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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
114
SHOULD ORDER GOODS AT OfSCE
Samuel Buegeleiscn Impresses on Dealers Who
Intend to Visit the Conventions the Impor-
tance of the Immediate Ordering of Stock
"We are always very glad when the annual
convention of the piano merchants is held in
New York," said Samuel Bueg-eleisen, head of
Buegeleisen & Jacobson, New York, prominent
musical merchandise house, "for these conven-
Samuel Buegeleisen
tions give us an opportunity to personally greet
many of our clients during their stay in this
city. Jn view of general conditions this year
we hope that the visiting dealers will take due
cognizance of the uncertainty of the musical
merchandise situation and devote a little time
to this branch of their business.
"We have advised many of our dealers to come
to New York prepared to place orders for mu-
sical merchandise. Whether they place their
orders with us or someone else is not the ques-
tion, but they should realize the importance of
ordering goods at the present time.
"During the past year or two we have scoured
every part of the world and wherever we were
able to secure musical merchandise of any kind
or description, paid practically any figure in or-
der to supply the dealer regardless of price or
profit.
However, the possibility of securing
even this very limited supply of merchandise
is becoming smaller every day, particularly in
view of the fact that the Government has placed
an embargo on our industry, prohibiting the im-
portation of musical merchandise indefinitely.
"In addition to the tremendous scarcity of im-
ported merchandise the shortage of domestic
merchandise is becoming more accentuated day
by day. This is accounted for by the scarcity
of labor and of raw materials. A large pro-
portion of the raw materials incidental to the
manufacture of musical merchand.se is now be-
ing used by the Government, and our country's
requirements naturally take precedence over
everything else.
"We believe it our duty to impress upon our
friends in the trade the true status of the musical
merchandise situation at the present time, and
can only repeat our advice that the dealers come
to New York prepared to anticipate their require-
ments as much as possible. We have suggested
to the trade from time to time that they place
their orders well in advance, as we realized long
ago that the demand for merchandise would be
far in excess of the supply. Incidentally, I
might mention that many of the dealers who
have taken this advice have benefited in a prac-
tical way, for in quite a number of instances we
bought back merchandise that we had sold six
months previously and paid current retail prices
in order to provide ourselves with some badly
needed stock.
"We will keep 'open house' during convention
week, and our sales staff will be at the disposal
of the dealers, and co-operate with them in every
possible way during their stay in New York."
MAY
25, 1918
A NEW STRING TIGHTENING DEVICE
Patent
Granted on Means for Tightening
Strings on Fretted Instruments
WASHINGTON, D. C, May 20.—Edwin David
Wilber, Detroit, Mich., was last week granted
Patent No. 1,259,062 for a stringed musical in-
strument, one of the objects of which is to im-
prove, simplify and render more practical the
stringed musical instrument, set forth, illus-
trated and claimed in the United States Patent
No. 1,168,153, issued to Nathaniel Richard Bos-
well and Edwin David Wilber upon the eleventh
day of January, 1916. In brief the broad idea
of the invention consists in the employment of
the body having a neck and a head, and a series
of strings stretched over the sounding board
of the body and tuned, there being means to
be manipulated by the fingers of the operator
for loosening and tightening said strings, where-
by various slide notes may be played, for in-
stance major chords and the augmented fifth
chord of G when the strings are played open.
Also a relative minor chord of G, the dominant
seventh chord of C, the relative diminished
chord of G, and the relative minor chord of E
fiat, and other chords may be played, especially
when said movable finger in the form of a steel
bar in the hand of a player is set across certain
selected strings opposite selected frets, while
plucking or twanging such fretted and non-
fretted strings.
A further object of the invention is the pro-
vision of tightening means for each and every
string in lieu of the usual tail piece, to be oper-
ated by manipulating various buttons, for rais-
ing the pitch of the different strings, whereby
slides of different pitch may be sounded.
A further object of the invention is to pro-
vide means for use on a musical stringed instru-
ment of the kind set forth, whereby the num-
ber of strings as used on the instrument shown,
set forth and claimed in said Patent No. 1,168,-
153 may be reduced, and yet permit of the same
result as attained in said patent.
A Musical Merchandise Show
The "House of Bruno*' extends a cordial invitation to the music
dealers to call at their warerooms during Convention Week.
They will find here a complete "show" of the most desirable and
salable lines of musical merchandise.
This merchandise is becoming scarcer day by day and a visit to
our show-rooms at this time will enable the dealers to select their
stocks under ideal conditions, and take advantage of the assistance
and experience of our sales staff.
We Sell Exclusively to the Trade
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