Music Trade Review
Issue: 1903 Vol. 37 N. 8 - Page 33
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THE: MUSIC TRADE:
REVIEW
In The Musical Merchandise Domain
QUEER USE OF GRAPHOPHONE.
Dance and Gambling Songs of the Indians Record-
ed by What the Savage Calls the White Man's
Magic—Croon Their Weird Songs and Over-
come With Fright When They Are Repeated.
The results of the Phehe A. Hearst expe-
dition, just returned from work among the
Indian tribes of Northern California, are con-
sidered most satisfactory, according to Pliny
E. Goddard, who directed the investigation.
The nature of the work was twofold—first,
to establish the generic connection between
the languages of the Athabapasean, or "Dig-
ger," stock, which is scattered in isolated dis-
tricts, from Alaska down the coast into Mexi-
co; and, second, to collect the myths and folk-
lore of this rapidly disappearing people.
Goddard spent several weeks among the
Tolowes of Del Norte County about Preston
City and Smith River and later visited tribes
in the Silety Reservation in Oregon.
It was with the utmost difficulty that the
Tndians could be induced to croon their weird
songs into the graphophone, as they were told
by the wisest of their elders that they would
breathe their souls into the machine never to
regain them. When the cylinders were r,e-
versed and their words were resting the In-
dians were overcome with fright, believing
evil spirits to be concealed in the box.
The only records which could be secured
were the dance songs and the good luck hunt-
ing and gambling songs, as the Indians are
very reticent about their love ditties and the
mystical medicine songs, which thev claim
the Great Spirit teaches them and which they
will not repeat to a stranger.
The collection and classification of the
myths are almost as important a matter as the
comparative language study. The most uni-
versally distributed of all the myths was
found to be the story of the flood. Every
tribe has a deeply rooted tale of how some
great tidal wave a long time ago rushed over
the land and destroyed the world.
Each tribe, moreover, has its theory of the
creation of a Great Spirit, whose nature
seems to be quite indistinct. Even the natural
qualities of birds and beasts are accounted
for, as the blackness of the crow, who wanted
to be red all over like the tuft of the wood-
pecker, but being too vain was painted black
by the Creator, and the mangy coat of the
coyote, whose glossy fur was taken away for
gambling.
The work is not yet completed, as the In-
dians must be brought down to the university
to verify carefully the original texts.
SHOWING KOCH'S NEWEST HARMONICAS.
Nothing if not energetic. Ernest Koch,
manager of Ands. Koch, 506 Broadway, lost
graph, a creature of the "Wizard's" brain,
whereby it is possible to take conversation di-
rect at a maximum distance of ten feet.
"We can now catch anything in a room
twenty by twenty," went on Mr. Edison. "But
we are not putting the perfected models on
CALLING ON THE TRADE.
the market yet. We will not for some time.
John F. Buckbee is no longer connected There is a great deal of opposition to the in-
with the Strauss Manufacturing Co., New troduction of the phonograph into courts and
York, as ambassador to the trade at large. business houses. This opposition is founded
Louis Strauss, of the firm, is now attending on the fear that it will put the stenographer
to the calling end, and reports say he is book-
SCHOENING ON A SHORT JAUNT.
ing business right along. The novelties out-
Thursday M. E. Schoening, the musical
lined by the house for the fall are about
merchandise merchant of 369 Broadway, New
readv.
York, started on a five weeks' trip to his
BUYERS IN TOWN.
nearby trade. From advices, he believes busi-
Among the small goods buyers in New ness with dealers will be up to the mark, and
York this week were: D. E. Marchant, of therefore anticipates a trade in excess of the
the Marchant Music Co., Orangeburg, S. C.; same period a year ago.
P. A. Nilson, Germantown, Pa., and Geo. W.
THAT SUMMER NUMBER OF "LYON & HEALY
Montgomery, with the Fair, Chicago. The
BAND HERALD."
latter expects to remain here for a couple of
Lyon & Healy first published their
weeks, headquartering at 393 Broadway.
