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THE
M U S I C
TRADE
FINAU PIATANESI. Pres.
REVIEW,
ALFREDO
July, 1 9 3 1
MORBIDONI, Vice-Pres.
33
ALDO
MORBIDONI, Sec.
For 22 years we have been
making piano accordions in
Chicago, of the best material
and workmanship, by skilled
artisans who make this
their life work. All made by
hand and in many styles.
We build also to order on
special specifications. Re-
pairing and exchanging.
GREAT FRETTED INSTRUMENT
GROUPS FOR WORLD'S FAIR
If the plans of Arling Schaeffer, well-
known authority of fretted instruments and
director of the Chicago Students' Mandolin,
The Piatanesi piano accordions are high
Guitar and Harp Orchestra, are carried out,
grade instruments, built to last and to
fretted instruments will occupy a prominent
give constant satisfaction to the users.
Every one we make Is absolutely guar-
place in the musical program of the Century
anteed for 5 years.
of Progress World's Fair in Chicago in 1933.
Write for Catalogue and Dealer'!
Prices.
Exclusive territory and good
Mr. Schaeffer has already started work on
profits.
Phone—Brunswick 0240
organizing a banjo band of 1,000 players
recruited from all sections of the country
during the clinic also included concerts by
F. PIATANESI BUSINESS
together with a mandolin and guitar orches-
artists of national reputation.
OCCUPIES LARGER QUARTERS
According to Dr. Charles H. Mills, director tra of the same size. Groups in various sec-
tions of the country are being recruited for
The result of the life work of F. Piatanesi of the School of Music of the University of the big organization and arrangements have
Wisconsin,
the
university's
band
clinic
is
the
and his family in the making of fine piano
been made for regular practice by these
accordions is evident by the fact that the most complete experiment in that line carried groups along systematic lines for at least a
on
by
any
state
in
the
country.
The
school
business has grown to an extent where larger
does not offer university credit, but counts year before they are brought to Chicago for
space and more employes are needed, and
for renewals of teachers' licenses. It is pri- the fair. In his work Mr. Schaeffer has the
a lease has been taken on the new and much
marily for the purpose of placing the facili- support of the American Guild of Banjoists,
larger quarters at 1415 Milwaukee avenue, ties of the state at the command of those Mandolinists and Guitarists which body will
Chicago, where they are now settled. This most interested in the new ideas in instru- hold its 1933 convention in Chicago.
is the corner of Girard street, is on the sec- mental music, as well as to promote the study
ond floor, and has a frontage on Milwaukee of music and musical instruments, in the
NEW "BLACK LABEL" STRINGS
avenue and Girard street of twenty-four state of Wisconsin.
windows, giving them almost three times the
Plans aTe being formulated for a six-week ADDED TO GIBSON C O . LINE
amount of space they formerly had, so that session to be held during the summer of
The Gibson Musical String Co., Belleville,
every workman has outside light.
1932.
Orchestral problems will also be con-
In the new quarters the Piatanesi Co. will sidered at this session, which would be a part N. J., reports unusual success with their new
Black Label anti-tarnish strings recently in-
have several demonstration rooms and studios of the summer school curriculum.
troduced to the trade. The strings were in-
and their piano accordions can be demon-
troduced in response to an insistent demand
strated in sound-proof rooms.
Targ & Dinner, Inc., the prominent whole- for more tone and durability and are the
One of the features of the Piatanesi salers of musical instruments and sporting result of intensive laboratory tests for pro-
methods of construction is the sole use of goods at 425 South Wabash avenue, Chicago, ducing a new alloy which not only will not
hand-made Teeds constructed of special steel, have purchased the business and good will tarnish but is possessed of unusual tone qual-
giving unusual power and musical beauty.
of the Cole & Dunas Music Co. of that citv. ity as attested to by numerous guitar experts.
Their growth in popularity among the pro-
fessional players continues steadily and the
business policy of absolutely guaranteeing
every Piatanesi accordion for five years is
attracting the patronage of music merchants.
The popularity at present of piano accor-
dions is evident to the most superficial ob-
server and the alert dealer is finding them
one of the most useful and profitable items
in his stock because they are easy to sell.
Feature these
JVew
HUNDRED BANDMASTERS
ATTEND BAND CLINIC
About 100 bandmasters from five states,
principally from Wisconsin, assembled in
Madison, Wis., for the second annual band
clinic, sponsored by the University of Wis-
consin School of Music, and the Wisconsin
State Band and Orchestra Association.
The two weeks' clinic included a daily
routine of courses in which the bandmasters
were offered studies under able professors and
professional men, on the outstanding prob-
lems of band promotion work, and especially
the problems confronting those interested in
high school music education. Open forums
were held daily, at which demonstrations of
practical problems, such as care and main-
tenance of instruments, were given.
In addition the all-state band of about
eighty high school players came together dur-
ing the clinic for instruction, as a model
group, and to present a concert on the last
day of the gathering. This model band was
under the direction of A. R. McCallister, of
Joliet, 111., conductor of the Joliet high school
band, which won the national band contest
for four times successively. The program
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