Presto
Issue: 1924 1994 - Page 10
10
October 11, 1924.
PRESTO
TRADE CONDITIONS
IN ALBERTA, CAN.
Good Crops and Grain Prices There Help
Materially to Stimulate the Sale of
Pianos and Other Musical
Instruments.
NEW FREIGHT ROUTE HELPS
Radio Taking Its Place in the Trade, but Not in a
Way to Interfere with Regular Lines.
Due largely to the coincidence of a good crop and
high grain prices coming at the same time, business
conditions throughout the Canadian West are rapidly
improving. Other factors materially affecting the
situation, as far as Alberta is concerned, are the re-
cent successful activities in the Wainwright oil field,
the opening of the Western Freight Route for grain
and tentative plans for an extensive development of
the tar sands and asphaltum deposits near Fort
McMurray.
.
* ,.
Business Is Brightening.
This brightening of business generally is being felt
to no small degree by music and piano dealers in the
province, who report a welcome increase in sales
with promise of a much better season than that of
last year.
Heintzman & Co., in Edmonton, sold four carloads
of pianos during the past two and a half months, in-
cluding three grands.
Mr. Venini, provincial manager of Mason & Risch,
with head office at Calgary, reports sales in all lines
steady, with bright prospects for the immediate
future.
Hill & Scott, agents for the Willis and Chickering
pianos, who had a car of pianos shipped from Mon-
treal via the Panama Canal and Vancouver, state that
the experiment was a success. The instruments ar-
rived in good condition, with a welcome reduction in
the usual freight cost.
The radio is finding its way into a large number of
isolated farm homes here, but is not superseding the
piano or gramophone. Rather the reverse, for it is
stimulating an interest in music of all kinds, which
often results in the purchase of a gramophone when
the radio is not working.
Q R S M0N0=B0X MAKES
BIG HIT IN THE TRADE
Dealers Everywhere Voice Approval of the Latest
Convenience in Player Roll Boxes.
Since the new player roll box produced by the
Q R S Music Co., Chicago, known as the Mono-box,
has been released in the trade, much comment has
been made about its convenience and the effect it
will have on playerpiano sales.
Dealers are enthusiastic and they consider it a
great stimulant, not only to roll sales, but to player-
piano sales, which make the roll sales possible. If
it were not for the playerpiano rolls would cease to
exist, but fine rolls in a beautiful box, a box that is
the last word in convenience are great stimulants to
player sales. The box has a psychological effect on
the prospect that makes him susceptible, and thereby
it is a reducer of resistance.
The Mono-box has been widely advertised by the
Q R S Co. and is now in practically all the stores of
dealers carrying the company's products. It instant-
ly became a necessity with salesmen and saleswomen
in salesrooms, and on the road, as it keeps rolls in
order and is a time saver.
D. D. LUXTON AT CELEBRATION.
D. D. Luxton, general sales manager of the Vose
& Sons Piano Co., Boston, was one of the most inter-
ested celebrants recently of the fiftieth anniversary
of the Quincy Yacht Club, which was observed with
great rejoicing. Mr. Luxton's craft is one of the
popular ones in the waters of Quincy Bay.
HENRY F. MILLER PIANOS
FOR TWO SCHOOLS
Howard Seminary, West Bridgewater, and
Smith College, Northampton, Mass.,
Equipped with Boston Instruments.
The Henry F. Miller Division of the Continental
Piano Company recently shipped some more Henry
F. Miller pianos to complete the equipment of the
Howard Seminary, the highly exclusive girls' school
at West Bridgewater, Mass.
The Henry F. Miller Division of the Continental
Piano Company has just placed two more Henry F.
Miller uprights in Sage Hall, the building of music
recently completed, at a cost of a quarter of a million
dollars, at Smith College, in Northampton, Mass., the
home city of President Coolidge.
ADDS NEW PIANO DEPARTMENT.
