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Presto

Issue: 1924 1961

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P R E S T O
A BANJO PROPOSITION
Slingerland Banjo Co., Chicago, Invites Am-
bitious Music Dealers to Investigate
Opportunities for Profitable Sales.
UJhere Supply
always meets
the Demand 7
Hardware, Felts, Cloths, Hammers, etc |
for Pianos, Organs, Players. Talking
Machines, Special Stampings, Turn-
ings, etc., when you order from us.
The American Piano Supply Co., Inc.
No. 112 East 13th Street
NEW YORK CITY
SCHAFF
Piano String Co.
The Slingerland Banjo Co., 1815 Orchard street,
Chicago, has a proposition that interests all dealers
made aware of its satisfactory nature. The Slinger-
land Banjo Co. makes over forty styles of banjos,
banjo mandolins, tenor banjos and banjo ukuleles
and the extent of the line and the merits of the goods
give an alluring character to the proposals the com-
pany submits to ambitious music dealers.
The Slingerland banjos are sold by representative
dealers in all parts of the country. Professionals and
amateur banjoists are impressed by their tone quality
and every dealer points to a list of Slingerland banjo
users who warmly testify to the durable character of
the instruments.
The importance of the banjo is plain to every music
dealer, and acquiring a good line of the instruments
is a duty he owes to his customers. The banjo has
always been favored for concert and stage use, but its
great vogue began with the creation of special dance
orchestras to make music for the continuous succes-
sion of pepful dances. Orchestra leaders found that
the banjo provided the snap necessary to convey the
spirit of the new dance numbers. Composers wrote
new music for the dances in view of using the banjo
tone. Then the sales of banjos jumped amazingly.
The demand for banjos of all kinds has been a sur-
prise to those who first noted the growth of banjo
favor and its causes. The wonderful progress of the
Slingerland Banjo Co. is the best evidence of the im-
portance of the banjo industry. The new catalog of
the company is now ready.
Manufacturers of
NO JEWELRY TAX ON MUSIC
Band Instruments with Gold or Silver Mountings Are
Not Subject to Levy.
Piano Bass Strings
2009-2021 CLYBOURN AVENUE
Cor er Lewis Street
CHICAGO
Definite advice has just been received by the Music
Industries Chamber of Commerce from Washington
to the effect that musical instruments have been
specifically exempted from taxation under the jewelry
clause of the Revenue Act, according to Section 604-C
of the Tax Bill as reported to the House by the Ways
and Means Committee.
This means that the efforts of the Chamber to elim-
inate the operation of the jewelry clause of the Rev-
enue Act so far as it applied to gold and silver
mounted band instruments has been successful, and
that these instruments are now entirely exempt from
taxation under the Act.
February 23, 1924.
struments (banjo excepted) are almost totally sup-
planted by wind instruments.
"Whispering," "Pale Moon," "I Love You" and
such high-type American numbers were given a genu-
inely Whitemanesque interpretation, tempo and ar-
rangement, scored for two Buescher-grand trumpets
(generally muted), two Buescher-grand trombones
(one used largely with a megaphone and both often
muted), Buescher-phone in BBb to accentuate the
rhythmatic pattern (as early American orchestras
used the bass drum), and a complete choir of
Buescher saxophones, from sopraninos in Eb to the
sax tubas in Bb, all played by the three Whiteman
saxophonists.
The most renowned critics on New York's dailies
took the recital very seriously, and freely predicted
that Paul Whiteman would open the way for an era
of concerts and recitals of distinctly and genuinely
American music in the great auditoriums of the
nation. Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra are being
urged to undertake such a tour for just this purpose,
and one very enthusiastic American multi-millionaire
offers to endow the orchestra and take care of the
deficit should there be one. American performers,
American composers and American arrangers, added
to American instrumentation schemes and American
(Buescher) instruments certainly make a most inter-
esting and not at all unscholarly program.
IN INTEREST OF WOOD USERS
Alfred L. Smith, General Manager of Music Indus-
tries Chamber of Commerce in New Role.
Alfred L. Smith, general manager of the Music
Industries Chamber of Commerce, has been elected a
member of the executive committee of the Associa-
tion of Wood Using Industries. The Chamber be-
came a member of this association recently on ac-
count of the interest which the wood-using members
of the music industry took in the various problems
arising out of the increasing shortage of lumber, and
the efforts of the Wood Users' Association to con-
serve timber resources and make the best use of the
available supply of lumber.
Experiments are being conducted under the
auspices of the Wood Using Industries to ascertain
the best manner of using different woods and of pre-
serving them with paint and varnish, also to stand-
ardize terms and sizes of* lumber, both softwood and
hardwood.
Research work of great interest to the lumber-using
members of the industry is at present being conducted
by the Department of Commerce and the Central
Committee on Lumber Standards, and it is expected
that results of great value to the industry will be
achieved in this way.
PAUL WHITEMAN'S CONCERT
Orchestra Makes Debut in Aeolian Hall, Using All
Buescher True-Tone Instruments.
