Presto
Issue: 1927 2148 - Page 9
October 1, 1927
PRESTO-TIMES
KREITER
AMPICO TRAVELING SCHOOL
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, Wi».
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 St
NEW YORK
The Heppe, Marcellua and Edouard Jules Piano
manufactured by the
HEPPE PIANO COMPANY
are the only pianos In the world with
Three Sounding Boards.
Patented In the United States, Great Britain,
France, Germany and Canada.
Liberal arrangements to responsible agents only.
Main OfflceT 1117 Chestnut St.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
The LEADING LINE
WEAVER PIANOS
Orandu, Upright* and Players
Finest and most artistic
piano in design, tone and
construction that can be
made.
YORK PIANOS
Uprights ard Player Pianos
A high grade piano of great
vaiue and with charming tone quality.
Livingston Pianos— Uprlehta and Player Piano*
A popular f»iatiO at a popular price.
Over 70,000 instruments made by thii company are link-
ing their own praises in all parts of the civilised wor!<\.
Write f 01 catalogues and state on what terms you would
like to deal, and we will make you a proposition il you are
located in open territory.
WEAVER PIANO CO., Inc.
Fietery: TORK. PA.
Established 1870
CHRISTMAN
UPRIGHTS, GRANDS, PLAYERS
AND REPRODUCING PIANOS
THE FAMOUS "STUDIO GRAND"
"The First Touch Tells"
(Reg. U. S. Pat. OH.)
CHRISTMAN PIANO CO., Inc.
597 East 137th Street.
NEW YORK
AMPICO SCHOOL IN SESSION
So many requests for a session of the Ampico
Traveling School were received from tuners who at-
tended the recent convention of the Piano Tuners'
National Association in New York city, that one was
immediately arranged with a large number of enroll-
ments, totalling seventy-two, of which thirty-nine
passed the examinations satisfactorily, receiving the
credential authorizing them as thoroughly compe-
tent to inspect and adjust the Ampico.
Day and evening sessions were held in order to
accommodate the unusual number of registrants.
The sessions were under the supervision of E. J. Pi-
quette and C. L. Schneider, assisted by E. S. Wero-
lin. Practically every state in the Union, even as
far distant as California, was represented in this ses-
sion of the school and the enthusiasm and interest
displayed was most gratifying to the instructors. The
usual expressions of thanks have been received by
those conducting the school, and again did this im-
portant activity of the Ampico Service Department
impress with its importance and thoroughness.
This session being held at the Service Building of
the Ampico Corporation unusual opportunity was
offered for the extensive study of the installation of
the Ampico. At the conclusion of the Ampico school
E. S. Werolin, manager of the Service Department,
conducted classes in grand regulating—these sessions
also being well attended.
JESSE FRENCH & SONS
STORE IN MONTGOMERY
The full realization of this fact has been entirely
responsible for the success and steady growth of our
company."
MILLER=KENNEDY SERVICE
Attractive Grand Opening Events of Ala-
ISSUES FIRST AD SERIES
bama's Greatest Music Store, Impress
Public with Character of Business.
Artistic Advertising for Piano Merchants Makes the
A full page in the daily Alabama Journal of Mont-
gomery, Ala., was used by the Jesse French & Sons
Piano Co, to announce the formal opening of Ala-
bama's most beautiful and complete music house,
September 13. A cut showing the front of the build-
ing at 117 Montgomery street illustrated the im-
portant fact.
On another page of the paper cuts of the late Jesse
French, founder of the Jesse French & Sons Piano
Co., New Castle, Ind.; H. Edgar French, president
and general manager, and H. E. Poston, manager of
the Montgomery store. A group picture of the staff
shows an alert force of men and bright and pretty
girls. Portraits of the heads of departments in the
Montgomery store and representatives of the com-
pany elsewhere in the state also add to the interest
of the story.
