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THE
INCREASING UKULELE DEMAND
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
47
LYON & HEALY DONAJE INSTRUMENTS
DURRO
Reported by Buegeleisen & Jacobson, of New Thirteenth Engineers' Band Equipped With
York, Particularly the "S. S. Stewart" Brand
Musical Instruments by Chicago Firm
Buegeleisen & Jacobson, New York, musical
CHICAGO, I I I . , July 30.—The Thirteenth Engi-
merchandise importers and wholesalers, report • neers, one of the military regiments which re-
a steadily increasing demand for their complete cently left this city on the first lap of a journey
line of ukuleles, particularly the "S. S. Stewart" which will wind up "Somewhere in France,"
brand. These instruments have won a host of organized a band just before they received or-
friends among lovers of Hawaiian music, and ders for their departure. Most of the instru-
at the present time dealers from coast to coast ments for the band were donated by Lyon &
are handling these ukuleles. Samuel Buegelei- Healy, and despite the fact that the band had
only recently been organized it played like a
veteran organization as the boys marched down
to the station to take their train last week.
The donation of the instruments was merely
another indication of the patriotic spirit which
has actuated the firm of Lyon & Healy, and
Stewart Ukulele, Style 2
which has also found expression in the fact
sen, head of Buegeleisen & Jacobson, states that three of the Healy boys are enlisted for
that many prominent violin houses which for- service in different branches of the army and
merly regarded the ukulele as a passing fad, or navy.
were not favorably impressed with its con-
structional qualities, have expressed their ad-
TO TIGHTEN DIAPHRAGMS
miration of the S. S. Stewart line, and have
made arrangements to carry these ukuleles in Means for Relaxing or Tightening Banjo Heads,
Etc., Recently Patented
stock at all times.
The S. S. Stewart ukulele is manufactured in
WASHINGTON. D. C, July 30.—Patent No. 1,-
three styles designated as Nos. 1, 2 and the S. S.
233,881
was last week granted to Michael
Stewart Taropatch. The No. 2 style, which is
Iucci,
Maspeth,
N. Y., for a musical instrument
shown in the accompanying illustration, is made
employing
a
diaphragm.
of selected curly koawood, with a koawood ve-
The improvements in this invention relate to
neered fingerboard. It has a handsomely inlaid
musical
instruments in which membranous dia-
top, back edge and soundhole, with black and
white celluloid; bone nut and bone saddle in phragms form an essential part, as in banjos,
the bridge. It is a strictly hand made product, drums, etc.
This invention consists essentially in the pro-
and has won considerable praise because of its
vision
of means whereby a ring bearing against
tonal merits and attractive appearance.
the under side of the diaphragm may be quickly
and conveniently adjusted to relax said dia-
SMALL GOODS REAPPRAISEMENTS phragm or to render it uniformly taut, as de-
The United States Board of General Ap- sired by the simple manipulation of a single
praisers made reappraisements of the following device arranged axially to said ring.
musical instrument imports during the past
IMPORTS IN URUGUAY
week: One shipment of saxophones, entered
at 13 francs per 100, appraised at same price,
WASHINGTON, D. C, July 30.—According to fig-
plus 10 per cent. Violin bows, imported from
Japan, entered at 1.56 yen, reappraised at 15.60 ures just published by the Bureau of Foreign
yen per dozen, and violin strings, entered at .02 and Domestic Commerce, relative to the com-
yen, reappraised at .024 yen per coil, cases and mercial activity of Uruguay, musical instru-
ments to the value of 38,265 pesos were im-
packing included.
ported into this country from January 1 to
August 31, 1916. These figures are based on
the valuation of $1,034 for a peso.
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BANJO AT CHURCH SERVICES
Soloist Plays Hymns on Banjo in Kansas City
Church
KANSAS CITY, MO., July 30.—The Independence
Boulevard Christian Church has introduced a
novelty in church music at all its services. A.
E. Brown, a banjo soloist, who has traveled as
a public performer for many years, and is now
in business in Kansas City, has been invited to
assist in furnishing the music. At first the
solemnity of the church services seemed to
take a good deal out of the life of the banjo,
but Mr. Brown solved the problem by synco-
pating the church tunes and now the measures
are filled with nickering notes which make even
hymns more scintillant and beautiful. At the
young people's meeting the banjo is much in
demand.
DEAGAN PATENTS XYLOPHONE
D. C, July 30.—Patent No. 1,-
234,140 was last week granted to John C. Dea-
gan, Chicago, 111., for a xylophone.
One feature of this invention embraces a
vibrating bar, a resonating tube disposed longi-
tudinally of the bar and having an opening in
its side that faces the bar and a valve within
the tube for regulating the effective extent of
said opening and accessible from the exterior of
the tube.
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