Presto
Issue: 1925 2022 - Page 12
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April 25, 1925.
P R E S T O
MUSIC TRADE FACTS
FROM PORTLAND, ORE.
Incidents in Recent Trade Activities in Busy
Northwest City Show Lively Ambitions
to Effect Big Piano Sales.
The Wiley B. Allen Co. of Portland, Ore., featured
a handsome window display recently presenting to the
public the fact of their acquirement recently of the
Ampico in the Mason & Hamlin and Haines Bros.
The central feature of the window was a Mason &
Hamlin Ampico which was continually playing the
Rachmaninoff Prelude in C sharp minor. This was
kept going all day and evening during the featuring
and the public was invited to go inside and enjoy
the recordings of Rachmaninoff and the other famous
artist in their handsome Ampico studio which was
recently installed.
The "Upstairs Piano Store" in the Ungar building,
Portland, Ore., of which J. J. Collins and W. A.
Erwin, both experienced piano men of many
years in the trade, are proprietors, is making good.
According to Mr. Erwin the firm is not trying to do
all the business but is demanding good cash pay-
ments and short time installments. During Febru-
ary the first payments amounted to over 40 per cent
and while the record for March was not as good yet
it was satisfactory. The firm handles the Henry F.
Miller, Pease, Bradbury, Webster, National and the
Hazelton Bros, pianos, being the exclusive agents of
the Hazelton Bros. A Hazelton Bros, reproduction
Welte Mignon was recently placed in the handsome
home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Goodwin and a
Henry F. Miller grand in the studio of Mabel Whit-
comb, a prominent Portland teacher who instructs a
large class of pupils.
Among the prominent visitors of the music trade in
Portland, Ore., recently was Charles A. Ericsson,
E. Leins Piano Co.
Makers of Pianos and
Player Pianos That Are
Established L e a d e r s .
Correspondence from Reliable
Dealers Invited
Factory and Offices, 304 W. 42nd Si
NEW YORK
president of the Ludwig Piano Co. of New York, who
stopped off in the Rose City and spent several days
there in conference with B. R. Brassfield, manager of
the Wiley B. Allen branch in that city. Mr. Eric-
sson was en route home after making a tour of the
entire country, visiting the Ludwig agencies.
In order to speed up the services of his employes,
E. B. Hyatt, of the Hyatt Music Co. of Portland,
Ore., has nut up a handsome silver trophy cup to be
contested for by his employes during the three
spring months. All errors are to be noted and the
employe having the fewest black marks is to be
awarded the prize. Among the things to be marked
are getting to work late, forgetting to ring up the
(.ash register, errors in computing, etc. The contest
will end July 1.
Traffic came to a standstill one day last week when
Ted Emerson, the market editor of the Portland,
Ore., Telegram, appeared in the downtown district
of that city at the noon lunch hour carrying a suitcase
which emitted music. He visited the prominent res-
taurants of that city and it developed that his suit-
case was a Zenith portable radio, a six tube set, bat-
teries, loup and loud speaker all built inside the case,
which weighs about twenty pounds.
Fine Electric Self-Players of eye-
catching design and perfect perform-
ance. Also
COIN OPERATED
S. PHILPITT & SON
OPEN NEW BUILDING
KREITER
Stil Harcourt, traveler for the Story and Clark Piano
Co.. and with the title of R. P. M. L. F. O. which
means "Repro-Phraso Man Looking for Orders," re-
cently departed from the Chicago headquarters, for
an extended trip through the south with Florida as
his destination. There he will remain the greater
part of the summer visiting dealers and exploiting
the Repro-Phraso instrument.
The Good Old
SMITH & NIXON
for places of entertainment, Theatres,
Movies, Ice Cream Parlors, Etc., Etc.
The best line including the famous
Pianos and Player Pianos
"PIAN-O-GRAND"
"BANJ-O-GRAND"
and "HARP-O-GRAND"
Better than ever, with the same
"Grand Tone In Upright Case."
Wide-awake Piano D e a l e r s find
them easy sellers in every community.
