Presto
Issue: 1924 1984 - Page 5
PRESTO
August 2, 1924.
CHRISTMAN
The First Touch Tells
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MILWAUKEE Q R S SHOW WINDOW
9 >
The Famous
Studio Grand
(only 5 ft. long)
John Barrymore,
America's Foremost Actor,
Says in a Recent Letter:
"The best wishes for the success of
the CHRISTMAN PIANO. M r s .
Barrymore and I are delighted with it.
I want to express my thanks and ap-
preciation of the way in which my
ideas regarding the finish and design
were carried out."
The
CHRISTMAN
Reproducing Grand
is admittedly the most responsive and
satisfactory instrument in the repro-
duction of the performances of the
great pianists. In the words of a
prominent critic,
"IT IS PERFECT"
No ambitious Piano Merchant can
be sure that he has the best, most
profitable and satisfactory Line until
he has examined the Christman and
compared with whatever competitor
may be winning local trade.
INQUIRIES INVITED
<€
The First Touch Tells"
Reg. U S. Pat. Off.
Christman Piano Co.
597 East 137th St.
New York
The
Music
artistic
This
above Q R S window of the North Avenue
Shop, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, shows some
window dressing.
wide awake institution sells Q R S products
exclusively in their roll department. They also do a
very fine Victor talking machine and record busi-
ness.
W. L. BUSH TO REORGANIZE
BUSH & GERTS COMPANY
Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo. Priest's assets are
estimated at $21,000 and his liabilities at $11,000. Five
New York concerns, which brought the receivership
proceedings, contend the business can be conducted
in a profitable manner.
Stock Now in Factory Being Cleaned Out, and
Plans Making for the New Increased Pro-
duction at the Factory in Chicago.
W. L. Bush, president of the Bush & Gerts Co.,
Chicago, made the statement this week that his com-
pany would be on a new working basis within a
month and moving forward with its old-time vigor.
The company is disposing of the old stock as rapidly
as possible. And it is realized in the piano trade that
when Mr. Bush goes at anything it must move with
characteristic speed.
Mr. Bush, in other words, will return to the ener-
getic work which, in years past, made the Bush &
Gerts industry a power in the piano industry and
trade. He has ideas enough to run a dozen factories
and he is in the best possible trim to make things go,
with every brake released, as soon as the going sea-
son arrives. And by that time the Bush & Gerts
Piano Co. will be in order to move along without a
hitch.
"I have sold about all the finished stock in the
factory," said Mr. Bush to a Presto representative on
Tuesday, "and what is left will go out before many
days pass by. Then the road will be clear for the
kind of work I like to do. We will be reorganized,
and well equipped to hold our own with the best of
them. Of course we have the goods, and we should
know what to do with them. No piano, wherever
made, has, I believe, a better name in the musical
world and the dealers who have sold the Bush &
Gerts will be ready to go ahead, or come back to us
if they have fallen away."
Mr. Bush has been so long absent from the familiar
place in the Chicago factory that he was obliged to
get used to wearing the harness again. But he is one
of the sort of men" who like to work, and work to a
purpose.
It will be good news to the retail trade generally
that the fine old Bush & Gerts is to be thus reorgan-
ized, with the man who did so much to make it at
its head. As things now look, the Bush & Gerts is
in line for greater things in the future than it has
accomplished in the past.
A MICHIGAN FAILURE.
Circuit Judge William B. Brown has appointed
William Van Sluyter as temporary receiver for Wil-
liam B. Priest, retajl music dealer with stores in
SOME OF THE LIVE PIANO
INDUSTRIES IN NEW YORK
Add These Items to the Review of Manhattan's
Activities Which Appears Elsewhere.
One of New York's independent industries, which
is plowing its way through to success and perma-
nence, is the Wilfred Piano Co., at 156th street and
Whitlock avenue. The very active owners of the
industry are H. C. Frederici, T. Stubis and Wm. T.
Heslop. And the name of the piano itself is a com-
bination of parts of the names of the partners—Wil-
liam and Frederick.
All of the partners are practical piano men, and
all are hard workers. So that the Wilfred Piano
Co. is one of the "independents" in the industry in
which there is promise of a steadily growing success.
Just now, says Mr. Frederici, the Wilfred is plan-
ning a campaign of intensive retail selling in New
York City and vicinity.
* * *
The Lane Industries, Inc., with factory at 749 E.
135th street, is demonstrating piano possibilities
under good management. Allen Lane is a young
man with ideas. He is ambitious and he has the
large enterprise well in hand
It would put pluck into any drooping piano man's
soul to hear Mr. Lane tell why he knows—not merely
thinks or "hopes"—that the piano business has a
bigger future than its best past has been.
That's what the piano industry—any industry—
needs, now and always. The Lane Industries, Inc.,
control and produce the Shoninger, the Mansfield and
other pianos, and the Concertone players.
= <
! * *
It is interesting to observe some of the effects pro-
duced upon the New York retail piano trade by the
invasion of western manufacturers and managers.
It is as common to hear rabid criticisms of the
Starck aggression, on Forty-second street, Manhattan,
as it was to hear the same talk on Wabash avenue,
Chicago. But the P. A. Starck Piano Co. goes right
on" selling pianos, and no one is hurt by it. If com-
petition is the Fife of trade, the New York retailers
should be glad of the renewed life the western pianos
seem to be awakening.
