Presto
Issue: 1923 1948 - Page 23
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PRESTO
November 24, 1923
SMALL GOODS AND SUPPLIES
CONN SAXOPHONE BUSINESS
Great Growth in the Uses and Manufacture of In-
strument One of the Marvels of Trade.
Every knock delivered by unthoughtful people not
averse to newspaper publicity is a boost for the saxo-
phone. The thoughtlessness, or you might call it
the ignorance, of the few quoted in pulpit utterances
in condemnation of the saxophone is in failing to
name the extent of the instrument's uses in band and
orchestra work and in conveying the erroneous idea
that the saxophone is "the agent of the devil that
creates crazy and immoral dances," as one reverend
gentleman phrased it.
The saxophone is useful in dance music, but its
uses arc as wide as art itself. It has been growing
in use and popularity since it was invented in 1846
by Antoine Joseph Sax. In the United States the
success of the saxophone has been an assured thing
More Money
for Dealers
Progressive dealers are
learning that a line of
high grade, quality band
instruments are best profit
makers. And they are
finding in the Martin
Handcraft Line just this
ideal combination.
Martin Band Instrument Co.
ELKHART
INDIANA
FEATURING HARMONICAS
Widow of Great Tenor Asks Release as Adminis-
trator of Her Husband's Estate.
Mrs. Enrico Caruso last week asked the Chancery
Court in Trenton, N. J., through her counsel, to re-
lease her as an administrator of royalties due her
husband's estate from the Victor Talking Machine
Company. She also asked the court to approve the
division of the Caruso estate made by the Italian
courts.
Apparently tbese moves were in preparation for her
wedding to Captain Ernest A. Ingrain, which is ex-
pected to take place within a few days.
The Italian courts allowed her a one-eighth inter-
est in the Caruso estate. Her accounting of the Vic-
tor royalties, filed last week, showed receipts from
that source totaling $585,727 in 1921 and 1922.
Of this sum one-quarter goes to her daughter,
Gloria, and one-quarter to Mrs. Caruso as Gloria's
tutor.
Lyon & Healy, Wurlitzer Co., Conn Chicago Co. and
Others Present Interesting Displays.
Fire did more than $1,000 in damage to the stock
This week is "harmonica week" in Chicago, and of merchandise of the Barney Charneker department
many stores have taken advantage of this opportunity store, at 4724 Forsyth avenue, Hammond, Indiana,
to effectively display the small instrument. Interest recently. Music goods are carried by the house.
in the mouth-harp has been revived, to a large ex-
tent, by recent displays and advertising by music
establishments everywhere.
Among the Chicago houses to feature the har-
monica is Lyon & Healy Co. A large window at-
tractively decorated show all styles, from the largest
to the smallest, the largest being about eighteen
inches long with four different keys and 192 reeds.
FOR
A picture in the window states that a full line awaits
inspection on the fifth floor. Another interesting
window display shows a full line of musical toy:?,
which are amusing and instructive, and many new
and different instruments are shown.
The Wurlitzer Co. has a harmonica display of
similar character, and the Chicago Conn Co. also
features the small mouth instrument in a window dis-
play this week.
PNEUMATIC LEATHERS A SPECIALTY
That the harmonica is gaining prestige in the musi-
Packing, Valves, All Special Tanned
cal worhi is evidenced by the fact that many large
Bellow* Leather
orchestras over the country are now using them and
find htem to be practical and helpful in many ways.
PLAYERS
ORGANS
PIANOS
A repair department for musical merchandise has
been opened by C. H. Taylor & Co., 218 S. Wabash
avenue. Chicago.
THE CELEBRATED
' (Felten & Gullleaum*)
IMPORTED
MUSIC WIRE
In Black, Red and Green
Label Brands is
UNEXCELLED
The "F efc G" Blue Label Brand is
again being used by Rudolph C.
Koch in tne manufacture of the
Reinwarth Covered Base Strings.
HAMMACHER, SCHLEMMER & CO.
PIANO and PLAYER. HARDWARE. FELTS and TOOLS
NEW YORK, SINCE 1848
THE CARUSO ROYALTIES
LEATHER
IMPORTANT
More than 90% of all
Martin Instruments are
sold through dealers.
