October 24, 1925.
PRESTO
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NEW BANDS STIMULATE TRADE
Musical Organizations in Many Places Suggest Op-
portunities for Energetic Dealers.
George Gieski, Ironton, Ohio, music instructor, has
organized a fourteen-piece orchestra at Ironton high
school.
A new dance orchestra, composed of five young
men of Princeton, Ind., has been organized under
the name of the "Twilight Serenaders."
The Kansas City, Mo., Rotary Club is organizing
a new boys' band. Only boys under 16 years of age
are eligible.
Philip Werlein, Ltd., New Orleans, is sponsoring
the organization of a saxophone band with Capt. A.
L. Bartlett as director.
Ohio University will have a band of 50 pieces this
year, with each player attired in a full uniform. John
Gill, well known director of Columbus, is in charge.
Ira M. Snyder, supervisor of music in Nevada,
Ohio, consolidated schools, has nearly completed his
organization of an orchestra, which will be composed
of pupils from the high school and seventh and eighth
grades.
A band of 38 pieces is being organized at Laketon
Ohio, to be known as Wertenberger's concert band
L. O. Wertenberger will be the instructor and leader.
In addition to the already organized Maysville
Boys' Band, Maysville, Ky., the Board of Directors
in charge of the band have made arrangements with
Professor George D. Barnard to conduct a regular
band school which will take in all beginners and
juvenile players on all different instruments with
tuition free.
R. L. Birt, instructor of the band in the Elwood,
Ind., public schools, has also organized a band in the
Fairmount, Ind., high school.
The Mt. Gilead, Ohio, High School orchestra re-
cently organized under the direction of Prof. E. J.
Fitchhorn is composed of twelve pieces.
Oscar M. Baker, instructor in the Warsaw, Ind.,
Conservatory of Music, plans to organize a saxophone
band in Warsaw. Mr. Baker has just completed the
organization of a saxophone quartette at Milford.
NEW VOCALSTYLE ROLLS
trot, Turk & Handman (Cliff Lang); I'm Tired 6f
Everything But You, fox trot, Isham Jones (Cliff
Lang); The Kinky Kids Parade, fox trot, Kahn &
Donaldson (Sam Jones); Let's Wander Away, fox
trot, Burtnett & Owens (Roy Maddock); Lightning
Express, Marimba waltz, E. V. Body (D. E. Miller);
Lullaby Lane, waltz, Wood & DeCosta (Ruth Mack);
Market St. Blues, blues, Chas. Creath (Rudy Ger-
main); Masonic Ode (3rd Degree), Pleyel's hymn,
(Walter Esberger); My Sweetie Turned Me Down
(What Do I Care—What Do I Care), fox trot, Kahn
& Donaldson (Cliff Lang).
Normandy, fox trot, Robinson, Little & Britt (Cliff
Lang); Oh! Boy, What a Girl, fox trot, Green,
Wright & Bissinger (Cliff Lang); Red Hot Henry
Brown, fox trot, Fred Rose (Hilda Myers); Semi-
nola, fox trot, King & Warren (Cliff Lang); Smile
All the While, fox trot, Davis & Ager (Hilda
Myers); Sometime, waltz, Kahn & Fiorito (Rudy
Germain); Want a Little Lovin', fox trot, Davis &
Warren (Sam Jones); Who Wouldn't Love You, fox
trot, Davis & Burke (Cecil Van Leeuwe); You Can't
Be a Good Little Fellow and Still Be a Good Little
Girl, fcx trot, Solman, Stanley & Perillo (Rudy Ger-
main) ; Yuletide Echoes, Marimba waltz medley,
( Mary Allison).
BAND ASSOCIATION TO MEET.
The Kansas Band Association and the Missouri
Band Association will hold a joint meeting in Kan-
sas City, Mo., on Nov. 27 and 28, at which a large
representation of band directors and managers is
expected. Several of the best known bandsmen of
the country are expected to be present. A feature
of the convention will be exhibits of band and orches-
tra instruments made by leading manufacturers. T. S.
Howell, secretary of the Kansas Band Association,
2110 North Tremont street, Kansas City, has charge
of the local arrangements.
EXCLUSIVE C. G. CONN AGENT.
The B. S. Porter Son Co, 573 South Main street,
Findlay, O., has been awarded the exclusive agency
for the C. G. Conn, Ltd., band instruments in Han-
cock County. The firm, known as "The Old Relia-
ble," made a big window display of the instruments
last week.
The Better Music Store, Wabash, Ind., has been
sold to Eugene Marks.
DEALER TELLS CONN IDEALS
Bell Music Co., Muncie, Ind., Prints Interesting Talk
About Conn Band Instruments.
The Bell Music Company of Muncie, Ind., is the
exclusive agents in this territory for the complete
line of band and orchestra instruments and supplies
made by C. G. Conn, Ltd., Elkhart, Ind. The com-
pany has been established in Muncie for many years
and has made sincere efforts to procure the best in
musical merchandise for distribution among its
patrons.
In describing the merits of Conn instruments to
readers of the Muncie Star last week the Bell Music
Company said:
There are many interesting facts to be told in the
growth and progress and standardization of this
company and its products. The Conn company has
been in active operation for more than a half century
and has been consecrated to one ideal—to build the
best that modern science can plan and human skill
can produce. How well that ideal has been realized
is shown by the universal demand for the products
of the Conn factories, coupled with thousands of
letters from musicians in every part of the world
praising the beauty and tonal qualities of Conn in-
struments in positive and even extravagant terms.
Long betore rne close of the last century the
world's leading artists had declared Conn instru-
ments to be the last word in perfection, and yet how
imperfect they were as compared to those built in
the Conn factories today. The hydraulic expansion
process which makes the sound passages of every
instrument conform to exact and scientifically deter-
mined dimensions is comparatively new among the
host of Conn improvements; such things as the
accurate tuning device for saxophones or the adjust-
able valve mechanism of cornets and trumpets was
unknown a decade ago.
The pitch and tone of any wind instrument de-
pends entirely upon the size and proportion of the
various parts, and it is obvious that purity and ac-
curacy of tone can be obtained only by the utmost
precision in the shaping and assembly of the tubing.
Until the hydraulic expansion process was invented
and developed by Conn, variations in proportion
were bound to occur, because there was always a
human factor involved, but with this new method
mathematical accuracy is not only possible, but posi-
tively assured.
List for November Includes Fox Trots, Waltzes,
and Popular Song Rolls.
The following are the November releases of the
Vocalstyle Co., Cincinnati, with the name of the
recording artist in parentheses:
Brown Eyes, Why Are You Blue?, fox trot, Bryan
& Meyer (Hilda Myers); Close Your Eyes, waltz,
Yoell & Vincent (Ruth Mack); Footloose, fox trot,
Cochran & Rupp (Cliff Lang); Got No Time, fox
trot, Kahn & Whiting (Cliff Lang); If I Had a Girl
Like You, fox trot, Rose, Dixon & Henderson (Cecil
Van Leeuwe); (I Wouldn't Be Where I Am) If You
Hadn't Gone Away, fox trot, Brown, Rose & Hen-
derson (Hilda Myers).
I'm Gonna Charleston Back to Charleston, fox
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