The store has two entrances, one on Lee and the
other on Montgomery. The department on Mont-
gomery is devoted to phonographs, records, band
and orchestra instruments, sheet and band music, the
one on Lee street to pianos. An adequate phono-
graph and radio repair department is maintained un-
der the direction of R. F. Caldwell.
H. E. Poston, manager, in speaking of the band
instrument department, said: "This department with
new fixtures and complete line of band and string in-
struments will enable us to give music lovers a
greater service both in obtaining high grade instru-
ments as well as competent repair services. The
music teachers and musicians have enabled us to
maintain the most complete stock of sheet music in
Alabama."
"Probably no other business is so dependent on
confidence and friendships as the piano business,"
said H. Edgar French, president of the Jesse French
& Sons Piano Co, in an interview. "Confidence,
based on square dealing and honest values, is the
very foundation upon which this business thrives.
Strongest Appeal to Parents.
Matt J. Kennedy, the widely known Chicago piano
man, is collaborating with Fred Woolville Miller, an
experienced advertising man, in the introduction of
the Miller-Kennedy Service, special advertising for
music merchants, with headquarters at 35 East
Wacker Drive, Chicago.
The company has already prepared a mailing series,
consisting of six folders (executed in four-color proc-
ess) based on the fundamental human desire and
ambition of parents to provide for the future of their
children.
The copy and illustrations in this first mailing piece
sound the key note of this series of six and also that
of others to follow. The artist is Glen C. Sheffer
who has won international recognition for his fine
work executed in America and Europe.
An artistic blotter distributed ot the trade by the
Jesse French & Sons Piano Co., New Castle, Ind.,
is useful as a desk equipment as well as a reminder
of the "Quality First and First Quality Always" in
the Jesse French & Sons pianos.
WILLIAMS
PIANOS
The policy of the Williams House is and always
has been to depend upon excellence of product
instead of alluring price. Such a policy does not
attract..bargain hunters. It does, however, win the
hearty approval and support of a very desirable
•aid substantial patronage.
Will I AUK Makers of Williams Pianos.
TTILi-I^ITIJ Epworth Pianos and Organ*
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PRESTO-TIMES
KREITER
AMPICO TRAVELING SCHOOL
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, Wi».
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 St
NEW YORK
The Heppe, Marcellua and Edouard Jules Piano
manufactured by the
HEPPE PIANO COMPANY
are the only pianos In the world with
Three Sounding Boards.
Patented In the United States, Great Britain,
France, Germany and Canada.
Liberal arrangements to responsible agents only.
Main OfflceT 1117 Chestnut St.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
The LEADING LINE
WEAVER PIANOS
Orandu, Upright* and Players
Finest and most artistic
piano in design, tone and
construction that can be
made.
YORK PIANOS
Uprights ard Player Pianos
A high grade piano of great
vaiue and with charming tone quality.
Livingston Pianos— Uprlehta and Player Piano*
A popular f»iatiO at a popular price.
Over 70,000 instruments made by thii company are link-
ing their own praises in all parts of the civilised wor!<\.
Write f 01 catalogues and state on what terms you would
like to deal, and we will make you a proposition il you are
located in open territory.
WEAVER PIANO CO., Inc.
Fietery: TORK. PA.
Established 1870
CHRISTMAN
UPRIGHTS, GRANDS, PLAYERS
AND REPRODUCING PIANOS
THE FAMOUS "STUDIO GRAND"
"The First Touch Tells"
(Reg. U. S. Pat. OH.)
CHRISTMAN PIANO CO., Inc.
597 East 137th Street.
NEW YORK
AMPICO SCHOOL IN SESSION
So many requests for a session of the Ampico
Traveling School were received from tuners who at-
tended the recent convention of the Piano Tuners'
National Association in New York city, that one was
immediately arranged with a large number of enroll-
ments, totalling seventy-two, of which thirty-nine
passed the examinations satisfactorily, receiving the
credential authorizing them as thoroughly compe-
tent to inspect and adjust the Ampico.
Day and evening sessions were held in order to
accommodate the unusual number of registrants.
