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The Music Trade
DECEMBER 1, 1928
15
Review
Letters of praise for the Silver Bell banjos
have never been so abundant. Below is one
from a professional, Lcc Warren, Drexel Hills,
Philadelphia, who writes as follows: "I am
Representative Leaders of Northern California writing to let you know that I bought a Silver
Form Organization—State Contest During Bell in Portland, Maine, last week. I had a
chance to sell my banjo. I liked the tone and
San Francisco Music Week
power of that particular instrument so well that
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., November 22.—The school 1 bought it. It has 'guts' like iron. The tone
bandmasters of Northern California, who re- cuts through the rest of the band so that I
cently affected preliminary organization, met don't have to play loud and cover up any other
last Saturday and completed the details of instrument, and when I play the 'upper-regis-
permanent organization. E. J. Delano, of Sher- ter' I see why you have named it 'Silver Bell.'
man, Clay & Co., was in the chair and there The notes have a quality which can best be de-
was a good representation of the bandmasters scribed as 'bell-like.' "
present. A constitution and by-laws were
adopted, and it was resolved to adhere to the Pan-American Issues
national rules. Officers and directors elected
New Band Catalog
are, president, E. P. Alwyn, Princeton, Cal.;
vice-president, Thomas Willis, Sacramento;
secretary, Eugene Broe of Burlingame; treas- Full Line of Company's Instruments Described
and Illustrated as Well as Dealers' Helps and
urer, Earl Morton, Berkeley, and in addition to
Band Organizations.
the foregoing officers the board of directors in-
cludes George D. Ingrim of the Mission High
ELK HART, IND., November 24.—The Pan-Ameri-
School, San Francisco, member at large of the
can Band Instrument & Case Co., of this city,
board.
It was voted to accept the invitation of the has issued a new catalog covering its full line
San FVancisco Civic Association to hold a State of instruments, including saxophones, metal
school band contest in San Francisco during and zyloid clarinets, flutes and piccolos, trump-
the 1929 Music Week, as was done during the ets, cornets, trombones, French horns, altos,
past two annual music weeks. Delano said baritones, Sousaphone basses and Helicon
that the band contest committee in 1929 will basses, as well as several pages describing the
be practically the same as in the past and will company's line of band instrument cases.
The cover of this new publication is in pur-
include the local dealers in band instruments.
The only difference at the coming Music Week ple, gold and blue, and the illustrations include
will be that the contest committee will have a a picture of the firm's plant, a number of school
tie-up with the executive committee of the bands equipped with the Pan-American instru-
Northern California School Bandmasters' Asso- ments, and several color illustrations showing
ciation, and this will result in more co-opera- the instruments in use. The catalog also goes
tion, especially regarding some of the details with some detail into the problems confronted
by the retail dealer in organizing bands of
of the contest.
various types, telling of the company's educa-
tional department which develops band organi-
Telegraph Orders for
zation plans and methods and cooperates with
Silver Bell Banjos the Pan-American dealers in this work.
The company's national advertising as well
Demand for Bacon Banjo Co. Products Both as its local advertising for dealers' use is also
From Home and Abroad Indicate Improved described, and Sales Building Advertising, a
twenty-four page booklet prepared for the
Trade Conditions
dealer, is offered.
GROTON, CONN., November 24.—Telegraph and
cable orders for B. & D. Silver Bell banjos are "Vestris" Drummer Buys
being received daily by the Bacon Banjo Co.,
New Ludwig Outfit
this city, a sure sign of healthy trade conditions,
according to D. L. Day, treasurer and general
CHICAGO, III., November 24.—Edwin S. Con-
manager of the company. One nice order came
through recently from South Africa, and a ship- rad, drummer of the "Vestris" orchestra, who
ment of twenty-three banjos was made to Aus- lost his outfit when the "Vestris" went down,
tralia a short time ago. The Chicago Musical has purchased a complete new Ludwig outfit.
Instrument Co. sent in a telegraphic order for Ludwig & Ludwig, drum and banjo makers of
sixteen instruments, six of these being for Roy Chicago, also lost a shipment of instruments
Smcck stage model gold-plated Silver Bell being sent to South America.
banjos and four for Montana Special Silver
The Carroll Music Co., Houston, Tex., has
Bell instruments. Another telegram from
George Peate, Canadian distributor for the been incorporated with capital stock of $10,000
Bacon concern, ordered a Ne Plus Ultra Silver to engage in the retail music business. The
incorporators include Elwyn Carroll.
Bell plectrum model.
School Bandmasters in
Permanent Organization
Organizing New Band
A large band is being organized by the
Mechanicsburg, Pa., High School with Lloyd
Bender as director. The school will aid in
financing the purchase of instruments. Already
forty-three boys have enrolled in the organiza-
tion.
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