano Co., Chicago, will be
represented at the convention of the music trades in
New York by J. A. Lund, who will be a guest at the
Waldorf-Astoria. The Columbian Grand Piano Co.
will have a display of Columbian grand pianos and
the products of the Excel Phonograph Mfg. Co.
* * *
E. Settergren Co., Inc., of Bluffton, Indiana, will
•
*
*
*
•
The dealers visiting New York during convention
week will find an unusually pleasurable sight in the
special displays of pianos, players and the Repro-
Phraso at the New York headquarters of the Story &
Clark Piano Co., on 57th street. Complete details of
the display is printed elsewhere.
George H.
Beverly, eastern wholesale manager, and Louis
Schoenewald, general manager of the New York divi-
sion have prepared plans for a showing of the line
that will interest the trade from all sections of the
country attending the convention.
* * *
The Premier Grand Piano Corporation, 510-532
West 23rd street, New York, will give a luncheon
Thursday, June 5, to dealers visiting the city during
the convention.
The Premier Grand Piano Corporation, 510-532
West 23rd street, New York, is but ten minutes from
the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria—1924 National Conven-
tion headquarters. Special Premier taxi service will
convey you direct from convention headquarters to
the Premier plant.
* * *
Martin Austin of the Estey Organ Company, Brat-
tlebo.ro, Vt., will be registered at the Waldorf-Astoria
during the days of the big meeting and will be pleased
to meet all Estey organ representatives and inquiring
merchants generally. Apart from the excellences of
the Estey Organ Company's line, Mr. Austin has the
faculty for showing the organ way to profits to deal-
ers still unaware of the opportunities. The fine line
of Estey organs may be seen by the visiting dealer
at teh retail warerooms of the company at 11 West
Forty-ninth street. There all the chapel models and
the two-manual line are shown. The dealers will be
made welcome there and experts will demonstrate the
musical merits and salable qualities of the Estey line.
*
*
•
The B. K. Settergren Co., Bluffton, Ind., will have
an exhibit of its baby grand pianos in Room 479,
McAlpin Hotel, New York, during the music trades
convention from June 1 to 7. B. K. Settergren, presi-
dent of the company, and Gust A. Anderson, vice-
president, will be in charge and delighted at all times
to show the merits of the line to visiting dealers. The
B. Settergren Co. makes small grand pianos exclu-
sively and the name of the instrument is that of an
expert piano builder who has had thirty-five years'
experience at the practical work of piano making in
some of the foremost industries.
* * *
L. M. Newman, president and treasurer of New-
man Bros., Chicago, will represent the progressive
company during the days of the convention at the
Waldorf-Astoria, New York. Mr. Newman is a
young man, but his house is an old one and many of
the Newman Bros, dealers he will meet at the head--
quarters hotel will have had an association with the
old Chicago house dating back over fifty years. A
convention gathering always brings a big crowd of
friends of the Newman Bros, pianos, so Mr. Newman
expects a busy handshaking time.
* * *
The Gulbransen Co., Chicago and Kedzie avenues,
Chicago, will have a very special and complete adver-
tising exhibit in addition to the regular exhibit of Gul-
bransen reproducing and upright pianos. The offi-
cers of the company that will be on hand to greet
the visitors will be:
A. G. Gulbransen, president; T. J. Mercer, sales
manager; Walter Kiehn, advertising manager; John
Martin, Gulbransen dealer of Los Angeles, Calif.;
B. E. Gossett, of the Martin Music Co., Los Angeles,
Calif., and salesman H. C. Dinmore, C. W. Ruby,
A. W. Musser and W. E. Brown.
The nationally priced instrument from Chicago will
of course be of special interest to all dealers from its
many attractive exclusive features. The famous Baby
at the Pedals is known the world over. The display
may be seen at Room 306-308, McAlpin Hotel.
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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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