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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
JULY 20, 1918
BRUNO SAXOPHONES POPULAR
MAKING THE SOLDIERS HAPPY
DISLOYAL BANDMASTER SENTENCED
The "Perfection" Brand Have Found a Large
Constituency of Admirers
Instruments Collected by Mr. and Mrs. Rouland
Proving of Great Benefit to Soldiers—Ditson
& Co. Co-operating by Doing Repair Work
Former Band Sergeant Given Thirty Years for
Disloyal Actions
C. l?runo & Son, Inc., New York musical
merchandise wholesalers and importers, report
an unusually active demand for saxophones.
This instrument is steadily increasing in popu-
larity throughout the country, and dealers han-
Bruno C Melody "Perfection" Saxophone No. 144
dling the Bruno products are placing large or-
ders in anticipation of a heavy call this fall.
The Bruno "Perfection" saxophones have met
with general favor among the dealers and dis-
criminating saxophone players. This line is
one of the leaders in the extensive stock featured
by the House of Bruno, and the C. Melody "Per-
fection" saxophone No. 144, a new model with
a single octave key, is one of the most popular
sellers in this line of saxophones.
JAZZ INSTRUMENTS AT DITSON'S
The display window of C. H. Ditson & Co.
this week is given over to a display of jazz in-
struments. Almost every instrument or con-
traption used in the production of this kind of
music is shown.
I WILL BUY
FOR CASH
Sheet Music and Small Goods
Peate's Music House,
Utica, N. Y.
The work recently started by Orlando Rou-
land, the artist, and his wife, to supply musical
instruments for soldiers and sailors has been
far more successful than even they anticipated.
The slogan, "Get a fiddle for a fighter," proved
to be an open sesame which brought in every-
thing from a mouth organ to a grand piano.
All instruments donated for this purpose are put
in perfect order by Charles H. Ditson & Co.,
well-known music house of New York City.
Manager H. L. Hunt, of the Ditson concern,
has been very enthusiastic over the project,
and has given his personal attention to over-
seeing the work of putting the instruments in
perfect playing order.
Some of the instruments have already found
their way into the training camps, both in this
country and abroad, and Mr. Rouland is re-
ceiving letters acknowledging the receipt of
these instruments from soldiers in many of the
cantonments here, as well as from boys in the
service in France. Without exception the let-
ters speak enthusiastically of the pleasure the
fighters are receiving through the medium of
the instruments donated, and the evident need
for musical instruments in the camps has in-
duced Mr. Rouland to continue the good work,
so that anyone having any kind of a musical in-
strument, who does not desire to keep it any
longer, or who desires to make it "do its bit,"
can be assured that it will be put to excellent
use if sent to Mr. Rouland at 130 West Fifty-
seventh street, New York City.
DEATH OF G. C. KAMPE
G. Christian Kampe, of 109 South Orange ave-
nue, Newark, N. J., passed away last week, aged
seventy-one years. Mr. Kampe was a maker of
musical instruments, and also had quite some re-
pute as a musician, being a member of several
large bands in this locality at different times.
He is survived by a widow, four sons and two
daughters. Interment was made in Fairmount
Cemetery.
TENSIONINO DEVICE FOR TYMPANA
Recent Invention Is Lighter in Weight Than
Similar Devices Hitherto in Use
WASHINGTON, D. C, July 15.—Charles B.
Wanamaker, Indianapolis, Ind., was last week
granted Patent No. 1,269,984 for a tensioning de-
vice for tympana, which he has assigned to the
Leedy Mfg. Co., same place.
The object of this invention is to provide an
improved tensioning device for tympana, where-
in the weight of the parts is reduced to a consid-
erable degree below that of standard construc-
tions of the present time, and wherein the parts
are so associated as to avoid unsightly exten-
sions.
BLACK DIAMOND STRINGS POPULAR
The National Musical String Co., of New
Brunswick, N. J., reports an increasing demand
for its justly popular line of Black Diamond
strings. The adequate manufacturing facilities
of the concern are being kept busy in large part
due to the popularity of the Black Diamond
strings, and retailers throughout the country
report the strings are giving great satisfaction.
JOHNFRIEDRICH&BRO
NEW NAME FOR STRING CONCERN
The Italian-American Surgical & Musical
String Co., of 3399 Third street, San Francisco,
Cal., has changed its name to the California
Gut String Co. The concern manufactures a
full line of musical and surgical strings, in ad-
dition to strings for tennis rackets and drums.
OLIVER DITSON GO.
BOSTON. MASS.
DURRO
AND
STEWART
Largest Wholesale
Musical Merchandise
House in America
Buegeleisen & Jacob son
Manufacturers
' Importer* and Jobbwr* ol
MUSICAL
MERCHANDISE
T H E OLDEST AND
LARGEST MUSICAL
MERCHANDISE HOUSE
INAMERICA
Exclusively Wholesale
SAN ANTONIO, TEX., July 15.—Band Sergeant
Oscar Biermann, convicted at Camp Travis of
disloyalty, was sentenced last week to.life im-
prisonment. The reviewing officer reduced the
term to thirty years.
Bierman was a band sergeant for more than
twenty years and was well known in the army.
It was proved that he had once refused to play
"The Star Spangled Banner" at a concert and
had played a German air, "Kaiser Frederick,"
at guard at Fort Sam Houston.
Attractive Specialties
Modern Service
ESTABLISHED ISM
113 University Place
NSW YORK
Black Diamond
Strings
THE WORLD'S BEST
ESTABLISHED 1834
Superior Quality MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
Victor Distributor*
Victor Distributors
l l 08 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Established ormr half a eantuiy
National Musical String Co.
New Brunswick, N. J.