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SEPTEMBER 12,
1925
THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
H. N. White Co. Sales
Manager Visits Gotham
SLINGERLAND
L. L. Fox, Recently Appointed Head of Sales
Department for King Band Instruments, Get-
ting in Close Touch With the Dealers
The trend of sales in band instruments is de-
cidedly upward at the present time, according
to L. L. Fox, who has just been appointed sales
manager of the H. N. White Co., manufacturer
of King band instruments, Cleveland, O. Mr.
Fox spent the past week in New York visiting
William Fort, head of the King-Slater Co.,
metropolitan King distributors, and found time
to pay a call at the offices of The Review.
Mr. Fox related that he had already made
two trips across the country this year visiting
music dealers and he is well able to give an
authoritative opinion on the trend of the market
for band instruments.
He reports excellent
crop prospects in the West and Southwest, with
every likelihood that these good crops will be
a factor in boosting band instrument sales.
He further reported that building activity
seems to be brisker in nearly every section.
All these things are increasing the purchasing
power of the public, and Mr. Fox has been urg-
ing his dealers to translate these prospects into
actual sales. He found that he was able to give
many dealers great assistance in the work of
organizing bands in schools and industrial
plants. Mr. Fox organized division bands
among the employes of five divisions of the
Santa Fe Railroad this year which has meant
most important King sales by dealers in di-
vision headquarters towns.
King Band Line Featured
by Crosby Bros., Topeka
Well-known Topeka Department Store Dis-
plays Line of the H. N. White Co., Cleveland,
O.
CLEVF.LAND, O., September 8.—Richard White,
advertising manager of the H. N. White Co.,
manufacturer of King band instruments, has re-
ceived a photograph of an interesting display of
King band instruments by the Crosby Bros,
department store, Topeka, Kans. According to
Mr. White it is considered one of the finest
displays of its kind ever seen in Topeka.
The Crosby store now carries a complete line
of King instruments and has two demonstra-
tors who are busily engaged at all times in
demonstrating the instruments to the public.
These men are J. H. Cochran and Walter Fox.
Mr. Cochran is in charge of the brass instru-
ment section and Mr. Fox demonstrates the
reed instruments.
They are both musicians and belong to Mar-
shall's, the Security Benefit and American
Legion bands, as well as the Philharmonic Or-
chestra. They also do extra work at the the-
atres when extra musicians are required. This
keeps them in touch with the musical element
in the community which helps them in building
up trade in King instruments.
The Crosby display features enough instru-
ments to delight John " Philip Sousa himself.
There are double-horned and single-horned
gold bell tubas and the display is rounded out
with saxophones, altos and trumpets.
Ukulele Week Properly
Celebrated in Akron, O.
Rudick's Music House, Akron, O., Reports Sub-
stantial Volume of Sales as Result of Recent
Event
O., September 6.—Last week was ukulele
week at Rudick's, the South Main street music
store where a big ukulele demonstration was
staged and a goodly quantity of the instruments
were sold. The major demonstration of the
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ukulele festivities was no less a personage than
E. S. "Ukulele" Hughes, the "Wizard of the
Uke," as he is known in the trade. Hughes
was here in Akron representing the Henry
Stadlmair Co., Inc., the New York musical mer-
chandise wholesale house and distributor of the
famous Miami ukuleles.
Hughes, who is well known as a Vocalion re-
cording artist, played a program of ukulele
specialties before a big audience at the Rudick
store and gave a demonstration of the Miami
ukulele. As an added feature a deck of cards
was given with every uke sold on Wednesday
and a land office business was the result of the
combination of Hughes' demonstration and the
special offer.
Mr. Hughes was well advertised in the local
newspapers and also featured in publicity. In
an interview in one of the local newspapers he
was quoted as saying that the ukulele is here
to stay. "Of course it will not always remain
first choice in every place at the same time,"
Mr. Hughes said, "but there is always some
part of the country where it is popular and it
is just there that I am trying to keep it in the
limelight."
Chicago, 111.
Geneva, N. Y., Geneva I'ark Band. O. W.
Harris, leader.
Hanford, Cal., Hanford Boys' Band.
Bessemer, Ala., New Era Baraca Band. Frank
Bolin, leader.
South Bend, Ind., High School Boys' Band.
Darl Wood, leader.
Mt. Vernon, Ind., Mt. Vcrnon Band. John
R. Massie, leader.
St. Paul, Ind., St. Paul Band.
Carthage, Ind., Carthage Home Band. A. B.
Waggonor, leader.
LaRue, O., Grange Orchestra. Samuel Bur-
baugh, leader.
Kane, Pa., Kane Band.
St. Charles, Pa., St. Charles Band. Prof.
Colonna, leader.
Improvement for Violins
WASHINGTON, 1). C, September 5.—George Som-
mcrs of Milwaukee, Wis., has obtained a patent
No. 1,551,066 covering the invention of an im-
provement on violins. Harry J. O'Leary of
Indianapolis, Ind., has obtained patent No. 1,-
551,325 covering the invention of a new mute
for cornets, trombones and trumpets.
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Carthage, Ind., Carthage Band. Mrs. F. J.
Kennedy, leader.
Mt. Gilead, O., Mt. Gilead School Band. E.
J. Fitchorn, leader.
Ft. Collins, Colo., Ft. Collins High School
Band. D. Carl Carlson, leader.
Adel, la., Adel Band. W. J. Hayes, leader.
Sheldon, la., Legion Band.
Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Community Boys' Band.
Napoleon, O., Napoleon Ladies' Band. Frank
Kimberley, leader.
Oakland, Cal., Athens Athletic Club Band.
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