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THE
MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
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Trade
Mark
for
JUNE 14, 1924
Walter Grover Back
From Western Trip
Reports Stringed Instrument Manufacturers
Doing Business Considerably in Excess of
Previous Year
MUSICAL MERCHANDISE
Walter Grover, general manager of A. D.
Grover & Son, Inc., manufacturers' of patented
specialties and hardware for musical instru-
ments, 180 Thirteenth street, Long Island City,
N. Y., returned last week from an extensive
Western trip. In Pittsburgh he attended the
annual convention of the American Guild of
6O Broadway Brooklyn.NY
Banjoists, Mandolinists and Guitarists and he
visited manufacturers and jobbers in Cincinnati
and Chicago.
According to Mr. Grover, manufacturers of
stringed instruments are doing a business con-
siderably in excess of last year's sales and the
demand for high-grade tenor banjos is con-
stantly increasing. In a talk with a representa-
tive of The Review, Mr. Grover said:
"Five years ago there were only two factories
in the country making high-grade banjo in-
AND ACCESSORIES- 115(17 EAST 2 3 R D 5T. NEW YORKJ
struments. Owing to the constantly increasing
demand for instruments of real quality, there
ukulele demonstration at the Wanamaker store are to-day about twenty concerns specializing
"Ukulele" Hughes Stages
during convention week. Mr. Hughes played in the production of high-grade banjos and sev-
a Special Demonstration several programs in the musical merchandise eral others making lower-priced banjos.
department and a large volume of ukulele busi- Accordingly, our sales of accessories to factories
Demonstrates His Favorite Instrument at Wana- ness resulted.
are increasing very rapidly, being used on only
maker's During Convention Week—Henry
Mr. Hughes will leave this week on a South- the better grade of banjos."
Stadlmair on Trip
ern trip and will be gone until the middle of
The display assortment of Grover accessories,
July. He will visit dealers in Richmond, At- which shows the complete Grover line and was
E. S. Hughes, otherwise known as "Ukulele lanta, New Orleans, Dallas and Galveston, as
recently placed on the market, is meeting with
Hughes, the Wizard of the Ukc," traveling well as many other cities along the route.
good success, according to Mr. Grover. In
representative of the Henry Stadlmair Co., Inc.,
Harry Stadlmair, Pacific Coast representative
wholesaler of musical merchandise, 117 East of the firm, left this week for the West. He will Cincinnati he arranged with C. J. Schulz for an
Twenty-third street, New York, staged a special visit dealers in a number of Western cities, ar- assortment to be placed in the small goods
department of every Wurlitzer store in the
riving in San Francisco the middle of July. country.
Before returning to New York in the Fall Harry
The Tenor-banjo With the Floating Head
Another article just placed on the market, the
will make a trip to Honolulu to visit many of Grover geared peg for banjo instruments, has
his dealer friends.
met with the greatest favor ever given any one
of the G.over products. Five leading manufac-
turers have already placed orders and stated
Arranging Larger Production that
they intended to use this peg as factory
FARMIN<,DAI.K, X. J., June 9.—Cleveland S. equipment on their high-grade instruments. This
TENOR-BANJO
Rogers, member of the firm of Joseph Rogers, peg has a string-carrying spindle which revolves
Famous Gibson bracketless rim, Gibson tone-
Jr., & Son, manufacturers of calfskin"drum and in the same dtrection as the button, at the ratio
projector, Gibson short scale, and many other
exclusive Gibson features. The most banjo for
banjo heads, is now in High View, N. Y., where of 1 to 2, the former making one revolution
the least money. The most tone for the least
effort and least expense. Must be seen, played
he is visiting the High View division of the for every two revolutions of the latter, giving
and heard to be appreciated. Every Instrument
Rogers factories. The purpose of his visit is to very accurate tuning. The gears are locked at
guaranteed for life.
Write for descriptive
circular.
arrange for increased production at that plant. all times and there is never any necessity for
Increased production has become a necessity, the player to readjust the peg in any way. A
GIBSON, Inc.
due to the steadily increasing orders from small pinion, engaging with the teeth of an in-
•It Parioni Street
ternal gear, gives the 1 to 2 action, with the
dealers, jobbers and from abroad.
KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN
string post moving in the same direction as the
button end of the peg. This is the only way
this can be done with two gears.
MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MAKERS
SINCE l 8 8 3
The Fred Gretsch Mfc Co.
HENRY STADLMAIR ftk
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MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
The Gibson
Masterlone
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OSCAR SCHMIDT, Inc.
La Scale
STELLA
87-101 FERRY ST., JERSEY CITY, N. J.
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Oldest and LarK«*st I"hint of Ith Kind in Aineri
ItAXJO-MANIHILINS
ACC'OKUlONfci SUPPLIES
S O V E R E I G N J TKNOK IIANJO MAM). HAWAIIAN Cil'lTAKS HARMONICAS CASES, ETC.
The STELLA and SOVEREIGN Brands have become National Necessities
FOR YKAKS. THE PRINCIPAL SOI RCE OF SMALL STRING INSTRUMENTS IN AMERICA
TIIK BEST FOR THE MONEY
ALWAYS KEEP OUR PRICE LIST BEFORE YOU
Representatives for the Pacific Coast:
G. E. Hummell in New York
C. K. Hummell, band and orchestra instru-
ment dealer, Philadelphia, called upon the New
York trade last week. According to Mr. Hum-
mell Philadelphia band activities are unusually
great this season. He has more than thirty
bands under his management at the present
time.
Western Musical Supply Co.. 503 Templeton Bldg., Salt Lake City. Utah
Consult the Universal Want Directory of
The Review. In it advertisements are inserted
free of charge for men who desire positions.
AND
KOCH
Inc.
ANDS KOCH, A. G. TROSSINGEN, Manufacturers of
Accordions, Harmonicas, Violins, Bows
i l l and Full Line of Accessories
Office and Show Room
1133 BROADWAY, NEW YORK
Write for Catalog and Prices
Shipping and Stock Room
NEW DORP. S. I.. NEW YORK
DURRO
AND
STEWART
VIOLINS
BOWS
STRINGS
BANJOS
MANDOLINS
GUITARS
Largest Wholmacdm
Musical Mmrchanditm
Houtm in America
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