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PRESTO
April 5, 1924.
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SELLING FACTORY BANDS
Promising Phase of Musical Merchandise
Dealers' Business Is in Promoting Bands
in Industrial Plants and Shops.
Music dealers in all towns have an opportunity to
make good profits in band instrument sales. The
schools provide openings for band instrument sales
even in the smaller towns and in the larger towns and
cities where manufacturing industries are a feature of
progress the factories provide the possibilities for
sales. The part of music in recreation in the big
industrial plants is recognized by the foremost cap-
tains of industry, so it was not surprising, a little
while ago, when the Los Angeles Chamber of Com-
merce created an Industrial Bureau of Music.
As a result of the work encouraged by the bureau
there are eight industrial bands in LQS Angeles. Sev-
eral more are in course of being organized. The
Auditorium of the Chamber of Commerce is given
over to the choral groups and orchestras from the
commercial and industrial organizations two nights
every week.
In other places throughout the country the forma-
tion of bands in industrial plants is not an experiment,
in many places the Chamber of Commerce has fos-
tered the formation of bands in big plants and the
organizing of groups from several smaller plants into
one important band. Rotary, Lions, Kiwanis and ad-
vertising clubs are active in band formation in all
parts of the country, thereby helping the cause of the
music dealer. But live dealers do not wait for the
active bodies named to hand him a chance to make
profits. He is a bit of an organizer himself. The
band idea is spreading and the music merchant who
is anxious to expand his business helps in every way
in the spreading.
There is nothing experimental in the factory band
and the keen captains of industry realize the utility of
music in relation to factory work. The value of the
refreshing break in the monotony of the day's work
is conceded by many factory heads who frankly ad-
mit they "don't know a note of music." The active
music dealer in doing a little promotional scouting
will find few manufacturers prejudiced against the
bands and not many indifferent to the band formation
schemes.
ADVANCE VOCALSTYLE LIST
What the Cincinnati Roll Manufacturers Will Release
for May Shown in Following List.
The Vocalstyle Music Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, has
issued an advance typewritten list of its May bulle-
tin, which contains the following popular dance
tunes. The name of the composer is printed in paren-
thesis:
Blue Grass Blues, Meyers and Schoebel (Jack Car-
ter) ; "Chicago Blues, Biese, Altiere, Williams (Hilda
Myers); Comfortin' Gal, fox trot, by Wendell Hall
(L. Stevens); Daddy's Wonderful Pal, waltz, Freed-
inan. Nelson and Link (L. Stevens); Has Anybody
Seen My Cat? fox trot, Cams, Blanco and Leopold
(Abe Cole); I Wonder Who's Dancing With You
Tonight, fox trot, Dixon, Rose and Henderson (Abe
Cole); It Looks Like Rain, fox trot, Wendell Hall
(L. Stevens); "I've Got the Lonesome Mammy
Blues, Levy, Long and Corbett (Abe Cole); Jail
House Blues, Al Smith and Williams (Abe Cole);
Maybe (She'll Write Me—She'll Phone Me), fox
trot, Turk, Snyder and Ahlert (Mary Allison);
Mexicali Rose, waltz, Stone and Tenney (Mary Alli-
son) ; Mindin' My Bus'ness, fox trot, Kahn and
Donaldson (Billy Waterworth); Morning Will Come,
fox trot, Jolson, DeSylva and Conrad (Billy Water-
worth) ; Nine O'Clock Sal, fox trot, LeRoy, Hays,
O'Leary and Ingham (Hilda Myers); Rock Me to
Sleep in My Rocky Mountain Home, fox trot, Harty
and Dixon (Dick Osgood); Shufflin' Mose, blues,
Lottman, Napoleon and Signorelli (Hilda Myers);
Sighing Sands, marimba waltz, Koehler, Magine and
Lyons (Mary Allison); Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,'
song (Buck Johnson); Tell Me Radio, fox trot,
Mitchell and Silver (Hilda Myers); That's Why You
Make Me Cry, marimba waltz, Verges-Therrien
(Mary Allison); Where the Lazy Daisies Grow, fox
trot, Cliff Friend (Hilda Myers); Whose Izzy Is
He, fox trot, Brown, Green and Sturm (Billy Water-
worth); Why Did I Kiss That Girl, fox trot, Brown,
King and Henderson (Jack Carter).
WANT SLINQERLAND BANJOS
Great Growth in the Sales of Banjos of All Kinds
Reflected in the Factory Activity.
The banjo vies with the saxophone in popularity.
Banjos, like saxophones, are in big demand and the
number of banjo users grows with the passing of
every week. The formation of banjo clubs, organiza-
tion of new dance orchestras and the calls of indi-
vidual customers all make for the importance of the
banjo in the stock of the musical merchandise dealer.
That satisfactory phase of the business of the music
dealer is reflected in the activities in all departments
of the Slingerland Banjo Co., 1815 Orchard street,
Chicago, where forty styles of banjos are manufac-
tured. Not only are present conditions in the retail
trade indicated by the number of banjo orders re-
ceived daily by the big banjo manufacturer, but the
pleasant expectations of dealers for a continuation of
a banjo business are conclusively shown.
The new catalog of the Slingerland Banjo Co., is a
good thing for any music dealer to have in his files.
The extent of the lines of banjos, banjo mandolins,
tenor banjos and banjo ukuleles suggest new profit
opportunities to dealers already handling the banjo
line and shows the possilibities of expansion to the
music merchant confining his efforts to a specialty.
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The Cameraphone is a new English portable phono-
graph that has no relation to a camera except its
shape and appearance. The manufacturers claim "it
is the smallest real gramophone in the world." When
closed it resembles in size and appearance the ordi-
nary box camera. The actual dimensions of the
Cameraphone are 7 inches by 6 inches by 4->4 inches,
and despite its lilliputian size it embodies the main
features of the non-portable machines. Extremely
ingenious in design is its patent amplifying chamber,
skilfully contained within a shell globule and which
fits closely into the lid when closed. In addition it
is equipped with a Swiss motor, highly-plated goose-
neck tone-arm and specially patented insulated sound-
box.
NO FREE BROADCASTING.
April 15 has been set as the time limit for musicians
to play or sing free of charge at radio broadcasting
stations, James C. Petrillo, president of the Chicago
Federation of Musicians, announced this week. At
a recent meeting of the musicians' federation it was
decided to charge $8 for a three-hour engagement
after April 1. The action of the union specified that
the $3 should be paid regardless of whether the play-
ers were engaged thirty minutes or the full three
hours.
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