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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW,
The Zobo.
THE MOST POPULAR LITTLE INSTRUMENT NOW
Smith, and its effect is novel and charming. It is
worth going a long way to see. There was march-
ing and singing the Red, White and Blue and
other popular airs. Flags floated and patriotism
was at fever heat and on dress parade."
BEFORE THE TRADE.
Mr. Frost was so impressed with this
feature that he gives full instructions for its
The Zobo is the name of a fascinating production in the directions which go with
little musical instrument which is just now every instrument.
We take pleasure in
taking the country by storm. It is the inven- printing a sketch of this very entertaining
tion of W. H. Frost, the inventor of the Ka- drill, which is only one of the many novel
zoo, which was tremendously popular some arrangements possible.
years ago. The Zobo is a marked improve-
The leading jobbers in New York, Chi-
ment on the Kazoo, however, arid an idea cago, Boston and all the important music
of its popularity can be gleaned from the trade centers are handling the Zobo. The
fact that over four hundred thousand Zobos Zobo is one of the best things in its line be-
and Zobo Cornet and Cornetos are now in fore the trade to-day. It is sold at such a
use, although the invention is but a few price that it leaves a satisfactory margin of
months old.
profit to the dealer.
It will undoubtedly
Anyone can play the Zobo, no instruction make Mr. Frost a wealthy man, and he de-
being necessary. You sing into it and get serves it.
any effect desired. For home amusement,
Dealers should order a trial lot of their
church or society entertainments, street jobber, and not forget to ask for the very
parades, "high old times "for dancing, attractive window display which seems to
quartettes, solos, or for bands and orches- multiply the sales amazingly. Mr. Frost is
tras, it cannot be excelled.
always glad to see any of the trade at his
establishment at 35 Frankfort street, and is
always pleased to receive inquiries.
Dolge's System.
The Zobo has become such a popular fa-
vorite that Mr. Frost has gotten oiit a line
of Zobo brass band instruments, embracing
the cornet, alto cornet, saxaphone, bass horn
and piccolo. The principle of the Zobo is
novel but simple, and, like all successful
inventions, the wonder is that some one
did not think o- it before. The voice is
transformed into a reed instrument by
the resonant diaphragm, and having per
formed its work in producing the tone,
the voice is lost through the vent pro-
vided for that purpose, while the re-
sonance of the diaphragm is given vol-
ume and intonation by the instrument
to which it is attached, and its material,
construction and size determines the qual-
ity and intonation of the complete instru-
ment. By the use of the Zobo instruments
it is thus possible to reproduce all the
brasses and reeds of a brass band, making
it possible to organize whole bands and or-
chestras. Moreover, although the Zobo
brass instruments are of solid brass, highly
polished and lacquered, Mr. Frost has put
them on the market at surprisingly low
figures, the retail price of a full Brass Quar-
tette, embracing cornet, alto cornet, saxa-
phone and brass horn, being only $8.25.
Quartettes and glee clubs will be especially
interested in these instruments, while we
shall expect to see every campaign club of
1896 marching to the stirring strains of its
own Zobo Brass Band.
" Railways and their Employees " is the
title of a treatise on the labor problem from
the pen of O. D. Ashley, president of the
Wabash Railroad Co., which has been pub-
lished by the ' ' Railway Age and Northern
Railroader," a Chicago publication.
In
speaking of earning sharing and co-opera-
tion Mr. Ashley points to the establishment
of Alfred Dolge & Son., Dolgeville, N. Y.,
as the most practicable and successful ap-
plication of this idea, and throughout the
work pays Mr. Dolge an earnest and merited
tribute for his labors toward a solution of
the question of " labor and capital." Mr.
Ashley has furnished a very interesting con-
tribution to the contemporaneous literature
on economics.
Church, not yet erected. The gifts were
suggested by General Manager Schwab, of
the Carnegie Steel Company, who now re-
sides in Homestead. At present there is
not a pipe organ in the borough.
