The San Francisco call., 1905-04-04
PIANO SELLING
lY THE CARLOADS
Bio Wholesale Stock at P0mmer-Eilers' Now Offered
to Retail BUYERS at Wholesale Prices.
Our First Great Unloading Sale at Temporary SaIesrooms
5I4 Market Street-25O of the Finest New Pianos of
the Latest Styles and Most Renowned Makes-FuII
Descriptions, Terms of Sales and Prices.

Since occupying our present premises
we have received "a carloads or pianos,
and there are more coming Our con-
tracts with Eastern manufacturers run
from year to year. They take no account
of the fact that the demolishing of our
old quarters compelled us to accept tenn
porary ones in the wholesale district
Our. pianos, therefore. continue TO come
in as before. At first we thought we
would use our temporary quarters al
most entirely as a wholesale d1Str1Dutlns
establishment and devote our energies 10
the interior trade. A few months trial
has convinced us that this is not alto
gether feasible. Our branch stores nave
absorbed large numbers of pianos. Dut
not so many more as we used TO sell 10
city buyers at our old establishment
Moreover. we have recently run onto
with manufacturers at terms which will
be of great advantage to us In the ru-
ture-and in order to take advantage OF
these we have been obliged 70 act AT
once This adds still more to the steady
stream of pianos flowing into our store
1t is now our business to keep this
stream from overfiowing by turning the
pianos into cash or tntereSt-bear1ng pa
per- Our other stores are working TO
their utmost and can take no more 1t Is
the main store that must assume the
burden. We realize that at regular re-
tail prices it would be impossible TO sell
the pianos quickly here. but with the ex-
traordinary price concessions we are pre-
pared to make. there will be thousands or
to get to our store.
What We Have to Sell.
We have four floors crammed full of
the incest cleanest. newest. handsomest
and best pianos we have ever carried We
have the newest things in Colonial and
Davis. Schumann. Crown and Kimball
makes We have small parlor grands
and big concert grands in the Hazelton.
Lester and Kimbal1 makes. We have up
rights in an almost infinite variety of
make, style and wood You know the
Decker. the Kimball. the Hazelton; the
Lester, the Hal1et & Davis; you know
their worth. When we tell you we are
selling all our s400 styles at S247: our
$3.50 makes go at $21S; our $500 pianos
fof 1858 and ss4s; and that we have also
which will be sold below the 5000 mark.
some as low as 1926 and s15S. you will
understand the Importance OF this move
ment.
We have the Auto-piano. the newest
thing in musical instruments-the piano
which everybody can play. and play well.
1t is either a self-playing plano or a pi-
ano of the regular sort. as you like. As
a lf-playing piano. using the regular
Pianola music. an inexperienced person
can play the masterpieces OF the world
at his will AS a regular piano. the most
exacting musician will find Ii an instru-
ment of the highest class. We have never
heretofore advertised the Auto-piano.
and yet we are selling them at the rate
of more than carload a month. One
invariably sells another. The price is
$500. and at that figure many people are
giving up their old pianos and buying
Auto-pianos.
This brings up the subject of used
pianos: of pianos taken in exchange for
Auto-pianos. or for Decker. Hazelton or
Kimba1l pianos
Every Make In Used Pianos.
Our stock of used pianos Is large and
varied If you want any particular make
of a piano, 1t Is safe guess that we can
supply it to you. We can furnish you
with a piano Of almost any prominent
American make which an expert could
hardly tell from an absolutely new one.
Here are few samples:
Fine Chickerfng baby grand. $465;
Steinway upright s245: vose upright.
splendid mahogany case. s215; another,