Music Trade Review
Issue: 1919 Vol. 68 N. 15 - Page 7
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APRIL 12,
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
1919
COLUMBIA INAUGURATES COURSE IN MUSICO-THERAPY
ELMON ARMSTRONG'S NEW POST
Remedial Power of Music Given High Recognition by Establishment of New Course at Columbia
University—Miss Margaret Anderton in Charge of Special Classes Now Formed
Now Connected With Financial Department of
Large Rubber Co.—Visiting the Middle West
The incorporation into the curriculum of Co-
lumbia University of a special course in musico-
therapy marks the recognition of the value of
music in the realm of medicine. The curative
powers of music in cases of nerve-shattered
soldiers from the battlefields of Europe have
been regarded with considerable skepticism by
the layman as well as by leading physicians and
surgeons. But at last it has won a place for
itself, and to-day it is an established fact that
music can do much to cure and strengthen an in-
jured nervous system.
The leading exponent of this new science is
Miss Margaret Anderton, of New York City,
who has developed her theories and is con-
vinced of their soundness through the pleasing
results of many actual experiments. Case after
case may be cited where she has succeeded after
nurses and medical men have failed and given
u]> the patient as hopeless. During the early
years of the war she went to Canada and worked
in the hospitals there, testing her new doctrine
with wonderful results.
According to Miss Anderton every person re-
sponds to some musical pitch or rhythm. Once
this pitch is discovered it is a comparatively
easy matter to play compositions which will
have a remedial effect upon the nervous system.
She has discovered that in ordinary conversa-
tion the human voice rarely exceeds a range of
live notes, and compositions limited to a mu-
sical fifth are universally appealing and soothing.
A soldier of a Canadian regiment was re-
cently in New York engaged in recruiting work
at the British recruiting station. He was an
accomplished violinist. Three years ago he was
struck deaf by a bursting shell at Ypres and
lost all sense of sound. Doctors said his case
was beyond all human aid.
Miss Andefton
sought him out, and to-day he is capable of
the most delicate musical appreciation. This
story is but one from hundreds where music has
aided nature in restoring harmony to the human
organism.
The value of Miss Anderton's work has been
recognized and as a result she is now teaching
to specially selected classes at Columbia Uni-
versity the new course dealing with the remedial
powers of music and will thus spread the new
science, which will mean so much to the
wounded and disabled soldiers daily returning
home.
NEW YORK, N. Y., April 7.—Following his re-
tirement from the office of treasurer of the
Kioeger Piano Co., Elmon Armstrong has just
taken up active duties in the financial depart-
ment of a large rubber company. The early
part of the week he left for Chicago, and it
is understood that his official duties will keep
him in the Middle West for a period of about a
month, after which he will return to headquar-
ters in New York.
Although at the present time not personally
active in the piano trade Mr. Armstrong con-
tinues to have a live interest in the affairs of the
piano industry because of his large stockhold-
ings therein.
PIANO WORKER HONORED BY FRANCE
about a month ago, and has since then been
in the United States Hospital on Eighteenth
street, New York, and also at Fox Hills, Staten
Island. He is now able to get around, and nat-
uially received an enthusiastic welcome on his
visit to the R. S. Howard factory in Harlem.
Morano has been in the employ of the R. S.
Howard Co. since 1914, and inasmuch as he is
now only 21 years old he started in with this
firm when quite a youth. He expects to resume
work in the Howard factory within a few
weeks.
Like other doughboys who have "done their
bit," Mr. Morano is exceedingly modest, but
his family and friends in and out of the piano
trade have good reason to be proud of his splen-
did accomplishments in demonstrating what
Uncle Sam's boys can do in convincing our
Teutonic friends that it's dangerous to monkey
with the Yankee buzz saw.