Knabe Pianos Abroad,
William Knabe & Co., piano manufac-
turers, have within the past few days ship-
ped on order a fine piano to Hong Kong,
China, says the Baltimore Sun. This is
the first shipment of a piano that has been
made to that city from Baltimore. The
same firm made a large shipment to Japan
on a Government order a few years ago. It
has also developed a trade in pianos with
Mexico, and is constantly making large ship-
ments of instruments to the City of Mexico
and other places in that country.
T. S. CRAWFORD, of Crawford
MR. STEINWAY has contributed an article
on " American Musical Instruments " to an
important work entitled "One Hundred
Years of American Commerce," which is
about being published by E. O. Haynes &
Co., New York.
THE annual meeting of the C. F. Zimmer-
man Co. was held at Dolgeville last Thurs-
day. Mr. Rudolf Dolge was in attendance.
PEEK & SON carried $19,000 insurance in
different companies on their factory, which
was partially destroyed by fire recently.
C. B. GREENE, of J. W. Greene & Co., To
ledo, O., died on October 21st. Mr. Green
was highly esteemed, and his death is sin-
cerely regretted by a wide circle of friends.
DANIEL
F.
TREACV,
of
Davenport &
Treacy, is visiting the West in the interest
of his house.
Steck Satisfies.
SHENANDOAH, Pa., Oct. 28, '95.
MESSRS. GEORGE STECK & Co.,
& Cox,
Pittsburg, Pa., has purchased Geo. C.
Cox's interest in the business and will con-
tinue the same. As to Mr. Cox's future
course, particulars are not at hand.
New York.
GENTLEMEN : Twelve years ago I pur-
chased one of your pianos through Prof. F.
F. Veling, of Pottsville. The instrument
has given me excellent satisfaction. The
Rev. C. Laurisin has asked my opinion re-
specting the merits of different pianos and
I unhesitatingly referred him to you as
manufacturing the best pianos made. He
informs me now that he has purchased one
of your fine instruments and is perfectly
delighted with it. Wishing you continued
success, I remain,
Yours truly,
MRS. W. N. EHRHART.
Carnegie's Gifts.
A dispatch from Pittsburg, Pa., says:—
Before leaving for New York Mr. Andrew
One of the interesting uses of the Zobo
is the "Zobo Patriotic Drill," originated by Carnegie announced that it was his intention
the Sisters of Mercy in charge of St. to donate three pipe organs to the churches
Anne's Academy, at Fort Smith, Ark., and in Homestead borough. The organs will
given with great success at their closing cost from $2,000 to $4,000 each, and will
exercises of June 21st, 1895. The Fort
be placed in the Ann Street Presbyterian
Smith Times says of it:
Church, St. Mary Magdalen Church on
"The hit of the day then followed, the Zobo
Tenth
avenue, and the new Slavonic
drill. The Zobo is a new instrument to Fort
ARTHUR E. THOMAS, who was formerly
connected with Win. A. Pond & Co., and
later with the firm of Harry Pepper & Co.,
has returned once more to Pond's.
S. R. LELAND & SON, Worcester, Mass.,
have secured the services of H. S. Praeto-
rius, who was formerly with Chandler W.
Smith, of Boston.
Two employees of the White-Smith
Music Publishing Co., Boston, have been
arrested for stealing music from that es-
tablishment.
They admitted their guilt,
and on information received, the detectives
arrested Charles H. Andrews, manager of
the Boston Novelty Co. in Lynn, and a
young man named Maiirice, for receiving
stolen music.
THE Boston Herald, assisted by the local
Board of Trade, is about to bring the piano
trade of that city to the attention of the
people of New England by a series of write-
ups, which will furnish an idea of the ex-
tent of the music trade industry in New
England.
JACOT & SON, musical boy manufacturers,
are now at home in their handsome new
warerooms on Union Square.