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NOVEMBER 24, 1928
The Music Trade
Review
New Book on Organizing School Bands
and Orchestras From Pan-American Co.
Volume Is Excellent Contribution to Emphasizing School and Band Orchestra Value
to Both the Individual and the Community
TpLKHART, IND., November 17.—The Pan-
•'-' American Band Instrument and Case Co.
recently issued a booklet entitled "The School
Band and Orchestra and Its Relationship to
the Community," which has attracted wide at-
tention.
It is an excellent contribution to school
music exploitation in emphasizing the advan-
tages of school band and orchestras not only
to the individual but also to the community.
The forepart of the booklet points out the
complete manner in which the school band or
orchestra measures up to the standards of the
National Education Association, which have
become the foundation on which the work in
the public school system is based. These in-
clude health, command of the fundamental
processes, attainment of worthy home mem-
bership, preparation for a vocation, worthy use
of leisure, civic education and ethical char-
acter.
How and why has the school band movement
grown so rapidly to its present popularity?
What is there about this movement to attract
such interest? What do people see about it,
or feel about it, which makes them so perma-
nently enthusiastic for it, once begun? These
question are all answered in this interesting
book in relating the history of the famous
Joliet, 111., High School Band, which has for
the »past three years won the National High'
School Band Contest, making an unusual
demonstration of what can be done in organiz-
ing and promoting a school band.
The latter part of the book is really an or-
ganizers' manual showing how to develop, or-
ganize and finance school bands and orchestras.
It emphasizes the responsibility of the school,
the selection of material, balanced instrumenta-
tion, financing and other problems in connec-
tion with organization.
The booklet carries a convincing message
which is well illustrated with sketches and
photographs.
High School Orchestra
Buescher Metal Clarinets
Planning European Trip
Meet Immediate Demand
One Model With Albert System of Fingering
and Two with Boehm System of Fingering
Included in Line
J. E. Maddy Working Hard to Take Advantage
of Invitation to Have National High School
Orchestra Visit Europe Next Year
ELKHART, IND., November 17.—The new Bue-
scher True-Tone metal clarinet recently in-
troduced by the Buescher Band Instrument
Co. has been acclaimed by many leading mu-
sicians and teachers who highly praise the
qualities and workmanship of this new instru-
ment.
The type of metal clarinet being placed on
the market to-day, the company states, is by
no means a new idea. Clarinets of this na-
ture were made by band instrument manu-
facturers forty to fifty years ago, but the mu-
sicians refused to adopt them and they did
not, at that time, become popular.
The company, in designing and building
three models of metal construction, has en-
deavored to combine all the advantages of the
metal clarinet with the rich tonal beauty and
timbre of the wooden instruments and intro-
duces three models with two different systems.
Some musicians and teachers, especially
those of the old school, prefer the Albert sys-
tem, of fingering, and for these models number
710 has been designed. It is less expensive
than the Boehm system models, not because
a difference in quality, but because less
work is required to build the mechanism.
The other two models are designed after
the Boehm system, which is later and an im-
provement over the Albert system. The keys
have been so planned that they work in closer
conjunction with one another, eliminating
cross fingering in certain, passages and en-
abling greater technical efficiency. For this
reason it is the choice of many professionals
whose work calls for difficult passages.
Joseph E. iMaddy, of the University of
Michigan School of Music, Chairman of the In-
strumental Affairs Committee of the Music
Supervisors' National Conference, and moving
spirit behind the National High School Or-
chestra, is busily engaged in working out plans
for taking an all-American High School Or-
chestra of about ISO boys and girls to Europe
in July or August of next year. The purpose
will be primarily to play before the delegates
to the World Conference on Education at
Geneva and the Anglo-American Music Con-
ference at Lausanne, and it is probable that the
orchestra will play in a number of the larger
cities abroad.
The invitation to the National High School
Orchestra to visit Europe came from Percy A.
Scholes of London, the eminent British musical
figure, and Paul V. Weaver, of the University
of North Carolina, chairmen, respectively, of
the British and American Committees in charge
of the programs for the Lausanne meeting. The
big problem that faces Mr. Maddy is that of
securing funds to finance the trip, but it is be-
lieved that wealthy patrons of music will be
found to provide them.
Sutphin Takes the
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