Presto

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P R E S T O-T I M E S
August, 1930
TRADE PICKUPS
New Firms, Changes, Incorporations, Personal News, Removals,
Piano Sales, Excerpts from Dealers' Advertisements,
and Other Bits of News
The St. Louis store of Wurlitzer, 1006 Olive street,
in connection with a sale it is holding, tells the public
of that city that "Wurlitzer's is the world's largest
music house, with stores from coast to coast."
Fisher's, 118 East Congress streete, Tucson, Ariz.,
held a "clearance sale of pianos" last month which
was successful.
Reproducing grand pianos made a special induce-
ment in a piano sale at the Wurlitzer store in Lou-
isville, Ky., 658 Fourth street, last mouth. The ad-
vertisement said in part: "Press the Button and
Presto! Music to suit your every mood. Entertain-
ment just when you want it—at a price within the
reach of all. Enjoy the world's greatest music mas-
ters in your own home at all times."
"At Corley's pay only the balance due" is an an-
nouncement by the Corley Co., 214 East Grace street,
Richmond, Va. The explanation to the public was:
"We are authorized to sell a number of very choice
instruments forfeited by former owners, for balance
due.''
The Southern California Music Co., San Diego, has
drawn a good deal of trade to its store this summer
by being the headquarters for season reservations for
the performances of the San Diego Civic Orchestra at
Balboa Park. Pianos and the Orchestra run in the
same ads.
The A. Gressett's Music House, Jackson, Miss.,
asks: "Is your home a place of interest to your chil-
dren and their friends or do they have to seek their
amusement outside the home? This is a question you
should consider most earnestly. Make your home
musical now."
The El Paso Piano Co., 215 Texas street, El Paso,
'['ex., Will R. Shutes, proprietor, claims to be El
Paso's oldest music house, established 34 years.
''The House of House" is the trade-mark, or slo-
gan if the reader likes that better, of the C. A. House
Co., Wheeling, W. Va. In telling about their 88-note
player-piano "that every member of the family can
play," they add for a more convincing appeal: "The
cost is so small and the terms so very liberal."
Bailey's Music Rooms, Inc.. 217 College street,
Burlington, Vt., say: "Be sure you are right when
you buy a piano. Let us show you what quality
means in a strictly high-grade instrument."
"Buy a Starr Grand now," says M. F. Shea, 242
Fifth avenue, Nashville, Tenn. "Add charm and
enjoyment to your home with this fine piano.
The cost will be small in comparison to the pleasure it
will bring to the members of your family."
Russell Smith, who for several years past has been
employed in the radio sales and service department
of the Stocking Music Store at Lowell, Mich., has
started work with the O. J. Veiter Furniture Store in
that town. He has established a radio service room
there.
The Kimball Piano Co., of Peoria, 111., has discon-
tinued all its branch stores in that vicinity and the
stock of the Pekin, 111., store has been removed to
Peoria.
Cameron's, 928-930 Hamilton street. Allentown,
Pa., has been conducting a special sale of player-
pianos.
Schmoller & Mueller, 1514-18 Dodge street. Omaha,
Neb., are showing pictures of fine Steinway pianos,
and they also announce some Duo-Art grands.
The Elburn Vertical Grand, "the home piano," is
especially announced by Jenkins Music House at 116
West Third street, Bartlesville. Okla.
The Wurlitzer store at 333 Third street, Niagara
Falls, N. Y., advertising to the people of Wilson,
N. Y., and vicinity, tell them of the beautiful Studio
piano of their make that can be purchased on a 30-
payment plan.
The Milleman Music Co., 568 Merchant street, Am-
bridge, Pa., asks parents to send their children to the
store for free music lessons.
Saunders Music Co., Ottawa, Kan., who sell the
Gulbransen line, say: "Buy of us. It will be a good
instrument; we sell no other kind."
The Vocalion Gramaphone Co., omitted the divi-
dends due in July on its stock.
Jenkins Music House, 313 North Penn street, Inde-
pendence, Kan., says: "Don't let the lack of a piano
delay this all-important child's education."
