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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
THE "SMALL GOODS" TRADE
Scribner News Budget.
Mr. Weiss, the manufacturer, and Frank
Scribner, his sole agent in this country and
Canada, are experts on these instruments,
and are confident that they have now over-
This week's news at Frank Scribner's come an obstacle which has heretofore been
warerooms tells of continued success with thought impossible.
Mr. Scribner says that many testimon-
the Apollo harp. Aldis J. Gery leaves
for Europe on Dec. 28, in the interest of ials as to the efficacy of the change made
the Flagg Co. This is a notable acquisi- have been received from professional
tion to the Flagg forces and ought to be a players.
GERY LEAVES FOR EUROPE IN THE INTEREST
OF THE FLAGG CO. THE BRASS BAND
HARMONICA.
tem. These two features alone appeal
strongly to musicians.
Other special features emphasized are
the ability of mandolins made under the
Baehr patents to produce the most syste-
matic tone; the ease with which they can
be strung and tuned, and the complete
satisfaction obtainable with less than half
the work usually needed by players who
seek the best results. Business at the
Baehr warerooms is active in all branches.
Aluminum Musical Instrument
Co.
valuable one from the standpoint of pro-
gressive business.
One of Frank Scribner's specialties is the
Brass Band harmonica, shown in the illus-
tration on this page. An important change
has been made in its construction.
By the use of a new rivet which gives a
double pressure to the reeds, the tone of
the instrument is much improved, and it
is impossible for the reeds to loosen up
and thus allow the wind to escape. This
will add to the lasting quality as, hereto-
fore, hard blowing on a harmonica, al-
though the best made, would sometimes
cause it to give way by raising the reeds
in one evening's playing.
The Review, on its rounds this week,
called at the warerooms of the Aluminum
Musical Instrument Co., 127 Fifth avenue,
and had a brief business chat with Mr. A.
W. Jones, vice-president and treasurer.
This company manufacture the Merrill in-
struments. In less than two years a great
record has been made with the aluminum
wares.
Mr. Jones, who has traveled extensively
in the interests of the firm, said that
wherever he had shown the aluminum
mandolins, banjos, guitars, etc., he never
failed to secure an order. Referring to the
principle of construction, he remarked that
the company had made an open and con-
tinuous challenge to compare the very best
wood instruments with the aluminum pro-
Rettberg & Lange Banjos.
ducts in the matter of brilliancy and vol-
Opportunity was taken, when The Re- ume of tone.
view called at the office of Rettberg &
"With the discovery of aluminum," he
Lange on Monday for news, to visit the added, "comes a new era to the musical
factory. It was noted that the appliances instrument. This metal being light, soft,
are ample and of the most approved kind. and the most sonorous metal known, pro-
It was also observed that the number of duces a soft, pure, sweet, sympathetic tone.
instruments in preparation is very large. The aluminum body, because of its sonor-
Mr. Rettberg informed The Review that ous quality, in connection with the spruce
these are all for shipment, when com- top conveys to the instrument a brilliancy
pleted, to local and distant points.
and volume of tone which has been sought
after in vain in the wooden instruments."
The Baehr Handolin
The mandolin represented on this page
is Eug. B. Baehr & Bro.'s No. 31 in the
series of Baehr patent mandolins. Concern-
In SWEETNESS and POWER OF TONE
and BEAUTY of DESIGN
BAY STATE"
Guitars,
Mandolins,
Banjos,
Zithers and
Flutes
are unequaled.
Have received
Twenty-seven Highest Awards and
Two Gold Medals.
Illustrated Catalogues Free.
JOHN I HflYNES & CO.,
453 to 463 Washington Street,
BOSTON, MASS.
ing these instru-
raents,
it is
pointed out by
the firm that by
the new patented
B a e h r system,
thestringshardly
ever break and
k e e p in t u n e
much better than
on the old sys-
Hamilton S. Gordon.
All the wholesale small goods houses in
the city have been nearly depleted of their
season's stock. The holiday trade has been
exceptionally large. At the Gordon ware-
rooms, the immense stock of banjos, gui-
tars, mandolins, violins, accordions, etc.,
has dwindled away to insignificant propor-
tions. Mr. Freeland is much pleased with
the outcome of his cata-
logue work.
A novel and most lau-
dable charity, soon to
be put in practice by
Musicians' Union No.
20 of Kansas City, is to
give concerts at stated
intervals to prisoners
confined in the county
jail and the workhouse.