Send for illustrated
descriptive circulars.
Big Association of the Six States in Widely
Distributed Circular Urge Music Dealers
and Others to Attend.
The Xcw England Music Trade Association is act-
ing in an effective way to stimulate interest among
the New England trade in the annual conventions of
the music trade and industry to be held at the Drake
Hotel, Chicago, in the week beginning June Sunday.
June 7. Not only is the membership of the New
England Music Trade Association being urged to
attend the big gathering in Chicago but the music
merchants, music publishers and music instrument
manufacturers generally are being circularized to the
same effect.
In a letter signed by William Merrill, secretary,
sent out from the headquarters of the association
it is stated that "not only piano manufacturers but
pipe organ builders, band and string instrument
manufacturers, music publishers, music dealers, phono-
graph dealers, jobbers, and in fact the entire music
trade of New England is talking and planning to be
present."
The letter states that the New England Music
Trades Association is being flooded with inquiries
about the trip to Chicago, and Mr. Merrill advises
the inquiring music trade folk that the very best train
Formal Occupation of Its Own Structure Made service
procurable will be provided. ''The very latest
Special Event Which Drew Congratulatory
Pullman compartment cars will be given the New
England music trade men and their families and serv-
Messages from Friends in Trade.
ice and low cost will be the slogan of the committee,"
On April 17, S. Ernest Philpitt & Son, ex- is the assurance of Mr. Merrill.
clusive Florida distributors of Steinway pianos,
Miami, Fla., formally opened the new Philpitt build-
FORBISH WITH BRINKERHOFF.
ing located on Lincoln Road .and Jefferson avenue,
The Brinkerhoff Piano Co., 209 South State street,
Miami Beach. While this building is only one story, Chicago, has engaged W. W. Forbish to represent
it is rather a pretentious and imposing one, and that popular industry in the territory west of Chi-
located on what will be the most prominent business cago. Mr. Forbish has been a wholesale piano trav-
corner in Miami Beach, fronting fifty feet on Lincoln eler for many years, and is well known in this terri-
Road and with a depth of one hundred and five feet tory. The Brinkerhoff line has won great favor with
on Jefferson avenue. The ceiling height is eighteen a progressive class of dealers and President Will T.
feet, and this building has been erected at a cost of Brinkerhoff has the credit of building up a large busi-
something over seventy thousand dollars.
ness of profitable kind to his customers.
In constructing this building the company has made
provision to go up six more floors as time and
Joe B. Kelly, recently located at Altoona, Pa., and
finances may permit. This is the first attempt of
S. Ernest Philpitt & Son to house its own business known there as a crack piano seller, has moved to
in any city in Florida, and the company is naturally Girard, Ohio, where he is doing some special work
for E. H. Lotze & Co., of that place.
proud of the building and its equipment.
The store was opened with a musical program, and
the event was signalized with the presence of some
of the manufacturers and music publishers which the
company represents. Many not able to be repre-
sented, sent congratulatory telegraph messages on
that day.
STIL HARCOURT IN FLORIDA.
There's Money
for the Dealer in
Automatic Pianos
NEW ENGLANDERS MAKE
CONVENTION PLANS
Grands and Players that every deal-
er likes to sell, for Satisfaction and
Profit
Nelson-Wiggen Piano Co.
Smith & Nixon Piano Co.
1731 Belmont Ave.,
CHICAGO
1229 Miller St., Chicago
The Leading and Most Popular
Pianos and Players
Grands, Players, Uprights and
Reproducing Pianos
The Results of Over Forty Years'
of Experience.
Kreiter Pianos Cover the Entire Line
and no Piano Dealer who tries these in'
struments would supplant them by any
others. A trial will convince.
Kreiter Mfg. Co., Inc.
310-312 W. Water St., Milwaukee, Wis.
Factory: Marinette, Wis.
The Lyon & Healy
Reproducing Piano
A moderate priced reproducing piano,
beautiful in design and rich in -tone.
Write for our new explanatory Chart,
the most complete and simple treat- ~
ment of the reproducing action.
