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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
MAKING CUSTOMS RATES UNIFORM.
Perfecting a System for Having Imports Classi-
fied the Same at All Ports.
The Treasury Department is rapidly perfecting
a system whereby imports at all ports will be re-
turned for duty at uniform classifications. This
matter has long been regarded by honest importers
and domestic manufacturers as one of the vital
features of an efficient tariff administration. In
view of the large imports at this port and the ex-
ceptional facilities for familiarity with all kinds of
imported merchandise, the New York appraiser's
office has been made the center for this work.
Complaints have been many in the past that dif-
ferences in the classification of imports by officials
at the several ports resulted in inequalities in duties
paid, besides working an injustice to both classes of
merchants dealing in competitive goods. In some
instances incorrect classifications resulted in im-
porters paying lower rates of duty, while those at
other ports were taxed higher rates. Naturally,
importers benefiting by the lower duties found
themselves in a more favorable situation in the
selling of goods than those paying the higher rates.
The local appraiser's office has had for some
time a division known as the correct valuation
report's bureau, the purpose of which is a prac-
tical harmonizing of the valuation and the classifi-
cation of merchandise by the different ports of the
United States. At the conference of United States
appraisers, held here last July, a committee was
appointed for the revision and improvement of the
correct valuation reports system. The committee
consists of Deputy Appraiser George W. Wolf, of
this city; Appraiser W. T. Hodges, of Boston, and
Appraiser W. W. Roper, of Philadelphia. The final
report has not been submitted to Washington for
action, but the committee is now working on it. In
the meantime the bureau is making changes in its
practice and scope in line with the recommenda-
tions made at the conference.
In order to better carry out the recommendations
of the conference, John K. Sague, appraiser of this
port, has issued an order assigning to Deputy Ap-
praiser Wolf the supervision and direction of the
tenth division of the appraiser's office, which em-
braces the correct valuation reports department,
bureau of protests and appeals, appraisements, etc.
Mr. Wolf will administer these bureaus in addi-
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THE "SAFETYj^IRST" IDEA.
Applied by Buegeleisen & Jacobson, New York,
to Win Attention of Music Dealers.
New Brunswlok, N. J .
EXCELSIOR
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Some dealers may say that tliey cost more than
others.
Excelsior drums cost more because they are
worth more. Cost more to make.
We could make them cost less by using- oheaper
material, use less care in making them, and dis-
pense with the new patented improvements.
If we did, however, Excelsior Drums would not
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OAMSEV, N. J.
VIOLIN SOUND POST.
Patented by Carl Steuer—Aims to Aid in Pro-
ducing Softer and Sweeter Tone.
( Special to The Review.)
WASHINGTON, D. C, January 18.—Carl Steuer.
New York, is the inventor of a violin sound-post,
Samuel Ruegeleisen, head of Buegeleisen & for which patent No. 1,123,W><) was granted last
jacobson, 11.'? University place, New York, stated
week, and has for its object to improve the con-
this week that his firm had completed plans to in- struction and produce a softer, sweeter and more
augurate a "Safety First" movement for the atten- harmonious tune.
tion of music dealers throughout the country. Mr.
To accomplish this object the sound-post is
Ruegeleisen believes that the first and fundamental
made of a single piece of wood or other suitable
rule of "Safety First" in a business sense con-
material and comprises circularly curved parts ar-
sists in buying goods right, and to that end has
ranged in alignment and weakened at their junc-
prepared a comprehensive campaign that will be
tion. The centers of the circular posts are located
launched in a very short while.
on the longitudinal central line of said post. At
Mr. Buegeleisen has received numerous letters
each end the post is provided with two projec-
from abroad referring to an alarming shortage of
tions arranged one on each side of and equi-
raw material and to the fact that the call for ad-
distant from the central line, so that the post
ditional troops has demoralized transit facilities in
forms a symmetrical body. The said projections
Germany.
serve to bear against its back and belly.
NEW ORCHESm^ INSTRUMENT.
(.Special to The Review.)
WASHINGTON, D. C.,. January 18.—Patent No.
\A'22;207, for a musical wind instrument, has been
granted to Louis F. Kloepfel, Boston, Mass., the
object of which is to produce a wind instrument
for use in small orchestras or bands where one
musician is obliged to play two or more instru-
ments, so that one musician may play the cue notes
in arrangements of music for small orchestras.
For instance, a musician may play with this im-
proved instrument the parts arranged for a cornet
and for the French horn and by the use of differ-
ent mouthpieces he may play the cue notes for
the bassoon, trombone and French horn. To ac-
complish these ends the inventor has combined two
wind instruments of different styles or character,
each of said instruments having a mouth-
piece, the mouthpieces, however, varying in
the formation of their interior bores, but
the rims of both mouthpieces being substan-
tially duplicates one of the other and located ad-
jacent to each other, so that as the occasion requires
the musician may first play on one instrument and
then on the other by changing from one mouth-
piece to the other, and to obtain a still greater
variety the musician may change one of the mouth-
pieces as may be required.
SHIPPING JAPANESE VIOLINS.
Consul-General George II. bcidmorc, stationed
at Yokohama, Japan, writes as follows regard-
ing the shipping of Japanese violins to America:
"Any exportation of Western musical instru-
ments made in Japan to the West may sound
strange, but is true, according to an Osaka, Japan,
newspaper. A violin manufactory in Nagoya has
sent a shipment of violins lately to the United
States to fill an order for tens of thousands ot
them. The instruments mostly in demand are
chiefly German made, costing $3 to $8. At the
outbreak of the war Germany ceased to send them,
and the supply is being drawn from Japan.
"The manufactory, encouraged by the new busi-
ness, is said to be planning to double its yearly
output, probably organizing a joint stock company
with large capital. In 1910 this violin manufac-
tory reported a yearly output of $5,000.
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SERVING IN THEJOJSTRIAN ARMY.
The William R. Gratz Import Co., 35 West
Thirty-first street, New York, received word from
abroad this week that Carl and Adolph Fuchs, of
the prominent band instrument manufacturing
house of Bohland & Fuchs at Graslitz, Austria,
had been called to the front to serve in the Austrian
army. Carl Fuchs is well-known to the American
trade, having visited, this country last year for
several months.
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