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PRESTO
INGENIOUS BLOTTER CARD
Two Admirable Uses for Card Supplied to Represen-
tatives of Magosy & Buscher, New York.
The card supplied to representatives by Magosy &
Buscher, 232 Canal street, New York, are original and
useful. The cards are of handy size and their use-
fulness for the piano man presented with one of them
lies in their added character of blotter. The blotter
card of the Magosy & Buscher representatives says:
"I represent Magosy & Buscher oval and round
metal spinners. Have you any metal spinning or
sheet metal work to be done? If so, please let us
estimate. Jobbing and sterling silver work a
specialty."
Magosy & Buscher makes high grade hammered
cymbals among its other products. The cymbals are
produced in brass and German silver. Brass mutes
for cornets, trombones and French horns are also
made by the company.
ANTIQUITY OF THE HARP
The Principle of Instrument Is Employed in Con-
struction of Piano, Says Magazine Writer.
Among the instruments of great antiquity the harp,
obviously descended from the primitive archer's bow,
displayed at an early date the most ambitious musical
construction and at the same time a fastidious ele-
gance which explains the high consideration accorded
to those twanging the harp strings by the Egyptian
Pharoahs, says a writer in the "International Studio."
Sepulchral frescoes and occasional discoveries of
precious survivals have acquainted the student with
a whimsical variety of harps, lutes and trigona, vary-
ing in form of construction and having almost in-
dividual methods of manipulation—to be played verti-
cally, horizontally, obliquely or with extended arms
above one's head, always forming a linear continua-
MAGOSY & BUSCHER
First Class
OVAL AND ROUND METAL
SPINNERS
Makers of high-grade hammered Cym-,
bals in Brass and German Silver, from 2
to 18 inches, Brass Mutes for Cornets,
Trombones, Frets^h Horns.
Our Hammered Cymbals are as Good as Turk-
ish Cymbals in Sound, and they don't cost as
much.
Drum Major Batons in Wood and Metal.
Makers of the BESTONE Banjo Reso-
nators
We Can Manufacture Any Specialty in
Our Line to Order.
232 Canal St. and US Walker St., NEW YORK
DEALERS AND TUNERS!
Bit Cut in Prices Piano Key Repairing
Celluloid, Complete Tops, Set Key*
$7JO
Irorine (grained), Complete Tops, Set Keys 8.00
Composition, Complete Tops, Set Keys... 10.00
Sole manufacturers and distributors of H. P.
ft O. K. Co. famous Wory White Glue. Needs
no Heating. Applied Cold. Sent anywhere in
U. S. P. P. $1J# can.
HARLEM PIANO & ORGAN KEY CO.
111-121 E. lttth St.
New York Clr,, N. Y.
tion of the player's arms, and, when held upright,
an alluring frame for the player's physiognomy.
Lyres and trigona, sometimes approaching the harp,
fitted with tuning pegs and being plucked with the
player's bare fingers; or recalling the lute, with finger-
boards, frets and plectra—these instruments of the
divine attributes of joy and rhythm were soon lost in
the roseate mist of Parnassus, and are now merely
remembered as favorite motifs for architectural en-
richment.
The harp lived on from Egypt to India and to
Persia, thence on the heels of the Arabs to Spain to
Northern Europe. A writer of the early seventeenth
century said, "The harp will never grow out of
fashion. But this prophesy has not been fulfilled.
The harp has been relegated to the orchestra pit and
the concert stage, while the most popular instrument
of the masses is its descendant, the piano, which is
nothing more in principle than a harp encased in wood
and sounded by keys instead of the fingers.
October 27, 1923
COINOLAS
FOR
RESTAURANTS, CAFES and
AMUSEMENT CENTERS
POPULAR VOCALSTYLE ROLLS
All the Current Favorites in Song and Dance in
November Bulletin of Cincinnati Company.
The following numbers are included in the Novem-
ber bulletin of the Vocalstyle Music Co., Cincinnati:
The Cat's Whiskers, blues; Chick-A-Dee, fox-trot:
Dirty Hands, Dirty Face, fox-trot; Don't Waste Your
Tears Over Me, marimba waltz; I Love You, fox-
trot; I Wish I Had Someone To Cry Over Me,
marimba waltz; Jingle Bells, one step; Just a Girl
That Men Forget, marimba waltz; Long Lost Mamma,
Daddy Misses You, fox-trot; Love (My Heart Is
Calling You), fox-trot; Louisville Blues, blues;
Maggie! (Yes, Ma'am) (Come Right Upstairs), fox-
trot; No, No, Nora, fox-trot; Not Here—Not There
(It's Fifty Miles from Nowhere); Sad Hawaiian Sea,
Hawaiian marimba waltz; Steal a Little Kiss While
Dancing, marimba waltz; Sweetest Dreams of You,
marimba waltz; Tell Me a Story, fox-trot; That Big
Rlond Mamma, blues; You're Always Messin'
Around with My Man, blues.
Style C-2
FROM THE BIGGEST
ORCHESTRION
KEY PRICES CUT.
The announcement of a big cut in the prices of
piano key repairing by the Harlem Piano & Organ
Key Co., 121-123 E. 126th street, New York, should
interest tuners, piano repairmen and many dealers.
The new prices apply to celluloid, ivorine and com-
position either for complete tops or set keys. The
Harlem Piano & Organ Key Co., is the sole manu-
facturer and distributor of H. P. & O. K. Co., fa-
mous white ivory glue which needs no heating.
Highly successful when applied cold.
PERFECTION CABINET A WINNER.
One of the greatest sellers in the cabinet line of the
Perfection Piano Bench Mfg. Co., 1516 Blue Island
avenue, Chicago, is Style 15, which has a capacity of
150 rolls. This free selling style is furnished in
veneered stock in mahogany, oak and walnut. A
wide line of cabinets is presented by the Perfection
Piano Bench Mfg. Co. and every style is character-
ized by qualities of construction and finish that jus-
tify the title of the company.
BIG SAXOPHONE SHOW.
An exhibit of the king of jazz instruments, the
saxophone, in the windows of the Patton Music
Company, 1522 Farnam street, Omaha, Neb., last
week, was valued at more than $3,000. The display
was sent out by the C. C. Conn Company, of Elkhart,
Ind., and loaned to a city for a limited time only.
Included were instruments of silver and gold finish,
as well as some of polychrome design that are more
beautiful than anything in the line seen in Omaha
before.
ASA MERRIAM DIES.
Asa Merriam, head and founder of the A. Merriam
Co., piano stool and bench manufacturers, South
Acton, Mass., died recently after a brief illness at
the age of seventy-eight. His sons, Frank A. and
W. T. Merriam will continue the business, which has
been successfully carried on for thirty years.
Tiny Coinola
C. G. CONN, Ltd., Elkhart, Ind.
C. D. GREENLEAF, P i * .
Urgest ntaniili il
J. E. BOYER, Sec'y
i i el Mi** Camde Band and Orchestra Instrument*. Employs
All el the moat celebrated Artists use and endorse Cenn Instruments.
Famous Bandmasters and Orchestra Direeters highly endorse and recommend the uee el tke
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Conn Instruments are sent to any point is th<> U. S. subject to ten <2ays free trial. Bvaneh store
will he found in all mrfl* «*ties. Write for catalogues, prices, etc.
C G» CONN, Ltd.
DEPT. MS.
ELKHART, IND.
THE SMALLEST
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Manufactured by
The Operators Piano Co.
16 to 22 South Peoria St.
CHICAGO
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