November 8, 1924.
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PRESTO
QENNETT CONTESTS WINNERS
record department is well pleased with the results of
the contest and with the enthusiasm shown.
Another window contest will immediately be an-
nounced for a display appropriate to the Christmas
season. Prizes for this event will be larger than the
first on account of the special significance an event of
this kind means to the trade at this time of year.
COLORING WOOD IN TREE
Process Not New and Dates Back to Seventeenth
Century, According to Consul Borg.
FIRST PRIZE WINNER.
WINDOW DISPLAY BY MURPHY MUSIC CO., MULBERRY, KANS.
Enthusiasm is running at a high pitch among Gen-
nett record dealers with the announcement by the
Gennett Record Division of the Starr Piano Com-
pany, Richmond, Ind., of the prize winners in the
national window display contest. Announcement of
the window display contest was made the early part
of last month by F. D. Wiggins, head of the Gennett
record department of the Starr Piano Company, to
all Gennett dealers that three prizes would be
awarded to the dealers who submitted pictures of
community. We used 228 records to make up the
whole display. We had a rambler of roses running
over the top and down the sides of the background,
and this, together with the ferns and flowers, made a
most artistic effect, we thought. Many came in to
congratulate us, and school children would stand
THIRD PRIZE WINNER.
WINDOW DISPLAY" BY GRUNDEN'S, HARRISBURG,
PA.
SECOND P R I Z E W I N N E R .
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window displays which best featured Gennett rec-
)rds. Gennett dealers were permitted to send in any
Jiumber of different displays. Small as well as larger
Mies were given equal consideration.
Of the hundreds of pictures sent in the first prize
/as awarded to the Murphy Music Company, Mul-
)erry, Kans. Their display stood out in a most at-
tention-compelling way and attracted attention from
}he hundreds of passers-by. M. J. Murphy, of the
Murphy Music Company, said:
"The idea of using regular records to spell out the
liame 'Gennett Records' was a novelty to the whole
and spell out the letters. Of course it is impossible
to tell how many Gennetts we sold from this special
interest created by our window, but we know it has
done our business a world of good."
The second prize was awarded to the Neft Melody
Shop, Los Angeles, for an interesting window made
with Gennett records and sheet music. The sheet
music of the melody on each record was used as a
background to the record. This with an effective
velvet drape in the foreground produced a most
pleasing result.
A somewhat smaller display but which caused
much local comment was awarded third prize. This
was the window of Grunden's, Harrisburg, Pa., which
used five Gennett records as the center of as many
daisies. Above the records was the sign "A Few
Daisies in Late Gennett Records."
These pictures do not do justice to the original dis-
play of course, but give an idea of the interest and
efforts shown by enterprising Gennett dealers who
propose to make the season a big one. The Gennett
"SUPERIOR" PIANO PLATES
The German process of coloring wood in the tree
is still discussed by the veneer trade. The process is
by no means new. A review of this subject was made
by Consul Berg, from Goteborg, Sweden, who in an
official report to the Department of Commerce said
that the coloring wood industry had its inception in
Italy in the seventeenth century. Also the idea and
practice of wood coloring came to Sweden during
what was known as the thirty years war. It was
more a matter of experimental effort, however, in a
small way, usually on dry woods.
It was found in Sweden that birch, beech, alder,
elm and basswood could be easily and satisfactorily
colored. Oak, however, did not lend itself readily
to coloring, partly because of the tannic acid in it
and partly perhaps because of the splash line film
which is a factor in oak that interferes with moisture
penetration. There was not much success either with
pine and spruce, which are difficult to either color or
stain uniformly.
It is practical to color certain woods through and
through and it should be practical to get coloring
matter that will hold with reasonable permanence. It
is largely a question of whether or not it may find
enough wide uses to justify the expense involved.
From the slow progress made so far we may infer
that the practice of coloring wood while it is still in
timber form will be slow in gaining wide favor be-
cause the general preference today is for staining
woodwork during the process of finishing.
OLD VIOLIN MAKER BUSY.
Carlos Adams, of South Woodstock, Vt., is still
making, violins at the age of eighty-four. Although
hampered now with partial paralysis in one of his
arms, Mr. Adams continues his art. He has carved
out and pieced together more than thirty violins of
excellent tone since his sixty-fourth year. He even
fashioned and made his own tools for carving out the
fronts and backs of the violins. An Adams violin
is hewn out with infinite patience and care from
high-seasoned, 150-year-old spruce and maple timbers
taken from the house and barn erected on his old
homestead.
SMALL RADIO FAILURE.
Phonoflax Products, Inc., loud speakers, 70S Whit-
lock avenue, New York, failed last week with lia-
bilities $26,000 and assets $5,101, main item being
stock and fixtures, $5,000. Principal creditors are
the Selbyville Bank, Selbyville, Md., $4,000, secured;
Dr. William Francis Doyle of Pottsfield, Pa., $8,000;
Belle M. Shipley, Canton, Ohio, $3,000; Southern
Minn. Gas & Electric Co., Albert, Minn., $5,000.
INVENTS NEW KILN.
A patent has been granted to Rolf Thelan, of Madi-
son, Wis., for a reversible circulation fan kiln. Mr.
Thelan is head of the Forests Products Laboratory
and his new patent is one more added to a long list
of valuable devices developed for the Government.
The new kiln is desirable for use in drying common
grades of lumber with large moisture content and
liable to high percentage of degrade in seasoning.
NEW ARTS LIBRARY RECORDS.
The Victor Talking Machine Co., Camden, N. J.,
recently announced a new plan to be known as the
Music Arts Library of Victor Records, which has
been devised to aid in the sale of certain records in
groups by means of an especially prepared, extremely
attractive and informative album, which will be given
to purchasers of the complete sets of records.
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THE SAXOPHONE TEST.
The Butler Music Company, Marion, Ind., has a
novel way of demonstrating saxophones through the
new test phonograph record. This device will show
at once if the person making the test has any musical
talent, particularly for the saxophone, and also re-
veals how easy it is to learn to play this popular in-
strument.
Manufactured
SUPERIOR FOUNDRY CO.
by
Cleveland, Ohio
NEW PLECTRUM BANJO.
Because of the rapid rise in popularity of the
plectrum banjo, Lyon & Healy, Chicago, has designed
a new Washburn instrument possessing several un-
usual features. Important among these is a new type
resonator with a special bell-brass amplifier ring.
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