Wabash at Jackson
. . .
Chicago
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April 25, 1925.
P R E S T O
MUSIC TRADE FACTS
FROM PORTLAND, ORE.
Incidents in Recent Trade Activities in Busy
Northwest City Show Lively Ambitions
to Effect Big Piano Sales.
The Wiley B. Allen Co. of Portland, Ore., featured
a handsome window display recently presenting to the
public the fact of their acquirement recently of the
Ampico in the Mason & Hamlin and Haines Bros.
The central feature of the window was a Mason &
Hamlin Ampico which was continually playing the
Rachmaninoff Prelude in C sharp minor. This was
kept going all day and evening during the featuring
and the public was invited to go inside and enjoy
the recordings of Rachmaninoff and the other famous
artist in their handsome Ampico studio which was
recently installed.
The "Upstairs Piano Store" in the Ungar building,
Portland, Ore., of which J. J. Collins and W. A.
Erwin, both experienced piano men of many
years in the trade, are proprietors, is making good.
According to Mr. Erwin the firm is not trying to do
all the business but is demanding good cash pay-
ments and short time installments. During Febru-
ary the first payments amounted to over 40 per cent
and while the record for March was not as good yet
it was satisfactory. The firm handles the Henry F.
Miller, Pease, Bradbury, Webster, National and the
Hazelton Bros, pianos, being the exclusive agents of
the Hazelton Bros. A Hazelton Bros, reproduction
Welte Mignon was recently placed in the handsome
home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Goodwin and a
Henry F. Miller grand in the studio of Mabel Whit-
comb, a prominent Portland teacher who instructs a
large class of pupils.
Among the prominent visitors of the music trade in
Portland, Ore., recently was Charles A. Ericsson,
E. Leins Piano Co.
Makers of Pianos and
Player Pianos That Are
Established L e a d e r s .
Correspondence from Reliable
Dealers Invited
Factory and Offices, 304 W. 42nd Si
NEW YORK
president of the Ludwig Piano Co. of New York, who
stopped off in the Rose City and spent several days
there in conference with B. R. Brassfield, manager of
the Wiley B. Allen branch in that city. Mr. Eric-
sson was en route home after making a tour of the
entire country, visiting the Ludwig agencies.
In order to speed up the services of his employes,
E. B. Hyatt, of the Hyatt Music Co. of Portland,
Ore., has nut up a handsome silver trophy cup to be
contested for by his employes during the three
spring months. All errors are to be noted and the
employe having the fewest black marks is to be
awarded the prize. Among the things to be marked
are getting to work late, forgetting to ring up the
(.ash register, errors in computing, etc. The contest
will end July 1.
Traffic came to a standstill one day last week when
Ted Emerson, the market editor of the Portland,
Ore., Telegram, appeared in the downtown district
of that city at the noon lunch hour carrying a suitcase
which emitted music. He visited the prominent res-
taurants of that city and it developed that his suit-
case was a Zenith portable radio, a six tube set, bat-
teries, loup and loud speaker all built inside the case,
which weighs about twenty pounds.
Fine Electric Self-Players of eye-
catching design and perfect perform-
ance. Also
COIN OPERATED
S. PHILPITT & SON
OPEN NEW BUILDING
KREITER
Stil Harcourt, traveler for the Story and Clark Piano
Co.. and with the title of R. P. M. L. F. O. which
means "Repro-Phraso Man Looking for Orders," re-
cently departed from the Chicago headquarters, for
an extended trip through the south with Florida as
his destination. There he will remain the greater
part of the summer visiting dealers and exploiting
the Repro-Phraso instrument.
The Good Old
SMITH & NIXON
for places of entertainment, Theatres,
Movies, Ice Cream Parlors, Etc., Etc.
The best line including the famous
Pianos and Player Pianos
"PIAN-O-GRAND"
"BANJ-O-GRAND"
and "HARP-O-GRAND"
Better than ever, with the same
"Grand Tone In Upright Case."
Wide-awake Piano D e a l e r s find
them easy sellers in every community.
Send for illustrated
descriptive circulars.
