Music Trade Review
Issue: 1929 Vol. 88 N. 18 - Page 16
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The Music Trade
Review
MAY 4, 1929
Now It's "Papa" Carson
Fretted Instrument Guild Holding
Robinson, well-known fretted instru-
Convention in Baltimore, May 5-8 ment Carson
artist, whose enchanting melody on the
D A L T I M O R E , M D , May 1.—Final plans are
*^ being worked out this week for the twenty-
eighth annual convention of American Guild of
l'anjoists, Mandolinists and Guitarists to he
held here next week on May 5, 6, 7 and 8. The
Lord Baltimore Hotel has been selected as
headquarters of the 1929 convention and regis-
tration will start here on Sunday, May 5. The
program for Monday includes morning and
afternoon business sessions in Parlor A at 10
and 2 o'clock, respectively. At 8.15 the cus-
tomary Guild concert will be held in the Cal-
vert ballroom.
A third business session will be held on Tues-
day morning at 10, followed by an educational
program at 12 provided by George C. Krick.
Mr. Krick will talk on "The Guitar 1829-1929,"
and in addition will give a guitar recital. At
2.30 members will be taken on a sight-seeing
trip through Baltimore and the surrounding
territory, and at 6.30 o'clock will follow the
twenty-eighth annual American Guild banquet
in the Calvert ballroom.
On Wednesday members will convene at 10
o'clock for the usual business session in Parlor
A, at which Walter Holt will read a paper on
"The Past and Future of the Guild." At 2
the final business session will be held in the
same room and at 8.15 the regular artists' re-
cital for Guild members will be held at the
Dealer—For Window Display, the
NICOMEDE RAINBOW FLASHER
D
STEWART
Mfd. by NICOMEDE MUSIC CO.
Altoona, Pa.
Put this book
lo work tor you
Woodruff Opens Branch
MONTGOMERY, ALA., April 28.—Frank Woodruff,
who operates a general music store at 220
Montgomery street, has just opened a branch
store at 10 South Perry street. The new es-
tablishment will handle the same lines of in-
struments, including Bush & Gcrts and Had-
dorff pianos, Brunswick phonographs and
radios as well as Zenith and Eveready radio
sets. Mr. Woodruff will personally manage
both stores.
SELLING MUSICAL
MERCHANDISE
BY JAMES A. FP£W
The only book published which shows music dealeri
how to go about organizing a musical merchandise
department and how to run one at a profit.
It it written by a man who has used every method
he describes in his own business and every one of
them made money for him. Put them to work
for yourself.
Gibson Men Visiting East
Frank Campbell, George Post and Earle
Cooke, of the Gibson, Inc., sales organization,
Kalamazoo, Mich., spent several days in New
York during the past week. Following their
stay in New York, they left for Baltimore,
Md., to attend the annual convention of the
American Guild of Banjoists, Mandolinists and
Guitarists being held there May 5-8.
Sent to you FREE
for five days
Test this book by reading it at our expense.
Fill out the inspection coupon and mall
it for our free fire-day inspection offer to
Music Trade Review, readers.
'Mail This Coupon
I
Harp Instruction Added
to Cleveland Schools
AND
The greatest novelty of the day. An instan-
taneous hit everywhere.
A great drawing
card.
FREE for 60 days only One Banjo or
Drum Flasher to every dealer ordering five
or more of these flashers.
You may send me a copy of "Sellinc
Musical Merchandise" for which I here-
with remit $3.
Fretted Instrument Class
DURRO
BANJOS and DRUMS
Edward Lyman Bill, Inc.,
420 Lexington Av«.. New York City.
guitar is enjoyed by thousands and thousands
Y. W. C. A. auditorium, Park avenue and
of people who hear him on the "air" as well as
Franklin street. The soloists for this event will
on records, is proudly proclaiming to his
include Walter Kaye Bauer on mandolin and
friends that a new title has been bestowed upon
harp-guitar, Walter T. Holt on guitar, Shirley
him. Little "Miss" Robinson arrived at his
Spaulding on banjo, Miss Helen Stanton Seeley
home
last week and the proudest "I'apa" in the
on mando-cello and James H. Johnstone on
East is Carson Robinson.
tenor banjo.
Indications from the convention committee
indicate an attendance of Guild members that
will equal and possibly surpass that of the 1928
DENVER, COLO., April 27.—An interesting group
convention held in Hartford, Conn.
of fretted instrument students has been formed
here by Bruce Fleming called the Saturday
Morning Plectrum Orchestra. The members are
7
children ranging from five to thirteen years of
age.