Joseph Morano, Who Previous to the War Was
Connected With the Polishing Department of
R. S. Howard Co., Now Out of Hospital and
Will Resume Work Soon—Made a Glorious
Record With American Army in France
A member of the piano trade who has come
back from the.world war with convincing evi-
dence of his bravery is Joseph Morano, who.
previous lo his volunteering for service with the
United States army, was connected with the
GODARD BROS. TAKE NEW LEASE
Syracuse Music House Planning to Open New
Store on May 1—Extensive Alterations Now
Being Made to New Quarters
Joseph Morano
polishing department of the K. S. Howard Co.,
New York. Mr. Morano, who is a Brooklyn
boy, trained in Texas, leaving for the front on
April 2, 1917. He was connected with the Elev-
enth Infantry, Fifth Division, and was in the
gieat drive on the St. Mihiel salient, where he
showed such unexampled feats of bravery that
he was honored with the Croix de Guerre by the
French Government while in a hospital in
France. He later took part in the Argonne
drive, where he was badly wounded on October
16, and one of his treasured possessions is the
German bullet which lodged in his body for
some time previous to an operation. Mr. Mo-
rano returned with other wounded Americans
ppjtfcnou)rt
/nur/cdJ' m/ne
/// t//e Wor/d.
SYRACUSE, N. Y., April 7.—One of the largest
real estate transactions of the week was the
leasing of the Lansing block by the Godard
Music House. Contracts have been let to com-
pletely renew the building throughout, and more
than $18,000 will be spent in improvements. The
store will really be a series of small, individual-
i z e d shops, so that in passing from one room to
another one will be impressed with the idea
that he is entering a different store.
The details of the interior decoration and
equipment will be carried out completely, sound-
pi oof floors will be installed, a fine elevator sys-
tem will be added, and everything possible for
comfort and convenience will be incorporated
into the new music house. The second floor
will be devoted entirely to pianos, where the A.
B. Chase, Conover, Cable and Kingsbury will be
shown. Grand pianos will occupy the third
floor.
In addition to the lines of pianos and musical
instruments there will be Vocations in period
designs, each design having a special room,
which will be furnished so as to carry out the
style of the particular period represented by the
instrument. The new building will be ready for
occupancy May 1.
PIANOS
STERLING CO. SOLDIERS RETURN
Samuel Pulver in Debarkation Hospital—Other
Workers Back at Former Posts
DERBY, CONN., April 7.—The steamship'"Great
Northern" recently brought in Samuel Pulver,
formerly in the finishing department of the fac-
tory of the Sterling Piano Co., but more recently
a member of the American Expeditionary Force
in France. Mr. Pulver saw extended active
service on the firing line, where he was gassed,
and had his leg badly broken by an explosive
bullet. He served with Company G, 102d In-
fantry.
John T. Brewster, treasurer of the Sterling
Co., visited him this week at the Military Hos-
pital in the Greenhut Building, New York City.
It is hoped that within a comparatively short
time Mr. Pulver will be able to return as an
active worker in the piano business.
More than a dozen other former workmen in
the Sterling factory have recently returned
from military service, and have enlisted to help
increase the output of Sterling pianos and
players.
TRADE RESUMED WITH POLAND
American Manufacturers May Now Export Mer-
chandise for Domestic Needs—Shipments to
Be Via Danzig, According to New Ruling
Acting concurrently with the competent au-
thorities of the other associated governments,
the War Trade Board announce that all persons
in the United States are authorized, on and
after April 1, 1919, subject to the rules and
regulations of the War Trade Board, to trade
and communicate freely with persons residing
in Poland.
In accordance with this authorization, appli-
cations will now be considered for licenses to
export or import all commodities to consignees
or from consignors in Poland.
American exporters are advised that merchan-
dise is permitted to be exported to Poland only
upon the understanding that it is intended to
supply the internal domestic needs of that coun-
try, and that the re-exportation of such mer-
chandise from Poland to countries commercial
relations with which are not authorized is for-
bidden, and that such re-exportation constitutes
a violation of the Trading With the Enemy Act.
All shipments to Poland should be routed via
Danzig.
For importations into the United States from
Poland, individual import licenses will be re-
quired, in accordance with the regulations ap-
plicable to importations from the neutral coun-
tries of Europe.
—
Mercier & Bisson, Worcester, Mass., manufac-
turers of musical merchandise and novelties,
have removed their machinery and stock to the
unoccupied factory of Whitney Bros.
ORGANS
E5TEY PIANO COMPANY NEW YORK CITY
*c7/ie pest prom
prodacer/arthe
dealer in the7fc}de.
