Music Trade Review

Issue: 1914 Vol. 59 N. 2

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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
WM. R. GRATZ CO.'S "VIENNA WONDER" ACCORDEON.
One of the
best s e l l i n g
instruments i n
t h e extensive
accordeon lines
handled by the
W i l l i a m R.
G r a t z Import
Co., 35 W e s t
T h i r t y - first
s t r e e t , New
Y o r k , is the
"Vienna Won-
d e r" accord-
e o n,
N o.
5 0 7-21-12,
shown in t h e
accompanying
i l l u s t r a t i o n.
This accordeon,
which is manu-
f a c t u r e d by
Otto Weidlich,
Brunndoebra,
S a x o n y , Ger-'
many, w h o s e
products the Wm. R. Gratz Co. represents in this
country and Canada, is an Italian model, and its
tonal qualities are in accord with the prestige
and reputation of the entire Weidlich line.
No. 507-21-12, as illustrated herewith, has twenty-
Protest Made to the General Appraisers
Regarding
Duty
Imposed on
Granadilla
Wood Used in Making Musical Instruments
—Duty Reduced from 45 to 35 Per Cent.
TO HANDLEj\_NEW LINE.
AN INTERESTING ISSUE.
one keys and twelve basses with patent fasteners,
U is also furnished with different numbers of
basses and keys, and may also be had with brass
or steel rods. Its construction makes for durability
and service.
DOING HOUSECLEANINQ.
Disposing of Customs Claims That Have Been
Abandoned by Importers and Their Attorneys.
Judge Sullivan, President of the Board of
United States General Appraisers, said this week
It was decided last week by the General Ap-
he had decided to cut the proverbial red tape which
praisers that granadilla wood used in making
for years has kept a great number of importers'
various musical instruments is not to be regarded abandoned protests cluttering up the files of the
as "parts of musical instruments" as that term is tribunal. They include claims filed under the
employed in the Tariff act of 1909. Lyon &
Tariff acts of 1894, 1897, and 1909, and were
Healy, Chicago, imported the wood which was abandoned by merchants or their attorneys owing
taxed at 45 per cent, under the classification men- to a variety of causes, among them being adverse
tioned. The importers claimed a rate of 35 per decisions by the higher courts on test tariff ques-
cent, ad valorem under the provision for manu- tions affecting identical merchandise, inability to
factures of wood. Judge Sullivan holds that the secure evidence in support of contentions, and for
pro.test is well taken and must ibe sustained. The o.ther reasons.
same firm imported violin necks the duty on which
The procedure in the past has required the mem-
was protested. The merchants abandoned the bers of the board to go through practically the
claims and they were overruled.
CUSTOMS COURTS ADJOURNMENT.
A disposition exists in importing and legal clr
cles in this city to criticise the action of the
United States Court of Customs Appeals in ad-
journing last week for the summer. The adjourn-
ment was the earliest taken since the formation of
the court in 1909. • It is pointed out in some quar-
ters that, had the court assigned a docket for the
hearing of customs cases for next week, it would
have been possible to obtain decisions in several
cases which now must lie over until Sept. 29, when
the tribunal reconvenes for the fall term. Among
the cases to be heard at that time is the five per
cent, discriminatory tax case relating to merchan-
dise imported in American bottoms.
NO MORE CALENDAR CALLS.
In the June issue of The Cadenza appears the
official, doings of the American Guild of Ban-
joists, Mandolinists and Guitarists at the Cleve-
land convention in April, and as one glances over
the contents it becomes evident that Walter
Jacobs must have put in a vast amount of time in
preparing this issue. There is the constitution and
by-laws of the American Guild, and this in itself
represents a great deal of labor. The fact that
this and all other matter pertaining to the con-
vention are official make this issue of The Cadenza
important, and one that lovers of these instruments
cannot afford to be without.
MOST EXPRESSIVE INSTRUMENT.
Scotsmen claim that the bagpipe is the most ex-
pressive instrument in the world—and thereby
hangs a tale. There was an editor whose hand-
writing could be interpreted by only one com-
positor on the staff, a, Scot and a piper. One day
came a slip of copy which puzzled even this ex-
pert. "Can't you read it?" he was asked. "Nae,"
said he, according to the London Chronicle, but
added enthusiastically, "if I had my pipes, though,
I could play her!"
CH. WEISS on a Harmonica stands for Highest Quality
METALLA
The Only Real Sanitary Harmonica. Its Absolute Cleanliness Appeals
to All Mouth-Organ Players
Factories at TROSSINGEN, GERMANY
NEW YORK, 393 BROADWAY
MUSICAL
MERCHANDISE
TONK BROS . Co.
