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Music Trade Review

Issue: 1917 Vol. 64 N. 1

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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
attributed to the up-to-date methods and sys-
tems which are in vogue at the factory. In
The Keynotes of the Manufacturing Activities every department of the Heineman organization
at the Elyria Plant of the Otto Heineman one can find a spirit of co-operation which makes
the Heineman organization a model one in every
Phonograph Co.
respect.
One of the interesting features of the day's
ELYRIA, O., January 2.—Efficiency is the key-
note of the manufacturing activities at the plant work at the "Motor of Quality" factory is the
of the Otto Heineman Phonograph Supply Co. daily gathering of the department heads and
foremen.
At t h e s e
meetings many inter-
esting discussions are
held involving various
problems a n d plans,
and every man present
takes a personal inter-
est in the solution of
these different matters.
The
accompanying
illustration will give a
fair idea of the magni-
tude of the Heineman
factory, for every man
shown in the photo-
graph is a department
head or
foreman.
These men are all ex-
perts in their respec-
tive fields, and many of
them are recognized as
•
leaders in the practical
Heineman Department Heads in Conference
In fact a considerable portion of this com- end of the motor manufacturing industry be-
pany's remarkable success the past year may be cause of their wide experience.
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EFFICIENCY AND COOPERATION
"PAN AND HIS PIPES" PUBLISHED
New Volume Issued by Educational Department
of Victor Co. Has List of Suitable Illustra-
tive Records Following Stories for Children
—An Interesting and Valuable Volume
A most interesting addition to the growing
list of Victor literature is a beautiful little vol-
ume entitled: "Pan and His Pipes and Other
Tales for Children," by Katherine Dunlap
Cather, and published by the educational de-
partment of the Victor Talking Machine Co.
The little volume has a foreword by Frances
Elliott Clark, director of the Victor Co.'s edu-
cational department.
The stories include:
"Pan and His Pipes," "The Tortoise That Gave
the World Music," "The Holy Bird," "The
Harp King Alfred Played," "Stephen, the Child
Crusader," "When Knighthood Was in Flower,"
"The Violin Makers of Cremona," "A Star and
a Song," "The Holy Grail," and "The Song of
Hiawatha."
The text is well written and designed to be
understandable and thoroughly interesting to
the little ones. Each story is suitably illus-
trated. Perhaps the most interesting feature
of "Pan and His Pipes" is the suggestive list
of Victor records given after each story. The
story of "Pan and His Pipes," for instance, is
followed by a list of sixteen selections played
on wood-wind instruments, descended from the
Pipes of Pan. The story of the tortoise is fol-
lowed by selections on instruments descended
from the ancient lyre. Similarly the story of
"The Violin Makers of Cremona" is followed
by a list of selections by violin and 'cello, and
the story of "Stephen, the Child Crusader," is
accompanied by a list of songs and instrumental
numbers, played on a variety of instruments such
as the mandolin, guitar, etc., descended from
the lute which was brought by the Crusaders
from the East.
On the whole the volume is interesting not
only for the character of the contents, but for
the originality that has been displayed in its
compilation, and it is safe to predict for it a
wide use not only in the schoolroom, but in
the private nursery and music room.
In commenting upon "Pan and His Pipes"
Mrs. Frances E. Clark, director of the educa-
tional department of the Victor Co., said:
"The little book is the result of plans which
we have had for two years or more to connect
the well-known myths of the discovery of mu-
sical instruments with their present day de-
scendants. Everybody knows the myth of the
discovery of the membrane tortoise shell which
gave us the lyre, but not one person in hun-
dreds ever stopped to think whatever became
of the lyre nor to realize that it was metamor-
phosed into the harp, the spinet, the harpsi-
chord and the modern piano. The same inter-
esting tracing of the pan pipes and the wood
wind section of the orchestra and our pipe or-
gan is interesting."
Mrs. Cather, who wrote the stories under
Mrs. Clark's direction and plan, is a teacher
of English in San Jose, Cal., and has written
a number of stories for St. Nicholas and other
magazines.
