Music Trade Review
Issue: 1915 Vol. 60 N. 2 - Page 46
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
air in a brass or wooden tube with some sort of
mouthpiece or embouchure; a string or two—four
In the Musical Merchandise Field in the Late
is a good number—to be bowed, plucked or struck"
Winter and Spring Months, Says Samuel
—these are the essentials. So it happens that
Buegeleisen in Discussing Conditions.
change, coming slowly and rarely, is often more
apparent than real. "Edward I.'s 'Rogero le
"Judging from the response? received from our
Trompour' sounds very ancient in 1914, but he
recent notification to the trade, business conditions made exactly the same music for his sovereign at
this winter and spring will show a marked im- Carnarvon as the cavalry trumpeters now make for
provement," said Samuel Buegeleisen, head oi George V. at Aldershot. And, even if we leave
Buegeleisen & Jacobson, 113 University place, New the Long Valley for the more rarefied atmosphere
York. "The dealers' stocks must be very low in- of Queen's Hall, W., we can only record an addi-
deed, as we have received large orders with urgent
tional tube or two each with a mechanical air-
requests to make immediate delivery. Our re- switch."
duced prices and the fact that we have been able
to secure substantial shipments of musical mer-
AMERICAN EXPORT BUSINESS
chandise through neutral ports has aroused the
Will Not Be Greatly Helped by the New Ship-
keen interest of our trade throughout the coun-
ping Bill According to Some Members of the
try."
LOOK FOR STEADY IMPROVEMENT
our Department of State was in line with what I
mean.
"If England can be persuaded to leave our ship-
ping alone, such favorable action will stimulate ex-
port conditions at once, with a continuance of the
practice of not alone searching but actually taking
vessels into an English port for indefinite detention,
our export business will come pretty near to being
ended."
STATEMENT FROM C. BRUNO & SON.
Withdraw Advance of 25 Per Cent, on Musical
Merchandise Owing to Ability to Get Better
Deliveries from Europe.
Owing to the fact that goods are now coming
from Europe in limited quantities, although under
great difficulties and via round about routes, C.
Bruno & Son, Inc., 351-353 Fourth avenue, New
Trade as It Seems That Available Ships Can-
York, have issued the following statement regard-
not Be Had—Shipping Men State That
ing prices on musical merchandise. It will be re-
THE MODERN ORCHESTRAL FAMILY.
Government Ownership Should
Not Be
membered that during August last this concern, in
Attempted,
Meanwhile
Something
Must
Be
Discussed in a Most Exhaustive Way by Cecil
line with the policy of other houses in the same
Done
to
Help
Export
Business.
Forsyth in a Volume on "Orchestration"
business, was obliged to raise its prices by 25 per
Which Has Just Been Issued by Macmillans.
The favorable report made in the Senate the past cent., and it is gratifying to the officers of the com-
Cecil Forsyth is the author of a most interesting week on the bill for the purchase and operation pany to be able to make this announcement to the
book of five hundred-odd pages, entitled "Orches- by the Government of a fleet of vessels to handle trade. The statement is as follows:
"Conditions being such that it is again possible
tration," just published by Mncmillan's, which will American export business owing to the conditions
appeal to many in the musical merchandise field. brought about by the European war has had the to import musical merchandise at an advanced cost,
This work, remarkable both in interest and for the effect of focusing the attention of shipping men, covering increased freight rates and war risk in-
immense labor which it represents, is an attempt, exporters and vessel charterers on the measure. surance, it affords us great pleasure to advise you
as its author modestly says, to describe our modern While there appears to be a great diversity of opin- that we hereby withdraw our advance of 25 per
orchestral instruments; to tell What they sprang ion among merchants in these lines as to the meas- cent, and that we are now selling all such imported
from and how they have developed into to-day's ure of relief to be experienced by the Government musical merchandise at prices based on present
forms; finally, to trace the types of music which entering the field as an ocean carrier, it is almost cost to us, making our present selling prices only
unanimously agreed that something must be done to slightly higher than those in force prior to the be-
have been reflected by constructional changes.
In Mr. Forsyth's general index fifty-six distinct remedy conditions if the export business of the ginning of the European war. We thank you for
past favors and solicit your future orders. Very
instruments are named, beginning with the drums country is not to come almost to a standstill.
respectfully, C. Bruno & Son, Inc."
The
majority
of
shipping
and
allied
interests
at
and tambos and ending with the dulcimer. Of
course, many more figure in the text. Of his first this port cannot be said to favor the Government
The Review's universal Want Directory is
twelve pages, eleven are given to the exploitation entering the ocean transportation business as a free to all. If you wish a man for any depart-
of the compass and transposition clefs of instru- solution of existing difficulties. The idea of the ment of your business consult the market
ment after instrument. Many pictures of orches- Government competing directly with private capital place of the trade.
tral pieces are presented, and for further illustra- meets with strong condemnation in most quarters,
tions, most freely employed, there are reproduc- although some ship owners and brokers are said to
favor the project as a means of unloading unde-
tions of music phrases and parts of scores.
