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THE
MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW
67
IMPROVEMENTS ON ZITHERS
WHEN NEW RATES APPLY
FEATURING THE CLARK IRISH HARP
Patents Granted for Tone-Softening Device,
New Playing Attachment and Enlarged Scale
for Instruments of This Type
New Treasury Rules in Cases of Changed
Classifications Recently Announced
SYRACUSE, N. Y., July 24.—The Clark Music Co.,
of 416 South Salina street, this city, has recently
been featuring a photograph of the smallest
Clark Irish harp and the largest Lyon & Healy
model, showing little Miss Helen Agan, three
and one-half years of age, playing the small
harp. The Clark Irish harp offers an oppor-
tunity to children of tender years to learn some-
thing of music and musical instruments, and is
having a rapidly increasing sale among music
lovers all over the country.
WASHINGTON, I). C, July 24.—The Phonoharp
Co., of East Boston, Mass., are the owners of
three patents, through assignment by Henry
C. Marx, Palmer, Kan., of Patents Nos. 1,190,-
782, 1,190,783, 1,190,784 respectively.
Patent No. 1,190,782, for a chord-strings of a
zither," relates to that type of stringed instru-
ment in which there is a series of melody
strings arranged in a scale, usually two octaves,
and group of chord strings. Such instruments
are usually of the toy variety, and are limited
in the number of chord and melody strings so
that compositions can be played in only one or
possibly two keys.
The object of this invention is to produce a
zither having the melody strings arranged to
form a complete chromatic scale, so that a musi-
cal composition in any key may be played there-
on, and having the chord strings arranged in
independent groups so that the tonic, dominant
and sub-dominant chords for any key may be
struck by a player having little musical knowl-
edge.
Patent No. 1,190,783, for a keyed zither. One
of the objects of this invention is to provide a
playing attachment which may be used in con-
nection with an instrument strung to produce
the tones of a chromatic scale, in which the
keys may be manipulated without interfering
with each other and yet without materially in-
creasing the standard width of the instrument.
Patent No. 1.190,784 for a tone-softening at-
tachment for zithers, the object of which is to
provide a tone-softening attachment for string-
and-hammcr musical instruments.
When an operating hammer strikes the string,
the tone produced thereby, is relatively loud
and brilliant, and it is sometimes desirable to
give expression to the playing by softening the
tones produced by the strings. Such softening
effect may be caused by interposing a piece of
soft material between the hammer and string
so that when the hammer is operated it will
strike the soft material instead of striking the
string, and the impact of the hammer will be
lessened by transmission through the same.
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DURRO
AND
STEWART
The Treasury Department has issued instruc-
tions to collectors and other officers of the cus-
toms relative to the application of new rates
in changes in classification. The department's
action resulted after considering for several
months question No. 52 of the Collectors' con-
ference held in this city at the Cutsom House
last October. The question submitted to the
Treasury for action was as follows:
"Suggested that when classification is changed
to a lower rate, following department's instruc-
tions or information from New York or some
other port, such lower rate should apply to all
invoices reported on and not liquidated within
thirty days; and that when classification is
changed to a higher rate such change is applied
to all unliquidated invoices."
In adopting the suggestion, Assistant Secre-
tary Peters ruled that where the classification
of an article of merchandise was changed to a
lower rate, under the department's instructions
or upon information as to the proper classification
received from New York or otherwise, such
lower rate of duty shall be applied to all un-
liquidated entries, and to all protested entries
involving the same issue which have not been
forwarded to the Board of General Appraisers.
Classification of an article of merchandise
at a higher rate of duty, under the same condi-
tions, where it appears that the practice at the
various ports has not been uniform, is to be ap-
plied to all entries not liquidated until on or
after the date of the department's instructions
or receipt of the information if other than by
department's instructions, covering such mer-
chandise imported prior thereto and to all simi-
lar merchandise imported or withdrawn from
warehouse or general order on and after such
dates.
Customs officials were instructed that classi-
fication at a higher rate of duty, where it ap-
pears that the practice at the various ports has
been uniform and at a lower rate, should not
be made until the question has been referred to
the department and instructions issued in ac-
cordance with the usual practice of the secre-
tary's office.
ELKHART, IND., July 22.—The G. C. Conn Co.,
manufacturer of band instruments, has an-
nounced that plans have been completed for
erecting homes for the employes and selling
them on the installment plan to the workers
in the big band instrument factory there.
BOSTON. MAS"!
113 University Place
NEW
Importers and Jobbers of
YORK
MUSICAL MERCHANDISE IN DEMAND
TORONTO, CAN., July 24.—Following the resigna-
tion of S. A. P. Clarke, who has been manager
of Beare & Sons' Canadian business since Sep-
tember, 1914, William J. Stumpf has taken Mr.
Clarke's place on the road. Mr. Stumpf, late
of Whaley Royce & Co.'s staff, has had a long
and varied experience in the small goods trade
and has previously traveled both Eastern and
Western Canada with musical merchandise
lines. Miss Jennie Plaxton, who has had charge
of the office and inside work, continues her
duties in that capacity. As a result of Walter
Beare's foresight in going on a buying trip
shortly after the outbreak of war in the fall of
1914 to Italy, France and Switzerland, the firm
is exceptionally well stocked in all lines.
The oldest ai\d
largest musical
merchandise house
in America —
5END FOR
CATALOG
C.Bruno &5oiunc
Manufacturers
Buegeleisen & Jacob son
According to the United States Consul
Lucien Memminger, at Madras, India, the im-
porters in that country have had considerable
difficulty as the result of the failure of Ameri-
can manufacturers to observe the provisions of
the Merchandise Marks Act of British India,
?nd have been forced to pay numerous fines.
The act provides that the inscription "Made in
U. S- A." must appear on all articles or their
containers whenever any inscription in English
appears. It has been held that detachable slips
bearing the "Made in U. S. A." mark are not
sufficient and American exporters of musical
merchandise should keep this in mind.
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