The ensemble plays regularly for ban-
CLEVELAND, O., May 1.—The Cleveland public quets, church socials and also broadcasts.
schools have added the teaching of the harp
to their musical curriculum. The Cleveland
OLIVER DITSON CO
branch of Lyon & Healy, Inc., has sold five
BOSTON, MASS
harps to the school board and five schools have
been equipped. If sufficient interest is shown
Manufacturers
Importers and Jobbers of
by pupils in other schools they will also be
equipped with harps. It is the first time in
MUSICAL
the history of the public schools that any at-
MERCHANDISE
tempt has been made to teach this instrument.
The only qualification necessary for pupils to
Attractive Specialties
take up the study is to express a willingness
Modern Service
to learn.
The Cleveland school board spent approxi-
E8TABLJSHKD 1884
mately $40,000 in the school year of 1927-28 for
musical activities. One of the most important
phases in this work, however, is not financed
VIOLINS
by the Board of Education but through the
BOWS
Cleveland Symphony orchestra through its
STRINGS
children's concerts, music memory concerts and
the like.
The Cleveland school system provides ade-
BANJOS
MANDOLINS
quate instrumental instruction for every child
GUITARS
who may possess talent and interest. Ele-
Largest Wholemale
mentary school orchestras are to be found in
Musical Merchandise
every grade school and each junior and senior
House in America
high school has its band and orchestra. Inci-
dentally, this increased interest in music is prov-
Buegeleisen & Jacobson
ing very beneficial to the music dealers of
NEW YORK
5-7-9 Union S«iiar*
Cleveland and considerable advertising de-
signed to attract the attention of these young
musicians is being done.
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!
I
'
|
The Green Novelty & Music Co., Evansville,
Ind., has been incorporated with capital stock
of $10,000 by Joseph V. and Mary Green and
Albert Breedlove.
A branch of the Hank Bros, music store,
of Belton, Anderson, S. C, has been opened
in Anderson, S. C, with Charles C. Wilson
as manager. The concern handles talking ma-
chines and records.
You have tried the rest
—Now use the BEST
Joseph Rogers' Son
"XXX" and "STANDARD" Brand
Drum and Banjo Heads
Made from Genuine Calfskin
The Frederick Rogers Co.
17 Jackson Ave.
Middletown, N. Y.
Black Diamond
Strings
THE WORLD'S BEST
National Musical String Co.
New Brunswick, N. J.
GoldMedalStrings
for musical instruments
Gold-plated Steel and
Wound Strings
Gibson Musical String Co.
Be
S*3!"*
16
The Music Trade
Review
MAY 4, 1929
Now It's "Papa" Carson
Fretted Instrument Guild Holding
Robinson, well-known fretted instru-
Convention in Baltimore, May 5-8 ment Carson
artist, whose enchanting melody on the
D A L T I M O R E , M D , May 1.—Final plans are
*^ being worked out this week for the twenty-
eighth annual convention of American Guild of
l'anjoists, Mandolinists and Guitarists to he
held here next week on May 5, 6, 7 and 8. The
Lord Baltimore Hotel has been selected as
headquarters of the 1929 convention and regis-
tration will start here on Sunday, May 5. The
program for Monday includes morning and
afternoon business sessions in Parlor A at 10
and 2 o'clock, respectively. At 8.15 the cus-
tomary Guild concert will be held in the Cal-
vert ballroom.
A third business session will be held on Tues-
day morning at 10, followed by an educational
program at 12 provided by George C. Krick.
Mr. Krick will talk on "The Guitar 1829-1929,"
and in addition will give a guitar recital. At
2.30 members will be taken on a sight-seeing
trip through Baltimore and the surrounding
territory, and at 6.30 o'clock will follow the
twenty-eighth annual American Guild banquet
in the Calvert ballroom.
On Wednesday members will convene at 10
o'clock for the usual business session in Parlor
A, at which Walter Holt will read a paper on
"The Past and Future of the Guild." At 2
the final business session will be held in the
same room and at 8.15 the regular artists' re-
cital for Guild members will be held at the
Dealer—For Window Display, the
NICOMEDE RAINBOW FLASHER
D
STEWART
Mfd. by NICOMEDE MUSIC CO.
Altoona, Pa.
Put this book
lo work tor you
Woodruff Opens Branch
MONTGOMERY, ALA., April 28.—Frank Woodruff,
who operates a general music store at 220
Montgomery street, has just opened a branch
store at 10 South Perry street. The new es-
tablishment will handle the same lines of in-
struments, including Bush & Gcrts and Had-
dorff pianos, Brunswick phonographs and
radios as well as Zenith and Eveready radio
sets. Mr. Woodruff will personally manage
both stores.
SELLING MUSICAL
MERCHANDISE
BY JAMES A. FP£W
The only book published which shows music dealeri
how to go about organizing a musical merchandise
department and how to run one at a profit.
