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Music Trade Review

Issue: 1925 Vol. 81 N. 15

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MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
Mr. Scott had some business habits that the
younger members of the trade to-day might
emulate to advantage. Notably, he had a record
of twenty-eight years with Chas. H. Ditson &
Had Been in New York Musical Instrument Co. during which time he never missed being
at his post every day, except when ill or on
Trade for More Than Half a Century
vacation, at twenty minutes after 8 each morn-
The musical merchandise trade lost one of its ing. And he took but thirty minutes for lunch.
younger associates marveled at his
oldest retail members in the death last week Mr. Scott's
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of John Scott, for many years a member of the vitality .
He was a connoisseur of musical instruments
retail staff of Chas. H. Ditson & Co., the New
York musical merchandise house. Mr. Scott and an authority on old and modern violins.
was sixty-eight years old and died of bronchial His memory was remarkable, his judgment un-
trouble. He was probably the oldest retail erring and he was a walking encyclopedia of
musical instrument salesman in New York and information on musical merchandise.
was distinguished for having sold musical in-
struments to many of the noted New Yorkers
D. W. Lerch Go. Adds Band
of a generation ago.
He started his business career with Harper &
and Orchestra Instruments
Bro., publishers, and in 1871 took a position
with Wm. A. Pond & Co., on Union Square, Canton, O., Concern Now Handling Everything
where he soon became manager of their musical
in Music—Featuring Well-known Lines
instrument department. He joined the Ditson
organization in 1897.
CANTON, O, October 5.—The D. W. Lerch Co.
has added a comprehensive band and orchestra
instrument department which means that this
store is now committed to a program of "Every-
thing in Music." Everything in musical instru-
ments will be carried and Buescher band in-
struments will be featured. Among the other
leading lines will be Paramount, Vega and
l>acon banjos and Ludwig & Ludwig drum
T H E O L D E S T AND
products.
John Scott, of the
Ditson Co., Is Dead
RUNO
OCTOBER 10, 1925
Canadian Distributor
Visits Wm. L. Lange
W. H. McPhillips, of London, Ont., Here to
Launch New Theatrical Orchestra—Arranges
for Banjo Shipment
One of this week's visitors to the New York
office of William L. Lange, New York, manu-
facturer of Paramount, Orpheum and Langstile
banjos, was W. H. McPhillips, head of W. Mc-
Phillips, Ltd., the London, Ont., retail music
house. Mr. McPhillips is a distributor of both
Langstile and Orpheum banjos.
He made the trip to New York chiefly for
the purpose of launching one of the orchestras
which he organized on a new theatrical venture.
The orchestra in question was Willie Creager's
Orchestra, which opened an engagement at a
Loew Theatre in Brooklyn.
Mr. M.cPhillips seized the opportunity to visit
Mr. Lange and endeavor to arrange for steady
shipments of Langstile and Orpheum banjos
during the Fall and Winter months, for these
lines are growing steadily more popular
throughout Ontario. He reported that all
stringed instruments are doing very Well in his
territory.
Consult the Universal Want Directory of
The Review. In it advertisements are inserted
free of charge for men who desire positions.
LARGEST MUSICAL
MERCHANDISE HOUSE
IN AMERICA
BRETFCH
Exclusively Wholesale
ESTABLISHED 183*
351-53 FOURTH AVE. NEWYORKCITY
Victor Distributors
Trade
Mark
$0*
MUSICAL MERCHANDISE
f",
MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MAKERS
SINCE 1 8 8 3
America's Best Selling
Dollar Books
The Fred Gretsch
6O Broadway Bro<
Morris Tenor Tlanjo Method,
Art Horfl'H Saxophone Method,
Loar's Ukulele, Ukulele Uanjo (tenor banjo uku-
lele tuning-) Method,
Armstrong's Plectrum Banjo Method,
The Jazz Folio for Tenor ltanjo,
The Banjo-Saxo Folio for Saxophone and Banjo,
Wonder Sons Book—comic songs playable in
different combinations,
The Star Folio for Plectrum Banjo.
