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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
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C. G. CONN, LTD., TO EXPAND
GIVES BAND INSTRUMENTS TO POLICE
BUESCHER CO. SEEKING SITE
Band Instrument Concern Will Erect Three
Additional Factory Buildings in Elkhart
NEW ORLEANS, LA., June 5.—Theodore Grune-
wald, of the L. Grunewald Co., Inc., piano and
musical instrument dealer, has offered to donate
band instruments worth approximately $750 to
the band which is now being organized among
the members of the Police Department here.
Mayor Behrman has accepted the offer on be-
half of the Police Department and the instru-
ments are now ready to be turned over to the
men. The instruments include four cornets,
three trombones, three basses, one large bass
drum, one pair of cymbals, six fifteen-key clari-
nets, three altos, two baritones, a snare drum
and a piccolo.
Plans for the Erection of a New Band Instru-
ment Factory Being Made
ELKHART, IND., June 5.—Owing to the unpre-
cedented prosperity being enjoyed by Elkhart
band instrument manufacturing concerns, an-
nouncement was made recently that extensive
additions will be made to the plant of C. G.
Conn, Ltd. Three more buildings, providing
additional floor space of 10,000 feet, will be
erected as soon as possible. The concern has
found its present facilities inadequate to meet
the rush of business, hence the improvements.
PATENTS VIOLIN SOUND CHAMBER
WASHINGTON, D. C , June 5.—Hedley Watty,
Patchogue, N. Y., was last week granted Patent
No. 1,184,221 for a violin, which relates more
particularly to improvements in the means for
amplifying the sound produced from string in-
struments, such means including a sound box
or casing and a transmission member for trans-
mitting vibrations to a diaphragm.
It is one of the objects of this invention to
more accurately and sensitively transmit the
vibrations from the string to the diaphragm
and therefore it is one of the objects of the
invention to provide a transmission member
which may be secured to the string in such a
manner as to take the place of the usual bridge.
The J. B. Brown Music Co., Los Angeles,
Cal., has petitioned for dissolution.
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Some dealers may Bay that they 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: cheaper
material, using less care In making them, and dis-
pensing- with the new- patented improvements.
If we did, however, Excelsior Drums would not
be the Standard as they are to-day. Write for
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A. G. SOISTMAN, Vioe-PreB. and Gen. Manager,
CAMDEN, N. J.
Tenth and Market Streets,
HEJSELEISEN
USE THE HOHNER HARMONICA
The Hohner harmonica, manufactured by M.
Hohner, is used exclusively by the vaudeville
team of Flanagan and Edwards, which recently
scored a remarkable "hit" at the Palace Theatre,
New York. The audience is left in no doubt as
to the identity of the mouth organ used in the
act, as the member of the team playing the har-
monica announces" that he will "now play a se-
lection on his Hohner." This part of the team's
work won an ovation from the audience, which
resulted in several harmonica encores. This
act is only one of a large number of vaudeville
stars using the Hohner harmonica exclusively.
ELKHART,
IND., June
5.—Officials
of
the
Buescher Band Instrument Co. are looking for
a new factory site, and if one is not found here
they probably will give serious attention to
offers they have received from one city in Illi-
nois and another in Indiana, it was announced
by F. A. Buescher, president of the concern.
It is the intention of the company to erect
a new plant which will have at least four times
the capacity of the present one. Under pres-
ent conditions President Buescher said the fac-
tory cannot turn out the orders, so rapidly are
they coming in. Mr. Buescher has about com-
pleted arrangements to install machines and
motors in the building over the Smith Furni-
ture Co.'s store on West Franklin street. He
says he will put at least sixty men to work in
this place, but it probably will be four or five
weeks before he can get the machinery.
TALENTED FAMILY GIVES CONCERT
CEDAR RAPIDS, IA., June 5.—A concert for the
benefit of the Johnson School Parent-Teachers'
Association was given at the school last week
by the Boegel family orchestra. The orchestra
is composed of eight members of the same fam-
ily, all of whom are accomplished musicians,
INVENTS IMPROVED PLECTRUM
the oldest child being but eighteen years of
WASHINGTON, D. C , June 3.—Patent No. age. The mother, Mrs. Charles W. Bogel, used
1,184,561 was last week granted to Antonio a Lyon & Healy harp, her husband playing
Napoletano, Milltown, N. J., for a Plectrum for first violin, and the children playing respective-
musical instruments, the principal object of ly the cornet, 'cello, flute, viola, clarinet and
which is to provide a simple and efficient holder violin. The members of the orchestra rehearse
for picks which will give a fine grip and per- in their home, a Sohmer grand piano being
mit the proper tremolo action.
used there. The concert was well attended and
It is a further object of the invention to pro- attracted considerable attention by reason of
vide a device of this character which is flexible, the fact that the entire program was furnished
in which the pick is removably held so as to be by the members of one family.
conveniently replaced when worn or broken
and in which the same grip is obtained as with
WOOD FOR VIOLIN BOWS
the ordinary form of shell pick.
According to information sent out by the
NEW CLARK IRISHJIARP CIRCULAR
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce,
The Clark Music Co., of Syracuse, N. Y., has the wood known as "Pao Brazil," can be sup-
just issued a new circular on the Clark Irish plied to American merchants at the rate of
harp, showing the different styles of harps about 100 tons per month up till the end of
made, with hearty endorsements from Victor September. This wood is a species of redwood,
which is suitable for the making of violin bows,
Herbert, Alice Nielson and Harold Bauer.
and is also used in the manufacture of dye-
stuffs. A local firm at Pcrnambuco states that
for some time preceding the war it sent con-
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siderable quantities of selected wood to Eu-
BOSTON, MASS.
rope for the manufacture of violin bows. The
war has automatically shut off the European
Manufacturers
market and American users of the wood will
Importers and Jobbers of
find an opportunity to obtain supplies of the
same by inquiring of .the Bureau of Domestic
and Foreign Commerce, mentioning file No.
76,469. Full information concerning Brazilian
firms dealing in the wood will be furnished.
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