Music Trade Review
Issue: 1918 Vol. 66 N. 1 - Page 45
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THE
JANUARY 5, 1918
MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW
45
SPECIAL PICKS FOR_SPECIAL PEOPLE
One of the Interesting Features of Musical Mer
chandise Business of Lyon & Healy
The ordinary man probably does not realize
offhand how many different kinds of hands and
fingers there are in the world. The special
picks for particular players which are put out
by Lyon & Healy, of Chicago, for use with in-
struments such as the mandolin, mandola, raan-
docello, banjo and banjo tango-banjo give a very
87-101 Ferry Street
Jersey City, N. J.
OSCAR SCHMIDT, Inc.
ESTABLISHED 1877
Manufacturer of Musical Stringed Instruments — Celebrated Stella and
Sovereign Guitars, Mandolins and Banjos, Violins,
Menzenhauer Guitar Zithers, Mandolin Harps,
Guitarophones, Symphonettes and other musical novelties
expert is employed whose business it is to cor-
respond with people with crippled hands who
want to play the mandolin or some similar in-
strument. It is the function of this expert to
determine the possibility of supplying a special
pick which will enable the injured one to over-
come his deformity and filling this type of de-
mand has developed into a substantial business.
THE USE OF TRUMPETS AND BUGLES
Interesting Facts Concerning the Vibratory Ef-
fect of These Instruments
Picks Made by Lyon & Healy
good idea of how varied are the human manual
characteristics.
Of course, there are many persons prevented
from playing a plectrum instrument because
of a hand being crippled. The extremely large
business which Lyon & Healy do in the plectrum
instruments, however, has made it worth while
to give consideration to even the crippled. An
worn
T H E OLDESTAND
LARGEST MUSICAL
MERCHANDISE HOUSE
IN AMERICA
Exclusively Wholesale
PEARL MUSICAL STRING CO.
Commercial Bids., 8th and Chestnut Streets,
'OLD&NEW
VIOLINS
GRAND PRIZES^
[BEST STRIN05^""> CHICAGO 189i
ST LOUIS 1 9 0 * 1
JOHNFRIEDRICH&BRO.
SEND FOR
279 riFT HAVE
9
TALOGUES
"
^
OLIVER DITSON CO.
BOSTON, MASS.
MUSICAL
MERCHANDISE
Attractive Specialties
Modern Service
ESTABLISHED 1834
Chicago
AND
STEWART
Largest Wholesale
Musical Merchandise
House in America
Buegeleisen & Jacobson
Importer* and Jobber* of
Cincinnati
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
DURRO
NEW YORK
CST. ISS3
Manufacturers
MUSICAL
Merchandise
GROVER BANJO WRENCH POPULAR
A glass bar set vibrating lengthwise by a Recent Invention Proves Efficient and Very
sound will smash to pieces if the sound rise to
Popular Among Banjoists
a high, enough key—that is, if the number of
vibrations becomes great enough.
And the The Grover wrench, which has been recently
hardest metals, such as iron and steel, will break offered to the small goods trade, has grown into
like glass under the rhythmic shock of oft-re- popularity by leaps and bounds. The inventor,
peated feeble blows.
P'or this reason when A. D. Grover, is a banjoist of much reputation,
regiments march across a metal bridge they are and the banjo wrench he has invented is the
always ordered to break step, in order that the result of his years of experience regarding the
impact of their feet may not set up rhythmic vi- needs of a banjoist. Mr. Grover is well known
brations in the structure.
to the trade through some of his former inven-
Many persons who have a mania for explain- tions, such as the Grover non-tip bridge and the
ing in a materialistic way all the wonders re- Grover vibrator.
lated in the Bible have conjectured that when
This new invention earns its popularity
the walls of Jericho fell under the trumpet through the fact that it combines all the vari-
blasts of Joshua's army these were keyed to set ous sizes of wrenches necessary to fit the
up in the walls precisely the vibrations that bracket nuts of all makes of banjos, all in a
would shatter them. And it may be said that size that will lit in the vest pocket, and in ad-
this explanation is by no means confined to ma- dition a screwdriver is included in the outfit.
terialists, for this very opinion was held also by The various jobbers carrying the line report
the old Jewish rabbis, as well as by St. Augus- that it has appealed strongly to the trade.
tine, St. Jerome and St. Ambrose. But Father
Athanasius Kircher, S. J., in his learned treatise,
"Musurgia universalis" (book I X ) , showed the
"Exclusively
insufficiency of such a physical explanation and
Wholesale "
concluded that only a miracle could have pro-
duced that effect.
ESTABLISHED 1834
Victor Distributors
Xicolas Hamel, writing in La Nature on the
acoustics of speaking trumpets, cites the above-
mentioned authors and mentions t!ie highly in-
teresting fact that a great French scientist
showed the officers of the troops that recap-
tured the fort of Douaumont a year ago a way
to use the bugle. L'ntil then and ever since
the Germans dug themselves in after their de-
feat on the Marne the bugles had been silent,
as they could be heard equally well in the
enemy's trenches.
WEYMAHN
Y
Superior Quality MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
Victor Distributors
1108 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Established over half a century
113 University Place
NEW YORK
Black Diamond
Strings
THE WORLD'S BEST
National Musical String Co.