Sold by All Jobbers—Order Now.
201—"Bugle Band," genuine Koch
Harmonica. 10 double holes, 40
reeds, brass plates, heavy convex
finely nickel-plated covers full
octave tuning. This is the choice
of experienced players. Like
all Koch Harmonicas, guaranteed
perfect in tune. Each instrument
is packed in a hinged box with
NICOMEDE MUSIC CO., Altoona, Pa.
embossed lettering. Per doz., $2.70
Banjo-
ANDS KOCH, Inc.
The Ultimate Desire of Banjoists
Office and Show Room
1133 BROADWAY. NEW YORK
Shipping and Stock Room
Write for Catalog ana Prices
NEW
DORP, S. I., NEW YORK
Sparkling, Powerful, Resonant
HENRY 5TADLMAIR G>k
^ MUS/CAL INSTRUMENTS
BUILT BY MASTER CRAFTSMEN
FOR MASTER BANJOISTS
Write for Special Dealer Proposition
HOUSE OF STATHOPOULO, Inc.
35 Wilbur Ave. f Long Island City, N. Y.
- II5I17EA5T 23RD 5T. NEWYORO
Request Your Copu on Your Letterhead
$2S,qp
ioholders of the yroOressive Catalog
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OCTOBER 10, 1925
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
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to holders of the jrroOressive Catalog
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Musical Merchandise at
Illinois Products Show
Chicago Trade to Be Well Represented at Ex-
position to Be Held at American Furniture
Mart Next Month
CHICAGO, III., October 3.—The latest designs
in musical merchandise will be displayed by a
co-operative exhibit of the Association of Musi-
cal Merchandise Manufacturers of the Chicago
Zone at the Illinois Products Exposition, which
will take place at the American Furniture Mart,
666 Lake Shore Drive, this city, October 8 to 17,
inclusive.
The twenty-two members of the Association
will each be represented and the display of the
Chicago organization will be one of the out-
standing features of the exposition. This will
no doubt increase the interest and stimulation
in musical merchandise among the patrons of
the exposition who come from all parts of the
State.
Demonstrations of the instruments will be
made by professional musicians, and members
of the Association will take care of the inquir-
ing visitors and explain the various features of
the instruments on display.
A number of the members exhibited at the
exposition last year with a great deal of suc-
cess in educating the visitors in musical mer-
chandise which resulted indirectly in greater
sales of instruments manufactured by the com-
panies in the Chicago zone. The co-operation
of the entire membership will add to the size
of the exhibition this year as well as provide a
number of additional features. The members
exhibiting are as follows:
American Gut String Mfg. Co. Chicago; Ar-
mour & Co., Chicago; American Plate Enamel
Co., Chicago; Wm. Frank Co., Chicago; Geib &
Schaefer Co., Chicago; Eugene Geisler & Co.,
Chicago; Globe Music Co., St. Charles, 111.; Wal-
ter M. Gotsch Co., Chicago; The Harmony Co.,
Chicago; R. R. Hunt Mfg. Co., Union City, Ind.;
Liberty Rawhide Mfg. Co., Chicago; Ludwig &
Ludwig, Chicago; Lyon & Healy, Inc., Chicago;
Paragon Case Co., Oregon, 111.; Harry Pedler
& Co., Inc., Elkhart, Ind.; Regal Musical In-
strument Co., Chicago; Richter Mfg. Co., Chi-
cago; Slingerland Banjo Mfg. Co., Chicago; J.
R. Stewart Co., Chicago; Stromberg-Voisnet
Co., Chicago; V. C. Squier Co., Battle Creek,
Mich., and Wilson Bros. Mfg. Co., Chicago.
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Atlanta Co., Atlanta, Ga.; Conn Mobile Co.,
Mobile, Ala.; Conn New Orleans Co., New Or-
leans, La.; Dunn's Music House, El Paso, Tex.;
Thos. Goggan & Bro., Houston, Tex.; Sundberg
Powell Music Co., St. Paul, Minn.; Cosmo- Banjo-Uke Supplanting Regular Ukulele in New
politan Music Co., Minneapolis, Minn.; S. E.
