Presto
Issue: 1925 2040 - Page 14
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August 29, 1925.
PRESTO
GOOD BOWEN LOADER
TESTIMONY IN LETTERS
Pleased Music Merchants Tell How Volume
of Business Is Being Kept Up Through-
out Summer Months.
Ambition and energy, plus the Bowen Loader, are
effective means to counteracting any possible sum-
mer dullness in the business of the music merchant.
The advantages of the Bowen loader in increasing
the extent of the activities of the dealer and his
salesmen are obvious. The runabouts equipped with
Bowen Loaders provide more means for "bringing
the store to the prospect's home." The ambitious
music dealer who is not satisfied to wait until Oppor-
tunity knocks at his door finds the way direct to
Opportunity's door with his Ford runabout equipped
with a Bowen Loader. Sales follow when he can
demonstrate and do business anywhere. The follow-
ing letters from pleased customers received recently
by the Bowen Piano Loader Company, Winston-
Salem, N. C, tell convincing stories which may act
as valuable suggestions for others in the trade:
ELLISON PIANO HOUSE
122-124 Grant Street.
Buffalo, N. Y., August 6, 1925.
Bowen Piano Loader Company,
Winston-Salem, N. C.
Gentlemen:
Enclosed find check to cover the last loader
shipped.
You may send us at your very earliest convenience,
one more complete loader, with piano cover.
This makes quite a fleet of Fords we have,
equipped with your one-man Loader and we give
them most of the credit for our keeping up the vol-
ume of business this summer. We have not felt a
depression, as most dealers claim, in fact, our sales
have gone way over previous years and we claim it
is due to the fact of having the Loaders.
Yours very truly,
L F. ELLISON.
M. SLASON & SON,
J. M. Slason, Prop.
Malone, N. Y., August 7, 1925.
Bowen Piano Loader Company,
Winston-Salem, N. C.
Gentlemen:
We have had one of your Loaders in service for
two years and it has given us entire satisfaction.
With this Loader it has been possible to sell and
deliver two pianos in one day in distances from forty
to fifty miles and at a very substantial saving in ex-
pense.
The Bowen Loader has proven one of the very best
investments we have ever made in connection with
our business.
Yours very truly,
M. SLASON & SON.
By M. J. Slason.
H. H. SLINQERLAND
VICTIM OF TRAIN WRECK
Head of Slingerland Banjo Co., Chicago, and Fam-
ily, Miraculously Escape Serious Injury.
H. H. Slingerland, head of the Slingerland Banjo
Co., Chicago, with his wife and two children, were
passengers on one of the ill-fated Denver & Rio
Grande western trains which met in a head-on col-
lision in a canyon between Granite and Buena Vista,
Colorado, August 20. On the arrival of the family
in Denver, Mr. Slingerland said:
"The train was gliding along the track smoothly
and at a moderate rate of speed and was rounding a
curve, when there was a terriffic crash. The next
thing I knew I was shot through space, and that
is all I remember. My little girl, Marion, was cut
on the head when she was thrown against a car seat
on the side of the coach. Mrs. Slingerland and H. H.
Jr., escaped without injuries.
"It really is remarkable that more were not killed
The three locomotives were a heap of tangled steel,
and one of the engines was standing on the cab end
with its pilot pointing straight up. Another locomo-
tive was lying in the river bottom."
The reason that there were not more fatalities was
because the trains were all steel. The only ones
killed were the two firemen, who, being on the side
which hid the oncoming train, remained at their
posts. The engineers saw that escape was impos-
sible, applied the air and jumped into the Arkansas
river which parallels the track.
SPRINKLER SYSTEM FOR
SETTERQREN FACTORY
Contract Just Closed by B. K. Settergren Co. for
Equipment to Cost $13,500.
A contract was closed last week for a sprinkler
system for the B. K. Settergren Company piano fac-
tory, Bluffton, Ind., and work of installation will be
begun within about ten days.
The system will be installed at a cost of $13,500,
and with the installation of the equipment contracted
last week the entire plant will be completely equipped
and protected with an up-to-date protection against
fires.
The large new addition to the Settergren plant
makes it a large and substantial plant, and will en-
able employment of a larger force and increasing
production.
NOMINATIONS FOR NEW
PIANO CLUB OFFICERS
Board of Governors to Serve Two Years Chosen by
Nominating Committee This Week.
