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Music Trade Review

Issue: 1926 Vol. 82 N. 26 - Page 6

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The Music Trade Review
the industrial situation, but they say they are
afraid that the tremendous instalment business,
especially in automobiles, is going to cause a de-
pression before long. "We notice an under-
Local Music Merchants Declare Volume of current," one of them told your correspondent
yesterday, "and we are afraid it will lead to
Sales Ahead of Same Period of Last Year
financial troubles later, but so far everything is
all right." Some of the big automobile dealers
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, June 17.—The music
business in Utah is ahead of the corresponding of the city are doing an enormous business this
period of last year. This is the case in all de- Summer, selling hundreds of thousands of dol-
partments or nearly all. The activity in pianos lars' worth of new machines, very largely on the
and players is keeping up better for the warm time-payment plan.
weather than for some years past. There is
The $2,000 worth of musical instruments
more activity in phonographs and records and stolen from the recreation room of the Utah
more sheet music business. Band and orchestra Copper Co. recently have been found.
instruments are not moving any better than
Oscar Olson, well-known salesman for sev-
usual at this season of the year perhaps, but eral years past on the staff of Daynes-Beebe
they are holding their own.
Music Co., will be a benedict in the next few
The industrial situation continues excellent. days. Mr. Olson has already bought the home.
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir is making a
The crops are as heavy as they were last year
and 1925 was a record agricultural year for Utah. concert tour of southern California beginning
The mines and smelters are also active. The July 17. The big organization will be away for
tourist business promises to be heavier than about ten days in all. In Los Angeles it will
sine for the radio.
ever before. Bankers admit the excellence of
Salt Lake City Reports
Demand for All Lines
SUPREMACY
over competition from the whole world
was signified by the award of the Gold
Medal to American Perfected Piano Wire
at the Paris Exposition in 1900,
Since that time Perfected Piano Wire
has maintained this supremacy undimin-
ished* Today it is the wire used in every
leading American piano — striking testi-
mony to the superiority of so fine a product*
Its ability to hold tonal qualities, its
guaranty against breakage, make Perfected
Piano Wire the choice of every discrim-
inating manufacturer. Consider what a
small fraction of the cost of the completed
instrument is the cost of wire, and you
appreciate that the soundest economy is
to use only the best.
We welcome your inquiry for detailed
information.
JUNE 26, 1926
The first portable radio broadcasting set ever
seen in this city was in operation the other day
in front of the Daynes-Beebe Music Co.'s store.
It was in charge of a former circus man. It
aroused considerable interest.
Two Important New
Artists for Ampico
Homer Samuels, Prominent Accompanist, and
Judge Junior, Popular Radio Favorite, to
Record Exclusively for the Ampico
Two important new additions to the list of
notable artists who are recording exclusively
Homer Samuels
for the Ampico have been announced by the
music department of the Ampico Corp. The first
of these artists is Homer Samuels, well known
as accompanist of Mine. Galli-Curci, and who
stands in the front rank of accompanying artists
of the day. He has arranged to record exclu-
sively for the Ampico.
The other artist is Judge Junior, whose
weekly visits to the radio station WJZ, New
York, has won for him a large following amonj:
radio listeners. "The Judge" represents the well-
American Steel & Wire
Company
Sales Offices:
Chicago, New York, Boston, Cleveland, Worcester, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh,
Buffalo, Detroit, Cincinnati, Baltimore, Wilkes'Barre, St. Louis, Kansas City,
St. Paul, Oklahoma City, Birmingham, Memphis, Dallas, Atlanta, Denver,
Salt Lake City
Export Representative: U. S. Steel Products Co., New York
Pacific Coast Representative: U. S. Steel Products Company, San Francisco,
Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle
known humorous magazine of that, name and
embraces in its broadcast program not only
amusing chat and gossip of Manhattan, but also
clever interpretations of the popular music of
the day, which will be preserved through the
medium of the Ampico. His first number to be
released shortly will be "No Foolin'," from the
Ziegfeld production, "Palm Beach Nights."

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