Presto

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PRESTO-TIMES
March, 1932
A VALUABLE RADIO AGENCY
in selecting a line of radios the music dealer will
find much satisfaction in handling goods that have
not been listed nor heralded in cheap advertising,
price slashing, and hawking about from store to store
and street to street, and goods, the prices of which
are kept up with other goods in his line of business.
In the matter of selecting a line of radios Presto-
Times takes pleasure in referring its readers to the
active and representative house of Silver-Marshall,
Inc., Chicago, a special demonstration of which house
with description of its product may be read on an-
other page in this issue of Presto-Times. It is a well
known fact and may be put down, well nigh, as an
axiom that when a dealer sells a Silver-Marshall
receiving set he can be practically assured that the
customer is not going to return another day to tell
of the chance that he had to purchase the instrument
for 10 or 20 per cent less than he had paid for it.
Perhaps this fact, as much as any other, explains why
Silver-Marshall radios are so successfully handled
by some of the largest music houses in the country.
Presto-Times suggests that merchants and others
interested in making a success of their radio busi-
ness investigate the Silver-Marshall proposition.
of the Frederick Investment Company, and the fact
that Mr. Frederick was named as co-receiver would
indicate that the action in bankruptcy may have been
a friendly move in a general adjustment and liquida-
tion of the Frederick piano and general music busi-
ness. The Frederick Piano Company, like hundreds
of other big establishments, have been hard hit the
past two or three years in repossessions, resulting in
resales and particularly the player piano repossessions
which have represented thousands and thousands of
dollars in depletion and final loss.
KRAKAUER ENGAGES PIANO MAN
OF WIDE EXPERIENCE
In securing F. E. Edgar as general wholesale rep-
resentative Krakauer Bros, have a trade ambassador
worthy of the name and won by wide experience with
representative piano manufacturers.
MR. BRECKWOLDT'S LIFE IN FLORIDA
Julius Ereckwoldt, who has been sojourning at his
Florida home at Sea Breeze, Daytona Beach and
enjoying the rare and delightful sports and pleasures
of Florida life, is expected t a c k to his home at Dolge-
ville, N. Y., by the latter part of this month.
OLDEST AND BEST
Key S
Acti ions
and
THE W. F. FREDERICK RECEIVERSHIP
The appointment of receivers for the W. F. Fred-
erick Piano Company, the home store of which is
located at Uniontown, Pa., and some eight branch
houses located at Pittsburgh, Wheeling, Altoona,
Greenburg, and other points, was a surprise. The
Commonwealth Trust Company and Mr. W. F. Fred-
erick himself were named as receivers and it is un-
derstood that the assignment, the proceedings of
which started at Pittsburgh, was made at the request
SUPER CHROMONICA
HOLDERS
Piano Player Repairmen
ATTENTION!
Additional Income
Servicing pneumatic type-
writers, player piano
principles
Something New
Customers and Details furnished
Free
AEROTYPE, The Business
Stimulator
15 Little Bldg.
Boston, Mass.
The Hallbauer Manufacturing Co.
1535 Wellston Avenue,
St. Louis, Mo.
bring to the attention of the profession and
music trade their
Repairs
For more than 125 years we
have aimed to furnish prod-
ucts of the highest quality at
a minimum charge. Such a
long period of service proves
we have been successful in
carrying out the ideals of our
founders.
Today piano manufacturers
emphasize the fact that their
pianos are equipped with
Super Chromonica Holders
Adapted for harmonicas, all sizes from two to
eight inches long, in combination with guitar,
banjo, ulcelele or other instruments of this kind.
Used in connection with all string musical
instruments.
The Super Chromonica Holders are practical,
positive, sturdy and substantial.
Retail dealers may apply to jobbers of musi-
cal instruments or write direct to the manu-
facturers.
HALLBAUER MFG. CO.
1535 Wellston Ave.
St. Louis, Mo.
PRATT READ
PRODUCTS
We furnish
Upright and Grand
Piano Keys
and
Actions
Pipe Organ Keys
Practice Piano Keyboards
They were using 1901 methods
Piano and Organ Ivory
and Sharps
Heavy
Duty
Construction
For Uprights
Baby Grands
and Grands
It seemed almost unbelievable that they hadn't heard of
No Scraping
or Marring
of Floors
IVEW BUCKEYE SILL PIANO TRUCK
Equipped with straps of 2-in.. 3-ply webbing. Only $39. 4-in., rubber
tired center wheels with 1 5/8-in. face. (Tires vulcanized to wheels) $6
extra. Straps of 3-in., 4-ply webbing and buckles $5 extra.
Send for literature on our X-70 Refrigerator
Trucks and piano hoists and covers.
ALSO
Dealers and tuners should
communicate with us for all
types of key and action
repairs.
SELF LIFTING PIANO TRUCK CO.
Findlay, Ohio
CENTER WHEEL
CONSTRUCTION
ALLOWS BAL-
ANCING AND
TURNING WITH-
OUT LIFTING
PRATT, READ & CO.
PMablisherl 18(M>
Deep River, Conn.
U. S. A.
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