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CHINESE LIKE PHONOGRAPHS
Native Musical Instruments Being Discarded in
Favor of American Music Goods Products.
Foreign music is growing popular with the foreign
educated Chinese, who are constantly increasing in
number, says Consul General Heintzleman, Hankow,
in a report to the Department of Commerce. They
cultivate this taste while they study in the schools
and colleges conducted under the auspices of the
various foreign governments and mission societies.
Piano, organ, and phonograph music are equally in
favor by them. Phonographs which are compara-
tively cheaper in price are very popular in China,
and nearly every foreign family and wealthy Chinese
family in the treaty ports which has come under
foreign influence possesses one. They are purchased
from selling agents in Shanghai.
While phonographs have a limited sale among the
natives due to their price, it would seem that an in-
strument of moderate price would have a wide dis-
tribution if it were properly advertised and marketed.
Chinese records should be sold with any machine
intended for the Chinese. In order to bring Ameri-
can musical instruments to the attention of the Chi-
nese, it would seem necessary to work through one
of the long established foreign firms at Hankow.
December 16, 1922.
can be no bonanza as to high selling prices such as
prevailed during the war and that the chief hope is
the cutting of production costs.
ADDS TALKING MACHINES.
A line of Victor Talking Machine Co.'s phono-
graphs and records has been added to the stock of the
Haddorff Music House, Rockford, 111. The ware-
rooms of this company are the most commodious
among the retail establishments in the Illinois city
so that a generous amount of space has been allotted
to the new department. Special booths for record
demonstration have been installed and H. D. Finch,
the manager, says that the start of the talking ma-
chine department has been very propitious.
CRITIC RECOMMENDS QENNETTS
In Clever Review in Philadelphia North American
Six Records From Bulletin Named.
"Swanee Smiles," a Gennett number in the De-
cember bulletin, is specially recommended to record
buyers by the record critic of the Philadelphia North
American, which says: "Husk O'Hare and his Super
Orchestra all the way from Chicago bring a tune
that is sure to please because it is both original and
copied. The "Swanee River" theme is so cleverly
introduced that you just don't know when it's com-
ing and have to smile when it does."
Other Gennett records in the December bulletin
GENNETT RECORDS FEATURED.
which are highly recommended by the Philadelphia
H. Wallace Garner, who represents the Starr Piano critic are: "Thru the Night," a waltz among many,
Co.'s line of pianos, players, reproducing pianos, played by Lieutenant Matt's Orchestra and coupled
phonographs and records in Richmond, Va., had one with "Why Should I Cry Over 'You?" which Joseph
of the most attractive displays at the recent Virginia Knecht's Waldorf-Astoria Dance Orchestra plays.
State Fair held in that city. The rotating wheel for "The Sheik series is not yet through," says the critic,
the featuring of Gennett records was a big drawing "but when it's an excuse for a good tune like this,
card. The Gennett records are very popular with we rise up and welcome another echo. 'Plantation
Virginia talking machine owners so that the crowds Home' is on the other side of this same record."
lingered about the Gennett wheel at all times during
the week.
The Pathe Freres Phonograph & Radio Corp. has
announced a new loud speaker for radio.
ALL PIANO MEN NEED IT.
In this day of speed, there is no place for the old
way of delivering pianos. With the Atwood Loader
COPPER PRICES.
instrument can be delivered quickly and safely,
The effect of the mounting price of copper is one the practically
no expense at all. Still more, the loader
of uncertainty to piano wire manufacturers and other at
instantly transformed into a salesroom. Hun-
industries using the material. Though the copper is
TUNING PIN MANUFACTURING MEANS
of pianos have been sold in the farm yards and
market has reached 14c, it is not fixed there as se- dreds
lawns
of
homes
by
use
of
the
Atwood.
"Begin
the
curely as it might be, as some sales continue at 13%c New Year right," says the Atwood Loader. Heed
delivered. Most producers are willing to sell at the
advice. See the advertisement elsewhere this
present price level for delivery through the first quar- the
week.
ter, and a few will make a delivery well into second
quarter.
LUMBER IN GERMANY.
The copper industry is settling down to stabilized
A. V. Dye, trade commissioner in Berlin, says the
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REMICK HITS FEATURED.
Henri Keates, master organist of the Liberty The-
atre, Portland, Ore., featured last week, "Caroline in
the Morning," with slides, and "Buddy," another
Remick number was used by Mr. Keates on all his
programs.
De Kalb, III.
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