August 1912: “Music! Music!! Music!!!” – John Anderson’s Royal Polytechnic Ltd.’s Purchase of the Entire High-Class Stock of Messrs Robert Kerr, Edinburgh

A large advertisement on the front page of The Glasgow Herald, on Friday the 9th of August, 1912, informed readers, and

potential customers, about the tremendous purchase of stock of Messrs Robert Kerr, Home Street, Edinburgh.

 

It is headed :

 

“MUSIC!  MUSIC!!  MUSIC!!!

ANOTHER SENSATIONAL, YET TYPICAL POLYTECHNIC PURCHASE.

A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY FOR EVERY LOVER OF MUSIC.”

 

In addition to a “GREAT VARIETY OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS”, including violins, banjos, guitars, flutes, and harps,

along with violin bows and cases, etc., there were “ABOUT THREE TONS OF SHEET MUSIC, MUSIC BOOKS, OPERAS,

AND MUSICAL PIECES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, ALL OF WHICH WILL BE CLEARED QUICKLY AT THROW-AWAY

PRICES”.

 

The advertisement includes lists of some of the musical instruments, with prices, and the news that all of the most popular

songs of the day were “TO BE GIFTED” at prices ranging from one penny, to sixpence, per piece. The usual costs ran from

sixpence, to four shillings.

 

 

 

George Fairfull-Smith, February 2021.