Presto
Issue: 1924 1992 - Page 9
PRESTO
September 27, 1924.
ported 798 organs, valued at $70,180, in 1924, and 740
organs, valued at $92,957, for the same period in
1923.
In July, 1924, 354 pianos were exported, valued at
$89,345, as compared with 775 pianos, valued at
$175,714, for the same period of the previous year.
Weaver Piano Co., York, Pa., Points Out The seven months' total shows 2,960 pianos, valued
at $721,073, as compared with 4,581 pianos, valued at
Widening of Opportunities for Music
$994,738, for the same period of 1923.
The exports of playerpianos show that 799 of these
Dealers in that State.
instruments, valued at $253,644, were exported dur-
The Weaver Piano Company, Inc., York, Pa., in ing July, 1924, as compared with 752, valued at $241,-
one of its periodic letters to dealers mailed last week 243, exported in 1923. The seven months' total shows
discussed music conditions in its usually entertain- that 5,942 playerpianos, valued at $1,861,056, were
ing and convincing way. Attention was called to the exported during 1924, as compared with 5,620 player-
newspapers filled with accounts of the increased value pianos, valued at $1,792,617, for the same period dur-
of the agricultural crops in America this fall. "Every ing 1923.
financial review mentions it. The general opinion
Playerpiano actions and parts thereof shipped
is that this gain in crop value will stimulate all lines abroad during July, 1924, were valued at $15,447.
of business, and we can already feel an improvement," The exports of piano actions proper and parts there-
is the statement.
of were valued at $3,478.
"But the best crop of all," the letter continues,
"the one that is most constant in number and highest
in value, the one that is of greatest importance to
the piano business is not mentioned in these various
crop reports. It is the boy-and-girl crop. There is
no need to prove that, however, for if you are the
man we think you are you have figured that all out
for yourself, above a curley head or two at your' own
fireside. The boys and girls in America are receiv- Letter to National Electric Piano Co., of St.
ing more attention from educators, public spirited
Johnsville, Suggests Tricks of Foreign
citizens and parents today than ever before.
"Music Hounds."
"Music is a recognized necessity in child life. In
Pennsylvania we have a new school code passed by
J. Kornbrust, of the National Electric Piano Co.,
the last Legislature. This school code provides that St. F. Johnsville,
Y., has received an inquiry for a
after 1927 no person will be licensed to teach in any piano from the N.
of Samoa. This letter came
public school in the state—not even a one-room rural via New Zealand Island
and
was
probably prompted by the
school—until he or she has qualified as a teacher in
that already one of the St. Johnsville made pianos
music. Teachers must pass the same requirements fact
now operating in Aukland, where one was snipped
as to music that are necessary in reading, writing and is
last year. Mr. Kornbrust has pianos in many
arithmetic. Nearly every state has added music to strange
places and it is a good test of geography to
the regular course of study.
"The piano is the fundamental musical instrument. look over the sales sheets at his plant.
The operation of the playerpianos by coin calls
Complete harmony can be produced on it alone. The
piano is necessary for accompaniment of the voice for a specially built slot to fit the coins of the vari-
and other instruments. It is natural therefore that ous countries. One difficulty found in the Mexican
it should come into more general prominence than and some other coins is the presence of iron in the
composition of the metal. Where iron is present the
ever before.
"The constantly increasing sale of the Weaver usual magnets are left out. The magnet is used to
pianos, greater now than ever before, shows that prevent the introduction of iron slugs designed to
buyers are more ready to recognize piano quality than cheat the instrument, but where the coin of the coun-
ever before. It also shows that Weaver dealers and try is composed of part iron the magnets have to be
their salesmen realize their responsibility. They are omitted. In such cases the operator of the instru-
doing their share to place worthy pianos in the homes ment has to take his chances on furnishing music in
of the boys and girls. The men in the factory know return for iron washers, or whatever the music hound
this and are doing their part in building real quality sees fit to deposit in the shape of money.
