Presto

May 2, 1925.
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PRESTO
SHEET MUSIC AND RADIO
TAKE A PORTABLE WITH YOU
You Don't Have to Listen at Home But Can Take
Set Along on Your Vacation.
The conveniences of the portable receiver was de-
scribed in a recent article by the Chicago Tribune
which had this to say to radio fans:
The siren song of spring is calling to radio de-
votees. Warm weather and out-of-doors pastimes
are luring the radio fans. Fortunately the radio fans
can answer the call this year without loss of their
favorite recreation—radio reception. There are port-
able radio sets to enable the fans to take their enter-
tainment with them.
and do not intend to do so. Fort Harrison still has
my waltz although I stipulated that it must be
returned to me not later than April 5. which date was
22 days ago. But I have produced another manu-
script adding a sixteen measure coda. So now—
Where and under what conditions can I get it
radioed, or seriously considered for broadcasting,
without indulging in any greater expense than post-
age both ways?
Very truly yours,
J. CHARLTON SMITH.
RADIO SQUEAL NOW UTILIZED
Objectionable Noises in Receiving Sets Can Be Used
by Engineers as Tuning Standards.
The economies of radio outstep those of the pork
packing industry, where everything is said to be util-
ized but the squeal. In radio the squeal is turned to
good use.
In radio the squeal has now been found to be an
absolutely accurate and infallible means of determin-
ing and measuring the wave lengths of broadcasting
stations and of checking up on whether these stations
keep to their assigned wave lengths.
By means of the squeal, it has been possible for
engineers to pick out certain wave lengths through-
out the country that can be used as standards for
tuning.
The squeals or whistles in a receiving set may be
due to three distinct causes: The radio frequency
REMICK SONG HITS
I Can't Stop Babying You
Why Couldn't It Be Poor Little Me
Swanee Butterfly
By the Light of the Stars
Old Pal
Somebody Like You
Sweet Georgia Brown
Me and the Boy Friend
My Best Girl
Dreams
Lucky Kentucky
Just Lonesome
Isn't She the Sweetest Thing
Don't Bring Lulu
Take Me Back to Your Heart
J. H. REMICK & CO.
New York
Chicago
Detroit
currents generated in the set combining with the
radio frequency currents set up by the carrier wave
from a broadcasting station; a pick-up from the an-
tenna of some other receiving set, or a combination
of the carrier waves from two broadcasting stations.
HEAD RADIO CONGRESS
Americans Are Chosen President and Vice-President
at International Congress in Paris.
The International Radio Congress, which closed in
Paris on April 18, was attended by about 230 radio
operators from more than twenty countries. The
congress elected H. P. Maxim and H. B. Warner,
both of Hartford, Conn., as president and vice-presi-
dent, respectively.
Mr. Maxim is president of the American Radio
Relay League and Mr. Warner is secretary.
NOTICE TO AMATEURS.
Instructions have been issued to radio amateurs
that they will not be permitted, hereafter, to com-
municate with commercial or government stations
unless authorized by the Secretary of Commerce, ex-
cept in an emergency, or for testing purposes which
may be construed to cover official government busi-
ness. This restriction does not apply to communica-
tion with yachts and motor boats, which may have
difficulty in establishing communication with com-
mercial or government stations.
SONGS OF THE ARCTIC CIRCLE.
Voice transmission was not possible with the equip-
ment which the "Bowdoin" carried on the Arctic ex-
pedition last year, but it will be an interesting addi-
tion to the radio explorations of this season's ex-
pedition under Commander McMillan. It is possible
that the folk songs of the polar esquimaux may be
put on the air at low wave lengths and transmitted
over the North American continent so well that it
may be re-broadcast on higher waves.
MUSIC BOOKS 300 YEARS OLD.
Popular ballads and "jazz" songs of 500 years ago
were sung from Station W H T , Chicago, this week.
The songs were taken from a collection called "The
Musical Companion," by John Playford, printed in
England in 1673. Many of the songs were 250 to 300
years old when the book was printed. The music is
printed with square notes. Opposite pages are
printed upside down, so that persons standing oppo-
site each other may read from the same book.
DEVICE TO BAR STATIC.