The nominating committee of the Piano Club of
Chicago reported this week nominations for officers
and governors as follows:
President, Henry Hewitt; vice-president, Gordon
Longhead; secretary, H. B. Bibb; treasurer, J. V. Sill.
Board of Governors for two years: Harry D.
Schoenwald, Jas, T. Bristol, E. V. Galloway, Jack
Kapp and Tom H. Collins.
GERMAN PIANO TRADE
NOW MUCH DEPRESSED
English Customs Ruling Given as Principal
Cause, But Notwithstanding Result, New
Piano Factories Are Started Every Week.
The tone of business in the piano industry was
radically affected in the month of June by the Eng-
lish Customs dispositions, resulting in anticipatory
orders, after the execution of which the set-back ex-
pected duly set in, according to the Deutsche Instru-
mentenbau-Zeitung, which says:
It is said that a number of factories have resorted
to the discharge of hands—or short time. Orders
both from abroad and from home circles leave much
to be desired. The outlook for a revival of business
in the autumn is very poor, in view of the known eco-
nomic difficulties at home; whilst foreign orders are
up against high prices, particularly as in many coun-
tries the general situation is none too good. As was
stated not long ago, various financial troubles are
observable in German business circles; although by
the furnishers the greatest caution is observed. Stop-
pages of payment have taken place just recently in
various directions, so that the greatest care is to be
advised. The scarcity of cash in many factories has
caused these to sell under financial constraint,
whereby naturally the whole market has become dis-
quieted. The strong houses, however, appear to be
decided not to be influenced at all by the necessitous
competition when fixing their prices—if they are not
to bring their own concerns into question.
Notwithstanding this state of affairs, fresh piano
factories come into being every week, established by
workmen who have a couple of marks to spare. It is
at least to be assumed that foreign capital under the
strained situation is not available. One must wonder
indeed at the courage of such adventurous spirits, at
a time when even old established concerns have to
struggle. Taken altogether the state of business both
in the trade and in the industry is very depressed.
The hope of an improvement, without being pessimis-
tic, is very small.
HOW PIANO MAN CURED DEAFNESS.
After being deaf for two years Carina Rosemont,
a six-year-old boy of Warren, Ohio, had his hearing
partly restored by the kindness of Ernest C. Hall,
owner of Hall's Music Store, in that city. Mr. Hall
took the boy on a flight and nose-dived from a height
of 5,600 feet down to 1,200 feet. Ths cure worked
successfully. The boy complained of pains in his
ears, due to pressure on his ear drums. He then
began to hear sounds that he had been unable to dis-
tinguish before.
KURTZMANN IN CLEVELAND.
The Muehlhauser Music House, of Euclid avenue
and Twenty-first street, Cleveland, Ohio., character-
izes the Kurtzmann as "the piano that endures," and
adds that the Kurtzmann has stood out from its be-
ginning very many years ago as "a distinctive piano,
the choice of discriminating music lovers." The
Muehlhausers told a Presto representative that their
summer trade has been good—in fact, considerably
better than a year ago—and that their West Side
branch store, at West Twenty-fifth and Lorain
streets, is attracting many buyers.
The Best Yet
Graceful lines, rugged construc-
tion, moderately priced. It's the
very best commercial piano from
every standpoint.
Piano warerooms will be opened in Tuskegee, Ala.,
by A. L. Plant early in September.
GRAND PIANOS
EXCLUSIVELY
One Style—One Quality
KREITER
giving you the
Unequaled Grand
Unequaled Price
Pianos and Players
Already being sold by leading dealers
throughout the country
Sell Readily—Stay Sold
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.
Write today—tell us your next year's re-
quirements and we will meet your demands
with prompt and efficient service.
Send to-day for catalogue, prices and
details of our liberal financing plan
Kreiter Mfg. Co., Inc.
Nordlund Grand Piano Co.
The Leading and Most Popular
Pianos and Players
Grands, Players, Uprights and
Reproducing Pianos
The Results of Over Forty Years*
of Experience.
310-312 W. Water St., Milwaukee, Wis.
Factory: Marinette, Wis.
at
400 W. Erie St.
CHICAGO
Style 32—4 ft. 4 in.
WESER
Weser Bros., Inc.
