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THE
MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW,
April, 1931
37
The Famous Santos Banjo Band, Rochester, N. Y.
MANY ENTRIES FOR FRETTED INSTRUMENT
CONTEST ENSURES SUCCESS OF EVENT
Mich., Bacon Banjo Co., of Groton, Conn.,
and Vega Banjo Co., of Boston, Mass., being
among those who will have special displays.
A
CHICAGO SPECIALISTS
IN PIANO ACCORDIONS
CCORDING to reports from Roches-
ter, N. Y., the number of fretted
instrument players and enthusiasts
who will gather in that city on April 24 and
25 to participate in the annual Santos con-
test for banjo, guitar and mandolin bands,
promises to break all previous records, judg-
ing from the acceptances already received.
Don Santos launched his contest idea last
year and drew 238 participants, practically
all of whom have announced their intention
of being present this year. In addition there
will be many who will participate for the
first time and it is believed that the roll call
will find at least 500 present.
On both Friday and Saturday afternoon
there will be contests for banjo bands,
Hawaiian guitar bands, Spanish guitar bands
and mandolin orchestras with eight silver
loving cups donated by Don Santos as the
prizes. Each evening there will be concerts
by the Santos eighty-piece banjo band and
the winning contestant bands, featuring solo-
ists of national fame on fretted instruments.
The soloists who will be heard on these
programs include: Fred J. Bacon, world's
champion banjoist, Groton, Conn.; W. J.
Jeffery, Berwick, Pa.; William B. Mc-
Michael, Youngstown, O.; Walter K. Bauer,
Hartford, Conn.; Ralph R. Wingert, Harris-
burg, Pa.; Rose Helen Pizzitola, Holyoke,
Mass.; Boote Trio, Hamilton, Ontario; Frank
Wagonect, Holyoke, Mass.; Crandall's Happy
Hicks, Syracuse, N. Y.; Hagadorn Duo, Hor-
nell, N. Y.; Marjorie Roach, Syracuse,
N. Y.; and from Rochester, Helen May,
Walter Bassage, Charles LaBelle, Evangeline
French and Alvin McMann.
The band entries received up to March 23
included: Boote Spanish Guitar Band, Ham-
ilton, Ontario; Hawaiian Guitar Ramblers,
Niagara Falls, Ontario; Florentine Guitarists
(Hawaiian), Erie, Pa.; Crandall Hawaiians,
Syracuse, N. Y.; Ukrainian Mandolin Or-
chestra, Rochester, N. Y.; Crandall Mandolin
Girls, Syracuse, N. Y.; Florentine Mando-
linists, Erie, Pa.; Hagadorn's Banjo Band,
Hornell, N. Y.; Pizzitola Strummers,
Holyoke, Mass.; Banjo Ramblers, Niagara
Falls, N. Y.; Crandall Banjo Girls, Syra-
cuse, N. Y.; Florentine Banjoists, Erie, Pa.;
State Miftic School Banjo Band, Columbus,
O.; Smith's Banjo Band, Syracuse, N. Y.;
Brattain Banjo Band, Sandusky, O.; Althean
Banjo Band, Olcott, N. Y.; Kel Kroydon
Banjo Band, Buffalo, N. Y.; Boalsburg Banjo
Band, Boalsburg, Pa., and Knapp Banjo
Band, Elmira, N. Y.
There will be dancing with the ten Alpines
after each evening concert. Large instrument
displays may be seen at any time during this
event, the Gibson Co., Inc., of Kalamazoo,
The rapidly growing and widely spread
sales of piano accordions in practically every
part of the United States, and among
classes of citizens young and old, native-born
"grown-ups" of all social grades, calls at-
tention to the men who are making piano
accordions here, and are developing a
steadily necessary trade.
Here in Chicago, among others, is a vet-
eran citizen who has spent all his life in
making piano accordions, and for twenty-
two years has had an excellently equipped
plant and a group of fine workmen who
are also specialists in manufacturing this
interesting musical instrument. This refers
to Finau Piatanesi, founder and president of
the F. Piatanesi Accordion Manufacturing
Co., at 1509 Milwaukee avenue. Associated
with him are two capable nephews, Alfredo
Morbidoni, vice-president, and Aldo Mor-
bidoni, secretary. And a group of highly
trained workmen, all of them regarding their
work as an art, and carrying on in Chicago
the best traditions of European quality in
tone, workmanship and material, but adopted
in design and materials for the American
climate, which is highly important to every
buyer of piano accordions.
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