Music Trade Review
Issue: 1904 Vol. 39 N. 22 - Page 40
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THE MUSIC TRADE
IMPORTANT CUSTOMS RULING
On Woods for Musical Instruments—Dutiable
at 45 Per Cent. Ad Valorem.
(Special to The Review.)
Washington, D. C, Nov. 24, 1904.
It is only too evident that the customs author-
ities are keeping "tabs" on the foreign goods used
in the musical merchandise trade. In an opinion
rendered by the United States General Apprais-
ers, November 14, relating to a protest lodged
against the Chicago collector, it was held that
the "manufactures of granadilla wood, spruce
and maple having advanced to such an extent as
to fit them solely for use in the manufacture of
musical instruments, are dutiable at the rate of 45
per cent, ad valorem under paragraph 453, of the
tariff act, and not at 15 per cent, under paragraph
198; also that paper bags used for the protection
of violins during transportation are dutiable at
35 per cent, ad valorem under paragraph 407 as
manufactures of paper, not at 45 per cent, ad
valorem under paragraph 453, as cases for musi-
cal instruments.
The full text of the decision, by General Ap-
praiser Sharretts, follows: "This protest covers
certain articles of: 1. Granadilla wood manufac-
tured to sujh a degree as to fit them solely for
use in the construction of clarinets. 2. Violin
tops and backs, composed of spruce and maple
wood. 3. Paper bags, packed separately, de-
signed for use as temporary coverings for violins
to preserve them from damage during the voyage
of importation.
"The merchandise of the first and second de-
scriptions were classified by the collector as parts
of musical instruments and duty assessed thereon
at 45 per cent, ad valorem under paragraph 453,
act of July 24, 1897. Paragraph 198 provides for
all forms of granadilla and cabinet wood not spe-
cially provided for, and it was under this para-
graph that the importers claimed classification,
with duty at 15 per cent, ad valorem in lieu of
the rate assessed upon the merchandise by the
collector. The articles in dispute are parts of
REVIEW
To Be Found at the National Museum—Many
of Them Found in Aztec Tombs.
the liquid is being poured into it reaches a cer-
tain height The whistling oil can will be recalled
as a modern utilization of this principle.
A remarkable feature of the collection are
double flutes of bone used by the aboriginal in-
habitants of Brazil. What makes these instru-
ments especially notable is their resemblance to
similar spe°!T.e zi found on the Pacific coast of
North America, and, more wonderful still, to
those discovered in Greece, some of which may
be seen in the museum at Athens. These instru-
ments are seen depicted in ancient Grecian paint-
ings; the tones produced by those in the Smith-
sonian collection are singularly soft and mellow.
Among the prehistoric bone flutes is a speci-
men from an ancient grave near Lima, Peru. It
is formed of portions of the ulna of the brown
pelican, the ends having been cut off and the cel-
lular portion of the bone removed.
(Special to The Review.)
COLUMBIA GRAPH0PH0NE MIRACLES.
musical instruments specially provided for in
paragraph 453; hence they are excluded from
classification under paragraph 198 by reason of
the qualifying words 'not specially provided for'
contained therein.
"Regarding the paper bags we find they are
not cases for musical instruments, but ordinary
inner coverings used for purposes of protection
during transportation. As to these goods, we sus-
tain the claim in the protest that they are duti-
able at 35 per cent, ad valorem under the provi-
sion of paragraph 407 for manufactures of paper.
In all other respects the collector's decision is
affirmed."
CURIOUS OLD INSTRUMENTS
Washington, D. C, Nov. 21, 1904.
Among the many grotesque objects in the Na-
tional Museum, relics of a people who flourished
on this continent prior to the Indians, is a col-
lection of musical instruments, many of which,
weird in appearance, still give forth tones as
sweet and clear as they did a thousand years or
more ago. Nearly all are wind instruments, simi-
lar in principle to the modern flageolet, and were
found for the most part in Aztec tombs. The
material is principally a fine species of pottery,
and the flageolets are generally made in the shape
of birds. E. P. Upham, in whose department the
collection is, has spent much labor in recording
accurately the notes of the prehistoric instru-
ments, testing them with piano and violin.
One of the flageolets was found to possess a
range of notes in exact accord with the modern
musical scale. Upon this litle instrument Mr.
Upham is able to play a simple melody as well as
it. could be executed upon any modern musical
contrivance of a like nature.
