Music Trade Review -- © mbsi.org, arcade-museum.com -- digitized with support from namm.org
Musical Merchandise Section of The Music Trade Review
Sherman, Clay Wins Praise
for Violin Repair Work
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., May 18.—William Ringen,
manager of the band and orchestra instrument
department of Sherman, Clay & Co., here, states
that the company's small goods repair depart-
ment has been given some very high praise
recently for excellent workmanship done on
old violins. Carl Nelson, who has been work-
ing iii the wholesale department of the com-
pany for years, is chiefly responsible for this
work and his skill was never appreciated until
recent months. Not long ago he brought to
life an old Balestrieri violin, belonging to the
son of Theodore I. Fenster, formerly one of
the best conductors in San Francisco. Mr.
Fenster has just written in to congratulate Mr.
Nelson for his work on his son's Balestrieri
and Guadagnini violins, relieving him of the
necessity of sending them to Europe as he had
originally intended.
Smith Go. in New Home
AKRON, O., May 18.—The AUlen B. Smith Co.,
successor to the A. B. Smith Piano Co., has
moved to its new home at 73 East Mill street.
Officials of the company announce that the
store is complete with the exception of the
basement, which will be redecorated at once.
The Smith company is stressing piano sales in
its new home although it is handling other lines
of musical merchandise.
CANTON, O., May 18.—The Waltham Piano Co.'s
store opened here several months ago at 130
Second street, S. W., will move to larger
quarters June 1. The new location will be 525
Cleveland avenue, N. W. V. V. Williams has
been named manager of the local store, and
has assumed charge.
53
Twenty-three Southern H. S. Students
Receive Awards for Music Study
A/f AYWOOD, ILL., May 20.—One-half schol-
-*• arships of $150 each to the National
High School Orchestra and Band Camp at
Interlochen, Mich., have been awarded to 23
outstanding musicians in the All-Southern High
School Orchestra and the Southwestern High
School Orchestra by J. E. Maddy, musical di-
rector of the Camp, who conducted both or-
chestras which played before the music super-
visors of their respective sections at Ashevillc,
N. C, and at Wichita, Kans. Ten of the schol-
arships went to the best musicians in the South-
ern orchestra, and thirteen to those in the South-
western, the donors being the Carnegie Corp.,
the Juilliard Foundation, Carl Fischer, Inc., and
Irving Berlin, Inc., all of New York City. The
understanding was that the $150 balance on
each scholarship would be raised by parents,
schools, business men or clubs of the com-
munity of the youngster awarded the scholar-
ship. Southern students who won camp half-
scholarships follow: George Henry, Jackson-
ville, Fla., cello; Borden Jones, Chattanooga,
Tenn., trumpet; James Pfohl, Winston-Salem,
N. C, bass; Harris Mitchell, Greensburg, IN.
C, horn; Pat Hamby, Memphis, Tenn., tuba;
Frank Pay, Birmingham, Ala., bass; Lyddane
Miller, Charlotte, N. C, oboe; Lawrence
Kingsbury, Parkersburg, W. Va., flute; Dorothy
Tait, Jacksonville, Fla., tympani; Walter Pres-
cott, Asheville, N. C, bassoon.
Southwestern orchestra players winning
scholarships are as follows: Phyllis Farrar,
Abilene, Kans., violin; Dick Helt, Wichita,
Kans., clarinet; Callie Parsons, Pawhuska,
Okla., clarinet; Loretta Newman, Kansas City,
Mo., viola; Elizabeth Scott, Ottawa, Kans.,
viola; Betty Barbour, Winfield, Kans., cello;
Bob Stillman, Pueblo, Colo., double bass; Al-
fred Braun, San Antonio, Tex., double bass;
Charles Gilbert, Stillwater, Okla., oboe; John
Kinzer, Topeka, Kans., bassoon; Eugene Di-
mond, Kansas City, Mo., bassoon; Ralph Rea,
Pueblo, Colo., trombone; John Pickering,
Olathe, Kans., trombone.
Milton Wolf Will
Handle New Product
CHICAGO, I I I . , May 18.—Milton G. Wolf, "The
Banjo Man," has been appointed sole distributor
for the Electric Amplifier for string instru-
ments. This new device will be exhibited by
Mr. Wolf during the convention at his head-
quarters, 816 Kimball Hall, Chicago.
This electric amplifier is a simple attachment
developed by H. Kuhrmeyer, of the Stromberg
Voissinet Co., Chicago. It is fastened to the
soundboard of an instrument connected with
the amplifier. A control device on the amplifier
increases the volume of tone from an instru-
ment thus connected to any desired degree.
The amplification of the tone of the guitar,
banjo, mandolin and similar instruments is said
to be accomplished without hardening or dis-
torting the natural tone of the instruments in
any way. This amplifier is also used with radios
and phonographs.
Green Music Go. Ghartered
The Green Novelty & Music Co., Evansville,
Ind., has been incorporated recently to deal in
pianos, radios and musical merchandise. The
company has a capital stock of $10,000.
SEE and HEAR the "
LATEST M O D E L S
B & D "SILVER BELL" BANJOS
At the National Convention of the Music Industries Chamber of
Commerce at the Drake Hotel, Chicago, June 3-6. Room 441.
We have arranged in cooperation with our Middle Western Dis-
tributors, The Chicago Musical Instrument Company, a Banjo
Display which will interest all whether Dealers, Professional
Players or Amateurs—You are welcome.
Have You Read "Banjology."
Copy Free
"The Richest Child Is Poor without Musical Training."
THE BACON BANJO CO., Inc.
Groton, Conn.