Write for Particulars.
since E. A. Lefebre, a friend of the saxophone in-
ventor, took charge in 1890 of the perfecting of saxo-
phones in the factory of C. G. Conn, Ltd., Elkhart,
Ind.
During the earlier period of the saxophone, its
manufacture was exclusively European. But C. G.
Conn, ever progressive, recognized the possibilities of
the instrument and in the eighties started the manu-
facture of the instruments. The construction of the
instrument was made more simple and reliable for
the performer. The tone quality and scale were like-
wise improved to meet the demands of the artists and
in the early nineties the Conn saxophones had found
their way to all parts of the world as the recognized
standard. The saxophone departments of C. G. Conn,
Ltd., are equipped with the most modern and highly
efficient machinery that money can buy. The growth
of the saxophone business is such that demands for
more factory floor space is continuous.
4th Ave. and 13th St.
T. L. LUTKINS, Inc.
40 Spruce Street
NEW YORK
TRUCKS
That Are Labor Savers
Your equipment is not complete without our TRUCKS for handling
Pianos and Talking Machines.
Sill Trucks and End Trucks
for Pianos
With the LEA TALKING MACHINE TRUCK, one man can
handle the Edison Chippendale, Victor No. 17, Cheney No. 6 Queen
Anne, and other large makes, from show-room to any apartment
floor.
Atk for Circular
Factory and Office
DOLGEVILLE, N.Y
JULIUS BRECKWOLDT & SON, ING.
Manufacturers of
Saw Mills
Fulton Chain
and
Tupper Lake
Piano Backs, Boards, Bridges, Bars,
Traplevers and Mouldings
SOLE AGENTS FOR RUDOLF GIESE WIRE
WESTERN REPRESENTATIVE:
J. BRECKWOLDT. Pres.
SELF-LIFTING PIANO TRUCK CO.
FINDLAY, OHIO
THE
O S. KELLY
Manufacturers
CENTRAL STEEL & WIRE CO.,
119-127 N. Peoria Street,
MADE ONLY BY
Chicago, III.
W. A. BRECKWOLDT. Sec. & Treas.
PIANO
SPRINGF"IELD
of
CO
High Qradtt
RLATEIS
*
*
OHIO.
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PRESTO
November 24, 1923
SMALL GOODS AND SUPPLIES
CONN SAXOPHONE BUSINESS
Great Growth in the Uses and Manufacture of In-
strument One of the Marvels of Trade.
Every knock delivered by unthoughtful people not
averse to newspaper publicity is a boost for the saxo-
phone. The thoughtlessness, or you might call it
the ignorance, of the few quoted in pulpit utterances
in condemnation of the saxophone is in failing to
name the extent of the instrument's uses in band and
orchestra work and in conveying the erroneous idea
that the saxophone is "the agent of the devil that
creates crazy and immoral dances," as one reverend
gentleman phrased it.
The saxophone is useful in dance music, but its
uses arc as wide as art itself. It has been growing
in use and popularity since it was invented in 1846
by Antoine Joseph Sax. In the United States the
success of the saxophone has been an assured thing
More Money
for Dealers
Progressive dealers are
learning that a line of
high grade, quality band
instruments are best profit
makers. And they are
finding in the Martin
Handcraft Line just this
ideal combination.
Martin Band Instrument Co.
ELKHART
INDIANA
FEATURING HARMONICAS
Widow of Great Tenor Asks Release as Adminis-
trator of Her Husband's Estate.
Mrs. Enrico Caruso last week asked the Chancery
Court in Trenton, N. J., through her counsel, to re-
lease her as an administrator of royalties due her
husband's estate from the Victor Talking Machine
Company. She also asked the court to approve the
division of the Caruso estate made by the Italian
courts.
Apparently tbese moves were in preparation for her
wedding to Captain Ernest A. Ingrain, which is ex-
pected to take place within a few days.
The Italian courts allowed her a one-eighth inter-
est in the Caruso estate. Her accounting of the Vic-
tor royalties, filed last week, showed receipts from
that source totaling $585,727 in 1921 and 1922.
Of this sum one-quarter goes to her daughter,
Gloria, and one-quarter to Mrs. Caruso as Gloria's
tutor.
Lyon & Healy, Wurlitzer Co., Conn Chicago Co. and
Others Present Interesting Displays.
