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THE
JUNE IS, 1918
MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW
69
ing people. Of all the great white peoples of
the world, they are the silent ones. 'Just why
The Chicago Tribune Points Out the Value of Music in Building and Maintaining a High Morale the American has not yet become a singing ani-
mal,' says Walter R. Spalding, in an article on
Among Our Troops in an Interesting Editorial—What Sousa Has Done in the Navy
'Music a Necessary Part of the Soldier's Equip-
Lieutenant John Philip Sousa is doing great supposed to cause the cisterns of our emotions ment,' in The Outlook, 'is a difficult matter to
work for the American Navy in stimulating in- to well over. As a matter of fact, most rhet- explain, although doubtless if sufficient time
terest in band music, and it is too bad that the oric bores most auditors into a stupor. Par- were taken, reasonable causes might be sug-
same is not done for the army. There is a ticularly does it bore the men in uniform to have gested; but at any rate it is a fact.'
"Music is a necessary part of the soldier's
crying need for more music for the army, and a civilian pompously tell them what they are
equipment—not of his entertainment. It is
General Pershing has so stated. Music for lighting for.
the soldiers is an absolute essential, and this
"Music would do what we think oratory does more Jtesential than that, although his entertain-
subject is treated of so interestingly and so or what we try to do by speechmaking. There ment is important enough. It is essential as
comprehensively by the Chicago Tribune in an is not enough music in the army. Music is not a ration, almost as important as a ration of
editorial of June 8, that it makes timely read- an esthetic decoration of military life. It is an food.
ing for this department of The Review:
"When we are wiser in military matters we
essential in morale and wholesome soldiery liv-
"Recently an American regiment of engineers ing. Americans are particularly inclined to neg- shall have more bands, all the bands the troops
paraded in the streets of London. The Ameri- lect it because they are notoriously not a sing- need, and they will do enormous service."
cans had one band. The British gave them two
more, two bands from famous regiments. Thus
AN AUTOMATIC VIOLIN PLAYER
BAND INSTRUMENTS IN DEMAND
each battalion had music, stirring music, to put
Patent Granted on Pneumatic Mechanism for St. Louis Dealers Report Many Orders for Band
pep in the men.
Automatically Playing the Violin
Instruments at the Present Time
"There has been complaint that the American
army is not adequately provided with music.
WASHINGTON, D. C, June 10.—Ledra M. Law-
ST. LOUIS, MO., June 10—For three months there
We may safely assume that it is not. That
assumption rests upon a knowledge of American ton, North Collins, N. Y., was last week granted have been two or three bands on the streets of
ineptitude in certain emotional essentials of Patent No. 1,266,028 for an automatic violin the city every day. Detachments of the Great
life. The fact that every one knows what a player which has for its primary object to pro- Lakes Training Station band, running from
band will do for and to masses of men never vide a music sheet actuating pneumatically con- twenty to two hundred and forty members, have
operates to control any one's ideas or acts when trolled means for operating a plurality of violin been here constantly, assisting with recruiting,
bows.
Red Cross and Liberty Loan drives and the peo-
the need is to provide bands.
It is an additional object of the invention to ple have heard more of the Sousa music than
"Here in Chicago we have seen parades
which ought to have had spectacular and senti- provide improved means for alternately moving ever before. This has had a big result on the
mental value, value to the morale of the city, the bows in opposite directions by air pressure sales of both music rolls and records, as well as
fall utterly flat because they were not managed and suction, and means for controlling the band instruments.
operation of said latter means including mechan-
It also has taught St. Louis folk to appreciate
with any regard for the emotional qualities.
"There are people who still recall with a ical elements movably mounted upon a tracker band and martial music more than ever. Being
sense of depression what happened when our board and engaged and actuated by a perforated a southern city, there was, to many persons who
came here from the North, a lack of national
draft men came back in uniform and in their music sheet in its passage over said board.
The invention has for an additional object to airs previously. Now the national airs are heard
organizations the first time from Rockford. For
a people who knew how to manage their af- provide vacuum-actuated fingering means also all of the time. And the charm of music is grow-
fairs of real sentiment this would have been an controlled by the music sheet in its passage ing. There have been as many as 60,000 per-
sons gathered in Forest Park for a band con-
event. We allowed it to be a depressing fiasco. over the tracker board.
It is a further general object of the invention cert. Last Sunday the city park band concert
"'Out at Great Lakes the band is one of the
great institutions. It is a corking band and it to provide a pneumatically operated violin season was opened with a massed band of local
can make a dancing dervish out of a rheumatic player which is positive and reliable in practical musicians who will play in the various bands
octogenarian on crutches. Ten minutes of it in operation, and comparatively simple and inex- this summer, with some school choruses, and
there was a great attendance.
Michigan avenue would be worth ten hours of pensive in its construction.
any one's wind jamming.
This situation is having a most decided effect
"We run to wind jamming. It is our conven-
In the Huntsville, Tex., penitentiary a convict all around. The sale of band instruments is
tional fashion of stimulating our soul and arous- made a violin containing 578 pieces of curly strong, especially in second-hand instruments
ing our emotions. 'A few well chosen words maple, ebony, cedar, white holly, pine, walnut for boys to learn on. Despite the enlistment
delivered from the vicinity of an ice pitcher are and cherry. The design was very complicated. of scores of musicians there appears to be as
many as ever at home. Chorus work is said
to be growing rapidly and the attendance at the
various choruses is better than it has been for
several
years.
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