Presto

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February 7, 1925.
PRESTO
EXCLUSIVE AGENCIES GRANTED
Lyon & Healy, Chicago, Appoint Representatives in
Many Places for Washburn and Couturier Lines.
The Howard-Farweil Piano Company, St. Paul,
Minn , have secured from Lyon & Healy, Chicago,
the exclusive Washburn stringed instrument agency
for the city of St. Paul. A comprehensive merchan-
dising campaign has been started.
Wait's Music Store of Delaware, Ohio, recently
secured the exclusive agencies from Lyon & Healy,
Chicago, for Washburn Stringed Instruments and
Lyon & Healy Couturier band instruments.
The Witt Music Store, Lorain, Ohio, has been ap-
pointed by Lyon & Healy, Chicago, as representative
for Washburn banjos, mandolins, ukuleles, and gui-
tars in Lorain county.
The Background
A BUSY ROLL
DEPARTMENT
FIDDLE VARNISH PROCESSES
Henry Senn, a French Expert, Describes Making of
Drying Oils and Other Ingredients.
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Little has been published on oil varnishes since the
issue of Mailand's book, says Henry Senn in Musique
et Instruments.
Fiddle makers who prefer to make their own var-
nishes are generally controlled by the Mailand recipes.
Still, it is admitted that no one has reproduced the
Italian varnish; although its discovery is announced
year after year. All do not agree that the Italian is
an oil varnish. But this is the view of most compe-
tent authorities (see Hill, of London, on the Stradi-
varius). Mordret supposes that it contains a very
snail proportion of • oil. "Stradivarius required a
clear sun to dry his varnishes; and it is only oil that
requires light and heat to dry it."
A varnish is a solution of various products by a
solvent. If one of the ingredients will not dissolve, it
is only a paint—not a varnish. But there are inter-
mediate compounds between the two, containing very
tenuous precipitates, which give the composition the
name of negative paint, if they are transparent. The
insoluble substance will finally reach the bottom.
Drying oils are prepared differently now from the
methods of the old time, when the seeds were heated
before being pressed. Now it is the contrary; and
the oils (linseed, nut and castor) are heated in the
presence of metallic, particularly lead, salts, so they
contain mucilage and lead. Therefore Mailand rec-
ommends unboiled oil, which is allowed to age at
rest. Nut oil is little used. Castor is not so siccative
as nut or linseed oil.
STRONG IVORY DEMAND.
Latest Antwerp ivory sale reports 81,244 kilo-
grammes were offered, and 70,271 kiligrammes were
sold. The attendance at the auction was good, and
a strong demand was prevalent in the various sections
except for billiard ball ivory, for which prices had
reached an exorbitant level. Soft ivory was in par-
ticular request. Hard ivory was 7 to 10 francs dearer
per kilogramme for large and medium tusks, and
more for exceptional parcels. The present stock is
about 50,000 kilogrammes, which compares with
22,000 kilogrammes in 1919, and 96,000 kilogrammes
in 1913. The next quarterly sale is announced for
February 4.
GERMAN WARNINGS.
German music journals are still studded with warn-
ings against foreign firms whose ways of doing
business or whose financial position—or both—ap-
pear to leave much to be desired. Recent warnings
refer to Sweden, Italy and Kovno (Lithuania). The
question of unfair competition particularly is excit-
ing the German musical instrument-making world.
At a recent trade meeting on the subject it was
stated that last year 227 warnings had been issued
and 554 cases had been brought before the courts,
including false or exaggerated statements in adver-
tisements and the like.
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CAPITOL
WORD ROLLS
FEBRUARY, 1925
No.
Title
Played by
1093 Me and the Boy Friend
Billy Fitch Fox-trot
1092 I Can't Stop Babying You
Paul Jones Fox-trot
1091 My Sally
Wayne Love
Waltz
1090 No One Knows What It's All
About
James Blythe Fox-trot
1089 When the Moon Shines in
Coral Gables
Billy Fitch Fox-trot
1088 Co'd Cold Mammas Paul Jones Fox-trot
1087 Silver Sands of Waikiki
Marie Sare Marimba Waltz
1086 Oh! Mabel
Billy Fitch Fox-trot
1085 To Think I Thought So Much
of You
Billy Fitch
Waltz
1084 Underworld Blues James Blythe
Blue
1083 At the End of the Road
Wayne Love Marimba Ballad
1082 Waiting for You Billy Fitch
Waltz
1081 My Hungarian Rose Dave Gwin Fox-trot
1079 I Wonder How the Old Folks
Are at Home
Dave Gwin
Ballad
1078 Big Bad Bill
James Blythe Fox-trot
1077 Some Other Day, Some
Other Girl Lindsay McPhail Fox-trot
1076 Adoring You
Dave Gwin Fox-trot
1075 How I Love That Girl
Lindsay McPhail One'Step
1074 My Best Girl Lindsay McPhail Fox-trot
1073 I'm Someone Who's No One
To You
Billy Fitch Marimba Waltz
1072 I Want to See My Tennessee
Lindsay McPhail Fox-trot
1071 All Alone
Lindsay McPhail
Waltz
1070 Rose Marie Lindsay McPhail Fox-trot
Fox-trot
1069 Doo Wacka Doo
Lindsay McPhail
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