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August 2, 1924.
CHRISTMAN
The First Touch Tells
€<
MILWAUKEE Q R S SHOW WINDOW
9 >
The Famous
Studio Grand
(only 5 ft. long)
John Barrymore,
America's Foremost Actor,
Says in a Recent Letter:
"The best wishes for the success of
the CHRISTMAN PIANO. M r s .
Barrymore and I are delighted with it.
I want to express my thanks and ap-
preciation of the way in which my
ideas regarding the finish and design
were carried out."
The
CHRISTMAN
Reproducing Grand
is admittedly the most responsive and
satisfactory instrument in the repro-
duction of the performances of the
great pianists. In the words of a
prominent critic,
"IT IS PERFECT"
No ambitious Piano Merchant can
be sure that he has the best, most
profitable and satisfactory Line until
he has examined the Christman and
compared with whatever competitor
may be winning local trade.
INQUIRIES INVITED
<€
The First Touch Tells"
Reg. U S. Pat. Off.
Christman Piano Co.
597 East 137th St.
New York
The
Music
artistic
This
above Q R S window of the North Avenue
Shop, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, shows some
window dressing.
wide awake institution sells Q R S products
exclusively in their roll department. They also do a
very fine Victor talking machine and record busi-
ness.
W. L. BUSH TO REORGANIZE
BUSH & GERTS COMPANY
Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo. Priest's assets are
estimated at $21,000 and his liabilities at $11,000. Five
New York concerns, which brought the receivership
proceedings, contend the business can be conducted
in a profitable manner.
Stock Now in Factory Being Cleaned Out, and
Plans Making for the New Increased Pro-
duction at the Factory in Chicago.
W. L. Bush, president of the Bush & Gerts Co.,
Chicago, made the statement this week that his com-
pany would be on a new working basis within a
month and moving forward with its old-time vigor.
The company is disposing of the old stock as rapidly
as possible. And it is realized in the piano trade that
when Mr. Bush goes at anything it must move with
characteristic speed.
Mr. Bush, in other words, will return to the ener-
getic work which, in years past, made the Bush &
Gerts industry a power in the piano industry and
trade. He has ideas enough to run a dozen factories
and he is in the best possible trim to make things go,
with every brake released, as soon as the going sea-
son arrives. And by that time the Bush & Gerts
Piano Co. will be in order to move along without a
hitch.
"I have sold about all the finished stock in the
factory," said Mr. Bush to a Presto representative on
Tuesday, "and what is left will go out before many
days pass by. Then the road will be clear for the
kind of work I like to do. We will be reorganized,
and well equipped to hold our own with the best of
them. Of course we have the goods, and we should
know what to do with them. No piano, wherever
made, has, I believe, a better name in the musical
world and the dealers who have sold the Bush &
Gerts will be ready to go ahead, or come back to us
if they have fallen away."
Mr. Bush has been so long absent from the familiar
place in the Chicago factory that he was obliged to
get used to wearing the harness again. But he is one
of the sort of men" who like to work, and work to a
purpose.
It will be good news to the retail trade generally
that the fine old Bush & Gerts is to be thus reorgan-
ized, with the man who did so much to make it at
its head. As things now look, the Bush & Gerts is
in line for greater things in the future than it has
accomplished in the past.
A MICHIGAN FAILURE.
Circuit Judge William B. Brown has appointed
William Van Sluyter as temporary receiver for Wil-
liam B. Priest, retajl music dealer with stores in
SOME OF THE LIVE PIANO
INDUSTRIES IN NEW YORK
Add These Items to the Review of Manhattan's
Activities Which Appears Elsewhere.
One of New York's independent industries, which
is plowing its way through to success and perma-
nence, is the Wilfred Piano Co., at 156th street and
Whitlock avenue. The very active owners of the
industry are H. C. Frederici, T. Stubis and Wm. T.
Heslop. And the name of the piano itself is a com-
bination of parts of the names of the partners—Wil-
liam and Frederick.
All of the partners are practical piano men, and
all are hard workers. So that the Wilfred Piano
Co. is one of the "independents" in the industry in
which there is promise of a steadily growing success.
Just now, says Mr. Frederici, the Wilfred is plan-
ning a campaign of intensive retail selling in New
York City and vicinity.
* * *
The Lane Industries, Inc., with factory at 749 E.
135th street, is demonstrating piano possibilities
under good management. Allen Lane is a young
man with ideas. He is ambitious and he has the
large enterprise well in hand
It would put pluck into any drooping piano man's
soul to hear Mr. Lane tell why he knows—not merely
thinks or "hopes"—that the piano business has a
bigger future than its best past has been.
That's what the piano industry—any industry—
needs, now and always. The Lane Industries, Inc.,
control and produce the Shoninger, the Mansfield and
other pianos, and the Concertone players.
= <
! * *
It is interesting to observe some of the effects pro-
duced upon the New York retail piano trade by the
invasion of western manufacturers and managers.
It is as common to hear rabid criticisms of the
Starck aggression, on Forty-second street, Manhattan,
as it was to hear the same talk on Wabash avenue,
Chicago. But the P. A. Starck Piano Co. goes right
on" selling pianos, and no one is hurt by it. If com-
petition is the Fife of trade, the New York retailers
should be glad of the renewed life the western pianos
seem to be awakening.
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).