APRIL 12,
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
1919
COLUMBIA INAUGURATES COURSE IN MUSICO-THERAPY
ELMON ARMSTRONG'S NEW POST
Remedial Power of Music Given High Recognition by Establishment of New Course at Columbia
University—Miss Margaret Anderton in Charge of Special Classes Now Formed
Now Connected With Financial Department of
Large Rubber Co.—Visiting the Middle West
The incorporation into the curriculum of Co-
lumbia University of a special course in musico-
therapy marks the recognition of the value of
music in the realm of medicine. The curative
powers of music in cases of nerve-shattered
soldiers from the battlefields of Europe have
been regarded with considerable skepticism by
the layman as well as by leading physicians and
surgeons. But at last it has won a place for
itself, and to-day it is an established fact that
music can do much to cure and strengthen an in-
jured nervous system.
The leading exponent of this new science is
Miss Margaret Anderton, of New York City,
who has developed her theories and is con-
vinced of their soundness through the pleasing
results of many actual experiments. Case after
case may be cited where she has succeeded after
nurses and medical men have failed and given
u]> the patient as hopeless. During the early
years of the war she went to Canada and worked
in the hospitals there, testing her new doctrine
with wonderful results.
According to Miss Anderton every person re-
sponds to some musical pitch or rhythm. Once
this pitch is discovered it is a comparatively
easy matter to play compositions which will
have a remedial effect upon the nervous system.
She has discovered that in ordinary conversa-
tion the human voice rarely exceeds a range of
live notes, and compositions limited to a mu-
sical fifth are universally appealing and soothing.
A soldier of a Canadian regiment was re-
cently in New York engaged in recruiting work
at the British recruiting station. He was an
accomplished violinist. Three years ago he was
struck deaf by a bursting shell at Ypres and
lost all sense of sound. Doctors said his case
was beyond all human aid.
Miss Andefton
sought him out, and to-day he is capable of
the most delicate musical appreciation. This
story is but one from hundreds where music has
aided nature in restoring harmony to the human
organism.
The value of Miss Anderton's work has been
recognized and as a result she is now teaching
to specially selected classes at Columbia Uni-
versity the new course dealing with the remedial
powers of music and will thus spread the new
science, which will mean so much to the
wounded and disabled soldiers daily returning
home.
NEW YORK, N. Y., April 7.—Following his re-
tirement from the office of treasurer of the
Kioeger Piano Co., Elmon Armstrong has just
taken up active duties in the financial depart-
ment of a large rubber company. The early
part of the week he left for Chicago, and it
is understood that his official duties will keep
him in the Middle West for a period of about a
month, after which he will return to headquar-
ters in New York.
Although at the present time not personally
active in the piano trade Mr. Armstrong con-
tinues to have a live interest in the affairs of the
piano industry because of his large stockhold-
ings therein.
PIANO WORKER HONORED BY FRANCE
about a month ago, and has since then been
in the United States Hospital on Eighteenth
street, New York, and also at Fox Hills, Staten
Island. He is now able to get around, and nat-
uially received an enthusiastic welcome on his
visit to the R. S. Howard factory in Harlem.
Morano has been in the employ of the R. S.
Howard Co. since 1914, and inasmuch as he is
now only 21 years old he started in with this
firm when quite a youth. He expects to resume
work in the Howard factory within a few
weeks.
Like other doughboys who have "done their
bit," Mr. Morano is exceedingly modest, but
his family and friends in and out of the piano
trade have good reason to be proud of his splen-
did accomplishments in demonstrating what
Uncle Sam's boys can do in convincing our
Teutonic friends that it's dangerous to monkey
with the Yankee buzz saw.
