Music Trade Review
Issue: 1917 Vol. 64 N. 23 - Page 55
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THE
MUSIC
TRADE
INTRODUCING THE DEA=GAN=OMETER
SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE HELPS
Ditson & Co. Featuring New Instrument for
Producing True Pitch
Some Reasons Why Salesmen in the Small
Goods Department Should Have a Better
Knowledge of Fretted Instruments
The musical merchandise department of C.
II. Ditson & Co. is showing the new Dea-gan-
ometer in their retail warerooms at 8 East
Thirty-fourth street. The Dea-gan-ometer is a
scientific mechanism for measuring tone vibra-
tions and beats and offers a means for producing
absolute pitch never before attained. It is a
master tuner for tuning musical instruments to
any desired pitch. It takes its name from the
inventor, J. C. Deagan, whose orchestra and
song bells and marimbas are known through-
out the trade. Mr. Deagan predicts that when
once used the Dea-gan-ometer will be found as
indispensable to the musician as the thermom-
eter is to the physician.
PATENTS VIOLIN CHIN REST
WASHINGTON, D. C, June 4.—Patent No.
1,227,359 was last week granted to Robert L.
Yeakey, Cave in Rock, 111., for a violin chin rest,
one of its objects being to provide a device of
this character particularly designed for use in
connection with a violin of novel configuration,
the chin rest being so shaped as to be extended
laterally from the instrument while in use or
to be capable of folding up while not in use.
A further object is to provide means for lock-
ing the chin rest in laterally extending or ac-
tive position.
LEASE HEADQUARTERS IN NEWARK
The Standard Musical String Co., with
branches in California and Italy, has leased two
three-story buildings at 362 and 364 Thomas
street, Newark, N. J., for manufacturing and
wareroom purposes.
OPEN SMALL GOODS DEPARTMENT
The D. M. Read Co., one of the large depart-
ment stores of Bridgeport, Ct., has recently
opened a large and well-stocked small goods
department, where a complete line of musical
instruments and sheet music is being carried.
Consult the universal Want Directory of
The Review. In it advertisements are inserted
free of charge for men who desire positions.
RUNG
THE OLDEST AND
LARGEST MUSICAL
55
REVIEW
When you enter a music store to buy a cornet
you are turned over to a salesman who knows
something about cornets. If you seek a clarinet
or flute the man who serves you from behind the
counter not only demonstrates different instru-
ments, but he is able to talk intelligently about
the various makes and grades, and he is not
likely to send you away with a high pitch Meyer
system flute if a low pitch Boehm is what you
should have, says a writer in The Cadenza.
But should you ask for a mandolin or guitar
in the same store, the chances are that you
would be assisted in making a selection by a
salesman whose fretted instrument knowledge
is limited to a small handful of chords and what
he can glean from the hieroglyphics on the price
tags.
While it is not at all uncommon to lind good
musicians or clerks who are thoroughly familiar
with orchestra and band instruments, in the
small goods departments of music stores, there
seems to be an unfortunate lack of acquaint-
ance with the fretted instruments and make-up
of the mandolin orchestra. A few weeks ago
a gentleman inquired at the music counter of a
representative music store for mandolin orches-
tra music. He was shown, after some search-
ing on the part of the clerk, one or two first-
mandolin folios of not very recent vintage, and
was assured that the numbers therein were ar-
ranged and published in like folios for "man-
dolin orchestra"—and to prove it, the courteous
clerk got out second-mandolin, guitar and piano
books! Investigation proved that not one of
the twenty-seven employes of that store knew
the instrumentation of a mandolin orchestra or
even had a practical knowledge of any fretted
instrument.
In view of these facts is it at all surprising
that this store has had numerous unfortunate
mix-ups io its small goods department, such as
selling a ukulele to a fond parent who wanted a
"Hawaiian" guitar? Or that it lost a good cus-
tomer because a salesman, who knew too much
salesmanship and too little mandolin, sold a
mandola with a mandolin "self-instruction"
book and two sets of mandolin strings to a col-
lege boy? Or that a country boy was sold a
guitar "with a fine tone and good carrying case"
"Exclusively
Wholesale "
PEARL MUSICAL STRING CO.
Commercial Bids., 8th and Chestnut Streeti. PHILADELPHIA, PA.
