Music Trade Review
Issue: 1929 Vol. 88 N. 20 - Page 16
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The
Music
Trade
MAY 18, 1929
Review
These Trophies Will Be Awarded in
the National School Band Contest
Increase Capital Stock
The Strauch Piano Co., Yonkers, N. Y., of
which Albert T. Strauch, formerly a prominent
figure in the piano action field, is the head, has
increased its capital stock from $15,000 to $30,-
0(10. Small goods are carried.
Dealer—For Window Display, the
NICOMEDE RAINBOW FLASHER
for
BANJOS and DRUMS
| Famous Men in |
The greatest novelty of the day. An instan-
taneous hit everywhere. A great drawing
card.
FREE—for 60 days only One Banjo or
D.-^m I lasher to every dealer ordering five
or more of these flashers.
1 Music Inspect the §
|
School Band
i
1 Contest Trophies g
Mid. by NICOMEDE MUSIC CO.
Altoona, Pa.
DURRO
VIOLINS
BOWS
STRINGS
AND
H P H E coming National School Band Content
at Denver, on May 23 to 25, promises to
be an important event in many respects. School
bands from all over the country will compete.
In the picture above, John Philip Sousa, dean
of American band-masters, and committee
members are shown inspecting the trophies that
are to be awarded to winning schools in State
contests. Left to right are: Joseph K. Maddy,
University of Michigan; A. A. Harding, Uni-
versity of Illinois; Commander Sousa, and (\
M. Tremaine, director of the National Bureau
for the Advancement of Music.
The grand prize is a reproduction of the band
stand on the Mall in Central Park, New York
City.
New Music Rack
Band Contests Boost
Instrument Sales
American Plating & Mfg. Co. Announces Its
Latest Product for Bands and Orchestras
NEW ORLEANS, LA., May 11.—One of the most
successful local observance celebrations of Na-
CHICAGO, I I I . , May 11.—The American Plating
tional Music Week ever shown in this city
& Mfg. Co., 20 East Cullerton street, announces
was completed this week. The program ended
a new improved music lyre rack which can be
with a band contest, the first of its kind ever
used for all band and orchestra instruments.
conducted in New Orleans, in which virtually
The new lyre has been made from special dies
all the bands in the city participated. The
which have been designed to permit a book or
bands were divided into two classes, one con-
a larger amount of music to be held on the
sisting of school bands and amateur organiza-
rack, offering a greater convenience to the
tions, and the other composed of industrial and
players.
fraternal bands. This resulted in many sales
The company also announces that it is
because of the fact that many large business
equipped to do the new chromium plating
concerns organized bands merely to enter the
which is free from oxidization and does not
contest.
tarnish. H. W. Pidgen, head of the American
One dealer found that one of his best selling
Plating & Mfg. Co., states that some chromium
talks, when trying to get a large concern inter-
plating has been done on banjos with very sat-
ested in forming a band, was the amount of
isfactory results, and says that the time is com-
free advertising secured through concerts given
ing when all instruments will be plated with
by the band after it has been taught the use
this new process.
of the instruments. The coming of the Music
Week contest was also used as a means of in-
ducing companies to form their own bands. It
has been discovered that this is the best method
AKRON, O., May 13.—With announcement that
of selling large numbers of instruments and at
the A. Polsky Co. will erect a new $3,000,000
the present time there is a great interest in
department store building on a site acquired
several years ago in South Main street, across bands in this city due, no doubt, to the ag-
the street from the new M. O'Neil Co. store, gressiveness of some of the local music mer-
chants who are working tirelessly in organiz-
comes announcement that the new store will
have a complete musical merchandise depart- ing new bands.
ment and a modern radio salon. Construction
on the new building will be started some time
this year.
W. S. Giveler, special sales representative of
C G. Conn, Ltd., Elkhart, Ind., has been spend-
ing a few weeks on an Eastern trip, conferring
with various Eastern branch managers. Mr.
Giveler visited the New York Conn Co., 237
The Columbia Graphophone Co., Ltd., of West Forty-seventh street, for several days to
London, of which Louis Sterling is Managing work out certain promotional ideas with Harry
Director, has just declared an interim divi- Myers, branch manager, and expressed himself
dend of fifteen per cent on the common stock, as being much pleased with the work this
payable May .16. A dividend of thirty-five per
branch is doing.
cent on the ten-shilling par common was paid
last September, and a 100 per cent stock divi-
W. B. Hert and his son, William T. Hert, Jr.,
dend in October.
have purchased the music shop of D. D. Malone
at 514 South Ohio avenue, Sedalia, Mo. The
Consult the Universal Want Directory of
business will be continued with a full line of
The Review.
musical instruments including radio.
To Have Music Section
W. S. Giveler Visits East
Columbia Graphophone Co.
Declares Interim Dividend
STEWART
BANJO1
MANDOLINS
GUITARS
Largest Wholesale
Musical Merchandise
House in America
BuegeleUen & Jacobson
NEW
5-7-9 Union Square
0
YORK
0
OLIVER D1TSON CQ
BOSTON, >VASS
Manufacturers
Importers and Jobbers of
MUSICAL
MERCHANDISE
Attractive
Modern
Specialties
Service
ESTABLISHED 18S4
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.
Gold Medal Strings
for musical instruments
Gold-plated Steel and
Wound Strings
Gibson Musical String Co.