Band Herald many years ago, and it has
been published regularly ever since. The
GREATEST HARMONICA IMPROVEMENT.
What is confidently stated as being the summer number for 1903 has just been
mailed to every band man in the United
greatest harmonica improvement within the
States. It is a 16-page issue, pages 10^2
last twenty years is embodied in M. Hohner's x 14, containing, as special features, half-
auto-valve harp, the easiest blowing concert tones of the battleship "Yankee," the band
mouth-organ made. Elsewhere this har- aboard the "Yankee," as well as the leader.
monica, No. 100, is illustrated as a finished An exceptionallv fine article on cornet
instrument in a handsome case, and an in- playing is found, likewise articles on
terior view is also presented, showing leather "Music," and Eugene Field's criticism on
strips covering the reeds to prevent escape of Wagner's "Die Walkure." Besides new
wind. Ten double holes, 40 reeds, brass half-tones of the most prominent bands-
plates, brass covers finely nickel-plated, con- men of to-day, the soloists of the great
cert styles. This instrument is fitted with a Banda Rossa are shown, with their opin-
wind-saving device which is guaranteed to be ions, likewise the opinions of the Chicago
one of the greatest harmonica improvements daily papers upon the engagement of the
produced within the last twenty years. It has Banda Rossa at the Masonic Temple in
long been the desire of good players to get a Chicago recently. Dividing ads. with
.forty-reed concert harmonica which is as easy pure reading matter as exhibited in the
blowing as a single-reed mouth-organ, there- Band Herald comes very near to the ideal
fore it is now claimed the ideal of expert mode of interesting people in the cele-
brated Lyon & Healy "Own-Make" Band
players has been realized.
Instruments.
POSTPONES HIS TRIP ABROAD.
THOSE WULSCHNER SPECIALTIES.
Instead of tripping to Europe this month,
The Wulschner-Stewart Music Co., In-
Sig. Blumenthal, in charge of Strobel & Wil- dianapolis, manufacturers of all kinds of
ken Co.'s musical merchandise department, musical merchandise, have well earned a
will not steam away until late in September. reputation for reliability throughout the
entire country. A number of specialties
Then he expects to be absent two months, which
this concern carries have been de-
placing and looking after his import orders. scribed from time to time in the columns
of The Review, and we may say that the
EDISON'S NEW PHONOGRAPH.
latest advices from Indianapolis tell us of
"Mark my words, there is a day not far continued activity in the small goods de-
distant when the phonograph will take the partment of this distinguished house.
place of the stenographer in courts, in busi-
ness houses, and wherever he is employed,"
said Thomas A. Edison in his laboratory at
Mandolins
West Orange.
The occasion was the an
Guitars Banjeaux
nouncement of the perfection of the phono
A\andolas Mandocellos
no time in preparing for the road, and on
Thursday left New York for a run around
in the trade. On Saturday L. Rapalyea, hsi
manager, started upon a fortnight's vacation
at the Delaware Water Gap, Pa.
WM. R. GRATZ CO
1 East 22d Street,
New York City.
Sole Agents for the United States for the famous
Genuine
COURTOI3
BAND
INSTRUMENTS
and SAXOPHONES.
BOLE AQBNTB for th« WORLD RENOWNED L 1 I I T E I C L A B t O H I T S .
SOLI AGENTS for ttt* FAMOUS A. L I C O K T E A 0 0 . O L I B I O K I T t
SOLS AOKNT9 for U» 8TANDAUD M I l O i D I I B 0 L 1 I I 0 K I T I ,
HHJ AOllf T» for th. WOBUMUVOWMD HOT70B of OS- * J- P L L M A | R
Harp-Guitars
Banjeaulins
Banjeaurines
Piccolo Banjeaux Bass Banjeaux
ALSO ALL STYLES OP INSTRUMENTS
MANUFACTURED FOB THE
JOBB1NO TRADE
Waldo Mfg. Co.
. Mlthij*n
F A » I S
WMtUlTOTO*. O. C
Jimmy as, 19m.
ur«Mo Mfg. Co..
