Music Trade Review

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PIATANESI.
Pros.
ALFREDO
MORBIDONI,
Vice-Pres.
ALDO
G.
1509 MILWAUKEE AVENUE
CHICAGO.
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For 22 years we have been
making piano accordions in
Chicago, of the best material
and workmanship, by skilled
artisans who make this
their life work. All made by
hand and in many styles.
We build also to order on
special specifications. Re-
pairing and exchanging.
WESTERN MUSICAL MERCHANDISE
ASSOCIATION HOLDS MONTHLY MEETING
T
HE regular monthly dinner followed by
a business meeting of the Western divi-
sion of the Musical Merchandise Manu-
facturers' Association was held at the Great
Northern Hotel, May 7, with Vice-President
Kuhrmeyer as chairman.
In addition to the Stromberg-Voisinet Co.,
and former President Jay Kraus of the Har-
mony Co., Armour & Co. were represented
by Secretary H. O. Gable; American Gut
String Co. by H. L. Diehl; Walter Gotsch
Co. by Walter Gotsch, and Regal Co. by A.
E. Hunter.
After the discussion of various plans for
Chicago hospitality to the visiting members
of the musical merchandise industry, a lunch-
eon committee was appointed consisting of
Walter Gotsch, chairman; A. E. Hunter and
H. L. Diehl, to arrange for a luncheon on
June 10, which would precede the annual
business meeting of th.- group provided that
time and date suit the New York members.
Then a copy of the address made by
President H. C. Lomb before the Eastern
Music Supervisors' Conference in Syracuse,
N. Y., was read and favorably commented on.
In his address Mr. Lomb stressed the fact
that each musical instrument has its distinct
field as well as its distinct limitations, which
factors must be balanced against each other
to produce the perfect ensemble. It is in
preserving this balance that manufacturers
of musical instruments and music teachers
can collaborate. For example, it is quite as
short-sighted for a manufacturer to insist on
including an undue quota of certain types
of instruments in a musical unit because it
gives him more pecuniary profit, than it
would be for a teacher to brush aside other
types of instruments because of a bias against
them. Each type of instrument must receive
its just deserts regardless of commercial or
pedagogical associations.
"Latent, unused values of these instruments
may then be discovered," said Mr. Lomb,
"as in the case of the mandolin, which by
virtue of the similarity of its stringing and
its finger positioning frets, could well be used
as an adjunct to the teaching of the more
difficult violin.
"One musical instrument about which
there can be no dispute is, of course, the
piano. The piano needs no panegyric from
me, its unmatched compass, its ten-fingered
adaptability, its soulful tone-quality, and its
vast treasures of musical literature assure
it a place in musical education for all
times."
Mr. Lomb then went on to emphasize
strongly the numerous benefits realized by
the individual through the actual perform-
ance of music on such instruments as best
fitted his temperament and his ability and
pointed to the rapid development of the band
and orchestra movement in the schools
throughout the country as proof of the gen-
eral interest in the actual performance of
music. He urged the supervisors to lend
their full support to the movement in all
its phases.
INCREASED PRODUCTION
FOR KAYKRAFT LINE
The new KayKraft line of fretted instru-
ments has proven so popular that the Strom-
berg-Voisinet Co., of Chicago, its makers,
have had to enlarge their plant space and
increase the number of workmen to fill orders.
President H. K. Kuhrmeyer announces that
his company will be one of the exhibitors at
the music trade convention in June, where
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they expect to show some additions to the
KayKraft line.
The factory force is now working over-
time on orders and by June 1 the production
of KayKraft guitars and tenor banjos will
have reached a large volume. By July 15
they will be in production on tenor guitars
and mandolins, which have already created
a fine impression because of their power and
beauty of tone, among the players who have
tried the samples already completed.
These KayKraft instruments (tenor guitars,
mandolins, and banjos) are all of the new
line to go with the KayKraft guitars which
have become so popular, and will carry the
same price range.
NEW BUESCHER CATALOG
BRILLIANT PIECE OF WORK
The Buescher Band Instrument Co., Elk-
hart, Ind., recently issued a new and most
impressive catalog, in fact quite the finest
thing that has yet been seen in the band
instrument field. All the instruments are
illustrated in unusual and most effective
settings and the whole arrangement of the
volume reflects fine typographical craftsman-
ship. The cover is of brilliant, metalized
paper with the catalog title in silver against
a black background, and is of a character
that commands immediate attention.
R. M. Booth, formerly of the Booth Music
Shopp.e, Florence, Colo., has been appointed
manager of the new Knight Campbell Mu-
sic Co. store to be opened in Lamar. The
Booth Music Shf>ppe will be discontinued.
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