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PRESTO
ADDS PIANO SUPPLY BRANCH
Old Established Bass String Industry of Otto R.
Trefz, Philadelphia, Piano Repair Supplies.
The enterprising industry of Otto R. Trefz, bass
string winder, of Philadelphia, has added a new de-
partment, in which all piano manufacturers, repairers
and dealers will be especially interested. It is a com-
plete piano repair supply branch of the business. Mr.
Trefz is thoroughly experienced in every branch of
the piano industry and knows just what repair men
and tuners need.
The factory of Otto R. Trefz is perfectly equipped
for the manufacture of supplies of all kinds needed
in piano repairs, and similar work. Dealers and
others are advised to get in touch with the Philadel-
phia house for prompt attention to wants of the kind
intimated.
MANDOLIN ORCHESTRA SUCCESS
Creates Wonderful Enthusiasm at First Public Re-
hearsal at Lyon & Healy Hall.
The Chicago Mandolin Orchestra made a tremend-
ous hit at the first public rehearsal in the Lyon &
Healy Concert Hall last week. One enthusiastic
auditor said that one had never really heard a com-
position like "Spain," until he heard it played by
the Mandolin Orchestra.
The instrumentation of the Chicago Mandolin Or-
chestra is as follows: Four mandolins, one violin, one
cello, one harp, two guitars, one flute, one double
bass and one drum.
The Brunswick Phonograph Company, through
their representative, at the close of this rehearsal im-
mediately made arrangements to make records of the
Chicago Mandolin Orchestra's renditions of both
high class popular songs and dance numbers.
RADIO HELPS MUSIC STUDENT
Strcudsburg, Pa., Girl Finds It Great Help in Im-
proving Her Technique.
Eunice Lentz, who lives just outside of Strouds-
burg, Pa., is a music student, and she has found
radio to be a tremendous help. When she returns
home from her music lessons she tunes up her five-
tube set and listens in to the artistry of some of the
world's greatest musicians. She studies their tech-
nique and applies it to her own work.
Miss Lentz plays in the town orchestra, and is in-
terested in the programs broadcasted by famous or-
chestra leaders and their bands. She can tune up
her violin and play along with them and thus gain
the experience of finding out what it means to keep
in time with the world's best.
NEW COLUMBIA WORD ROLLS
May 24, 1924.
866—Never Again, fox trot, Gus Drobegg.
865—"No" Means "Yes," fox trot, Clarence John-
son.
864—If the Rest of the World Don't Want You,
waltz, Clarence Johnson.
NEW C. Q. CONN PROCESSES
T. L. LUTKIN SPECIALTIES
Whole World Market Where Great Leather House
Seeks and Finds Piano Materials.
The urgent demand for the best and most depend-
able leathers for playerpianos and organs has devel-
oped the specialty leather house of T. L. Lutkins,
Inc., 40 Spruce street, New York. As the chain is
as strong as the weakest link so the pneumatics of the
player, the reproducing piano and the organ are as
dependable as the weakest leather part.
The reason that T. L. Lutkins, Inc., is admittedly
a specialty leather house is because its product is spe-
cially prepared to fulfill the requirements of the
playerpiano and organ manufacturer proud of the de-
pendable character of their instruments. To keep
the leather product up to the high standard it has
established, the company makes the whole world its
Held for purchasing.
A great many conditions attending the growth of
the soft leather producing animal governs the char-
acter of the skins in their final form of tanned leath-
er. Climate and topography of the habitat of the
animal have as much to do with the production of
the best pneumatic leather as its breed and health.
That is why all the world is the market where the
agents of T. L. Lutkin, Inc., continuously seek the
most desirable skins.
In addition to leathers specially tanned for player-
pianos and organs the company also handles chamois,
sheepskins, Indias and skivers. The long line in-
cludes packing, valves and specially tanned bellows
leather.
Q R S IN PHILADELPHIA.
The headquarters of the Q R S Music Roll Co., in
Philadelphia, will continue in the Weymann Build-'
ing, 1108 Chestnut street, but the jobbing arrange-
ments with H. A. Weymann & Son, Inc., have been
terminated and hereafter the Philadelphia depot will
be operated directly by the Q R S Music Co.
Through the courtesy of H. A. Weymann & Son, Inc.,
the quarters used by that company for Q R S roll
distribution will be continued by the Q R S Music
Roll Co.
NEW SEATTLE MANAGER.
Robert Brown, assistant to Manager E. J. Meyers
of the musical department of the Bush & Lane Piano
Co., Portland, Ore., has been made manager of the
musical merchandise department in the Seattle, Wash.,
store of the company.
21,967 RADIO STATIONS.
