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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
WURLITZER "AMERICAN" CORNET
Popular with Musical Merchandise Trade—Has
Many Important Merits to Recommend It.
One of the features of the voluminous catalog
issued by the Rudolph Wurlitzer Co., Cincinnati,
O., to feature its complete line of musical mer-
chandise is the space devoted to the various brands
of band instruments which are merchandised by
this prominent concern. The Rudolph Wurlitzer
Co. has for many years made a specialty of its
band instrument department, and its success in
this field is a tribute to the merit and quality of
the instruments it handles.
One of the most popular instruments in the
Wurlitzer catalog is the Wurlitzer American long
Model Bb cornet. This instrument achieved suc-
cess from the first moment it was presented to
the trade, and both tonally and constructionally
has won the unstinted praise of cornetists in all
parts of the country.
The catalog description of this cornet follows:
"Tune—it is in perfect tune throughout the en-
tire register in either high or low pitch, Bb or A.
It is positively not necessary to favor certain notes
which might be flat or sharp. Model—extremely
graceful in appearance. The perfect and gradual
taper in the tubing from mouthpiece to bell is a
highly desirable feature, and has been perfected
only after the most exhaustive tests and experi-
ments to determine on the ideal proportions. The
result is correct intonation, tone quality and ease
of blowing. Valve action—carefully and accurate-
ly adiusted and fitted, insuring a free and smooth
working action, responsive to the lightest touch
and never failing at a critical moment. Pitch—
the cornet is built in high pitch, with extra low
pitch slide, which is furnished free of charge
with the instrument, or at the purchaser's option
this cornet can be furnished in low pitch only,
the additional length being in the bell."
VIOLIN IN SAFE DEPOSIT VAULT.
and shortly after his arrival there lie discovered
that the damp atmosphere was affecting the valua-
ble instrument, so on the advise of a leading violin
dealer the "Strad" was tucked away in a strong
box, where it will have a vacation of its own until
October.
Weymann Mandolutes and
"Keystone State" Instruments
are Popular the
World Over
1010 Ckertnot St., PkikdelphU, Pa.
CH. WEISS
Black Diamond
Strings
EXCELSIOR DRUM WORKS
A. G. SOISTMAJT, Vice-Pres. and Gen. Manager,
Tenth and Market Streets,
CAMDEN, K. J.
CBrimo&Soiunc
393 Broadway
New York
351-53 4? Ave. Newark
Manufacturers, Importers
Publishers. Largest and
most complete stock of
Musical Merchan-
d i s e in t h e
trade.
THE WORLD'S BEST
others.
Excelsior drums cost more 'because they are
worth more. Cost more to make.
We could make them cost less by using 1 cheaper
material, use less care in making- them, and dis-
pense with the new patented improvements.
If we did, however, Excelsior Brums would not
be the Standard as they are to-day. Write for
catalogue.
The oldest arvd
largest musical
merchandise house
in America -*--
Harmonicas
Metallas
Flutas
Incorporated
Manufacturers of
The Famous
EXCELSIOR
DRUMS ™ STANDARD
Some dealers may say that they coBt more than
(Special to The Review.)
WEISS
WEYMANN&SON
New Brunswick, N. J.
Johns Hopkins Instructor Working on Machine
to Measure Violin Tunes.
BALTIMORE, MD., August 24.—Dr. Clarence Wil-
son Hewlett, assistant instructor in physics at Johns
C. Q. CONN, LTD., INCORPORATED. Hopkins Universily, who will b: the Johnston
scholar at the university next season, is at work
Takes Over Business and Property of C. G.
this summer trying to perfect a machine that will
Conn,, Inc., and Truth Publishing Co. of Elk-
measure the tones of violins, thus making it pos-
hardt, Ind.—Capitalized at $1,000,000.
sible to tell whether any violin tested is good or
bad. He hopes to make it possible also to test sing-
(Special to The Review.")
ing voices with the same machine.
ELKHART, IND., August 23.—C. G. Conn, Ltd.,
Dr. Hewlett has been at work on the device for
manufacturer of musical instruments, this city, has
some
time. The invention itself is not his, but the
filed papers of incorporation at Indianapolis and
abandoned idea of Dr. P. H. Edwards, now a
has taken over the entire business and property of
teacher in India, who was at Hopkins about seven
C. G. Conn, Inc., and the Truth Publishing Co., to-
years ago. When Dr. Hewlett entered Hopkins as
gether with other real estate and property owned
by Charles G. Conn. The capital of the new com- a student he interested himself in the machine
which Dr. Edwards had started to make.
pany is placed at $1,000,000, and the directors are
By degrees he has got it to the point where its
George W. Straub, William W. White and John
ultimate
perfection seems assured, although he con-
M. Eagle.
siders it still in the experimental stage. During his
last two years as a student at Hopkins Dr. Hewlett
"LEFT HANDED FIDDLERS."
worked a great deal on the machine.
Dr. Hewlett was graduated from the North Car-
Michigan's leading music teachers feel that some-
olina Agricultural and Mechanical College in 1000.
thing must be done to keep "left handed fiddlers"
and their ilk out of the profession. The idea is to He holds the degrees of master of arts and doctor
of philosophy from Hopkins.
have a bill passed creating a State board of
musicians, or something, before which the aspirants
H. L. HUNT ON "FURLOUGH."
must go and pass an examination.—A Detroit
H. L. Hunt, manager of the musical merchan-
Dispatch.
dise department of Charles H. Ditson & Co., left
Just cause of repressive legislation; the "left
Friday for a few weeks' well-deserved rest and,
handed fiddler" is as great a peril to the "profes-
sion" as the erratic and temperamental "southpaw" in accordance with his usual plans, is spending a
few days at the Boston headquarters of the com-
is to baseball.
pany. Mr. Hunt will visit Chicago, 111., for the
remainder of his vacation, calling at the offices
The sheet music, musical instrument and Victor
talking machine departments of Mills & Roach. of Lyon & Healy, whose products are handled if
San Francisco. Cal., have been taken over" by Milo the local Ditson department.
A. Roach, and is now under the management of
Miss Jessie McCoy.
Mischa Elman, the young Russian violinist, has
locked his Stiadivarius fiddle in a safe deposit
vault. Elman is summering at Avon-by-the-Sea,
lational Musical String Co.
VIOLIN TONE PRODUCER.
Mod ;rn
Service
AUGUST MULLER
and J. HEBERLEIN, VIO-
LINS, VIOLAS AND CELLOS
M1TTENWALD VIOLIN STRINGS.
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