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PRESTO-TIMES
COINOLAS
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RESTAURANTS, CAFES and
A M U S E M E N T CENTERS
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FROM THE BIGGEST
ORCHESTRION
Houston, Tex., has leased the space formerly occu-
pied by the Gliver Music Co., and will use it as a
music department.
A loss of $2,000 was caused by fire recently to the
All Sections of the Country React to Inspir- violin string factory of Carmello Saladino & Sons,
Chelsea, Mass.
ing Example of Successful Band and
A girls' orchestra is being developed by t'.ie Walker
Orchestra Organizations.
Musical Exchange, Milwaukee.
Vesey Walker of the Kesselman-O'Driscoll Co.,
Miss Roggott, music teacher of South Bend, Ind.,
schools, is organizing a hand, the membership to be Milwaukee, last week conducted the concert by his
Legion Band, broadcasted over VVHAD, the Mil-
composed of both boys and girls.
Mrs. Josephine Crowder, teacher of music in the waukee Journal station.
The Charles Parker Music Co., Houston, Tex.,
Tolono, 111., schools, is organizing a school orchestra.
The Wheaton, 111., Community High School band, with branches in Dallas and Waco, has issued a 144-
under the direction of J. D. Henderson, is giving a page catalog of the various lines of band and or-
series of free concerts. The band was organized chestra instruments handled.
The Nicowede Music Co., Altoona, Pa., has issued
about a year ago by J. D. Henderson, then dean of
six additional books of instruction for musical in-
the Conn National School of Music and now director
struments.
of the American Band and Orchestra school.
A meeting was held in Lowell, Ind., last week
IN DARKEST AFRICA.
for the purpose of organizing a boys' band in Lowell.
The Germans are good advertisers In a recent
C. E. Comeaux is leader of the Hebron band, and
of "Zeitschrift fur Instrumentenbau," of Leip-
also has a band at Valparaiso, and is arranging to issue
s : c, the Marma Music Industry has an illustrated adv.
organize the Lowell band and one at DeMoite.
showing a wild man in black playing a single string
Twenty-eight have signed up to now in the band banjo with a white "man in white gazing at him.
being organized in Akron, Ind., and more are becom- And the advertisement, in form of a letter, reads as
ing interested all the time. The first practice of the follows: "Professor String Expert.—Think of It! In
band was held February 7.
Darkest Africa 1 heard playing a wonderful tone. 1
An effort was made at a meeting held in Holgate, drew near and what did I find? I came upon a wild
Giro, this week to organize a band for that town.
man playing upon a Marma string. It was a single
Miss Maurine Bailey is organizing a junior orches-
string in that hot climate—a silver string. The wild
tra at the Bayard Park Methodist church, Evansville. men are shrewd people—they know quality."'
Ind., among children under fourteen years.
BAND SPIRIT SPREADS
IN SMALL GOODS
DEPARTMbNT
Greater Interest in Musical Merchandise Shows in
New Stores and Old Ones.
The Atlas Player Ro!l Co., 35 Fifth street, Newark,
X. J., lias opened a stock room at 200 South Tent'i
street, Philadelphia, in charge of John Paul Koitzsch.
The band and orchestra instrument department of
•the Neville-Marpie Music Co., located in the Wiley
I!. Allen Co.'s store, Los An«eles, has been sold to
I'". F. Friday, formerly with Volkwein Bros., Pitts-
burgh, Pa.
The Imperial Music Co. has opened at 309 South
Henry street, Roanoke, \'a., J. Sevant is manager.
The Haverty Furniture Co., 711 Fannin street,
T H E ZIMMERMAN CALENDAR.
Music dealers everywhere who keep close tab on
events commemorating great musicians are apprecia-
tive of the beautiful Beethoven Centenary Calendar
issued by the Otto Zimmerman & Son Co., Cincinnati.
The centenary of the great composer will be ob-
served in many places this year and there the calen-
dar is highly suitable to the occasion. Besides its
charms of tasteful design the calendar contains a
brief but well-written biography of the great com-
poser.
The Bagley Music Store has been opened in the
Orbaugh Building. Noblesville, Ind.
Philip W. Oetting & Son, Inc.
213 East 19th Street, New York
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