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PRESTO
October 24, 1925.
SMALL GOODS AND SUPPLIES
the trade for sale during the jubilee, which continued
from September 5 to 12. The roll continues as a SLINGERLAND BANJOS AT SHOW
good seller.
Recording Taken Some Years Ago at Starr Piano
Chicago Manufacturer Exhibits Big Line At Illinois
Co.'s Studio Preserved in National Museum.
ADDS STRINGED GOODS LINE.
Products Exposition In Furniture Mart.
The voice of the late William Jennings Bryan is to
A comprehensive line of stringed instruments has
be preserved for all time at the National museum at been installed by the National Talking Machine
The Slingerland Banjo Co. of Chicago, had a big
Washington, D. C, according to plans developed by Company, 1403 North Ninth street, Philadelphia, and and attractive exhibit of its products last week at the
the Starr Piano Company, Richmond, Ind., maker of the company is devoting to the new department the Illinois Products Exposition, held in the Furniture
Gcnnett records.
high degree of energy which accomplishes so much Mart, Lake Shore Drive. The company had co-
Mr. Bryan, some years ago, recorded several for the talking machine line. Banjos are featured and operated with other members of the Association of
speeches and scriptural readings at the recording the results in sales are very encouraging.
Musical Merchandise Manufacturers (Chicago Zone)
rooms of the company. The "master" plates of these
in making a display which was one of the outstand-
have been preserved. At Mrs. Bryan's request these
ing features of the exposition.
CONN MANAGER ENTHUSIASTIC.
will be sent to the National museum.
George Cracknell, new general manager of the The prevailing warm interest in banjos was well
Works of Mr. Bryan thus preserved will be two Conn-Portland Co., successor to the McDougall-Conn expressed in the attention paid to the Slingerland dis-
scriptural readings, the Lord's prayer and the twenty- Co., in Portland, Ore., is fast identifying himself play, and the almost continuous demonstrations of in-
third psalm; his addresses, "The Virgin Birth," "Im- with the musicians of the district. He already has struments in the line. The extent of the line made
mortality," "Behold a Republic" and his "Cross of formulated plans for organizing several bands. Mr. by the Slingerland Banjo Co., was no surprise to
Gold" speech.
Cracknell has had experiences as a band conductor in music trade visitors, but to those unfamiliar with
The phonograph plates are of pure copper with a the Canadian forces during the war.
music goods manufacture, the comprehensive display
veneer of nickel and, according to experts, can be
from the big factory of the company at 1815 Or-
kept for centuries.
chard street was a revelation.
The showing of the banjos, banjo mandolins, tenor
IRWIN KURTZ FOR JUDGE.
banjo and banjo ukuleles, over forty styles, con-
Everybody in the talking machine and radio busi-
vinced visitors of the ability of the Slingerland Banjo
ness in New York, Connecticut and New Jersey
Co. to fill any kind of a banjo order.
knows Irwin Kurtz, president of Talking Machine
INCORPORATED
and Radio Men, Inc., the organization of the trades
CONNS FOR NEW BAND.
MANUFACTURERS' AGENTS
in the three states named. They know too, that in
Instruments made by C. G. Conn, Ltd., Elkhart,
Mr. Kurtz the association has a first class lawyer as
Ind., have been furnished to the new Municipal Band
its head. So when he recently got the nomination
of Wichita, Kans., by the Eberhardt Hays Music Co.
for Justice of the City Court of Manhattan and Bronx
of that place. The band numbers forty-three pieces
Districts from the Republican party, active individuals
and Arthur Ward Shade, head of the band instrument
in the trades got busy. To advocate his election a
department of the firm named, is conductor. Mr.
committee has been formed, headed by Lloyd Spencer
Shade also directs the Midian Shrine Band in Wichita.
of the Silas Pcarsall Co.
Unusual
HISTORIC GENNETT RECORDS
SCHUFZJMOENNIG
EXCLUWE
JOBBERS
IMPORTERS
Service
Q. R. S. JUBILEE ROLL SELLS.
The Q. R. S. Music Co.'s roll of Lee S. Robert's
new song, "California, to Thee" was an effective
means of making the new state anthem more popu-
lar, during the recent celebration of the California
Diamond Jubilee. Through the activity of Manager
Quinn of the San Francisco factory of the Q. R. S.
Music Co., the roll with words was freely shipped to
MUSICAL MERCHANDISE
2 0 7 SouthWabasK Av.
CHICAGO
WESSELL, NICKEL & GROSS
Manufacturers of
PIANO ACTIONS
HIGHEST GRADE
CASH BUYER WANTS PHONOGRAPHS.
An inquiry (No. 17,008) to the Bureau of Foreign
and Domestic Commerce is from a firm in Melbourne,
Australia, which desires to buy American phonograph
motors and parts. It is a cash proposition and the
firm also wishes a permanent agency. For particulars
apply to the bureau mentioning the inquiry number
above.
The (new) Buckeye Sill Piano Truck
The New Buckeye Sill
For Grands and Uprights and best for
stair work.
ONE GRADE ONLY
The Wessell, Nickel & Gross action is a
guarantee of the grade of the instrument
in which it is found.
FACTORIES:
*.. 10th
10thAn
&W4filh
45th St.,
Aro. &W46lh.
lVJCW
OFFICE.
U7 W. 4 9 * Street
H E J VV
Comstock, Cheney & Co.
Ivory Cutters and Manufacturers
Piano Keys, Actions and Hammers
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.
Manufactured by
Self Lifting Piano Truck Co.
FINDLAY, OHIO
IVORY AND COMPOSITION-COVERED ORGAN KEYS
Th« only Company Furnishing the Kays, Actions, Hammirt and Bracket* Complete
Telegraph and R. R. Station: Essex, Conn.
Office and Factories: Ivoryton, Conn.
THE O. S. KELLY CO.
Manufacturers
of
High
Oracle
PIANO PLATES
SPRINGFIELD
-
-
OHIO
JULIUS BREGKWOLOT & SON, INC,
Manufacturers of
»nd
Tupper Lake
Piano B a c k s , B o a r d s , Bridges, B a r s ,
Traplevers and Mouldings
SOLE AGENTS FOR RUDOLF GIESE WIRE
WESTERN REPRESENTATIVE:
CENTRAL STEEL & WIRE CO.,
119-127 N. Peorla Street.
J. BRECKWOLDT, Pre«.
Chlcmio, HI.
W. A. BRECKWOLDT, Sec. & TreM.
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