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JUNE 18, 1927
Banjo-Uke Contest in Philadelphia Is
Attracting a Very Heavy Entry List
Finals of Event to Be Held in Willow Grove on July 1—Open to All Amateurs and
Amateur Organizations Within Seventy-five Miles of the City
PHILADELPHIA, PA., June 11.—Another
movement which has been gaining impetus
in the Philadelphia music trade within the
month is the big banjo-ukulele contest and
tournament now under way at Willow Grove
Park and promoted through the WLIT Broad-
casting Station, Lit Bros., the H. A. Weymann
& Sons and the management of Willow Grove,
under the direction of Uriel Davis.
There have been many responses to the an-
nouncement made weekly over WLIT, when
on Mondays and Fridays the contest is broadcast
in the Children's Hour Program beginning at
7:15 p. m. Since mid-May these announce-
ments have been featured and the youth and
adult talent responding to the broadcasting, as
well as the group entrants, have been very
gratifying to those sponsoring the event.
The banjo-ukulele tournament and contest is
open to young and old alike and extends to a
radius of seventy-five miles about Philadelphia.
Weekly the program at Willow Grove contains
a coupon entitling the patrons of the park to
entrance to the tournament.
That the foresighted dealers will be able to
cash in on the contest is a foregone conclusion
and the management of the park, with Uriel
Davis at its helm, is shortly to call a meeting
of the dealers and manufacturers of string in-
struments for the purpose of promoting the
trade interests in the coming event. It is a
splendid opportunity for the dealers and manu-
facturers to make capital of the stimulated
interest in the various string instruments in-
cluded in musical merchandise stocks by ty-
ing in with the promoters of the contest and
giving publicity and exploit the Willow Grove
tournament. In order to co-operate with the
trade in promoting the sale of string goods
there shortly will be brought together the park
management, the trade representatives and the
dealers in a meeting that will lay before the
industry the opportunities afforded by the con-
test.
While July 7 has been s«t as the date of the
big contest, there is likelihood that a later
date shall be selected because of the large
number of applications for participation in the
program. The contest is open to amateur
organizations or individuals only and will be
held where the most prominent musical or-
ganizations of the country have played, on the
spacious stage at Willow Grove. There will
be awards of instruments and other prizes
given by the manufacturers and by the park
executives.
Chicago Instrument Go.
Issues a New Catalog
mond strings, portable phonographs and other
lines of musical merchandise and accessories.
The booklet is bound with heavy cover and
there are 160 pages devoted to the listing of
these lines, with description and handsome
illustrations, and an alphabetical guide follows
the frontispiece. In the introduction to the
booklet an important message is given the com-
pany's customers.
In substance, this introduction calls attention
to the fact that this new catalog contains only
musical instruments and merchandise which
have the merit to insure their prompt sales and
the purchasers' permanent satisfaction, also
that it is the aim of the company to serve
as experienced intermediaries in helping the
customer to select and obtain desirable values
and make it possible to fulfill all his needs.
The high standard of service which this com-
pany has rendered in the past is pledged and
will no doubt be greatly facilitated with the
new quarters that the company has just leased,
taking over the five-story building at 311 South
Wabash avenue, which provides increased floor
space for larger stock, repair department and
display purposes.
The first part of this new catalog carries the
various lines of band and orchestra instruments,
including the Martin handcraft line, full de-
scription of the manufacturing, as well as
description and illustration of the instruments,
embracing not only the well-known line of
saxophones, but also trombones, baritones,
Sousaphones, etc. The popular Pan-American
line is then described in similar manner and
is followed by the Bettoney line of clarinets,
flutes and piccolos, as well as the Kohlert line.
As the catalog has been planned as a sales aid
for the dealer, the cases for these instruments
are next listed, as well as the accessories.
The next division embraces the string in-
struments, beginning with the well-known line
of B. & D. Silver Bell Bacon banjos, and is
followed by the C. F. Martin string instrument
line and a wide assortment of banjo and con-
cert ukuleles.
