Presto
Issue: 1929 2214 - Page 46
January 5, 1929
PRESTO-TIMES
46
through their sales agents in Barcelona, London, or
Paris.
Many American exporting houses have found it
satisfactory and efficient to arrange for a central
agent in either Barcelona or London where stocks
are carried and distribution is made. The agent also
Interesting Facts About Conditions of Trade handles continental sales through his sales agents and
by traveling representatives, and he investigates
There Told in Letter from Consul
credits, attends to collections, adjustments, etc., and
Kemp of Las Palmas.
makes remittances direct to manufacturers in the
Vice Consul Percy G. Kemp, Las Palmas, writes United States.
Advertising, in a small way, is resorted to occa-
that most wealthy families in the Canary Islands own
pianos as well as other musical instruments. Dealers sionally by the insertion of notices in local news-
estimate that there are approximately 1,500 pianos in papers. This added sales effort is more particularly
the Las Palmas district and even more in the Tenerife applied to phonographs and pianos.
Dealers in musical instruments are usually granted
district. Ten per cent of the number are said to be
60 to 90 days credit, according to the size of the order
of the automatic or player-piano type.
German pianos predominate, although American and the financial standing of the buyer. The greatest
instruments are gaining in popularity. Retail prices care should be exercised in extending credit to local
of pianos vary between $200 and $500. The German houses—and credit should be granted only after thor-
piano prevails over the American in the ratio of about ough investigation and upon the highest recommenda-
tion of local bankers.
10 to 1. There are but few organs sold.
A list of dealers in the Canary Islands in musical
Phonographs Sell Well.
instruments may be obtained upon request from the
Phonographs of American manufacture are in good Commercial Intelligence Division, Bureau of Foreign
demand. Retail prices of this instrument range from and Domestic Commerce.
$35 to $200, according to size and equipment. The
THE BIG SCHILLER OUTPUT.
smaller instruments are purchased in greater num-
bers, the most important being, in order of demand,
A gratifying fact for the Schiller Piano Co., Ore-
guitars, violins, and mandolins. Guitars sell at $2.50 gon, 111., is that Schiller grands have exceeded the
to $8, violins, $4 to $30; and mandolins, $4 to $8. production in 1928 by units and greatly in excess in
Clarinets and violincellos are sold in smaller numbers volume of dollars and cents over the output of 1927.
at prices ranging from $15 to $30. The total sales of
The year 1929 promises still better period grand
these five small instruments aggregate approximately business and a fair production of uprights. The com-
$2,500 annually. Guitars are used widely by the labor- pany is not giving much attention now to upright
ing classes and country peasants.
player piano business but will meet all demands re-
quired in the manufacture of reproducing pianos.
Sales Methods.
The Schiller Piano Company will have important an-
Phonographs, pianos, and stringed instruments are nouncements to make early in the new year.
carried in stock by local dealers. These instruments
are usually purchased direct from manufacturers or
MUSIC GOODS SALES IN
THE CANARY ISLANDS
OTTO R. TREFZ, Jr.
PIANO BASS STRINGS —PIANO REPAIR SUPPLIES
TUNERS AND REPAIRERS
Our new Illustrated Catalogue of Piano
and Player Hardware, Felt* and Tools
is now ready. If you haven't received
your copy let us know.
1305-09 North 27th St.,
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
Philip W. Oetting & Son, Inc.
Worry Over Player Details
is avoided by the manufac-
turer who uses the
In his products. He knows
everything is all right and
that the best musical quali-
ties of his pianos are develop-
ed by the use of this player
mechanism.
213 East 19th Street, New York
Sole Agent* for
CASTLETON, N. Y.
Gran* mnd Upright Hmmmmra
Mad* of Wmicktt Felt
Fine Action Bushing Cloths, etc
SCHAFF
Piano String Co.
The market for phonographs in Gautemala has
been steadily improving, according to U. S. Consul
General G. K. Donald at Guatemala City, and the
United States has been supplying about 83 per cent
of the total imports. Few radio sets are sold, owing
to certain climatic conditions that make radio recep-
tion difficult throughout the greater part of the year.
Phonograph sales, however, are good and portable
phonographs of all types are in great demand. Com-
petition between the dealers handling American
makes is keen and new stores handling phonographs
and records have been opened recently in the princi-
pal business street of Guatemala City, which is the
capital, commercial center and chief city of the
republic.
RALPH B. WAITE WITH CABLE CO.
Ralph B. Waite, wel-known Chicago piano man,
is now associated with The Cable Piano Company,
having joined that house on Monday, this week.
WINS PADEREWSKI PRIZE.