VISITORS AT COLUMBIA OFFICES
Philadelphia and Baltimore Sales Staffs Also
Visit Factory at Bridgeport—Some New
Recordings by Vernon Stiles Announced
The members of the Philadelphia and Balti-
more sales staffs of the Columbia Graphophone
Co. were visitors last week at the executive
offices of the company, spending some time in
conference with Central Sales Manager Bradt
and United States Manager Fuhri. They also
visited the Columbia factory at Bridgeport,
Conn., and were amazed at the remarkable
strides which have been made at the plant the
past year. They also called at the recording
laboratory and conferred with Anton Heindl,
manager of the international record department,
regarding the plans which this department has
in mind for the coming year.
One of the interesting features of the Jan-
ary supplement of new Columbia records is the
announcement of the first recordings by Ver-
non Stiles, a leading American tenor. Mr.
Stiles has not only won success in this country
but has also appeared in operatic triumphs in
Vienna, Dresden, Bayreuth and Petrograd. He
won high praise in his singing of "Parsifal" with
the Chicago Grand Opera Co., and in solo work
with the New York Symphony Orchestra, and
in open-air Wagnerian productions by the
Metropolitan Opera Co. His first Columbia
record consists of the following popular selec-
tions, "The Sunshine of Your Smile" and "The
Old Refrain."
ENLARGES TALKER DEPARTMENT
E. M. Reynolds, of Canton, 111., has enlarged
his talking machine department, and now has
one large room for the display of Edison Dia-
mond Disc phonographs and another demontsra-
tion room where a full line of Columbia Grafo-
nolas are shown.
Increase Your
Income
Piano merchants, who
have not investigated
the talking machine
field, will find that the
subject is one of deep
interest to them and
they will also learn that
talking machines con-
stitute a line which can
be admirably blended
with piano selling.
The advance that has
been m a d e in this
special field has been
phenomenal and every
dealer w h o desires
s p e c i f ic information
concerning talking ma-
chines should receive
The Talking Machine
World regularly.
This is the only publi-
cation in A m e r i c a
devoted exclusively to
the interests of the talk-
ing machine, and each
issue contains a vast
fund of valuable in-
formation which the
talking machine job-
bers and dealers say is
worth ten times the cost
of the paper to them.
You can receive the
paper regularly at a cost
of $1.00 a year and we
know of no manner in
which $1.00 can be ex-
pended which will sup-
ply as much valuable
information.
EDWARD LYMAN BILL
Publisher
373 Fourth Ave.
NEW YORK
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MUSIC TRADE
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TROUBLES OF IMPORTERS
bers of the board as to precise values at dates
of shipment.
Difficulties in the Way of Fixing Market Values
Much time and money has been lost to im-
Abroad Continues to Be Discussed
porters in trying to get depositions and other
documents attesting the correct prices of mer-
The year just past was one of perplexities to chandise, only to lose their appeals through
both merchants and Government officials ow- conflicting testimony submitted by the Govern-
ing to the constant shifts in prices on foreign ment. Many of these merchants are hoping
merchandise subject to ad valorem duties. The that the present confusion attaching to market
changes in prices of many commodities fol- prices may come to an end by the establish-
lowed in such rapid succession that it often ment of peace in the course of the New Year.
happened that importers were as much at sea
as to the values at which goods should be en-
B1RKEL CO. EQUIPS ENTIRE BAND
tered as were the appraising officers.
Los ANGELES, CAL., December 30.—The Geo. J.
In speaking of the difficulties caused customs Birkel Co., of this city, has received an order
officials by the war and the mounting prices of for the complete equipment of a new band, of
commodities, Charles W. Runn, Deputy Ap- fifty-nine pieces, at Calexico, Cal. All of the
praiser of the Port, said:
instruments are to be of the C. G. Conn make,
"Although price conditions in foreign mar- and will reach a total cost of about $5,000. The
kets were during the year subject to the most order calls for immediate delivery.
erratic and frequent changes, upward in most
The Birkel company is the exclusive Conn
cases, we feel the American Consuls stationed representative for this territory. It secured the
abroad, as well as the special commissioners of agency, with the demise of the Holmes Music
the Treasury Department located in foreign Co., only a few months ago, and has been do-
countries, made every effort to keep the ap- ing quite an extensive business since then with
praising officials here informed of fluctuations. the line. The department is under the manage-
The Appraiser's office has received monthly re- ment of Fred C. Hall, who also managed the
ports on the markets, and when necessity re- department for the Holmes company.
quired even more frequent reports.
