Presto
Issue: 1924 1982 - Page 11
July 19, 1924.
11
P R E S T O
GLAD TO BE BACK IN
GOOD OLD PIANO GAME
THE
W. P. HAINES & COMPANY
PIANOS
THE PIANOS OF QUALITY
Three Generations of Piano Makers
All Styles—Ready Sellers
Attractive Prices
GRANDS
REPRODUCING GRANDS
UPRIGHTS and PLAYERS
Harry Pearson Returns to Familiar Work and
Tells an Instructive Story About the
Necessity of Caution.
Editor Presto: You said it! I am back IN the
piano game—capital IN please. You know 'I love it
and the many dear friends I have made in every
branch of the Music Trade—the greatest bunch of
good-hearted scouts one can possibly find. Of course
they don't all agree with me, but that's what makes it
interesting and there is the rare possibility I may
be wrong.
Well, anyway, there was a friendship started many
years ago between three young men, just starting
FERRIS MUSIC SHOP
MOVES IN GENEVA, N. Y.
AVAILABLE TERRITORY OPEN
Progressive Firm Acquires Spacious Warerooms,
Admirably Located and Suitably Equipped.
•
The Ferris Music Shop, Geneva, N. Y., which
features Gulbransen Registering Piano and other
instruments, has moved from 106 Seneca St. to 473
Exchange St., and is holding a formal opening this
week.
The new store is much larger than the old one
occupied by the company for many years at 106
Seneca Street and the purchase of the fixtures from
the Celco 'Studios of Rochester has given the Ferris
Shop up-to-date and attractive store equipment.
An orchestra was provided for the opening and
there was a number of novel features that held the
interest of local people who visited the Ferris Shop.
W. P. HAINES & CO., Inc.
138th St. and Walton Ave.
New York City
The LEADING LINE
WEAVER PIANOS
Qranda. Uprights n nd Players
Finest and most artistic
piano in design, tone and
construction that can be
made.
YORK PIANOS
INFRINGEMENT SCANDAL.
Upright* and Player Pianos
A high grade piano of great
vaiue and with charming tone quality.
Livingston Pianos— Upright* and Player Piano*
A popular piano at a popular price.
Over 70,000 instruments made by this company are sing-
ing their own praises in all parta of the civilized world.
Write tor catalogues and state on whet terms you would
like to deal, and we will make you a proposition if yt a are
located in open territory.
WEAVER PIANO CO., Inc.
a taxi driving by suddenly stopped and a head ap-
peared at the door, asking: "Can you direct me to
Columbia avenue?"—naming a prominent resident. I
immediately recognized the speaker as a well known
Milwaukee piano salesman.
After giving the desired information I went to
lunch and then called at the Columbia ovenue address
asking the lady who appeared at the door if she was
interested in the purchase of a piano?
She said that any one would think so, from all
the piano men calling. I said: "Yes, madam, ^that's
the way I found out."
And I told her of the incident already stated. She
thought it a pretty good joke and within ten days I
sold the head of the house a beautiful Conover piano.
The Milwaukee piano salesman, I suppose to this
day, doesn't know just how he happened to lose
that sale.
HARRY E. PEARSON. j
Factory: YORK, " V
established 1870
E. Leins Piano Co.
Makers of Pianos and
Player Pianos That Are
Established L e a d e r s .
Correspondence from Reliable
Dealers Invited
Factory and Offices, 304 W. 42nd St.
NEW YORK
HARRY E. PEARSON.
in the music, or rather, piano game. One was that
grand old scout, Geo. M. Slawson. Another was
dear happy Chicago senior travelers for The Cable
Company, John J. Muttell, now traveler for The
Packard Co., Fort Wayne, Ind., and the third the
writer of this article. There has never been a break
in this friendship.
Some few weeks ago the writer met John J.
Buttell at the Davenport Hotel, Davenport, Iowa,
where we had a good visit, going through the game
of making, buying and selling pianos, and various
other incidents, and when we finally parted, at mid-
night, we both agreed the grandest, best and dearest
old scout living was our mutual friend, Geo. M. Slaw-
son.
And, talking of old friends, it seemed like meeting
an old friend to again get PRESTO, in the same
old form.
It sure did look mighty good to me, as I had not
seen one since my residence in Washington, D. C.
I am very pleasantly located. A. E. Nelson, who
has charge of the Tri-City Piano Co. store, a mighty
fine fellow, and a thoroughly clean business-getter.