The sessions were under the supervision of E. J. Pi-
quette and C. L. Schneider, assisted by E. S. Wero-
lin. Practically every state in the Union, even as
far distant as California, was represented in this ses-
sion of the school and the enthusiasm and interest
displayed was most gratifying to the instructors. The
usual expressions of thanks have been received by
those conducting the school, and again did this im-
portant activity of the Ampico Service Department
impress with its importance and thoroughness.
This session being held at the Service Building of
the Ampico Corporation unusual opportunity was
offered for the extensive study of the installation of
the Ampico. At the conclusion of the Ampico school
E. S. Werolin, manager of the Service Department,
conducted classes in grand regulating—these sessions
also being well attended.
JESSE FRENCH & SONS
STORE IN MONTGOMERY
The full realization of this fact has been entirely
responsible for the success and steady growth of our
company."
MILLER=KENNEDY SERVICE
Attractive Grand Opening Events of Ala-
ISSUES FIRST AD SERIES
bama's Greatest Music Store, Impress
Public with Character of Business.
Artistic Advertising for Piano Merchants Makes the
A full page in the daily Alabama Journal of Mont-
gomery, Ala., was used by the Jesse French & Sons
Piano Co, to announce the formal opening of Ala-
bama's most beautiful and complete music house,
September 13. A cut showing the front of the build-
ing at 117 Montgomery street illustrated the im-
portant fact.
On another page of the paper cuts of the late Jesse
French, founder of the Jesse French & Sons Piano
Co., New Castle, Ind.; H. Edgar French, president
and general manager, and H. E. Poston, manager of
the Montgomery store. A group picture of the staff
shows an alert force of men and bright and pretty
girls. Portraits of the heads of departments in the
Montgomery store and representatives of the com-
pany elsewhere in the state also add to the interest
of the story.
The store has two entrances, one on Lee and the
other on Montgomery. The department on Mont-
gomery is devoted to phonographs, records, band
and orchestra instruments, sheet and band music, the
one on Lee street to pianos. An adequate phono-
graph and radio repair department is maintained un-
der the direction of R. F. Caldwell.
H. E. Poston, manager, in speaking of the band
instrument department, said: "This department with
new fixtures and complete line of band and string in-
struments will enable us to give music lovers a
greater service both in obtaining high grade instru-
ments as well as competent repair services. The
music teachers and musicians have enabled us to
maintain the most complete stock of sheet music in
Alabama."
"Probably no other business is so dependent on
confidence and friendships as the piano business,"
said H. Edgar French, president of the Jesse French
& Sons Piano Co, in an interview. "Confidence,
based on square dealing and honest values, is the
very foundation upon which this business thrives.
Strongest Appeal to Parents.
Matt J. Kennedy, the widely known Chicago piano
man, is collaborating with Fred Woolville Miller, an
experienced advertising man, in the introduction of
the Miller-Kennedy Service, special advertising for
music merchants, with headquarters at 35 East
Wacker Drive, Chicago.
The company has already prepared a mailing series,
consisting of six folders (executed in four-color proc-
ess) based on the fundamental human desire and
ambition of parents to provide for the future of their
children.
The copy and illustrations in this first mailing piece
sound the key note of this series of six and also that
of others to follow. The artist is Glen C. Sheffer
who has won international recognition for his fine
work executed in America and Europe.
An artistic blotter distributed ot the trade by the
Jesse French & Sons Piano Co., New Castle, Ind.,
is useful as a desk equipment as well as a reminder
of the "Quality First and First Quality Always" in
the Jesse French & Sons pianos.
WILLIAMS
PIANOS
The policy of the Williams House is and always
has been to depend upon excellence of product
instead of alluring price. Such a policy does not
attract..bargain hunters. It does, however, win the
hearty approval and support of a very desirable
•aid substantial patronage.
Will I AUK Makers of Williams Pianos.
TTILi-I^ITIJ Epworth Pianos and Organ*
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).