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THE TRUE=TONE JOURNAL
April Number of Excellent Publication Printed
by the Buescher Band Instrument Co.
Is Strong Music Promoter.
"True-Tone," published by the Buescher Band In-
strument Co., Elkhart, Ind., justifies the name and
the sub-title, "Musical Journal for the Promotion of
the Interests of Musicians and Music." In addition
to the fine literary and pictorial showing throughout
its thirty pages, the number for April is embellished
with a cover in two colors. The appearance of the
journal explains why it has over 300,000 circulation.
In an article on "Public School Music," C. V.
Buttleman tells why public school music is the most
important factor in the development of music in this
country. Mrs. Browne Creaton Cole, chairman of
public school music for the Florida Federation of
Music Clubs, in a clever article, convinces the reader
that the public school band has a broad and far-
reaching educational value. "How to Organize and
Develop a School Band," by E. C. Moore, director of
school bands in Green Bay, Wis., provides the third
article on a vital subject for the musical merchandise
dealer and the school head.
The Boys' Band of Springfield, Mo., the largest
Boy Scouts' band in the world, is told about by R.
Ritchie Robertson, organizer and director of the
famous band, and a half-tone picture across the page
shows the boy's organization of one hundred and
twenty-five players.
"Horning Your Way Through College" is the pun-
ning title of a story of college students who made
their playing on band instruments pay their board
bills and college fees. It tells about the beginning,
development and present standing of the famous band
of the University of Dayton. Other well-known col-
lege bands are told about.
The illustrations to "Jazz Bands that Entertained
Grandma" are typical of the eras in which the original
photographs were taken. They show the clothes,
styles of hair-cut, fashions in whiskers and old models
of brass instruments and drums prevalent in periods
in the last sixty-five years. One picture of the Sink-
ing Springs, Pa., Concert Band shows ten-year-old
Paul Specht as a cornetist standing bravely in the
front rank. The picture of the Goodman Band of
Decatur, 111., taken in 1857, is of rare historical value.
The antiquated instruments are typical of the period,
and in contrast to the equipment of the Buescher
True-Tone instruments of the Goodman Band of
today.
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"The Saxophone and the U. S. Navy," "Fritz
Kreisler and the Saxophone," "Where Jazz Is Taking
Us Musically" are titles of other articles that suggest
interesting themes.
Copies of the April issue of "True-Tone Musical
Journal" will be sent upon written request to the
Buescher Band Instrument Co., without charge and
post paid to public school teachers, music supervisors,
band and orchestra leaders, instructors or school board
officials, for free distribution to classes, music pupils
or those interested in the organization of bands or
orchestras.
NEW WJAZ STUDIO.
Distinctive developments in lighting effects will
play an important and unusual part in WJAZ studio,
broadcasting from their new location in the Straus
Building, Chicago. In 1923-4, the Zenith Radio Cor-
poration owned and operated Station WJAZ at the
Edgewater Beach Hotel, Chicago. This station was
known to the entire radio world, and when Zenith
sold this station hundreds of thousands of letters
were received appealing to WJAZ to come back on
the air. Although the station was sold, the call let-
ters were retained and the radio listening public will
soon hear the familiar WJAZ going out over the radio
waves. These old listeners and a host of new friends
will again be able to hear the high class, pleasing
programs previously associated with Zenith WJAZ
broadcasting.
C. D. Maxwell, of Chillicothe, Mo., has purchased
the Huckins Music House of Trenton, Mo., and will
carry on the business under the name of the Trenton
Music Co. George N. Huckins, who established the
concern more than twenty-five years ago, moved to
California.
"SUPERIOR" PIANO PLATES
April 25, 1925.
BOOK ON BAND PROMOTING
Expert on Processes Writes Instructively for the
Benefit of Musical Merchandise Dealers.
G. C. Mirick is author of "School Bands," a book-
let describing the processes of organizing and train-
ing them. It is published by J. W. York & Sons and
provides very valuable ideas for dealers. Mr. Mirick
is an instrumentalist, composer and arranger with
much experience in promoting and organizing bands.
"The young people of America can find no better
training than that provided by participation in a musi-
cal organization, headed by a competent director,"
writes Mr. Mirick. '.'It develops team work, and the
success of a democracy depends on the team work of
its citizens. Music, especially instrumental music,
has been looked upon as something for older people
only, but if made available there are very few people
who will not become interested in group music. Most
people have in the past taken up instrumental music
as an accomplishment, fad, or for personal enjoyment.
This has been done individually, and the incentive
given by the group work has been lacking, causing
most of those who started in music to drop it, due
to lack of interest, and the natural inference of those
who looked on was that it was a very, very difficult
undertaking and therefore a thing to be looked at
askance.
"Those who had in the past studied for a few years,
taken up some of the famous authors, studied abroad,
and at last graduated, were looked upon as an elect
few, and of course this sort of thing was far beyond
the reach of the average person. Due to these things
it has taken a long time for the people to discover
that music is for everybody and a necessary part of a
complete education and a well grounded view of life
and its problems, when the serious work of making a
living after graduation is entered."
The employees of the J. W. Jenkins Sons' Music
Co., Kansas City, have organized an orchestra of six
pieces, the formation of which was celebrated re-
cently by a program broadcasted over Station
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