Music Trade Review
Issue: 1919 Vol. 69 N. 7 - Page 45
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THE
AUGUST 16, 1919
MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW
45
WATCHING ARMY BANDS
HAWAIIAN UKULELE STORMS LONDON
NEW XYLOPHONE PATENTED
War Orphan in Drum Leads to Issuing of
Novel Order by War Department
Popularity of American Music Waning Before
the Charms of Hawaii—Hula Makes a Hit
J. C. Deagan Invents an Improved Form of This
Instrument
Deorphanizing of all musical instruments from
the tuha to the piccolo before their departure
for America is the latest departure in the em-
barkation rules. Kvery outfit that possesses a
band will hereafter pass through a strict inspec-
tion for supercargo not,on the sailing list, says
the Stars and Stripes.
This is a result of a discovery in the depths
of a bass drum of the 144th Field Artillery, re-
cently embarked for Bordeaux, of Marcel
Dupuys, male, ten years old, French orphelin
de guerre.
The drum, the tuba and the rest of the band
marched on board properly deloused and in-
spected when the outfit left, but it was noticed
during the voyage that whenever a concert was
requested the drummer had cramps.
Finally when the ship was well out some one
t'-ok a look at the drum and found the stowaway
resting peacefully inside. It was too late to
lint hack and after a thorough search of the
other musical instruments, down to the flute, it
was decided to do the only thing possible—
nothing.
Henceforth, therefore, band instruments will
lit.- as carefully examined as the seams of the
() D.'s.
An Associated Press correspondent in Lon-
don, seeking diversion from war topics and
prohibition, has made the discovery that the
Hawaiian music is sweeping the English
metropolis and that the laurels of American jazz
are in danger.
The jazz band which came to London with
the American troops and since the armistice
has held a high place in the affections of
revelers gathered there from all parts of the
globe is threatened by an invasion of Hawaiian
ukulele players who have appeared in a popular
Strand hotel.
Jazz bands heard in London were, as a rule,
of an indifferent sort, although London was
occasionally permitted to hear some of the best
organizations from American war-ships station-
ed in British waters. But the Hawaiians are
the "real thing," as London has recently
learned to express it, and the crowds which
nightly listen to their soft, soothing music are
glad they have come to relieve the noisy, nerve-
racking crash of the jazz.
Another Hawaiian innovation is promised in
the hula dance, the native merry-making of
which London has heard much but never seen.
Its popularity is enthusiastically predicted, for
London is still war weary and, having more
money than ever before, is still looking for
amusement.
CANADIAN MANAGER VISITS ENGLAND
W. H. Myhill, manager of the Whaley, Royce
Co.'s wholesale small goods department, To-
ronto, Can., is away on a two months' business
trip to Britain and the Continent. Mr. Myhill
is visiting the musical merchandise centers in
Scotland, England, France, Switzerland and
Italy, investigating the sources of supplies for
small instruments and accessories, an evidence
of enterprise that Whaley, Royce dealers will
appreciate.
TO CHANGE CORNET TONE
New Attachment Enables Performer to Produce
Saxophone Effects on the Cornet
WASHINGTON, D. C., August 11.—Patent No. 1,-
301,147 was last week granted to Carl J. Magin,
Belleville, 111., for an attachment for cornets
and other brass instruments, one-half of which
lie has assigned to Ignatz Mayer, same place.
H. L. HUNT TO TAKE TRIP
This invention relates to a device that is
H. L. Hunt, head of the musical instrument adapted to be used for changing the tone of
department of Chas. H. Ditson & Co., New a cornet or other similar musical instrument
York, expects to leave at the end of the week of the kind generally referred to as brass in-
for Boston, if the train service is not entirely struments without materially diminishing the
disorganized at that time. From Boston he is volume of the sound produced by the instrument.
The main object of the invention is to pro-
planning to go to Chicago, where he will spend
some time touring the State by motor. Last vide a device for making a cornet or other musi-
Sunday evening he was a prominent feature of cal instrument sound substantially like a saxo-
a concert program at East Orange and sang a phone.
number of Ditson songs.
WASHINGTON, D. C, August 11.—Jefferson C.
Deagau, Chicago, 111., was last week granted Pat-
ent No. 1,293,722 for a xylophone.. This in-
vention relates to musical instruments employ-
ing sound-producing bars made of wood or
metal or other vibrating material that are tuned
to produce tones of a musical scale and resona-
tors below or behind such bars. Such instru-
ments are termed xylophones. An increase in
the normal temperature of the bars and reso-
nators will sharpen the pitch of the resonators
to bring them out of sympathy or unison with
the tones produced by the bars and a decrease
from such temperature will flatten the pitch of
the resonators. Compensation for impairment
of the pitch of the resonators due to modifica-
tions in temperature is effected by adjustment
of the interrelation of the bars and resonators.
