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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
OCTOBER 18, 1919
61
FLTURE OF NATIVE INSTRUMENTS
BURDWISE RETURNS FROM EUROPE
CARL FISCHER BUYS PROPERTY
Americanized Oriental Stringed Instruments Will
Be Musical Fad of the Future, Say Southern
Dealers—American Jazz Essential
Baltimore Musical Merchandise Jobber Returns
From Trip Through Europe With Large Con-
signment of Musical Merchandise
Prominent Musical Instrument Manufacturer
Purchases Adjoining Property—Plans for Ex-
pansion Involve Approximately $1,000,000
OKUCANS, LA., October
13.—Musical instru-
ments, like human beings, become bores if lack-
ing in spicy qualities, according to local music
dealers, who say if Oriental stringed instruments
are to enjoy permanent success in this country,
a bit of American jazz must be instituted into
their dreamy tones.
Americanized Oriental stringed instruments,
the music dealers say, will be the musical fad of
the future. The ukulele-banjo, first instrument
born of the Americanization idea, has, according
to the dealers, captivated Americans with its
Oriental plaintiveness combined with the crisp,
snappy tone of the American banjo, and it is ex-
pected other foreign stringed instruments will be
adapted to American tastes.
'The Hawaiian ukulele," said a prominent
mus"ic dealer, "quickly fell into disfavor in this
country because it didn't have enough pep in it.
We Americans liked the sweet, Oriental tones
which tended to create for us a few moments of
dreamy bliss, but we are so constituted that we
cannot long enjoy dreamy sensations, as do the
Orientals.
"The Hawaiian ukulele," baid a prominent
dreamy, aesthetic folk, who seem to live in a
world unknown to other races. Their natures
and their tendencies find expression in their mu-
sical instruments, and while we Americans find
enjoyment in the novelty and wistful beauty of
Oriental music, it is simply a temporary mood,
and such instruments can make no permanent ap-
peal to the American mind. The Oriental instru-
ments, like the Orientals themselves, need Amer-
ican 'snap' in their make-up, and American in-
ventive genius is supplying this deficiency as far
as their musical instruments are concerned.
"What the average American likes most is jazz
and plenty of it. Hence the advent of the ukulele-
banjo, or the banjo-ukulele, as some call it. The
alluring charm of this little instrument has capti-
vated them all because it is possessed of the pep
qualities lacking in the dreamy Hawaiian ukulele."
In addition to the banjo-ukulele, two other
Americanized instruments, the Hawaiian guitar
and the ukulele-fiddle, have made their appear-
ance in local music stores. Other new instru-
ments received here include the guitar-banjo,
harp-guitar, mandola and the mando-cello.
D. Frank Smith, well known to the piano trade
of London, Ont., recently joined the Mason &
Risch staff there.
BALTIMORE, MD., October 13.—A. Burdwise, head
of the large musical merchandise jobbing firm of
that name in this city, has just returned from a
two and a half months' trip throughout the Eu-
ropean musical manufacturing centers and mar-
TOLEDO VIOLIN HOUSE REOPENS
Saunders Bros. Resume Business After Two
Years of Inactivity
A. Burdwise
kcts, including Germany and Austria. Mr. Burd-
wise believes that he is the first American musi-
cal merchandise buyer to visit Europe after the
great war, and describes the musical merchandise
situation there as being far from promising. He
reports that the prices are sky high with almost
no raw material on hand, and labor conditions
continually growing worse. In view of these
facts Mr. Burdwise believes that the American
musical merchandise manufacturer has a brilliant
chance for still greater development in these
times.
Despite the exhausted conditions of the mar-
kets, Mr. Burdwise reports that through strenuous
efforts he was able to procure 142 cases of musical
merchandise, which will help materially to take
care of the heavy orders which he is receiving
at present.
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New Brunswick, N. J.
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Musical Merchandise
House in America
Buegeleisen & Jacobson
113 University Place
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BOSTON. MASS.
DURRO
AND
STEWART
TOLEDO, O., October 13.—Saunders Bros., one of
the oldest violin manufacturing houses in this
city, has opened for business again at 506 Adams
street. This firm, which was established thirty
years ago, has not been in active business for the
past two years on account of the ill health of the
senior partner, Alton C. Saunders. In the new
shop there is a large and valuable collection of
violins, bows and many instruments of historic
value.
WHOLESALE MUSICAL MERCHANDISE
OLIVER D1TSON CO.
JOHNFRIEDRKH&BRO
Carl Fischer, manufacturer of musical instru-
ments, has acquired a large site on Cooper
Square, New York, adjoining his present quarters,
and plans in the near future to reimprove the
property with a tall building for his own business,
the operation to involve an outlay of approxi-
mately $1,000,000. The purchase was made from
the Woodbury Langdon estate and the Woodbury
Langdon Co., and involves 56 to 62 Cooper
Square, two two story buildings with stores, and
two four story buildings with stores, the four
properties occupying a site with a frontage of
about 112 feet, with southerly and northerly lines
measuring 98.S and 79.9 feet respectively. The
sale was negotiated by J. H. Mayers and William
M. Cruikshank's Sons.
NEW YORK
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Manufac-
turers of
Superior Quality MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
Victor Distributors
1108 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Established over htlf a century
I WILL BUY
FOR CASH
Sheet Music and Small Goods
Peate's Music House
Utica, N. Y.