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May 15, 1920
THE TALKING MACHINE WORLD
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The Crippen " 'Inter pretone" Talking Machine is ten years ahead of any other talking machine made, and I am willing to send the instrument ^out to he its own salesman.
Specifications
The Crippen "Interpretone" has a mahogany veneered case, 45 inches high, 20 inches wide, 22 inches deep. It has a Revolving Record Cabinet (a remarkable selling feature) equipped with eight record albums, each holding four teninch and four twelve-inch records. Plush Turn Table that runs true. All metal work gold plated. "Radio" Sound Box of concert size entirely different from anything hitherto placed on the market. It is the only box which eliminates interference of one tone with the succeeding tone. System of "damping" has been introduced. Machine guaranteed for one year which includes spring breakages.
The Greatest Talking Machine Proposition the Trade Has Ever Seen
IN my opinion the Crippen proposition is the greatest thing the talking machine world has seen since the advent of the phonograph.
The Crippen ■ 'Interpretone" is ten years ahead of all other machines in the matter of tone, — and I am willing to let -the machine prove this statement.
I have spent years in the music trade as a retailer, manufacturer, inventor and tone expert, and I know tone and the elusiveness of its character, and I tell you you can hear a quality and character of tone in my talking machines you cannot hear in any other talking machine made.
In my machine the tone comes out free and open. The tone is not confused and smothered as if it were being produced in a box. For the first time talking machine dealers will have a real stimulant to the sale of records.
The Crippen "Interpretone" is just so far ahead of all other talking machines in every respect that makes for salability, that I can make this as my initial proposition:
I will send any reputable talking machine dealer one of these machines for a ten-day trial. If after trying and testing it beside the machines you are now selling it is not a good 25 dollars better than any talking machine you have ever seen in size, finish and general character of cabinet work, and if it hasn't a better tone than any you have heard in any talking machine at any price, you may ship it back, at my expense.
If it is as I say it is, the best talking machine proposition on the market, barring none, and you believe you can handle it so that we can both make some money, then we will quickly get together on the minor details.
/ have a complete line of fieriod models retailing from $140 to $350 and will send illustrations of these on request.
President
The Crippen Company, Inc., Fifth Avenue. , Nc^orL