It it written by a man who has used every method
he describes in his own business and every one of
them made money for him. Put them to work
for yourself.
Gibson Men Visiting East
Frank Campbell, George Post and Earle
Cooke, of the Gibson, Inc., sales organization,
Kalamazoo, Mich., spent several days in New
York during the past week. Following their
stay in New York, they left for Baltimore,
Md., to attend the annual convention of the
American Guild of Banjoists, Mandolinists and
Guitarists being held there May 5-8.
Sent to you FREE
for five days
Test this book by reading it at our expense.
Fill out the inspection coupon and mall
it for our free fire-day inspection offer to
Music Trade Review, readers.
'Mail This Coupon
I
Harp Instruction Added
to Cleveland Schools
AND
The greatest novelty of the day. An instan-
taneous hit everywhere.
A great drawing
card.
FREE for 60 days only One Banjo or
Drum Flasher to every dealer ordering five
or more of these flashers.
You may send me a copy of "Sellinc
Musical Merchandise" for which I here-
with remit $3.
Fretted Instrument Class
DURRO
BANJOS and DRUMS
Edward Lyman Bill, Inc.,
420 Lexington Av«.. New York City.
guitar is enjoyed by thousands and thousands
Y. W. C. A. auditorium, Park avenue and
of people who hear him on the "air" as well as
Franklin street. The soloists for this event will
on records, is proudly proclaiming to his
include Walter Kaye Bauer on mandolin and
friends that a new title has been bestowed upon
harp-guitar, Walter T. Holt on guitar, Shirley
him. Little "Miss" Robinson arrived at his
Spaulding on banjo, Miss Helen Stanton Seeley
home
last week and the proudest "I'apa" in the
on mando-cello and James H. Johnstone on
East is Carson Robinson.
tenor banjo.
Indications from the convention committee
indicate an attendance of Guild members that
will equal and possibly surpass that of the 1928
DENVER, COLO., April 27.—An interesting group
convention held in Hartford, Conn.
of fretted instrument students has been formed
here by Bruce Fleming called the Saturday
Morning Plectrum Orchestra. The members are
7
children ranging from five to thirteen years of
age.
The ensemble plays regularly for ban-
CLEVELAND, O., May 1.—The Cleveland public quets, church socials and also broadcasts.
schools have added the teaching of the harp
to their musical curriculum. The Cleveland
OLIVER DITSON CO
branch of Lyon & Healy, Inc., has sold five
BOSTON, MASS
harps to the school board and five schools have
been equipped. If sufficient interest is shown
Manufacturers
Importers and Jobbers of
by pupils in other schools they will also be
equipped with harps. It is the first time in
MUSICAL
the history of the public schools that any at-
MERCHANDISE
tempt has been made to teach this instrument.
The only qualification necessary for pupils to
Attractive Specialties
take up the study is to express a willingness
Modern Service
to learn.
The Cleveland school board spent approxi-
E8TABLJSHKD 1884
mately $40,000 in the school year of 1927-28 for
musical activities. One of the most important
phases in this work, however, is not financed
VIOLINS
by the Board of Education but through the
BOWS
Cleveland Symphony orchestra through its
STRINGS
children's concerts, music memory concerts and
the like.
The Cleveland school system provides ade-
BANJOS
MANDOLINS
quate instrumental instruction for every child
GUITARS
who may possess talent and interest. Ele-
Largest Wholemale
mentary school orchestras are to be found in
Musical Merchandise
every grade school and each junior and senior
House in America
high school has its band and orchestra. Inci-
dentally, this increased interest in music is prov-
Buegeleisen & Jacobson
ing very beneficial to the music dealers of
NEW YORK
5-7-9 Union S«iiar*
Cleveland and considerable advertising de-
signed to attract the attention of these young
musicians is being done.
I
!
I
'
|
The Green Novelty & Music Co., Evansville,
Ind., has been incorporated with capital stock
of $10,000 by Joseph V. and Mary Green and
Albert Breedlove.
A branch of the Hank Bros, music store,
of Belton, Anderson, S. C, has been opened
in Anderson, S. C, with Charles C. Wilson
as manager. The concern handles talking ma-
chines and records.
You have tried the rest
—Now use the BEST
Joseph Rogers' Son
"XXX" and "STANDARD" Brand
Drum and Banjo Heads
Made from Genuine Calfskin
The Frederick Rogers Co.
17 Jackson Ave.
Middletown, N. Y.
Black Diamond
Strings
THE WORLD'S BEST
National Musical String Co.
New Brunswick, N. J.
GoldMedalStrings
for musical instruments
Gold-plated Steel and
Wound Strings
Gibson Musical String Co.
Be
S*3!"*
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