Presto
Issue: 1925 2021 - Page 16
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April 18, 1925.
PRESTO
LATE FACTS GATHERED
IN THE MUSIC TRADE
Brief Items of Activities in the Business Collected
in Many States.
Moyer Bros, department store, East Liverpool, O.,
destroyed by fire recently, with loss estimated at
$125,000, has opened in temporary quarters in a loca-
tion in East Fifth street, opposite the old store site.
The Will A. Watkin Co., Dallas, Tex., is making
an extensive drive for Gulbransen sales, in store win-
dow displays, newspapers and in direct mail matter.
The Costian Music Store, Huron, S. D., has been
incorporated with a capital of $30,000 to operate a
retail music store.
The Oakland branch of Sherman, Clay & Co., San
Francisco, under the management of F. A. Briggs,
recently won the second silver cup offered by Ernest
Urchs, manager of the wholesale department of Stein-
way & Sons, to the Sherman. Clay & Co. branch
showing the largest net profit on the amount invested
in the branch.
Sherman, Clay & Co., San Francisco, recently fea-
• tured 150,000th Cable-Nelson piano in a window
display.
The R. A. Kissell Music Co., St. Louis, Mo., has
resumed business in temporary quarters in the Malloy
The Best Yet
Graceful lines, rugged construc-
tion, moderately priced. It's the
very best commercial piano from
every standpoint.
Style 32—4 ft. 4 in.
WESER
Pianos and Players
Sell Readily—Stay Sold
Send to-day for catalogue, prices and
details of our liberal financing plan
Weser Bros., Inc.
520 to 528 W. 43rd St., New York
Floral Co.'s building, following a fire which caused •;•=•::•=•:•;•=•=•=•;•::•=•:•::•=•=•*
considerable damage to its store at 1655 South Thirty-
ninth street.
Reid's Music Store, Brownsville, Tcnn., has moved
into a new building on the west side of the Public
Square. The store handles pianos and a general line
of music goods.
The new music store of the Nowlin-Carr chain has
been opened at 606 Main street, Pine Bluff, Ark. The
concern has stores at Hot Springs and Arkadelphia.
L/Xe
PIANO MAN PROBABLE
WINNER OF RADIO CONTEST
ARTISTIC
JP>ZAJVO
INBVEKT
DETAIL
Will J. Hay's Melodious Voice as Announcer Wins
Friendship of Fans Everywhere.
Will J. Hay, treasurer of the Gaston Music Co.,
Hastings, Neb., called on a number of his friends in
the music trade in Chicago last week while in that
city as a special guest of WLS station. Mr. Hay
is widely known as one of the leading radio an-
nouncers in the United States, and his pleasant voice
can be heard on the air every night at the KFKX
station, Hastings, Neb.
Mr. Hay's Chicago friends feel proud of his suc-
cess, not only in the music game, but in radio as well.
He was formerly vice-president of the Brinkerhoff
Piano Co., Chicago, and is now sales manager of the
piano department in the Hastings firm. It looks very
much as though he is going to win the first prize in
the popularity contest being conducted by the Radio
Age which closes June 15 and many of his friends in
the trade are working hard to help him do so.
HADDORFF PIANO CO.
ROCKFORTMLL.
Wholeaale Office*:
GUOM*
MO S. MMft.ii AM.
&
Ill
II
NEW BOOK PROMISED
BY FEDERAL BUREAU
A National Directory of Commodity Specifications
Soon to Be Published for Use of Industries.
The Bureau of Standards will soon publish a Na-
tional Directory of Commodity Speciiications, con-
taining classified lists of all the commodity specifica-
tions in general use in the United States by federal,
state and city purchasing agents and by large in-
dustries. Included in the work will be specifications
for musical instruments, etc., as prepared by the Fed-
eral Specifications Board.
The directory will cover about 6,000 commodities,
divided into groups and cross indexed. It will be
followed by an Encyclopedia of Specifications, giving
in loose pamphlet form complete copies of the more
important specifications and those which are least
readily obtained elsewhere.
Preparation of the directory and the encyclopedia
were recommended in 1923 at a meeting of state pur-
chasing agents, at which the need for such informa-
tion was emphasized, together with the desirability
of having it prepared by co-operation of interested
parties under the leadership of a government organi-
zation. The services of the Bureau of Standards were
offered and accepted, and the work was carried on by
a committee representing the various national organ-
izations interested in specifications.
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 <
to sell and satisfactory when sold.
Brighten Your Line with the
SCHAFF BROS.
The Schaff Bros. Co.
Established 1868
Huntington, Ind.
KURTZMANN ST. LOUIS.
The St. Louis agency for the C. Kurtzmann pianos
fo rthe past five or six years at the Scruggs, Vander-
voort & Barney department store has been transferred
to the Kieselhorst Piano Co., effective April 1. George
Mansfield, of C. Kurtzmann & Co., Buffalo, N. Y.,
attended to the details of the transfers. This is the
second time that the house has had the Kurtzmann.
GRAND PIANOS
EXCLUSIVELY
One Style—One Quality
The True Test
Compare the new Jesse French & Sons Piano
with any other strictly high grade piano in tone,
touch and general construction, and you will be
convinced at once that t h e y offer the most
exceptional v a l u e s to be found anywhere.
Jesse French & Sons Style BB
Write today fci catalog and prices
"They are the one best buy on the market"
JESSE FRENCH & SONS PIANO CO.
NEW CASTLE,
INDIANA
giving you the
Unequaled Grand
Unequaled Price
at
Already being told 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.
Nordlund Grand Piano Co.
m
W. Erie St
CHICAGO
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April 18, 1925.