Costa Rica shows that a useful contrivance
now in vogue is by no means new. The shrill
whistling sound emitted by the vase ceases when
COLUMBIA
Hellman, a clever necromancer hailing from
New York, has been performing some mind read-
ing miracles on the Western circuits, this sum-
mer, using a Columbia graphophone as an assist-
ant, in demonstrating his skilfulness in the prac-
tice of the black art. One of his achievements
consists of distributing to his audiences, at ran-
dom, any particular cards that may be selected
by the persons choosing them from a pack.
When Mr. Hellman has made hfs round of the
auditorium he starts a dialogue with the grapho-
phone, running thus: "Mr. Graphophone, you saw
me distribute those cards. What was the first
one I gave out?" and the reply comes instantly,
"Seven of Hearts" or whatever the card may have
been. This conversation with the machine is
continued until all the cards held by the audience
have been covered and no mistakes are ever
made. These very strange things are now hap-
pening out in Iowa, but Hellman is heading
toward New York, and it will not be very long
before an opportunity will be presented to the
curious, herabouts, to study out how this clever
deceiver achieves his mysterious ends.
GRAPHOPHONES
The Best Talking Machines Made.
$5 to $100.
The Graphophone is the univer-
sal entertainer* It will Talk, Sing,
Laugh and Play. It combines all
instruments in one*
Send for complete list of records.
THE WORLD-FAMOUS COLUMBIA
GOLD MOULDED CYLINDER RECORDS.
7 inch , 50c. ea.;
$5 per
per doz.
j COLUMBIA j
| DISC RECORDS. J
JO inch, $1 ea.
$10 per doz.
Grand Opera Records (10 inch discs only), $2 each.
THE LATEST TYPE—Solid Mahogany Cabinet—Beautiful in design; and an ornament
wherever placed.
The Best Talking Machine Ever Placed Before the Public at this Price.
Absolute perfection of sound reproduction. All the sweetness, volume and beauty of the
original rendition.
The word COL UMB1A on a Talking Mach ine or Record is always a guarantee of merit and
quality.
Columbia Records Fit Any M a k e of T a l k i n g Machine
FOR SALE BY DEALERS EVERYWHERE AND BY THE
COLUMBIA
PHONOGRAPH
Type AY, $ 5 0 .
COMPANY
PIONEERS AND LEADERS IN THE TALKING MACHINE ART.
GRAND PRIZE, PARIS, 1900.
NEW YORK. Wholesale, Retail and Export, 868 Broadway.
UPTOWN, RETAIL ONLY, 872 Broadway.
LOS ANGELES, 828 South Main S t
TORONTO,
ONTARIO,
107 "
Yonge S t MEMPHIS,302 Main St.
CHICAGO, 88 Wabash Ave.
SAN FRANCISCO. 125 Geary St.
PHILADELPHIA, 1010-1021 Market S t CINCINNATI, 117-119 West Fourth St. MINNEAPOLIS, 13 Fourth St.. South. PORTLAND. ORE.. 128 Seventh St.
INDIANAPOLIS, 48 N. Pennsylvania St. OAKLAND, CAL.. 512 18th St.
ST. LOUIS, 908 Olive S t (Frisco Bldg.) PITTSBURG, 616 Penn Ave.
TERRE HAUTE. 23 S. Seventh St.
KANSAS CITY, 1016 Walnut S t
BOSTON. 164 Tremont St.
NEW ORLEANS, 628-680 Canal S t
DUBUQUE, 628 Main St.
ST. PAUL, 386 Wabasha S t
BALTIMORE, 281 N. Howard S t
DETROIT, 272 Woodward Ave.
ST. JOSEPH, MO., 718 Edmond S t
DENVER, 605-507 Sixteenth S t
CLEVELAND, Cor. Euclid Ave. & Erie S t MILWAUKEE, 891 East Water S t
SPRINGFIELD, MASS., 266 Main St.
OMAHA, 1621 Farnam St.
BUFFALO, 646 Main S t
WASHINGTON, 1212 F St., N. W.
BERLIN, 71 Ritterstrasae.
LONDON. Wholesale, Retail, 89 Great Eastern St., E. C.
RETAIL BRANCH STO*K, 200 Oxford St., W.
HAMBURG. Adolphsplatx No. 4.
PARIS. I l l and 118 Rue Montmartre.
ST. PETERSBURG. 68 Ncvtlri Prospect
VIENNA, Seilergasse No. 14.