The United States patent office granted patents
during the past week to Thomas E. Arundel of
Omaha for a detector which may be subjected to
shock or jar without changing the adjustment and
without injury and to R. A. Weagant of Douglas
Manor, N. Y., for a device to eliminate static by
means of an antenna system having relatively small
aerials, doing away with the fractional wave length
spacing.
BUYS SHEET MUSIC STOCK.
The A. A. Taylor Co., Seattle, Wash., one of the
largest sheet music dealers in the Northwest and one
of the oldest, has sold its sheet music and small
goods interests to Sherman, Clay & Co.'s Tacoma
branch. The deal was concluded by E. B. Little,
manager of the sheet music interests of Sherman,
Clay & Co.
ADDS SHEET MUSIC.
Plans to add a sheet music department to the lines
of the Music Lovers' Shoppe are being carried out
by Fred C. Osier, the owner and manager. The loca-
tion of the store within a block from the Eastman
School of Music assures a big business in sheet music
with the students.
WAS IT "BROADCASTED"?
Peppy Communication from Composer Asks Pointed
Questions and Tells of His Troubles.
Greenfield, O , April 27, 1925.
Editor Presto: My curiosity is aroused as to the
authorship of the item about my "song" having been
broadcasted from radio station WFBY. Barring the
fact that "Other Days, Other Girls" is not a "song"
and, so far as known, was never "broadcast from
WFBY on April 11," the item has some elements of
truth in it. The same mail that brought copy of
Presto also brought a letter from an Indianapolis
person who assured me that I am a "liar" and fur-
thermore know it! Of course I know it; but why
rub it in?
Unfortunately, the "person" forgot to sign his
name to the condemnatory letter, and I am at sea as
to his identity. Can there be some connection be-
tween the copy of Presto and the anonymous writer?
Writing under date of February 19, 1925, Prof.
Van Denman Thompson, FAGO, of the DePauw
University School of Music, says: "I like the waltz
very much. It is graceful, fluent and fits the fingers
well." That sounds like polite piffle. And, inasmuch
as I had paid the gentleman for "expert criticism"
rather than an encomium, I wrote asking that he
come down from the clouds and count cases. The
gist of his reply follows:
"There is nothing 'wrong' about your pieces, as
you seem to think there may be. Your waltz is good,
but no better than the Newland in D flat, the Durand
in E flat, the Sternberg in E flat, or any one of sev-
eral others I might name."
Mr. Editor, I have never as yet indulged in bribery,
NEW ANTENNA ANNOUNCED.
A new radio antenna has been perfected by Maj.
Orin E. Marvel, chief engineer of the Dayton Fan
and Motor Co. and former signal officer at McCook
field, it is learned. The antenna, which is known as
the "stovepipe" aerial, was perfected after almost five
years of experiment, both at McCook field and at the
Dayton Fan and Motor Company. Experiments on
the antenna started at McCook field in January, 1921,
and continued during Maj. Marvel's service there. He
brought the idea of the aerial with him to the Dayton
Fan and Motor Co. and continued experiments until
he brought it to its present form, which he believes
to be one of the most efficient ever developed.
SUIT OVER TUBE.
A. J. Musselman, Chicago, manufacturer of radio
tubes, last week in Circuit Court filed a $100,000
slander suit against Haynes Griffith Radio Service.
Attorneys for Musselman said that the defendants
tested Musselman's tubes and then spread the report
that they did not measure up to the guarantees under
which they are being sold.
Manufacturers of
RADIO
Tables
Cabinets
Consoles
Elgin Phonograph & Novelty Co.
Elgin, HI.
ADVERTISING SONG BOOKS
Editor Presto: One of our customers inquires
about a collection of old-fashioned songs, suitable for
giving out to prospects and the general public. If
you can inform us where these are printed, you will
confer a great favor, and incidentally boost the piano
business, as it is a foregone conclusion that every-
one receiving a book will need a piano on which to
produce the accompaniments.—A Jobber.
Reply: About the best book of the kind within
our knowledge is put forth in quantities by the Illi-
nois State Register of Springfield, 111. We believe
if you write to that concern you will get a sample of
about what you want.—Presto.
Over 50 songs, words and music for 4 voices and piano,
32 p.p., 6x9, in editions with special illuminated cover
printed to order as wanted. Mention Presto.
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