Presto

July 25, 1925.
PRESTO
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FEATURING Q R S ROLLS IN SAN ANTONIO
COLUMBIA PROGRESS SHOWN
Second Annual Exposition Held Under Bridgeport
Chamber of Commerce a Great Success.
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Here's an attractive window of Thomas Goggan
& Bros., San Antonio. Tex. The Q R S Girl was
much in evidence and the special rolls were featured
with dark blue cardboard with orange lettering.
Along with the window as a couple-up, the company
sent out a postal card featuring these and other rolls,
among them the three latest Q R S recordings by
Harry Snodgrass, "King of the Ivories."
Miss Louise Pinto, the wide awake roll department
manager of the San Antonio firm, said: "It brought
customers into our department who had not been in
for two years at least."
The facts arc that even in summer time you can
sell rolls if you go after it in the right way, and they
know and do the right way at Goggan's.
BRITISH TAKE ACTION.
At the recent annual convention held in Llandudno,
Wales, the British Association of Piano Supply
Houses unanimously adopted the resolution to have
the words "British Made" cast upon the frame of
every British-made piano. The association was
moved to the action by the unfair trading methods
of retailers with pianos made in central Europe and
stamped with fictitious names.
The second annual Progress Exposition held in
Bridgeport, Conn., the home town of the Columbia
Phonograph Company, Inc., recently, was given
under the auspices of the Bridgeport Chamber of
Cemmerce and co-operating organizations of the city,
and proved a success from every standpoint.
In the Columbia Phonograph Company's booth
1 he current Columbia Phonograph and Columbia
New Process Records w r ere featured and demonstra-
tions were given. A beautifully lettered show card
announced a list of the dealers in the sales territory
showing where the company's products could be
obtained so that the sales angle was not over-
looked during the exposition.
A display stand in the front of the booth con-
tained an exhibition of the various processes through
which a record passes from the time the master rec-
ord is made. At the sides of this exposition samples
of the record dies and sheets of labels were shown
as well as samples of the record stock material to-
gether with a row of bottles in which samples of
the various ingredients used to produce a record
were shown. Another interesting feature of the dis-
play was the series of Masterworks Album Sets of
complete symphonies recorded by world famed mu-
sical organizations.
The display also contained two historical exhibits,
one the "Treadle Graphophone," one of the first
types of talking machines made by the Columbia
organization in 1888. The second exhibit showed the
kind of records made by Columbia in 1898—the large
cylinder ''Graphophone Grand" record. The contrast
between the 1925 models and the If88 models were
very interesting and showed the wonderful progress
that has been made in talking machines since they
were first invented.
MISBRANDING OF WOODS.
The Federal Trade Commission has issued com-
plaints against designating certain kinds of woods,
"Philippine mahogany," which do not belong to any
species of mahogany. The commission terms the use
of the description an unfair method of competition
with those who handle real mahogany.
HIGH GRADE
SLINGERLAND
Folding Organs
School Organs
May Bell
Practice Keyboards
Doal«tV Attention Solicited
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Guaranteed for thirty days after they are sold
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Player-actions installed. Instruments
refinished or remodeled and actions and
keys repaired. Work guaranteed. Prices
reasonable.
Our-of-town dealers' repair work solic-
ited. Write for details and terms.
THE PIANO REPAIR SHOP
C. D. GREENLEAF, Pre«.
J. F. BOYER, Sec'y
World's largest manufacturers of High Grade Band and Orchestra Instruments. Employs 1,000
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Famous Bandmasters and Orchestra Directors highly endorse and recommend the use of the
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Conn Instruments are noted for their ease of playing, light and reliable valve or key action;
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