Fire did more than $1,000 in damage to the stock
This week is "harmonica week" in Chicago, and of merchandise of the Barney Charneker department
many stores have taken advantage of this opportunity store, at 4724 Forsyth avenue, Hammond, Indiana,
to effectively display the small instrument. Interest recently. Music goods are carried by the house.
in the mouth-harp has been revived, to a large ex-
tent, by recent displays and advertising by music
establishments everywhere.
Among the Chicago houses to feature the har-
monica is Lyon & Healy Co. A large window at-
tractively decorated show all styles, from the largest
to the smallest, the largest being about eighteen
inches long with four different keys and 192 reeds.
FOR
A picture in the window states that a full line awaits
inspection on the fifth floor. Another interesting
window display shows a full line of musical toy:?,
which are amusing and instructive, and many new
and different instruments are shown.
The Wurlitzer Co. has a harmonica display of
similar character, and the Chicago Conn Co. also
features the small mouth instrument in a window dis-
play this week.
PNEUMATIC LEATHERS A SPECIALTY
That the harmonica is gaining prestige in the musi-
Packing, Valves, All Special Tanned
cal worhi is evidenced by the fact that many large
Bellow* Leather
orchestras over the country are now using them and
find htem to be practical and helpful in many ways.
PLAYERS
ORGANS
PIANOS
A repair department for musical merchandise has
been opened by C. H. Taylor & Co., 218 S. Wabash
avenue. Chicago.
THE CELEBRATED
' (Felten & Gullleaum*)
IMPORTED
MUSIC WIRE
In Black, Red and Green
Label Brands is
UNEXCELLED
The "F efc G" Blue Label Brand is
again being used by Rudolph C.
Koch in tne manufacture of the
Reinwarth Covered Base Strings.
HAMMACHER, SCHLEMMER & CO.
PIANO and PLAYER. HARDWARE. FELTS and TOOLS
NEW YORK, SINCE 1848
THE CARUSO ROYALTIES
LEATHER
IMPORTANT
More than 90% of all
Martin Instruments are
sold through dealers.
Write for Particulars.
since E. A. Lefebre, a friend of the saxophone in-
ventor, took charge in 1890 of the perfecting of saxo-
phones in the factory of C. G. Conn, Ltd., Elkhart,
Ind.
During the earlier period of the saxophone, its
manufacture was exclusively European. But C. G.
Conn, ever progressive, recognized the possibilities of
the instrument and in the eighties started the manu-
facture of the instruments. The construction of the
instrument was made more simple and reliable for
the performer. The tone quality and scale were like-
wise improved to meet the demands of the artists and
in the early nineties the Conn saxophones had found
their way to all parts of the world as the recognized
standard. The saxophone departments of C. G. Conn,
Ltd., are equipped with the most modern and highly
efficient machinery that money can buy. The growth
of the saxophone business is such that demands for
more factory floor space is continuous.
4th Ave. and 13th St.
T. L. LUTKINS, Inc.
40 Spruce Street
NEW YORK
TRUCKS
That Are Labor Savers
Your equipment is not complete without our TRUCKS for handling
Pianos and Talking Machines.
Sill Trucks and End Trucks
for Pianos
With the LEA TALKING MACHINE TRUCK, one man can
handle the Edison Chippendale, Victor No. 17, Cheney No. 6 Queen
Anne, and other large makes, from show-room to any apartment
floor.
Atk for Circular
Factory and Office
DOLGEVILLE, N.Y
JULIUS BRECKWOLDT & SON, ING.
Manufacturers of
Saw Mills
Fulton Chain
and
Tupper Lake
Piano Backs, Boards, Bridges, Bars,
Traplevers and Mouldings
SOLE AGENTS FOR RUDOLF GIESE WIRE
WESTERN REPRESENTATIVE:
J. BRECKWOLDT. Pres.
SELF-LIFTING PIANO TRUCK CO.
FINDLAY, OHIO
THE
O S. KELLY
Manufacturers
CENTRAL STEEL & WIRE CO.,
119-127 N. Peoria Street,
MADE ONLY BY
Chicago, III.
W. A. BRECKWOLDT. Sec. & Treas.
PIANO
SPRINGF"IELD
of
CO
High Qradtt
RLATEIS
*
*
OHIO.
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).