Presto

December 5, 1925.
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PRESTO
NEW TALKING MACHINE PATENTS
1,552,250. Phonograph. P. M. Tricas, Los An-
geles, Calif.
1,552,975. Phonograph. Donald T. Allen, Mil-
waukee, Wis.
1,552,926. Photo-electric means for reproducing
sound from graphical records. Russell Hart, Los
Angeles, Calif.
1,552,626. Winding attachment for talking ma-
chines. Charles S. Lord, Moose Jaw, Canada.
1,552,647. Matrix construction. T. C. Roberts,
New York, N. Y.
1.553,931. Phonograph record. V. W. Challenger,
Philadelphia, Pa.
1,554,105. Spring winder for phonograph motor.
Joseph R. La Riviere, Waterways, Canada.
1,554,012. Combined telephone receiver and phono-
graph reproducer. Charles Lehrfeld, Newark, N. J.
1,553,701. Sound box for talking machines. Marion
F. McCormick, Griffith, Ind.
1,553,633. Phonograph. S. J. Rognlie, Lewiston,
Mont.
1,554,057. Gramophone and like talking machine.
Robert G. Willis, London, England.
1,554,621. Portable phonograph. Solon D. Boyn-
ton, Boston, Mass.
1,554,199. Sound reproducing machine. Francis L.
Buck, Brisbane, Australia.
1,554,561. Sound-reproducing mechanism. Lee De
Forest, New York, N. Y.
1,554,794. Loud speaking device. Lee De Forest,
New York, N. Y.
1.554,574. Stylus for lateral cut phonograph rec-
ords. Ernest M. Grilley, Waterbury, and F. G. Neu-
berth, Ansonia, Conn.
1,554,455.
Sound transmitter for phonographs.
Gregg K. Mills, Chicago, 111.
1,555,260. Radio attachment for talking machines.
Charles W. Ball, Richmond Hill, N. Y.
1,554,995. Graphophone record container. Charles
A. Fetters, Washington, D. C.
68,336. Des., Combined phonograph and radio cabi-
net. George Middleman, Philadelphia, Pa.
1,555,150. Phonograph. Alfred E. Oswald, Bo-
gota, N. J.
68.343. Des., Grille for phonograph cabinet or simi-
lar article. Carl W. Pierson, Rockford 111.
68.344. Des., Grille for phonograph cabinet or
similar article. Carl W. Pierson, Rockford, 111.
1,555,609. Amplifying horn. Frank J. Reichmann,
Chicago, 111.
1,555,083. Repeating device for phonographs. Lyn-
ford A. Sink, Highland Park, Mich.
1,555,340. Combined phonograph and radio re-
ceiver. Morris Victorsohn, Brooklyn, N. Y.
1,556,359. Phonograph. Carl Schwartz. Sheboygan
Falls, Wis.
1.556.667. Record repeater for sound-reproducing
instruments. Rudolph Blaschke, Cleveland, Ohio.
1.556.668. Record repeater for sound reproducing
instruments. Rudolph Blashke, Cleveland, Ohio.
1,557,149. Disk-record cabinet. Hugh D. Fitzpat-
rick, Glasgow, Scotland.
1,557,450. Rewinding device. Edward Fulda, New r
York, N. Y.
1,557,161. Sound producer. Harvey C. Hayes,
Washington, D. C.
1.557,529. Electrical reproducer for phonographs.
Edward T. Jones, New Orleans., La.
1,556,704. Diaphragm for mechanical horns. W.
H. McBarron, Orange, N. J.
1,557,554. Sound-reproducing apparatus. Clayton
M. Boudette, Revere, Mass.
1,557,664. Microphone transmitter for gramo-
phones. Philip E. Davenport, London, England.
1,557,998. Sound-reproducing instrument. Russell
M. Everett, Bloomfiekl, N. J.
1,558,013. Reproducer for phonographs. Charles
G. Hensley, Brooklyn, N. Y.
1,558,175. Manufacture of gramophone disk rec-
ords. F. W. Jones, Jr., Croydon, England.
1,558,189. Radio and phonographic amplifying
resonator. W. C. Larson and C. P. Wegner, Two
Harbors, Minn.
1,557,765. Automatic stop. Harry E. Nicholas,
Los Angeles, Calif.
1,558,048. Phonograph. Herman Rothkirch, New
York, N. Y.
1,558,673'. Means for reproducing sound from
graphical records. Russell Hart, Los Angeles, Calif.
1,558,882. Sound-reproducing machine.
Thomas
Hough, London, England.
1,559,514. Sound box and tone arm. Jacob Zitzer-
man, Brooklyn, N. Y.
1,560,502. Sound-reproducing device.
Lee De
Forest, New York, N. Y.