Mr. Forsyth considers in his preface the sim- sirable vessels upon the Government. The belief is
plicity of the facts that underlie instrumentation. expressed that remedies other than a Federal line
of steamships are at hand and should be applied
"A skin or a metal plate to be beaten; a column of
before attempting to commit the Government to the
The oldest aivd
of a commercial fleet. This is the
WEYMANN&SON maintenance
largest musical
view taken by an experienced charterer of vessels
Incorporated
of all kinds, who has been in the business for many
Manufacturers of
merchandise house
The Famous
years.
in
America - - -
Weymann Mandolutes and
"My feeling is," said this man, "that it would be
much more advantageous all around if before ex-
"Keystone State" Instruments
perimenting with a Government - owned line of
1010 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
SEND FOR
steamships the Administration at Washington
CATALOG
would try to bring about a modification of the
chief difficulties in the way of profitable commercial
intercourse with the neutral countries of Europe.
m
351-53 ^P Ave. Newybrk
The formal note sent to Great Britain last week by
=, CBnmo&Soiunc
Black Diamond
Strings
~/f,
Manufacturers, Importers
Publishers. Largest and
most complete stock of
Musical Merchan-
dise i n t h e
trade.
THE WORLD'S BEST
lational Musical String; Co.
New Brunswlok, N. J .
EXCELSIOR
DRUMS ! E STANDARD
Some dealers may say that they cost more than
others.
Excelsior drums cost more because they are
worth more. Cost more to make.
We could make them cost less by using 1 cheaper
material, use less care In making 1 them, and dis-
pense with the new patented Improvements.
If we did, however, Excelsior Drums would not
be the Standard as they are to-day. Write for
catalogue.
EXCELSIOR DRUM
WORKS
A. Ch SOXSTHCAM 1 , Vice-Fres. and Gen. Manager,
Tenth and Market Streets,
OAHOSN, V. J.
ATTRACTIVE
SPECIALTIES
Modem
Service
AUGUST MULLER
and J . HEBERLEIN, VIO-
LINS, VIOLAS AND CELLGS
MITTENWALD VIOLIN STRINGS
SEND FOR COMPLETE CATALOG
B
UEGELEISEN
& JACOBSON
113-115 University Place
NEW YORK
—
MUSICAL
Merchandise
Cincinnati
Chicago
Largest Jobbers in America of
ODERN
USICAL
ERCHANDISE
M
WRITE FOR NEW CATALOG
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
air in a brass or wooden tube with some sort of
mouthpiece or embouchure; a string or two—four
In the Musical Merchandise Field in the Late
is a good number—to be bowed, plucked or struck"
Winter and Spring Months, Says Samuel
—these are the essentials. So it happens that
Buegeleisen in Discussing Conditions.
change, coming slowly and rarely, is often more
apparent than real. "Edward I.'s 'Rogero le
"Judging from the response? received from our
Trompour' sounds very ancient in 1914, but he
recent notification to the trade, business conditions made exactly the same music for his sovereign at
this winter and spring will show a marked im- Carnarvon as the cavalry trumpeters now make for
provement," said Samuel Buegeleisen, head oi George V. at Aldershot. And, even if we leave
Buegeleisen & Jacobson, 113 University place, New the Long Valley for the more rarefied atmosphere
York. "The dealers' stocks must be very low in- of Queen's Hall, W., we can only record an addi-
deed, as we have received large orders with urgent
tional tube or two each with a mechanical air-
requests to make immediate delivery. Our re- switch."
duced prices and the fact that we have been able
to secure substantial shipments of musical mer-
AMERICAN EXPORT BUSINESS
chandise through neutral ports has aroused the
Will Not Be Greatly Helped by the New Ship-
keen interest of our trade throughout the coun-
ping Bill According to Some Members of the
try."
LOOK FOR STEADY IMPROVEMENT
our Department of State was in line with what I
mean.
"If England can be persuaded to leave our ship-
ping alone, such favorable action will stimulate ex-
port conditions at once, with a continuance of the
practice of not alone searching but actually taking
vessels into an English port for indefinite detention,
our export business will come pretty near to being
ended."
STATEMENT FROM C. BRUNO & SON.
Withdraw Advance of 25 Per Cent, on Musical
Merchandise Owing to Ability to Get Better
Deliveries from Europe.
Owing to the fact that goods are now coming
from Europe in limited quantities, although under
great difficulties and via round about routes, C.
Bruno & Son, Inc., 351-353 Fourth avenue, New
Trade as It Seems That Available Ships Can-
York, have issued the following statement regard-
not Be Had—Shipping Men State That
ing prices on musical merchandise. It will be re-
THE MODERN ORCHESTRAL FAMILY.
Government Ownership Should
Not Be
membered that during August last this concern, in
Attempted,
Meanwhile
Something
Must
Be
Discussed in a Most Exhaustive Way by Cecil
line with the policy of other houses in the same
Done
to
Help
Export
Business.
