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Music Trade Review

Issue: 1926 Vol. 82 N. 26

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The Music Trade Review
Southern California Association Hears
Report on City Music Memory Contest
Children's Musical Knowledge So Advanced That More Than Two Errors Barred Participants
From Receiving Gold Button—Fitzgerald Presents Knabe Ampico in Concert
T OS ANGELES, CAL., June 18.—A very suc-
*^- J cessful meeting of the Music Trades Asso-
ciation of Southern California took place this
week and was attended by representatives from
practically every Los Angeles music house.
Katheryn Stone, supervisor of music for the
public schools, gave a comprehensive report of
the Music Memory Contest which was held last
week for the seventh and eighth grades from
about fifty schools. Miss Stone declared that
the standard had improved to such an extent
that it had been found necessary to mark the
examination papers very carefully and to judge
only those who made a maximum of two errors
as entitled to receive gold buttons, while the
silver buttons went only to those whose an-
swers contained no more than sixteen errors.
The test consisted of thirty selections of more
or less classical music which were played in
parts to the children and which they had to
name, together with that of the author or com-
poser. Perfect answers, both in correctness
and spelling, entitled the contestant in each case
to the marking of four credits, so that if each of
the thirty selections were correctly named and
properly spelled, it would be possible to receive
120 credits—100 per cent.
When it was taken into consideration that
among the pupils there was a very fair sprin-
kling of foreign children — or rather children
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whose parents were foreign and who had con-
sequently taught them to speak in a foreign
language at first—it was truly remarkable to
find that so many had turned in practically per-
fect answers. Miss Stone declared that the gen-
eral benefits derived from these music memory
contests are very great from every standpoint
and tend very much to the sowing of good
American citizenship. Seventy-five gold medals
were awarded and 120 silver, all being a gift
from the Music Trades Association of Southern
California.
A very interesting address was given subse-
quently by William Benton on "Character
Analysis" and its application to sales.
Los Angeles Proud at Convention Recognition
Los Angeles and southern California members
of the music trades were gratified to receive
notice that at the national convention the elec-
tion of officers and directors of the National
Association of Music Merchants for the ensuing
year contained the names of three from this
city out of a total of sixteen. Ed. H. Uhl,
president of the Southern California Music Co.
and chairman of the Advisory Board of the
Music Trades Association of Southern Califor-
nia, was elected president of the national asso-
ciation; Ed. A. Geissler, vice-president and
general manager of the P>irkel Music Co. and
past president at different t : rnes of the Western
Music Trades Association and of the Music
Trades Association of Southern California, was
elected a director for three years of the national
association; and J. W. Boothe, general man-
ager of the music department of Barker Bros,
and past president of the Music Trades Asso-
ciation of Southern California, was elected sec-
retary of the national association.
Fitzgerald Music Co. Sponsors Concert
A very remarkable concert was given at the
Philharmonic Auditorium last week by the Fitz-
gerald Music Co. and was attended by a ca-
pacity house of nearly three thousand persons
who responded to the program with the greatest
enthusiasm. The artists included famous and
well-known vocalists and instrumentalists, such
as Charles Wakefield Cadman, Claire Mellonino,
the Optimists Male Quartet, Keaumoku Louis,
Gita Rayeva, Margaret Messer Morris, Calmon
Luboviski, the Orpheus Club. The Knabe piano
was, of course, used and in almost every case
the Ampico demonstrated its ability as an ac-
companist or, as in the case of the Grieg Con-
certo, performed the part of the second piano.
Expressions of appreciation for the concert
were voiced on every side and great admiration
for the enterprise of the Fitzgerald Music Co.
in undertaking such an ambitious project as
filling a great auditorium for the advancement
of music.
Pays Tribute to Hardman
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JUNE 26, 1926
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John Barnes Wells, prominent tenor and
vocal teacher of New York, recently appeared
in concert in Utica, N. Y., for which he had
been provided with a Hardman grand piano by
the Buckingham & Moak Co., Hardman repre-
sentative in that city. Mr. Wells was greatly
pleased with the piano sent him and expressed
his thanks by letter to the Utica music house
as follows: "It was with great pleasure that I
learned that Buckingham & Moak Co. had pro-
vided a Hardman grand for my concert here as
the beautiful, rich, tonal qualities of this instru-
ment have earned it the just commendation of
all music lovers."
Knabe Grands for Theatre
H. B. Wood, of. the Knabe Warerooms at
Norfolk, Va., reports the sale of two Knabe
grands to the million-dollar Dixie Theatre in
that city, one of Loew's theatres and the finest
in the State.
Among other equipment is a hundred-thou-
sand-dollar cooling system and a sixty-thousand-
dollar organ. The two Knabe grands, delivered
to the theatre, are for use on the stage.
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The Music Trade Review
JUNE 26, 1926
Duo-Arts Widely Used by the Leading
Educational Institutions in England
Leading Music Educational Authorities on Committee Supervising Work—Percy Scholes Brings
Out New Book "Music Appreciation With the Duo-Art"
*T*HERE are now installed and in regular use
•*• in the schools of England a representative
group of Duo-Art reproducing pianos. Among
the conservatories, installations have been made
