The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 26, 1905, Page 30

1905. 30 The Largest, Musical Inst.rument, Business in the West Kohler ® Chase-—-a great. piano |\ house, which in extent, and progres- siveness surpasses any other musical est.ablishment, in the West.. Few people realize to what extent the business of Kohler & Chase has grown. Many think of Kohler & Chase with the retail store at Post and Kearny in mind. The retail, wholesale and agency business of Kohler & Chase covers the entire Pacific Coast. Honest methods, square dealing, the best values, a liberal guarantee, supplemented by progressive modern methods, have built up the largest musical business of the West. For 55 years this institution has been growing until now the organization is represented by experts in every branch of the business, by the mast valuable agencies in the United States, by the best merchandise known to the musical world. Your iriterests will be best served by coming to Kohler & Chase for whatever you desire in Musical Inst.rument.s for the ' Holidays THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 26, o, As we are the lar- Qualltles gest dealers in pianos, we can command the best agencies, and this is why we are able to carry the leaders in each respective grade and offer you the best piano in existence at its particular price. ° Every instrument we sell is absolutely dependable. Thus you are sure of getting a piano which is serviceable for years and years without causing you any trouble or annoyance. : - There is satisfaction in knowing that your piano is going to last and always bring a fair value should you ever want to ex- change for a different style or higher grade. Weber Baby Grand Weber Grands $750 to $1500. Weber Art Grands designed to order. Steck Grands $700 to $950. Fischer Grands $6350 to $750. Kohler & Chase Grands $700. Our stock of Grand Pianos /R TAIL DEPT.S SAN FRANCISCO I m m ense wholesalers and volume of retailers of pianos, i y i iano we X doma i et S brings dn\\q the price on every P in San Francisco, sell. In buying of us you get a piano closer and in other impor- in any other establishment. coast where we have We save you from $50 to $100 on the pur- at a factor we are in this means a saving to you of about a year’s >acific Coast. With payments on the installment plan? over the factory cost. ments you would be one year longer in pay- oaches Kohler ing for your piano than ii you buy here. ties Visitors Weicome. to ~purchase your piano. Visitors Welcome piano. Many people have bouglit a low grade piano from some unreliable dealer, for a good instrument. These, second- hand low grade pianos we sell off for $125. Other people exchange fairly good pi- very good uprights for Grands er the new Pianola Pianos; also used pianos We do not aim to keep these used ifi- struments on hand, so we mark" them If you want a bargain in a piana for lit- tle nfoney—cash or easy terms—you can Being jobbers, L * ow Prices b u s iness e factories—sell to o and Seattle, where we to the cost of production than if you bought agencies. chase of a piano. And do you realize that 10s at only a Should you buy elsewhere on easy pay- ess or buying Consider this point seriously when ready will buy in our store a serviceable used then have come to us and exchanged it what they are really worth—from $75 to anos for better ones, and some exchange are returned almost daily by renters. extremely low and sell them off quickly, always find a good selection in our Ex- ation of a piano and a Pianola in te, compact instrument. Thus it is h pular musical instru- d the means by is com- one may play it. change Department. plete. No house in America offers a 1 every particular a perfect piano, 1 s e mare extensive line from which to{ leaving nothing to be desired in the matter & 5 1 of tone, action or appearance, choose. When played by hand there is no feature The Weber Grand is to-day the about it which catches the eye to distinguish acknowledged leader throughout the al form of upright piano. But tains within its case a Metro- most advanced development iea. Simply by inserting of music the piano may be ouching a finger to the keys. e there ready to be used when ired. Piano is an instrument accepted modern meth- >: 1. By hand. 2. By world, No Grand ever built can ap- proach the new Weber Concert Grand— it is the tone marvel of the century. Our larger stock (one entire floor of Grands), the quality of the makes, the great experience of our mechanical ex- perts, go together to make Kohler & Chase easily the best place to select your Grand Piand. Ask any unprejudiced mu- sician, Visitors Welcome. 