Orleans and Growing Demand for Trombones
Philpitt & Son, Miami, St. Petersburg and
and Saxophones
Washington; Northwest Conn Co., Seattle,
Wash., and the Daynes-Beebe Music Co., Salt
NEW ORLEANS, LA., October 6.—Howard C.
Lake City, Utah.
Voorhees, Southern manager for the Conn line
of band instruments, reports the banjo-uke is
supplanting the ukulele in sales volume. He be-
lieves this is due to the increased use of small
stringed and plectrum instruments to re-enforce
the piano as an accompaniment to group sing-
Big Crowd Witnesses Unusual Feature of ing. It is also true, this dealer notes, that more
Annual Playground Children's Circus in Grant trombones are being sold than ever before since
music publishers began writing parts for saxo-
Park
phones to fit small orchestral units. The stand-
ard small orchestra is now seven pieces instead
CHICAGO, III., October 3.—One of the chief
features of the annual playground children's of six in this section, and the trombone is al-
circus, given by 5,000 playground and park boys most universally made the seventh piece. The
and girls of Chicago recently at the Grant arrangement now stands: cornet, two saxo-
Park Stadium, was the appearance of the har- phones, clarinet, piano, violin and trombone.
monica orchestra made up of over a thousand There is also a noticeable increase in tenor
saxophone sales, the tenor instrument taking the
boys and girls.
The performance, which was witnessed by place of other saxophones which preceded the
about 15,000 people, aroused a great deal of in- tenor in the cognizance of the general public.
terest in the harmonica and a number of in-
quiries were made asking that the band play
before a number of other public gatherings.
The complete orchestra numbers 2,000, all
SALT LAKK CITY, UTAH, September 30.—Plans
members of Chicago's parks and playgrounds, are under way for a band contest to be held in
and are under the direction of C. H. English, connection with the Utah State Fair, which
director of playgrounds for the public schools. will be held in this city next week. The local
music dealers are behind the contests and prizes
have been contributed by the following: $100
cash and a musical instrument, the Western
Music & Art Co.; $75 cash and a $115 Holton
COLUMBUS, O., October 3.—George J Guldan.
for many years head of the Jackson-Guldan trombone, Glen Bros.-Roberts Piano Co.; $50
Violin Co., the first American concern to manu- cash and a bass drum, Beesley Music Co.; a
facture violins on a large production scale, is gold cornet, the Consolidated Music Co.; a gold
now with the American Ukulele Co., which he saxophone, Daynes-Beebe Music Co.
recently founded in East Sparta, O., where
Consult the Universal Want Directory of
ukuleles will be manufactured on a large scale.
The factory in East Sparta will soon be in- The Review. In it advertisements are inserted
free of charge for men who desire positions.
creased in size.
Changes in Demand for
Small Musical Instruments
Harmonica Orchestra of
1,000 Plays in Chicago
Utah State Band Contest
With American Ukulele Co.
SLINGERLAND
MAY-BELL
Epiphone Production Now
at Two Hundred Weekly
Many New Retail Music Merchants Are Taking
the Line—New Super Wonder Banjo Breaking
Records
The House of Stathopoulo, Inc., is busy in-
creasing its production of stringed instruments
as the demand grows apace, according to the
announcement made last week by Epi Statho-
poulo, head of this concern which manufactures
the Epiphone line of banjos. The company is
now turning out about two hundred instruments
a week and the sales of the new Super Wonder
banjo are breaking all records, reports Mr. Sta-
thopoulo.
Among the newly appointed distributors of
Epiphone banjos are such houses as the Conn
Slingerland Banjos—Sold by practi-
cally all leading dealers. Over forty
styles to select from. Instruments of tone quality and dur-
ability. Sold at moderate price. Write for catalog and dealer's
proposition.
Slingerland Banjo Co.
I8I5 Orchard Street
Chicago, 111.

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