And the Haddorff line of pianos is a fine one and
easy to sell the clean way. A one-price system
throughout.
Moline, 111., July. 10, 1924.
A piano man should be careful from whom he gets
information.
Some few years ago, while in Neenah, Wisconsin,
The looseness of the former Netherlands East
Indies trade-marks act gave rise to so vicious a
growth of imitations and infringements that the col-
lective pressure of Indian Chambers of Commerce
has for many months been brought to bear on the
government for a more practical restatement of the
law. A revision, therefore, has been made to the
effect that "anyone who imports goods into the
Dutch Indies which bear imitations of the name or
mark to which another has a legal right, or which in
themselves are imitations of any known registered
brand or brands of goods in whatever degree, and
who stocks such goods, delivers or offers them for
sale, or distributes the same for purposes of sale, will
be liable to be fined a specified sum.
PREPARE FOR CONVENTION.
All the Ohio music trade associations and individ-
ual members of the Music Merchants' Association of
Ohio are energetically working to make the conven-
tion of the state organization in September, the most
successful event of the kind ever planned by a trade
body. Henry Dreher, head of the Dreher Piano Co,
has been assigned to the historian's job. In an ad-
dress Mr. Dreher will review the activities of the state
body since its formation.
WEBSTER PIANOS
Noted for Their Musical Beauty
of Tone and Artistic Style
ATTRACTIVE PRICES
The True Test
Factory
Executive Offices
Leonrinster,
138th St. and Walton Ave.
Mast.
New York
Division W. P. HAINES & CO., Inc.
Compare the new Jesse French & Sons Piano
Jesse French & Sons Style BB
with any other strictly high grade piano in tone,
touch and general construction, and you will be
convinced at once that t h e y offer the most
exceptional v a l u e s to be found anywhere.
Write today for catalog and prices
"They are the one best buy on the market"
JESSE FRENCH & SONS PIANO CO.
NEW CASTLE,
INDIANA
WILLIAMS
PIANOS
The policy of the Williams House is and always
has been to depend upon excellence of product
instead of alluring price. Such • policy does not
attract bargain hunters. It does, however, win the
hearty approval and support of a very desirable
and substantial patronage.
WILLIAMS
ffiSh-i.S
•.-; S"."; CHICAGO
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11
P R E S T O
GLAD TO BE BACK IN
GOOD OLD PIANO GAME
THE
W. P. HAINES & COMPANY
PIANOS
THE PIANOS OF QUALITY
Three Generations of Piano Makers
All Styles—Ready Sellers
Attractive Prices
GRANDS
REPRODUCING GRANDS
UPRIGHTS and PLAYERS
Harry Pearson Returns to Familiar Work and
Tells an Instructive Story About the
Necessity of Caution.
Editor Presto: You said it! I am back IN the
piano game—capital IN please. You know 'I love it
and the many dear friends I have made in every
branch of the Music Trade—the greatest bunch of
good-hearted scouts one can possibly find. Of course
they don't all agree with me, but that's what makes it
interesting and there is the rare possibility I may
be wrong.
Well, anyway, there was a friendship started many
years ago between three young men, just starting
FERRIS MUSIC SHOP
MOVES IN GENEVA, N. Y.
AVAILABLE TERRITORY OPEN
Progressive Firm Acquires Spacious Warerooms,
Admirably Located and Suitably Equipped.
•
The Ferris Music Shop, Geneva, N. Y., which
features Gulbransen Registering Piano and other
instruments, has moved from 106 Seneca St. to 473
Exchange St., and is holding a formal opening this
week.
The new store is much larger than the old one
occupied by the company for many years at 106
Seneca Street and the purchase of the fixtures from
the Celco 'Studios of Rochester has given the Ferris
Shop up-to-date and attractive store equipment.
An orchestra was provided for the opening and
there was a number of novel features that held the
interest of local people who visited the Ferris Shop.
W. P. HAINES & CO., Inc.
138th St. and Walton Ave.
New York City
The LEADING LINE
WEAVER PIANOS
Qranda. Uprights n nd Players
Finest and most artistic
piano in design, tone and
construction that can be
made.
YORK PIANOS
INFRINGEMENT SCANDAL.
Upright* and Player Pianos
A high grade piano of great
vaiue and with charming tone quality.
Livingston Pianos— Upright* and Player Piano*
A popular piano at a popular price.
Over 70,000 instruments made by this company are sing-
ing their own praises in all parta of the civilized world.
