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THE BRUNO "MATCHLESS"
LEADERS FORj\RMY BANDS
Violin " E " String With the Above Title Is Win-
ning Wide Popularity
Institute of Musical Art Has Been Training
Bandmasters for U. S. Army Under Auspices
of War Department During Past Seven Years
C. Bruno & Son, Inc., 351 Fourth avenue, New
York, musical merchandise importers and whole-
salers, have just received a supply of the
"Matchless" violin " E " string.
This string,
In connection with the demand for bands and
bandmasters, due to the war, it is interesting to
note that Frank Damrosch, director of the
Institute of Musical Art, New York, has sent
out the following communication which speaks
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for itself:
"Concerning the reports which from time to
time appear in the newspapers that it is con-
templated to establish a training center for
band leaders of the Army and Navy, it should
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be stated that the Institute of Musical Art has
been training bandmasters for the United States
To avoid the substitution of many worth-
less imitations of this celebrated String,
Army under the auspices of the War Depart-
observe the name and address.
ment during the past seven years.
"In 1910 the trustees of the institute offered
to the War Department the disposition of ten
C. BRUNO & SON, Inc.
free scholarships for the purpose of educating
351-353 Fourth Avenue
army band musicians for the post of band
NEW YORK
leader. This offer was accepted by the War
Department and arrangements were made to
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conduct the instruction partly at Fort Jay on
which is of English manufacture, has achieved
Governors Island and partly at the Institute of
wide popularity in this country, but since the
Musical Art, 120 Claremont avenue, New York.
outbreak of the war shipments have been far
"Every year five army band musicians have
below the demand of the trade. The house of
been selected from a large number of applicants
Bruno, therefore, considers itself very fortunate
by competitive examination, and these have re-
to be able to offer its dealers this string at
mained under very comprehensive and exacting
this time.
instruction for a period of two years, so that ten
The "Matchless" violin " E " string is general-
students have been under training every year.
ly recognized by violinists as a string of unusual
quality, and many well-known violinists have There are now twenty-six graduates of this
written to C. Bruno & Son, Inc., expressing department of the institute serving as band
their enthusiasm regarding the many merits of leaders in various organizations of the Regular
Army, and their work has received the highest
this string.
commendation of their commanding officers.
"It is hoped and believed that ultimately the
FINGER BOARD_FOR VIOLINS
Government will find it desirable to establish
Fretted Finger Board for Use on Stringed In- its own school for the training of band musicians
struments Patented Recently
and band leaders, but until this plan is carried
out the Institute of Musical Art stands ready
WASHINGTON, D. C. October 16.—Patent No.
1,237,872 was last week granted to Walter M. to aid the Government to the utmost of its
Crow, Spencer, Ind., for a finger board for vio- ability in preparing competent band leaders.
"Inasmuch as the motive which prompted the
lins and the like.-
trustees
of the Institute of Musical Art to make
The main feature of the invention consists
of frets supplied on the outer portion of the this offer to the War Department was a purely
finger board next to the head of the instrument patriotic one and was made long before there
so as to guide the movement of the fingers, •was any hint of war, it seems only right to let
while the inner portion of the finger board or the public know that the needs of the Army in
that part next to the body of the instrument this direction are being provided for to the ex-
will be plain to permit the more accurate finger- tent which our Government requires, and that
ing in the higher positions.
To accomplish therefore additional schools do not seem to be
this improvement and still retain accurate tone necessary.'
the plain portion of the finger board is raised
so that its surface will be substantially on the
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same level as the top of the frets so that when
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the string is pressed down by the finger it will
engage either the top of the frets or the sur-
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face of the plain portion of the finger board
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which, being on the same level, will not change
the tension of the strings and, therefore, not
affect the tone of the instrument in changing
from the fretted portion to the plain portion of
the finger board.
"MATCHLESS"
Violin "ET String.
Black Diamond
Strings
THE WORLD'S BEST
RUNO
T H E OLDEST AND
LARGEST MUSICAL
MERCHANDISE HOUSE
IN AMERICA
Exclusively Wholesale
National Musical String Co.
351-53FOVRTHAVE.NEWYORKCITY
Nev/ Brunswick, N. J.
Victor Distributors
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AND
STEWART
Largest Wholesale
Musical Merchandise
House in America
Buegeleisen & Jacobson
113 University Place
NEW YORK
H. L. HUNT APPEARS AS SOLOIST
Manager of Musical Merchandise Department of
C. H. Ditson & Co. Featured at Concert
At the Grand Festival Concert of the Scre-
naders, held on Columbus Day at New London,
Conn., Harry Lawrence Hunt, manager of the
musical merchandise department of C. H. Ditson
& Co., 8 East Thirty-fourth street, New York,
was the tenor soloist of the evening. Mr. Hunt
was heartily applauded for the two selections
that he sang, and as an encore used "Your Flag
and My Flag," by F.milie Frances Bauer. Copies
of the song were afterwards sold by four sailors
and the money obtained was given to the Petty
Comforts for Soldiers and Sailors Committee
of the National League for Woman's Service, to
which organization a large part of the proceeds
of the affair was donated as well.
The concert was a great success and in spite
of the inclement weather played to a crowded
house and had to repeat the program the next
evening at the Mohican Hotel in New London.
The Serenaders is an organization with
branches in most of the large cities. Players of
mandolins, guitars and banjos meet weekly and
play together. The atmosphere of these meetings
is very democratic. The newest beginner is
apt to find himself seated next to one of the
most noted soloists in the country.
OLIVER DITSON GO.
BOSTON, MASS.
Manufacturer*
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