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The Music Trade Review
JANUARY 29, 1927
sored by Wm. L. Lange and which has won
such wide success.
Mr. Bowen is a convert from the older type
of finger style playing. He has been a banjo-
ist of note almost from the beginning of banjo
popularity and is a former partner of Fred
Van Eps, who is known extensively for his
phonograph recordings.
"Bill" Bowen's recording of his solo "Nifty
Notes" and "Sitting on Top of the World" is
•<\ marvel of banjo technic.
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OSCAR SCHMIDT, Inc-
87'101 Ferry Street
EST. 1879
Jersey City, N. J.
H. Simson, founder of the company, has spent
a lifetime in the music business. Many years
ago he served an apprenticeship under a well-
known violin maker and later acted as travel-
High Quality of Merchandise Represented by ing representative for a musical instrument im-
Well-known House Big Factor in Increasing porting firm, where his unusual selling ability
became evident immediately. In a few years'
Importance
time he organized the present firm of Simson
A concern which lias made pronounced prog- & Frey, Inc., which now does business with
ress in the past few years among the importers thousands of music dealers.
Associated with Mr. Simson is Ernst Hein-
of musical merchandise is Simson & Frey, Inc.,
25 East Twenty-fourth street, New York. Al- rich Roth, Jr., representing his father, the
though less than a score of years old this firm famous violin maker of the same name, for
has already taken a place in the front rank of whom Simson & Frey, Inc., are sole agents in
musical merchandise houses and its business is the United States. Mr. Roth is now on his
fourth annual visit to the United States.
steadily increasing.
Joseph M. Dvorak, member of the sales staff,
The company was founded in 1910 by H. Sim-
son, present head of the company, and the is well-known in the trade through his thirty-
secret of its unusual success lies in the fact four years' association with Lyon & Healy, Chi-
that it has always acted as an American repre- cago. He has visited dealers in every part of
sentative for European houses known to stand the entire United States and is representing the
for quality merchandise. Its agencies are firm in the States of Ohio, Michigan, Illinois,
recognized as among the best in existence, and Minnesota, Iowa and Kansas.
Other salesmen for the firm include Fred
the personnel of its organization insures a con-
Bagt, who has been with the concern nearly
stant forward development.
ten years, Max Scherl who has been with the
company five years, and C. J. Fuller, formerly
with Lyon & Healy and partner of the Fuller-
Ryde Music Co., Indianapolis.
Among the important agencies of Simson &
Frey, Inc., are Couesnon & Cie, Paris, brass
and woodwind instruments; Ernst Heinrich
Roth, Markneukirchen, Germany, violins; Sil-
vestre & Maucotel, Paris, violin and 'cello
strings; Gustav Pirazzi & Co., Offenbach,
strings; Penzel & Mueller, Long Island City,
woodwinds; Gebruder Moennig, Markneukirchen,
woodwinds; Gebruder Schuster, Markneu-
kirchen, string instruments, and August
Kaempffe, Markneukirchen, strings.
Steady Progress Made
by Simson & Frey, Inc.
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'Banjo Bill" Bowen
Writes Banjo Solo
"Ban-Bow," Published by Wm. L. Lange, Latest
Composition by This Well-known Banjoist
Wm. D. "Banjo Bill" Bowen, widely known
Paramount banjoist, is the author of a new
Plectrum banjo solo, "Ban-Bow," published by
Wm. L. Lange, New York. This solo has a
vigor and dash which is distinctive of Bowen
compositions, his previous solo, "Nifty Notes,"
being a forerunner that has and still is enjoy-
ing a wide sale.
"Bill" Bowen has become celebrated by his
work on the Paramount banjo, both as a soloist
and as director of the Paramount Musical
Treat, a radio broadcasting organization heard
weekly from Station WOR, Newark, and spon-
Green Demonstrates the
Leedy Instruments
Famous Xylophone Artist Appears in Concert
and Broadcast in Both Indianapolis and
Chicago
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., January 24.—George Green,
the famous xylophone artist, radio broadcasting
and phonograph recording star, spent the last
week in this city playing a series of concerts
and radio broadcasting turns. Mr. Green gave
two recitals every day at the Lincoln Hotel,
and also broadcast from station WFBN.
Mr. Green uses Leedy instruments exclu-
sively, which are made at the Leedy Manufac-
turing Co., here in Indianapolis, and the Leedy
sales organization was able to make a tie-up
with his appearances. Invitations were sent to
musicians within an eighty-mile radius to attend
the concerts, and a large number of them
availed themselves of the privilege every day.
Mr. Green took advantage of the first op-
portunity to pay a visit to the big factories of
the Leedy Manufacturing Co., and was taken
on a personally conducted tour of the various
departments of the plant by U. G. Leedy, A. W.
Kuerst, secretary, and George Way, sales man-
ager.
In the company of Mr. Way, Mr. Green left
today for Chicago, where he will put in a week
demonstrating the possibilities of Leedy instru-
ments at the Tom Brown Music Co., Chicago
distributors.
New Nicomede Publications
ALTOONA, PA., January 24.—Joseph W. Nicomede,
head of the Nicomede Music Co., of this city,
manufacturer of specialties for the musical
merchandise trade and publisher of popular
method books, reports that his company is
publishing at once six additional method books
and folios which will be modern and up-to-date
in every respect. Many other items that this
firm anticipates bringing forth shortly are now
in the course of preparation for introduction to
the trade.
Consult the Universal Want Directory of
The Review. In it advertisements are inserted
free of charge for men who desire positions.