There are 21,967 radio transmitting stations of all
kinds in the United States. This includes amateur
stations, ship stations, trans-Atlantic stations, broad-
casting and all other kinds of stations from which
messages are transmitted. •
Perfected Methods of Expanding Taper Branches
Described in Interesting New Booklet.
Nothing shows the progress in the manufacture of
band instruments as clearly as a comparison of the
old and new processes. The old way of making wind
musical instruments by hand is rapidly being re-
placed by the more accurate and scientific method
of using tools and machinery for that purpose.
The method perfected by C. G. Conn, Ltd., Elk-
hart. Ind., assures perfect results as far as intona-
tion and ease of playing are concerned and a thou-
sand instruments of any one kind may be made by
this process and no person will be able to detect or
discern any difference in the scale or good playing
qualities of any one of these instruments. They will
all play exactly alike.
A new booklet issued by C. G. Conn, Ltd., "How
Wind Musical Instruments Have Been Improved,"
describes the new processes which assure true tone
and ease of playing in the instruments manufactured
by that company. This is said:
Mr. Conn's method of expanding taper branches
in me f al molds by means of hj^draulic pressure does
away with the old hand work and positively turns
out each particular kind of a branch exact in size and
proportions.
In order to better comprehend the importance of his
method of expanding taper branches of all sizes by
hydraulic process, readers should not lose sight of
the fact that the good tonal qualities, perfect intona-
tion and ease of playing of a cup mouthpiece instru-
ment depends entirely upon its accurate acoustical
proportions. Such proportions are impossible when
the taper branches are made by hand in the old way.
These proportions are both possible and sure when
the taper branches are expanded in accurately shaped
molds by Mr. Conn's methods. The slightest devia-
tion from the correct proportions is certain to result
in a defective intonation, and that is the reason why
there is such a difference in the tonal qualities of hand-
made instruments.
Mr. Conn has expended at least fifty thousand
dollars in manufacturing machinery and molds with
which to turn out taper branches by the hydraulic
process. You may be sure that the hundred or more
sets of molds, manufactured by his workmen, are
accurate in size and proportions, also that the instru-
ments made up from the branches turned out by this
new process are better, far better, than those manufac-
tured by the old hand method.
MANAGES HARP DEPARTMENT.
George Wheeler, a well-known harpist and formerly
secretary of National Association of Harpists, has
been made manager of the harp department of the
Clark Music Co., Syracuse, N. Y. Mr. Wheeler has
used the Clark harp made by the Clark Harp Co., and
is an enthusiast on the tone of the easy selling port-
able harp.
HE'S ON HIS WAY.
J. P. Simmons, who is traveling over a wide terri-
tory in the South, representing U. S. Music Rolls and
other trade essentials expects to make a trip through
one or two of the best towns in Eastern Kentucky, all
of the larger towns in West Virginia, and on to New
York, where he will be through convention week.
Excellent List of Winners for June Announced by
Chicago Company.
The new June list of Columbia Word Rolls has
been issued by the Columbia Music Roll Company,
Chicago. It is a profit-assuring array of hits admir-
ably recorded by the tried artists of the company.
The new list comprises the following:
8.7—Mobile Blues, a melody blue, Clarence John-
son.
886—Deep in My Heart, fox trot, James Blythe.
885—Paradise Alley, fox trot, Billy Ritch.
884—Don't Blame It All on Me, fox trot, Clarence
Johnson.
883—Adoration, waltz, W r ayne Love.
882—Hula Hula Dream Girl, Hawaiian waltz, Nell
Morrison.
S81—I Must Have Company, fox trot, Clarence
Tohnson.
880—Me Xo Speak-a-Good-English, fox trot, Billy
Fitch.
879—Why Did I Kiss that Girl, fox trot, Harry
Geise.
878—Jealous, fox trot, Billy Fitch.
877—Blue Evening Blues, blue, Clarence Johnson.
#76—Not Yet, Zuzette, one-step, Everett Robbins.
!> 75—From One 'Till Two, ballad, Gus Drobegg.
874—From One 'Till Two, fox trot, Gus Drobegg.
873—Whose Izzy Is He (Is He Yours or Is He
Mine), fox trot, Harry Geise.
872—Lovey Came Back, fox trot, Harry Geise.
871—What'll I Do, fox trot, Billy Fitch.
870—Worried, fox trot, Harry Earl.
869—She Wouldn't Do What I Asked Her To, fox
trot, Wayne Love.
868—Wait'll You See My Gal, fox trot, Harry Geise.
867—Unfortunate Blues, blue, Billy Fitch.
SLINGERLAND
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are sold the country over because
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Over 40 Styles of Banjos, Banjo Mandolins, Tenor Banjos
and Banjo Ukuleles, to select from.
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