Forsyth in a Volume on "Orchestration"
business, was obliged to raise its prices by 25 per
Which Has Just Been Issued by Macmillans.
The favorable report made in the Senate the past cent., and it is gratifying to the officers of the com-
Cecil Forsyth is the author of a most interesting week on the bill for the purchase and operation pany to be able to make this announcement to the
book of five hundred-odd pages, entitled "Orches- by the Government of a fleet of vessels to handle trade. The statement is as follows:
"Conditions being such that it is again possible
tration," just published by Mncmillan's, which will American export business owing to the conditions
appeal to many in the musical merchandise field. brought about by the European war has had the to import musical merchandise at an advanced cost,
This work, remarkable both in interest and for the effect of focusing the attention of shipping men, covering increased freight rates and war risk in-
immense labor which it represents, is an attempt, exporters and vessel charterers on the measure. surance, it affords us great pleasure to advise you
as its author modestly says, to describe our modern While there appears to be a great diversity of opin- that we hereby withdraw our advance of 25 per
orchestral instruments; to tell What they sprang ion among merchants in these lines as to the meas- cent, and that we are now selling all such imported
from and how they have developed into to-day's ure of relief to be experienced by the Government musical merchandise at prices based on present
forms; finally, to trace the types of music which entering the field as an ocean carrier, it is almost cost to us, making our present selling prices only
unanimously agreed that something must be done to slightly higher than those in force prior to the be-
have been reflected by constructional changes.
In Mr. Forsyth's general index fifty-six distinct remedy conditions if the export business of the ginning of the European war. We thank you for
past favors and solicit your future orders. Very
instruments are named, beginning with the drums country is not to come almost to a standstill.
respectfully, C. Bruno & Son, Inc."
The
majority
of
shipping
and
allied
interests
at
and tambos and ending with the dulcimer. Of
course, many more figure in the text. Of his first this port cannot be said to favor the Government
The Review's universal Want Directory is
twelve pages, eleven are given to the exploitation entering the ocean transportation business as a free to all. If you wish a man for any depart-
of the compass and transposition clefs of instru- solution of existing difficulties. The idea of the ment of your business consult the market
ment after instrument. Many pictures of orches- Government competing directly with private capital place of the trade.
tral pieces are presented, and for further illustra- meets with strong condemnation in most quarters,
tions, most freely employed, there are reproduc- although some ship owners and brokers are said to
favor the project as a means of unloading unde-
tions of music phrases and parts of scores.
Mr. Forsyth considers in his preface the sim- sirable vessels upon the Government. The belief is
plicity of the facts that underlie instrumentation. expressed that remedies other than a Federal line
of steamships are at hand and should be applied
"A skin or a metal plate to be beaten; a column of
before attempting to commit the Government to the
The oldest aivd
of a commercial fleet. This is the
WEYMANN&SON maintenance
largest musical
view taken by an experienced charterer of vessels
Incorporated
of all kinds, who has been in the business for many
Manufacturers of
merchandise house
The Famous
years.
in
America - - -
Weymann Mandolutes and
"My feeling is," said this man, "that it would be
much more advantageous all around if before ex-
"Keystone State" Instruments
perimenting with a Government - owned line of
1010 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
SEND FOR
steamships the Administration at Washington
CATALOG
would try to bring about a modification of the
chief difficulties in the way of profitable commercial
intercourse with the neutral countries of Europe.
m
351-53 ^P Ave. Newybrk
The formal note sent to Great Britain last week by
=, CBnmo&Soiunc
Black Diamond
Strings
~/f,
Manufacturers, Importers
Publishers. Largest and
most complete stock of
Musical Merchan-
dise i n t h e
trade.
THE WORLD'S BEST
lational Musical String; Co.
New Brunswlok, N. J .
EXCELSIOR
DRUMS ! E STANDARD
Some dealers may say that they cost more than
others.
Excelsior drums cost more because they are
worth more. Cost more to make.
We could make them cost less by using 1 cheaper
material, use less care In making 1 them, and dis-
pense with the new patented Improvements.
If we did, however, Excelsior Drums would not
be the Standard as they are to-day. Write for
catalogue.
EXCELSIOR DRUM
WORKS
A. Ch SOXSTHCAM 1 , Vice-Fres. and Gen. Manager,
Tenth and Market Streets,
OAHOSN, V. J.
ATTRACTIVE
SPECIALTIES
Modem
Service
AUGUST MULLER
and J . HEBERLEIN, VIO-
LINS, VIOLAS AND CELLGS
MITTENWALD VIOLIN STRINGS
SEND FOR COMPLETE CATALOG
B
UEGELEISEN
& JACOBSON
113-115 University Place
NEW YORK
—
MUSICAL
Merchandise
Cincinnati
Chicago
Largest Jobbers in America of
ODERN
USICAL
ERCHANDISE
M
WRITE FOR NEW CATALOG
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