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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
TRYING TO RELEASE SHIPMENTS
Governmental Representatives Endeavoring to
Secure Shipments of Foreign Goods Bought
by American Firms Last Year
With a view to securing release for export to
this country of German and Austrian goods
bought before March IS of last year, represen-
tatives of the Government sailed for Great
Britain recently. The time limit allowed for
bringing such merchandise here expired on
June 1, when the ban was placed on further
shipments. Originally, the importers stated that
the amount of goods, really owned by Ameri-
cans and which could not be brought over here
because of the British blockade, amounted to
between $150,000,000 and $200,000,000. These
figures dwindled to very small proportions,
however, when documentary or other proofs
were called for as evidence that the goods had
been actually bought before March of last year,
or that the importers were obligated to pay for
them prior to that time. Considerable merchan-
dise came through, however, under licenses from
the British Government, some of it quite re-
cently. There is complaint that applications
for a number of licenses were not considered
or passed upon and that, in consequence, a lot
of goods which ought to come is still awaiting
shipment. Efforts will be made to secure these
and, in addition, there will be an attempt to
obtain shipments of German dyes, even if re-
stricted to.only the two shiploads which the
British long ago offered to let come through.
color and finish from anything heretofore shown.
Some of the details of construction are as fol-
Bruno & Son Report Extensive Demand for lows: Front and back heavily inlaid, also with
celluloid inlaid edges front and back and sound
the Lyra Brand and Red Top Line
hole, top and back slightly convex, fingerboard
Special exploitative work is being promoted celluloid bound. Dealers who have purchased
by C. Bruno & Son, Inc., 351-53 Fourth avenue, this consider it one of the most attractive
New York, on Model No. 1530, Hawaiian style guitars ever offered at the low price.
steel extension nut guitar, which is sold in
two grades, Lyra brand and the Red Top line.
CUSTOMS RULINGJON OLD ORGAN
PUSHING HAWAIIAN STEEL GUITARS
In a decision handed down recently the
Board of General Appraisers holds that an old
organ purchased in Canada and shipped to this
country in the name of the Pierson Schade
Forwarding Co., of St. Louis, should have
been admitted free of duty under paragraph
522 of the act of 1913 as old junk. When
entered at St. Louis the customs collector
classified this organ, taken by the importers
at a value of $150, as part payment for another
organ, as parts of musical instruments and
duty was taxed at the rate of 35 per cent, ad
valorem under paragraph 373. The Board
finds that the organ, about seventy-five years
old, was not a musical instrument nor parts
of musical instruments, but consisted merely
of old junk, as claimed by the protestants.
MOUTH ORGANS JWANTED IN AFRICA
An American consular officer in the United
Kingdom reports a possible opportunity for
the sale of a cheap line of mouth organs in
Africa. Further information may be secured
by addressing the Bureau of Foreign and Do-
mestic Commerce, either at Washington, D. C,
or at the Customs House, New York City,
and referring to Foreign Trade Opportunity
No. 21,596.
CURTIS STRING CO. INCORPORATED
The Curtis Gut String Co., of Chicago, 111.,
was recently incorporated for the purpose of
manufacturing strings for musical instruments.
The capitalization of the firm is $15,000, and
F. W. Jaeger is president and general man-
ager. The factory will be located at 163 North
Curtis street.
DURRO
DEATH OF PROMINENT COLLECTOR
Henry Thomas Henshaw, well known in mus-
ical circles of Brooklyn, N. Y., as a collector of
musical instruments and curios, passed away
last week. He was a skillful violinist, and was
a personal friend of Ysaye, (Me Bull and other
musical geniuses. He was sixty-four years of
age, and is survived by a widow, two sons
and two daughters.
VIOLINS
BOWS
STRINGS
AND
STEWART
BANJOS
MANDOLINS
GUITARS
Largest Wholesale
Musical Merchandise
House in America
Buegeleisen & Jacobson
113 UNIVERSITY PLACE
NEW YORK
WuRLlTZER
MUSICAL
Merchandise
Cincinnati
Chicago
The Lyra Brand Hawaiian Steel Guitar
This model, the illustration of which is shown
herewith, is in the Lyra brand* and is made in
the standard size of maple, stained dark ma-
hogany and variegated or shaded. It is very
highly polished and the finish in the?e two num-
bers being entirely new and novel makes a very
rich appearance. In fact, these are different in
5END FOR
CATALOG
OLIVER DITSON GO.
BOSTON, MASS.
CBruno&Soiuivc
351-53 V Ave. Newark
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Some dealers may say 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
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If we did, however, Excelsior Drums would not
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