Be
K Ile
16
The
Music
Trade
MAY 18, 1929
Review
These Trophies Will Be Awarded in
the National School Band Contest
Increase Capital Stock
The Strauch Piano Co., Yonkers, N. Y., of
which Albert T. Strauch, formerly a prominent
figure in the piano action field, is the head, has
increased its capital stock from $15,000 to $30,-
0(10. Small goods are carried.
Dealer—For Window Display, the
NICOMEDE RAINBOW FLASHER
for
BANJOS and DRUMS
| Famous Men in |
The greatest novelty of the day. An instan-
taneous hit everywhere. A great drawing
card.
FREE—for 60 days only One Banjo or
D.-^m I lasher to every dealer ordering five
or more of these flashers.
1 Music Inspect the §
|
School Band
i
1 Contest Trophies g
Mid. by NICOMEDE MUSIC CO.
Altoona, Pa.
DURRO
VIOLINS
BOWS
STRINGS
AND
H P H E coming National School Band Content
at Denver, on May 23 to 25, promises to
be an important event in many respects. School
bands from all over the country will compete.
In the picture above, John Philip Sousa, dean
of American band-masters, and committee
members are shown inspecting the trophies that
are to be awarded to winning schools in State
contests. Left to right are: Joseph K. Maddy,
University of Michigan; A. A. Harding, Uni-
versity of Illinois; Commander Sousa, and (\
M. Tremaine, director of the National Bureau
for the Advancement of Music.
The grand prize is a reproduction of the band
stand on the Mall in Central Park, New York
City.
New Music Rack
Band Contests Boost
Instrument Sales
American Plating & Mfg. Co. Announces Its
Latest Product for Bands and Orchestras
NEW ORLEANS, LA., May 11.—One of the most
successful local observance celebrations of Na-
CHICAGO, I I I . , May 11.—The American Plating
tional Music Week ever shown in this city
& Mfg. Co., 20 East Cullerton street, announces
was completed this week. The program ended
a new improved music lyre rack which can be
with a band contest, the first of its kind ever
used for all band and orchestra instruments.
conducted in New Orleans, in which virtually
The new lyre has been made from special dies
all the bands in the city participated. The
which have been designed to permit a book or
bands were divided into two classes, one con-
a larger amount of music to be held on the
sisting of school bands and amateur organiza-
rack, offering a greater convenience to the
tions, and the other composed of industrial and
players.
fraternal bands. This resulted in many sales
The company also announces that it is
because of the fact that many large business
equipped to do the new chromium plating
concerns organized bands merely to enter the
which is free from oxidization and does not
contest.
tarnish. H. W. Pidgen, head of the American
One dealer found that one of his best selling
Plating & Mfg. Co., states that some chromium
talks, when trying to get a large concern inter-
plating has been done on banjos with very sat-
ested in forming a band, was the amount of
isfactory results, and says that the time is com-
free advertising secured through concerts given
ing when all instruments will be plated with
by the band after it has been taught the use
this new process.
of the instruments. The coming of the Music
Week contest was also used as a means of in-
ducing companies to form their own bands. It
has been discovered that this is the best method
AKRON, O., May 13.—With announcement that
of selling large numbers of instruments and at
the A. Polsky Co. will erect a new $3,000,000
the present time there is a great interest in
department store building on a site acquired
several years ago in South Main street, across bands in this city due, no doubt, to the ag-
the street from the new M. O'Neil Co. store, gressiveness of some of the local music mer-
chants who are working tirelessly in organiz-
comes announcement that the new store will
have a complete musical merchandise depart- ing new bands.
ment and a modern radio salon. Construction
on the new building will be started some time
this year.
W. S. Giveler, special sales representative of
C G. Conn, Ltd., Elkhart, Ind., has been spend-
ing a few weeks on an Eastern trip, conferring
with various Eastern branch managers. Mr.
Giveler visited the New York Conn Co., 237
The Columbia Graphophone Co., Ltd., of West Forty-seventh street, for several days to
London, of which Louis Sterling is Managing work out certain promotional ideas with Harry
Director, has just declared an interim divi- Myers, branch manager, and expressed himself
dend of fifteen per cent on the common stock, as being much pleased with the work this
payable May .16. A dividend of thirty-five per
branch is doing.
cent on the ten-shilling par common was paid
last September, and a 100 per cent stock divi-
W. B. Hert and his son, William T. Hert, Jr.,
dend in October.
have purchased the music shop of D. D. Malone
at 514 South Ohio avenue, Sedalia, Mo. The
Consult the Universal Want Directory of
business will be continued with a full line of
The Review.
musical instruments including radio.
To Have Music Section
W. S. Giveler Visits East
Columbia Graphophone Co.
Declares Interim Dividend
STEWART
BANJO1
MANDOLINS
GUITARS
Largest Wholesale
Musical Merchandise
House in America
BuegeleUen & Jacobson
NEW
5-7-9 Union Square
0
YORK
0
OLIVER D1TSON CQ
BOSTON, >VASS
Manufacturers
Importers and Jobbers of
MUSICAL
MERCHANDISE
Attractive
Modern
Specialties
Service
ESTABLISHED 18S4
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.
Gold Medal Strings
for musical instruments
Gold-plated Steel and
Wound Strings
Gibson Musical String Co.
Be
K Ile
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