Send for Catalog No. 33
128, 130, 132 So. Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
The Board of United States General Appraisers
will hold no more calendar calls of customs pro-
test cases until after Labor Day. Only the more
pressing tariff cases will be given hearings in the
chambers of the members of the tribunal during
the summer. Judge McClellan is on his way to
Europe and will not return until the middle of
September. Other members are planning vaca-
tions of a month or longer. Each member of the
clerical force is also, entitled to a month off with
full pay. Judge Somerville, having recovered from
a long illness plans to remain on duty during the
summer.
If you desire a man for any department of
your service, either for your factory or for your
selling department, forward your advertisement
to us and it will be inserted free of charge.
same routine with abandoned protests as with live
issues. This has taken up much valuable time,
which President Sullivan thinks had better be de-
voted to questions of real value. It is now pro-
posed to. waive the formality of notifying im-
porters and lawyers when abandoned cases are
up for decision and go ahead with their determina-
tion without further formalities. Since merchants
or their legal representatives abandoned the pro-
tests the board sees no reason for holding them
on the files any longer.
A start in this direction was made yesterday
when several hundred protests from importers in
all sections of the country were taken off the
files and marked "overruled." The clean-up cam-
paign just inaugurated will dispose of 40,000 cases
in a comparatively short time
Byron Mauzy, the prominent San Francisco,
piano and music dealer, has just arranged for the
handling of a new line of small instrument strings
which he will place on the market under his own
name. Mr. Mauzy's small goods department is
under the management of his son, C. S. Mauzy.
LYON & HEALY SUSTAINED
In
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UEGELEISEN
& JACOBSON
113-115 University Place
NEW YORK
Largest Jobbers in America of
ODERN
USICAL
ERCHANDISE
M
WRITE FOR NEW CATALOG*
A PROBLEM
SOLVED!
Warranted that neither Bow Screw Rings nor Caps can fall off on Bow Screws as above illustrated.
No advance in price if Violin Bows are purchased having the Patented Screw Attached to the Frog.
WM.
R. G R A T Z I M P O R T C O . ,
35-37 West 31st Street, New York City
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
SIX NEW EDISON ARTISTS
Who Will Make Their Debut in the Blue
Amberol List for August—All Prominent in
Their Respective Spheres of Activity—Have
Made Some Very Notable Records.
Six new artists will make their appearance in
the list of Blue Amberol records for August issued
by Thomas A. Edison, Inc. They will include
She is heard in a composition of her own entitled
"Springtime," which displays her technique and
musicianship most effectively. A concert singer
widely known is Edward Swain, who long occupied
a position as soloist with the Lafayette Avenue
Presbyterian Church, New York. Mr. Swain's
voice is a remarkable one, and he is especially
noted for his perfect diction—a valuable acquisi-
tion. This varied list is made complete by the ap-
pearance of Fred Duprez, monologuist, who has
chosen as his initial selection for the Edison Co.
"How to Be Happy Tho' Married." This mon-
ologue has been given by him in theaters all over
the world and has been laughed at by millions.
It now enters into a new sphere of publicity.
COLUMBIAJSRIEFLETS.
New Jersey Piano Co., of Plainfield, N. J., Se-
cures Columbia Line—Another
Important
and
Interesting
Testimonial
Regarding
Merits of Columbia Dance Products—Dance
Records to Be Featured in the Saturday
Evening Post—Vacations Now Under Way.
The Columbia Graphophone Co. closed arrange-
ments this week with the New Jersey Piano Co.,
Plainfield, N. J., whereby this well-known piano
concern will handle a complete line of Columbia
products and feature them in an extensive pub-
licity and selling campaign.
R. F. Bolton, manager of the wholesale head-
quarters of the Columbia Graphophone Co. at 89
Chambers street, New York, will leave to.-day for
A report of the Convention of the
a week's rest at Atlantic City, N. J.
National Association of Talking Ma-
Another important addition to its valuable col-
chine Jobbers which was held at the
lection of testimonials on behalf of Columbia dance
Hotel Chalfonte, Atlantic City, N. J.,
products was received the other day by the Co-
early this week, appears elsewhere in
lumbia Co. from Mo.rgan D. .Stern, head of the
this issue of The Review.
modern dance society studio bearing his name at
Broadway and Fifty-seventh street, New York.
NEW DEPARTMENTJN INDIANAPOLIS. Mr. Stern, who is prominent throughout the East
Mildred Howson Hart-
Paul Althouse,
as an authority on the present dances, writes as
New York Store, One of the Largest Depart-
Tenor.
ley, Contralto.
follows:
ment Stores to Handle the Victor Line.