Hans Levy Heniot, Chicagoan, has been awarded
the Paderewski prize of $1,000 granted for the best
work for orchestra by an American composer. An-
other prize of $500 for the best piece of chamber
music was awarded to Homer C. Humphrey of
Boston. Mr. Heniot is connected with the American
conservatory in Chicago. Mr. Humphrey is organist
of the Second Unitarian church of Boston and is a
teacher of organ and harmony at the New England
Conservatory of Music. The Paderewski Trust was
established May 15, 1900, with Henry L. Higginson
and William B. Blake as trustees. Both having died
since that time, in June, 1922, Mr. Paderewski ap-
pointed Arthur D. Hill and Joseph Adamoski, both
of Boston, as trustees. The judges in this season's
contest were Henry Hadley, Frederick S. Converse,
and Wallace Goodrich.
PIANO KEY REPAIRING
KEYS RETURNED IN 24 HOURS
BEST GRADE IVORINE
RECOVERING
$8.00
BUSHING
3.50
SHARPS
2.50
NEW FRONTS
2.00
PLAYER ACTIONS REPAIRED
Prompt and efficient sen-Ice
Striking Pneumatic*
Air Motors, Governors, etc.. Recovered
E. A. BOUSLOG, Inc.
2106 Boulevard Place
WEICKERT
Felts
Good Market Is Reported with Great Favor for
Machines of All Types of American Make.
A. C. Cheney Player Action
A. C. CHENEY
PIANO ACTION COMPANY
Hammer and Damper
PHONOGRAPHS FOR GAUTEMALA
The Piano Repair Shop
Pianos and Phonographs Rebuilt by
Expert Workmen
Playei-actions installed. Instruments
refinished or remodeled and actions and
keys repaired. Work guaranteed. Price?
reasonable.
Our-of-town dealers' repair work solic-
ited. Write for details and terms.
THE PIANO REPAIR SHOP
3St South Wabash AT*.
Manufacturers of
Chicago
INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
PIANO KEYS RECOVERED
General Key Repairs,
Sharps, Etc.
Ivory Sanding, Polishing
and Re-Gluing
Our Ivorine Keys
Heaviest
and
Highest Quality
at
Mc.MacK.in
P ianoTScrVicc
Standard Prices
1719-21 1MONDAMIN AVE
DESMOINES.IOWA.
Very Prompt Service
KEYS RECOVERED AND REBUSHED
FRIELD MILLER & COMPANY
Samples of Work on Request
Prompt and Efficient Service
3355 North Illinois Street, INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
Piano Bass Strings
2009-2021 CLYBOURN AVENUE
Corner Lewis Street
CHICAGO
FAIRBANKS
PIANO PLATES
THE FAIRBANKS CO., Springfield, Ohio
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46
through their sales agents in Barcelona, London, or
Paris.
Many American exporting houses have found it
satisfactory and efficient to arrange for a central
agent in either Barcelona or London where stocks
are carried and distribution is made. The agent also
Interesting Facts About Conditions of Trade handles continental sales through his sales agents and
by traveling representatives, and he investigates
There Told in Letter from Consul
credits, attends to collections, adjustments, etc., and
Kemp of Las Palmas.
makes remittances direct to manufacturers in the
Vice Consul Percy G. Kemp, Las Palmas, writes United States.
Advertising, in a small way, is resorted to occa-
that most wealthy families in the Canary Islands own
pianos as well as other musical instruments. Dealers sionally by the insertion of notices in local news-
estimate that there are approximately 1,500 pianos in papers. This added sales effort is more particularly
the Las Palmas district and even more in the Tenerife applied to phonographs and pianos.
Dealers in musical instruments are usually granted
district. Ten per cent of the number are said to be
60 to 90 days credit, according to the size of the order
of the automatic or player-piano type.
German pianos predominate, although American and the financial standing of the buyer. The greatest
instruments are gaining in popularity. Retail prices care should be exercised in extending credit to local
of pianos vary between $200 and $500. The German houses—and credit should be granted only after thor-
piano prevails over the American in the ratio of about ough investigation and upon the highest recommenda-
tion of local bankers.
10 to 1. There are but few organs sold.
A list of dealers in the Canary Islands in musical
Phonographs Sell Well.
instruments may be obtained upon request from the
Phonographs of American manufacture are in good Commercial Intelligence Division, Bureau of Foreign
demand. Retail prices of this instrument range from and Domestic Commerce.
$35 to $200, according to size and equipment. The
THE BIG SCHILLER OUTPUT.
smaller instruments are purchased in greater num-
bers, the most important being, in order of demand,
A gratifying fact for the Schiller Piano Co., Ore-
guitars, violins, and mandolins. Guitars sell at $2.50 gon, 111., is that Schiller grands have exceeded the
to $8, violins, $4 to $30; and mandolins, $4 to $8. production in 1928 by units and greatly in excess in
Clarinets and violincellos are sold in smaller numbers volume of dollars and cents over the output of 1927.
at prices ranging from $15 to $30. The total sales of
The year 1929 promises still better period grand
these five small instruments aggregate approximately business and a fair production of uprights. The com-
$2,500 annually. Guitars are used widely by the labor- pany is not giving much attention now to upright
ing classes and country peasants.
player piano business but will meet all demands re-
quired in the manufacture of reproducing pianos.
