Presto
Issue: 1923 1926 - Page 22
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PRESTO
CHOSING WOOD FOR VIOLINS
Some Items of Information Considered by Experts
in Selecting Materials.
The resonant properties peculiar to particular
trees of a species may account for the excellence of
one violin over another, made in the same shop, says
The Woodworker. Wood experts agree that the
resonant properties of wood are accentuated or
diminished by various causes affecting the tree.
Resonant properties of wood are controlled and
altered very considerably by the soil the tree grows
on, by the altitude and by the climatic conditions of
"the surrounding country which may produce even or
uneven temperature during the growth of the tree.
As you go into the question it cebomes deeper.
To account for the fine resonant qualities in a Strad-
ivarius, for instance, the experts hold you should
learn what were the chemical properties of the sub-
soil on which the tree was grown. Was the tree
over three thousand feet and under eight thousand
feet above sea levl? Othr information about the
tree is considered necessary by the experts.
But they concluded that the great violin maker
managed to get a tree or trees that were grown in
the best conditions suited to resonant values and
properties. And they hold that unless similar alti-
tude and conditions are found and identified we
shall not make instruments of equal tone value.
It is clear that the search for the most desirable
violin wood is a job for the analytical chemist. The
excellence of the wood for the making of violins
depends on the time of the year in which the tree
Pian-O-Grand
Beautiful Piano Case
Design and Construction
is felled. January or February arc suggested as the
best months for felling, and when the wood is con-
verted into belly material only the "soft or south
side" of the wood should be used. It has more vi-
brating power than the wood on the north side.
But the reverse is the case when wood for backs
is selected from maple or sycamore. In this case the
north or hardest wood with the most regular cell
formation for the reflection of tone is the most de-
sirable.
The resonant properties of woods for violin con-
struction are favorite subjects for discussion by con-
noisseurs and by people who make and sell violins.
And the most divergent arguments are advanced to
show why certain fiddles are more resonant than
others. The advantages of the old instruments, for
instance, over the modern ones is said ^o be due to
the air dried processes of preparing the wood.
June 23, 1923
The Background
A BUSY ROLL
DEPARTMENT
INCIDENTS OF WEEK IN RADIO
How They Interest B. Baer, Newspaper Funny Man,
Told in Following.
B. Baer, the Herald-Examiner funny man, pre-
sents the following laugh compellcrs in his "Week
in Radio" colyum:
The old hokum bucketshop. Sung by Grabbit
Quartet. Until we meat again. By Triple Vege-
tarians of America. I'll love you forever and a day.
The day is easy, but the forever is tough. Song by
a well-known banker. Stick out your ears. John
Philip Sousa is aiming his orchestra at you. Educa-
tional lecture to foolish women. Subject, fight like
three cheers and a tiger Flo.
Eighteen solos by eighteen baritones in one tele-
phone booth. Home garden hints. Never chase a
neighbor's chicken out of your soup dish. World
series scores. I closed like a king, but they opened
me up like an oyster. By King Tut. Political speech
by all of our foreign ambassadors who still defy
extradition. You can't make a monkey out of me.
Bill Bryan. You con't make a president out of me,
cither. By Bill Bryan. What the world court stands
for after it flops. One war at a time will be their
substitute for peace.
Home garden hints. Water melons should be
raised flat on the ground until they are ripe enough
to be stolen.
Moo-cow stories by milk farmers.
More moo than sow. Russian folk songs. With in-
terpretive shooting.
Closing prices on frightened
clams. Some widow and orphan fraudcasting by oil
stock swindlers. Late suburban music. Classical
thunderstorms. After giving six hours of boiler shop
melody, the Epidemic Jazz Band thanks you for the
silence. Good-night, if possible.
VIOLINS FROM JAPAN.
According to Commerce Reports, published by the
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, the ex-
ports of violins, bows and violin accessories from
Japan to the United States show a decrease in com-
parison with previous years. But while the exports
of violins and bows show a decrease when the report
is studied in detail the figures for parts and acces-
sories have vastly decreased.
COLUMBIA
WORD ROLLS
JULY— Advance
612
613
614
GIG
616
617
«18
til!)
620
621
624
625
627
628
62!)
(131
632
Title
Choo Ohoo Blues
Faded Love Letters
A Kiss in the Dark
T Never Miss the
Sunshine
Keep Off My Shoes
That Red Head Gal
Wolverine Blues
Toll Me Gypsy
Gulf Coast Blues
Every Step Brings Mr
Closer to By Lovin'
Honey Lamb
Look lor the Silver
Lining
Dreamy Melody
In June
Snake's Hips
I Love Me
I Dream of a Castlu
in Spain
Yes! We Have No
Bananas
I'appa Better Watch
Your Step
Nothing in the Automatic field to com-
pare with it.
Biggest money maker and most effective
expression coin control instrument on the
market.
Plays Standard 65-Note Rolls
Whether for public places, theatres or
private parlors, it is all that its name
suggests—Pian-O-Grand.
Send for Descriptive Circular
NELSON-WIGGEN PIANO CO.
CHICAGO, ILL.