This adjustment may be effected by simulta-
neously regulating the distances between the bot-
toms of the resonators and the bars or the effec-
tiveness of the openings in the resonators that
are adjacent the bars.
CLARK IRISH HARP FEATURED
SYU.UT'SK, X. Y., August 6.—The Clark Irish
harp was featured recently at an out-of-doors
concert held at Kirk Park, of this city. The
concert, held for the entertainment of the resi-
dents of the neighborhood, was well attended.
The artists were Harriette Cady, five years old,
and Hazel Mills, fourteen years. Both of these
youthful concert artists succeeded in extract-
ing exquisite 'harmony from their harps and
were heartily encored.
DURRO
AND
STEWART
Largest Wholesale
Musical Merchandise
House in America
Buegeleisen & Jacobson
NEW
113 University Place
A. BURDWISE
WHOLESALE MUSICAL
[BEST STRING?" 1 -*
JOHNFRIEDRICH&BRO.
• 279 riFTM AVE
SEND FOR
OUR
^CATALOGUES"
NEW YORK
CST 1663
RUNO
T H E OLDEST AND
LAROEST MUSICAL
MERCHANDISE HOUSE
INAMERICA
ExolusJvely Wholesale
ESTABLISHED 1034
OLIVER DITSON CO.
BOSTON. MASS.
Manufacturer*
Importer* and Jobber* el
MUSICAL
MERCHANDISE
Attractive Specialties
Modern Service
RST A BUSHED 1834
Black Diamond
Strings
THE WORLD'S BEST
National Musical String Co.
N e v Brunswick, N. J.
WEYMAHH
Superior Quality MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
Manufac-
turers of
VM lor Distributor*
Victor Distributors
MERCHANDISE
BALTIMORE, MD.
GRAND PRIZES'
CiKKOMJ-SlLOUft 1*0*1
1108 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Established over hilf a century
I WILL BUY
FOR CASH
Sheet Music and Small Goods
Peate's Music House
Utica, N. Y.
THE
AUGUST 16, 1919
MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW
45
WATCHING ARMY BANDS
HAWAIIAN UKULELE STORMS LONDON
NEW XYLOPHONE PATENTED
War Orphan in Drum Leads to Issuing of
Novel Order by War Department
Popularity of American Music Waning Before
the Charms of Hawaii—Hula Makes a Hit
J. C. Deagan Invents an Improved Form of This
Instrument
Deorphanizing of all musical instruments from
the tuha to the piccolo before their departure
for America is the latest departure in the em-
barkation rules. Kvery outfit that possesses a
band will hereafter pass through a strict inspec-
tion for supercargo not,on the sailing list, says
the Stars and Stripes.
This is a result of a discovery in the depths
of a bass drum of the 144th Field Artillery, re-
cently embarked for Bordeaux, of Marcel
Dupuys, male, ten years old, French orphelin
de guerre.
The drum, the tuba and the rest of the band
marched on board properly deloused and in-
spected when the outfit left, but it was noticed
during the voyage that whenever a concert was
requested the drummer had cramps.
Finally when the ship was well out some one
t'-ok a look at the drum and found the stowaway
resting peacefully inside. It was too late to
lint hack and after a thorough search of the
other musical instruments, down to the flute, it
was decided to do the only thing possible—
nothing.
Henceforth, therefore, band instruments will
lit.- as carefully examined as the seams of the
() D.'s.
An Associated Press correspondent in Lon-
don, seeking diversion from war topics and
prohibition, has made the discovery that the
Hawaiian music is sweeping the English
metropolis and that the laurels of American jazz
are in danger.
The jazz band which came to London with
the American troops and since the armistice
has held a high place in the affections of
revelers gathered there from all parts of the
globe is threatened by an invasion of Hawaiian
ukulele players who have appeared in a popular
Strand hotel.
Jazz bands heard in London were, as a rule,
of an indifferent sort, although London was
occasionally permitted to hear some of the best
organizations from American war-ships station-
ed in British waters. But the Hawaiians are
the "real thing," as London has recently
learned to express it, and the crowds which
nightly listen to their soft, soothing music are
glad they have come to relieve the noisy, nerve-
racking crash of the jazz.
