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THE
MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW
VIOLIN SELECTIONS PLEASE DEALER
GOVERNMENT BEATEN IN TEST CASE
Customer Writes Enthusiastic Letter to Buege-
leisen & Jacobson Regarding Their Instru-
ments—List for Dealers Just Issued
Board of General Appraisers Overrules Regula-
tion Regarding Contingent Fees
The Government lost last week in the test
Buegeleisen & Jacobson, New York, well- case brought before the Board of General Ap.-
known musical merchandise importers and praisers raising the contention that importers'
wholesalers, received this week an interesting protests were illegal unless they contained al-
letter from one of their Western dealers, which legations to the effect that no contingent fee
in view of existing conditions in the musical arrangements had been entered into with at-
merchandise field is a source of considerable torneys prosecuting such cases. The board's
gratification to the firm. This letter reads in conclusion was reached in a majority decision
written by Judge Fischer and concurred in by
part as follows:
"The violin No. 161 1/6 is better than I ex- Judge Cooper. A dissenting opinion upholding
pected for the money. The volume of tone and the Government's claim was filed by Judge
workmanship are excellent. As you know I Waite, the third member of the customs trib-
have studied in Germany and France, and have unal sitting in the case.
The test case was in the names of the Emery-
had considerable experience in this line. I can-
not help but mention that I am very much Bird-Thayer Dry Goods Co., of St. Louis; A. A.
pleased with your selection of all the violins sent Linde & Co., and the Interocean Forwarding
Co., of New York. Summarized, the majority
me."
Buegeleisen & Jacobson have just sent out to decision held that the provision in Paragraph N
their dealers an eight-page folder listing some of Section 3 of the Tariff Act of 1913 that "no
of the merchandise which they have in stock agreement for a contingent fee in respect to
in fair quantities, or lines that are running low, recovery or refund under protest shall be law-
and can be used to excellent advantage by ful," exacting compliance therewith as a "con-
the dealers in the present shortage of merchan- dition precedent to the validity of the protest
dise. Included in the merchandise featured in and to any refund thereunder," and imposing a
this folder are S. S. Stewart guitars, guitar picks, penalty in the form of a fine, or imprisonment,
rosin, ukulele strings, guitar strings and drums. or both, for a violation thereof, did not by its
terms, expressed or implied, require an importer
to allege in his protest, and subsequently estab-
VIOLIN IMPROVEMENT PATENTED
lish by proof, that he was innocent of the crime
Recent Invention Provides Means for Relieving of entering into an unlawful agreement.
Strain in the Body of the Instrument
SWISS ORGAN BUILDING
D. C, March 5.—Patent No.
1,214,075 was last week granted to John Henry
Rice, Dallas, Tex., for a violin, one of the ob-
jects being to arrange within the body of the
instrument a pair of strings corresponding with
two of the strings on the outside of the instru-
ment both in the nature of the material of which
they are made and in length so that when the
corersponding strings inside and outside of the
body are placed under like tension they will
produce like tones when vibrated, the interior
strings constituting in addition to vibrating
means, reinforces for offsetting the strains set
up by the tensioned outside strings, so that ten-
dency of the belly of the body to buckle is over-
come while at the same time a stronger and bet-
ter tone is produced, due to the sympathetic
vibration of the interior strings.
WASHINGTON,
DURRO
TO MANUFACTURE^ SMALL GOODS
W. H. Hammack, of West Franklin street,
Hagerstown, Md., will start the manufacture of
mandolins, guitars and violins in the near fu-
ture.
Consult the universal Want
Directory of
The Review. In it advertisements are inserted
free of charge for men who desire positions.
AND
STEWART
Buegeleisen & Jacobson
T H E OLDEST AND
LARGEST MUSICAL
MERCHANDISE HOUSE
INAMERICA
Exclusively Wholesale
C.BRViVO§-S0N,lNC.
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A NEW WOOD WIND INSTRUMENT
New Instrument Has Keyboard
Arrangement
To Prevent Cross Fingering
WASHINGTON, D. C, March 5.—Patent No.
1,211,983 was last week granted to George Stern-
berg, Agana, Island of Guam, for a wood wind
musical instrument.
This invention is an improvement in wood
wind musical instruments, and the invention has
for its object (o provide a keyboard for use in
such instruments, as for instance, flutes, clari-
nets and the like, so constructed and arranged
as to permit the player to make all the notes
without shifting his fingers or changing the po-
sition thereof, and without the necessity for
cross fingering.
PATENT ON JUNING DEVICE
WASHINGTON,
D. C, March
5.—Charles C.
Woods, Denver, Colo., was last week granted
Patent No. 1,212,304 for a tuning instrument.
This invention relates to tuning instruments
for pianos, and the like; and the object of the
same is to produce an instrument of this kind
adapted to mute any two of a group of three
strings.
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