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N E.W YORK
On Tuesday, February 12, birthday anniversary of
Abraham Lincoln, Paul Whiteman and His Orches-
tra gave the first recital in American history devoted
wholly to genuinely American music, and gave it in
New York's leading concert auditorium—Aeolian Hall.
The program took in every genuine type of Ameri-
can music, from jazz-band conceptions of "Livery
Stable Blues" and "Alexander's Ragtime Band" up
to the smoothest symphonic arrangements of numbers
from popular Broadway shows, including bits from
the works of Zez Confrey, George Gerschwin, Irving
Berlin and Victor Herbert, who wrote four serenades
for this first orchestra appeared on its merits as an American Plan
Orchestra, making no apologies for its 100 per cent
American plan of instrumentation, in which string in-
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Q R S ROLLS FOR MARCH
Varied and Attractive Bulletin of Classical and
Popular Music for the Playerpiano Now
Ready for Dealers.
The new March list of Q. R. S. rolls has been
issued by the Q. R. S. Music Co., Chicago, and the
variety in selection, keen observance of the trend of
public taste and the names of the recording artists
all aid in the acceptance of the statement that "Q.
R. S. Player Rolls Are Better." In the following
lists the names of the recording artists are printed
in parentheses:
Concert Series Rolls for March—Polonaise, Fr.
Liszt, (Ferruccio Busoni); Song Without Words, F.
Mendelssohn, (Vladimir de Pachmann); Schehere-
zade—Symphonic suite, third movement, N. Rimsky-
Korsalcoff, (Marguerite and Phil Ohman); Mazurka,
Chopin, (Marguerite Volavy); Air de Ballet, Mosz-
kowski, (Howard Brockway); Heart Throbs, Franz
Bendel, (Richa Merton); Selections from Aida,
Verdi, (G. Starke).
The new word rolls are: Along the Old Lake
Trail, from "Kid Boots"—Fox Trot—McCarthy-
Tierney, (Herbert Clair) ; Arcady—Fox Trot—Jol-
son-DeSylva, (Arden and Ohman); California (Here
I Come)—One-step and Fox Trot—Jolson-DeSylva-
Meyer, (Arden and Kortlander); Cover Me With
Kisses—Fox Trot—Arthur Freed, (Pete Wendling) ;
Hula Lou—Fox Trot—Yellen-Charles-King, (Pete
Wendling); If the Rest of the World Don't Want
You (Go Back to Mother and Dad)—Waltz—Gerber-
Dreyer, (Scott and Watters); I'm Goin' South—Fox
Trot—Silver-Woods, (Pete Wendling); It Ain't
Gonna Rain No Mo'—Fox Trot—Wendell W. Hall,
(Pete Wendling); It's a Man, Ev'ry Time, It's a
Man—Marimba Waltz—Dubin-McIIugh-Dash, (Os-
borne and Howe); It's Not the First Time You Left
Afe, (But It's the Last Time You'll Come Back)—
THE HEART OF THE
PIANO
Fox Trot—Bennett-Jerome, (J. Lawrence Cook); I
Wonder Who's Dancing With You Tonight—Fox
Trot—Dixon-Rose-Henderson, (Arden and Kort-
lander) ; Lonesome and Blue—Marimba Waltz—Ed-
win Tillman, (Osborne and Howe).
In the list of foreign rolls are 2 Bohemian, 3 Croa-
tian, 2 German, 5 Italian, 2 Lithuanian, 4 Polish, 2
Slovak and 7 Spanish.
Mississippi Ripples — Marimba Waltz — Hanley-
Earl, (Scott and Watters); Oh, Baby—Fox Trot—
DeSylva-Donaldson, (Max Kortlander); Old Yeller
Dog of Mine—Ballad—Clarke-Leslie-Wendling, (Phil
Ohman); The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody
Else)—Fox Trot—Kahn-Jones, (Arden and Kort-
lander); Raggedy Ann—Fox Trot—Caldwell-Kern,
(Herbert Clair); Rememb'ring (From "Topsy and
Eva")—Fox Trot—Duncan Sisters, (Pete Wendling);
Rose of Old Castile—Tango-—Brown-Spencer, (Al-
fred Parker); Sighing Sands—Hawaiian Waltz—
Magine-Koehler-Lyons, (Scott and Watters); She
Wouldn't Do (What I Asked Her To)—Fox Trot—
Mitchell-Gottlieb-Boutelje-Burt, (Max Kortlander);
A Smile Will Go a Long Long Way—Fox Trot—
Davis-Akst, (Arden and Kortlander); Some Winter's
Night—Fox Trot—Max Kortlander, (Arden and
Kortlander); (You're in Kentucky) Sure as You're
Born—Fox Trot—Little-Gillespie-Shay, (Pete Wend-
ling); Take, Oh Take Those Lips Away (From
"Ziegfeld Follies of 1923-24")—Fox Trot—McCarthy-
Tierney, (Arden and Kortlander); There Are Some
Things You Never Forget (From "One Kiss")—Fox
Trot—Kummer-Yvain, (Victor Arden); When the
Golden Sun Is Setting—Marimba Waltz—Stephen
Fuzy, (Osborne and Howe); In the Land Where the
Green Shamrock Grows—Ballad—Jerome-Von Tilzer,
(Phil Ohman;.