Yankee ingenuity is well developed, but there are
into the Weaver piano."
ways to circumvent the best laid plans, and even a
music hungry Mexican can get a tune now and then,
even though he is broke.
MUSIC IN THE SCHOOL
CODE OF PENNSYLVANIA
ELECTRIC PLAYERS
SELL WELL IN SAMOA
ANDERSON PIANO COMPANY
EXPANDS IN SPRINGFIELD
Progressive Illinois Music Dealer Adds Store Space
for New jphonograph Line.
Faced by increasing business, O. F. Anderson, pro-
prietor of the Anderson Piano Company, Springfield,
111., has again increased his store space, adding the
room at 318 South Sixth street, fqrmerly occupied
by a fur company.
This company now has on display the largest stock
of pianos, players, grands and phonographs in Central
Illinois.
The Anderson Piano Co. has taken over the exclu-
sive local agency for the Edison phonograph and
Edison records. The business now occupies three
rooms, 320 South Sixth street, 604 Post Office court
and the one just occupied.
Mr. Anderson began business in 1912 at 209 North
Sixth street, but in a year moved to 320 South Sixth
street.
Hudson & Son, music dealers at Boonville, Ind.,
had an exhibit at the annual Warrick County Fair,
held recently at Boonville.
Destroyed by the Earthquake, the Business of
Jujiya Gakkiten, First to Recover, Is Back
in Old Location.
As the world is getting to know, Japan is now
manufacturing musical instruments in quantities.
And some of the music houses there have been in the
field for very many years. One of them is that of
Jujiya Gakkiten, of Tokyo, which was established
in 1873. The music house was one of those destroyed
by the earthquake of last year, but it was quickly
restored, and the following characteristic communi-
cation proves how well Mr. Gakkiten, whose letter-
head is all in the English language, has recovered
from the disaster:
Dear Sirs:—
I am very glad to inform, you that I have bigun to
engage my business at Ginza Street the formerly
address, since the temporary store was built on 1st
December of last year as enclosed photographs on
the effect of our enthusiastic effort for restoration
after the calamity.
I wish, at this time, you will kindly transact with
me more friendly than ever.
It will be a great happiness for me if Jujiya Gak-
kiten a first revived music store in Japan as photo-
graphs are widely known, though a man, among your
music circle by your courtesy.
Plaease write, hereafter, the following address,
Ginza Sanchome, Kyobashi, Tokyo, Japan.
Faithfully yours
JUJIYA GAKKITEN.
FAIR EXHIBIT PROFITABLE.
Pianos and other musical instruments are usually
features of the annual fair at Carabou, Mo., but this
year the exhibits of Houston merchants were particu-
larly large and attractive. The Astle Music Co. and
P. S. Berrie had notable displays of pianos, talking
machines and radio. The firms named report ex-
cellent results in sales since the close of the fair.
AFTER PHILADELPHIA SALES.
W. H. Nealon, formerly of Cleveland, O., has been
appointed assistant to Lamar Ellis, manager of the
Philadelphia branch of the P. A. Starck Piano Co.
In completing the force of salesmen for the new
drive for piano sales beginning this month, Manager
Ellis has added P. F. Eaton and J. E. McCaughy to
the staff.
CALLS CREDITORS' MEETING.
A meeting of the creditors of the L. M. Pierce Co.,
Springfield, Mass., has called for Friday of this week
to discuss matters relating to the petition in bank-
ruptcy recently filed by the company. Charles W.
Bosworth, referee, issued the notices to the creditors.
NEW!
The biggest plan in the his-
tory of retail piano selling
Music dealers unite in pronouncing the new and
original MIESSNER PIANO SALES DEVELOPMENT
PLAN the greatest good will and sales building plan that
has ever come out of the industry. Right from the begin-
ning this PLAN has been successful. It gets results.