"At the same time, it was not an easy mat-
HARP ATTACHMENTS PATENTED
ter to keep track of price shifts in every case.
WASHINGTON",
D. C-, January 2.—Patent No.
Of course, a great deal of the merchandise en-
tering this country in 1916 consisted of crude 1,210,015 was last week granted to Adolph J.
materials which are duty free. This naturally Strandberg and Knute Breva, Duluth, Minn.,
relieved the customs men from fixing values for a harp.
An object of the present invention is to pro-
for dutiable purposes. On the whole, it was,
perhaps, fortunate that with prices as they duce such an instrument which has certain aux-
were, we were spared the task of appraising the iliary attachments whereby the scope of the
usual amount of manufactured goods since the instrument may be considerably increased by
war in Europe curtailed imports of this kind. tuning the instrument to various keys.
It can be said, I think, without fear of contra-
diction, that all customs officers will be thank- INVENTS DRUM AND CYMBAL BEATER
ful if peace comes in 1917 with at least a grad-
WASHINGTON, D. C, January 2.—Robert A.
ual return to something approaching what Bessinger, Wellington, O., was last week
might be termed normal conditions."
granted Patent No. 1,209,804 for a drum and
At the offices of the Board of General Ap- cymbal beater, and has for its object to pro-
praisers it was said this week that never in the vide an improved device for the purpose of
life of the tribunal, which extends back to 1890, simultaneously beating a drum and a cymbal by
had so many disputes over market values been means of hammers operated by a foot lever.
filed as in the past year. As a matter of fact,
George Hamlin, during one of his horseback
more reappraisement appeals are pending at the
present time than had been filed in any preced- rides at Lake Placid, came across a solitary
ing five-year period. Many importers find it old man, who, seated in the doorway of his
extremely difficult to obtain evidence from cabin, was fiddling away for dear life, quite
abroad as to certain lines satisfying the mem- regardless of such trifling conventionalities as
time and tune. Hamlin listened a while to the
cacophony of sound in amusement and then
inquired casually, "How do you tune your vio-
lin?"
The reply came with refreshing in-
genuousness: "I don't tune it—it don't sound
AND
right if I do."
DURRO
STEWART
Largest Wholesale
Musical Merchandise
House in America
Buegeleisen & Jacobson
113 University Place
NEW YORK
OLIVER DITSON GO.
BOSTON, MASS.
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Importers and Jobbers of
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HARP UKULELE IN GREAT DEMAND
Buegeleisen & Jacobson Predict This Instru-
ment Will Prove Great Favorite
"The demand for our new harp ukulele has
exceeded all expectations," said Samuel Bue-
geleisen, of Buegeleisen & Jacobson, New York,
in a recent chat with The Review. "When we
introduced this new instrument a few weeks
ago we believed that it would be well received
by the trade, as the popularity of the ukulele
family has been one of the outstanding features
of this year's musical merchandise business.
Our dealers, however, have been ordering this
new harp ukulele in far larger quantities than
we had anticipated, and judging from all indi-
cations, the ukulele type of instrument will en-
joy an even greater degree of popularity in 1917
than it did the past year.
"We are making plans to give our dealers
every possible co-operation during the coming
year, although the musical merchandise situa-
tion has not improved in any way during the
past few weeks, but, on the contrary, has steadily
grown more serious. The demand for domestic
merchandise has swamped the manufacturers,
while imported goods are out of the market
altogether. We wish to thank our dealers for
their patronage the past year, and hope that the
new year will find the musical merchandise in-
dustry enjoying a steady wave of prosperity."
REPORTS GOOD CHRISTMAS TRADE
Small Goods Much in Demand in Kansas City,
Says C. A. Renie
C. A. Renie, of the Renie Musicians' Supplies
Store, in Kansas City, says Christmas brought
him a good business in violins, guitars and
ukuleles. It also stimulated the repair work.
A. H. Carr, who has charge of the repairing,
and who makes new violins, has been having
his hands full for the past few weeks. He has
just finished repairing a violin for L,. H. Reit-
terskamp, of St. Louis. This violin is valued
at $4,000, and is a genuine Stradivari of the
earliest make.
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