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February 7, 1925.
PRESTO
bring success. High grade stock. Ninety per cent
of my trade comes from the voluntary enthusiasm
of our 2,000 satisfied piano patrons and our circle of
friends keeps enlarging daily. Du Barry capital.
We don't have to sell stock in our business to get
money. We make it ourselves out of turnover on
grade new pianos.
Tells Fellow Citizens Not to Believe Any- high
The light is beginning to fall. It is going to show
thing They Hear About Him and Winds Up up the piano situation as my clientele enlarges, until
now most nearly in every block in Seattle some one
with Wiek Piano Praises.
has a "Wick," that has a sounding board worthy of
the name. The Tone test; the great Super-Wick
George H. DuBarry, the Seattle, Wash., piano
double acting sound board is absolute melody. The
man, used a third of a page in the Seattle daily news-
strings are of the finest hard wire that will not
paper last week to assert, deny, protest, advise, bally-
stretch in months of hard playing, and even when
rag and plaster the space generally with characteristic
they do the tone is soft and mellow just the same,
hokum. This is how it reads:
but just a little lower in its pitch, and that is all.
Du Barry is with his firm. You bet he is—on the
Hear the Wick—before you buy. It is one piano
job, too. A rumor has been spread around that my
that stands high above the accepted piano standards
wife and I don't own the House of Du Barry, the of today—it is one piano that du Barry has chosen.
Du Barry Piano Co., etc. Such balderdash and
Its value is first in all the piano world and I have it.
buffoonery. Don't believe anything you hear about
Why, I have it, the treasure to my name.
me.
Big interests haven't got enough money to
Beat it if you can. I can't, and I show many
buy my name—not one of them in Seattle or in the makes besides it, and used pianos of every descrip-
whole wide world. This is a family firm, this firm. tion exchanged for it in trade and some like new.
My wonderful daddy puts me in charge of affairs,
It is one piano made by old masters, who do not
has made me the comptroller of the celebrated House advertise, and yet sell all they care to make without
of Du Barry, of world wide credit and renown. Sort
a word. A remarkable thing, today, when he who
of says, let George do it, and throws all the responsi-
does not advertise is dead, even to a du Barry of an
bility he can on my shoulders, so he can rock the
old French royal court, the Gloire of all France.
easy chair. Well, he deserves to, and I love to work.
And so with the "Wick" in hand I challenge the
My heart is in this thing. First in value—that's
greatest piano corporation fearlessly, for I have .
my style; first in anything I do, because my name is
chosen my blade with which to fight. 'Tis a buy, and
du Barry, and so I, George Hay du Barry, do hereby
worth double its price. If you must have a great
promise to give you the finest deal of your life.
name placed upon it, take mine, and who is now
You bet I do.
making pianos dare say they have a name of such
Buy your piano now—buy one. Look around, see
importance to the ages, for the name of du Barry will
them all, hear what they say and see what they
wear when every piano name now known to you has
show—talk about du Barry to them, warm them up,
passed away.
tell them you like the "Wick," my favorite piano,
best, and have some fun—fence with them with your
long green dollar bills.
Du Barry's a piano store, strictly. A thorough-
bred piano store that sells pianos of a character to
^3
GEO. H. DU BARRY AGAIN
ADDRESSES SEATTLE
ARTISTIC
IN EVERY
DETAIL
HADDORFF PIANO CQ
ROCKFORD,ILL.
Wholesale Office*:
NpwT«ffcCh
IMW.ttndS*
Sao
410 S.
WILL A. WATKIN CO. NOW
IN FORTY=THIRD YEAR
ESTABLISHED 1S54
THE
BRADBURY PIANO
FOR ITS
ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE
FOR ITS
INESTIMABLE AGENCY VALUE
THE CHOICE OF
Representative Dealers the World Over
Now Produced in Several
New Model.
WRITE FOR TERRITORY
Factory
Leominster,
Mass.
Executive Office*
138th St. and Walton Ave.
New York
Division W. P. HAINES & CO., Inc.
The Good Old
SMITH & NIXON
Pianos and Player Pianos
Better than ever, with the same
"Grand Tone In Upright Case."
Grands and Players that every deal-
er likes to sell, for Satisfaction and
Profit.
Fine Line of Pianos and Admirable Standards of
Business Make for Success.
The Will A. Watkin Company, Dallas, Tex., es-
tablished in 1882, has in the space of 43 years' con-
tinuous selling of fine musical instruments to the pub-
lic of Dallas, grown from a small concern to one of
the largest music houses in the South. The upright,
honest business policies, square dealing and faith in
the tremendous growth of Dallas have made the great
success of the house possible.
The fine line of the Will A. Watkin Music Co. in-
cludes the Chickering, McPhail, Brambach, Gulbran-
sen or Miessner instruments.
In the February number of the Watkin Bulletin,
"published for the encouragement and advancement
of music" by the Will A. Watkin Company, 1207 Elm
street and 1206 Pacific avenue, the store is alluded to
as the "Meeting Place of Famous Pianos," and this
is added:
"Visitors tell us that our policy of gathering to-
gether in our warerooms, side by side, a careful selec-
tion of the finest makes of grand, reproducing grand,
upright and player pianos brings them here. . . .