The accessories for this string instrument
line, including strings, picks, pegs, bags, cases,
etc., are then given. The line of violins, 'cellos,
metal basses, etc., is next catalogued. The latter
part of the book carries the Hohner harmonica
New Volume, Largest Ever Issued by Com-
pany, Includes Full Line of Instruments
Handled
CHICAGO, III., June 11.—A complete sales man-
ual in the form of a catalog of musical
instruments and merchandise has just been is-
sued by the Chicago Musical Instrument Co.,
311 South Wabash avenue, and is the most
extensive section that this company has ever
offered to the trade.
Its extent is shown by the many lines
represented as exclusive distributor in the
Middle Western States for Martin handcraft
band instruments, Bacon B. & D. Silver Bell
banjos, Bettoney woodwinds and silver clari-
nets and general distributor of the Pan-Ameri-
can band instruments, C. F. Martin guitars and
ukuleles, Otto Bruckner violins, 'cellos, basses;
Ludwig drums and accessories, Hohner har-
monicas and accordions, V. Kohlert's Sons
woodwinds, Harmony and J. R. Stewart string
instruments, Bacon, Bell brand and black dia-
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line, Ludwig drums and accessories, and port-
able phonographs, as well as a wide assortment
of cases.
Music Patents
Banjo. Henry H. Slingerland, River Forest,
111. Patent No. 1,631,293. In a device of the
type described, a cylindrical wall, a metal sup-
porting member adapted to support a membrane
carried by said wall and having an opening
therein, a flange carried by said supporting
member and bearing against the membrane, said
flange extending outwardly away from said sup-
porting member throughout the greater portion
of its width.
Stringed Instrument. Rocco A. Carlucci,
West New York, N. J. Patent No. 1,631,794. A
banjo of the class described, the parchment sup-
porting rim of which comprises a continuous
circular body provided in the periphery with cir-
cumfercntially spaced recesses extending through
the top and bottom faces of said rim and form-
ing about the periphery of the rim, spaced sound
transmission chambers.
Musical Instrument. Walter Hansell, Brook-
lyn, N. Y. Patent No. 1,631,862. A musical in-
strument including a mouthpiece, a series of
sounding tubes closed at both ends, pipes con-
stituting air passageways connecting the inter-
mediate portions of all of said tube to the
mouthpiece, the mouthpiece ends of said pipes
being arranged in lateral juxtaposition, openings
in the tubes arranged at the opposite sides from
the pipe openings, one opening in each tube
constituting an air inlet opening, the other open-
ing in each tube constituting an air outlet open-
ing and non-vibratory transverse divider plates
in the tubes for splitting the air streams enter-
ing through the inlet openings, certain of the
tubes sounding as air is drawn inwardly through
the pipes, the other tubes sounding as air is
blown outwardly through the pipes.
Carroll With Youngstown Co.
YOUNCSTOWN, O., June 11.—C. G. Lydrickson,
president of the Youngstown Music Co., an-
nounces the addition of Steve Carroll to the
staff of his concern. Carroll has opened a music
studio in the store and will give instruction
on all band and orchestra instruments. He
also will train orchestras and bands, one of
which will be a boys' organization and now
being organized by this music firm. Musical
training will be given free to all boys who join
the band. Carroll was for many years with
Sousa's and Conway's bands and is a musician
of note.
Banjo Method in Demand
ALTOONA, PA., June 12.—Joseph W. Nicomcde,
head of the firm Nicomede Music Co., Altoona's
popular publishers and manufacturers, reports
that shipments on Loar's New Orchestral Tenor
Banjo Method in four volumes were begun May
16 and the entire edition of 40,000 copies was
practically sold in advance.
Consult the Universal Want Directory of
The Review. In it advertisements are inserted
free of charge for men who desire positions.
Banjo and Drum Heads
Genuine Rogers "Quality 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
FarmwgdaU, N. J.