Presto
Issue: 1923 1940 - Page 24
PRESTO
24
JAPANESE RECORDS BURNED
Events of Recent Calamity Recall First Efforts to
Secure Native Music for Phonograph.
A great many master records of Japanese music,
instrumental and vocal, were destroyed in the recent
earthquake and fire there. They included records of
Japanese instrumental music made with the biwa,
koto, gekkin and Japanese flute, with its weird quar-
ter tones which sold in large numbers in Japan.
The first expedition sent to Japan by American
phonograph record makers found failure in the main
object. It was sent out at the suggestion of a
Japanese phonograph dealer who guaranteed its
financial success, says a writer in the Saturday Eve-
ning Post. At that time the Japanese were freely
purchasing American band records, and were also
curiously fond of our laughing records, especially the
negro comics. They couldn't ; understand the lan-
guage, of course, but there was something in the high
spirits of such disks that seemed to tickle the Japs.
"When we listened to the first Japanese records
sent back they were distasteful—even irritating," said
a director. "Sung in a high-pitched, nasal, contracted
voice, and accompanied by a native violin of such
high pitch that it was merely a squeak, they seemed
the most primitive form of music conceivable.' 1
But a valuable result of the expedition came from
an incidental happening. On the way over to Japan
it stopped at Honolulu, and made records of Hawaiian
music, and thereby unwittingly brought about its
popularity in the United States. At first the whine
of the ukulele and the peculiar wail of the trans-
mogrified gospel hymn were sold only in Hawaii,
but presently American tourists discovered that
Hawaiian music had been canned, bought records,
brought them home and created demand for them
here.
"But when we studied the Japanese records a little
further they proved very interesting, for they con-
tained a great deal of Japanese history, sung by
what we would call bards, in ballad form," added the
director quoted above. '-^These singers were famous
and reverenced in Japan. Some of them lived as re-
tainers in the homes of old families, and it was neces-
sary to take the recording machine into such homes
in some cases, because the singers would not leave
them."
BUESCHER=GRANT TROMBONE
September 29, 1923
COINOLAS
FOR
RESTAURANTS, CAFES and
AMUSEMENT CENTERS
New Instrument in B Flat with Crook for F Inter-
ests Orchestra Players.
The Buescher Band Instrument Company, Elk-
hart, Ind., always alert to learn what band and or-
chestra musicians want, has brought out a Buescher-
Grant trombone in B flat (tenor, baritone and bass
models) with crook for F. Throwing the F crook
practically does away with using the 6th and 7th
positions. These extreme positions are not so readily
get-at-able in congested theater orchestra pit or cafe
bandstand, and for this reason trombonists are espe-
cially well pleased with the F crook idea. Low B
natural and low C are played with the F crook in-
stead of pushing the slide to sixth and seventh posi-
tions, giving quicker execution and eliminating the
chance of jamming the slide against the chair of a
player in front. Low B is made with the slide in
first position and low C with slide half way between
the first and second positions.
When used in the key of F horn parts may be
played on this trombone just as written. Low E
flat, E, F and G are said by competent trombonists
to be much clearer and full-bodied when played with
the F crook than they are when played in the usual
positions. But it is speed that counts most and the
saving of space effected by not using the extreme
positions. A number written in B flat may be played
entirely in the first position except for accidentals.
Theater and dance orchestra players in all parts
of the country are congratulating F. A. Buescher on
this achievement.
Style C-2
FROM THE BIGGEST
ORCHESTRION
NEWS OF SMALL GOODS FIELD
MAGOSY & BUSCHER
First Class
OVAL AND ROUND METAL
SPINNERS
Makers of high-grade hammered Cym-,
bals in Brass and German Silver, from 2
to 18 inches; Brass Mutes for Cornets,
Trombones, French Horns.
Our Hammered Cymbals are as Good as Turk-
ish Cymbals in Sound, and they don't cost as
much.
Drum Major Batons in Wood and Metal.
Makers of the BESTONE Banjo Reso-
nators
We Can Manufacture Any Specialty in
Our Line to Order.
232 Canal St. and 118 Walker St., NEW YORK
DEALERS AND TUNERS!
Big Cut in Prices Piano Key Repairing
Celluloid, Complete Tops, Set Keys
$7.00
Ivorine (grained), Complete Tops, Set Keys 8.00
Composition, Complete Tops, Set Keys... 10.00
Sole manufacturers and distributors of H. P.
& O. K. Co. famous Ivory White Glue. Needs
no Heating. Applied Cold. Sent anywhere in
U. S. P. P. $1.00 can.
HARLEM PIANO & ORGAN KEY CO.
121-123 E. 126th St.
New York City, N. Y.
