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Music Trade Review

Issue: 1917 Vol. 65 N. 20 - Page 59

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THE MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
53
BANJO=UKULELE POPULAR
C. Bruno & Son, Inc., Having Great Success
with Hanalei Brand
BEHEE VIOLIN MFG. CO.
One of the most popular sellers in the banjo-
ukulele lines handled by C. Bruno & Son, Inc.,
New York, is the No. 32 Hanalei brand banjo-
ukulele, shown in
the accompanying
illustration.
This
Wholesale Only—Send for Details
instrument is meet-
ing with decided
success throughout
the country, and its
musical and con-
NATIONAL BAND PROPOSED
SHIPMENT OF 'CELLOS RECEIVED
structional quali-
Friedrich
& Bro. Report Safe Arrival of Violon-
ties are well sum- Initial Work of Organization Already Finished
cellos
med up in the fol-
—Generous Financial Support
lowing description,
Ernest N. Doring, manager of John Fried-
A National Army band to give inspiration rich & Bro., 279 Fifth avenue, New York, is
which appears in
the Bruno catalog: at home and to serve as a recruiting agency much pleased over the safe arrival of shipments
Seven inch rim and model for the r military bands of the can- of violoncellos. During these troublous times
formed of three tonments in France is planned by Elizabeth shipments have been scarce and he reports that
sections
c r o s s - Marbury, Elsa Maxwell and Mrs. Oliver Har- there have been no small 'cellos on the market
banded, the center riman, and the first steps toward organizing the for several months. This shipment fills a long
and wider section new war aid have already been taken. The felt want, especially in the one-half and one-
being of Hawaiian originators of the idea have found a leader quarter sizes. Mr. Doring announces that al-
Koa, the upper and and a nucleus in Frank E. Tours and his most the entire list has already been sold.
lower sections of "scratch band" of young Americanized Italians
hard maple. The and Frenchmen. The plan is to organize a
PATENTS METALLIC STRING
rounded v top edge national band of 125 pieces and to develop
from
this
organization
bands
for
our
army
WASHINGTON, D. C, November 12.—'Patent No.
of the rim is also
1,244,549 was last week granted to Louis C.
of Hawaiian Koa abroad.
"Now is the time to make a great American Schermerhorn, Paterson, N. J., for a string for
and the oval tone
amplifier at the army band," said Mr. Tours recently. "We musical instruments, its object being to provide
back is the finest have a wealth of material. The Germans are a metallic string such, for example, as is used
figured Hawaiian string masters. We do not need them at all. as an E string of a violin, which shall be free
Koa, handsomely We have Italians, Frenchmen and Americans, from the objectionable features of such strings
polished and hand and with them we can organize a band which as have been heretofore available, and which
Hanalei Banjo-Ukulele
rubbed. The neck will take its place with the great bands of shall have improved tone qualities.
is maple with finely figured Koa fingerboard all time."
DITSON DEPARTMENT BUSY
Plenty of financial support is ready, accord-
and Koa veneer on the front of the head and
on the heel. The entire front of the instrument cording to the sponsors, for an organization
Business is brisk in the musical merchandise
is bound with a very handsome and effective which will be ready to play at great enter- department of C. H. Ditson & Co., 8 East Thir-
rope pattern inlay of alternate light and dark tainments, parades and rallies, and which would ty-fourth street, in all instruments. The great-
woods, and a double row of the same inlay ex- be available to travel anywhere in the country est demand continues to be for band instru-
tends up through the center of the fingerboard. for the purpose of arousing patriotism.
ments. Among the recent visitors to this de-
Eight pearl position dots in pairs, four small
partment was James G. Geagan, representative
Consult the universal Want Directory of of J. C. Deagan & Co., manufacturers of musical
position dots on side of neck. Sixteen German
silver frets, two octave scale. Fine non-slipping The Review. In it advertisements are inserted specialties, Chicago.
patent pegs with polished tortoise celluloid but- free of charge 'for men who desire positions.
tons, finest quality calfskin head, silk neck cord.
Exclusive Manufacturers of
Violins and Violin Accessories
INDEPENDENCE
DURRO
JOHNFRIEDRICH&BRO.
AND
SEND FOR
OUR
CATALOGUES
STEWART
Largest Wholesale
Musical Merchandise
House in America
Buegeleisen & Jacobson
113 Univrsity Place
NEW YORK
Black Diamond
Strings
THE WORLD'S BEST
MO.
RUNO
T H E OLDEST AND
LARGEST MUSICAL
MERCHANDISE HOUSE
IN AMERICA
OLIVER DITSON GO.
BOSTON, MASS.
Exclusively Wholesale
Manufacturers
Importers and Jobbers ol
351-53 HWRTH AVE. NEWYORKCITY
MUSICAL
MERCHANDISE
Victor Distributors
Attractive Specialties
Modern Service
ESTABLISHED 1834
WEYMANN
National Musical String Co.
Superior Quality MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
New Brunswick, N. J.
1108 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Victor Distributors
Established OT«r half a century
MUSICAL
Merchandise
Cincinnati
Chicago

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