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2,000 Juvenile Bandsmen to Take Part
in National Contest in Council Bluffs
Twenty States Have Already Entered Contesting Organizations—National Champion-
ship Trophy for High Schools Bands to Be Awarded at Event
/COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA., May 16.—America's
*"* champion school band will be chosen in a
two-day musical battle here May 27 and 28,
when high school bands from practically every
section of the country, comprising about 2,000.
juvenile musicians, vie for the national title.
Prior to this, sectional and State contests
will have been held in twenty-six States to
select the best bands to compete in the
national contest held here under the joint
auspices of the Committee on Instrumental Af-
fairs of the Music Supervisors' Conference and
the National Bureau for the Advancement of
Music. Many of the State contests already
have been held. The States which are sched-
uled to have bands representing them are
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana,
North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, California,
Kentucky, Michigan, Wisconsin, North Dakota,
Oklahoma, Utah, Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas,
South Dakota and Texas. The six New Eng-
land States will have one band represent this
section, to be selected in a special contest May
20 at Boston.
Each competing band will play four types of
composition, consisting of a warming-up march,
not to be judged; an assigned composition, one
composition to be selected from a list of twenty
prepared by the Committee on Instrumental
Affairs of the Music Supervisors' Conference,
and two well-known numbers to be prepared
for playing in unison with the other bands.
The committee consists of J. K. Maddy, Ann
Arbor, Mich., chairman; Jay W. Fay, Louis-
ville, Ky.; Lee M. Lockhart, Council Bluffs, la.,
who will be general director of the national
contest; Russell V. Morgan, Cleveland, O.;
Victor L. F. Rebmann, Yonkers, N. Y., and
C. M. Tremaine, of the National Bureau for
the Advancement of Music, New York
Three musicians of national reputation will
be named as judges to decide which is the
best school band in the contest. The bands
will be judged on six main points, as follows:
Instrumentation, interpretation, intonation, tonal
and harmonic balance, tone quality and pre-
cision.
The grand prize for the national champion-
ship band is a large, handsome trophy, hewn
out of solid mahogany and symbolizing a tem-
ple of music, with beautifully carved columns
and a decorative arch. In the center is a solid
bas-relief cast in bronze representing group
music, by the sculptor Luini. There also are
first, second, third and fourth place tablets,
etched in design similar to the trophy. These
tablets, together with medals and trophy and
with honorable mention for fifth and sixth win-
ners, will be given in both classes A and B.
The prizes are donated by the National Asso-
ciation of Band Instrument Manufacturers.
Keener interest is being shown this year in
all the State competitions, according to the
various State directors, and National Director
Lockhart expects the Council Bluffs contest to
excel any of its predecessors in point of mu-
sical talent and competition. State contests
have been held annually since 1924, culminating
in 1926 in a national combat at Fostoria, O.
MAY 21, 1927
Thirteen bands participated in this contest. The
winner was Joliet (111.) High School, with Fos-
toria second; Ogden, Utah, third, and Louisville,
Ky., fourth.
The Committee on Instrumental Affairs un-
dertook this work following a national contest,
not held under its auspices, in Chicago, in 1923.
This contest, which attracted many school
bands, led to a widespread interest in the con-
test idea under educational auspices, and the
formation of the National School Band Asso-
ciation, with the thirteen bands who competed
in the first national contest as its original
members. These bands were from Joliet, 111.;
Marion, Ind.; Council Bluffs, la.; Louisville,
Ky.; Lowell, Mass.; Flint, Mich.; Grand Rapids,
Mich.; Paw Paw, Mich.; Lockport, N. Y.; Ash-
tabula, O.; Fostoria, O.; Houston, Tex., and
Ogden, Utah.
Aluminum Violin Tests
Conn Display Made
Interest Chicago Trade
by Flanner-Hafsoos
Showing in Connection with Meeting of Wis-
consin School Band Association and Band
Tournament
Instrument Built by E. l'Allemand Shows Wide
Variety of Tonal Qualities Due to Material
Used
MILWAUKKE, Wis., May 16.—A display occupy-
ing 244 square feet of space in the Milwaukee
Auditorium will be made by Flanner-Hafsoos
Music House, Inc., in connection with the con-
vention of the Wisconsin School Band Associa-
tion and the Wisconsin School Band Tourna-
ment. C. G. Conn instruments will, of course,
be the feature of the display, which will be in
active charge of A. J. Niemiec, manager of the
band instrument department of the Flanner-
Hafsoos store.
The display to be shown is the same as that
which will be used at the National Music Tour-
nament in Chicago and will include every type
of instrument manufactured by the Conn house.
All the instruments will have a platinum gold
finish.
C. J. Fairchild, head of the agency division
of the Conn factory, will be present at the con-
vention and Dick Stross, nationally known
cornetist, will demonstrate Conn trumpets. O.
J. Dost will also be a guest of Flanner-Hafsoos
at the convention. Mr. Dost is president of the
Milwaukee Conservatory of Music and director
of the East Troy High School Band, the pre-
mier clarinet soloist of Milwaukee, and instruc-
tor of the clarinet section of the Milwaukee
Tripoli Temple band.
Mr. Niemiec and Mr. Fairchild will also at-
tend the Conn dealers' convention to be held
iii Elkhart, Ind., June 1-4, and will also be pres-
ent at the national convention in Chicago.
CHICAGO, In.., May 14.—Members of the local
trade showed a great deal of interest recently
in the demonstration of an aluminum violin de-
signed and constructed by E. l'Allemand.
Tests of sensitiveness are said to be readily
obtainable on the aluminum violin and even the
color shading can be controlled by a slight
structural change. Metal being a homogeneous
substance that has no grain variations, the re-
sults will always be the same.
It was demonstrated that tone shadings such
as flute, violin, viola, and clarinet are obtainable
on the aluminum violin of standard string
length. Also because of the greater technic
realized through a permanent and always equal-
ly sensitive sound chamber unaffected by at-
mospheric conditions, the musician can play the
melody and accompaniment at the same time.
Opens New Store
MADISON, WIS., May 16.—Lane Ward and Cecil
Brodt, formerly with Hook Bros. Piano Co.,
have purchased the small goods department of
the Hook firm and have opened up a fine new
music store under the name of Ward-Brodt
Music Co. located on State street in Madison.
Leedy Mfg. Go. Issues
New Catalog "O"
Pocket-Size Volume Shows Complete Line of
Leedy Drums and Banjos
INDIANAPOLIS, IND, May 16.—Catalog "O," the
late.U catalog of the Leedy Mfg. Co., manufac-
turer of Leedy drums and banjos, is now being
distributed to dealers. It is the fifteenth Leedy
catalog in its thirty years' existence and al-
though it is designed to tit the pocket it in-
complete in every detail.
Prices shown are net retail, so that dealers
arc able to use it as a sales help. The foreword
points out six reasons why drummers have
all to gain and nothing to lose by purchasing
through the Leedy catalog through dealers:
saving in transportation charges; saving in
time; choice of several models; privilege of
trying article before buying; quick service
within easy reach; duty to purchase in own
home town.
The complete Leedy line is shown and the
illustration of the gold and color finishes in
natural color makes these pages an attractive
part of the catalog.
Banjo and Drum Heads
Genuine Rogers "Qualitv brands"
were given Medal and highest
awards over all others.
Five grades to select from, cheapest
to the very best.
White calf in thin, medium and
heavy.
Joseph Rogers, Jr., & Son
FarmingcUl*, N. J.