Many New Names Appear in Musical Instrument
Business and Old Ones Continue in Activities.
Miss Charlotte Roderick is the new manager of
the talking machine department in the George S.
Dales Co., Akron, O.
The Svoboda Furniture Co., Kewaunee, Wis., had
an exhibit of talking machines at the recent county
fair in that place.
The C. E. Hurd Music Shop, Freeport, 111., has
added a line of talking machines.
Mrs. J. M. Albertson has been made head of sales
in the talking machine department of the Brandeis
Store, Omaha, Neb.
George Tomaso is proprietor of the Mont Claire
Music Store recently opened at 7160 West Grand
avenue, Chicago.
A department for German records has been added
by Snyder"s Music Store, Baltimore, Md.
Trout's Music Shop, Baltimore, Md., recently fes-
tooned the front of the store with bunches of bananas
and gave a banana away with record of "Yes, We
Have No Bananas" sold.
Victor Smotet, the Niagara street, Buffalo, N. Y.,
dealer is holding a clearance sale preparatory to dis-
continuing the business.
A big business in foreign language rolls has been
built up by the Gardner Piano Co., Providence, R. I.
The new manager of the music roll department in
the Schmoller & Mueller Co., Omaha, is Miss Flor-
ence Marsh.
GOOD MAN FOR JOB.
Walter Lynas, the head of the musical merchandise
department in the new store of the William P. Crowe
Piano Co., in Columbus, O., is a well-known musician
and teacher of that city, with a wide acquaintance
among professional musicians. At the present time
he plays the piccolo in the Hartman Orchestra. He
has had a varied experience in orchestra work under
the instruction of Fred Neddermeyer, conductor of
the James Theater Orchestra.
C. G. CONN, Ltd., Elkhart, Ind.
C. D. GREENLEAF, Pres.
J. E. BOYER, Sec'y
World's largest manufftotwwn 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 us* 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 'iaoign,
beautiful
finish and reliable construction.
r
' -nr> Instruments are sent to any point in tk ''. S. subject to ten t^ays free trial. Branch store
or agencies will be found in all large eities. Writ e for catalogue*, prices, etc.
C. G. CONN, Ltd.
DEPT. MS.
ELKHART, JND.
Tiny Coinola
THE SMALLEST
KEYLESS
Manufactured by
The Operators Piano Co.
16 to 22 South Peoria St.
CHICAGO
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24
JAPANESE RECORDS BURNED
Events of Recent Calamity Recall First Efforts to
Secure Native Music for Phonograph.
A great many master records of Japanese music,
instrumental and vocal, were destroyed in the recent
earthquake and fire there. They included records of
Japanese instrumental music made with the biwa,
koto, gekkin and Japanese flute, with its weird quar-
ter tones which sold in large numbers in Japan.
The first expedition sent to Japan by American
phonograph record makers found failure in the main
object. It was sent out at the suggestion of a
Japanese phonograph dealer who guaranteed its
financial success, says a writer in the Saturday Eve-
ning Post. At that time the Japanese were freely
purchasing American band records, and were also
curiously fond of our laughing records, especially the
negro comics. They couldn't ; understand the lan-
guage, of course, but there was something in the high
spirits of such disks that seemed to tickle the Japs.
"When we listened to the first Japanese records
sent back they were distasteful—even irritating," said
a director. "Sung in a high-pitched, nasal, contracted
voice, and accompanied by a native violin of such
high pitch that it was merely a squeak, they seemed
the most primitive form of music conceivable.' 1
But a valuable result of the expedition came from
an incidental happening. On the way over to Japan
it stopped at Honolulu, and made records of Hawaiian
music, and thereby unwittingly brought about its
popularity in the United States. At first the whine
of the ukulele and the peculiar wail of the trans-
mogrified gospel hymn were sold only in Hawaii,
but presently American tourists discovered that
Hawaiian music had been canned, bought records,
brought them home and created demand for them
here.
"But when we studied the Japanese records a little
further they proved very interesting, for they con-
tained a great deal of Japanese history, sung by
what we would call bards, in ballad form," added the
director quoted above. '-^These singers were famous
and reverenced in Japan. Some of them lived as re-
tainers in the homes of old families, and it was neces-
sary to take the recording machine into such homes
in some cases, because the singers would not leave
them."
BUESCHER=GRANT TROMBONE
September 29, 1923
COINOLAS
FOR
RESTAURANTS, CAFES and
AMUSEMENT CENTERS
New Instrument in B Flat with Crook for F Inter-
ests Orchestra Players.
