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THE MUSIC TRADE
THE HOHNER HARMONICAS
Will Be Popular During the Presidential Cam-
paign—Just the Thing to Suit All Parties.
With the advent of the Presidential election is
bound to come a big army of harmonica players.
The Hohner instruments will be heard in every
marching club, at every parade and during every
mass meeting, where the "boys" want entertain-
ment between the efforts of the several promi-
nent citizens who become spellbinders in behalf,
always, of the best man. Speeches on the brigand-
age of the trusts will probably be followed by
selections from Fra Diavolo on a Hohner "Marine
Band Echo." Orations on the rights of labor at
the coal mines will be made to the accompani-
ment of the Hohner "Black Diamond." Oral ex-
cursions into the realms of protection and free
trade will find musical encouragement in Hohn-
er's "Best of All," and the victories of Japan over
Russia, whenever speakers make occasional
trips, outside the question before the chair, can
easily be glorified by means of the Hohner "Car-
tridge Harp." Oh, yes, a lively time is coming
for the Hohner, and when that time arrives, it
will certainly be equal to every occasion.
REVIEW
gentleman who greeted us with "Well, here I
am." Of course, that was quite evident and while
we waited for a further explanation, he blurted
out, "I want to get one of those—talking ma-
chines. I don't know anything about them, price
or anything else, but I do know I have been re-
ceiving circulars every little while for two years,
and I suppose the only way to stop them is by
buying an outfit."
The outfit he took came to $86, which amply re-
paid us for the storm of circulars with which we
had supplied him, in common with many others,
during the preceding months.
Neat, attractive circulars persistently distri-
buted are bound to bring returns.
MUSIC OF THE SAVAGE TRIBES.
The Musical Instruments of the Savage Races
Begin With the Drum—Stringed Instru-
ments Come Next.
(Special to The Review.)
St. Louis, Mo., July 18, 1904.
It is evident that music's first step was the
drum. As you wander through the displays made
of the primitive musical instruments of savage
races at the World's Fair grounds, those that
have only one have the drum. Music began with
KEEPING-AT-IT EVIDENTLY PAYS.
thumps, of a calabash likely enough, and later
on the skin of a wild animal was drawn over
It is apparent from the following story re- the mouth of the calabash. The bass drum of the
lated by Mr. Murphy that keeping everlastingly Sousa band is not so far removed from the
at it ultimately brings success, is so generally calabash drum that its cousinship can't be rec-
conceded that it is hardly necessary to spend any ognized. In the German East Africa exhibit are
time proclaiming this doctrine.
the drums of the blacks who inhabit the terri-
How to get or keep retail business is, without tory which Germany is now conquering. They
doubt, the most important question in the talking are all temptingly labeled "Hands off." It re-
machine business. Of what value is a large quires great fortitude not to thump an African
wholesale order if the dealer cannot sell the war drum with the forefinger nail; and Chinese
goods? A rather amusing incident in this con- gongs are quite irresistible.
nection is related by S. O, A. Murphy, Jr., who ex-
With drums the sense of rhythm in the human
ploits the graphophone so successfully in Buffalo, mentality is first expressed. The Indian adds His
which happened there a couple of years ago; it "kiyi" and most savages accompany the drum
was a cold, stormy day in January and there was with the voice. It must have been a long time
"nothing doing" when in slammed a rather portly lefore the first reed pipe was invented to in-
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Many semi-civilized peoples seem to have stopped
these. They stopped at the first tune. There is
some painful evidence of this on the pike, as
the St. Louis Globe-Democrat so pertinently
says. Stringed instruments came next. The ban-
jo in its varied forms is repeated through all
ihe nations. The Chinese show their three-
stringed snakeskin guitar and from Burma and
India come instruments that are twanged with
the fingers. The naked little Igorrote boys
stretch a taut cord triangularly about on the
top of three pegs in the ground and keep time
with the dance of the older Igorrotes near by.
The musical instruments of savage tribes are
of little interest to see unless they are played
on. Who would not give much—at least a quar-
ter—to hear these first Orphean lutes and lyres
vivified by savage lips or hands?
WOULD RESTRAIN NEWARK CO.
American Graphophone Co. Asks in the United
States Circuit Court That the Edisonia Co.
be Restrained.
(Special to The Review.)
Trenton, N. J., July 18, 1904.
In the United States Circuit Court, Friday, the
American Graphophone Co., of West Virginia,
asked for a writ of injunction against the Edi-
sonia Co., of Newark, restraining it from mak-
ing or selling any machine or apparatus or sound
record constructed in accordance with the in-
vention or improvements of said machine, the
patents of which are held by the plaintiff. They
further ask that the defendant be restrained
from selling the Columbia XP records at a lower
price than twenty-five cents, and that the defen-
dant be compelled to deliver up to the judicial
custody for distribution all the infringing ap-
paratus now in its possession.
The petition states that in 1898 Thomas H.
McDonald, of Bridgeport, Conn., invented im-
provements in recording and reproducing sound,
and that his invention was fully covered by pat-
ents, which he, for a certain sum of money,
turned over for the sole use of the plaintiff. The
petition further says that, September 1, 1903, the
plaintiff put on sale in the State of New Jersey
the Columbia XP graphophone record, to sell for
twenty-five cents, and that the Edisonia com-
pany, infringing on the petitioner's patents,
made a cheaper record and offered it for sale for
twenty cents, thereby greatly lessening the
profits of the plaintiff, who asks that it be grant-
ed damages, and a writ of infringement be is-
sued against the defendant.
Albert O. Petit, manager of the Edisonia com-
pany, said to-day that he had received a sum-
mons in a suit brought by the American Grapho-
phone Co., but that that was all he knew about
the matter. He denied that his company made
any records.
HANDY LYON & HEALY BOOKLET.
In the vest pockets of all employes of Lyon
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"Business Procedure." It contains fifty rules for
maintaining a hard-hitting effective staff of em-
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good, such as suggestions regarding courtesy,
having a savings account, etc. At the back of
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of every department and departmental head in
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