TUNERS'
Here are
BASS STRINGS
Special attention given to the needs of the tuner and
the dealer
OTTO R. TREFZ, Jr.
2110 Fairmount Avenue
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
C. G. CONN, Ltd., Elkhart, Ind.
C. D. GREENLEAF, Pres.
J. E. BOYER, Sec'y
World's largest manufacturers of High Grade Band and Orchestra Instruments. Employs 1,000
expert workmen.
All of the most celebrated Artists use and endorse Conn Instruments.
Famous Bandmasters and Orchestra Directors highly endorse and recommend the use of the
Conn Instruments in their organizations.
Conn Instruments are noted for their ease of playing, light and reliable ralve or key action;
quick response, rich tonal quality, perfect intonation, tone carrying quality, artisticness of design,
beautiful finish and reliable construction.
Conn Instruments are sent to any point in th » U. S. subject to ten <}ays free trial. Branch store
or agencies will be found in all large cities. Write for catalogues, prices, etc.
C. G. CONN, Ltd.
DEPT. MS.
ELKHART, IND.
Florence Sa tiger
James Blythe
Florence Sander
James Blythe
Wayne Love
James Blythe
Blues
Waltz
Ballad
Fox Trot
Fox Trot
Fox Trot
Blues
Fox Trot
Blues
Florence Sanger Fox Trot
Wayne Love
Nell Morrison
Wayne Love
l'aul Jones
Florence Sanger
Fox Trot
Waltz
Fox Trot
Fox Trot
One Step
Wayne Love
Fox Trot
Gladys Baywill
Fox Trot
l'aul Jones
Fox Trot
To Retail at
BOOKLET APPRECIATED.
The booklet on 'The Care of the Piano Finish," by
Julius Bauer & Co., Chicago, has been much in de-
mand from people who are interested in getting the
most service out of their pianos. The booklet covers
practically every phase of the attentions to the piano
finish, and is useful either to dealer or to purchaser.
Played by:
Clarence Johnson
Nell Morrison
Nell Morrison
Why Pay More?
75
None Better.
Made of the best materials
obtainable.
Will please your trade and
double your sales.
Quality and price make
Columbia rolls the deal-
er's best profit producer
in a roll department.
A trial order will con-
vince you.
Columbia Music Roll Co.
22 S. Peoria St.
CHICAGO
ILL.
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PRESTO
CHOSING WOOD FOR VIOLINS
Some Items of Information Considered by Experts
in Selecting Materials.
The resonant properties peculiar to particular
trees of a species may account for the excellence of
one violin over another, made in the same shop, says
The Woodworker. Wood experts agree that the
resonant properties of wood are accentuated or
diminished by various causes affecting the tree.
Resonant properties of wood are controlled and
altered very considerably by the soil the tree grows
on, by the altitude and by the climatic conditions of
"the surrounding country which may produce even or
uneven temperature during the growth of the tree.
As you go into the question it cebomes deeper.
To account for the fine resonant qualities in a Strad-
ivarius, for instance, the experts hold you should
learn what were the chemical properties of the sub-
soil on which the tree was grown. Was the tree
over three thousand feet and under eight thousand
feet above sea levl? Othr information about the
tree is considered necessary by the experts.
But they concluded that the great violin maker
managed to get a tree or trees that were grown in
the best conditions suited to resonant values and
properties. And they hold that unless similar alti-
tude and conditions are found and identified we
shall not make instruments of equal tone value.
It is clear that the search for the most desirable
violin wood is a job for the analytical chemist. The
excellence of the wood for the making of violins
depends on the time of the year in which the tree
Pian-O-Grand
Beautiful Piano Case
Design and Construction
is felled. January or February arc suggested as the
best months for felling, and when the wood is con-
verted into belly material only the "soft or south
side" of the wood should be used. It has more vi-
brating power than the wood on the north side.
But the reverse is the case when wood for backs
is selected from maple or sycamore. In this case the
north or hardest wood with the most regular cell
formation for the reflection of tone is the most de-
sirable.
The resonant properties of woods for violin con-
struction are favorite subjects for discussion by con-
noisseurs and by people who make and sell violins.
And the most divergent arguments are advanced to
show why certain fiddles are more resonant than
others. The advantages of the old instruments, for
instance, over the modern ones is said ^o be due to
the air dried processes of preparing the wood.
June 23, 1923
The Background
A BUSY ROLL
DEPARTMENT
INCIDENTS OF WEEK IN RADIO
How They Interest B. Baer, Newspaper Funny Man,
Told in Following.
B. Baer, the Herald-Examiner funny man, pre-
sents the following laugh compellcrs in his "Week
in Radio" colyum:
The old hokum bucketshop. Sung by Grabbit
Quartet. Until we meat again. By Triple Vege-
tarians of America. I'll love you forever and a day.
The day is easy, but the forever is tough. Song by
a well-known banker. Stick out your ears. John
Philip Sousa is aiming his orchestra at you. Educa-
tional lecture to foolish women. Subject, fight like
three cheers and a tiger Flo.
