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PRESTO-TIMES
January 1, 1927.
Q R S RECORDING PLANT MOVED
P. K. Van Yorx Moves Meriden Plant, Studio and
Library to New York.
The Q R S Music Co. and its staff of arrangers
and editors under P. K. Van Yorx, is changing from
the old Wilcox & White music roll plant, studio and
library on Colony street, Meriden, Conn., to the
New York headquarters of the company in the Bronx.
Mr. Van Yorx, who has been in charge of record-
ing since the studio and library were taken over from
the Wilcox & White Co., was in New York last week
conferring with George H. Bliss, manager of the
eastern division of the Q R S Music Co., on matters
connected with the change. In accordance with the
policy of the company to concentrate recording plants
a new studio.has been provided for the recording of
the Q R S Recordo rolls in the New York head-
quarters.
NEW SLINQERLAND FOLDER
Slingerland Banjo Co., Chicago, Provides Interesting
Information About the De Luxe Model.
Interesting facts connected with the manufacture
of May Bell banjos are told in a new folder of the
Slingerland Banjo Co., 1815 Orchard street, Chicago.
The cover is enlivened with a picture of Dorothy
Kelley, banjoist with the Melody Girls, now playing
at the Martin Hotel, Sioux City, la.
The folder is devoted to describing and picturing
the De Luxe model of the May Bell banjo and the
improvements in its tone from the new 'tone Chamber,
designed to prevent the clashing of sound waves.
In this section of the folder is a portrait of S. R.
Musmanno, the well-known professional banjoist and
tester of banjos in the factory of the Slingerland
Banjo Co. Besides 'the De Luxe, six other banjos
and banjo ukuleles are described.
INTEREST IN BANDS GROW
Letters to C. M. Tremaine of Bureau for Music Ad-
vancement Indicates Spread of Movement.
A letter from Howard Monger. Supervisor of In-
strumental Music in the Public Schools of Pontiac,
Mich., received by C. M. Tremaine, of the National
Bureau for the Advancement of Music, in the course
of a considerable correspondence with h ; m concern-
ing school music development, is a striking illustra-
tion of the growth of the school band movement.
The letter in part reads:
"The number of bands seems to increase rather
rapidly in the vicinity of Pontiac and Detroit. I
personally direct the "Pontiac High School Band,"
the "Webster Junior High School Band," and prob-
ably will form another within the next month which
will be called the "Eastern Junior High School
Band."
Oxford, Mich , High School has a very good band
under the direction of Mr. George Dunbar. Stacy
Greater Beauty
and Greater
Comfort
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DES MOINES, IA.
Holmes is the director of the "Hamtramck High
School Band." Birmingham, Rochester, and other
towns close by, including Walled Lake, have started
orchestras in the schools but no bands that I know
of. Henri K. Kampe is directing the orchestra at
Birmingham and I am not sure that they have not
started a band also."
PIANO BENCH MEN MEET
In Two-Days Session at Chicago Full List of Officers
Are Re-elected.
At the tenth annual meeting of the National Asso-
ciation of Piano Bench and Stool Manufacturers at
the Palmer House, Chicago, last week, Frank Mer-
CANADA HEARS AUSTRALIA.
riam of South Acton, Mass., was re-elected presi-
Canadian radio fans are reporting some phenom- dent. Other officers re-elected were Charles E. Over-
enal reception. Malcolm Lenning of Hughton, Sas- ton, vice-president; Gordon L. Aston, treasurer, and
katchewan, in a report to the Freed-Eisemann Radio M. Vulpi, commissioner.
Corporation, states that he has picked up two Aus-
There was a two-day session at which all the im-
tralian stations—Brisbone on 329.5 and Sydney on
410.7 meters, with volume enough to use the loud portant topics of the industry were discussed, includ-
speaker. On December 15, 16 and 17, from 3:45 to ing the proposal for a scheme of co-operative adver-
7 a. m., he brought in these stations, which are very tising.
rarely heard in the United States or Canada, except
SHEET MUSIC IN JAPAN.
once in a while in Southern California.
Another index to the increasing popularity of west-
ern music abroad is the surprising demand for Amer-
WIRELESS FROM MOSCOW.
"Allo! Allo! Toot ra-dee-to-tellay-grain-ayah tue- ican sheet music. The value of the United States
see-atsche tschay-tueresta pee-atdee-satee-mee-trov, exports of sheet and book music to Japan in 1922,
toe-var-eescht-tschee, soos-tscha-ee-tee." Radio fans the first year in which separate figures for sheet
should not be alarmed if they hear these strange music are given in the official statistics, amounted to
sounds issue forth from their loud speaker some eve- $40,140 and increased to $71,646 in 1924. Statistics
ning. It is merely the opening statement of the an- for 1924 show that Japan ranks second as a pur-
nouncer at RDW, Moscow, a new 12-kilowatt sta- chaser of American sheet music, being second only to
Canada, and purchasing more than England and
tion. It means: "Hello, this is the Moscow broad-
casting station calling on a wave length of 1450 Australia.
meters. You will now hear, etc."
TUNERS APPRECIATE THIS.
In a special department for requirements by piano
tuners and repairmen, Hammacher, Schlemmer & Co.,
Fourth avenue and Thirteenth street, New York,
present a tuner's carrying case of a light and service-
able kind which has a big sale. It weighs only six
pounds, and is fitted with a very secure lock and solid
brass, highly nickel-plated hardware. The outside
measurements are 15J/2 inches long, 7 inches wide
and 8 inches high.
HIGH GRADE
CHAMPION RECORDS SELL.
The pre-release Christmas specials in the Novem-
ber bulletin of Champion electrically recorded records
of the Starr Piano Co., Richmond, Ind., have proved
phenomenal sellers. Other music of the line also
proved strong numbers with dealers. The Champion
popularly-priced, two-bit records are conceded by
dealers to be the best profit-makers in the record field.
A. L. WHITE MFG. CO.
NEW SHEET MUSIC MANAGER.
Adolph Suppan has been appointed manager of the
sheet music department of the Walker Musical Ex-
change, Milwaukee, Wis., and plans extending the
stock of orchestrations which already is large. Mr.
Suppan is a well known artist and a staff artist at
radio station WSOE.
Folding Organs
School Organs
Practice Keyboards
Dealers' Attention Solicited
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Philip W. Oetting & Son, Inc.
213 East 19th Street, New York
Sole Agents for
WEICKERT
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MUSIC PUBLISHERS DISAPPEAR.
N. C. Davis Music Co., Nashville, Tenn., music
publishers, reported place of business recently closed
and no one knows anything about their whereabouts.
The concern's creditors are thus left in a state of
doubt and uncertainty.
and Damper
Felts
Grand and Upright Ham-
mers Made of Weickert Felt
Fine Action Bushing Cloths, etc
KEYS RECOVERED AND REBUSHED
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