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Issue: 1924 2005

JANUARY AMPICO MUSIC ROLLS
Brilliant
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PRESTO
December 27, 1924.
Selections, Dances and Accompaniment
Numbers in New Bulletin fcr Trade.
The following rolls arc comprised in the January
Ampico Bulletin of the A'npico Corporation, New
York, with the names of the recording- artists printed
in parenthesis:
Brilliant Selections—63903-H, La Campanella, Etude
on Rondo by Paganini, Liszt-Busoni (Lhevinne);
63933-H. Ballade, Op. 38. No. 2 F major. Chopin
(Gordon); 63973-G, "Viva Navarra,"
Larregla
Echaniz (Echaniz).
Melodious Selections—63911-H, Warum. Op. 12,
No. 3, Fantasie Pieces (Why), Schumann (Levitzki);
63923-H, Chant D' Amour (Love Song), Op. 26,
No. 3, Stojowski (Stojowski).
Characteristic Selections—63951-G,
Rosamunde
"Ballet Music," Schubert-Fischhof (Buell); 63961-G,
Zephyr, Op. 57, No. 4, Moszkowski (Williams);
60593-H, Tableaux de Voyage, d'Indy (d'Indy).
Ballad (With Words)—1493-F. My Heart at Thy
Sweet Voice, Samson and Delilah (Mon coeur s'ouvre
a ta voix). Ballad D Flat, Saint-Saens (Fairchild).
Dinner Music—63983-H, Dinner Music, Series No.
3 (Delcamp).
Accompaniment Recordings
(With Words) —
30121-G, Who Is Sylvia? F, Alto or Bass, Schubert
(Lamson); 30131-G, Who Is Sylvia? G, Mezzo-So-
prano or Baritone, Schubert (Lamson); 30141-G,
Give a Man a Horse He Can Ride, Bb, Baritone,
O'Hara (Pollock); 30151-G, Give a Man a Horse He
Can Ride, D, Tenor. O'Hara (Pollock).
Particularly Adapted for Dancing—63943-F, Musi-
cal Comedy Favorites, No. 1, Fox Trot (Delcamp):
63993-F, The Stars and Stripes Forever, March. E
Flat, Sousa (Fairchild and Carroll).
Recordings with Words for Singing—205471-E,
Tndian Love Call, "Rose Marie," F, Friml (Fair-
child); 205483-F, The Pal That I Loved Stole the
Gal That I Loved, Bb, Pease-Nelson (De Bert).
Recordings with Words for Singing and Dancing—
20S491-E, Hard Hearted Hannah, Fox Trot, Eb, Yel-
len-Bigelow-Bates (Grofe); 2O55O1-E, Sally Lou, Fox
Trot. F, Frey (Grofe); 205511-E, Mandy Make Up
Your Mind, "Dixie to Broadway," Fox Trot, G,
Meyer-Johnston (Carroll); 205521-E, Tea for Two,
"No No Nanette," Fox Trot. A Flat, Youmans (Car-
roll); 205531-E. Nobody Loves You Like I Do, fox
trot, B Flat. Davis-Akst (Lopez); 205541-E, Ev'ry-
thing You Do, Fox Trot, G, Olman (Lopez);
2O5551-.E, T Want to See My Tennessee, Fox Trot,
C, Ager (Johnson).
Demonstration Series—64003-H, Piano Dynamics
and Tone Coloring.
AMERICAN PIANO SUPPLY CO.
The Character of Dependability and Prompt Service
Distinguishes Supply House.
Dependability in relation to the goods handled and
prompt service in shipping distinguishes the Ameri-
can Piano .Supply Co., 112 East 13th street, New
York.
The character for all 'round ability to supply the
needs of the piano tuner and piano repairman is a
valuable one for the piano supply house to acquire.
It is at once an asset to the house possessing it and
an assurance of a very satisfying kind to the industry
served. Years of efficient service for the piano in-
dustry has gained this character for the American
Piano Supply Co.
The advantages of a wide range of piano supplies
and big stocks of everything are part of the service
offered by the company. Everything in felts, hard-
ware, cloths, hammers, and other commodities needed
for pianos, organs, players and talking machines is
found in the big stock of the company.
But it is in the emergency requirements, the things
needed in a hurry perhaps, that the American Piano
Supply Co. proves the effectiveness of its service to
the piano manufacturers, piano repairmen and the
piano tuner. It is in making good in this particular
that has gained for the American Piano Supply Co.
its enviable character. Special stampings, turnings,
castings, things not found in any list of supplies are
frequently required, generally in a hurry by people
in the trade. The experienced factory superintend-
ent, the tuner or repairman who knows his business
knows that the requirements, whatever it may be, can
be procured in quick time from the American Piano
Supply Co., where supply always meets demand.
MORE SPACE FOR DES MOINES FIRM.
