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PRESTO
October 28, 1922.
DEALERS AND QENNETT RECORDS
Popularity of the Line with All Phonograph Owners
Makes It Desirable for Trade.
A great many dealers now find the line of Gennett
records full of power to attract people to their
stores. For one thing the Starr Piano Co., Rich-
mond, Ind., which produces them, is generous in ad-
vertising them in newspapers, magazines and on bill-
boards in railroad stations and other public places.
But in the merit of the Gennete records lies the
greatest power to make them popular.
The Starr recording laboratories are situated in the
heart of New York's music center with ready access
to the latest musical hits at all times. Therefore, on
Gennett records is offered the latest and best music
when the demand is greatest, new records being in
the hands of dealers weekly.
In the Blue Label Gennett records are released the
latest popular songs and dance hits and standard
numbers. Their timeliness, wide range and quality
have given them tremendous popularity the country
over. Hits are released when they are hits.
Gennett records released under the Green Label
represent the highest attainment in the art of sound-
recording. The best standard numbers come under
this label, which assures variety in selection, perfect
reproduction and the real musicianship of the artist.
The appeal of the Green Label Gennetts is excep-
tional and portrays the masterful accomplishment of
the Green Label artists.
VALUABLE 'CELLO STOLEN
High-Priced Instrument Among List of Loot From
New York Store.
A 'cello said to be valued at $1,500 was said to
be among other things stolen last week from the
Stathopoulo Music Shop, 167 West Forty-eighth
street, New York City. The burglary was carried
out by two men, while four others shielded them and
kept passersby interested in other things. Musical in-
struments worth a total of $5,000 were stolen here.
The stolen instrument, known as the Thompson
'cello, bore a card with the price of $1,500. Besides
the plate glass window facing on Forty-eighth street
there was a small window looking up the hallway
leading to the entrance of the music store. The bur-
glars used a rock to break the glass door of the
shop. That they were supervised by somebody ac-
quainted with musical instruments was indicated by
the discrimination shown in their selection. They
took the best of everything.
Several good banjos and banjo-mandolins were
taken. More than twenty-five clarinets, priced from
$25 to $1,000, were taken. Several violins were miss-
ing this morning. Three or four less costly 'cellos were
not touched.
It was later reported to the police that an at-
tempt to steal a valuable 'cello bow from the window
of an adjoining store. The burglars attempted later
to rob the window of the Rudolph Wurlitzer Com-
pany in Forty-second street, just east of the Bush
Terminal building. They smashed the plate glass
window of the Wurlitzer store with a chunk of ce-
ment, but did not make a hole big enough to reach
the instruments.
SPECIAL PLAYER LEATHERS.
Interesting specialties in supplies for pianos and
playerpiano manufacturers are certain varieties in
leather made and sold by T. L. Lutkins, Inc., 40
Spruce street, New York. The perfection of the
pneumatics in a playerpiano is the measure of suc-
cess as a playerpiano. So it follows that the choice
of dependable leathers is a matter of vital impor-
tance in the purchase of supplies. T. L. Lutkins,
Inc., presents itself as a specialist in pneumatic
leathers. The house also has a high character for
specially tanned bellows leathers and valve pack-
ing.
OPENS TONE ARM SUIT.
Arguments were opened last week at Grand Rapids,
Mich., before the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals in
the appeal of the Victor Talking Machine Co., in a
suit against the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. and
the General Phonographs Corporation. It is an ap-
peal against the decision last spring delivered by the
U. S. District Court at Grand Rapids, Mich., in which
the verdict was given the defendants for alleged viola-
tion of Victor patent rights covering the tapered
tone arm.
MODEL RECORD DEPARTMENT.
Considerably more space and a better arrangement
of the department are advantages seen in the re-
modeled and redecorated store of the Irving Zuelke
Music. Store, Neenah, Wis. The store has been con-
verted into a model modern music goods store. The
talking machine record department has been equipped
with every aid to comfort in shopping and with sug-
gestion to buy. The firm has a large stock of rec-
ords admirably presented.
RECORD FACTORY BURNS.
Damage estimated at approximately $250,000 was
caused in Albany, N. Y., last week by fire which de-
stroyed the building of the Federal Record Co. The
company made phonograph records, and thousands of
them were destroyed. Firemen fought the flames for
five hours.
ATTENDED VICTOR SCHOOL.
Kenneth Malcolm, son of R. D. Malcolm, music
dealer of Flint, Michigan, was in Chicago recently,
after spending two weeks at the Victor School of
Salesmanship at Milwaukee. He has returned to
Flint, to help in his father's music sales.
LEATHER
PNEUMATIC LEATHERS A SPECIALTY
Packing, Valves, All Special Tanned
Bellows Leather
T. L. LUTKINS, Inc.
40 Spruce Street
NEW YORK
A QUARTER CENTURY OF
Quality, Service and Value
TUNING PIN MANUFACTURING MEANS
Used in the World's Finest Pianos
AMERICAN MUSICAL SUPPLY CO.
451 Communipaw Are.
JERSEY CITY, N. J.
Interesting Booklet from Ludwig & Ludwig, Chicago,
Describes Latest Things for Drummers.
''Is the latest too new for you?" is the query in
script across the address folder of the new catalog of
Ludwig & Ludwig, 1611 N. Lincoln street, Chicago.
It is the latest printed means of the progressive firm
of drum manufacturers in telling about the latest
methods employed in producing the most desirable
things for the drummer.
The new catalog has been written and compiled for
drummers by one who thoroughly understands the
making of drums and drummers' accessories and
their uses in the band and orchestra. It contains an
article on "Tone Analysis of Pedal Tympani," by
William F. Ludwig, head of the company. It is a
technical presentation of sound phenomena interest-
ing to every musician. It shows a knowledge by the
writer of the causes and effects in vibration; a knowl-
edge that accounts for the why and wherefore in the
meritorious Ludwig products.
The virtue of laminated shells and their superiority
over veneer are convincingly described. By the new
Ludwig method of laminated shell construction great
strength with minimum weight is secured. The
catalog gives the details in the construction and meas-
urements of the Ludwig Separate Tension Bass
Drums and the Ludwig Center Support Bass Drums.
The advantages of the improved models in Ludwig
all-metal drums are clearly set forth in the booklet.
The Ludwig Alternating Pedal is a thing of general
interest to professionals, so that the pages devoted to
the alternating feaures, speed and smoothness of ac-
tion are sure to be read with interest. The latest
improvements in the footboard are told about. In
the new booklet are pictures and descriptions of the
Ludwig trap drum outfits, new Ludwig accessories,
new standard and Chinese traps, Ludwig "Alligator"
drum heads, domestic and imported cymbals and
other commodities in a long line of drummers' goods.
The McDowell & Castator Music Co., Ponca City,
Okla., carries a fine line of pianos and musical mer-
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