, Ulch.
TOO mt4« for
THE: MUSIC TRADE:
REVIEW
In The Musical Merchandise Domain
QUEER USE OF GRAPHOPHONE.
Dance and Gambling Songs of the Indians Record-
ed by What the Savage Calls the White Man's
Magic—Croon Their Weird Songs and Over-
come With Fright When They Are Repeated.
The results of the Phehe A. Hearst expe-
dition, just returned from work among the
Indian tribes of Northern California, are con-
sidered most satisfactory, according to Pliny
E. Goddard, who directed the investigation.
The nature of the work was twofold—first,
to establish the generic connection between
the languages of the Athabapasean, or "Dig-
ger," stock, which is scattered in isolated dis-
tricts, from Alaska down the coast into Mexi-
co; and, second, to collect the myths and folk-
lore of this rapidly disappearing people.
Goddard spent several weeks among the
Tolowes of Del Norte County about Preston
City and Smith River and later visited tribes
in the Silety Reservation in Oregon.
It was with the utmost difficulty that the
Tndians could be induced to croon their weird
songs into the graphophone, as they were told
by the wisest of their elders that they would
breathe their souls into the machine never to
regain them. When the cylinders were r,e-
versed and their words were resting the In-
dians were overcome with fright, believing
evil spirits to be concealed in the box.
The only records which could be secured
were the dance songs and the good luck hunt-
ing and gambling songs, as the Indians are
very reticent about their love ditties and the
mystical medicine songs, which thev claim
the Great Spirit teaches them and which they
will not repeat to a stranger.
The collection and classification of the
myths are almost as important a matter as the
comparative language study. The most uni-
versally distributed of all the myths was
found to be the story of the flood. Every
tribe has a deeply rooted tale of how some
great tidal wave a long time ago rushed over
the land and destroyed the world.
Each tribe, moreover, has its theory of the
creation of a Great Spirit, whose nature
seems to be quite indistinct. Even the natural
qualities of birds and beasts are accounted
for, as the blackness of the crow, who wanted
to be red all over like the tuft of the wood-
pecker, but being too vain was painted black
by the Creator, and the mangy coat of the
coyote, whose glossy fur was taken away for
gambling.
The work is not yet completed, as the In-
dians must be brought down to the university
to verify carefully the original texts.
SHOWING KOCH'S NEWEST HARMONICAS.
Nothing if not energetic. Ernest Koch,
manager of Ands. Koch, 506 Broadway, lost
graph, a creature of the "Wizard's" brain,
whereby it is possible to take conversation di-
rect at a maximum distance of ten feet.
"We can now catch anything in a room
twenty by twenty," went on Mr. Edison. "But
we are not putting the perfected models on
CALLING ON THE TRADE.
the market yet. We will not for some time.
John F. Buckbee is no longer connected There is a great deal of opposition to the in-
with the Strauss Manufacturing Co., New troduction of the phonograph into courts and
York, as ambassador to the trade at large. business houses. This opposition is founded
Louis Strauss, of the firm, is now attending on the fear that it will put the stenographer
to the calling end, and reports say he is book-
SCHOENING ON A SHORT JAUNT.
ing business right along. The novelties out-
Thursday M. E. Schoening, the musical
lined by the house for the fall are about
merchandise merchant of 369 Broadway, New
readv.
York, started on a five weeks' trip to his
BUYERS IN TOWN.
nearby trade. From advices, he believes busi-
Among the small goods buyers in New ness with dealers will be up to the mark, and
York this week were: D. E. Marchant, of therefore anticipates a trade in excess of the
the Marchant Music Co., Orangeburg, S. C.; same period a year ago.
P. A. Nilson, Germantown, Pa., and Geo. W.
THAT SUMMER NUMBER OF "LYON & HEALY
Montgomery, with the Fair, Chicago. The
BAND HERALD."
latter expects to remain here for a couple of
Lyon & Healy first published their
weeks, headquartering at 393 Broadway.
Band Herald many years ago, and it has
been published regularly ever since. The
GREATEST HARMONICA IMPROVEMENT.