Sales Methods.
The Schiller Piano Company will have important an-
Phonographs, pianos, and stringed instruments are nouncements to make early in the new year.
carried in stock by local dealers. These instruments
are usually purchased direct from manufacturers or
MUSIC GOODS SALES IN
THE CANARY ISLANDS
OTTO R. TREFZ, Jr.
PIANO BASS STRINGS —PIANO REPAIR SUPPLIES
TUNERS AND REPAIRERS
Our new Illustrated Catalogue of Piano
and Player Hardware, Felt* and Tools
is now ready. If you haven't received
your copy let us know.
1305-09 North 27th St.,
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
Philip W. Oetting & Son, Inc.
Worry Over Player Details
is avoided by the manufac-
turer who uses the
In his products. He knows
everything is all right and
that the best musical quali-
ties of his pianos are develop-
ed by the use of this player
mechanism.
213 East 19th Street, New York
Sole Agent* for
CASTLETON, N. Y.
Gran* mnd Upright Hmmmmra
Mad* of Wmicktt Felt
Fine Action Bushing Cloths, etc
SCHAFF
Piano String Co.
The market for phonographs in Gautemala has
been steadily improving, according to U. S. Consul
General G. K. Donald at Guatemala City, and the
United States has been supplying about 83 per cent
of the total imports. Few radio sets are sold, owing
to certain climatic conditions that make radio recep-
tion difficult throughout the greater part of the year.
Phonograph sales, however, are good and portable
phonographs of all types are in great demand. Com-
petition between the dealers handling American
makes is keen and new stores handling phonographs
and records have been opened recently in the princi-
pal business street of Guatemala City, which is the
capital, commercial center and chief city of the
republic.
RALPH B. WAITE WITH CABLE CO.
Ralph B. Waite, wel-known Chicago piano man,
is now associated with The Cable Piano Company,
having joined that house on Monday, this week.
WINS PADEREWSKI PRIZE.
Hans Levy Heniot, Chicagoan, has been awarded
the Paderewski prize of $1,000 granted for the best
work for orchestra by an American composer. An-
other prize of $500 for the best piece of chamber
music was awarded to Homer C. Humphrey of
Boston. Mr. Heniot is connected with the American
conservatory in Chicago. Mr. Humphrey is organist
of the Second Unitarian church of Boston and is a
teacher of organ and harmony at the New England
Conservatory of Music. The Paderewski Trust was
established May 15, 1900, with Henry L. Higginson
and William B. Blake as trustees. Both having died
since that time, in June, 1922, Mr. Paderewski ap-
pointed Arthur D. Hill and Joseph Adamoski, both
of Boston, as trustees. The judges in this season's
contest were Henry Hadley, Frederick S. Converse,
and Wallace Goodrich.
PIANO KEY REPAIRING
KEYS RETURNED IN 24 HOURS
BEST GRADE IVORINE
RECOVERING
$8.00
BUSHING
3.50
SHARPS
2.50
NEW FRONTS
2.00
PLAYER ACTIONS REPAIRED
Prompt and efficient sen-Ice
Striking Pneumatic*
Air Motors, Governors, etc.. Recovered
E. A. BOUSLOG, Inc.
2106 Boulevard Place
WEICKERT
Felts
Good Market Is Reported with Great Favor for
Machines of All Types of American Make.
A. C. Cheney Player Action
A. C. CHENEY
PIANO ACTION COMPANY
Hammer and Damper
PHONOGRAPHS FOR GAUTEMALA
The Piano Repair Shop
Pianos and Phonographs Rebuilt by
Expert Workmen
Playei-actions installed. Instruments
refinished or remodeled and actions and
keys repaired. Work guaranteed. Price?
reasonable.
Our-of-town dealers' repair work solic-
ited. Write for details and terms.
THE PIANO REPAIR SHOP
3St South Wabash AT*.
Manufacturers of
Chicago
INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
PIANO KEYS RECOVERED
General Key Repairs,
Sharps, Etc.
Ivory Sanding, Polishing
and Re-Gluing
Our Ivorine Keys
Heaviest
and
Highest Quality
at
Mc.MacK.in
P ianoTScrVicc
Standard Prices
1719-21 1MONDAMIN AVE
DESMOINES.IOWA.
Very Prompt Service
KEYS RECOVERED AND REBUSHED
FRIELD MILLER & COMPANY
Samples of Work on Request
Prompt and Efficient Service
3355 North Illinois Street, INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
Piano Bass Strings
2009-2021 CLYBOURN AVENUE
Corner Lewis Street
CHICAGO
FAIRBANKS
PIANO PLATES
THE FAIRBANKS CO., Springfield, Ohio
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).