16,197. Reissue. Sound-reproducing device. Pat-
rick B. Delaney, South Orange, N. J.
1,560,231. Balance beam for tone arm of talking
machines and the like. Erie H. Hand, Stapleton,
N. Y.
68,691. Des., Phonograph cabinet or similar arti-
cle. Harry L. Bradley, Milwaukee, Wis.
1,560,674. Phonograph. Edwin F. Driver, Chi-
cago, 111.
1,560,552. Sound reproducing instrument. Lee W.
Esterbrook, Washington, D. C.
1,560,684. Radio horn. Hugo Gernsback, New
York, N. Y.
1,560,686. Recording phonograph. Rudolf Hase,
Berlin, Germany.
68,769. Des., Radio phonograph cabinet. W. H.
Dewar, Philadelphia, Pa.
ENCOURAGING NEW BANDS
Civic Organizations and Music Dealers Active in
Forming Orchestras and Bands in Many Places.
D. W. Markham, music teacher and director of the
Rotary Boys' Band, Jefferson City, Mo., is offering
three gold medals to high school students for pro-
ficiency in brass, wind, and stringed instruments.
Warsaw, Ind., claims it has the only saxophone
band ever organized in northern Indiana. The band
has ten pieces.
The Connersville, Ind., Boys' Band has secured
pledges from all organizations in the city for its
support.
Ralph Geer, Mason City, la., is co-operating with
a music store in organizing classes in clarinet and
saxophone.
Announcements about new band organizations or
about plans for their formation have been sent out
from the following places':
A forty-one piece school band in Lebanon, Ind.
High school band in Muskegon, Mich., where the
Muskegon athletic associations buy the equipment,
to be reimbursed later.
Community service, Monroe, Mich., has formed a
band of 63 pieces.
Shelbyville, Ind., has new concert band.
A band is being formed by the Boy Scouts in
Vicksburg, Mich.
A band has been organized in the high school,
Central Lake, Mich.
A temporary committee has been appointed in
Port Huron, Mich., to organize a band.
Business men of Saranac, Mich., are organizing a
band, with Joseph Pavese, of Grand Rapids, as
director.
There are now about 30 pieces in the school band
of Maquoketa, Iowa, which has been organized this
month under the leadership of John Sidle of Dclmar,
Rambert Wurlitzer Continues Study of Art in whom the school board has hired as director. An-
other addition to the music department of the school
Italy After Course in France.
is the grade orchestra that is being organized by
Rambert Wurlitzer, 22 years old, son of Rudolph Miss Bess Scheidler, music supervisor. She has a
Wurlitzer, vice-president of the Rudolph Wurlitzer school orchestra of 24 pieces, composed only of chil-
Company, Cincinnati, is studying the art of violin dren from the first to sixth grades in school.
making in the obscurity of an Italian village, accord-
Other places in which bands are in process of for-
ing to a report from that city. Following the com-
pletion of his studies at Princeton, he conceived the mation are: Monroe, Mich., boys' band; Conners-
ville, Ind., boys' band; Montpelier, Ind., high school
idea of making violins by hand. His father, himself
one of the world's greatest authorities on the violin, band; Auburn, Ind., Owensboro, Ky., boys' band,
sponsored by the Rotary Club; St. Clair, Mich., high
did not stand in the path of his son's ambition.
school band sponsored by Parent-Teacher Associa-
Young Wurlitzer first studied in Mirecourt, France, tion.
under the personal direction of France's greatest liv-
ing master in this field, Amade Dieudonne. He is
CONNS F O R K. C. BAND.
to remain in Europe for several years. It is planned
Instruments made by C. G. Conn, Ltd., Elkhart.
that before his Europeon studies are over, he will
have studied and worked with the master violin Ind., have been chosen for the new Knights of Col-
umbus Band recently formed in San Antonio, Tex.
makers of all Europe.
It is the purpose of the promoters to make the new
K. C. band the biggest and best in the state. The
NEW LUMBER INSPECTION RULES.
instruments for the first unit have been ordered from
Beginning Dec. 1 the existing rules for measure- Thomas Goggan & Bros, in that city.
ment and inspection of hardwood lumber, veneers,
thin lumber and plywood were superseded and the
REPAIR SHOP A FEATURE.
rules created by the National Hardwood Lumber
Walter S. Greene is manager of the recently opened
Association were adopted by the organization named
and the Hardwood Manufacturers' Institute. Here- branch in Topeka, Kans., of the Crawford-Rutan
after by an arrangement between the two organiza- Co., with headquarters in Kansas City. The new
tions, inspection service will be rendered by the first branch in Topeka is at 826 Kansas avenue and an
attractive feature is a repair department equipped
named.
with all the modern requirements for repair work.
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