It is obviously a great advantage to be able to see
and hear all these famous instruments, the very finest
craftmanship of leading makers, without stepping
outside our warerooms. . . . This not only saves
your time, but also makes your selection of a piano
simple and easy, while giving you a range of choice
that no other retail piano establishment in the South-
west duplicates. Convenient payments and your old
piano taken in exchange."
The Watkin Bulletin is a readable means for ad-
vertising the store of the Will A. Watkin Co., for
keeping the high character of the pianos handled be-
fore the public and for impressing "The Watkin
Standard." which is: "To sell at fair, reasonable
prices, based on actual intrinsic worth. To satisfy
our customers absolutely by giving them careful and
efficient attention."
WRANGLE OVER VESTAL BILL.
At the hearing before the House Committee of
Patents last week representatives of various manu-
facturing groups differed over the Vestal Bill to pro-
vide for registration of designs. Theodore Solverg,
register of copyright in the Library of Congress, said
the bill would provide ample means of administra-
tion, but E. W. Bradford, counsel for the Design
Registration League, suggested various amendments,
and H. D. Williams, representing the New York
Patent Law Association, opposed the entire bill.
VISITS GULBRANSEN FACTORY.
Smith & Nixon Piano Co.
1229 Miller St., Chicago
Moe Mattlin, of the Home Piano Co., Cleveland,
Ohio, was a visitor to the Chicago trade last week!
Mr. Mattlin made it a point to visit the large Gul-
bransen Co.'s factory and offices at Chicago and
Kedzie Ave., while in the city. The Gulbransen
registering pianos occupy a prominent place with the
Ohio music firm.
Schaff Bros.
Players » nd Pianos have won their stand-
ing with trade and public by 54 years of
steadfast striving to excel. They repre-
sent the
LARGEST COMPETITIVE VALUE
because of their beauty, reliability, tone
and moderate price. They are profitable
to sell and satisfactory when sold.
Brighten Your Line with the
SCHAFF BROS.
The Schaff Bros. Co.
Established 1868
Huntington, Ind.
GRAND PIANOS
EXCLUSIVELY
One Style—One Quality
giving you the
Unequaled Grand
at
Unequaled Price
Already being sold by leading dealers
throughout the country
Write today—tell us your next year's re-
quirements and we will meet your demands
with prompt and efficient service.
Columbian Grand Piano Mfg. Co.
400 W. Erie St.
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February 7, 1925.
PRESTO
bring success. High grade stock. Ninety per cent
of my trade comes from the voluntary enthusiasm
of our 2,000 satisfied piano patrons and our circle of
friends keeps enlarging daily. Du Barry capital.
We don't have to sell stock in our business to get
money. We make it ourselves out of turnover on
grade new pianos.
Tells Fellow Citizens Not to Believe Any- high
The light is beginning to fall. It is going to show
thing They Hear About Him and Winds Up up the piano situation as my clientele enlarges, until
now most nearly in every block in Seattle some one
with Wiek Piano Praises.
has a "Wick," that has a sounding board worthy of
the name. The Tone test; the great Super-Wick
George H. DuBarry, the Seattle, Wash., piano
double acting sound board is absolute melody. The
man, used a third of a page in the Seattle daily news-
strings are of the finest hard wire that will not
paper last week to assert, deny, protest, advise, bally-
stretch in months of hard playing, and even when
rag and plaster the space generally with characteristic
they do the tone is soft and mellow just the same,
hokum. This is how it reads:
but just a little lower in its pitch, and that is all.
Du Barry is with his firm. You bet he is—on the
Hear the Wick—before you buy. It is one piano
job, too. A rumor has been spread around that my
that stands high above the accepted piano standards
wife and I don't own the House of Du Barry, the of today—it is one piano that du Barry has chosen.
Du Barry Piano Co., etc. Such balderdash and
Its value is first in all the piano world and I have it.
buffoonery. Don't believe anything you hear about
Why, I have it, the treasure to my name.
me.
Big interests haven't got enough money to
Beat it if you can. I can't, and I show many
buy my name—not one of them in Seattle or in the makes besides it, and used pianos of every descrip-
whole wide world. This is a family firm, this firm. tion exchanged for it in trade and some like new.
My wonderful daddy puts me in charge of affairs,
It is one piano made by old masters, who do not
has made me the comptroller of the celebrated House advertise, and yet sell all they care to make without
of Du Barry, of world wide credit and renown. Sort
a word. A remarkable thing, today, when he who
of says, let George do it, and throws all the responsi-
does not advertise is dead, even to a du Barry of an
bility he can on my shoulders, so he can rock the
old French royal court, the Gloire of all France.
easy chair. Well, he deserves to, and I love to work.
