Presto

November 29, 1924.
PRESTO
PREMIER GRAND FOR HIGH SCHOOL
every dealer
knew what
successful
SEEBURG
dealers know
about conduct-
ing and oper-
ating auto-
matic piano
businesses,
every dealer
would be en-
gaged in the
business!
The favor for the Premier small grand pianos
made by the Premier Grand Piano Corporation, New
York, by schools and colleges denotes recognition
of peculiar merits suitable to school purposes in the
instruments. That the grand pianos of the company
possess remarkable characteristics commending them
to the musical people is a fact well known to the
trade. The favor of the school heads is based on the
thorough structural qualities possessed by the pianos.
They are qualities that meet the requirements of
school and college use.
In addition the pianos are of a size to interest the
school head as well as the owner of the average home.
It is an advantage to the dealer that the instruments
are of great beauty of case and that the tone quality
is superb.
In the accompanying cut the new high school. Cen-
tral Valley, N. Y., is pictured. Tt is a matter of
considerable pride with the school board, the teachers
and pupils that a Premier Small Grand has been
selected for the auditorium of this fine public school
building.
HOLIDAY ORDERS KEEP
POOLE SHIPMENTS BIG
Hanger Bros., Lincoln; Chas. C. Adams, Chas. C
Adams & Co., Peoria, and R. L. Berry, R. L. Berry
Music Co., Springfield.
Better Business Bureau—Greorge M. Steger, chair-
man, Steger's Music Store, Peoria; E. J. Joosten,
Jansen & Joosten, Minonk; O. G. Ongren, Ongren
Music Co., Rockford, and R. K. Lloyde, Lloyde's,
Champaign.
Bureau for Advancement of Music—Fred P. Wat-
son, chairman, Fred P. Watson Co., Mt. Vernon;
S. M. Blades, S. M. Blades Music Co., McLeans-
boro, and C. H. Von Fossen, Von Fossen Music Co ,
Jacksonville.
Press Committee—M. P. Stemper, chairman, Stem-
per Music Co., Freeport; Walter L. Rhein, Walter L.
Rhein Piano Co., Bellevue; J. W. Waddell. J. W.
Waddell Co., Pana, and C. E. Heuter, Greenville
Music Store, Greenville.
Grands of Fine Tone Specially Favored in Demands
of Busy Dealers.
Numerous holiday orders are keeping every de-
partment in the factory of the Poole Piano Co., Bos-
ton, busy and the assurances of a good total busi-
ness for 1924 are evident in the shipments for the
ten months ending Oct. 31 and the orders now on
hand for deliveries before the end of the year.
The Poole grands have again proved their merits in
a musical way and as instruments to uphold the pres-
tige of Poole dealers, according to Ava W. Poole,
president of the company. It is a continuance of
recognition of artistic excellence which has char-
acterized Poole grands for over a quarter of a cen-
tury.
Dan Fabyan, who will remain in his territory until
Christmas, as, as usual, sending in satisfactory re-
ports. With Mr. Fabyan a report is satisfactory
when it takes the form of nice fat orders. He can
talk ''trade politics" with great eloquence at a trav-
eler's gathering and can discuss dealers' problems
when the occasion calls for it, but his letters to the
house from the road are bare of views. He can order
a couple of carloads of pianos in the fewest possible
words.
NEW COMMITTEES FOR
ILLINOIS TRADE ASS'N.
President James P. Lacey Publishes Full List and
Announces Plans for Next Conveniton.
J. P. SEEBURG
PIANO CO.
CHICAGO
"Leaders in the
Automatic Line"
General Offices: 1510 Dayton St.
Factory 1508-16 Dayton St.
A complete list of committees of the Illinois Music
Merchants' Association has been published by James
P. Lacey, president of the association and tentative
plans for the 1925 convention announced. The next
convention will be held in Rockford on September 28
and 29 and already plans for the entertainment of
association are being considered by a committee of
Rockford dealers, of which Fred Firestone is chair-
man.
The announcement of Mr. Lacey names the Ad-
visory Council, compesed of past presidents, com-
prising Charles C. Adams, Peoria, and Fred P. Wat-
son, Mt. Vernon.
The Executive Committee consists of: J. Barth
Johnson, J. Barth Johnson Co., Jacksonville; Walter
L. Rhein, Walter L. Rhein Piano Co., Belleville;
Chas. C. Oldendorf, Oldendorf's Music House, Mt.
Carme!; O. F. Anderson, Anderson Piano Co.,
Springfield,' and J. F. McDermott, Emerson Piano
House, Decatur. Other appointments are:
Membership Committee—Fred Firestone, chair-
man, Schumann Piano Co., Rockford; G. C. Hawkins,
Wm. Gusnard Co.,. Decatur; Harold E. Pelta, Block
& Kuhl Co.; Peoria, and J. H. Rhodes, Rhodes Music
House, Hillsboro.
Legislative Committee—O. F. Anderson, chairman,
Anderson Piano Co., Springfield; E. E. Hanger,
SHOW FOR LOS ANGELES.
The second national radio exposition was opened
in Los Angeles, December 2 to continue to the 7th,
at the Ambassador Auditorium. The exposition is
being held under the auspices of the Radio Trade
Association with the management of J. C. Johnson,
general manager of the American Radio Exposition
Co., Inc., New York. The new Ambassodor Audito-
rium will afford considerably more space for exhibits
than that which was available last February at the
Biltmore Hotel, where the first exposition was held,
the space, however, has been practically all sold
and every indication points to a very successful radio
show.
MOVES IN HOUGHTON, MICH.
The McLogan-Pearce Co., Houghton, Mich., moved
its stock and fixtures from the store formerly occu-
pied by the concern to its new storeroom, opposite
the Central Hotel no Fifth street, that city.
ADDS NEW DEPARTMENT.
Arthur McArthur & Co., music and furniture house,
Boston, Mass., has added a radio department to their
musical department. This department is under the
direct supervision of the manager of the music divi-
sion and an extensive line of receivers are handled,
and the manager is satisfied that the lines carried rep-
resent the best known and fastest selling merchan-
dise.
ATTRACTIVE WINDOW DISPLAYS.
The new style G. Kurtzmann piano was featured
this week in a window display by the Flanner-
Hafsoos Piano Co., Milwaukee, Wis. A window
display of Conn band instruments was another at-
traction during the week. The company recently
assisted in the organization of a band at the West
Allis High School in a suburb of Milwaukee, and
equipped the band with instruments. A municipal
band of thirty-five pieces has been organized at
Reeseville, Wis., and has been equipped almost ex-
clusively with Conn instruments, according to H. W.
Boone, manager of the band instrument department
for the store.
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