DEALERS REPEATING SUCCESS
These dealers who first put this Miessner plan into
operation are enthusiastic over the favorable publicity and
increased business it produced. These dealers are now
repeating the PLAN—further expanding their business—
adopting the Miessner method of building piano sales as a
permanent policy.
The Miessner PLAN rivets attention of parents on
your store. It is endorsed by leading educators, women's
clubs and civic groups. At minimum cost build up a pros-
pect list that means sure sales. The Miessner PLAN is
a tonic for your entire business.
Get the facts on this remarkable MIESSNER PLAN.
Remember, the compact Miessner sells to 7 big, new
fields. Miessner is the original small piano sold by original
selling methods. It offers you a wonderful opportunity
to increase sales.
PIANO AND PLAYERPIANO
EXPORTS FOR JULY 1924
Figures Relating to Organs and Player Actions Also
Included in Government Report.
The total domestic exports of musical instruments
for July, 1924, amounted ta $805,603, as -compared
with $988,216 for the same period of the previous
year, according .to. the summary published by the
U. S. Bureau of Commerce. The month named is
the latest period for which figures have been com-
piled.
The seven month's exportations of musical instru-
ments amounted to $6,621,011 in 1924, as against
$6,505,283 in 1923. This is an increase of $115,728
over the period.
.
In the exportations in July there were 99 organs,
valued at $8,575, as compared with 134 organs, valued
at $12,822, in 1923. In the seven months' we ex-
QUICK RECOVERY OF
JAPANESE MUSIC HOUSE
Miessner
v
Piano Co..
186 Reed St.
>
Milwaukee, Wis.
\
Gentlemen'
^
Send me the full
^
facts on the MIESS-
%
NER
PIANO
SALES
v
DEVELOPMENT
PLAN.
Also send me booklet. "How N
to Get Business in New and
v
Untouched F i e l d s with t h e
Miessner Piano."
MIESSNER PIANO COMPANY
126 Reed Street
MILWAUKEE, WIS.
Name.
Name of Store
Street
City
and
Number.
State.
\
\
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September 27, 1924.
ported 798 organs, valued at $70,180, in 1924, and 740
organs, valued at $92,957, for the same period in
1923.
In July, 1924, 354 pianos were exported, valued at
$89,345, as compared with 775 pianos, valued at
$175,714, for the same period of the previous year.
Weaver Piano Co., York, Pa., Points Out The seven months' total shows 2,960 pianos, valued
at $721,073, as compared with 4,581 pianos, valued at
Widening of Opportunities for Music
$994,738, for the same period of 1923.
The exports of playerpianos show that 799 of these
Dealers in that State.
instruments, valued at $253,644, were exported dur-
The Weaver Piano Company, Inc., York, Pa., in ing July, 1924, as compared with 752, valued at $241,-
one of its periodic letters to dealers mailed last week 243, exported in 1923. The seven months' total shows
discussed music conditions in its usually entertain- that 5,942 playerpianos, valued at $1,861,056, were
ing and convincing way. Attention was called to the exported during 1924, as compared with 5,620 player-
newspapers filled with accounts of the increased value pianos, valued at $1,792,617, for the same period dur-
of the agricultural crops in America this fall. "Every ing 1923.
financial review mentions it. The general opinion
Playerpiano actions and parts thereof shipped
is that this gain in crop value will stimulate all lines abroad during July, 1924, were valued at $15,447.
of business, and we can already feel an improvement," The exports of piano actions proper and parts there-
is the statement.
of were valued at $3,478.
"But the best crop of all," the letter continues,
"the one that is most constant in number and highest
in value, the one that is of greatest importance to
the piano business is not mentioned in these various
crop reports. It is the boy-and-girl crop. There is
no need to prove that, however, for if you are the
man we think you are you have figured that all out
for yourself, above a curley head or two at your' own
fireside. The boys and girls in America are receiv- Letter to National Electric Piano Co., of St.
ing more attention from educators, public spirited
Johnsville, Suggests Tricks of Foreign
citizens and parents today than ever before.