"Kindly place on record my o.rder for an addi-
Paul Althouse, one of the distinguished members
tional 'Dengozo' matchiche record. The perfect
(Special to The Review.)
of the Metropolitan Opera House Co., a tenor of
rhythm and beautiful tone which this record pos-
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., July 8.—The New York
distinction, who has been heard with great appre-
Store, one of the largest department stores in sesses, aside from its greater length and lower
ciation and interest. He is a pupil of Oscar
the Middle West, situated in East Washington price, places it superior* to any other matchiche
street, Indianapolis, has opened a Victor talking record so far produced—in fact, all Co.lum'bia
machine department. Practically all the large de- dance records embody the one important require-
partment stores now have such a department. The ment toward perfection—namely, accurate time.
New York Store will obtain its machines and rec- The Columbia dance records are in continual use in
ords from the Stewart Talking Machine Co., job- all my studios, both in private and class instruc-
tion. For the latter purpose 'I consider them
bers in Indiana for the Victor Co.
preferable to other musical instruments. Yours
very truly, (Signed) Morgan D. Stern."
TAKES THE COLUMBIA LINE.
The forthcoming advertisement of the Columbia
The Tel-Electric Co. Arranges to Handle This
Co. in the July 25 issue of the Saturday Evening
Line in Its Fifth Avenue Warerooms.
Post will consist of one page devoted to dance
records, and featuring particularly the records by
The Tel-Electric Co., 299 Fifth avenue, New Pavlowa and Joan Sawyer. The instrument pre-
York, the well-known piano player house, this sented will be the new "Jewel," which retails at
week arranged to handle the products of the $35, and is particularly adaptable for use by sum-
Columbia Graphophone Co. Seven s,ound-proof
mer vacationists.
Arthur Blight, Bari-
Edwin Swain,
demonstration rooms are now being constructed,
tone.
Tenor.
and General Sales Manager Pond is enthusiastic
VICTROLA XVI. BEING FEATURED.
Saenger, the New York teacher, who has turned over the prospects of closing a very satisfactory
The Victor Talking Machine Co. sent out to
out so many eminent artists. Mr. Althouse has Columbia business with the Tel-Electric clientele.
its dealers this week an attractive summer folder
selected that beautiful number from "Faust," "All The manager for this department has not yet been
featuring the Victrola XVI., which retails at $200,
Hail, Thou Dwelling Lowly," in which to make chosen.
as a machine particularly adaptable for dancing
purposes. The company also mailed one of these
NEW CONCERNJT^ BUTTE, MONT.
folders to every summer hotel, yacht club and
(Special to The Review.)
country club in the United States, in order that
BUTTE, MONT., July 3.—Joseph Lutey and L. V. Victor dealers might reap the fullest possible bene-
Williams, of this city, recently opened a new talk- fits from this wide field of summer prospects.
ing machine store under the name of the Butte
Phonograph Co., and will handle nothing but talk-
NEW USE FOR RECORDS.
ing machines and records. The new quarters are
"I've found a new use for those phonograph
fitted up in first-class style, there being three large
soundproof demonstration rooms, with attractive records yo.u bought last week and which cost such
a lot of money," said his wife, according to the
furnishings and decorations. A complete line of
Edison products will be carried in the new store, San Francisco Chronicle.
"How clever you are!" he exclaimed. "What is
and George A. Renner, Northwestern representative
of Thomas A. Edison, Inc., directed the arrange- your latest?"
"In the first place," she began, "I hold a skein
ment of the store and the selection of stock. He
will also assist the company in staging demonstra- of wool over my arm, tie one end of the wo.ol on
a reel, place the reel on the graphophone pin and
Hendrika
Troostwyk,
Fred Duprez, Mono-
tions for the next few months.
then start the machine. The wool is wound up in
Violinist,
loguist.
no time."
WANTS BUSINESS_PHONOGRAPHS.
his debut. Other artists who will be heard in the
The fond husband gasped in admiration.
August list are Mildred Howson Hartley, con-
The secretary of a prominent and progressive
"But that is not all," she continued. "To,-mor-
tralto, who has appeared in opera and concert with wholesale hardware house in the United Kingdom row I shall place a little bath brick on one end of
great success. She sings Blumenthal's "Sunshine has manifested an interest in securing the agency the records, start the gramophone, and so clean
and Rain." Arthur Blight, a baritone of recog- for a phonographic machine for registering dic- the knives."
nized worth, will be represented in the August list tated correspondence, etc. No machine of this
He is still gasping.
by "Beauty's Eyes," a lovely song, which will un- type have as yet made their appearance in the
doubtedly appeal to his admirers. Another gifted district, which has a population of over 1,000,000,
If you desire a man for any department of
artist who makes her debut for the Edison Co. is and includes a number of good sized cities. The your service, either for your factory or for your
Hendrika Troostwyk, violinist, who has played with so-colled clipped type o.f lawn-mower would also selling department, forward your advertisement
a number of orchestras, winning great acclaim. be o.f interest.
to us and it will be inserted free of charge.
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