What is confidently stated as being the summer number for 1903 has just been
mailed to every band man in the United
greatest harmonica improvement within the
States. It is a 16-page issue, pages 10^2
last twenty years is embodied in M. Hohner's x 14, containing, as special features, half-
auto-valve harp, the easiest blowing concert tones of the battleship "Yankee," the band
mouth-organ made. Elsewhere this har- aboard the "Yankee," as well as the leader.
monica, No. 100, is illustrated as a finished An exceptionallv fine article on cornet
instrument in a handsome case, and an in- playing is found, likewise articles on
terior view is also presented, showing leather "Music," and Eugene Field's criticism on
strips covering the reeds to prevent escape of Wagner's "Die Walkure." Besides new
wind. Ten double holes, 40 reeds, brass half-tones of the most prominent bands-
plates, brass covers finely nickel-plated, con- men of to-day, the soloists of the great
cert styles. This instrument is fitted with a Banda Rossa are shown, with their opin-
wind-saving device which is guaranteed to be ions, likewise the opinions of the Chicago
one of the greatest harmonica improvements daily papers upon the engagement of the
produced within the last twenty years. It has Banda Rossa at the Masonic Temple in
long been the desire of good players to get a Chicago recently. Dividing ads. with
.forty-reed concert harmonica which is as easy pure reading matter as exhibited in the
blowing as a single-reed mouth-organ, there- Band Herald comes very near to the ideal
fore it is now claimed the ideal of expert mode of interesting people in the cele-
brated Lyon & Healy "Own-Make" Band
players has been realized.
Instruments.
POSTPONES HIS TRIP ABROAD.
THOSE WULSCHNER SPECIALTIES.
Instead of tripping to Europe this month,
The Wulschner-Stewart Music Co., In-
Sig. Blumenthal, in charge of Strobel & Wil- dianapolis, manufacturers of all kinds of
ken Co.'s musical merchandise department, musical merchandise, have well earned a
will not steam away until late in September. reputation for reliability throughout the
entire country. A number of specialties
Then he expects to be absent two months, which
this concern carries have been de-
placing and looking after his import orders. scribed from time to time in the columns
of The Review, and we may say that the
EDISON'S NEW PHONOGRAPH.
latest advices from Indianapolis tell us of
"Mark my words, there is a day not far continued activity in the small goods de-
distant when the phonograph will take the partment of this distinguished house.
place of the stenographer in courts, in busi-
ness houses, and wherever he is employed,"
said Thomas A. Edison in his laboratory at
Mandolins
West Orange.
The occasion was the an
Guitars Banjeaux
nouncement of the perfection of the phono
A\andolas Mandocellos
no time in preparing for the road, and on
Thursday left New York for a run around
in the trade. On Saturday L. Rapalyea, hsi
manager, started upon a fortnight's vacation
at the Delaware Water Gap, Pa.
WM. R. GRATZ CO
1 East 22d Street,
New York City.
Sole Agents for the United States for the famous
Genuine
COURTOI3
BAND
INSTRUMENTS
and SAXOPHONES.
BOLE AQBNTB for th« WORLD RENOWNED L 1 I I T E I C L A B t O H I T S .
SOLI AGENTS for ttt* FAMOUS A. L I C O K T E A 0 0 . O L I B I O K I T t
SOLS AOKNT9 for U» 8TANDAUD M I l O i D I I B 0 L 1 I I 0 K I T I ,
HHJ AOllf T» for th. WOBUMUVOWMD HOT70B of OS- * J- P L L M A | R
Harp-Guitars
Banjeaulins
Banjeaurines
Piccolo Banjeaux Bass Banjeaux
ALSO ALL STYLES OP INSTRUMENTS
MANUFACTURED FOB THE
JOBB1NO TRADE
Waldo Mfg. Co.
. Mlthij*n
F A » I S
WMtUlTOTO*. O. C
Jimmy as, 19m.
ur«Mo Mfg. Co..
, Ulch.
TOO mt4« for
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