520 to 528 W. 43rd St., New York
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August 29, 1925.
PRESTO
GOOD BOWEN LOADER
TESTIMONY IN LETTERS
Pleased Music Merchants Tell How Volume
of Business Is Being Kept Up Through-
out Summer Months.
Ambition and energy, plus the Bowen Loader, are
effective means to counteracting any possible sum-
mer dullness in the business of the music merchant.
The advantages of the Bowen loader in increasing
the extent of the activities of the dealer and his
salesmen are obvious. The runabouts equipped with
Bowen Loaders provide more means for "bringing
the store to the prospect's home." The ambitious
music dealer who is not satisfied to wait until Oppor-
tunity knocks at his door finds the way direct to
Opportunity's door with his Ford runabout equipped
with a Bowen Loader. Sales follow when he can
demonstrate and do business anywhere. The follow-
ing letters from pleased customers received recently
by the Bowen Piano Loader Company, Winston-
Salem, N. C, tell convincing stories which may act
as valuable suggestions for others in the trade:
ELLISON PIANO HOUSE
122-124 Grant Street.
Buffalo, N. Y., August 6, 1925.
Bowen Piano Loader Company,
Winston-Salem, N. C.
Gentlemen:
Enclosed find check to cover the last loader
shipped.
You may send us at your very earliest convenience,
one more complete loader, with piano cover.
This makes quite a fleet of Fords we have,
equipped with your one-man Loader and we give
them most of the credit for our keeping up the vol-
ume of business this summer. We have not felt a
depression, as most dealers claim, in fact, our sales
have gone way over previous years and we claim it
is due to the fact of having the Loaders.
Yours very truly,
L F. ELLISON.
M. SLASON & SON,
J. M. Slason, Prop.
Malone, N. Y., August 7, 1925.
Bowen Piano Loader Company,
Winston-Salem, N. C.
Gentlemen:
We have had one of your Loaders in service for
two years and it has given us entire satisfaction.
With this Loader it has been possible to sell and
deliver two pianos in one day in distances from forty
to fifty miles and at a very substantial saving in ex-
pense.
The Bowen Loader has proven one of the very best
investments we have ever made in connection with
our business.
Yours very truly,
M. SLASON & SON.
By M. J. Slason.
H. H. SLINQERLAND
VICTIM OF TRAIN WRECK
Head of Slingerland Banjo Co., Chicago, and Fam-
ily, Miraculously Escape Serious Injury.
H. H. Slingerland, head of the Slingerland Banjo
Co., Chicago, with his wife and two children, were
passengers on one of the ill-fated Denver & Rio
Grande western trains which met in a head-on col-
lision in a canyon between Granite and Buena Vista,
Colorado, August 20. On the arrival of the family
in Denver, Mr. Slingerland said:
"The train was gliding along the track smoothly
and at a moderate rate of speed and was rounding a
curve, when there was a terriffic crash. The next
thing I knew I was shot through space, and that
is all I remember. My little girl, Marion, was cut
on the head when she was thrown against a car seat
on the side of the coach. Mrs. Slingerland and H. H.
Jr., escaped without injuries.
"It really is remarkable that more were not killed
The three locomotives were a heap of tangled steel,
and one of the engines was standing on the cab end
with its pilot pointing straight up. Another locomo-
tive was lying in the river bottom."
The reason that there were not more fatalities was
because the trains were all steel. The only ones
killed were the two firemen, who, being on the side
which hid the oncoming train, remained at their
posts. The engineers saw that escape was impos-
sible, applied the air and jumped into the Arkansas
river which parallels the track.
SPRINKLER SYSTEM FOR
SETTERQREN FACTORY
Contract Just Closed by B. K. Settergren Co. for
Equipment to Cost $13,500.
A contract was closed last week for a sprinkler
system for the B. K. Settergren Company piano fac-
tory, Bluffton, Ind., and work of installation will be
begun within about ten days.
The system will be installed at a cost of $13,500,
and with the installation of the equipment contracted
last week the entire plant will be completely equipped
and protected with an up-to-date protection against
fires.
The large new addition to the Settergren plant
makes it a large and substantial plant, and will en-
able employment of a larger force and increasing
production.
NOMINATIONS FOR NEW
PIANO CLUB OFFICERS
Board of Governors to Serve Two Years Chosen by
Nominating Committee This Week.
