23
PRESTO
March 21, 1925.
COINOLAS
FOR
RESTAURANTS, CAFES and
A M U S E M E N T CENTERS
NEW Q R S RECORDING ARTIST
Harry M. Snodgrass, Voted by Fans As Radio's
Best Entertainer, Records for Q R S .
Harry M. Snodgrass, who has the distinction of
being radio's most popular entertainer, winning the
title of "King of the Ivories," records player rolls
exclusively for the Q R S Co. The latest numbers
of Mr. Snodgrass' recording are as follows:
Word Roll No. 3115—Three o'Clock in the Morn-
Style C-2
FROM THE BIGGEST
ORCHESTRION
HARRY M. SXODGRASS.
create sound. The horn serves to amplify these air
vibrations to create louder sounds.
The loud speaker unit and the single headphone
are fundamentally the same. The headphone is de-
signed to give slight impulse to the diaphragm and
the loud speaker unit is constructed to give as strong
an impulse as possible and to handle violent vibrations
faithfully.
MEMBERSHIP DRIVE ON
Enthusiastic Effort to Make National Associa-
tion of Musical Instrument and Accessories
Manufacturers Stronger Launched.
A strenuous drive for new members for the Na-
tional Association of Musical Instrument and Ac-
cessories Manufacturers, which held a meeting in the
Hotel Statler, Cleveland, last week, is one of the
results of the gathering. Plans of the membership
committee will be published next week.
Standardization, collections and credits were topics
that provided interest to the business sessions. It
was agreed that the reduction in the number of some
of the types of small instruments was one of the
grave problems of the industry. The following com-
mittee on credits and collections was appointed, with
instructions to report at the meeting of the associa-
tion to be held in Chicago in June during the week
of the big gathering of music industries associations
at the Drake Hotel.
George F. Chapin, Standard Musical String Co.,
Brooklyn, N. Y.; Walter Grover of A. D. Grover &
Son, Long Island, City, N. Y.; Maurice Lifton, Lif-
ton Mfg. Co., New York, and Henry C. Lomb, Wa-
verly Musical Products Co., New York.
For concerns doing a business over $250,000 a year
dues of $50 a year were fixed; houses with sales ex-
ceeding that figure will pay $100.
ing, the novelty number that made Snodgrass fam-
J. R. Emery, Baldwin Park, Cal., recently opened
ous. $1.00.
a new general music store, called the Emery Radio
Word Roll No. 3114—Land of My Sunset Dreams,
Music Co., in a choice location on Covina boulevard.
waltz; played in an entrancing way, $1.00.
Word Roll No. 3092—1 Found a Way to Love
You. Hear Snodgrass play this number the way
you like it. $1.00.
Word Roll No. 3113—Farewell. A beautiful Ma-
rimba waltz. A surprise in Marimba recording, $1.00.
FUNCTIONS OF LOUD SPEAKER
Facts Seen and Marveled at Cannot Be Explained
by Many Radio Users.
The featuring of phonographs by music firms in
projecting the sounds from the operated record to
the outside of the store made the loud speaker more
or less familiar. But even today when radio sets are
in common use the functions of the loud speaker are
puzzling to many.
A radio loud speaker consists essentially of two
parts, the "unit" and the "horn." The unit consists
of an electro-magnet, with a vibrator arrangement
and a diaphragm.
The electro-magnet, acting either through a vibra-
tor or directly on the diaphragm, causes the dia-
phragm to vibrate. The motion causes the air to
vibrate, and these impulses, when they strike the ear,
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