I.. B. Clark, who has recently been appointed man-
ager of the music department of Benefield-Motley &
Co., at Main and Cragshead streets, Danville, has had
over twenty years' experience in the piano business
in that city. In the work of the new department he
will be assisted by W. L. Smith.
MOVES IN HOUGHTON, MICH.
The McLogan-Pearce Music Co., Houghton, Mich.,
will soon be moved to a building on Fifth street. A
complete new stock has been installed in the new
store. Manager Weidelman is manager.
The Best Yet
Graceful lines, rugged construc-
tion, moderately priced. It's the
very best commercial piano from
every standpoint.
STRICH & ZEIDLER, Inc
Grand and
Reproducing
Grand Pianos
GRAND, UPRIGHT and PLAYER
are the last word in
musical perfection.
740-742 East 136th Street
NEW YORK
AND
HOMER PIANOS
Lester Piano Co.
WESER
1806 Chestnut St.
Philadelphia
Becker Bros.
Manufacturer* of
HIGH GRADE PIANOS
and PLAYER PIANOS
Send to-day for catalogue, prices and
details of our liberal financing plan
Weser Bros., Inc.
520 to 528 W. 43rd St., New York
NEWMAN BROS. CO,
Factories, 816 DIX ST., Chicago, 111.
=SSZ^^- _ - J ESt. 1893 I r n - ^ - , , ^ ^
Sell Readily—Stay Sold
767-769 Tenth Avenue, New York
NEWMAN BROTHERS PIANOS
A QUALITY PRODUCT
FOR OVER
QUARTER OFA CENTURY
Pianos and Players
Factory and Wareroom*
For QUALITY, SATISFACTION and PROFIT
<(|»tablished 1870
Style 32—4 ft. 4 in.
Kinder & Collins
Pianos
520-524 W. 48th S
NEW YORK
When In Doubt See Presto Buyers* Guide
POOLE
^BOSTON—
GRAND AND UPRIGHT PIANOS
AND
PLAYER PIANOS
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October 11, 1924.
PRESTO
TRADE CONDITIONS
IN ALBERTA, CAN.
Good Crops and Grain Prices There Help
Materially to Stimulate the Sale of
Pianos and Other Musical
Instruments.
NEW FREIGHT ROUTE HELPS
Radio Taking Its Place in the Trade, but Not in a
Way to Interfere with Regular Lines.
Due largely to the coincidence of a good crop and
high grain prices coming at the same time, business
conditions throughout the Canadian West are rapidly
improving. Other factors materially affecting the
situation, as far as Alberta is concerned, are the re-
cent successful activities in the Wainwright oil field,
the opening of the Western Freight Route for grain
and tentative plans for an extensive development of
the tar sands and asphaltum deposits near Fort
McMurray.
.
* ,.
Business Is Brightening.
This brightening of business generally is being felt
to no small degree by music and piano dealers in the
province, who report a welcome increase in sales
with promise of a much better season than that of
last year.
Heintzman & Co., in Edmonton, sold four carloads
of pianos during the past two and a half months, in-
cluding three grands.
Mr. Venini, provincial manager of Mason & Risch,
with head office at Calgary, reports sales in all lines
steady, with bright prospects for the immediate
future.
Hill & Scott, agents for the Willis and Chickering
pianos, who had a car of pianos shipped from Mon-
treal via the Panama Canal and Vancouver, state that
the experiment was a success. The instruments ar-
rived in good condition, with a welcome reduction in
the usual freight cost.
The radio is finding its way into a large number of
isolated farm homes here, but is not superseding the
piano or gramophone. Rather the reverse, for it is
stimulating an interest in music of all kinds, which
often results in the purchase of a gramophone when
the radio is not working.
Q R S M0N0=B0X MAKES
BIG HIT IN THE TRADE
Dealers Everywhere Voice Approval of the Latest
Convenience in Player Roll Boxes.
