PRESTO
June 7, 1924.
NEW ELECTRIC PIANO MUSIC
June Bulletin of New "Rolls for Electric Pianos and
Orchestrions Just Issued.
The Automatic Music Roll Company, Chicago, has
issued its June bulletin of music for electric pianos,
orchestrions and organs, and Seeburg Specials—rolls
with snap and pep, the kind that get the nickels into
the instrument. Twelve new rolls for all Standard
65-note Rewind Coin Operated Pianos, also Seeburg
styles A, B, C, E, F, K, P G A and L. comprise new
melodies, jazz, dance favorites, blues, reviews, and
Hawaiian selections. Two Mexican and one Hun-
garian roll are included in that series.
For Seeburg Styles G, Kt Orchestrions, and P
Q and W Motion Picture Players there are nine new
rolls of a character to attract the coins into the
slots.
There are half a dozen alluring rolls with two re-
views of best sellers for Seeburg Orchestrions, styles
J and H, new styles W and M, S, and R Pipe
Organ-Orchestra. These rolls will play all orches-
trion effects, except organ, on styles M, S & R.
A light comedy, light dramatic and light comedy
waltz roll are provided for Seeburg styles S, M, R, T,
V and A De Luxe, pipe organ orchestras. These
are hand played organ rolls.
Six rolls of winning numbers are presented for June
for Seeburg styles G, Kt orchestrions, and styles
P, G, and W motion picture players.
New rolls for June are listed for Seeburg style X,
Xpression Pianos only. These rolls will not play on
any other Seeburg instrument except .the style X.
DULL IN LUMBER.
The lumber business of the Pacific Northwest is
not specially active at present. Some manufacturers
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predict a longer period of summer dullness than is
customary, according to a report from Seattle. Many
logging camps already have closed and a general
shutdown is at hand. Lumber mills are confronted
with the alternative of price cutting or closing. June
and July are ordinarily the dull months of the trade,
but this year's dullness began almost sixty days ahead
of time, with prospects of being protracted well into
the fall.
ENLARGES RECORD DEPARTMENT.
The talking machine department of the Knight-
Campbell Music Co., Pueblo, Colo., has been en-
larged and more space has been provided for the
musical merchandise stock. Some of the additional
space in the talking machine department is used for
a greater showing of foreign records, for which the
house has a big call. The new space in the musical
merchandise scctipn is devoted to a fuller showing
of stringed instruments and a supply of radio sets
and radio requirements. The manager, Harry E.
Mitchell, expects a big year in all kinds of small
goods and has prepared for the realization of his
expectations.
VENEER LOGS PLENTIFUL.
Logs are coming in to Evansville, Ind., veneer
mills more freely now than they were a month or
two ago, according to the veneer manufacturers, al-
though the log prices are unusually high. It is ex-
pected that many logs will be cut during the coming
summer months along-Green and Barren Rivers in
western Kentucky and many of them will be rafted
to the veneer mills in that city. Robert Carroll,
large timber buyer at Boonville, Ind., reports con-
! iderable activity in logging circles now and many
logs are being delivered at Voonville for shipmenet
to other points.
"SUPERIOR" PIANO PLATES
N E W HIT I N Q R S
ROLL
Garrick Music Sales Hit, "Tell Me You'll Forgive
Me" Is Well Featured.
Ralph Ilibbcle, representing the Garrick Music
Sales, 4040 Dickens avenue, Chicago, 111., has re-
turned from a trip to New York City and Detroit,
which resulted in his getting "Lost-My-Baby Blues"
and "Tell Me You'll Forgive Me," listed with S. S.
Kxesge Co. Mr. Hibbele also succeeded in placing the
songs for second production in New York on these
two numbers.
"These numbers are being broadcasted very ex-
tensively in the east, as well as in the south and west,
and although there is a slump in sheet music on at
the present time, I must say that we have been
very successful in the sales of our numbers thus far.
We have many rolls of both of our songs on the mar-
ket at the present time, including a Q R S roll on
'Tell Me You'll Forgive Me'," said Mr. Hibbele.
SALE A SUCCESS.
The fourth "May Day" sale of the May Co., Cleve-
land, recently was a great occasion for musical in-
struments, including pianos, talking machines, player-
pianos and records. Harlan Hart, manager of the
musical instrument section—one of the largest in
Cleveland—said the day's orders for instruments
beat all previous records for one day.
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