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November 15, 1924.
PRESTC
THE DANSANT TRUMPETS
New Style Instrument of Martin Band Instru-
ment Co., Is Subject of Very Enlightening
Illustrated Folder.
A new folder about Handcraft instruments made
by the Martin Band Instrument Co., Elkhart, Ind.,
deals specifically with the new Martin Dansant
Trumpets. A picture of the new trumpet and por-
traits of prominent artists who use it adorn the folder.
Among them arc Robert Beers, "Bob" Effros, Edwin
Frank Goldman, Edward Sansome, Lou Henderson,
Ly. A. Liberati, Loring Nichols, D. W. Boland,
Frankie Quartell. Frank L. Vestny, Don Bryan, Carl
Swenringer, Ben Ehlin«\ Carl Scholz and "Doc" Wil-
ber.
"These names are very significant to the prospec-
tive buyer of a trumpet. They are a portion of the
rapidly increasing host of outstanding artists who
are playing Martin Handcraft Trumpets," says the
booklet. "These players, drawn from the stage and
from the leading orchestras and bands of the country,
want the very best instruments to be had. Their
standing as musicians depends upon their ability to
play 'above the average.' They work hard, they
study hard and they demand an instrument that will
give them greatest possible assistance in their work.
They find the Martin to be exactly what they have
been looking for.
"The past year or two has seen a tremendous ad-
vance of the trumpet in importance and popularity
and while, a few years ago, many prominent and
popular orchestras had no trumpets, no orchestra
now can hope to attain success and popularity unless
it has one or more trumpets and features them con-
sistently. This general demand for featured trumpet
playing has, naturally, greatly increased the re-
sponsibility of the successful trumpet player and the
absolute necessity, more so than ever before, for his
equipping himself with the instrument that will en-
able him to do his best work with least effort.
"Knowing this, the designers and builders of the
new Martin Trumpets were inspired to an achieve-
ment that will, we predict, remain forever unsur-
passed, the Martin "Dansant" and "Symphony"
Trumpets representing as near perfection in musical
and mechanical excellence as is humanly possible to
attain.
"Built of heavier brass so as to give them ample
resistance, yet so finely and so thoroughly tempered,
by hand hammering, as to make them instantaneously
responsive to the lightest attack, the new Martins
have a blowing quality, a brilliance and flexibility
of tone, that immediately appeals to the player and
hearer. They all have the true trumpet bore and con-
sequently, the true trumpet tone."
IN SMALL GOODS DEPARTMENT
Growth of the Musical Merchandise Business Shown
by New Stores and Extensions.
At the recent Industrial Exposition in Indianapolis
the Fuller-Ryder Music Co., local dealer in band and
small instruments, displayed the C. G. Conn and C. F.
Martin band instruments.
Patent No. 1,510,982 has been granted to Edward D.
Dennis of Plymouth, Wis., for a new type of violin
bridge, which has an attachment to prevent the steel
E string from cutting into the wood.
Thieves recently entered the Volkwein Bros.' music
store, 632 Liberty avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa., and escaped
with musical instruments valued at more than $2,000.
Included in the loot were two gold-plated saxophones,
which were recovered at a local pawn shop.
Armour & Co., Chicago, manufacturers of high
quality music strings for practically all stringed in-
struments, have just issued a new catalog, entitled
"Strings," listing and describing the complete string line
of Armour & Co.
The phonograph shop of the American Furniture Co.,
112-122 South Stanton street, El Paso, Tex., was re-
cently opened with a musical program. The store car-
ries the Brunswick and Sonora phonographs.
A CONN CO. INVITATION.
School supervisors, Rotarians, Kiwanians, Lions,
Legionnaires, lodges and others are invited to write
to the Band Service Department of C. G. Conn, Ltd.,
Elkhart, Ind., for advice and assistance in organizing
and developing bands and orchestras. The benefit of
its long experience is at their disposal without obliga-
tion.
NEW PENNSYLVANIA STORE.
F. L. Klunzinger, Mt. Pleasant, Pa , has recently
purchased the McKnight Music Store on South Main
street and will continue the sale of sheet music and
musical instruments in connection with his jewelry
business.
WHAT THE VIOLINIST WANTS
Amateur and Professional Are Influenced by the
Makers' Name, Says Trade Paper Writer.
The modern violinist, professional or otherwise, re-
quires for his purpose an instrument which has a fine
round tone, or what he imagines to be such. He is
always seeking for this type of violin. But if we
come to examine closely his estimate of a fine violin
we will almost always find that the name of the
maker of his instrument has considerable weight in
his valuation, says Robert Alton, writing in the Lon-
don Music Trades Review. But with regard to
builders who have departed this life, violins by them
undoubtedly receive an added value, which can only
be measured according to the interpretation of the
word "antique." The older the violin, or 'cello, the
more this applies.
There are several reasons for this peculiarity. 1'irst
and foremost, and in no degree the least important,
is the fact that scarcely two violins are absolutely
alike. Each fiddle has its own peculiarities and its
own characteristics, and these peculiarities vary even
with the different instruments built by the same in-
dividual.
Secondly, as each country carries, or is supposed
popularly to carry, certain peculiar characteristics,
violins from particular countries have a certain value
which has nothing to do with tone. For instance,
an Italian violin is accepted among many players as
a better class instrument simply because it is an
Italian. French, German and British instruments are
supposed to be of a definite kind and caliber. To a
certain extent they are, but the matter has not always
any connection with tonal value. When the instru-
ment is old it presumably becomes of additional value,
varying with the name of the maker and the country
of his birth.
The music house of Black, Derges & Marshall,
Peoria, 111., has been remodeled.
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