June 6, 1925.
PRESTO
JUNE AUTOMATIC MUSIC
Big List of Rolls for Electric Piano Orches-
trions and Organs Issued by the
Automatic Music Roll Co.
The Automatic Music Roll Co., Chicago, has issued
its June bulletin of music for electric pianos,
orchestrions and organs—Seeburg specials, rolls with
snap and pep, the kind that get the nickels into the
instrument.
For all standard 65-note rewind coin-operated
pianos, also Seeburg styles A, B, C, E, F, K, P, G,
A and L there are many new rolls provided including
latest radio successes, dance sensations and stage
hits. A new Cuban and Mexican roll are among the
series.
Twelve irresistible rolls are included in the presenta-
tions for Seeburg styles G, K and T orchestrions,
and styles P, O and W motion-picture players. The
offerings include radio successes, dance hits, waltzes
and "ebony tunes." Roll No. G-740 is a sample of
the line of rolls for the instruments named. It
contains the snappiest of the hits.
For Seeburg orchestrions, styles J and H, new
styles W and M, S, and R pipe organ-orchestra
there are six new rolls including two rolls of best
sellers. These rolls will play all orchestrion effects
except organ on styles M, S and R.
The peppiness of the rolls may be judged from the
contents of roll No. H-930, Broadway's popular ten:
Cheatin' On Me, fox trot; Suite 16, fox trot; A Waltz
In the Moonlight, waltz; If I Had My Old-Time
Sweethearts, fox trot; I'll Take Her Back If She
Wants to Come Back, fox trot; My Tipperary Rose,
waltz; We're Back Together Again, one-step; Titina,
fox trot; Keep Smiling at Trouble, fox trot; When I
Think of You, fox trot.
For Seeburg styles S, M, R, T, V and A dc luxe
pipe organ orchestras, hand-played organ rolls, six
new rolls are provided in the June list. Here are the
contents of some of them: Roll No. MSR-940, organ
(dramatic)—Legend of a Rose, Reynard; Graceful
Dance, Votteler; Moon Magic, Billings; Your Eyes
Have Told Me So, Blaufuss; Evening (Reverie),
Van Alstyne.
Roll No. MSR-941, organ (comedy)—Colinette,
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Beaumont; Chrysanthemums, Penn; S n o w b a l l ,
Roberts; Admiration, Jackson; Spring Whispers,
Billings.
Roll No. MSR-942, organ—If I Should Lose You Martin Handcraft Band and Orchestra Instruments
Lose You Sweetheart, Deibel; Concert Intermezzo,
Used in Missourian's Organization.
Hailing; Drifting Apart, Johnson, Ager and Shuster;
. Peg Meyers and his orchestra, a Missouri organiza-
Meditation, Kinder; Old Pal, Jerome.
Roll No. MSR-926, organ (dramatic)—I Know a tion, are creating considerable stir in the "show-me"
Lovely Garden, d'Hardelot; My Laddie, Thayer; state, according to information received by F. A.
Within the Garden of My Heart, Alicia Scott; Hearts- Holtz, salesmanager of the Martin Band Instrument
ease, Moret; One Day in June, Goodwin and Hanley. •Company, Elkhart, Ind.
Some idea of the orchestra and its make-up can
Roll No. MSR-928, organ (dramatic)—The Nod-
ding Tulip, Trinkaus; In My Dreams, Christy and be gained from a story taken from a musical publica-
Arden; High Jinks; Apple Blossoms, K. A. Roberts; tion which tells a few incidents in the life of this
Springtime, Friedland; Beautiful Summer Night, user and enthusiastic booster of Martin Handcraft
Instruments.
Weeks.
The "twenty-two year old director and his orches-
Roll No. MSR-934, organ (comedy)—Croquis et
Silhouettes, Schutt; Ame d'Amour, waltz, Barry; tra are creating quite a stir in Cape Girardeau, Mo.,
Spanish Dance, Jacobs; Beneath a Balcony, Winne; their native city, where they draw the largest Mon-
day attendance ever had.
Morning Study, Friml.
The orchestra, organized in 1918, is made up of
For Seeburg style X, Xpression pianos. These rolls
will not play on any other Seeburg instrument ex- college students, playing independent engagements.
cepting the Style X, also adapted for Apollo X. There In summer they disband to reorganize with the fall
are six rolls, the irresistible character of which is opening of college. They have done a great deal of
suggested by the titles: Genuine Jazz Sensations, work on board various pleasure excursion steamers
Irresistible Dance Melodies, Favorite Radio Hits, in 1921, on the Majestic in 1922, for the Eagle Packet
Harmony Hits, Songs of the Hour, and Broadway's Company of St. Louis, and 1923 and '24 on the Mis-
sissippi River boats where, of course, they boomed
Favorite Successes.
business on these steamers.
The leader has been attending the Missouri state
ITALIAN MANDOLIN EXPORTS.
According to a letter appearing in the Deutsche university at Columbia, where he played in the col-
Instrumentenbau Zeituug, Italy is doing a consider- lege band and the Cape Girardeau Municipal Band.
able business in plucked instruments, notably with He is now managing his Melody Kings Orchestra,
Germany, for re-export. The letter is in reply to a besides teaching, composing dance numbers, and or-
complaint against the importation of these goods, ganizing a saxophone band.
and points out that if Germnay does not care to do
this business foreigners will either go direct to Italy
BUSY IN PORTLAND, ORE.
for their mandolins or buy them through Tchecko-
Frank Lucas of the Seiberling-Lucas Music Co.
Slovakia. .
of Portland, Ore., reports excellent business in
Buescher band instruments and Ludwig and Leedy
FEATURES HOHNER HARMONICAS.
drums and traps. This he attributes to the annual
Hohner Harmonicas from the tiniest to the largest convention of the state of Oregon for the American
are shown in an unique display at Lyon & Healy's, Legion which will be held in Prineville, Ore., this
Chicago, this week. This display has been success- month, and the national convention of Elks which
fill in attracting attention as large numbers of will be held in Portland in July. Many Legion posts
passers-by stop to view the window. Pictures show- and Elk lodges are preparing with drum corps and
ing the pleasure derived from the harmonica line the bands for the coming conventions by organizing or
increasing their corps or bands.
window and are invaluable as an advertising feature.
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