The Wilkinson Music House, Des Moines, Iowa,
moved last week to a larger location. Nine years
ago Mr. Wilkinson opened his music shop, selling to
professional musicians only. His business has ex-
panded amazingly. In the new quarters 6,000 square
feet will be utilized.
FOR THE HIGH SCHOOL BAND
Paw Paw, Mich., School Has Band Music Class to
Fill- Vacancies in Organization.
The High School of Paw Paw, Mich., recently
formed a class for teaching band music and every
member of the class hopes to "make" the high school
band in time. The item in the Courier-Northerner of
Paw Paw is listed under school notes but it also
may be made a suggestion to musical merchandise
dealers in every town with a high school.
The number of school bands is increasing very
fast, thanks to the encouragement of music by school
boards and superintendents. The school band is
freely admitted to be a splendid disciplinary force
as well as a means for expressing the spirit of ambi-
tions.
The Band Instrument Manufacturers Association
has a policy directed towards creating the band spirit
in schools and its operation is seen in the band tour-
naments held in various places during the year. The
association also inspires the band instrument dealers
with the desire to organize school bands or at least
to evoke the band spirit in their communities. There
are about forty boys in the band music class of the
Paw Paw High School, none farther than the ninth
grade and most of them below the ninth grade.
Many are making excellent progress. In fact,
there are practically none in the list who do not
give promise that they will eventually develop into
good musicians.
At the present time none of these boys is good
enough to be enrolled as a regular member of the
Paw Paw high school band, but as soon as any cair
play well enough he will be voted in a regular mem-
ber.
There are nine trombone pupils, eight cornet, nine
clarinet, one flute, two picolo, two saxophone, one
baritone, three alto and two bass.
WHEN WASTE BEGINS.
Lumber wastage begins the day it is sawed, ac-
cording to F. P. Poole, district supervisor of the
Forest Products Engineering Co., Chicago, in the
"Hardwood Record." He estimates that executives
in charge of plants consuming upward of a million
feet of lumber yearly invariably waste from 5 to 10
per cent of the timber before they cut a foot of it for
manufacturing purposes.
C. G. CONN, Ltd., Elkhart, Ind.
VIOLIN, CELLO AND DOUBLE
BASS WOUND STRINGS
OF SUPERIOR QUALITY
Guaranteed for thirty days after they are sold
SEND FOR CATALOG
C. D. GREENLEAF, Pres.
J. F. BOYER, Sec'y
World's largest manufacturers of High Grade Band and Orchestra Instruments. Employs 1,000
expert workmen.
All of the most celebrated Artists use and endorse Conn Instruments.
Famous Bandmasters and Orchestra Directors highly endorse and recommend the use of the
Conn Instruments in their organizations.
Conn Instruments are noted for their ease of playing, light and reliable valve or key action;
quick response, rich tonal quality, perfect intonation, tone carrying quality, artisticness of design,
beautiful finish and reliable construction.
Conn Instruments are sent to any point in the U. S. subject to ten days free trial. Branch store
or agencies will be found in all large cities. Write for catalogues, prices, etc.
C. G. CONN, Ltd.
DEPT. MS.
ELKHART, IND.
S. SIMON
8106 Chaj*pell Avenue,
CHICAGO, ILLS.
SLINGERLAND
OTTO R. TREFZ, Jr.
May Bell
PIANO BASS STRINGS
PIANO REPAIR SUPPLIES
2110 Fairmount Ave.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
The Piano Repair Shop
' Pianos and Phonographs Rebuilt by
Expert Workmen
Player-actions installed. Instruments
refimshed or remodeled and actions and
keys repaired. Work guaranteed. Prices
reasonable.
Our-of-town dealers' repair work solic-
ited. Write for details and terms.
THE PIANO REPAIR SHOP
339 South Wabash Ave.
Chicago
Slingerland Banjos
are sold the country over because
they are Highest quality and sold
at a reasonable price.
Over 40 Styles of Banjos, Banjo Mandolins, Tenor Banjos
and Banjo Ukuleles, to select from.
Write for Catalogue
SLINGERLAND BANJO CO.
1815 Orchard Street
CHICAGO
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FINISHING KEY IVORY |
Very Interesting Processes Are Required Before the
Product Is Ready for Key Maker.
Ivory is not clean and bright in a natural state, so
that a bleaching process to prepare it for use by the
piano key maker is a necessity.
"Not only is light necessary, but it is necessary in
certain quantities and qualities," says Ernest L.
Weaver, in the Canadian Music Trades Journal. "For
the bleaching of the ivory the stronger and brighter
the light the better, while in matching the sets of
keys north light is essential."
"The length of the factory faces north and south,
to cope with these requirements. The keys are ex-
posed, for bleaching, in the brilliant sunshine which
plays upon the sloping glass roof of the southern
side. On the northern side a wall of glass rises ver-
tically to the peak of the roof, giving the factory a
triangular appearance when viewed from the ends,
and it is on this side of the building that the matching
is done.
