October 10, 1925
PRESTO
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NEW BANDS STIMULATE TRADE
Musical Organizations in Many Places Suggest Op-
portunities for Energetic Dealers.
NEW TALKING MACHINE PATENTS
65,901. Design, loud speaker horn. William A.
Darrah, Chicago, 111.
A second orchestra is being started in the Diver-
65,931. Design, combined lamp and sound ampli-
non, 111., high school, to accommodate those who are fier. Samuel Sadler, San Francisco, Calif.
1,515,456. Diaphragm holding ring for talking ma-
beginning to learn to play. Group instruction will be
given them. This will insure a large orchestra for chines and other acoustical instruments. Horace L.
T. Buckle, Yiewsley, England.
the High School band.
1,515,477. Sound-producing device. Leo J. Grub-
Plans for organizing a West High school band with man. New York, N. Y.
more than forty members were announced by In-
1,515,110.
Phonograph transmitting reproducer.
structor L. Ellinwood at a meeting of the west side Oscar E. Heiberg, Brooklyn, N. Y.
1,515,769. Automatic nonset stop for phonographs.
board of education of Aurora, 111., this week.
Lee Gantert, Yoakum, Texas.
The Savanna Drum Corps, organized in Savanna,
1,516,469. Base-tablet for sound records. John S.
111., last week, will consist of at least twenty-five Miller, Jr., Rahway, N. J.
drums and about fifteen trumpets or bugles.
1,516,847. Stylus holder. Dominique Di Natale,
Paris, France.
The Marshall Boys' Band has been organized in
1,516,595. Electrical reproducer for phonographs.
Marshall, Mo., with C. T. Hough as director
Pierre V. Frely, Paris, France.
The Harmonica Band of the Hebrew Orphan Asy-
1,517,058.
Inverse duplex vacuum-tube circuit.
lum, New York, recently won second place in New David Grimes, Grasmere, N. Y.
York City harmonica playing contest.
1,516,603. Phonograph. A. W. Hoover and R.
Reorganization of the Libby band, of Morrison. Winter, Jr., Irwin, Pa.
66,092. Design, sound amplifier. Albert O. Price,
111.,- has now been accomplished and H. W. Burch
Coshocton, Ohio.
has been hired as the director of the new organiza-
1,517,181. Phonograph. Harry T. Tulare, Roches-
tion.
ter, Minn.
1,517,690. Automatic setting device for phono-
A band to be composed of pupils of the North
Manchester High School, Warsaw, Tnd., is being or- graphs. Stephen J. Abt, New Haven, Conn.
ganized.
Following a massed band concert at San Sabo,
OPENS PORTLAND BRANCH.
Tex., recently, the Heart of Texas Band Association
The Munson-Rayner Corp. of San Francisco has
was formed. Membership in the organization is ex-
tended to all bands in the state. The purpose is to opened a branch at Portland, Ore For the present
radio will be the line to be featured. The new samples
stimulate interest in band music.
The band contest in connection with the American of the 1926 Magnavox are being shown and consider-
Legion convention in Omaha this week attracted over able advance business has been booked, suggesting
two hundred entries. The prizes aggregate $1,750. that a busy fall season is ahead. This line will be
The prizes in drum and bugle contests total $2,250. strongly featured in the Pacific Coast Radio Exposi-
Quincy Yoiture, "40 and 8," Quincy, 111., has de- tion to be held soon in San Francisco.
cided to form a drum and bugle corps. This will be
the first "40 and 8" drum and bugle corps in the
PERMISSION TO BORROW.
country, although there are a number of drum and
Frank Elmendorf, receiver for the American Wal-
bugle organizations in the American Legion.
nut Company and the Latonia Talking Machine Com-
The Wesleyan Methodist church, Leighton and pany, Evanston, Ind., was granted permission to
North streets, Kenton, O., plans the organization of a borrow $2,000 with which to carry on the business,
church orchestra, it is announced.
by an order of Judge Edgar S. Durre, Saturday
morning.
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BIG RECORD STOCK.
'j H. E. Poston, general manager of Jesse French &
Sons Piano Co., Montgomery, Ala., says that the
(jlemand for Columbia records is so great that it is
ljiecessary for his record department to carry a
"standing stock" of about ten thousand records. From
tjhis large stock customers are assured of any kind of
record they desire, including all the latest popular
ljumbers as well as the old favorites.
Folding Organs
School Organs
Practice Keyboards
21S Englewood Ave., CHICAGO, ILL.
CONN AGENCY ANNOUNCED.
The B. S. Porter Son Co , Findlay, O., prints the
following announcement in the local newspapers:
"We wish to announce that we have been awarded
the exclusive agency for the C. G. Conn Ltd. band
instruments in Hancock county. Instruments are
on display this week in store window."
The Western Talking Machine Co. recently opened
a store at 9036 Oakland avenue, Detroit, Mich.
May Bell
Slingerland Banjos
are sold the country over because
they are Highest quality and sold
at a reasonable price.
Over 40 Styles of Banjos, Banjo Mandolins, Tenor Banjos
and Banjo Ukuleles, to select from.
Dealer*' Attention Solicited
A. L. WHITE MFG. CO.
A LUMBER CAMPAIGN.
The California Sugar Pine Association has launched
a campaign of- advertising for sugar pine which is
hoped to accomplish for that lumber what lumber
producers in Louisiana twenty years ago achieved for
cypress, a then little" used timber, or what Missouri
lumbermen did for red gum seven years ago.
SLINGERLAND
*!
INCREASES BAND GOODS STOCK.
I Charles M. Brabbit, head of the Western Wood-
wind Shop, Cedar Rapids, la., has considerably in-
creased the line of Martin's Handcraft instruments
with which the company is building up a fine busi-
ness. The display of band instruments provides con-
tinual attraction to the store at 312 Second avenue.
HIGH GRADE
1,517,822. Phonograph stop. Josef Brandstetter,
Chicago, 111.
1,517,864. Wiper for phonograph record cleaning-
attachments. John Runk, Stillwater, Minn.
1,517,813. Sound conveyer for talking machines
Joseph Wolff, Brooklyn, N. Y.
1,519,695. Repeating mechanism for phonographs.
Hilmer Nelson, Marvindale, Pa.
1,519,704. Tray or support for record matter.
James H. Rand, Jr., Tonawanda, and L. C. Broecker,
Buffalo, N. Y.
1,520,008. Governor for talking machines. H. L.
T. Buckle, Yiewsley, England.
1,520,369.
Record container.
Carl Schneider
Xutley, N. J.
1,520,214. Machine for molding phonograph rec-
ords. C. A. Thomson, Belleville, N. J.
1,520.378. Apparatus for recording and reproduc-
ing sound. S. S. Waters, Washington, D. C.
1,521,281. Phonograph. Luis D. Flores, Pomfret,
Conn.
1,520,709. Sound producing device. Leo J. Grub-
man, New York, N. Y.
66.332. Design, phonograph cabinet. George J.
Pike, Grand Rapids, Mich.
66.333. Design, phonograph cabinet. George J.
Pike, Grand Rapids, Mich.
66.334. Design, phonograph cabinet. George J.
Pike, Grand Rapids, Mich.
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