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NOVEMBER 17, 1928
October Proves Banjo
Month for Dyer & Bro.
Appearance of Fred Bacon and Princess Star-
light Serves to Stimulate Sales—Booths
Erected for Use of Teachers
ST. PAUL, MINN., November 10.—B. A. Rose, of
the musical merchandise department of W. J.
Dyer & P>ro., St. Paul, reported that October
proved a thoroughly satisfactory month in the
matter of sales. It began with the highly suc-
cessful open house held at the store by Fred
Bacon, the champion banjoist, as a result of
which many banjos as well as other orchestra
instruments were sold.
The following week Princess Starlight played
her banjo at the store and drew interesting
crowds. For her appearance a special window
display was arranged, featuring Indian blankets,
pottery, etc., which Mr. Rose had secured from
the trading-post near his Summer home on
Mille Lacs. The fact that the University had
designated home-coming week as an Indian mo-
tif made the window particularly appropriate,
and the company was highly complimented by
members of the faculty.
Win. A. l.inquist has installed a number of
booths for teachers in the store and has ar-
ranged to offer three free lessons with each
band or orchestra instrument sold. F. E. Zct-
terman, a teacher of the piano-accordion, also
makes his headquarters at the store and his
services are in great demand.
Girl Band Formation
Successful in Milwaukee
Milwaukee Girls' Civic Band, Organized by
Vesey Walker, Gives Concert in the Plank-
ington Auditorium
MILWAUKEE, WIS., November 12.—Vesey Walker,
of the Vesey Walker Music Shoppe, featured his
Milwaukee (iirls' Civic Hand in a successful
concert in Plaiikingtoii Hall of the Milwaukee
Auditorium on October 2.]. The band, which
was organized on January 10, 1928, by Mr.
Walker, who had the idea that girls could be-
come good prospects for band-organization
worU, is formed as a means for school and
working-girl musicians to continue their studies.
The band has sixty-three members at present,
and it recently purchased uniforms.
It is
organized somewhat in the form of a club.
Selrna Thamke is president; P.eulah Mase, vice-
president; Alita Pastoret, treasurer; Ethel L.
Kbert, secretary; Arabellc Pastoret, librarian;
Lulu Geadtke, historian; Margaret Dermondy,
custodian of properties; Magdaline Bittman, as-
sistant custodian, and Jean Shaw, chairman of
membership.
Equips Orphanage Band
TOLKIKI, ()., November 12.—Vincent De Prisco,
retailer of Lyon & Healy, Martin and Couturier
band and orchestra instruments, recently organ-
ized and equipped the new band at St. An-
thony's Orphanage. He has outfitted several
similar institutions and finds in them the oppor-
tunity for much new business for as a rule the
lirst order leads to a number of others.
Mr. De Prisco who received his early train-
ing in Kurope, conducts the largest small goods
repair department in the city. The repair sec-
tion, he says, does much more than bring in
repair jobs, for it very often produces sales of
m-w instruments.
Praise for Bacon
C.KOTON, CONN., November 10.—Several strong
letters praising the tone of the Bacon Silver Bell
banjo have been received recently by David L.
Day, treasurer and general manager of the
Bacon Banjo Co., this city. Jimmy Griffin,
The Music Trade
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banjo player of White Plains, N. Y., writes as
follows: "I wish to express iny opinion at this
time on the new B & D Silver Bell Banjo I
just purchased. It has the best tone of any
of the instruments I tried out in New York.
At first I was intent upon purchasing a
,
because my friend has one, but after hearing
the B & D Silver Bell 1 just had to have one.
Now my friend after playing my B & D intends
to trade in his banjo for a B & ]). Instead of
my playing odd jobs once in a while I now play
for one of the best orchestras in this section,
Roy Barnay's, and I am playing every night. I
think I owe it to my B & D and hope soon to
buy one of your Ne Plus Ultra style No. 9
models."'
Sousa Celebrates at
San Francisco Concerts
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., November 9.—John Philip
Sousa, here to give four concerts at Dreamland
Auditorium, has been celebrating his seventy-
fourth birthday with the assistance of adults
and children. Monday last was his natal day.
In the morning he visited the Mission High
School and, to the delight of the youngsters of
the school band, he directed them and was en-
rolled as a life member of the organization.
The domestic department had baked him a huge
cake with seventy-four candles. The Islam
Temple Band played for Sousa in Union Square,
but kiddies came to the front again in the eve-
ning when the Olmstead Children's Band of
San Jose, largely composed of Conn players,
drove fifty miles to serenade Sousa. The band
was one hundred strong, and the children and
their friends and relatives came down in fifty
automobiles. They played outside Dreamland
Auditorium and Sousa came out and directed
them. Later the Olmstead players went into
hear the Sousa concert.
Demonstrates Harmonica
in Plainfield Schools
Plaiufield, N. J., recently had a week of har-
monica music in the schools as a result of the
visit of Fred Sonnen, hailed as the world's
champion harmonica player and instructor of
music in the Philadelphia schools. Mr. Sonnen
was brought to Plainiicld by Jay W. Fay, di-
rccor of music in the Plainfield schools, and
gave a number of demonstration recitals. Mr.
Kay is planning to organize harmonica clubs in
several of the schools, particularly those with-
out bands or orchestras.
King Instruments for
Mississippi School Band
The King Music Co., New Orleans, La., re-
cently equipped the McComb, Miss., city schools
band with King band instruments and Ludwig
drums. The band is under the leadership of
Elmer J. Frantz, a graduate of the Conway
Military Band School of Ithaca, N. Y. From
the progress he has already made it is expected
he will have one of the best school bands in
that section of the country in the near future.
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