The Buescher Band Instrument Company, Elk-
hart, Ind., always alert to learn what band and or-
chestra musicians want, has brought out a Buescher-
Grant trombone in B flat (tenor, baritone and bass
models) with crook for F. Throwing the F crook
practically does away with using the 6th and 7th
positions. These extreme positions are not so readily
get-at-able in congested theater orchestra pit or cafe
bandstand, and for this reason trombonists are espe-
cially well pleased with the F crook idea. Low B
natural and low C are played with the F crook in-
stead of pushing the slide to sixth and seventh posi-
tions, giving quicker execution and eliminating the
chance of jamming the slide against the chair of a
player in front. Low B is made with the slide in
first position and low C with slide half way between
the first and second positions.
When used in the key of F horn parts may be
played on this trombone just as written. Low E
flat, E, F and G are said by competent trombonists
to be much clearer and full-bodied when played with
the F crook than they are when played in the usual
positions. But it is speed that counts most and the
saving of space effected by not using the extreme
positions. A number written in B flat may be played
entirely in the first position except for accidentals.
Theater and dance orchestra players in all parts
of the country are congratulating F. A. Buescher on
this achievement.
Style C-2
FROM THE BIGGEST
ORCHESTRION
NEWS OF SMALL GOODS FIELD
MAGOSY & BUSCHER
First Class
OVAL AND ROUND METAL
SPINNERS
Makers of high-grade hammered Cym-,
bals in Brass and German Silver, from 2
to 18 inches; Brass Mutes for Cornets,
Trombones, French Horns.
Our Hammered Cymbals are as Good as Turk-
ish Cymbals in Sound, and they don't cost as
much.
Drum Major Batons in Wood and Metal.
Makers of the BESTONE Banjo Reso-
nators
We Can Manufacture Any Specialty in
Our Line to Order.
232 Canal St. and 118 Walker St., NEW YORK
DEALERS AND TUNERS!
Big Cut in Prices Piano Key Repairing
Celluloid, Complete Tops, Set Keys
$7.00
Ivorine (grained), Complete Tops, Set Keys 8.00
Composition, Complete Tops, Set Keys... 10.00
Sole manufacturers and distributors of H. P.
& O. K. Co. famous Ivory White Glue. Needs
no Heating. Applied Cold. Sent anywhere in
U. S. P. P. $1.00 can.
HARLEM PIANO & ORGAN KEY CO.
121-123 E. 126th St.
New York City, N. Y.
Many New Names Appear in Musical Instrument
Business and Old Ones Continue in Activities.
Miss Charlotte Roderick is the new manager of
the talking machine department in the George S.
Dales Co., Akron, O.
The Svoboda Furniture Co., Kewaunee, Wis., had
an exhibit of talking machines at the recent county
fair in that place.
The C. E. Hurd Music Shop, Freeport, 111., has
added a line of talking machines.
Mrs. J. M. Albertson has been made head of sales
in the talking machine department of the Brandeis
Store, Omaha, Neb.
George Tomaso is proprietor of the Mont Claire
Music Store recently opened at 7160 West Grand
avenue, Chicago.
A department for German records has been added
by Snyder"s Music Store, Baltimore, Md.
Trout's Music Shop, Baltimore, Md., recently fes-
tooned the front of the store with bunches of bananas
and gave a banana away with record of "Yes, We
Have No Bananas" sold.
Victor Smotet, the Niagara street, Buffalo, N. Y.,
dealer is holding a clearance sale preparatory to dis-
continuing the business.
A big business in foreign language rolls has been
built up by the Gardner Piano Co., Providence, R. I.
The new manager of the music roll department in
the Schmoller & Mueller Co., Omaha, is Miss Flor-
ence Marsh.
GOOD MAN FOR JOB.
Walter Lynas, the head of the musical merchandise
department in the new store of the William P. Crowe
Piano Co., in Columbus, O., is a well-known musician
and teacher of that city, with a wide acquaintance
among professional musicians. At the present time
he plays the piccolo in the Hartman Orchestra. He
has had a varied experience in orchestra work under
the instruction of Fred Neddermeyer, conductor of
the James Theater Orchestra.
C. G. CONN, Ltd., Elkhart, Ind.
C. D. GREENLEAF, Pres.
J. E. BOYER, Sec'y
World's largest manufftotwwn 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 us* 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 'iaoign,
beautiful
finish and reliable construction.
r
' -nr> Instruments are sent to any point in tk ''. S. subject to ten t^ays free trial. Branch store
or agencies will be found in all large eities. Writ e for catalogue*, prices, etc.
C. G. CONN, Ltd.
DEPT. MS.
ELKHART, JND.
Tiny Coinola
THE SMALLEST
KEYLESS
Manufactured by
The Operators Piano Co.
16 to 22 South Peoria St.
CHICAGO
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).