Write tor catalogues and state on whet terms you would
like to deal, and we will make you a proposition if yt a are
located in open territory.
WEAVER PIANO CO., Inc.
a taxi driving by suddenly stopped and a head ap-
peared at the door, asking: "Can you direct me to
Columbia avenue?"—naming a prominent resident. I
immediately recognized the speaker as a well known
Milwaukee piano salesman.
After giving the desired information I went to
lunch and then called at the Columbia ovenue address
asking the lady who appeared at the door if she was
interested in the purchase of a piano?
She said that any one would think so, from all
the piano men calling. I said: "Yes, madam, ^that's
the way I found out."
And I told her of the incident already stated. She
thought it a pretty good joke and within ten days I
sold the head of the house a beautiful Conover piano.
The Milwaukee piano salesman, I suppose to this
day, doesn't know just how he happened to lose
that sale.
HARRY E. PEARSON. j
Factory: YORK, " V
established 1870
E. Leins Piano Co.
Makers of Pianos and
Player Pianos That Are
Established L e a d e r s .
Correspondence from Reliable
Dealers Invited
Factory and Offices, 304 W. 42nd St.
NEW YORK
HARRY E. PEARSON.
in the music, or rather, piano game. One was that
grand old scout, Geo. M. Slawson. Another was
dear happy Chicago senior travelers for The Cable
Company, John J. Muttell, now traveler for The
Packard Co., Fort Wayne, Ind., and the third the
writer of this article. There has never been a break
in this friendship.
Some few weeks ago the writer met John J.
Buttell at the Davenport Hotel, Davenport, Iowa,
where we had a good visit, going through the game
of making, buying and selling pianos, and various
other incidents, and when we finally parted, at mid-
night, we both agreed the grandest, best and dearest
old scout living was our mutual friend, Geo. M. Slaw-
son.
And, talking of old friends, it seemed like meeting
an old friend to again get PRESTO, in the same
old form.
It sure did look mighty good to me, as I had not
seen one since my residence in Washington, D. C.
I am very pleasantly located. A. E. Nelson, who
has charge of the Tri-City Piano Co. store, a mighty
fine fellow, and a thoroughly clean business-getter.
And the Haddorff line of pianos is a fine one and
easy to sell the clean way. A one-price system
throughout.
Moline, 111., July. 10, 1924.
A piano man should be careful from whom he gets
information.
Some few years ago, while in Neenah, Wisconsin,
The looseness of the former Netherlands East
Indies trade-marks act gave rise to so vicious a
growth of imitations and infringements that the col-
lective pressure of Indian Chambers of Commerce
has for many months been brought to bear on the
government for a more practical restatement of the
law. A revision, therefore, has been made to the
effect that "anyone who imports goods into the
Dutch Indies which bear imitations of the name or
mark to which another has a legal right, or which in
themselves are imitations of any known registered
brand or brands of goods in whatever degree, and
who stocks such goods, delivers or offers them for
sale, or distributes the same for purposes of sale, will
be liable to be fined a specified sum.
PREPARE FOR CONVENTION.
All the Ohio music trade associations and individ-
ual members of the Music Merchants' Association of
Ohio are energetically working to make the conven-
tion of the state organization in September, the most
successful event of the kind ever planned by a trade
body. Henry Dreher, head of the Dreher Piano Co,
has been assigned to the historian's job. In an ad-
dress Mr. Dreher will review the activities of the state
body since its formation.
WEBSTER PIANOS
Noted for Their Musical Beauty
of Tone and Artistic Style
ATTRACTIVE PRICES
The True Test
Factory
Executive Offices
Leonrinster,
138th St. and Walton Ave.
Mast.
New York
Division W. P. HAINES & CO., Inc.
Compare the new Jesse French & Sons Piano
Jesse French & Sons Style BB
with any other strictly high grade piano in tone,
touch and general construction, and you will be
convinced at once that t h e y offer the most
exceptional v a l u e s to be found anywhere.
Write today for catalog and prices
"They are the one best buy on the market"
JESSE FRENCH & SONS PIANO CO.
NEW CASTLE,
INDIANA
WILLIAMS
PIANOS
The policy of the Williams House is and always
has been to depend upon excellence of product
instead of alluring price. Such • policy does not
attract bargain hunters. It does, however, win the
hearty approval and support of a very desirable
and substantial patronage.
WILLIAMS
ffiSh-i.S
•.-; S"."; CHICAGO
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).