And so with the "Wick" in hand I challenge the
My heart is in this thing. First in value—that's
greatest piano corporation fearlessly, for I have .
my style; first in anything I do, because my name is
chosen my blade with which to fight. 'Tis a buy, and
du Barry, and so I, George Hay du Barry, do hereby
worth double its price. If you must have a great
promise to give you the finest deal of your life.
name placed upon it, take mine, and who is now
You bet I do.
making pianos dare say they have a name of such
Buy your piano now—buy one. Look around, see
importance to the ages, for the name of du Barry will
them all, hear what they say and see what they
wear when every piano name now known to you has
show—talk about du Barry to them, warm them up,
passed away.
tell them you like the "Wick," my favorite piano,
best, and have some fun—fence with them with your
long green dollar bills.
Du Barry's a piano store, strictly. A thorough-
bred piano store that sells pianos of a character to
^3
GEO. H. DU BARRY AGAIN
ADDRESSES SEATTLE
ARTISTIC
IN EVERY
DETAIL
HADDORFF PIANO CQ
ROCKFORD,ILL.
Wholesale Office*:
NpwT«ffcCh
IMW.ttndS*
Sao
410 S.
WILL A. WATKIN CO. NOW
IN FORTY=THIRD YEAR
ESTABLISHED 1S54
THE
BRADBURY PIANO
FOR ITS
ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE
FOR ITS
INESTIMABLE AGENCY VALUE
THE CHOICE OF
Representative Dealers the World Over
Now Produced in Several
New Model.
WRITE FOR TERRITORY
Factory
Leominster,
Mass.
Executive Office*
138th St. and Walton Ave.
New York
Division W. P. HAINES & CO., Inc.
The Good Old
SMITH & NIXON
Pianos and Player Pianos
Better than ever, with the same
"Grand Tone In Upright Case."
Grands and Players that every deal-
er likes to sell, for Satisfaction and
Profit.
Fine Line of Pianos and Admirable Standards of
Business Make for Success.
The Will A. Watkin Company, Dallas, Tex., es-
tablished in 1882, has in the space of 43 years' con-
tinuous selling of fine musical instruments to the pub-
lic of Dallas, grown from a small concern to one of
the largest music houses in the South. The upright,
honest business policies, square dealing and faith in
the tremendous growth of Dallas have made the great
success of the house possible.
The fine line of the Will A. Watkin Music Co. in-
cludes the Chickering, McPhail, Brambach, Gulbran-
sen or Miessner instruments.
In the February number of the Watkin Bulletin,
"published for the encouragement and advancement
of music" by the Will A. Watkin Company, 1207 Elm
street and 1206 Pacific avenue, the store is alluded to
as the "Meeting Place of Famous Pianos," and this
is added:
"Visitors tell us that our policy of gathering to-
gether in our warerooms, side by side, a careful selec-
tion of the finest makes of grand, reproducing grand,
upright and player pianos brings them here. . . .
It is obviously a great advantage to be able to see
and hear all these famous instruments, the very finest
craftmanship of leading makers, without stepping
outside our warerooms. . . . This not only saves
your time, but also makes your selection of a piano
simple and easy, while giving you a range of choice
that no other retail piano establishment in the South-
west duplicates. Convenient payments and your old
piano taken in exchange."
The Watkin Bulletin is a readable means for ad-
vertising the store of the Will A. Watkin Co., for
keeping the high character of the pianos handled be-
fore the public and for impressing "The Watkin
Standard." which is: "To sell at fair, reasonable
prices, based on actual intrinsic worth. To satisfy
our customers absolutely by giving them careful and
efficient attention."
WRANGLE OVER VESTAL BILL.
At the hearing before the House Committee of
Patents last week representatives of various manu-
facturing groups differed over the Vestal Bill to pro-
vide for registration of designs. Theodore Solverg,
register of copyright in the Library of Congress, said
the bill would provide ample means of administra-
tion, but E. W. Bradford, counsel for the Design
Registration League, suggested various amendments,
and H. D. Williams, representing the New York
Patent Law Association, opposed the entire bill.
VISITS GULBRANSEN FACTORY.
Smith & Nixon Piano Co.
1229 Miller St., Chicago
Moe Mattlin, of the Home Piano Co., Cleveland,
Ohio, was a visitor to the Chicago trade last week!
Mr. Mattlin made it a point to visit the large Gul-
bransen Co.'s factory and offices at Chicago and
Kedzie Ave., while in the city. The Gulbransen
registering pianos occupy a prominent place with the
Ohio music firm.
Schaff Bros.
Players » nd Pianos have won their stand-
ing with trade and public by 54 years of
steadfast striving to excel. They repre-
sent the
LARGEST COMPETITIVE VALUE
because of their beauty, reliability, tone
and moderate price. They are profitable
to sell and satisfactory when sold.
Brighten Your Line with the
SCHAFF BROS.
The Schaff Bros. Co.
Established 1868
Huntington, Ind.
GRAND PIANOS
EXCLUSIVELY
One Style—One Quality
giving you the
Unequaled Grand
at
Unequaled Price
Already being sold by leading dealers
throughout the country
Write today—tell us your next year's re-
quirements and we will meet your demands
with prompt and efficient service.
Columbian Grand Piano Mfg. Co.
400 W. Erie St.
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/
CHICAGO
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