MERCHANDISE HOUSE
DURRO
VIOLINS
BOWS
STRINGS
AND
SMART
BANJOS
MANDOLINS
GUITARS
Largest Wholesale
Musical Merchandise
House in America
Buegeleisen & Jacobson
113 University Place
NEW
YORK
and found the case the only part of his purchase
that lie could use because the guitar was a hope-
less combination of badly warped neck and high
frets?
Not at all. And, mind you, because that store
has a reputation for honesty and liberal deal-
ing, the fault is all the more glaring, for in
failing to provide a competent fretted instru-
ment musician to care for this increasingly im-
portant part of its business, the store is daily
working injury to itself and to everyone con-
nected with the music profession and trade in
that community.
INVENTS NEW MUSICAL INSTRUMENT
Novel Apparatus Provides for Playing With the
Feet While Dancing
WASHINGTON, D. C, June 4.—Alfred C. Pope,
New York, was last week granted Patent No.
1,227,309 for a foot-actuated musical instrument
of unusual type.
This invention is a novel mechanical mu-
sical amusement instrument, especially adapted
for use in theatres and vaudeville entertain-
ments. It provides a novel instrument whereby
a person dancing upon the top of the instrument
may at the same time play a tune by depressing
proper keys with his feet, such keys actuating
musical sounding or tone producing devices ar-
ranged below the keyboard.
Musical Instrument
Strings
satisfy the most exacting buyers. Try
Helmet, II Trovatore and La Melodia
Violin Strings.
Send ior a wholesale Musical Strinjf
and Accessory catalogue
IN AMERICA
OLIVER DITSON GO.
Exclusively Wholesale
BOSTON. MASS.
Armour & Company
Chicago
M anuf actur era
35I-53FWRTHAVE.NEWYORKCITY
Importers and Jobbers oi
MUSICAL
MERCHANDISE
Victor Distributors
Attractive Specialties
Modern Service
ESTABLISHED 1834
M U S I C A I.
Merc hand ise
Superior Quality MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
Chicago
1108 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Manufac-
turer* of
«-•
Victor Distributor*
Established O T « half m cantury
Black Diamond
Strings
THE WORLD'S BEST
National Musical String Co.
New Brunswick, N. J.
THE
MUSIC
TRADE
INTRODUCING THE DEA=GAN=OMETER
SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE HELPS
Ditson & Co. Featuring New Instrument for
Producing True Pitch
Some Reasons Why Salesmen in the Small
Goods Department Should Have a Better
Knowledge of Fretted Instruments
The musical merchandise department of C.
II. Ditson & Co. is showing the new Dea-gan-
ometer in their retail warerooms at 8 East
Thirty-fourth street. The Dea-gan-ometer is a
scientific mechanism for measuring tone vibra-
tions and beats and offers a means for producing
absolute pitch never before attained. It is a
master tuner for tuning musical instruments to
any desired pitch. It takes its name from the
inventor, J. C. Deagan, whose orchestra and
song bells and marimbas are known through-
out the trade. Mr. Deagan predicts that when
once used the Dea-gan-ometer will be found as
indispensable to the musician as the thermom-
eter is to the physician.
PATENTS VIOLIN CHIN REST
WASHINGTON, D. C, June 4.—Patent No.
1,227,359 was last week granted to Robert L.
Yeakey, Cave in Rock, 111., for a violin chin rest,
one of its objects being to provide a device of
this character particularly designed for use in
connection with a violin of novel configuration,
the chin rest being so shaped as to be extended
laterally from the instrument while in use or
to be capable of folding up while not in use.
A further object is to provide means for lock-
ing the chin rest in laterally extending or ac-
tive position.
LEASE HEADQUARTERS IN NEWARK
The Standard Musical String Co., with
branches in California and Italy, has leased two
three-story buildings at 362 and 364 Thomas
street, Newark, N. J., for manufacturing and
wareroom purposes.
OPEN SMALL GOODS DEPARTMENT
The D. M. Read Co., one of the large depart-
ment stores of Bridgeport, Ct., has recently
opened a large and well-stocked small goods
department, where a complete line of musical
instruments and sheet music is being carried.
Consult the universal Want Directory of
The Review. In it advertisements are inserted
free of charge for men who desire positions.
