April 9, 1927.
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almost compelled to use American-published music
instead." The writer adds: "The root of the trouble
is the fact that so many publishers, instead of ap-
A Few Items Interesting to People in Sheet Music pointing a Canadian agent, leave Canadian sales in
the hands of their United States agent. For the past
Department Are Printed.
20 years I have heard this grievance discussed by
Charles K. Harris, writer of "After the Ball," a Canadian musicians. Is it not time it was remedied?
historic hit, has written and published a new waltz, It is obviously absurd that London publishers should
"The Last Dance After the Ball."
carry out their sales to a part of the British Empire
William Purdy, manager of the sheet music depart- through the medium of a foreign country."
ment of Sherman, Clay & Co., San Francisco, says
the sheet music business of the first three months
of the year is far ahead of that of the same months
in 1926.
The Society of Oregon Composers, organized seven
Percy A. Tonk, in "Tank Topics," Impresses Fact
years ago, now has fifty-four members.
When Apologizing to C. E. Patterson.
A new musical score for the Rose Festival in Port-
The
Tonk Manufacturing Co.'s branch at 4627 East
land next June was written by Charles Wakefield
Cudman, who has been engaged as musical director 50th street, Los Angeles, is, to a great section of the
West, what the main plant, at 1912 Lewis street,
of the pageant.
Miss Elizabeth Garrett, the blind composer of New Chicago, is to another great field for the sale of
Mexico's state song, "Oh, Fair New Mexico," and Tonkbenches—a dependable source of dealers' supply.
other songs, who now lives in El Paso, Tex., is So in preparing copy for Tonk Topics of January-
February, Percy A. Tonk saw no necessity of point-
the daughter of the famous Mexican sheriff, Pat
Garrett, w T hose outlaw hunting exploits are classics ing out what he considered an obvious fact.
But the Los Angeles manager, who long ago dis-
of the West.
covered the value of the printed word, promptly
asked Mr. Tonk how he got that way, or words to
that effect. The reply in. the March-April number of
Tonk Topics just out has this "Public Apology to
The Instrument at Last Achieves a Legitimate Place C. E. Patterson":
C. E. Patterson, our genial general manager of
in the Music World.
the Los Angeles Tonkbench factory, was certainly
According to a writer in Le Figaro, of Paris, the slighted in the last issue of Tonk Topics. I didn't
guitar is at last established legitimately in music, and even print his name and address in a single copy—
the man who placed it there is Jacques Tessarech, just treated him like a "stepchild."
He certainly deserved no such neglect
who devoted more than thirty years of labor to the and I'm so sorry.
here's a public apology to Pat and the mem-
cause. Tessarech has just published "The Evolution bers of the Los Angeles factory who are doing so
of the Guitar" and French reviewers call it a fine much to make Tonkbench quality and service avail-
achievement.
able to piano merchants in the West at prices minus
M. St. Golestan in Le Figaro remarks that of all the excess freight charges our good friends the rail-
the family of stringed instruments no other has had roaders seem to think they must get in order to make
so hard a struggle for recognition. Tracing its origin, a living.
If you're a Westerner and want 100 per cent serv-
he relates that at the beginning of the sixteenth cen-
ice on Tonkbenches write C. E Patterson, Tonk
tury Virdung gave the name of quintern to an
Manufacturing Co., 4627 East 50th street, Los An-
instrument that corresponded to a lute but was geles,
Cal.
smaller and had five strings. This is supposed to
have been the forerunner of the present guitar. In
PLANNING FOR OUTING.
the teaching manuals little is said of the guitar except
The
Association
of Music Men, which is composed
by Berlioz, who writes of it sympathetically, valuing
its melancholy and dreamy character and the charm of members of the sales staffs of standard music
publishing houses in New York and the metropoli-
it may wield when used as a solo instrument.
tan area generally, held one of its occasional meet-
Tessarech's book sets forth the characteristics of
ings recently at the Central Opera House, 205 East
the instrument, its variations a n d development 67th street, when preliminary plans for the annual
through the ages. He has penetrated the technical outing in June were discussed.
secrets of the guitar and has composed for it. Being
a Corsican, he arranged many of his native folk-
INVITATION FROM BOSTON.
tunes for his favorite and he is said to draw from it
At the recent luncheon of the Boston Music Pub-
"a musical synthesis of lyricism and picturesque
charm" which should aid in his object of popularizing lishers Association, held at the Boston Art Club, at
which the president, William Arms Fisher, presided,
the instrument.
Charles W. Homeyer proposed that the National
Sheet Music Dealers Association be invited to hold
CANADIAN DEALERS' GRIEVANCE.
its annual convention in Boston this ' summer. The
Tn commenting on the difficulties of Canadian proposition was carried.
musicians in the obtaining of music of British pub-
lication, a writer in the Music Trades Review of
London says: "Conductors, music teachers and others
who would like to use British-published music are
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