Nev/ Brunswick, N. J.
THE
JANUARY 5, 1918
MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW
45
SPECIAL PICKS FOR_SPECIAL PEOPLE
One of the Interesting Features of Musical Mer
chandise Business of Lyon & Healy
The ordinary man probably does not realize
offhand how many different kinds of hands and
fingers there are in the world. The special
picks for particular players which are put out
by Lyon & Healy, of Chicago, for use with in-
struments such as the mandolin, mandola, raan-
docello, banjo and banjo tango-banjo give a very
87-101 Ferry Street
Jersey City, N. J.
OSCAR SCHMIDT, Inc.
ESTABLISHED 1877
Manufacturer of Musical Stringed Instruments — Celebrated Stella and
Sovereign Guitars, Mandolins and Banjos, Violins,
Menzenhauer Guitar Zithers, Mandolin Harps,
Guitarophones, Symphonettes and other musical novelties
expert is employed whose business it is to cor-
respond with people with crippled hands who
want to play the mandolin or some similar in-
strument. It is the function of this expert to
determine the possibility of supplying a special
pick which will enable the injured one to over-
come his deformity and filling this type of de-
mand has developed into a substantial business.
THE USE OF TRUMPETS AND BUGLES
Interesting Facts Concerning the Vibratory Ef-
fect of These Instruments
Picks Made by Lyon & Healy
good idea of how varied are the human manual
characteristics.
Of course, there are many persons prevented
from playing a plectrum instrument because
of a hand being crippled. The extremely large
business which Lyon & Healy do in the plectrum
instruments, however, has made it worth while
to give consideration to even the crippled. An
worn
T H E OLDESTAND
LARGEST MUSICAL
MERCHANDISE HOUSE
IN AMERICA
Exclusively Wholesale
PEARL MUSICAL STRING CO.
Commercial Bids., 8th and Chestnut Streets,
'OLD&NEW
VIOLINS
GRAND PRIZES^
[BEST STRIN05^""> CHICAGO 189i
ST LOUIS 1 9 0 * 1
JOHNFRIEDRICH&BRO.
SEND FOR
279 riFT HAVE
9
TALOGUES
"
^
OLIVER DITSON CO.
BOSTON, MASS.
MUSICAL
MERCHANDISE
Attractive Specialties
Modern Service
ESTABLISHED 1834
Chicago
AND
STEWART
Largest Wholesale
Musical Merchandise
House in America
Buegeleisen & Jacobson
Importer* and Jobber* of
Cincinnati
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
DURRO
NEW YORK
CST. ISS3
Manufacturers
MUSICAL
Merchandise
GROVER BANJO WRENCH POPULAR
A glass bar set vibrating lengthwise by a Recent Invention Proves Efficient and Very
sound will smash to pieces if the sound rise to
Popular Among Banjoists
a high, enough key—that is, if the number of
vibrations becomes great enough.
And the The Grover wrench, which has been recently
hardest metals, such as iron and steel, will break offered to the small goods trade, has grown into
like glass under the rhythmic shock of oft-re- popularity by leaps and bounds. The inventor,
peated feeble blows.
P'or this reason when A. D. Grover, is a banjoist of much reputation,
regiments march across a metal bridge they are and the banjo wrench he has invented is the
always ordered to break step, in order that the result of his years of experience regarding the
impact of their feet may not set up rhythmic vi- needs of a banjoist. Mr. Grover is well known
brations in the structure.
to the trade through some of his former inven-
Many persons who have a mania for explain- tions, such as the Grover non-tip bridge and the
ing in a materialistic way all the wonders re- Grover vibrator.
lated in the Bible have conjectured that when
This new invention earns its popularity
the walls of Jericho fell under the trumpet through the fact that it combines all the vari-
blasts of Joshua's army these were keyed to set ous sizes of wrenches necessary to fit the
up in the walls precisely the vibrations that bracket nuts of all makes of banjos, all in a
would shatter them. And it may be said that size that will lit in the vest pocket, and in ad-
this explanation is by no means confined to ma- dition a screwdriver is included in the outfit.
terialists, for this very opinion was held also by The various jobbers carrying the line report
the old Jewish rabbis, as well as by St. Augus- that it has appealed strongly to the trade.
tine, St. Jerome and St. Ambrose. But Father
Athanasius Kircher, S. J., in his learned treatise,
"Musurgia universalis" (book I X ) , showed the
"Exclusively
insufficiency of such a physical explanation and
Wholesale "
concluded that only a miracle could have pro-
duced that effect.
ESTABLISHED 1834
Victor Distributors
Xicolas Hamel, writing in La Nature on the
acoustics of speaking trumpets, cites the above-
mentioned authors and mentions t!ie highly in-
teresting fact that a great French scientist
showed the officers of the troops that recap-
tured the fort of Douaumont a year ago a way
to use the bugle. L'ntil then and ever since
the Germans dug themselves in after their de-
feat on the Marne the bugles had been silent,
as they could be heard equally well in the
enemy's trenches.
WEYMAHN
Y
Superior Quality MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
Victor Distributors
1108 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Established over half a century
113 University Place
NEW YORK
Black Diamond
Strings
THE WORLD'S BEST
National Musical String Co.
Nev/ Brunswick, N. J.
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