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PRESTO-TIMES
March 5, 1927.
SMALL GOODS, MUSIC ROLLS AND SHEET MUSIC
and after it is cut it is given another two years to
thoroughly dry, which makes a five-year process.
The best cane comes from .the Var, near the Medi-
terranean, in the south of France.
Dances, Ballads, Hymns, Salon and Special
The exports of American talking machines to Latin Showing Interest in Community Affairs Is
Effective Way of Advertising for Dealer
American countries for 1926 show a big increase over
Numbers Included in Fine List of Player-
the figures for 1925, according to the Bureau of For-
in Music and Musical Merchandise.
piano Music for March.
eign and Domestic Commerce. The expansion is
In
many
big businesses the "contact man" is an
The Gulbransen Music Roll Corporation, 599 Elev- over 100 per cent with every country in South and
important functionary, often with a fat salary and
enth avenue, New York, has announced its March Central America included in the buying.
issue of Gulbransen Music Rolls. In the following
A four-story addition to the plant of the Leedy usually with a luscious expense account. His job is
list the names of the recording artists are printed Manufacturing Co., makers of drums and percussion to socially engage the clients and "sweeten" the
in parentheses:
instruments, Indianapolis, calling for an expenditure prospective customers whose acquaintance it is his
work to make. Keeping up the contacts is obviously
Word Rolls—20257, Clap Yo 1 Hands—"Oh, Kay!", of $100,000 has been planned.
fox trot, key F, Gershwin (Wehrlen); 20258, From
A very prominent feature of the trade at this time the obligation of every business house and one duty
Now On, fox trot, key C, Hinton (Wehrlen); 20259, is the constantly increasing favor for upholstered the music dealer in the smaller towns owes to his
I Know. That You Know—"Oh, Please!" fox trot, piano benches and the Tonk Manufacturing Co., 1912 business is interest and activity in community affairs.
"Mixing" is an effective way of advertising. Com-
key C, Youmans (Stevens): 20260, Who Do You Lewis street, Chicago, has, as usual, anticipated the
Love?—"Earl Carroll's Vanities," fox trot, key E flat, demand and presents a wide and varied line of up- pare any two dealers in a town and it is found that
the man that gives himself most freely to the com-
Klages-Frey-Rich (Stevens); 20261, I Always Knew holstered Tonkbenches.
munity activities has the largest business. Paradoxi-
I'd Find You, fox trot, key G, Wayne (Osborne);
The German manufacturers of mouth organs and
20262, Havin' Lots of Fun, fox trot, key B flat, Wiley accordions, with offices in Berlin, have the title cally minding his own business involves minding the
(Nolan): 20263, Hello! Swanee—Hello! fox trot, key Gesamtverband Deutscher
Harmonikafabrikanten. business of the community as well. The old attitude
C. Coslow-Britt (Richmund).
The association of harmonium manufacturers in Leip- of aloofness is changed to a different one in this day
No. 20264, My Little Bunch of Happiness, fox zic is known as the Verein Deutscher Harmonium- of Rotary, Lions, Kiwanis and other clubs, cham-
bers of commerce, civic organizations, cultural move-
trot, key E, Davis-Akst (Richmund); 20265, Where fabrikanten.
Do You Work-a John?, fox trot, key F, Weinberg-
The committee on ways and means has recom- ments and promotional work generally.
Most of the community work is altruistic, but serv-
Marks- Warren (Osborne); 20266, Blue Skies, fox mended to the House of Representatives the passage
trot, key G, Berlin (Wehrlen); 20267, Tenderly Think of a bill which makes possible the continued export ice in them to a sensible extent is necessary to the
of Me, fox trot, key F, Pascoe-Dulmage-Whiting of small musical instruments by parcel post to Cuba. music dealer. He does not have to become a com-
(Wehrlen); 20277, Yankee Rose, fox trot, key G, A temporary agreement to that effect now in force munity pack-horse or busybody. The progressive
1J>
music dealer no longer feels he is discharging his
rank1 (Osborne); 20278, My Baby's Back, fox trot. will expire June 30.
The tremendous popularity of the saxophone is community obligations by contributing five dollars
ey F, Johnson-Sherman-Tobias (Clarke).
Hymns (Word Rolls)—No. 20003, All Hail the expressed by the decision of some of the music pub- to the band promotion scheme or lending an instru-
. ower of Jesus' Name, key G, Holden (Schubert); lishers to include a saxophone part as an innovation ment occasionally for a public concert. He must
give his services as well.
il35, What a Friend We Have in Jesus, key F, with some of their song numbers.