at the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal Col-
lege of Music and the famous Guildhall School.
The Armstrong College and Durham Univer-
sity at New-Castle-on-Tyne, heads the list of
English Universities, which have adopted the
Director of the Aeolian Company was on a visit
to the London House.
Percy Scholes, Educational Adviser of the
Aeolian Co., Ltd., whose most successful tour
with the Duo-Art throughout the universities
and normal colleges of America was made
from October to January, has been responsi-
ble in great measure for the success of the edu-
cational work in England. His latest book
GUILDHALL SCHOOL OF MUSIC
ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC
London
London
ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC
London
FRANKLIN G. DUNHAM
PERCY A. SCHOLES
Educational Director
The Aeolian Company
Educational Advisor
The Aeolian Co., Ltd.
TOTTENHAM ROAD SCHOOL
London
OUNDLE SCHOOL, London
Duo-Art for general use in their music courses.
The "Public" Schools are represented by the
famous Harrow School, Charterhouse and Rug-
by. The last-named installation being the scene
of Hughes' "Tom Brown's School Days."
Another noteworthy installation is that of a
Duo-Art at the Oundle School, noted throughout
the British Empire for its remarkable music de-
partment. This is the school which has been
so widely quoted, and which forms the subject
of so much discussion in Professor Archibald
Davidson's recent book "Music Education in
America."
The London County Council which in scope
resembles the corporation of the City of New
York, has already sanctioned the use of the
Duo-Art reproducing piano in the Grade
Schools of London County. The first installa-
tion of a Duo-Art in these schools was made
in early Fall at the Tennyson Street School in
Battersea, while Franklin Dunham, Educational
HARROW SCHOOL, Harrow, England
"Music Appreciation With the Duo-Art" is now
off the press and on sale in both countries,
where it was published simultaneously by the
Oxford University Press.
The following well-known British educators
take their place beside the already known
American Advisory Council, W. G. Whittaker
Durham University; R. S. Thatcher, Charter-
house School; P. A. Browne, Stowe School;
Percy C. Buck, Harrow School; Mabel Cham-
berlain, School Music Review; Edwin Deller,
University of London; Ernest Fowles, Training
School for Music Teachers; R. Goss-Custard,
Bishopsgate Institute; Harvey Grace, Musical
Times; John W. Ivimey, Marlborough College;
G. Kirkham Jones, London County Council
Schools; James Lyon, Liverpool; Mrs. Murray
MacBain, Child Education; Robert McLeod,
Moray House Training College; Ernest Read,
Royal Academy of Music; Edith M. G. Reed,
Music and Youth; Cyril B. Rootham, University
of Cambridge; Percy A. Scholes, London Uni-
versity; H. V. Spanner, London County Coun-
cil Schools; Herbert Wiseman, Edinburgh; W.
R. Anderson, University of London; and
Charles G. Hicks, ex-officio.
Birmingham Music House
Completes Twenty-sixth Year
Williams Music House of Alabama City and
Conn Distributor Has Steady History of
Progress
BIRMINGHAM, ALA., June 21.—The Williams
Music House, 1818 Third avenue, is an old and
well-established music store, started in 1890
by T. Williams, who is still at the head of the
business and is keeping apace with the needs
and requireinents of the growing musical popu-
lation of Birmingham.
No music house in the South is more com-
plete nor is there a stock more replete than
that of the Williams Music House, and the
care and study of the wants of the people in
musical instruments, sheet music, musical acces-
sories, radio sets, Victrolas and what not in the
music line have had effect, have brought a won-
derful trade to this establishment.
T. Williams is a pioneer resident of Birming-
ham. He is a pioneer in the music business.
Exclusive distributor in this section for the C. G.
Conn band instruments, carrying instruments
and paraphernalia of other well-known and re-
nowned manufacturers and dealers, the Williams
Music House can claim to be the headquarters
for musical folks.
The stock of merchandise carried by the Wil-
liams Music House is varied and the institution
is prepared to meet the growing demands of
the day. Many of the orchestras, bands and
other organizations of this section of the coun-
try have been equipped through this house.
From 1890 to 1926 is a long time, but, ac-
cording to T. Williams, pioneer in the musical
business, it has given opportunity for close at-
tention to a growing and interesting trade and
the making of a friendship that will last for-
ever.
Brunswick Annual Outing
About two hundred members of the office and
executive staff of the New York division of the
Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co., Seventh avenue
and Fifty-second street, participated in the com-
pany's annual outing on Saturday, June 19. Two
large busses were engaged to transport a big
share of the crowd and left the Brunswick
building at 11 a. m. for the Old Point Comfort
Hotel on the Boston Post road above Mt.
Vernon. Many made the trip in their own
automobiles in time to participate in the lunch-
eon about 1.30 o'clock. The afternoon was given
over to sports, principally a baseball game be-
tween the factory team and the wareroom team,
which the former won. The outing is an an-
nual function of the Brunswick-Balke-Collender
Co. and those attending it considered it the
best ever.
Mueller Back to Cleveland
CLEVELAND, O., June 21.—R. J. Mueller, Cleve-
land branch manager of the Columbia Phono-
graph Co., has returned to Cleveland after at-
tending the recent convention of the music in-
dustry at the Hotel Commodore, New York.
Mr. Mueller was delighted with the interest
shown by phonograph dealers from all over the
country in the new Viva-tonal Columbia, and
was especially pleased with the number of deal-
ers attending from his own territory.
Wurlitzer in Syracuse
The new store of the Rudolph Wurlitzer Co.
at 444 South Saliana street, Syracuse, N. Y.,
has been opened with Ralph Cadv as manager.

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