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THE MUSIC TRADE
IMPORTANT CUSTOMS RULING
On Woods for Musical Instruments—Dutiable
at 45 Per Cent. Ad Valorem.
(Special to The Review.)
Washington, D. C, Nov. 24, 1904.
It is only too evident that the customs author-
ities are keeping "tabs" on the foreign goods used
in the musical merchandise trade. In an opinion
rendered by the United States General Apprais-
ers, November 14, relating to a protest lodged
against the Chicago collector, it was held that
the "manufactures of granadilla wood, spruce
and maple having advanced to such an extent as
to fit them solely for use in the manufacture of
musical instruments, are dutiable at the rate of 45
per cent, ad valorem under paragraph 453, of the
tariff act, and not at 15 per cent, under paragraph
198; also that paper bags used for the protection
of violins during transportation are dutiable at
35 per cent, ad valorem under paragraph 407 as
manufactures of paper, not at 45 per cent, ad
valorem under paragraph 453, as cases for musi-
cal instruments.
The full text of the decision, by General Ap-
praiser Sharretts, follows: "This protest covers
certain articles of: 1. Granadilla wood manufac-
tured to sujh a degree as to fit them solely for
use in the construction of clarinets. 2. Violin
tops and backs, composed of spruce and maple
wood. 3. Paper bags, packed separately, de-
signed for use as temporary coverings for violins
to preserve them from damage during the voyage
of importation.
"The merchandise of the first and second de-
scriptions were classified by the collector as parts
of musical instruments and duty assessed thereon
at 45 per cent, ad valorem under paragraph 453,
act of July 24, 1897. Paragraph 198 provides for
all forms of granadilla and cabinet wood not spe-
cially provided for, and it was under this para-
graph that the importers claimed classification,
with duty at 15 per cent, ad valorem in lieu of
the rate assessed upon the merchandise by the
collector. The articles in dispute are parts of
REVIEW
To Be Found at the National Museum—Many
of Them Found in Aztec Tombs.
the liquid is being poured into it reaches a cer-
tain height The whistling oil can will be recalled
as a modern utilization of this principle.
A remarkable feature of the collection are
double flutes of bone used by the aboriginal in-
habitants of Brazil. What makes these instru-
ments especially notable is their resemblance to
similar spe°!T.e zi found on the Pacific coast of
North America, and, more wonderful still, to
those discovered in Greece, some of which may
be seen in the museum at Athens. These instru-
ments are seen depicted in ancient Grecian paint-
ings; the tones produced by those in the Smith-
sonian collection are singularly soft and mellow.
Among the prehistoric bone flutes is a speci-
men from an ancient grave near Lima, Peru. It
is formed of portions of the ulna of the brown
pelican, the ends having been cut off and the cel-
lular portion of the bone removed.
(Special to The Review.)
COLUMBIA GRAPH0PH0NE MIRACLES.
musical instruments specially provided for in
paragraph 453; hence they are excluded from
classification under paragraph 198 by reason of
the qualifying words 'not specially provided for'
contained therein.
"Regarding the paper bags we find they are
not cases for musical instruments, but ordinary
inner coverings used for purposes of protection
during transportation. As to these goods, we sus-
tain the claim in the protest that they are duti-
able at 35 per cent, ad valorem under the provi-
sion of paragraph 407 for manufactures of paper.
In all other respects the collector's decision is
affirmed."
CURIOUS OLD INSTRUMENTS
Washington, D. C, Nov. 21, 1904.
Among the many grotesque objects in the Na-
tional Museum, relics of a people who flourished
on this continent prior to the Indians, is a col-
lection of musical instruments, many of which,
weird in appearance, still give forth tones as
sweet and clear as they did a thousand years or
more ago. Nearly all are wind instruments, simi-
lar in principle to the modern flageolet, and were
found for the most part in Aztec tombs. The
material is principally a fine species of pottery,
and the flageolets are generally made in the shape
of birds. E. P. Upham, in whose department the
collection is, has spent much labor in recording
accurately the notes of the prehistoric instru-
ments, testing them with piano and violin.
One of the flageolets was found to possess a
range of notes in exact accord with the modern
musical scale. Upon this litle instrument Mr.
Upham is able to play a simple melody as well as
it. could be executed upon any modern musical
contrivance of a like nature.