Another Hawaiian innovation is promised in
the hula dance, the native merry-making of
which London has heard much but never seen.
Its popularity is enthusiastically predicted, for
London is still war weary and, having more
money than ever before, is still looking for
amusement.
CANADIAN MANAGER VISITS ENGLAND
W. H. Myhill, manager of the Whaley, Royce
Co.'s wholesale small goods department, To-
ronto, Can., is away on a two months' business
trip to Britain and the Continent. Mr. Myhill
is visiting the musical merchandise centers in
Scotland, England, France, Switzerland and
Italy, investigating the sources of supplies for
small instruments and accessories, an evidence
of enterprise that Whaley, Royce dealers will
appreciate.
TO CHANGE CORNET TONE
New Attachment Enables Performer to Produce
Saxophone Effects on the Cornet
WASHINGTON, D. C., August 11.—Patent No. 1,-
301,147 was last week granted to Carl J. Magin,
Belleville, 111., for an attachment for cornets
and other brass instruments, one-half of which
lie has assigned to Ignatz Mayer, same place.
H. L. HUNT TO TAKE TRIP
This invention relates to a device that is
H. L. Hunt, head of the musical instrument adapted to be used for changing the tone of
department of Chas. H. Ditson & Co., New a cornet or other similar musical instrument
York, expects to leave at the end of the week of the kind generally referred to as brass in-
for Boston, if the train service is not entirely struments without materially diminishing the
disorganized at that time. From Boston he is volume of the sound produced by the instrument.
The main object of the invention is to pro-
planning to go to Chicago, where he will spend
some time touring the State by motor. Last vide a device for making a cornet or other musi-
Sunday evening he was a prominent feature of cal instrument sound substantially like a saxo-
a concert program at East Orange and sang a phone.
number of Ditson songs.
WASHINGTON, D. C, August 11.—Jefferson C.
Deagau, Chicago, 111., was last week granted Pat-
ent No. 1,293,722 for a xylophone.. This in-
vention relates to musical instruments employ-
ing sound-producing bars made of wood or
metal or other vibrating material that are tuned
to produce tones of a musical scale and resona-
tors below or behind such bars. Such instru-
ments are termed xylophones. An increase in
the normal temperature of the bars and reso-
nators will sharpen the pitch of the resonators
to bring them out of sympathy or unison with
the tones produced by the bars and a decrease
from such temperature will flatten the pitch of
the resonators. Compensation for impairment
of the pitch of the resonators due to modifica-
tions in temperature is effected by adjustment
of the interrelation of the bars and resonators.
This adjustment may be effected by simulta-
neously regulating the distances between the bot-
toms of the resonators and the bars or the effec-
tiveness of the openings in the resonators that
are adjacent the bars.
CLARK IRISH HARP FEATURED
SYU.UT'SK, X. Y., August 6.—The Clark Irish
harp was featured recently at an out-of-doors
concert held at Kirk Park, of this city. The
concert, held for the entertainment of the resi-
dents of the neighborhood, was well attended.
The artists were Harriette Cady, five years old,
and Hazel Mills, fourteen years. Both of these
youthful concert artists succeeded in extract-
ing exquisite 'harmony from their harps and
were heartily encored.
DURRO
AND
STEWART
Largest Wholesale
Musical Merchandise
House in America
Buegeleisen & Jacobson
NEW
113 University Place
A. BURDWISE
WHOLESALE MUSICAL
[BEST STRING?" 1 -*
JOHNFRIEDRICH&BRO.
• 279 riFTM AVE
SEND FOR
OUR
^CATALOGUES"
NEW YORK
CST 1663
RUNO
T H E OLDEST AND
LAROEST MUSICAL
MERCHANDISE HOUSE
INAMERICA
ExolusJvely Wholesale
ESTABLISHED 1034
OLIVER DITSON CO.
BOSTON. MASS.
Manufacturer*
Importer* and Jobber* el
MUSICAL
MERCHANDISE
Attractive Specialties
Modern Service
RST A BUSHED 1834
Black Diamond
Strings
THE WORLD'S BEST
National Musical String Co.
N e v Brunswick, N. J.
WEYMAHH
Superior Quality MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
Manufac-
turers of
VM lor Distributor*
Victor Distributors
MERCHANDISE
BALTIMORE, MD.
GRAND PRIZES'
CiKKOMJ-SlLOUft 1*0*1
1108 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Established over hilf a century
I WILL BUY
FOR CASH
Sheet Music and Small Goods
Peate's Music House
Utica, N. Y.
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