RUNG
THE OLDEST AND
LARGEST MUSICAL
55
REVIEW
When you enter a music store to buy a cornet
you are turned over to a salesman who knows
something about cornets. If you seek a clarinet
or flute the man who serves you from behind the
counter not only demonstrates different instru-
ments, but he is able to talk intelligently about
the various makes and grades, and he is not
likely to send you away with a high pitch Meyer
system flute if a low pitch Boehm is what you
should have, says a writer in The Cadenza.
But should you ask for a mandolin or guitar
in the same store, the chances are that you
would be assisted in making a selection by a
salesman whose fretted instrument knowledge
is limited to a small handful of chords and what
he can glean from the hieroglyphics on the price
tags.
While it is not at all uncommon to lind good
musicians or clerks who are thoroughly familiar
with orchestra and band instruments, in the
small goods departments of music stores, there
seems to be an unfortunate lack of acquaint-
ance with the fretted instruments and make-up
of the mandolin orchestra. A few weeks ago
a gentleman inquired at the music counter of a
representative music store for mandolin orches-
tra music. He was shown, after some search-
ing on the part of the clerk, one or two first-
mandolin folios of not very recent vintage, and
was assured that the numbers therein were ar-
ranged and published in like folios for "man-
dolin orchestra"—and to prove it, the courteous
clerk got out second-mandolin, guitar and piano
books! Investigation proved that not one of
the twenty-seven employes of that store knew
the instrumentation of a mandolin orchestra or
even had a practical knowledge of any fretted
instrument.
In view of these facts is it at all surprising
that this store has had numerous unfortunate
mix-ups io its small goods department, such as
selling a ukulele to a fond parent who wanted a
"Hawaiian" guitar? Or that it lost a good cus-
tomer because a salesman, who knew too much
salesmanship and too little mandolin, sold a
mandola with a mandolin "self-instruction"
book and two sets of mandolin strings to a col-
lege boy? Or that a country boy was sold a
guitar "with a fine tone and good carrying case"
"Exclusively
Wholesale "
PEARL MUSICAL STRING CO.
Commercial Bids., 8th and Chestnut Streeti. PHILADELPHIA, PA.
MERCHANDISE HOUSE
DURRO
VIOLINS
BOWS
STRINGS
AND
SMART
BANJOS
MANDOLINS
GUITARS
Largest Wholesale
Musical Merchandise
House in America
Buegeleisen & Jacobson
113 University Place
NEW
YORK
and found the case the only part of his purchase
that lie could use because the guitar was a hope-
less combination of badly warped neck and high
frets?
Not at all. And, mind you, because that store
has a reputation for honesty and liberal deal-
ing, the fault is all the more glaring, for in
failing to provide a competent fretted instru-
ment musician to care for this increasingly im-
portant part of its business, the store is daily
working injury to itself and to everyone con-
nected with the music profession and trade in
that community.
INVENTS NEW MUSICAL INSTRUMENT
Novel Apparatus Provides for Playing With the
Feet While Dancing
WASHINGTON, D. C, June 4.—Alfred C. Pope,
New York, was last week granted Patent No.
1,227,309 for a foot-actuated musical instrument
of unusual type.
This invention is a novel mechanical mu-
sical amusement instrument, especially adapted
for use in theatres and vaudeville entertain-
ments. It provides a novel instrument whereby
a person dancing upon the top of the instrument
may at the same time play a tune by depressing
proper keys with his feet, such keys actuating
musical sounding or tone producing devices ar-
ranged below the keyboard.
Musical Instrument
Strings
satisfy the most exacting buyers. Try
Helmet, II Trovatore and La Melodia
Violin Strings.
Send ior a wholesale Musical Strinjf
and Accessory catalogue
IN AMERICA
OLIVER DITSON GO.
Exclusively Wholesale
BOSTON. MASS.
Armour & Company
Chicago
M anuf actur era
35I-53FWRTHAVE.NEWYORKCITY
Importers and Jobbers oi
MUSICAL
MERCHANDISE
Victor Distributors
Attractive Specialties
Modern Service
ESTABLISHED 1834
M U S I C A I.
Merc hand ise
Superior Quality MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
Chicago
1108 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Manufac-
turer* of
«-•
Victor Distributor*
Established O T « half m cantury
Black Diamond
Strings
THE WORLD'S BEST
National Musical String Co.
New Brunswick, N. J.
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