PRESTO
LATE FACTS GATHERED
IN THE MUSIC TRADE
Brief Items of Activities in the Business Collected
in Many States.
Moyer Bros, department store, East Liverpool, O.,
destroyed by fire recently, with loss estimated at
$125,000, has opened in temporary quarters in a loca-
tion in East Fifth street, opposite the old store site.
The Will A. Watkin Co., Dallas, Tex., is making
an extensive drive for Gulbransen sales, in store win-
dow displays, newspapers and in direct mail matter.
The Costian Music Store, Huron, S. D., has been
incorporated with a capital of $30,000 to operate a
retail music store.
The Oakland branch of Sherman, Clay & Co., San
Francisco, under the management of F. A. Briggs,
recently won the second silver cup offered by Ernest
Urchs, manager of the wholesale department of Stein-
way & Sons, to the Sherman. Clay & Co. branch
showing the largest net profit on the amount invested
in the branch.
Sherman, Clay & Co., San Francisco, recently fea-
• tured 150,000th Cable-Nelson piano in a window
display.
The R. A. Kissell Music Co., St. Louis, Mo., has
resumed business in temporary quarters in the Malloy
The Best Yet
Graceful lines, rugged construc-
tion, moderately priced. It's the
very best commercial piano from
every standpoint.
Style 32—4 ft. 4 in.
WESER
Pianos and Players
Sell Readily—Stay Sold
Send to-day for catalogue, prices and
details of our liberal financing plan
Weser Bros., Inc.
520 to 528 W. 43rd St., New York
Floral Co.'s building, following a fire which caused •;•=•::•=•:•;•=•=•=•;•::•=•:•::•=•=•*
considerable damage to its store at 1655 South Thirty-
ninth street.
Reid's Music Store, Brownsville, Tcnn., has moved
into a new building on the west side of the Public
Square. The store handles pianos and a general line
of music goods.
The new music store of the Nowlin-Carr chain has
been opened at 606 Main street, Pine Bluff, Ark. The
concern has stores at Hot Springs and Arkadelphia.
L/Xe
PIANO MAN PROBABLE
WINNER OF RADIO CONTEST
ARTISTIC
JP>ZAJVO
INBVEKT
DETAIL
Will J. Hay's Melodious Voice as Announcer Wins
Friendship of Fans Everywhere.
Will J. Hay, treasurer of the Gaston Music Co.,
Hastings, Neb., called on a number of his friends in
the music trade in Chicago last week while in that
city as a special guest of WLS station. Mr. Hay
is widely known as one of the leading radio an-
nouncers in the United States, and his pleasant voice
can be heard on the air every night at the KFKX
station, Hastings, Neb.
Mr. Hay's Chicago friends feel proud of his suc-
cess, not only in the music game, but in radio as well.
He was formerly vice-president of the Brinkerhoff
Piano Co., Chicago, and is now sales manager of the
piano department in the Hastings firm. It looks very
much as though he is going to win the first prize in
the popularity contest being conducted by the Radio
Age which closes June 15 and many of his friends in
the trade are working hard to help him do so.
HADDORFF PIANO CO.
ROCKFORTMLL.
Wholeaale Office*:
GUOM*
MO S. MMft.ii AM.
&
Ill
II
NEW BOOK PROMISED
BY FEDERAL BUREAU
A National Directory of Commodity Specifications
Soon to Be Published for Use of Industries.
The Bureau of Standards will soon publish a Na-
tional Directory of Commodity Speciiications, con-
taining classified lists of all the commodity specifica-
tions in general use in the United States by federal,
state and city purchasing agents and by large in-
dustries. Included in the work will be specifications
for musical instruments, etc., as prepared by the Fed-
eral Specifications Board.
The directory will cover about 6,000 commodities,
divided into groups and cross indexed. It will be
followed by an Encyclopedia of Specifications, giving
in loose pamphlet form complete copies of the more
important specifications and those which are least
readily obtained elsewhere.
Preparation of the directory and the encyclopedia
were recommended in 1923 at a meeting of state pur-
chasing agents, at which the need for such informa-
tion was emphasized, together with the desirability
of having it prepared by co-operation of interested
parties under the leadership of a government organi-
zation. The services of the Bureau of Standards were
offered and accepted, and the work was carried on by
a committee representing the various national organ-
izations interested in specifications.
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 <
to sell and satisfactory when sold.
Brighten Your Line with the
SCHAFF BROS.
The Schaff Bros. Co.
Established 1868
Huntington, Ind.
KURTZMANN ST. LOUIS.
The St. Louis agency for the C. Kurtzmann pianos
fo rthe past five or six years at the Scruggs, Vander-
voort & Barney department store has been transferred
to the Kieselhorst Piano Co., effective April 1. George
Mansfield, of C. Kurtzmann & Co., Buffalo, N. Y.,
attended to the details of the transfers. This is the
second time that the house has had the Kurtzmann.
GRAND PIANOS
EXCLUSIVELY
One Style—One Quality
The True Test
Compare the new Jesse French & Sons Piano
with any other strictly high grade piano in tone,
touch and general construction, and you will be
convinced at once that t h e y offer the most
exceptional v a l u e s to be found anywhere.
Jesse French & Sons Style BB
Write today fci catalog and prices
"They are the one best buy on the market"
JESSE FRENCH & SONS PIANO CO.
NEW CASTLE,
INDIANA
giving you the
Unequaled Grand
Unequaled Price
at
Already being told 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.
Nordlund Grand Piano Co.
m
W. Erie St
CHICAGO
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).