Presto

16
August 1, 1929
PRESTO-TIMES
Conn-O-Sax is a striking novelty. Hut more than
a novelty, it is a line musical instrument. Fingered COMPETITION OF 49 BOYS
exactly like the saxophone, with the addition of two
FOR EDISON SCHOLARSHIP
keys, a low A and high F, the Conn-O-Sax may be
used in many ways. Plays from same music as the
F mezzo-soprano, and because this instrument has a The Lads Met at Orange, N. J., Yesterday, and Are
to See Sights This Whole Week.
tone quality similar to the English horn and because
Compact in Proportions, This New Wurlitzer it is built in F, bands and orchestras without the
Thomas
A. Edison, who recently returned to his
English horn can use the Conn-O-Sax with good
Pipe Organ Affords the Entertainment
effect to supply this part. It can also be used to laboratory at West Orange, N. J., after an etended
stay at his Fort Myers, Fla., residence, completed
play French horn parts.
Qualities of Wurlitzer Church and
all arrangements for the visit of the 49 boys chosen
Theater Organs.
by each state in the Union and by the District of
SUMMER BROADCASTING.
Columbia to compete for the Edison scholarship.
In the Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune appears a
New programs are being offered daily—good sum-
Mr. Edison greeted the 49 state winners at Orange,
picture of Wurlitzer's latest production, its new resi- mer programs—and the managers of broadcasting
N. J., on July 31, where they will remain for the en-
dence pipe organ, as shown standing in the Wurlitzer
studios are in the desirable position of being able to suing week. The climax of the visit will be the
studio.
pick and choose the very best for the benefit of the
At a price never before considered possible, accord- radio audience, according to the Town Crier, the questionnaire Mr. Edison will submit to the group,
on the basis of which will be selected the final win
ing to officials of the Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, house organ of the Radio-Victor Corporation of
one may now have in the home a Wurlitzer repro- America. Summer sports as well as summer music lrer, to whom Mr. Edison will award the Edison
ducing pipe organ—a splendid instrument that can will be particularly emphasized on the air during the scholarship.
To assist in the selection of the ultimate winner
be played manually or by reproducing music rolls.
coming months. Besides an abundance of the lighter of the Edison scholarship, Mr. Edison has asked
Heretofore only the wealthiest homes could have
variety of entertainment, outdoor presentations like Dr. S. W. Stratton, president of Massachusetts Insti-
afforded musical programs of such quality and variety
the Goldman Band Concerts will be brought to tute of Technology; Henry Ford, George Eastman,
as those offered possessors of this residence pipe music lovers regularly.
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, and Lewis Perry, head-
organ.
master of Exeter Academy, to serve as his advis-
Majestic Grandeur of Tone.
H O W MAJESTIC DISTRIBUTES LAUGHTER. ers.
Dr. Stratton will serve as chairman of this
Just touch a button and famous organists enter-
Foster & Waldo Piano Company, 818-820 Nicollet advisory board.
ta'n you, playing selections of your choice with a avenue, Minneapolis, Minn., have this to say in adver-
Each boy will be presented with an Edison Radio-
majesty and grandeur of tone possible only on the tising the Majestic radio in a two-page ad. in the Phonograph Combination. Each boy, of course, has
"king of musical instruments."
Minneapolis Journal: "Care and pain and sorrow still the honor of meeting Mr. Edison in person. Then
This new Wurlitzer pipe organ is compact in pro- exist, and humor is as needful as it ever was to cheer they will be taken around the Edison plants. They
portions, having been specially built for residence the jaded mind. Nowadays, instead of the court will be permitted to inspect Mr. Edison's private
installation. Yet it affords the beauty of tone, the jester, we have a hundred merry characters such as laboratory, where he lias many gifts from presidents
responsive action, the entertainment qualities of Wur- Amos and Andy who send their quaint conceits and and foreign potentates, and they will be shown many
litzer church and theater organs. And the cost, we merry quips to your home through your Majestic mementoes of his wonderful career.
radio. Aye, Majestic's task is delightful, the 'whole-
are told, is well within the means of the family of
sale distribution of laughter' to hundreds of thoa-
moderate income.
UNIVERSITY COURSES BY RADIO.
ands of owners."
The Associated Press on July 14 carried a story
Company Invites the Public.
from Edmonton, Canada, that a free university course
The public is invited to see and hear this new
TO ELIMINATE "MAN-MADE STATIC."
is to be made available to the most remote farmer in
instrument at the studio on the sixth floor of the
One of the major problems facing the radio trade Alberta and the fur trader within the arctic circle
Wurlitzer Building, 121 East Fourth street, Cincin-
is
the elimination of the "man-made static" which providing he has a radio receiver. The extensior.
nati. Competent organ demonstrators are on hand
at all hours during the day, and the organ may be causes so much unnecessary interference with radio department of the University of Alberta, controlled b>
reception. These extraneous noises in the radio re- the provincial government, now has its own broad-
heard by appointment in the evening hours.
A representative of the Wurlitzer installation engi- ceiver are controllable and can be eliminated. How- casting station and in the autumn an educationa
neering department will call at any home to give to do it is explained fully in the latest edition of the program will be given.
complete details and explain how easily installation "R M A Better Radio Reception Manual," which has
PAPERS TO RUN OCEAN RADIO.
of one of these reproducing pipe organs may be made. just been published by the engineering division of the
Representatives of various newspapers met ir
Invariably, it is said, those who make inquiries arc Radio Manufacturers' Association, 32 West Randolph
street, Chicago, 111.
Washington July 9 and formed a corporation to b<
amazed at the ease with which the instrument may
known as the Press Wireless, Inc., to take over th*
be made a part of the home.
MOHAWK RADIO CORP. ROBBED.
twenty transoceanic frequencies which were allocates
Three armed men entered the Ail-American Mo- to the press of the country by the Federal Radic
T H E N E W CONN-O-SAX.
The new Conn-O-Sax plays like the saxophone, hawk Radio Corporation plant, 4201 Belmont avenue, Commission.
sounds like the English horn, looks like the Heckel- Chicago, Saturday night, July 13, overpowered the
Mrs Lelia Maylor Morris, aged 67, composer o
phone. It is something new and something different night watchman, William Aithes. loaded a truck with
hymns, died July 23 at Auburn, N. Y.
to make the public sit up and really listen. The radio tubes and equipment, and fled.
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