Presto

22
November 8, 1924.
PRESTO
that is what touches the violin makers to the quick.
The public—which can't buy Strads—should be
willing to believe the American violin it can buy is
as good as the best. Manufacturers in the United
Tuned Frequency Patents, Originally Owned by States have made prodigious strides in the making
of all instruments, and it is a simple truth that the
Telefunken Company, Covered by Ruling.
members of an audience can not tell who made the
The National Association of Manufacturers and the instrument the performer uses unless they are spe-
National Association of Broadcasters have secured cifically informed about it; and even then, as our old
from President Coolidge a decision to issue licenses friend Jiggs remarks, it doesn't mean anything.
When John Philip Sousa marches his trombones
to approximately sixty radio manufacturers under
(American-made) to the front of the stage for the
one hundred twenty-nine German patents seized by finale
of "Stars and Stripes Forever" the audience
the alien property custodian during the war. The knows positively that nowhere in the world are there
attorney general decided there was no question as to better trombones, better trombone players, better
the right of the navy department to dispose of these marches, or a better leader than the old man and his
band. What the violin-makers qeed is a similor
patents.
The majority of the patents and applications in- healthy enthusiasm on the part of ^he public toward
product. As American violinists of good qual-
volved were owned originally by the Telefunken com- their
ity multiply and American violins with them, so will
pany, a German corporation, among which patents is the story of the "Strad" take its place among the
one covering tuned radio frequency—the Wilhelm legends, and not the facts of history.
Schloemilech and Otto Von Bronk patent.
Under a series of contracts this patent was trans-
ASK NEW FREIGHT^RATE.
ferred in 1913 to the Atlantic Communication com-
Hearings recently were held before the Consoli-
pany, a German corporation of New York, and all dated Classification Committee in New York on the
rights were seized by the alien property custodian.
proposal to establish a special freight classification
for phonographs with radio installation, giving them
the same rates as are now enjoyed by straight phono-
graphs. The railroads maintain that the rates should
be higher. The Music Industries Chamber of Com-
Terre Haute, Ind., Newspaper Decries Strad Claims merce, represented by Alfred R. Smith, general man-
ager, presented arguments in favor of the phonograph
and Calls Modern American-Made Fiddle Best.
manufacturers and both the Brunswick-Balke-Collen-
Commenting on the suggested contest to determine der Co. and the Sonora Phonograph Co. were rep-
the claims to merit of a Stradivarius and an Ameri- resented by their traffic managers.
can violin, the Tribune, of Terre Haute, Ind., is
plainly in favor of the home made article.
TRADE WATCHES RESULT.
The newspaper calls the contest a traditional one to
R. M. Ford, London, wireless amateur, has re-
determine whether superiority does remain with the fused to take out a license for his receiving set, which
past or whether nothing but sentiment insists that has raised an important issue affecting every listener
no progress has been made in violin construction. in Great Britain. Mr. Ford claims the postal authori-
This is said:
ties have no legal leg to stand on and says there is no
Of course the contest will not settle anything, but
law compelling a license for receiving. The post-
it is interesting, nonetheless. Certainly the Ameri- master general has dodged the issue, waiting for his
can violin makers have no other motive than pride in
their craftsmanship, for Stradivarius long since successor to take office. The government fee is $2.50.
ceased to be a factor in manufacturing and only a
NEW ERIE STORE.
very few of his instruments are still in existence,
while the American violin makers are turning out in-
Musical merchandise is carried in a new store
struments apace for a magnificently widening mar- opened in Erie, Pa., by William J. Krill, Jr. The
ket. Not competition in industry, but the irksome
maddening taunt that the age of violin making saw new store is at 403 East Eleventh street and is known
its glory with Amati, Antonio Stradivari and as the Music Box. In addition to handling all kinds
Giuseppe Guarneri, the Cremona masters, and that of musical merchandise and supplies, Mr. Krill offers
nothing now produced can touch a "Strad" for tone, instruction on saxophone, banjo and ukulele.
DISPOSE OF GERMAN PATENTS
VIOLIN SENTIMENT VS. MERIT
CLAIMS OF THE PHONORADIO
This Phonograph and Radio in One Combines All
the Advantages of Each.
The Phonoradio is the combination of a high-class
radio set and a reliable phonograph—the New Emer-
son.
Radio and the phonograph each has its place.
Radio takes out of the ether the music of the minute
as it is being played, transmits to the listeners the
harmonies of the orchestras and the voices of the
singers being broadcasted from points that may be
thousands of miles away. Radio means music or
song in its actual performance.
The phonograph provides the means to again and
again repeat the performances of the recording art-
ists. The phonograph record is a memoir, a' per-
petual attestation of the power of artists to please.
The phonograph record collection constitutes the
annals of a world of music. The phonograph is the
only instrument that immortalizes the voice of the
singer or the performances of the great violinist or
other artist. The value of the phonograph is clear.
But the radio is the only instrument that enables
people thousands of miles apart to hear a great
speaker as he speaks or a great singer as he sings.
With the radio you can attend a convention a thou-
sand miles away, while seated comfortably at home
in your parlor or, dance to an orchestra playing in a
hotel many miles away.
The arguments for the phonograph and the radio
are the arguments for the instruments that combine
them. Instruments like the Phonoradio made by the
Wasmuth-Goodrich Company, Peru, Ind., have the
selling appeal to the greatest possible number of
people because this instrument gives all that the pho-
nograph and the radio can give.
A music store was opened at 2201 West Fourth
street, Joplin, Mo., recently by P. J. Stine.
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