Eighteen solos by eighteen baritones in one tele-
phone booth. Home garden hints. Never chase a
neighbor's chicken out of your soup dish. World
series scores. I closed like a king, but they opened
me up like an oyster. By King Tut. Political speech
by all of our foreign ambassadors who still defy
extradition. You can't make a monkey out of me.
Bill Bryan. You con't make a president out of me,
cither. By Bill Bryan. What the world court stands
for after it flops. One war at a time will be their
substitute for peace.
Home garden hints. Water melons should be
raised flat on the ground until they are ripe enough
to be stolen.
Moo-cow stories by milk farmers.
More moo than sow. Russian folk songs. With in-
terpretive shooting.
Closing prices on frightened
clams. Some widow and orphan fraudcasting by oil
stock swindlers. Late suburban music. Classical
thunderstorms. After giving six hours of boiler shop
melody, the Epidemic Jazz Band thanks you for the
silence. Good-night, if possible.
VIOLINS FROM JAPAN.
According to Commerce Reports, published by the
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, the ex-
ports of violins, bows and violin accessories from
Japan to the United States show a decrease in com-
parison with previous years. But while the exports
of violins and bows show a decrease when the report
is studied in detail the figures for parts and acces-
sories have vastly decreased.
COLUMBIA
WORD ROLLS
JULY— Advance
612
613
614
GIG
616
617
«18
til!)
620
621
624
625
627
628
62!)
(131
632
Title
Choo Ohoo Blues
Faded Love Letters
A Kiss in the Dark
T Never Miss the
Sunshine
Keep Off My Shoes
That Red Head Gal
Wolverine Blues
Toll Me Gypsy
Gulf Coast Blues
Every Step Brings Mr
Closer to By Lovin'
Honey Lamb
Look lor the Silver
Lining
Dreamy Melody
In June
Snake's Hips
I Love Me
I Dream of a Castlu
in Spain
Yes! We Have No
Bananas
I'appa Better Watch
Your Step
Nothing in the Automatic field to com-
pare with it.
Biggest money maker and most effective
expression coin control instrument on the
market.
Plays Standard 65-Note Rolls
Whether for public places, theatres or
private parlors, it is all that its name
suggests—Pian-O-Grand.
Send for Descriptive Circular
NELSON-WIGGEN PIANO CO.
CHICAGO, ILL.
TUNERS'
Here are
BASS STRINGS
Special attention given to the needs of the tuner and
the dealer
OTTO R. TREFZ, Jr.
2110 Fairmount Avenue
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
C. G. CONN, Ltd., Elkhart, Ind.
C. D. GREENLEAF, Pres.
J. E. BOYER, Sec'y
World's largest manufacturers of High Grade Band and Orchestra Instruments. Employs 1,000
expert workmen.
All of the most celebrated Artists use and endorse Conn Instruments.
Famous Bandmasters and Orchestra Directors highly endorse and recommend the use of the
Conn Instruments in their organizations.
Conn Instruments are noted for their ease of playing, light and reliable ralve or key action;
quick response, rich tonal quality, perfect intonation, tone carrying quality, artisticness of design,
beautiful finish and reliable construction.
Conn Instruments are sent to any point in th » U. S. subject to ten <}ays free trial. Branch store
or agencies will be found in all large cities. Write for catalogues, prices, etc.
C. G. CONN, Ltd.
DEPT. MS.
ELKHART, IND.
Florence Sa tiger
James Blythe
Florence Sander
James Blythe
Wayne Love
James Blythe
Blues
Waltz
Ballad
Fox Trot
Fox Trot
Fox Trot
Blues
Fox Trot
Blues
Florence Sanger Fox Trot
Wayne Love
Nell Morrison
Wayne Love
l'aul Jones
Florence Sanger
Fox Trot
Waltz
Fox Trot
Fox Trot
One Step
Wayne Love
Fox Trot
Gladys Baywill
Fox Trot
l'aul Jones
Fox Trot
To Retail at
BOOKLET APPRECIATED.
The booklet on 'The Care of the Piano Finish," by
Julius Bauer & Co., Chicago, has been much in de-
mand from people who are interested in getting the
most service out of their pianos. The booklet covers
practically every phase of the attentions to the piano
finish, and is useful either to dealer or to purchaser.
Played by:
Clarence Johnson
Nell Morrison
Nell Morrison
Why Pay More?
75
None Better.
Made of the best materials
obtainable.
Will please your trade and
double your sales.
Quality and price make
Columbia rolls the deal-
er's best profit producer
in a roll department.
A trial order will con-
vince you.
Columbia Music Roll Co.
22 S. Peoria St.
CHICAGO
ILL.
Enhanced content © 2008-2009 and presented by MBSI - The Musical Box Society International (www.mbsi.org) and the International Arcade Museum (www.arcade-museum.com).
All Rights Reserved. Digitized from the archives of the MBSI with support from NAMM - The International Music Products Association (www.namm.org).
Additional enhancement, optimization, and distribution by the International Arcade Museum. An extensive collection of Presto can be found online at http://www.arcade-museum.com/library/
Future scanning projects are planned by the International Arcade Museum Library (IAML).