Presto

August, 1931
P R E S T O-T I M E S
WALTHAM PRESIDENT ENCOURAGED
Earl T. Netzow, president of the Waltham Piano
Co., is confident of better times in piano manufac-
turing and has absolute faith in his industry. The
Waltham Piano Co. made very satisfactory shipments
all through the month of July; in fact, the six months
ending July 31 were far better than a year ago. Mr.
Netzow feels assured of continued and increasing ac-
tivity in the music business, and in an interview with a
Presto-Times correspondent one day last week, re-
ferred to conditions in many other lines of manufac-
ture and remarked that the piano business is far more
fortunate than many other branches of industry. "If,"
says Mr. Netzow, "the piano business were alone in
retard, then we would feel like making drastic
changes in our establishment, but conditions in the
piano trade are really better than in many other lines
and we are encouraged not only to keep business
moving steadily but intend to start manufacturing
still more actively for the coming fall and winter
season." The Waltham company is now engaged
solely in piano manufacturing, having discontinued
radio and phonograph making, and have given up
entirely the sale of radio receiving sets in their Mil-
waukee store and in all their retail business.
The development of the radio has created and is
still creating a whole group of new businesses. And
the end is not yet in sight, either in business and
industry, or the widespread use and enjoyment of
music, which since the coming of the radio has been
popularized as never before.
Pianos When Equipped with
A. C. Cheney Actions
are capable of giving forth their
best musical qualities.
An A. C. Cheney Action is the sort
of intermediate mechanical agency
without the help of which good
piano music cannot be produced.
Order directly from the
A. C. CHENEY PIANO
ACTION COMPANY
CASTLETON, N. Y.
V
58 Years* Service!
and Still Enjoying the Confidence
of Conservative Buyers of High
Class
Piano Benches and Chairs
Radio Tables
L
O N G years of activity in our
line and close study of the
demands upon the trade have en-
abled us to keep pace with the
advancement of the times.
experience
of two-thirds of a
century has pro-
duced, in the BALD-
WIN, the instrument
that the world's
greatest musicians are
proud touseandown.
Piano quality is never
Choose Tour Piano As The Artists Do
the result of chance.
achieve, have wrought a recog-
It can only be established by time.
nized quality and a world-wide
Sixty-seven years of unswerv-
acknowledgement of the fact that
ing adherence to the principle of
there is no finer piano built than
providing the best instrument
the BALDWIN. Baldwin Grand
that ample resources, trained
Pianos are priced from
craftsmen and fine materials can
W
E appreciate the confidence
of the public which we en-
joy and are at all times ready
and willing to serve the trade.
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TONK MFG. CO.
FACTORIES
1912 Lewis St. — Chicago
4627 E. 50th St. — Los Angeles
tarck
Pianos sustain the critical examination and proof
of superiority and excellence in high degree which
has been awarded them. The Starck Piano is one
of the triumphs of the piano manufacturing industry.
P. A. STARCK PIANO CO.
Manufacturers
FACTORY:
Ashland Ave. and 39th St.
CHICAGO
OFFICES:
228-230 So. Wabash Ave.
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