The nominating committee of the Piano Club of
Chicago reported this week nominations for officers
and governors as follows:
President, Henry Hewitt; vice-president, Gordon
Longhead; secretary, H. B. Bibb; treasurer, J. V. Sill.
Board of Governors for two years: Harry D.
Schoenwald, Jas, T. Bristol, E. V. Galloway, Jack
Kapp and Tom H. Collins.
GERMAN PIANO TRADE
NOW MUCH DEPRESSED
English Customs Ruling Given as Principal
Cause, But Notwithstanding Result, New
Piano Factories Are Started Every Week.
The tone of business in the piano industry was
radically affected in the month of June by the Eng-
lish Customs dispositions, resulting in anticipatory
orders, after the execution of which the set-back ex-
pected duly set in, according to the Deutsche Instru-
mentenbau-Zeitung, which says:
It is said that a number of factories have resorted
to the discharge of hands—or short time. Orders
both from abroad and from home circles leave much
to be desired. The outlook for a revival of business
in the autumn is very poor, in view of the known eco-
nomic difficulties at home; whilst foreign orders are
up against high prices, particularly as in many coun-
tries the general situation is none too good. As was
stated not long ago, various financial troubles are
observable in German business circles; although by
the furnishers the greatest caution is observed. Stop-
pages of payment have taken place just recently in
various directions, so that the greatest care is to be
advised. The scarcity of cash in many factories has
caused these to sell under financial constraint,
whereby naturally the whole market has become dis-
quieted. The strong houses, however, appear to be
decided not to be influenced at all by the necessitous
competition when fixing their prices—if they are not
to bring their own concerns into question.
Notwithstanding this state of affairs, fresh piano
factories come into being every week, established by
workmen who have a couple of marks to spare. It is
at least to be assumed that foreign capital under the
strained situation is not available. One must wonder
indeed at the courage of such adventurous spirits, at
a time when even old established concerns have to
struggle. Taken altogether the state of business both
in the trade and in the industry is very depressed.
The hope of an improvement, without being pessimis-
tic, is very small.
HOW PIANO MAN CURED DEAFNESS.
After being deaf for two years Carina Rosemont,
a six-year-old boy of Warren, Ohio, had his hearing
partly restored by the kindness of Ernest C. Hall,
owner of Hall's Music Store, in that city. Mr. Hall
took the boy on a flight and nose-dived from a height
of 5,600 feet down to 1,200 feet. Ths cure worked
successfully. The boy complained of pains in his
ears, due to pressure on his ear drums. He then
began to hear sounds that he had been unable to dis-
tinguish before.
KURTZMANN IN CLEVELAND.
The Muehlhauser Music House, of Euclid avenue
and Twenty-first street, Cleveland, Ohio., character-
izes the Kurtzmann as "the piano that endures," and
adds that the Kurtzmann has stood out from its be-
ginning very many years ago as "a distinctive piano,
the choice of discriminating music lovers." The
Muehlhausers told a Presto representative that their
summer trade has been good—in fact, considerably
better than a year ago—and that their West Side
branch store, at West Twenty-fifth and Lorain
streets, is attracting many buyers.
The Best Yet
Graceful lines, rugged construc-
tion, moderately priced. It's the
very best commercial piano from
every standpoint.
Piano warerooms will be opened in Tuskegee, Ala.,
by A. L. Plant early in September.
GRAND PIANOS
EXCLUSIVELY
One Style—One Quality
KREITER
giving you the
Unequaled Grand
Unequaled Price
Pianos and Players
Already being sold by leading dealers
throughout the country
Sell Readily—Stay Sold
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.
Write today—tell us your next year's re-
quirements and we will meet your demands
with prompt and efficient service.
Send to-day for catalogue, prices and
details of our liberal financing plan
Kreiter Mfg. Co., Inc.
Nordlund Grand Piano Co.
The Leading and Most Popular
Pianos and Players
Grands, Players, Uprights and
Reproducing Pianos
The Results of Over Forty Years*
of Experience.
310-312 W. Water St., Milwaukee, Wis.
Factory: Marinette, Wis.
at
400 W. Erie St.
CHICAGO
Style 32—4 ft. 4 in.
WESER
Weser Bros., Inc.
520 to 528 W. 43rd St., New York
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).