October 3, 1925.
PRESTO
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Co., the Robert Dollar Co., and the Hammond Lum-
ber Co., all of San Francisco. At the resumption of
the arguments before the commission each company
Sherman, Clay & Co. to Issue Monthly Booklet Pro- will file a separate answer.
The complaint in this case is that the name did not Processes in Making the Gennett Described
viding Necessary Information for Schools.
properly describe the actual character of the lumber
and Details of Laboratory Methods Em-
Sherman, Clay & Co., San Francisco, is preparing and that the name "Philippine Mahogany" was coined
for the first issue of a new monthly publication to be to convey a wrong impression. The gist of the de-
ployed by Starr Piano Co. at Rich-
called "The School Musician of California," which is fense, it is said, sets forth that the term in question
mond, Ind., Told Succinctly.
to be sent free of charge to California schools. The was not coined by the defendants, but has long been
new publication, which emanates from the musical a trade designation.
merchandise department, will be made of value to
ARRANGING PLAYERS
school heads and music superintendents, in providing
information about the instruments and how to pro-
CONN EXHIBIT AT FAIR
In Making Band Records Every Instrument Must
mote interest in music among the pupils.
Focus on the Horn, Without the Least Inter-
Although the band spirit is well developed in Cali- Extensive Range of Band Instruments Shown in Mil-
fornia schools, E. J. Delano, manager of the musical
waukee Transferred to Decatur, Ind.
ference of Any Sort.
merchandise department of Sherman, Clay & Co.,
L.
B.
Elhardt,
factory
representative
of
the
C.
G.
Richmond,
Ind.,
possesses the only phonograph
believes it can be further stimulated by the encour-
agement that teachers and school heads may give. Conn Company, Ltd., Elkhart, Ind., was in Decatur, recording laboratory in the Central West excepting
The main purpose of the new publication will be to Ind., last week with a large exhibit of instruments Chicago, between New York and San Francisco—
give information how to proceed in the promotion of direct from a display at Milwaukee. The exhibit is that at the Starr Piano Company's manufacturing
bands, what to do to secure the best results and what valued at $20,000 and was the largest ever shown in plant where Gennett records, now sold throughout
that section of the state, and aroused great interest. the world, are made.
the approximate cost may be.
The display was in the Woman's Art Building at the
But few persons are cognizant of the intricate and
fair grounds and Mr. Elhardt issued a special invita- delicate process through which the human voice, or
tion for all fair-goers to visit the Conn display. The music from string and other instruments passes
exhibit was composed of gold instruments.
before it is permanently stamped on records offered
Mr. Elhardt co-operated with the various bands at
National Association of Harpists Announces Prize of the fair and has also called attention to all people in- to the public.
A reporter for the Richmond Evening Item, who
$1,000 for Best Composition Featuring Instrument.
terested in music to his display. He stated that an visited
the Gennett recording laboratory the other
The National Association of Harpists, Inc., which, agent had been selected in Decatur to handle the day made a record and, in less than five minutes,
Conn
musical
instruments.
The
Northern
Indiana
by propaganda of various forms, recitals, encourage-
E. C. A. Wickemeyer, in charge of the laboratory
ment of harp instruction in schools and articles in Fair was selected as one of the few expositions in (who was behind the scenes), played back those
the
state
where
the
big
band
instrument
display
would
magazines and music journals, has done much to pro-
words recited only a moment before.
mote interest in harp music, and incidentally the sale be brought.
But that quick recording can never be passed on
of harps, now offers a prize of $1,000 for a com-
to
the public unless the wax record on which the first
COLUMBIA
"FAMILIAR"
CATALOG.
position for that instrument. The competition will
The Columbia Phonograph Company, 1819 Broad- impressions are made passes through the hands of
be international, and the latest date on which manu-
way, New York City, has just issued a new catalog experts and into the electrotyping department where
scripts will be received is December IS, 1926.
entitled
"Old Familiar Melodies" which lists their lat- the record is molded from a metal electrotype matrix
Five members will constitute the jury, including
est
recordings
in the popular Southern Series. The made from a "mother," which had its origin from a
three composers, a conductor and a harpist. The
"master," an electrotyped reproduction of the original
work must be written for chamber music, including sixteen page booklet, with a two color cover, is now wax disk on which were grooves cut by sound vibra-
being
distributed
to
the
trade.
It
contains
many
old
at least one harp. Nothing which previously has been
tions.
published or performed or has won a prize may be time selections played and sung by such popular
artists
as
Riley
Puckett,
Gid
Tanner,
Vernon
Dalhart,
Studio Work.
submitted. The chief aim of the contest is to encour-
The real music is born in the studio. Every detail
age the production of works of real musical merit Ernest Thompson, Bumgarner and Davis, and other
of the laboratory, music room or lecture room, what-
in which the harp shall have a deserving part. Manu- well known Southern artists.
ever it may be called on to record, is perfect. You
scripts should be sent to the secretary of the asso-
A group of ladies in Monmouth, 111., have organ- just simply talk or sing or play into a little horn.
ciation, 315 West Seventy-ninth street, New York.
ized a stringed orchestra and are practicing regularly. The number of persons recording at one time dictates
MAKING RECORDS
STIMULATES BAND FORMATION
CONTEST TO HELP HARP SALES
"PHILIPPINE MAHOGANY" CASE
Status of Commodity in Lumber Business to Be
Settled at Hearing This Month.
When the mahogany in the piano case is "some-
thing else again," is a question that may be decided
in the resumption of arguments in the so-called
"Philippine mahogany" case before the Federal
Trade Commission, possibly this month. The ad-
journment of the hearing in August was made on
application of counsel representing the Indiana Quar-
tered Oak Co., New York, one of the defendants
cited before the commission.
Other defendants are the Thomas E. Powe Lum-
ber Co., of St. Louis, and the Kirchmann Hardwood
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