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Winners in California
High School Band Concert
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.—The Northern California
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campaign to develop instrumental music in the
schools, is a "Graded Survey of Music Material
for School Orchestras," by Victor L. F. Reb-
mann, Director of Music in the Public Schools
of Yonkers, N. Y. This sixty-page booklet lists
some 1,600 different compositions, carefully
graded as to difficulty and classified as to type,
so as to be most helpful to the school music
supervisor, teacher and instrumental director
who will use it for reference. It is published
by the Bureau as an aid to the music super-
visors' Committee on Instrumental Affairs, of
which Dr. Rebmann is a member, and C. M.
Tremaine, director of the Bureau, is secretary.
a New Sport Model instrument of special all-
gold deLuxe finish in a beautiful case and spe-
cially engraved with the winner's name if de-
sired. In the event tha,t the name is suggested
by a present owner of a Sport Model Martin,
the company will buy back the winner's instru-
ment and give him a new prize horn. The
rules require the suggestion of a name for the
new model, an explanation of fifty words or
less explaining the applicability of the name,
and submission of the name and explanation by
mail to the Contest Editor in care of the Mar-
tin Company. The contest closes midnight,
August 1, 1930.
Martin Offers Prize for
Names for New Instruments
W. Lawrence Harrington, well-known or-
chestra leader of Cortland, N. Y., has taken
over the music store of the Ghent Music Co.,
8 Clinton avenue, that city, and, with his broth-
er, Reginald, Harrington will continue the bus-
iness under the name of Harrington Bros. In
addition to carrying a full line of musical in-
struments, including pianos, the brothers will
give instruction on various band instruments.
School Band Concert was held this year in
Sacramento, Cal., with the following results:
Class A—Sacramento High School Band,
first; Berkeley, second; Bakersfield, third.
Class B—Willows High School Band, first;
Yuba City, second; Marysville, third.
Class C—Kernan High School, first; Clear
Lake, second; Mt. Shasta, third.
Class D—Salinas, first.
The contests were held under the auspices of
the Northern California School Bandmasters'
Association.
It looks as if northern California is going
very strongly school band-minded. There have
been regional contests, in addition to the con-
A prize is offered by the Martin Band Instru-
test at Sacramento. The regional contests were ment Co., of Elkhart, Ind., for the naming of
lor the schools which did not participate in
the company's New Sport Model trumpet,
the State contests. Waters and Ross, musical
trombone, and cornet. The winner will receive
instrument dealers of San Francisco, have
given cups for the chief winner in each of
these contests, and they have also attended the
contests. For instance, Dewey C. Waters, of
Waters & Ross, made the trip to Vallejo for
the California North Coast Public School Band
and Orchestra Contest Association, held in Val-
lejo, Friday, May 9. Orchestras competed in
the afternoon and in the evening high school
bands from quite a wide strip of territory north
of the San Francisco Bay region, from Men-
docino to Solano.
In San Francisco school bands and orches-
tras took a prominent part in Music Week
activities and on Sunday, May 11, the Modesto
High School Band played in the Civic Audi-
torium, at the closing concert of Music Week.
At this concert prize winners in the piano-
playing and in the violin-playing contests were
also heard. The Modesto Band, the other last
year's winners, are disqualified by their success
trom competing again for three years.
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New Frank Co. Catalog
Pleases the Dealers
The new catalog of William Frank Co.,
Twenty-third street and Clybourn avenue, Chi
cago, 111., makers of brass band instruments of all
types, has already made a decidedly favorable
impression on the dealers who have received
their copies, as the illustrations and text give
the dealer a clear idea of the William Frank
instruments and the price list and discounts are
arranged so that the dealer can use this catalog
for selling purposes.
One of the reasons for the success of the
company is revealed in the foreword, which says
that "We shall continue to make the Frank band
instruments just a little better than the descrip-
tion." Three price lines are shown in this new
catalog, the widely known Classic, which name
the Frank Co. has been using for years, the Ex-
celsior, and the Student.
In the Classic model are illustrations and de-
tailed specifications of trumpets, cornets, trom-
bones, mellophones, baritones, horns, and
Sousaphones. In the Excelsior line are shown
trumpets, cornets, trombones, melophoncs,
altos and basses, baritones and Sousaphones.
The Student line includes cornets, trumpets,
slide trombones and Sousaphones. The com-
pany also lists the full line of Excelsior saxa-
phones and clarinets, both metal and composi-
tion.
Bureau Issues Compilation
of School Orchestra Music
The most recent publication of the National
Bureau for the Advancement of Music, in its
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