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THE
JULY 19, 1919
MUSIC
TRADE
41
REVIEW
MELVILLE A. CLARK ON LONG TRIP
AMERICAN VIOLIN MFG. CO. MOVES
BUESCHER CO. TO DOUBLE CAPACITY
Head of Clark Harp Mfg. Co. Calls on Lead-
ing Dealers in All Sections of Country
Planned to Remove Factory to Manistee, Mich.
—Annual Production to Be 2,000
Band Instrument Co. to Build Large Addition to
Factory in Elkhart, Ind.
SYRACUSE, N. Y.. July 14.—Melville A. Clark,
of the Clark Harp Mfg. Co., this city, has just
returned from a trip to the Pacific Coast during
the course of which he visited practically all
The American Violin Mfg. Co., formerly of
Wheaton, 111., is planning to move its plant
to Manistee, Mich. With the transfer of the
plant to the Michigan city is involved an in-
crease in capitalization and production facili-
ties, making the factory among the largest vio-
lin makers in the country. The new enter-
prise is capitalized at $60,000, of which one-third
will be spent at once in providing facilities for
the initial output. Plans already arranged call
for the production of about 2,000 violins a year,
and it is said that Lyon & Healy and the Ru-
dolph Wurlitzer Co. have contracted for the
entire output. The staff of expert builders en-
gaged by the American Violin Mfg. Co. is head-
ed by P. C. Paulsen.
FXKHART, IND., July 14.—The Buescher Band
Instrument Co., of this city, has just purchased a
plot of ground to the south of their present plant
on Jackson street, and will at once begin the
erection of an addition to their factory, which
will serve to increase their manufacturing fa-
cilities by at least 100 per cent.
It is stated that the factory has orders at the
present time sufficient to keep it running nine
months without the acceptance of another order,
and that when the final improvements are com-
pleted it is expected that employment will be
available for at least 600 men.
The Buescher plant was organized about
twenty-five years ago by F. A. Buescher and
John H. Collins, under the name of the Buescher
Mfg. Co., and was reorganized in 1904 under
the name of the Buescher Band Instrument Co.
The officers of the present company are F. A.
Buescher, president; A. H. Beardsley, vice-presi-
dent; John H. Collins, secretary-treasurer. The
company manufactures a general line of band
instruments, featuring the "Buescher" and "True
Tone" models.
VIOLIN AS A BAROMETER
Changes in the Weather Have a Peculiar and
Noticeable Effect on the Instrument
Melville A. Clark Playing on Mt. Wilson
the prominent cities and called upon the lead-
ing music dealers. He reports that he found
dealers who are handling the Clark Irish harp
enthusiastic over the manner in which it had
been received by musicians.
Mr. Clark made it a point to give to the deal-
ers many valuable hints regarding successful
harp selling as a result of the knowledge gained
by many years of experience in the field. He
emphasized particularly the necessity of proper-
ly displaying the instrument both in the show
window and in the store.
While in Los Angeles Mr. Clark played the
Clark Irish harp on the top of Mount Wilson,
6,000 feet in the air, and it was said by campers
in the vicinity that the tones of the instrument
could be heard for a distance of over a mile.
H. L. HUNT A GREAT WALKER
H. L. H u n t , head of t h e musical i n s t r u m e n t
d e p a r t m e n t of Chas. H . Ditson & Co., 8 E a s t
T h i r t y - f o u r t h street, N e w Y o r k , spent t h e week-
end in t h e O r a n g e M o u n t a i n s , w h e r e he had
a fine time t r a m p i n g over t h e hills a n d g e t t i n g
lots of fresh air into his lungs to drive o u t some
ot the old N e w Y o r k a t m o s p h e r e .
Many musical instrument lovers have boasted
of a rare or unusual violin, but one of the most
peculiar old violins, which might be called a
barometric violin, is in the possession of a Balti-
more violinist, A'bram Moses, who bought the
instrument in Paris some years ago when he
was a student there. Shortly after he pur-
chased it he noticed that the instrument gave
forth a peculiar Oriental fragrance and also
found that this was noticeable only before a
change in the weather, especially before a rainy
or damp spell. After this had been repeated
many times he came to have great faith in his
violin as a weather prophet.
MUSICAL MERCHANDISE MEN MEET
DRAIN-CUP FOR BRASS INSTRUMENTS
WASHINGTON, D. C, July 14.—John C. Stein-
brueck, Auburn, Wash., was last week granted
Patent No. 1,298,595 for a drain-cup for brass
wind instruments. This invention relates to
improvements in wind instruments, of that class
held in an upright position when being played,
and is especially designed to provide means for
trapping water which would otherwise accu-
mulate in the bends of such instruments in a
manner to interfere with their tone.
DURRO
A meeting of the finance committee of the
Musical Merchandise Association of the United
States was held last week in the offices of the
Music Industries Chamber of Commerce, for
the purpose of determining ways and means for
meeting the association's quota of $2,000 for the
support of the Chamber of Commerce.
Knute Helland, of Chippewa Falls, Wis., well
known as one of the most skilful makers of
Hardinger violins and once president of the Na-
tional Hardinger Association, died at his home
in that city recently.
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