"Huge tusks lay on sacking spread upon the floor.
I began to understand that ivory keys are not a mat-
ter of course, and that even the procuring of the
ivory itself must entail no small amount of labor and
December 27, 1924.
experience. Practically all the ivory used for key
making comes from Africa by various routes to the
market of Antwerp and London. A sale is held at
these two places each quarter, the ivory being sold
by auction to buyers from every part of Europe and
America.
"After considering such things as these, I think that
most people will feel a little more interested in the
thin white strips which look so beautiful on the key-
board of an instrument. But it is a long jump from
the huge tasks lying in the graveyard to the keys of
a baby grand in the music room. From the moment
the tooth arrives, it becomes an object of great re-
sponsibility to everyone in the factory. First it must
be cut into short lengths. The cross sections of these
lengths are passed to the marker-out, who makes the
carefully pencilled lines which are to guide the man
with the 'trunching saw.'
"The marking out of these lengths requires a great
amount of ingenuity, as a slight error may cause the
waste of a considerable amount of the precious ivory.
Cracks occur around the circumference of the tooth,
'beans' or internal blemishes must be noted and in
marking out, all these faults must be carefully
avoided. It may easily be appreciated from the above
that the marker-out is a valuable employee, but the
same might apply to almost any other person en-
gaged in the factory. When the length of ivory is
"SUPERIOR" PIANO PLATES
marked out, it goes to the "trunching saw,' an in-
tricate piece of machinery which cuts the lengths into
'blocks' corresponding in width to the heads and tails
of the finished keys.
IN SMALL GOODS DEPARTMENT
Greater Interest in Musical Merchandise Shows in
New Stores and Old Ones.
A great list of Olympic recordse for December,
issued by the Capitol Roll & Record Co., Chicago,
included the very latest and choicest numbers in all
the varieties of music and songs.
W. G. Magness, a prominent music merchant of
Forest City, N. C, has just opened a branch music
store in Kings Mountain, N. C, under the manage-
ment of Ernest Magness. The new store handles
a full line of pianos and players, as well as musical
merchandise and sheet music.
There are still about 5,000,000 pounds of unsold
wool in the Portland, Ore., territory. There is a
pool of Idaho wool on the docks in that city awaiting
the later market, but the bulk of the holdings belong
to dealers and speculators.
A branch of the Charles Emdee Music Store of
Catskill has been opened at 107 Main street, Phil-
mont, N. Y.
Tenor banjos still have the greatest call in the
musical merchandise sections in Philadelphia, sup-
planting the old popularity of ukueles and mandolins.
Sales of phonographs were greater last week in one
Philadelphia music house than in any time for several
months. All the stores are making special displays
and plans for the holiday trade.
C. C. Christensen recently opened a music store
in Niles, Mich.
The J. W. Jenkins Sons' Music Co., Wichita, Kan.,
has been appointed representative of the Holton band
instruments in Wichita.
The Palmer Piano House, Medford, Ore., has se-
cured the exclusive agency for Couturier band instru-
ments and saxophones made by Lyon & Healy, Chi-
cago. The agency covers Medford and surrounding
territory. An intensive campaign to introduce this
line is planned.
Manufactured by
Cleveland, Ohio
SUPERIOR FOUNDRY CO.
DEALERS and TUNERS!
Keys Recovered and Rebushed
NATURELLE
Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.
The now famous reproducer, will help you increase your
sales of Phonographs and Records. Keep it on your dem-
onstrating machine. Every phonograph owner in your
neighborhood is a prospective buyer.
Dealer's Price $2.50—Send for Sample.
THE SPECIALTY PHONO. & ACCESS. CO.
210-212 East 113th St.
NEW YORK
All work is done by expert workmen
and modern machinery and you are
assured of correct spacing which is so
important. When keys are replaced they
will appear exactly as when the instru-
ment left the factory.
PRICES FOR PYRALIN IVORY
52 heads and tails
$8.00
52 fronts
2.50
88 keys rebushed
4.00
Express or Parcel Post to
FRIELD MILLER & CO.
112 W. 30th Street
FAIRBANKS
PIANO PLATES
THt FAIRBANKS CO., Springfield, Ohio
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA
HOW TO S E N D
Remove from frame, number plainly near Capstan,
wrap or box securely, and ship Parcel Post or Express.
Please do not remove the old ivories at
there ia danger of the wood being broken.
Ivories will be returned if desired.
PERFECTION
Benches and Cabinets
The line that sells on sight and satisfies always.
The only solid walnut benches built and sold at
regular prices.
Send for catalog and price list,
No. 25
Perfection Benches with Smith's Patented Interlock*
ing mitre joint.
PERFECTION PIANO BENCH MFG. COMPANY
1514-1520 Blue Island Ave.
Chicago, 111.
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