Bluebird ballads for March are: Girls of America
—Bluebird March—Wood-Lincoln, (Osborne and
Howe); Homeland—Bluebird Ballad—Carrie Jacobs-
Bond, (Richard Merton); In the Baggage Coach
Ahead—Bluebird Marimba Waltz—Gussie L. Davis,
(Osborne and Howe); Memory's Garden—Bluebird
Ballad—Gwynne Denni-Lucien Denni, (Richard Mer-
ton) ; Tho' Shadows Fall—Bluebird Ballad—Burns-
MacDermid, (Phil Ohman).
Hand played rolls: In a Rose Garden—Reverie—
Tobia Acciani, (Phil Ohman); "Runnin' Wild" Med-
ley—Fox Trot—1. Charleston. 2. Old Fashioned
Love. 3. Open Your Heart. 4. Love Bug. 5. Old
Fashioned Love, (James P. Johnson).
Arranged roll: Teddy Junior—March—Sol. Woler-
stein.
OPENS MICHIGAN BRANCH.
Devendorf's Brunswick Shop, Flint, Mich., has
opened a branch store in Lapeer, Mich., with H. N.
McManus in charge. Last week the firm occupied
its fine warerooms and installed a complete line of
talking machines and records. The plans of the firm
include the installation of a general music goods
stock.
THE STANDARD ACTION CO.,
CAMBRIDGE. MASS.
VISIT VIOLIN FACTORY.
George Guldan, the Columbus, O., violin manufac-
turer, was visited last week by a group of his old
neighbors and friends from Sandusky, O., who were
amazed at the growth of his violin making plant.
At present he is manufacturing 100 violins a day and
expects to expand his business in the near future to
obtain larger production.
FOR
PLAYERS
ORGANS
PIANOS
PNEUMATIC LEATHERS A SPECIALTY
Packing, Valves, AH Special Tanned
Bellows Leather
T. L. LUTKINS,Inc.
40 Spruce Street
NEW YORK
The Background
A BUSY ROLL
DEPARTMENT
COLUMBIA
WORD ROLLS
March Releases
SYNCHRONIZED WORD ROLLS
Title:
Played by:
When Irish Eyes are Smiling
Nell Morrison Marimba Waltz
813 Waiting for the Rainbow
Edwin Schmidt
Fox-trot
812—Roosevelt March
Clarence Johnson Marimba March
811 Sighing Sands
Nell Morrison Hawaiian Marimba Waltz
810 I Wonder Who's Dancing With
You Tonight
James Blythe Fox-trot
800 Mean Papa, Turn in Your Key
Harry Geise Fox-trot
808 Brother You've Got Me Wrong
Harry Geise Fox-trot
807—Home in Pasadena
Nell Morrison Fox-trot
80fl—Our Little Home
James Blythe Fox-trot
805 31st Street Blues
Harry Geise
Blue
804—I'm All Broken V\t Over You
James Blythe Fox-trot
80S—The One I Love
Harry Geise Fox-trot
801 Lonely Lane
Harry Geise
Waltz
800 Ireland Is Heaven to Me Art Gillham
Ballad
799 M.v Dream Sweetheart
Harry Geise
Waltz
798 Watching the Moon Rise Nell Morrison Fox-trot
797 Light House Blues
Harry Geise
Blue
796 Arizona Stars
Nell Morrison
Waltz
795 You Can't Make a Fool Out of Me
Billy Fitch
Waltz
794 It Alnt Gonna Rain No Mo' Harry Geise Fox-trot
814
To Retail at
Why Pay More?
LEATHER
TUNERS'
23
PRESTO
February 23, 1924.
Established 1867
Strauch Bros.
All Well-posted Piano Dealers, Sales-
men, and the Piano Buying Public
recognize
the value of this name on a
Piano Action,
For more than 55 years it has been associ-
ated with the best products of the Piano
industry* It ha s always represented
Quality and Merit
When a Piano Action bears the name of
Strauch Bros, it is an additional guarantee
of the quality of the instrument containing it.
75
None Better.
Made of the best materials
obtainable.
Will please your trade and
double your sales.
Quality and price make
Columbia rolls the deal-
er's best profit producer
in a roll department.
A trial order will con-
vince you.
Here are
BASS STRINGS
STRAUCH BROS.,Inc.
OTTO R. TREFZ, Jr.
327 to 347 Walnut Ave.. at 141ft Street
NEW YORK
Special attention given to the needs of the tuner and
the dealer
2110 Falrmuunt Avenue
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
Piano Action*, Hammer* and Repair*
Columbia Music Roll Co.
22 S. Peoria St.
CHICAGO
ILL,
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