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P R E S T O-T I M E S
FORM UKULELE CLUBS.
A development of fretted instrument playing among
playground and recreation groups throughout the
country is exemplified by the training of 150 Cincin-
nati playground children as ukulele players during the
past summer. Those classes are especially open to
the under-privileged children of Cincinnati. In con-
nection with the special system of instruction worked
out by ^Ir. Williams he will supply each child with a
copy ofthe new "Simplit'ied Course in Ukulele Play-
ing," issued by the National Bureau for the Advance-
ment of Music, 45 West 45th street, New York city.
Various other municipal recreation systems are using
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September 29, 1928
theukulele book of the National Bureau. They in-
clude the Recreation Department of Houston, Tex.;
the Playground and Recreation Association of Wy-
oming Valley at Wilkes-Barre, Pa; the Playground
and Recreation Commission of Rock Island, 111., and
several others.
OUR FOREIGN RADIO CUSTOMERS.
Canadians are the best buyers of American radio
apparatus. The wholesale value of their purchase
during the first six months of this year was $1,014-
624.
Argentina is the next best customer, falling
just short of the million-dollar mark for the same
period. Australia and New Zealand bought nearly
$750,000 worth. Nearly 100 foreign countries buy
radio equipment in the American market. This coun-
try runs a neck-and-neck race with great Britain and
Germany for the radio export markets, the three
dividing practically equally the annual trade.
interest in outdoor band music and has brought a
desire for each city to have its own band and summer
concert series.
Harold Van Home, staff pianist of the Chicago
Daily News Station, appeared in person at the con-
cert hall of Lyon & Healy, Chicago, in a series of
recitals this week, with WMAQ broadcasts each aft-
ernoon at 2 o'clock.
The Growth
of Your Business in
Band and Orchestra Instruments
Depends on the Prestige of the
RADIO SALES FIGURES.
The first year of radio broadcasting on a commer-
cial scale was 1921. The year 1922 saw 100,000 re-
ceiving sets produced. In 1923 the total number was
250,000. It jumped to 1,500,000 in 1924, and 2,000,000
in 1925. Then the number slumped in 1926 to 1,750,-
000, and last year's total was 1,350,000. It is not
believed that the increase in home-built sets accounts
for the slump to any appreciable extent. Producers
and dealers, nevertheless, are sanguine that they have
a wide-open market in the 75 per cent of American
homes still unequipped.
For generations Poehlmann
Music Wire and Fly Brand
Tuning Pins have made
many pianos famous for
their r e n o \v n c d tonal
qualities.
The continued prestige of Fly Branc
Pins and Poehlmann Wire is due sohly
to quality. Kvery detail is watche.l
minutely. Made from special drawn wit
t
by men who have done nothing else fo 1 a
lifetime, they embody every knov\ n
requisite for quality. That is why many
manufacturers of high grade pianos dt-
mand Poehlmann W i r e a n d Fl /
Brand Pins.
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HAMMACHER-SCHLEMMER & CO.
104-106 East 13th St.
New York, N. Y.
That Is Why an Agency for
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C. G. CONN, Ltd.
ELKHART, IND.
ANOTHER BRUNSWICK DIVIDEND.
The Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co., Chicago,
makes the following announcement: "We are pleased
to notify you that the directors of this company
have authorized a dividend of 1^4 P e f cent payable
October 1, 1928, on the outstanding preferred stock
of this company, as of record September 20, 1928."
JUDGE ALLEN.
Miss Allen—or, rather Judge Allen—is the only
woman on a Supreme court bench in America. Sev-
eral years before Miss Allen began the practice of
law she was the Berlin correspondent of a New York
musical journal, musical editor of a Cleveland news-
paper and a music teacher of prominence. But she
forsook the do-re-mi of the musical scale for the
"dough ray me" of the scales of justice, writes Frank-
Ernest Nicholson the newspaper columnist.
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The Successes of C. G. Conn,
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Scientific Processes in Pro-
ducing Instruments of the
Highest Tonal Value.
BAND IS REORGANIZED.
Batavia, 111., musicians met last week at the city
council rooms and reorganized the Rock City Band,
which for many years was one of the leading musical
organizations of the Fox river valley. The band re-
organized with 21 members. Recent passage of the
band tax to help in supporting a band is reviving
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WORLD-FAMED BANDMASTERS
Proudly Proclaim Conn Instruments to
Be the Greatest Aids to the Best Band
Music.
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