The evening world. Newspaper, February 17, 1914, Page 5

e | eiieiiiaaaaes ~ - . 3 sn THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, eS ee The-First GIMBEL Player-Piano Club# Opens Today, With FIVE HUNDRED Beautiful _ Player-Pianos, at a Total Possible Saving to Club Members of $67,750 — ‘ The Combined Purchasing Power of Five Hundred Sep- arate People Has Been Used as a Powerful Lever to Make This Saving a Fact—Which Figures Out Exactly $135.50 on Every Player-Piano. In launching this firsts GIMBEL New York Player-Piano Club, putting into operation, for the first time in this city, a plan which we have already proved to be a vast success. . GIMBEL BROTHERS, Philadelphia, have operated THIRTY-THREE of these Piano Clubs, distributing in them thousands of pianos and player-pianos, and effecting a saving to club members of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Therefore there is nothing new, untried or hazardous, from either your point of view or ours, in the proposition; but on the contrary a very decided advantage to both of us. It is the mighty force of CO-OPERATION that makes the thing possible —exactly the same force that has, in fifty years, brought the great English co-op- erative societies to hold such a commanding position in England, by combining the purchasing power of thousands upon thousands of people who otherwise would have to make their little purchases separately, at top market prices. Here Is How Cooperetion Works Out In the Case of This Piano Club:' It enable- ‘us to place an enormously large order with the manufacturer—five hundred instru- ments, which he can bank on as part of his year’s output,'and adjust his factory to take care of— instead of the five or ten or fifteen instruments we might order at one time under usual It gives us, therefore, every possible advantage in the matter of PRICE—which, of course, counts directly in YOUR favor. It lets us sell a great many pianos—instead of Comparatively a few—in a few weeks, with no] additional ‘overhead expense.'’ This reduces for us the cost of selling on EVERY piano and, thus, again, the price to you. And Here Is How the Club Scheme Works Out to Your Great Advantage: You are able to buy a player-piano of KNOWN reputation—not a guesswork affair— backed by the name and guarantee of GIMBELS and the maker. You have an unusually long time—190 weeks—in which to pay for it—WITHOUT ONE CENT OF EXTRA EXPENSE IN THE WAY OF INTEREST—and that on - a lower price than the CONREID player-piano has ever been sold before. Or, if you like, you can bring down the cost of the player-piano still further by AN- TICIPATING your payments, at the rate of 20c for each payment MADE IN ADVANCE of the time it is due. : By taking the utmost advantage of this plan, which is paying for the piano in CASH, you at Ly additional paring of $38 on the is j : full price, which brings the price of This 18 Exactly What the vivwwice isee to e367. cone The GIMBEL Player- Piano Club Saves You: Our Regular Price for the CONREID, Style 40, is On the Usual Time Payments its There Are These Very Great Conveniences: Delivery where our wagons run, or to your nearest freight station if you live away from our delivery routes. Tuning for one year. A Saving of Piano Bench to match Piano-Player. By anticipating all ail FREE LIFE INSURANCE It the pur: ¥ aeneiping parrnanis <2 ‘bli chaser dies while payments are being Extra Saving of $38, bringing the price of the FREE + kept up, a RECEIPTED BILL in full to | the family, with- 9347 | out another cent lyin every cent ‘Bald on | bub ee. within a pear,tothepurchaseof inatrument at reg- prices inour stock SS Under the Club Plan, Your First Payment ry on This Delightful Player-Piano Is But GIMBEL.B FEBRUARY 17 , 1924. et New CONREID if & . = | = we eare LAMAN PLAYER 4 | You Must Know These Important Facts About the 4 CONREID to Appreciate Fully the Wonderful Advantages of This Club Offering: The CONREID PLAYER-PIANO is a KNOWN QUANTITY—not an uncertainty. It is made exclusively for GIMBELS by the Milton Piano Company, by their expert corps of | »# workmen, in their splendid modern factory here at Twelfth avenue and 55th street, New York City. 1 From the clear, straight grained wood which forms the stout framework of these pianos, to the final |: coat of polish, everything that goes into the making is of the best possible quality. Hy > And the instruments are put together in masterly fashion—to LAST—by men whom the company | ‘*4 stimulates to do their best work by a bonus system, as a reward for continued service. : The CONREID Player-Piano at $385 Is Absolutely NEW Its REGULAR price on our floor yesterday was no “ i | dutta a y y $485 (not merely “equal to other pianos selling It is $885 today, and while the Club remains open. ice wi i Ka enh ns ie et ae pen. Its price will go back automatically to $485 as It is in a pure, graceful Sheraton design, in mahogarty (Mission), also fumed, weathered and Flemish oak finishes. ‘ Its wonderfully SMALL SIZE, without sacrifice of power or sweetness of tone, makes it moat va convenient for even a small apartment. (2 ft. 8 in. deep, 5 ft. 2 in. wide, 4 ft. 314 in. high.) we It has a FULL 88-NOTE PLAYER MECHANISM of the latest type, with a patented self-tracki “Fl device, which makes the music-roll play with absolute accuracy. finish, as well as in the favorite new Stickley | | You Pay the Balance at the Rate of $2 Weekly. NO INTEREST—NO EXTRAS— the price of the player-piano is figured on your taking full time for ‘payment. OTHERS This Coupon Will Bring You Full Information: ;Cut It Ou