Big Association of the Six States in Widely
Distributed Circular Urge Music Dealers
and Others to Attend.
The Xcw England Music Trade Association is act-
ing in an effective way to stimulate interest among
the New England trade in the annual conventions of
the music trade and industry to be held at the Drake
Hotel, Chicago, in the week beginning June Sunday.
June 7. Not only is the membership of the New
England Music Trade Association being urged to
attend the big gathering in Chicago but the music
merchants, music publishers and music instrument
manufacturers generally are being circularized to the
same effect.
In a letter signed by William Merrill, secretary,
sent out from the headquarters of the association
it is stated that "not only piano manufacturers but
pipe organ builders, band and string instrument
manufacturers, music publishers, music dealers, phono-
graph dealers, jobbers, and in fact the entire music
trade of New England is talking and planning to be
present."
The letter states that the New England Music
Trades Association is being flooded with inquiries
about the trip to Chicago, and Mr. Merrill advises
the inquiring music trade folk that the very best train
Formal Occupation of Its Own Structure Made service
procurable will be provided. ''The very latest
Special Event Which Drew Congratulatory
Pullman compartment cars will be given the New
England music trade men and their families and serv-
Messages from Friends in Trade.
ice and low cost will be the slogan of the committee,"
On April 17, S. Ernest Philpitt & Son, ex- is the assurance of Mr. Merrill.
clusive Florida distributors of Steinway pianos,
Miami, Fla., formally opened the new Philpitt build-
FORBISH WITH BRINKERHOFF.
ing located on Lincoln Road .and Jefferson avenue,
The Brinkerhoff Piano Co., 209 South State street,
Miami Beach. While this building is only one story, Chicago, has engaged W. W. Forbish to represent
it is rather a pretentious and imposing one, and that popular industry in the territory west of Chi-
located on what will be the most prominent business cago. Mr. Forbish has been a wholesale piano trav-
corner in Miami Beach, fronting fifty feet on Lincoln eler for many years, and is well known in this terri-
Road and with a depth of one hundred and five feet tory. The Brinkerhoff line has won great favor with
on Jefferson avenue. The ceiling height is eighteen a progressive class of dealers and President Will T.
feet, and this building has been erected at a cost of Brinkerhoff has the credit of building up a large busi-
something over seventy thousand dollars.
ness of profitable kind to his customers.
In constructing this building the company has made
provision to go up six more floors as time and
Joe B. Kelly, recently located at Altoona, Pa., and
finances may permit. This is the first attempt of
S. Ernest Philpitt & Son to house its own business known there as a crack piano seller, has moved to
in any city in Florida, and the company is naturally Girard, Ohio, where he is doing some special work
for E. H. Lotze & Co., of that place.
proud of the building and its equipment.
The store was opened with a musical program, and
the event was signalized with the presence of some
of the manufacturers and music publishers which the
company represents. Many not able to be repre-
sented, sent congratulatory telegraph messages on
that day.
STIL HARCOURT IN FLORIDA.
There's Money
for the Dealer in
Automatic Pianos
NEW ENGLANDERS MAKE
CONVENTION PLANS
Grands and Players that every deal-
er likes to sell, for Satisfaction and
Profit
Nelson-Wiggen Piano Co.
Smith & Nixon Piano Co.
1731 Belmont Ave.,
CHICAGO
1229 Miller St., Chicago
The Leading and Most Popular
Pianos and Players
Grands, Players, Uprights and
Reproducing Pianos
The Results of Over Forty Years'
of Experience.
Kreiter Pianos Cover the Entire Line
and no Piano Dealer who tries these in'
struments would supplant them by any
others. A trial will convince.
Kreiter Mfg. Co., Inc.
310-312 W. Water St., Milwaukee, Wis.
Factory: Marinette, Wis.
The Lyon & Healy
Reproducing Piano
A moderate priced reproducing piano,
beautiful in design and rich in -tone.
Write for our new explanatory Chart,
the most complete and simple treat- ~
ment of the reproducing action.
Wabash at Jackson
. . .
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).