6 he Metrostyle—a device music as it is played by Visitors Welcome. Terms: Visitors Welcome. Any piano in ogr stock may bs which any one can afford, Many good instrymen's are sold on terms as low purchase of a new piano. We require no large payment down. to-merrow night and all you need is ; Orchestrelles _ . The Orchestrelle is the grandest of all instruments; yet it can be played by one having no knewledge of musie. Playing the Aeolian Orchestrelle is like leading an orches- tra—all the orchestral instruments are controlled at the will of the performer. The King of England, the King of Spain, the Emperor of Germany, the Czar of Russia, the Sultan of Turkey, Pope Pius X—all have Aeolian Orchestrelles in their royal palaces, It is the musical instrument “par excellence.” Come in ;‘Q‘ldag:{r it, whether to purchase or net. Prices, $630 to Miscdl“anedus Violins, Guitars, Mandolins, Banjos, etc. their goods of our wholgsale depariment. Corner Post, and Kearny Streets purchased on easy terms— by a simple plan of monthly payments - _ T as six do lars a month. If you have a piano and desire a new inst.rument, we will allow all it. is worth t.o go t.oward the You can have the piano in your home Metrostyle Pianolas 3 IT)II;' stalndard g;a;g player of the world is the Met;c'» v 3 . S style Pianola at . 1t is th ly piane player capable As Kohler & Chase lead in Pianos so with P artistic work—the anly ;n': punfhyisnt ) i et X g Talking Mackines, Band Instruments, Music Bozxes, We control the leading agencies in these lines and maost ather dealers ave thus compelled to buy The Kohler & Chase guaran- Guarantee ... you now and for years to come. Every dealer of course gives a guarantee, but carrying it out is another question. The Kohler & Chase guarantee means this: 'lfl'te instrument is thoroughly tested before it is sold to you, but should any de- fect develop the piano' can be returned and another taken in its place, We want the piano to be absolutely what you sup- posed it to be at the time of purchase. You are fully protected at all times—first, because the piano is reliable; second, be- cause we are reliahle. Visttors Welcome. $200.00 | will buy a very good Upright Piano at our store, and it can be paid for at the rate of $6 down and $6 each month. We often contract for a large portion of a factory’s entire output. Thus we buy close. We pay cash, which makes our cost still lower. Therefore we are in a position to give you a bet- ter piano for $200, $250, $275 or $300 than you could possibly get elsewhere. We wholesale to other dealers up and down the coast, and ethers could not af- ford to duplicate our values even if they so desired, Think this over seriously when ready to buy your piano. We always invite a comparison of our pianos and prices with those of other dealers, for this quickly convinces the prospective customer of the advan- tages offered by Kohler & Chase. Don’t buy any piang without calling on us. patented Metrostyle, $175 and $200. #5 and upwards a month. great msicianswPaduewski, Hofmann, Bauer, Greig, Cha- mmtd:, Rosenthal, etc. These artists have marked (“metro- styled”) special rolls, and the wonderful Metrostyle enables you to play this music with the exact interpretation of the artist who marked it. No other piana player can use the Used Piano Flaven\ (various makes), #1235, $150, Pianolas sold on easy payments, Also Pianolas rented Kohler & Chase have had 5 ars, AgenCies of experience in supplying the people of the Pacific Coast with reliable pianos. Is it any wonder that we have selected the acknowledged best piano of each particular class? Is it any won- der that discriminating musicians come to us to buy their pianos? Nowhere else have you an opportunity of comparing and se- lecting your piano from the best of each grade. We are sole agents for the following: Pianos; Weber, Steck, Fischer, Kohler & Chase, Hobart M. Cable, Blasius, Wheel- ock, Kobhler & Campbell, etc. Fisitors Welcome. No piano of moderate price in America has achieved the success and the artistic recogmi- tion which has been accorded the Kohler & Chase. It is the favorite of the best musicians of the coast as well as many celebrated for- eign artists, including Tet ini, Genss, Zech, Campanari, Bendix, Fleissner, Maurer, Lewys, Fabian, etc. Mare A. Blumenberg, the recognized great- est living authority on pianes and the editor of the “Musical Courier,” writes in a signed editorial in the “Musical Courier Extra”: “Unbeknown to the firm. I carefully tested these Kohler & Ch: a 1 would not hesitate for guarantee them "’S""' diseard them, no judge can 80, for they are endowed with a s cessful scale plan, and out of this there 1ssues a tone quality that commends it- self to the best mus Th touch is as delicate and as a hizh sensitive erga ture's owp fabric, and I ¢ tic musician who can plé to get away from a Kohler & from his or her own impulse. - ano holds and captivates the he is artistic.” Uprights, $225 to $425. Visilors Welcome.