To keep his business growing the music dealer
onverse (Jones).
must grow himself. While it is possible to give too
Standard and Popular Ballads (Word Rolls)—No.
NEW GOVERNMENT BAND BOOK.
much of his time to affairs outside of his business
-0256, Asthore, key D minor, Trotere (Jones);
"The
Band" is the title of a new War Department the greatest danger lies the other way. When a
20269, Maybe—"Oh, Kay!" key F, Gershwin (Jones);
20270. Mammy's Little Kinky Headed Boy, lullaby, publication now available to those interested in band dealer gives too little of himself to the public he finds
The book was prepared under the the public reacts in a distressing way by thinking too
key A flat, Trinkhaus (Jones); 20274, She Was Bred organizations
in Old Kentucky, key F, Carter (Henrich); 20275, direction of the chief of cavalry of the United States little of his store and its contents.
Army and gives in detail band formations, move-
My Own Iona, key G, Friedland-Morgan (Jones).
ments, inspections, etc., for mounted and dismounted
SCHIRMER RENEWS LEASE.
Salon (Instrumental)—No. 30264, Traumerei & bands. The publication, otherwise called "Train-
Romanze, key F, Schumann (Lybig); 30282, Valse ing Regulations No. 130-15," may be had from the
The G. Schirmer Music Co., Inc., New York, have
Parisienne, key E flat. Roberts (Dubois); 40066, Superintendent of Documents, the Government Print- renewed their lease in the Robert I. White Music
Polka De Concert, key G flat, Bartlett (Lybig).
ing Office, Washington, D. C. Send ten cents (in Co store, Cleveland, Ohio, for five years. They
sell sheet music exclusively.
Special Listing—20268, In a Little Spanish Town coin) for each copy wanted.
CTwas on a Night Like This), waltz, key B flat,
Wayne (Stevens).
GREAT PHONOGRAPH SALE.
The analysis of the special January sale of phono-
MUSICAL MERCHANDISE TRADE graph records held by Foster & Waldo, Minneapolis,
That Red-Headed Girl of Mine,
disclose the amazing fact that 100,000 records were
That
Dixie Band from Cotton Land
Events in Many Places Which Affect Manufacturing sold in the thirty days. A limit of ten records to each
Let's
Go, Roll Along,
customer was maintained and no orders by mail were
and Selling the Music Goods.
It's Great to Be a Rooster—Cock a
executed. The event marked the last activities in the
Doodle Doo,
hi future in the Talking Machine and Radio Men, old store which was formally vacated when the com-
Meet Me Tonight in the Park Waltz.
Inc., regional vice-presidents will take the place of
pany recently occupied its mammoth store at 811-812
vice-presidents of groups representing different makes Nicollet avenue.
Piano
Song copy 25c etch
Orchestrations 25c each
of phonographs. A vice-president for makes of radio
Order
Direct
or
of
Local
Dealer
receiving sets was also provided for at a recent
BANQUET PLANS ANNOUNCED.
meeting.
ENGLEWOOD MUSIC HOUSE
The annual banquet of Talking Machine & Radio
The National Bureau for the Advancement of Music Men,
516 Englewood Ave.
Chicago, 111.
Inc.,
will
be
held
on
April
6,
it
was
announced
has just published another booklet for the promotion last week. Among the entertainers will be the or-
of instrumental music in the schools, entitled "School chestras of Paul Whiteman, "•Roger Wolfe Kahn and
Orchestras—How They May Be Developed.
Edgar Selwyn. A long list of individual entertainers
A valuable aid to the exporter is the world trade is assured, according to President Erwin Kurtz. The
directory index of foreign merchants prepared by the organization at its last meeting went on record in con-
Commercial Intelligence Division of the Bureau of
demnation of the publishing of salacious song.
Foreign and Domestic Commerce Department of
Commerce, Washington. Its purpose is assisting
American firms seeking connections with foreign buy-
H. & A. SELMER CO. SETTLED.
ers and agents.
Good progress is being made by H. & A. Selmer
| A bill introduced in the Senate by Senator Metcalf Corp., New York, which is moving from New York
of De Kalb, Illinois
of Rhode Island, would amend existing patent laws to Elkhart, Ind. Its newly purchased building at
by requiring that every patented article shall have 1119 North Main street is being finely equipped. The
a statement to that effect stamped or otherwise placed company is the North American agent for the
thereon.
French-made Selmer musical instruments and in
The cane used for reeds takes three years to grow, addition, manufactures several band instruments.
"MIXING IN" BY DEALERS
NEW QULBRANSEN ROLLS
Sing and Dance Real Music
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