A fire of unknown origin last month destroyed the
Allied Music Shop in the business district of Valpa-
raiso, Ind., causing a loss of $10,000.
The Griffith Piano Co., which operates two stores
in Newark, N. J., and one in Irvington Center, that
state, says of its player-pianos: "The pleasure of
making music is so much greater than just listening!
Anybody can enjoy the thrill of making music if
they have one of our player-pianos."
Five dollars down and two years to pay the balance
are terms offered in a used piano sale of the Lauter
Piano Co. at 591-593 Broad street, Newark, N. J.
A pre-inventory sale of player-pianos is being con-
ducted by the Andrews Music Store of Charlotte, N. C.
Speaking of the Steinway pianos, the Jenkins Music
Co., 223 West Main street, Oklahoma City, Okla.,
says: "In point of long life, prestige and beauty of
line and tone, it is the greatest piano value ever
offered."
Clarkson's music department, Burlington, Vt., is
selling many Gulbransen pianos.
The Metropolitan Music Co. has leased a building
on East 11th street, Chattanooga, Tenn., and the com-
pany will employ some twenty persons.
New pianos sold by M. Steinert & Sons at Wor-
cester. Mass., include the Steinway, Steinert, Jewett,
Woodbury, Weber and Steck. The famous Duo-Art
reproducing piano is also handled by this concern.
The Pioneer Music Co., 948 South Hill street, Los
Angeles, Calif., rents pianos and says: "Rental may
be applied on purchase later."
The Innes Music Co., Wichita, Kan., advertises:
"As a special inducement this week we will include
a good quality bronze floor lamp with each piano or
radio purchase, without charge."
The Frederickson-Kroh Music Co., 407 W'. Main
street, Oklahoma City, Okla., declare that "more Kim-
ball pianos are in use in American homes than pianos
of any other name in the world."
The Aeolian Co. of Missouri, W. P. Chrisler, pres-
ident, 1004 Olive street. St. Louis, Mo., declares that
"the Steinway is the piano that gives the utmost in
piano quality."
Featuring the Wheelock piano, made by The Aeo-
lian Co., New York, the Birkel Music Co., 446-448
South Broadway, Los Angeles, Calif., says: "The
Wheelock Grand is the Aeolian Co.'s latest achieve-
ment."
Floyd Barber, who has been manager of the Goold
Bros., Inc., music store in Kenmore, N. Y., has
taken up his duties as general manager of all the
Goold Bros, stores.
"Steinway pianos are in a class by themselves—the
standard by w r hich all others are judged," says Mel-
lor's. 1420 Market street. Wheeling, W r . Va.
The C. A. House Co., 1141 Market street, Wheeling,
W. Va., says of itself: "Forty-eight years of experi-
ence is your safeguard."
The Richardson Music Co., 730 West Seventh
street, Los Angeles, Calif., is conducting a sale of
fine used pianos.
D. Z. Phillips Music Co., conducting two stores in
Pueblo, Colo.—one at 621 North Main street and the
other at 1319 East Evans street—is carrying on a
clean-up sale of trade-in pianos.
Knight-Campbell's, 403 North Main street, Pueblo,
Colo., is conducting a mid-summer clearance sale of
high-grade reconditioned pianos.
The new Cable upright piano, in walnut or ma-
hogany, is featured in the advertising of the Adams-
Bennett Music Co., Wichita, Kan.
The Waltham Piano Co. has opened a factory store
in McMahan avenue, Newport, Tenn.
The Silvester Music House. 58 Front street, Wor-
cester. Mass., is offering free music lessons for a
limited time to all purchasers of new pianos, violins,
saxophones, clarinets and other musical instruments.
Daniel Silvester conducts the business.
Grunewald's, New Orleans, has had big success in
its removal sale. It is now settled in its new home,
123 Carondelet street. New Orleans. Grunewald's has
a branch store at Jackson, Miss.
"Your child's education is not complete without
music," declares the C. A. House Music Co., 1141
Market street. Wheeling, W. Va.
