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PRESTO
July 11, 1925.
SMALL GOODS AND SUPPLIES
CHANGE IN CONN AGENCY
W. A. McDougall Disposes of His Interest in Me-,
Dougall-Conn Music Co., Portland, Ore.
W. A. McDougall of the McDougall-Conn Music
Co., Portland, Ore., has disposed of his interest in
the firm to Daniel Miller, president of the Conn-San
Francisco Co. and the Daniel Miller Co. of Peoria,
111., the Conn distributors. The Portland store will
hereafter be used as a factory branch. L. W. Brew-
ster, secretary-treasurer of the Conn-San Francisco
store, is temporarily in charge until a permanent
manager is appointed.
Mr. McDougall has not announced his future plans,
but at present is engaged in planning for the recep-
tion of the various bands that will attend the Elks'
convention in Portland July 13 to 18, at which time
bands from every state in the Union will be in Port-
land.
PHIL OHMAN WITH AEOLIAN CO.
Brilliant Player of Dance Music to Record His Play-
ing for Duo-Art Rolls.
Phil Ohman, most brilliant of all exponents of
"pianistic jazz," has contract with the Aeolian Com-
pany to record his playing of the newest popular hits
exclusively for the Duo-Art Reproducing Piano.
This artist is more than a player of jazz music.
He is an "all-round" pianist of exceptional skill,
dexterity, musical understanding and constructive
cleverness. His training as a pianist is founded upon
long study of the classics. But Ohman's chief char-
acteristic as a jazz soloist is his astounding technical
brilliance. He was among the first to be hailed as a
real virtuoso of dance music. He develops the sim-
plest tunes with right and left hand variations,
chords, runs, borrowed from the classics, until the
composition becomes genuinely rhapsodical.
Before entering the dance field, Phil Ohman had
considerable experience in concert work, having
served as accompanist and sole pianist for Marie
Sundelius, Reinald Werrenrath, Rafelo Diaz, John
Barnes Wells and other celebrated singers. He was
also solo pianist at the Capitol Theater, New York,
for some time, and he is therefore well known to
the great radio audience which listens in on Sunday
nights to Roxy and His Gang.
For the Duo-Art, Ohman will record both dance
music and popular ballad selections. He has already
made several recordings, including the ballad, "Pal of
My Cradle Days" and two dance numbers, "Ukulele
Lady" and "Tell Me More," the latter from George
Gershwin's other Broadway success of the same name.
SUIT OVER PHONOGRAPH DOOR
United States Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadel-
phia Decide Against Victor and Brunswick.
Both the Victor Talking Machine Company and
the Brunswick-Balke Collender Company lost litiga-
tion over patent rights for an amplifying horn in-
closed in cabinet talking machines under a decision
rendered by the United States Circuit Court of Ap-
peals in Philadelphia this week.
The decision is not important to Brunswick-Balke-
Collender Company according to President Ben-
singer. It was filed some time ago, he said, by Bruns-
wick to establish the claims of Inventer Browning to
patents on a special type of door and has nothing
to do with the horn or other mechanical apparatus.
Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company has never
used the door, he said, but the Victor Company does
and some other companies also use a type of door
to modulate tone. The decision holds that neither
side is entitled to the patent rights, upholding a
ruling of the lower courts and in effect throws open
the use of the door to any manufacturer desiring it.
The line of band instruments made by C. G. Conn,
Ltd., Elkhart, Ind., is well featured in Buffalo, N. Y.,
by the McCIellan Music Store where window dis-
plays of Conn instruments are attractions on Main
street near Shea's Hippodrome.
WESSELL, NICKEL & GROSS
Five New Numbers, All with Words, Now Ready
for Shipment to Dealers.
The following popular recordings now ready for
shipment by the Ampico Corporation, New York:
The Prisoner's Song, ballad, played by Corrine
De Bert; Moonlight and Roses, fox trot, played by
J. Milton Delcamp; Sweet Georgia Brown, fox trot,
played by Zez Confrey; Tell Me More! "Tell Me
More" fox trot; played by Aram Carroll; Let Me
Linger Longer in Your Arms, fox trot, played by
Victor Lane.
These recordings, all with words, will be listed
in the August bulletin and will be included in all
contract orders.
The following recent sellers are reported excellent
sellers by dealers: Don't Bring Lulu, Waitin' for the
Moon, My Sugar, Charleston, If You Knew Susie
(Like I Know Susie), Let It Rain ("Sky High"),
Cheatin' on Me, Swanee Butterfly, The Midnight
waltz, The Melody That Made You Mine, A Song
of India, Chanson Dansante, Nola, Sky Blues.
MEL-O-DEE ROLLS.
At the recent Music Trades Convention in Chicago,
Mel-O-Dee Expression Rolls were an outstanding
feature. "These rolls for use with standard Expres-
son Tracker Bar Instruments are of a quality never
before equalled in this type of roll antd were used
because of superior qualities by more exhibitors for
demonstration than any others," says the Mel-O-Dee
Music Co., New York. "The reasons for this are
obvious, of which the many years of roll making—
the high quality of material used and the recording
artists of high standard are the principal features."
CONN SCHOOL GROWS.
The Conn National School of Music, Inc., on East
Van Buren street, Chicago, reports the biggest enroll-
ment in its history, over four hundred students. I t
shows the great strides in the development of uni-
formity in band instruction and leading made by the
school under the direction of Frederick Merle Innes,
head of the school.
The (new) Buckeye Sill Piano Truck
Manufacturers of
The New Buckeye Sill
PIANO ACTIONS
HIGHEST GRADE
NEW AMPICO RECORDINGS
For Grands and Uprights and best (or
stair work.
ONE GRADE ONLY
The Wcsscll, Nickel & Gross action is a
guarantee of the grade of the instrument
in which it is found.
FACTORIES:
45th St., lOthAve. & W46lh.
OFFICE:
457 w. 4Sth Street
Comstock, Cheney & Co.
Better your SERVICE with a new Buckeye Sill. We have re-
built and greatly improved, for longer service, the handles, center
rock shaft and the uprights of both ends.
Send for circular.
Eight styles of End Trucks, Piano Hoists, Covers and special
made straps.
Ivory Cutters and Manufacturers
Manufactured by
Piano Keys, Actions and Hammers
Self Lifting Piano Truck Co.
FINDLAY, OHIO
IVORY AND COMPOSITION-COVERED ORGAN KEYS
T h * only Company Furnishing the Keys, Actions, Hammers and Brackets Complete
Telegraph and R. R. Station: Essex, Conn.
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Office and Factories: Ivory ton, Conn.
THE O S. KELLY CO.
Manufacturers
of
High
Grade
PIANO PLATES
SPRINGFIELD
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OHIO
Factory and Office
DOLGEVILLE, N.Y
Mills
JULIUS BRECKWOLDT & SON, ING. Saw
Pulton Chain
Manufacturer! of
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Tupper Lake
Piano Backs, Boards, Bridges, Bars,
Traplevers and Mouldings
SOLE AGENTS FOR RUDOLF GIESE WIRE
WESTERN REPRESENTATIVE:
CENTRAL STEEL & WIRE CO.,
119-127 N. Peoria Street,
J. BRECKWOLDT, Pre«.
Chlcatfo, 111.
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