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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.