. Werner Grand pianos are being handled in a lively
manner and with extensive advertising by the Mann-
Foster Music Co., formerly Vandenberg Music Co.,
118 North Washington street, Green Bay, Wis.
The Adams Bennett store at Wichita, Kan., is
holding its 20th anniversary mid-summer sale of
pianos.
"Have our estimator look at your old piano. We
can refinish it like new," says the Gewehr Piano Co..
Inc., 216 West 9th street, Wilmington, Del.
The Schumann Piano Co.'s store in Rockford, 111.,
has been moved from the corner of Wyman and
West state streets to the Guest House building at
511 North Main street. E. H. Jackson, manager of
the store, is greatly pleased with the new location.
The H. C. Waite Music Co., Davenport, Iowa, has
filed an original notice of suit in the district court
there against Nicholas Massafaro, asking judgment
in the sum of $294.
The Goerke Co., Broad and Halsey streets, New-
ark, N. J., is conducting a sale of used player-pianos.
The Anderson-Soward Music Co. has opened the
Brookville School of Music in the Spitler block,
Brookville, Ohio.
Because of the larger selling field of his Elkhart
and Mishawaka stores, Daniel Templin has decided
to close his music store at Goshen. Ind., and concen-
trate sales work for a time in Goshen, South Bend
and Mishawaka.
Leon M. Lang, for 27 years a representative of
Steinway & Sons, has been invited to Chicago to stay
until December 15 and employ part of his time in
helping to train salesmen for Lyon & Healy.
The Robinson Music Co . 141 North 4th street.
Steubenville, Ohio, representing Stroud, Wheelock,
George Steck, Straube, Packard, Ivers & Pond and
Chickering pianos, is conducting a special sale at
Weirton. W. Va.
The Pioneer Music Co., 948 Hill street, Los An-
geles, Calif., says: "We will pay you $50 for your
old radio or phonograph, regardless of make or con-
dition. Make your selection from our large stock of
uprights, players and grand pianos now on our floors
—and deduct $50 for your old phonograph or radio."
Jenkins Music Co., 223 West Main street, Okla-
homa City, Okla., says: "Seventy-six dollars for your
old radio or phonograph in trade on a new Victor
Radio Combination."
Andrews Music Store, 235 North Tryon street,
Charlotte, N. C, has been conducting a pre-inventory
sale of "any piano in the store for $3 down."
The Baldwin Piano Warerooms, Old Model Laun-
dry building. Rochester, Minn., makes this offer: "We
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w ill give a full term of music lessons with each piano
sold. Name your own local music teacher. Nothing
could be more fair."
A picture of Edward H. Uhl is used on page 54 of
the Hollywood Bowl for mid-July. Mr. Uhl is presi-
dent of the Southern California Music Co., Los
Angeles, whose building is pictured on the same page,
with the sign "Baldwin Pianos" high above it on
metal stilts.
Arthur Groverman, a 16-year-old senior in a Wash-
ington, D. C, high school, some time ago supplied
himself with about 2,000 match sticks, a quantity of
glue, and made a violin. It has a good tone, Arthur
claims. Anyway, he plays in the Technical High
School Orchestra and has the reputation of being
quite a musician as well as handicraftsman.
The L. Martin jewelry store and Columbia Music
store at 214 West Main street, Trinidad. Colo., a
combination business, has been sold by the court
referee in bankruptcy to a local firm of jewelers and
optometrists.
An involuntary petition in bankruptcy has been filed
in Federal Court against the M. L. Price Music Co.
of Tampa, Fla The French Nestor Co. of Jackson-
ville, Fla., was the principal creditor named in the
petition.
Zibart Bros.. Nashville, Tenn., is . distributing a
phonograph record put out by the Durium Co. under
the title "The Hit of the Week."
The Platt Music Co., with its main store at 832
South Broadway, Los Angeles, operates'ten stores,
and claims that each one is "the house of music
values." Tn pianos the Knabe, the Kranich & Bach,
the Fischer, the Marshall & Wendell, the Straube. the
Ludwig. the Estey, the Wegman, the Settergren and
the Ampico. In radios. Grebe, Bosch, RCA Radiola.
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