"Music Hounds."
"Music is a recognized necessity in child life. In
Pennsylvania we have a new school code passed by
J. Kornbrust, of the National Electric Piano Co.,
the last Legislature. This school code provides that St. F. Johnsville,
Y., has received an inquiry for a
after 1927 no person will be licensed to teach in any piano from the N.
of Samoa. This letter came
public school in the state—not even a one-room rural via New Zealand Island
and
was
probably prompted by the
school—until he or she has qualified as a teacher in
that already one of the St. Johnsville made pianos
music. Teachers must pass the same requirements fact
now operating in Aukland, where one was snipped
as to music that are necessary in reading, writing and is
last year. Mr. Kornbrust has pianos in many
arithmetic. Nearly every state has added music to strange
places and it is a good test of geography to
the regular course of study.
"The piano is the fundamental musical instrument. look over the sales sheets at his plant.
The operation of the playerpianos by coin calls
Complete harmony can be produced on it alone. The
piano is necessary for accompaniment of the voice for a specially built slot to fit the coins of the vari-
and other instruments. It is natural therefore that ous countries. One difficulty found in the Mexican
it should come into more general prominence than and some other coins is the presence of iron in the
composition of the metal. Where iron is present the
ever before.
"The constantly increasing sale of the Weaver usual magnets are left out. The magnet is used to
pianos, greater now than ever before, shows that prevent the introduction of iron slugs designed to
buyers are more ready to recognize piano quality than cheat the instrument, but where the coin of the coun-
ever before. It also shows that Weaver dealers and try is composed of part iron the magnets have to be
their salesmen realize their responsibility. They are omitted. In such cases the operator of the instru-
doing their share to place worthy pianos in the homes ment has to take his chances on furnishing music in
of the boys and girls. The men in the factory know return for iron washers, or whatever the music hound
this and are doing their part in building real quality sees fit to deposit in the shape of money.
Yankee ingenuity is well developed, but there are
into the Weaver piano."
ways to circumvent the best laid plans, and even a
music hungry Mexican can get a tune now and then,
even though he is broke.
MUSIC IN THE SCHOOL
CODE OF PENNSYLVANIA
ELECTRIC PLAYERS
SELL WELL IN SAMOA
ANDERSON PIANO COMPANY
EXPANDS IN SPRINGFIELD
Progressive Illinois Music Dealer Adds Store Space
for New jphonograph Line.
Faced by increasing business, O. F. Anderson, pro-
prietor of the Anderson Piano Company, Springfield,
111., has again increased his store space, adding the
room at 318 South Sixth street, fqrmerly occupied
by a fur company.
This company now has on display the largest stock
of pianos, players, grands and phonographs in Central
Illinois.
The Anderson Piano Co. has taken over the exclu-
sive local agency for the Edison phonograph and
Edison records. The business now occupies three
rooms, 320 South Sixth street, 604 Post Office court
and the one just occupied.
Mr. Anderson began business in 1912 at 209 North
Sixth street, but in a year moved to 320 South Sixth
street.
Hudson & Son, music dealers at Boonville, Ind.,
had an exhibit at the annual Warrick County Fair,
held recently at Boonville.
Destroyed by the Earthquake, the Business of
Jujiya Gakkiten, First to Recover, Is Back
in Old Location.
As the world is getting to know, Japan is now
manufacturing musical instruments in quantities.
And some of the music houses there have been in the
field for very many years. One of them is that of
Jujiya Gakkiten, of Tokyo, which was established
in 1873. The music house was one of those destroyed
by the earthquake of last year, but it was quickly
restored, and the following characteristic communi-
cation proves how well Mr. Gakkiten, whose letter-
head is all in the English language, has recovered
from the disaster:
Dear Sirs:—
I am very glad to inform, you that I have bigun to
engage my business at Ginza Street the formerly
address, since the temporary store was built on 1st
December of last year as enclosed photographs on
the effect of our enthusiastic effort for restoration
after the calamity.