Since the new player roll box produced by the
Q R S Music Co., Chicago, known as the Mono-box,
has been released in the trade, much comment has
been made about its convenience and the effect it
will have on playerpiano sales.
Dealers are enthusiastic and they consider it a
great stimulant, not only to roll sales, but to player-
piano sales, which make the roll sales possible. If
it were not for the playerpiano rolls would cease to
exist, but fine rolls in a beautiful box, a box that is
the last word in convenience are great stimulants to
player sales. The box has a psychological effect on
the prospect that makes him susceptible, and thereby
it is a reducer of resistance.
The Mono-box has been widely advertised by the
Q R S Co. and is now in practically all the stores of
dealers carrying the company's products. It instant-
ly became a necessity with salesmen and saleswomen
in salesrooms, and on the road, as it keeps rolls in
order and is a time saver.
D. D. LUXTON AT CELEBRATION.
D. D. Luxton, general sales manager of the Vose
& Sons Piano Co., Boston, was one of the most inter-
ested celebrants recently of the fiftieth anniversary
of the Quincy Yacht Club, which was observed with
great rejoicing. Mr. Luxton's craft is one of the
popular ones in the waters of Quincy Bay.
HENRY F. MILLER PIANOS
FOR TWO SCHOOLS
Howard Seminary, West Bridgewater, and
Smith College, Northampton, Mass.,
Equipped with Boston Instruments.
The Henry F. Miller Division of the Continental
Piano Company recently shipped some more Henry
F. Miller pianos to complete the equipment of the
Howard Seminary, the highly exclusive girls' school
at West Bridgewater, Mass.
The Henry F. Miller Division of the Continental
Piano Company has just placed two more Henry F.
Miller uprights in Sage Hall, the building of music
recently completed, at a cost of a quarter of a million
dollars, at Smith College, in Northampton, Mass., the
home city of President Coolidge.
ADDS NEW PIANO DEPARTMENT.
I.. B. Clark, who has recently been appointed man-
ager of the music department of Benefield-Motley &
Co., at Main and Cragshead streets, Danville, has had
over twenty years' experience in the piano business
in that city. In the work of the new department he
will be assisted by W. L. Smith.
MOVES IN HOUGHTON, MICH.
The McLogan-Pearce Music Co., Houghton, Mich.,
will soon be moved to a building on Fifth street. A
complete new stock has been installed in the new
store. Manager Weidelman is manager.
The Best Yet
Graceful lines, rugged construc-
tion, moderately priced. It's the
very best commercial piano from
every standpoint.
STRICH & ZEIDLER, Inc
Grand and
Reproducing
Grand Pianos
GRAND, UPRIGHT and PLAYER
are the last word in
musical perfection.
740-742 East 136th Street
NEW YORK
AND
HOMER PIANOS
Lester Piano Co.
WESER
1806 Chestnut St.
Philadelphia
Becker Bros.
Manufacturer* of
HIGH GRADE PIANOS
and PLAYER PIANOS
Send to-day for catalogue, prices and
details of our liberal financing plan
Weser Bros., Inc.
520 to 528 W. 43rd St., New York
NEWMAN BROS. CO,
Factories, 816 DIX ST., Chicago, 111.
=SSZ^^- _ - J ESt. 1893 I r n - ^ - , , ^ ^
Sell Readily—Stay Sold
767-769 Tenth Avenue, New York
NEWMAN BROTHERS PIANOS
A QUALITY PRODUCT
FOR OVER
QUARTER OFA CENTURY
Pianos and Players
Factory and Wareroom*
For QUALITY, SATISFACTION and PROFIT
<(|»tablished 1870
Style 32—4 ft. 4 in.
Kinder & Collins
Pianos
520-524 W. 48th S
NEW YORK
When In Doubt See Presto Buyers* Guide
POOLE
^BOSTON—
GRAND AND UPRIGHT PIANOS
AND
PLAYER PIANOS
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).