Costa Rica shows that a useful contrivance
now in vogue is by no means new. The shrill
whistling sound emitted by the vase ceases when
COLUMBIA
Hellman, a clever necromancer hailing from
New York, has been performing some mind read-
ing miracles on the Western circuits, this sum-
mer, using a Columbia graphophone as an assist-
ant, in demonstrating his skilfulness in the prac-
tice of the black art. One of his achievements
consists of distributing to his audiences, at ran-
dom, any particular cards that may be selected
by the persons choosing them from a pack.
When Mr. Hellman has made hfs round of the
auditorium he starts a dialogue with the grapho-
phone, running thus: "Mr. Graphophone, you saw
me distribute those cards. What was the first
one I gave out?" and the reply comes instantly,
"Seven of Hearts" or whatever the card may have
been. This conversation with the machine is
continued until all the cards held by the audience
have been covered and no mistakes are ever
made. These very strange things are now hap-
pening out in Iowa, but Hellman is heading
toward New York, and it will not be very long
before an opportunity will be presented to the
curious, herabouts, to study out how this clever
deceiver achieves his mysterious ends.
GRAPHOPHONES
The Best Talking Machines Made.
$5 to $100.
The Graphophone is the univer-
sal entertainer* It will Talk, Sing,
Laugh and Play. It combines all
instruments in one*
Send for complete list of records.
THE WORLD-FAMOUS COLUMBIA
GOLD MOULDED CYLINDER RECORDS.
7 inch , 50c. ea.;
$5 per
per doz.
j COLUMBIA j
| DISC RECORDS. J
JO inch, $1 ea.
$10 per doz.
Grand Opera Records (10 inch discs only), $2 each.
THE LATEST TYPE—Solid Mahogany Cabinet—Beautiful in design; and an ornament
wherever placed.
The Best Talking Machine Ever Placed Before the Public at this Price.
Absolute perfection of sound reproduction. All the sweetness, volume and beauty of the
original rendition.
The word COL UMB1A on a Talking Mach ine or Record is always a guarantee of merit and
quality.
Columbia Records Fit Any M a k e of T a l k i n g Machine
FOR SALE BY DEALERS EVERYWHERE AND BY THE
COLUMBIA
PHONOGRAPH
Type AY, $ 5 0 .
COMPANY
PIONEERS AND LEADERS IN THE TALKING MACHINE ART.
GRAND PRIZE, PARIS, 1900.
NEW YORK. Wholesale, Retail and Export, 868 Broadway.
UPTOWN, RETAIL ONLY, 872 Broadway.
LOS ANGELES, 828 South Main S t
TORONTO,
ONTARIO,
107 "
Yonge S t MEMPHIS,302 Main St.
CHICAGO, 88 Wabash Ave.
SAN FRANCISCO. 125 Geary St.
PHILADELPHIA, 1010-1021 Market S t CINCINNATI, 117-119 West Fourth St. MINNEAPOLIS, 13 Fourth St.. South. PORTLAND. ORE.. 128 Seventh St.
INDIANAPOLIS, 48 N. Pennsylvania St. OAKLAND, CAL.. 512 18th St.
ST. LOUIS, 908 Olive S t (Frisco Bldg.) PITTSBURG, 616 Penn Ave.
TERRE HAUTE. 23 S. Seventh St.
KANSAS CITY, 1016 Walnut S t
BOSTON. 164 Tremont St.
NEW ORLEANS, 628-680 Canal S t
DUBUQUE, 628 Main St.
ST. PAUL, 386 Wabasha S t
BALTIMORE, 281 N. Howard S t
DETROIT, 272 Woodward Ave.
ST. JOSEPH, MO., 718 Edmond S t
DENVER, 605-507 Sixteenth S t
CLEVELAND, Cor. Euclid Ave. & Erie S t MILWAUKEE, 891 East Water S t
SPRINGFIELD, MASS., 266 Main St.
OMAHA, 1621 Farnam St.
BUFFALO, 646 Main S t
WASHINGTON, 1212 F St., N. W.
BERLIN, 71 Ritterstrasae.
LONDON. Wholesale, Retail, 89 Great Eastern St., E. C.
RETAIL BRANCH STO*K, 200 Oxford St., W.
HAMBURG. Adolphsplatx No. 4.
PARIS. I l l and 118 Rue Montmartre.
ST. PETERSBURG. 68 Ncvtlri Prospect
VIENNA, Seilergasse No. 14.
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