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THE MUSIC TRADE
OCIOBKR 25, 1919
REVIEW
51
LARGE PURCHASE OF LEATHER
AMERICAN HARPS SUPREME
SEEK TO ELIMINATE HARSHNESS
Small Goods Manufacturer Buys Government
Leather to Relieve Present Shortage
Belgian and French Artists Praise American
Harps—Schools, Colleges and Churches Are
Adding Harps to Departments and Choirs
Maryland Academy of Music to Open Special
Department for the Scientific Study of the
Construction of Musical Instruments
Samuel Sherman, the well-known manufacturer
of leather goods, including brief cases and music
The harp, and especially the American harp,
rolls, recently purchased a large quantity of lea- is growing in popularity among both the general
ther from the Government. This material is all of public and concert artists. The Lyon & Healy
harps are in greater demand daily and have re-
ceived many hearty endorsements from artists
in this country and abroad. Daisy Jean, the noted
Belgian harpist and cellist, who was a refugee
from Belgium during the early part of the war,
came to this country and purchased a Lyon &
Hcaly harp for use in her concert work. She
said that up to the time of her coming to Amer-
ica she had thought the European instruments
supreme, but since playing American harps here
she declared them immeasurably better than those
made abroad, and took her instrument back to
France with her.
Yvonne de Trcville, the Belgian coloratura so-
prano, will use the harp on her next tour and
is the only opera singer who plays the harp with
her songs. The celebrated French harpist, Mile.
Kahn, has written for catalogs of the L. & H.
harps, having heard of their superiority over the
European instruments. Schools and colleges are
adding harps to their music departments,
churches are purchasing them and demands upon
Sherman Music Case, Sty'e 80
concert harpists are more than these artists can
excellent quality and has been made up into fill.
leather music rolls, which are now ready for de-
livery.
LULLABIES FOR SOLDIERS
Despite the scarcity of these goods which has
been felt during the past year, the above firm feels
Lullabies for soldiers whose minds are sick!
that with production for this recent purchase now Its a new idea, one of the many schemes hatched
on a quantity basis, it will be able to supply the by Red Cross musical directors at military hos-
trade with these cases long before the heavy fall pitals in this country, who are trying to bring
men back to themselves through the medium of
and holiday demands are felt.
The cases are made up in several styles, all beautiful sound. At Fort Houston, Tex., an
having unique features. Herewith is shown style accomplished woman pianist, with a trio (piano,
80, which is proving very popular with both the violin and cello), plays three times a week at bed-
time or after the mental patients have retired,
trade and the public alike.
with the object of quieting the men or putting
them to sleep.
Scientific study with a view to improving musi-
cal instruments is to be undertaken by the newly-
created music section of the Maryland Academy
of Science. J. Norris Hering, F. A. G. O., music
editor of the Baltimore Star, is chairman of the
section, which is under the department of
physics of the academy.
Scientists believe that the occasional harshness
of certain instruments can be entirely eliminated
by the use of suitable metals in the construction
of these instruments, or possibly by the use of a
combination of metals. The ideal combination
of such metals is one of the big problems that the
section will undertake to solve during the winter
months.
In the construction of wind instruments of the
horn type such as cornets, trombones and the
like, brass has been found to be the most suitable
metal.
A number of experiments have been carried out
by scientists and musical instrument makers to
discover a better metal than that now used, but
so far the experimenters have always returned to
brass as the basic metal. It is known that in-
struments of the horn type have a tendency to
give forth harsh notes or "blare" at certain times,
and the object of the experiments to be carried
on in the Maryland Academy will doubtless be
devoted to the elimination of this objectionable
feature.
RUNG
T H E OLDEST AND
LARGEST MUSICAL
MERCHANDISE HOUSE
TO MANUFACTURE MUSICAL TOYS
The Ensco Products Co., Inc., Whitestone, N.
Y., has recently been organized to manufacture
musical and mechanical toys. The officers of the
new company are Henry Leibowitz, president;
George H, Cove, vice president, and Wesley N.
Ensign, secretary. The factory is located at
Eighteenth street and Seventh avenue.
An unusually heavy demand for banjos, guitars
and Hawaiian string instruments of all kinds is
reported by musical merchandise dealers in the
Western part of the country.
DURRO
AND
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NEW YORK
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The Dugan Piano Co., New Orleans, La., has
recently added a large musical merchandise de-
partment to its store on Barrone street. The
new department is under the direction of Arthur
Wagner, who is well known in the trade.
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