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JUNE 4, 1927
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The Music Trade Review
graphs, and there is a basement salesroom also
used entirely for piano sales. There is also a
completely equipped repair section and a used
piano department.
The company has the agency for the Knabe
Los Angeles Playground and Recreation Depart-
ment Sponsors New Organization Which piano with the Ampico; the Baldwin with the
Welte-Mignon (Licensee); J. & C. Fischer
Gives Its First Concert
with Ampico; and the Packard, Pease and Gul-
Los ANGELES, CAL., May 30.—Under sponsorship bransen pianos. It also carries the Sonora line
of the Los Angeles Playground and Recreation of radios and phonographs.
Department, a unique civic musical organiza-
In band instruments and small musical goods
tion, the Los Angeles Reed and Brass Sym- it handles the Lyon & Healy line exclusively
phony Society, now numbering over forty musi- and does an extensive and growing trade in
cians, most of them well known as members of this part of the country, for though Reno has
other orchestras or clubs, and soon to have an only a population of about 16,000, its inhabitants
ensemble of one hundred, was recently organ- are proud in referring to Rerto as the "biggest
ized.
little city in the world." It is the trade center
This society, unusual in so far as the instru- of an area of over 50,000 square miles with an
mentation is concerned, is the result of the co- estimated population of 100,000 people, which
operative endeavor of Supervisor Glenn M. is very rich in natural resources and wealth-
Tindall, of the music division of the municipal producing possibilities.
Playground and Recreation Department, and
Director D. C. Cianfoni. At the first informal
concert the total of instruments included two
flutes, one piccolo, twelve clarinets, alto saxo-
PHILADELPHIA, PA., May 28.—When the Cham-
phone, baritone saxophone, three oboes, three ber of Commerce of Pennsylvania State meets
bassoons, bass clarinet, four trumpets, three at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, on May 30, for
horns, four trombones, baritone, two tubas, two the purpose of laying before the members the
string bases, tympani and drum.
recently passed Arbitration Law, the new legal
Before a large audience of appreciative music enactment which permits of arbitration between
lovers, in one of the municipal community club litigants in commerce and industry, the music
houses, a program was given including "Magic trade will be represented by David Jacobs, head
Flute overture (Mozart); "Hungarian Dances of the Knabe Warerooms and chairman of
Nos. 5 and 6" (Brahms); "Unfinished Sym- the Legislative Committee of the Pennsylvania
phony," first' movement (Schubert); "Ase's State Music Merchants Association. The Arbi-
Death" from "Peer Gynt" suite (Grieg), and tration Law permits of the arbitration of all
"Marche Slav" (Tschaikowsky) by the reed sec- disputes in commercial and industrial procedure
tion.
and dispenses with the necessity of taking the
The society is founded with an ambition to matters to the courts. However, the litigants are
develop the standards of musical apprecia- open to an appeal to higher courts in event of
tion in the community in connection with reed dissatisfaction with the findings of the Arbitra-
and brass instruments. It is believed, from its tion Commission. This Arbitration Law has
first reception, that it will find a recognized been legalized in New York, Massachusetts,
Maryland and other States. The arbitrators
place in the musical life of Los Angeles.
Bands and orchestras are featured in the are appointed by the Governor and Chamber
music activities of the playground commission of Commerce and their decision is binding
as affording not only the opportunity for the
development of individual talent and desire, but
providing a musical menu for large groups of
listeners, either in ensemble gatherings at pub-
lic centers or by means of radio broadcasting.
Good profits and continual "Repeat"
Sales in handling LEWIS SPECIAL-
As rapidly as is consistent the band groups
TIES.
We are manufacturers (and/or) dis-
are being increased with the hope that even-
tributing jobbers for "RAO" (patent-
tually every section of this city with the greatest
ed)
Aluminurn-wound-on
Steel
Strings; "Joachim" tested gut and
area of any in the world may have its own band
wound strings; "Lemeir" Shoulder
integral. With such development there need be
Pads; "Wondertone" steel, gut and
wound strings; "Tricolore" gut and
no one in the city who may not receive, as a
wound strings; "Magic" Special steel
violin E strings; "Ficker" and
public gift, frequent music inspiration.
Amateur Reed and Brass
. Society Is Founded
although permitting of appeal. The move for
arbitration is spreading rapidly.
Consult the Universal Want Directory of
The Review.
oltoris
Electric
Slipperiest
Combination Eve.r
Made by Hand of Man
For Commercial Arbitration
DEALERS OBTAIN
QUICK TURNOVER
Nevada Music Co.
Opens New Warerooms
Firm Operates General Music Store With Am-
pico in the Knabe as Leader in Its Piano
Line
RENO, NEV., May 28.—The new store of the
Nevada Music Co., in the Arcade of the Medico-
Dental Building, is one of the show places of
the city. The walls are finished in pale terra-
cotta, overlaid with gold relief. The lower
floor is devoted to pianos and reproducing
pianos, the mezzanine floor to small musical
goods, band instruments, radios and phono-
207 So. Wabash Avenue
MULLER & KAPLAN
154 East 86th St., N. Y.
BACON
BANJOS
Played by Leading
Musicians and Orchestras
Sold by Representative
Music Merchants
BACON BANJO CO., Inc.
GROTON, CONN.
The Quality Supreme
GEIB & SCHAEFER CO.
Est. 1899
1751-9 N. Central Park Ave.
Chicago, III.
SEND FOR TRADE PRICE LIST OF
for
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'Cello and Bass
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A carefully graded line of violins
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We give "Quality and Service" and
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Catalog and full information on re-
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HpUon oil has more than a quarter century of outstanding
success in its favor and is more popular with musicians to-
day than ever before.
A staple all-year-round article in constant demand.
Sanitary and dean. N o . 1 for Trombone* and Saxophones.
Holton Clarke for valves. N o . 3 for Clarinets. Retails at
£.25 a bottle. Write for information on our terms to dealers.
The Holton Agency Franchise becomes more valuable each
year. Write about it.
WAVERLY PRODUCTS
We make a complete line of accessories
(or fretted instruments. Demand Wav-
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71 Tenth St.
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