I wish, at this time, you will kindly transact with
me more friendly than ever.
It will be a great happiness for me if Jujiya Gak-
kiten a first revived music store in Japan as photo-
graphs are widely known, though a man, among your
music circle by your courtesy.
Plaease write, hereafter, the following address,
Ginza Sanchome, Kyobashi, Tokyo, Japan.
Faithfully yours
JUJIYA GAKKITEN.
FAIR EXHIBIT PROFITABLE.
Pianos and other musical instruments are usually
features of the annual fair at Carabou, Mo., but this
year the exhibits of Houston merchants were particu-
larly large and attractive. The Astle Music Co. and
P. S. Berrie had notable displays of pianos, talking
machines and radio. The firms named report ex-
cellent results in sales since the close of the fair.
AFTER PHILADELPHIA SALES.
W. H. Nealon, formerly of Cleveland, O., has been
appointed assistant to Lamar Ellis, manager of the
Philadelphia branch of the P. A. Starck Piano Co.
In completing the force of salesmen for the new
drive for piano sales beginning this month, Manager
Ellis has added P. F. Eaton and J. E. McCaughy to
the staff.
CALLS CREDITORS' MEETING.
A meeting of the creditors of the L. M. Pierce Co.,
Springfield, Mass., has called for Friday of this week
to discuss matters relating to the petition in bank-
ruptcy recently filed by the company. Charles W.
Bosworth, referee, issued the notices to the creditors.
NEW!
The biggest plan in the his-
tory of retail piano selling
Music dealers unite in pronouncing the new and
original MIESSNER PIANO SALES DEVELOPMENT
PLAN the greatest good will and sales building plan that
has ever come out of the industry. Right from the begin-
ning this PLAN has been successful. It gets results.
DEALERS REPEATING SUCCESS
These dealers who first put this Miessner plan into
operation are enthusiastic over the favorable publicity and
increased business it produced. These dealers are now
repeating the PLAN—further expanding their business—
adopting the Miessner method of building piano sales as a
permanent policy.
The Miessner PLAN rivets attention of parents on
your store. It is endorsed by leading educators, women's
clubs and civic groups. At minimum cost build up a pros-
pect list that means sure sales. The Miessner PLAN is
a tonic for your entire business.
Get the facts on this remarkable MIESSNER PLAN.
Remember, the compact Miessner sells to 7 big, new
fields. Miessner is the original small piano sold by original
selling methods. It offers you a wonderful opportunity
to increase sales.
PIANO AND PLAYERPIANO
EXPORTS FOR JULY 1924
Figures Relating to Organs and Player Actions Also
Included in Government Report.
The total domestic exports of musical instruments
for July, 1924, amounted ta $805,603, as -compared
with $988,216 for the same period of the previous
year, according .to. the summary published by the
U. S. Bureau of Commerce. The month named is
the latest period for which figures have been com-
piled.
The seven month's exportations of musical instru-
ments amounted to $6,621,011 in 1924, as against
$6,505,283 in 1923. This is an increase of $115,728
over the period.
.
In the exportations in July there were 99 organs,
valued at $8,575, as compared with 134 organs, valued
at $12,822, in 1923. In the seven months' we ex-
QUICK RECOVERY OF
JAPANESE MUSIC HOUSE
Miessner
v
Piano Co..
186 Reed St.
>
Milwaukee, Wis.
\
Gentlemen'
^
Send me the full
^
facts on the MIESS-
%
NER
PIANO
SALES
v
DEVELOPMENT
PLAN.
Also send me booklet. "How N
to Get Business in New and
v
Untouched F i e l d s with t h e
Miessner Piano."
MIESSNER PIANO COMPANY
126 Reed Street
MILWAUKEE, WIS.
Name.
Name of Store
Street
City
and
Number.
State.
\
\
THE LITTLE PIANO WITH THE BIG TONE
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).