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THE: MUSIC TRADE
HOHNER'S BANNER YEAR.
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REVIEW
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THE BANJO NOT DECADENT.
A HANDSOME PROGRAMME.
The souvenir programme for C. L. Partee
The Year Just Closed Claimed This Honor, but It
Is Bound to Be Eclipsed During 1904, for Hoh- mandolin, guitar and banjo grand concert, is
ner Products Will Be Better Than Ever.
certainly a very handsome production from a
The new year's greeting of the Hohner typographical point of view. The special
firm, which appeared # on page 42 of last cover design and heavy paper contribute in
week's Review, has attracted attention in no small measure to its elegant appearance,
many quarters and elicited much favorable while the enterprise and energy of Mr. Par-
comment because of its clear and concise tee is reflected on its well-filled pages—a
statements of Hohner trade conditions. compendium in the lines represented. Half-
What could be more clean-cut, more ex- tones of the leading artists who will partici-
plicit than this statement. "Owing to th"e pate in this great concert appear as well as
superior qualities which have specified the much interesting matter in this connection. A
Hormer harmonicas during the past half copy will be presented to every purchaser of
two or more tickets to the concert, which will
year, aided by the extensive advertising
take place at Carnegie Hall, New York, Jan-
done throughout the year just ended, the
uary 29. On the following day a convention
large sales were brought about, which
of the American Guild of Banjoists, Mando-
made 1903 the banner year. The fine line
linists and Guitarists will be held at the Union
of accordeons and ocarinas which were
Square Hotel.
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lately introduced, are rapidly growing in
demand, which verifies the prediction that
JAVANESE MUSIC.
the Hohner sales of 1904 will be still larger
The Javanese musical instruments are
than ever." The forecaste is excellent in its
made mostly of bamboo. They also played
point and appropriateness: 'The begin-
upon a pipe or whistle, which was about three
ning of the year naturally suggests turning
feet long and six inches across. This sound-
over new leaves. Get a new 'Hohner' cata- ed like the hollow roar of a lion. Another
logue and turn over its leaves—it will prove was a bundle of tubes of different lengths,
beneficial to you.' "
which covered the small boy who carried it
A Strong Plea for This Instrument—The Better
Grade of Instruments, Like Those Made by the
Bauer Co., Were Never in Greater Demand
Than To-day—It Is Fitting That a Native In-
strument Like the Banjo Should Hold Its Own.
I'Special to The Review.]
Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 5, 1904.
Some people do not know, and some people
jealously ignore, how really popular the ban-
jo is to-day. Once upon a time the banjo
came to the people as an entirely new thing,
and, as people will, they got warmed up over
it, and it "boomed" most feverishly. Grad-
ually the fever abated, but the banjo con-
tinued to be played just the same. Instead of
continuing to thump it loudly on the house-
tops, they took it inside and began to study a
finer mode of playing with no little serious-
ness, and lo! some very good and delightful
music came from it, and the banjo's everlast-
ing popularity was assured.
Tt was about the time when refined people
began to use the banjo that S. S. Stewart be-
came so hugely famous for his wonderful
toned "Thoroughbred." Ever since, to this
very day, this banjo has held its own against
all comers, and the Bauer Co. (successors to
Stewart & Bauer) are turning the celebrated
banjo
out as busily to-day as at any other
like a big saddle. A log hewn out with two
LOWER FIRE INSURANCE.
period
of its history. The trusted workman
strings stretched across it served as a drum.
As a result of the meeting of the fire in- A zither of sixteen strings and a mandolin of who made the "Thoroughbred" when S. S.
surance underwriters held last week cer- two completed their outdoor band, while in- Stewart was living is at the same bench to-
tain classes of fire insurance risks, which side one could hear other music made by day, doing the same faithful and skilled work,
will affect manufacturers and dealers, are gongs of wonderfully pure and beautiful and doing it, if possible, better than ever be-
fore. Every good craftsman improves in his
to be handled at lower rates in the city of tone.
work as time goes on. The "Thoroughbred"
New York. This action is due to the fact
that the ratio of losses to premiums has
The sales of orchestrions during 1903 to-day gets the benefit of its maker's im-
proved skill and improved tools; and conse-
been decreasing for the last three years.
fell below that of the year preceding.
TWO MILLIONS
A MONTH
WE HOLD THE RECORD
Grand Prize Paris 1900
COLUMBIA MOULDED RECORDS
BLACK SUPER-HARDENED; BRAND NEW PROCESS. Best cylinder records ever made. Much harder and much
more durable than any other cylinder record. Our enormous output of Two Million Records a. month enables us to sell these
New and Superior Records for
25 Cents Each
Columbia Indestructible Disc Records have always been the Standard of Superiority. Sevmn Inch Discs; 5Oc mach $5 a dozen.
Ten Inch
Discs; $1 each $IO a dozen.
Send for Free Catalogue M containing long list of vocal quartets, trios, duets, solos and selections for band,
orchestra, cornet, clarinet, piccolo, xylophone, etc., etc.
For sale by dealt
COLUMBIA
PHONOGRAPH
id by tH»
COMPANY,
F1ONEE S AND LEADEM IN
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THE TALKING MACHINE ART
NEW YORK, Wholesale, Retail, Export, 03 Chambers Street. UPTOWN, Retail Only, 873 Broadway.
PHILADELPHIA, 1609 Chestnut St.
CHICAGO, 88 Wabash Ave.
SAN FRANCISCO, 125 Geary St.
CLEVELAND, Euclid Ave. and Erie S t
ST. LOUIS, 709 Pine St.
MILWAUKEE, 891 E. Water St.
BALTIMORE, 110 E. Baltimore St.
BUFFALO, 645 Main St.
PITTSBURG, 615 Penn Ave.
INDIANAPOLIS, Claypool Hotel Bldg.
BOSTON, 164 Tremont St.
DETROIT, 37 Grand River Ave.
KANSAS CITY, 1016 Walnut St.
OAKLAND, 468 13th St.
DENVER, 1625 Lawrence St.
MEMPHIS, 802 Main St.
WASHINGTON, 1212 F St., N. W.
PORTLAND, ORE., 128 7th St.
OMAHA, 1621 Farnam St.
MINNEAPOLIS, 18 4th St., South.
LOS ANGELES, 828 So. Main St.
LONDON, Wholesale, Retail, 80 Great Eaatcra St.. E. C.
RETAIL BKANCB STOKE,
PARIS, 1 Rue L«on CladeL
BERLIN. 71 Ritteratrasse.
HAMBURG, AdolpksplaU No. 4.
200 Oxford St., W.
ST. PETERSBURG, Kazan Place I.