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The Music Trade Review
Nine-Year-Old Columbia
Record Still in Service
Resident of Hawaii Testifies to the Longevity
of Columbia Record Products—Declares
Music Is Still as Good as Ever
The Columbia Phonograph Co. has just
issued a special Hawaiian folder supplementary
to its regular catalog and featuring a new
Hawaiian release just out.
In this connection a letter received recently
by the Columbia Co. from a Columbia enthusi-
ast in Hawaii is of particular and timely inter-
est.
"I am writing to let you know that I have a
Columbia record, which we have had for the
last nine years, and have had it in use all of
that time, and it is just as good, the music
part of it, as it was when we first got it, which
goes to show that anyone can keep a record
over five years if they only take care of it.
This record, A-1812 played by Palie K. Lua and
David K. Kaili, on one side, and by Irene West,
Royal Hawaiian Troupe, on the other, is
cracked all the way across the music part on
one side, but you wouldn't know it was broken
if you never saw the crack on the record. It
has been broken now about four years, and,
believe me, it beats the records of to-day for
music. Hoping to hear from you soon, I will
close by saying that the fellow who says that
the life of a Columbia record is only good for
five years doesn't know what he is talking
about. With my best Aloha, and best wishes
for a happy and prosperous New Year."
Operation for R. D. Roberts
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, February 18.—Ralph D.
Roberts, treasurer and director of the Glen
Bros.-Roberts Piano Co., Utah and Idaho, is
recovering from an operation performed at a
local hospital. He is now on his way to Los
Angeles, Cal., where he will recuperate for
some weeks before returning to his desk.
FEBRUARY 25, 1928
College of Piano Tuning
Is Opened in Los Angeles
California Piano Supply Co. Launches New
Venture in Endeavor to Supply Trained
Mechanics to the Western Trade
Los ANCKI.KS, CAL., February 18.—In response
to the demand of the piano trade of the South-
west and Pacific Coast sections of the country
for a trade school or the training of tuners
or repairmen, the California Piano Supply Co.
of this city, of which Ashley Manning is the
head, has launched the Pacific College of Piano
Tuning as a division of the company.
It is stated that the excellent shop facilities
of the company will be placed at the service
of the student, and a course has been designed
that will require nine months of regular at-
tendance and intensive study to complete. The
applicants must have the equivalent of a gram-
mar school education and good hearing, and
must go on probation for two weeks before
being enrolled. Advance students will be
privileged to engage in actual tuning and repair
work under competent supervision, and will re-
ceive pay commensurate with their services. A
diploma will be given at the completion of the
course.
Although the first announcement covers only
a regular day course there is in contemplation
a night course extending something over two
years for those who cannot attend day sessions.
Ashley Manning, manager of the California
Piano Supply Co., is local secretary-treasurer
of the National Association of Piano Tuners,
Inc., and states that the school will be con-
ducted in accordar.ee with the standards of that
organization.
Trade-Mark and Copyright
Hearings for Next Month
Bills for Registration of Trade-Marks and
Copyright Registration for Designs to Be
Considered by House Committee
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WASHINGTON, D. C, February 20.—Two matters
of considerable importance to industry will be
brought up for hearings next month before the
House Patents Committee. On March 9 the
committee will hold hearings on the bill per-
mitting registration of trade-marks, and on
March 16 will take up for consideration the bill
providing copyright registration for designs.
Both of these privileges have long been
sought by business interests, design rcgistra-
lion having been before Congress for probably
twenty years. The trade-mark bill would pro-
vide for the use of a mark to accompany trade-
marks to show that they had been registered.
The other measure provides twenty years' pro-
tection for designs in industry, with the excep-
tion of those having to do with the mechanical
production of an article.
Bad Checks Lead to Jail
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, February 20.—A man
giving the name of J. D. Mills, alias H. H.
Allen, fifty-five years of age, has confessed to
robbing several local music houses by the use
of bad checks. He told detectives that he con-
ceived the idea of having checks of some of
the companies printed after coming into pos-
session of samples. He scattered a score of
fraudulent checks, police say, before being ap-
prehended.
Chickering for Alex. Gunn
A Chickering grand, Style K, was purchased
recently by Alexander Gunn, well known con-
cert pianist and teacher, who selected the in-
strument for his New York studio in the wart-
rooms of Chickering Hall, on West Fifty
seventh street.