Joseph Morano, Who Previous to the War Was
Connected With the Polishing Department of
R. S. Howard Co., Now Out of Hospital and
Will Resume Work Soon—Made a Glorious
Record With American Army in France
A member of the piano trade who has come
back from the.world war with convincing evi-
dence of his bravery is Joseph Morano, who.
previous lo his volunteering for service with the
United States army, was connected with the
GODARD BROS. TAKE NEW LEASE
Syracuse Music House Planning to Open New
Store on May 1—Extensive Alterations Now
Being Made to New Quarters
Joseph Morano
polishing department of the K. S. Howard Co.,
New York. Mr. Morano, who is a Brooklyn
boy, trained in Texas, leaving for the front on
April 2, 1917. He was connected with the Elev-
enth Infantry, Fifth Division, and was in the
gieat drive on the St. Mihiel salient, where he
showed such unexampled feats of bravery that
he was honored with the Croix de Guerre by the
French Government while in a hospital in
France. He later took part in the Argonne
drive, where he was badly wounded on October
16, and one of his treasured possessions is the
German bullet which lodged in his body for
some time previous to an operation. Mr. Mo-
rano returned with other wounded Americans
ppjtfcnou)rt
/nur/cdJ' m/ne
/// t//e Wor/d.
SYRACUSE, N. Y., April 7.—One of the largest
real estate transactions of the week was the
leasing of the Lansing block by the Godard
Music House. Contracts have been let to com-
pletely renew the building throughout, and more
than $18,000 will be spent in improvements. The
store will really be a series of small, individual-
i z e d shops, so that in passing from one room to
another one will be impressed with the idea
that he is entering a different store.
The details of the interior decoration and
equipment will be carried out completely, sound-
pi oof floors will be installed, a fine elevator sys-
tem will be added, and everything possible for
comfort and convenience will be incorporated
into the new music house. The second floor
will be devoted entirely to pianos, where the A.
B. Chase, Conover, Cable and Kingsbury will be
shown. Grand pianos will occupy the third
floor.
In addition to the lines of pianos and musical
instruments there will be Vocations in period
designs, each design having a special room,
which will be furnished so as to carry out the
style of the particular period represented by the
instrument. The new building will be ready for
occupancy May 1.
PIANOS
STERLING CO. SOLDIERS RETURN
Samuel Pulver in Debarkation Hospital—Other
Workers Back at Former Posts
DERBY, CONN., April 7.—The steamship'"Great
Northern" recently brought in Samuel Pulver,
formerly in the finishing department of the fac-
tory of the Sterling Piano Co., but more recently
a member of the American Expeditionary Force
in France. Mr. Pulver saw extended active
service on the firing line, where he was gassed,
and had his leg badly broken by an explosive
bullet. He served with Company G, 102d In-
fantry.
John T. Brewster, treasurer of the Sterling
Co., visited him this week at the Military Hos-
pital in the Greenhut Building, New York City.
It is hoped that within a comparatively short
time Mr. Pulver will be able to return as an
active worker in the piano business.
More than a dozen other former workmen in
the Sterling factory have recently returned
from military service, and have enlisted to help
increase the output of Sterling pianos and
players.
TRADE RESUMED WITH POLAND
American Manufacturers May Now Export Mer-
chandise for Domestic Needs—Shipments to
Be Via Danzig, According to New Ruling
Acting concurrently with the competent au-
thorities of the other associated governments,
the War Trade Board announce that all persons
in the United States are authorized, on and
after April 1, 1919, subject to the rules and
regulations of the War Trade Board, to trade
and communicate freely with persons residing
in Poland.
In accordance with this authorization, appli-
cations will now be considered for licenses to
export or import all commodities to consignees
or from consignors in Poland.
American exporters are advised that merchan-
dise is permitted to be exported to Poland only
upon the understanding that it is intended to
supply the internal domestic needs of that coun-
try, and that the re-exportation of such mer-
chandise from Poland to countries commercial
relations with which are not authorized is for-
bidden, and that such re-exportation constitutes
a violation of the Trading With the Enemy Act.
All shipments to Poland should be routed via
Danzig.
For importations into the United States from
Poland, individual import licenses will be re-
quired, in accordance with the regulations ap-
plicable to importations from the neutral coun-
tries of Europe.
—
Mercier & Bisson, Worcester, Mass., manufac-
turers of musical merchandise and novelties,
have removed their machinery and stock to the
unoccupied factory of Whitney Bros.
ORGANS
E5TEY PIANO COMPANY NEW YORK CITY
*c7/ie pest prom
prodacer/arthe
dealer in the7fc}de.
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