Presto
Issue: 1925 2031 - Page 20
20
June 27, 1925.
PRESTO
E. SIMON KILLS FALLACY
Official of Simon Mfg. Co., Chicago, Gives
Interesting Bit of History About Mate-
rials for String Making.
Our large stock Is very seldom depleted, and your
order, whether large or small, will receive Imme-
diate attention. In addition, you get the very
best of
Felts; Cloths; Hammers; Punching*;
Music Wire; Tuning Pins; Player
Parts; Hinges; Castings; etc.
We have In stock a full line of materials for
Pianos and Organs.
AMERICAN PIANO
SUPPLY COMPANY
UO-112 EAST 13th STREET
N E W YORK
• ••
SCHAFF
Piano String Co,
Manufacturers of
Piano Bass Strings
2009-2021 CLYBOURN AVENUE
Correr Lewi* Street
CHICAGO
LEATHER
FOR
PLAYERS
ORGANS
PIANOS
PNEUMATIC LEATHERS A SPECIALTY
Packing, Valves, All Special Tanned
Bellows Leather
T. L. LUTKINS, Inc.
40 Spruce Street
NEW YORK
E. Simon, Jr., of the Simon Mfg. Co., Chicago,
makers of 'cello, violin, 'cello and double bass wound
strings, reports excellent results from the exhibit
made by the company at the music trades convention
in the Drake hotel June 8 to 11. The real nature of
the so-called catgut was a mystery divulged at the
convention.
"Many people put a literal interpretation on the
trade name of the material used in the manufacture
of violin, 'cello, ukelele and other stringed instru-
ments without stopping to consider the absurdity of
it," said Mr. Simon this week. "The origin of the
expression lies in a peculiar confusion of ideas. The
word 'kit' was the old name for a small violin, and,
since the material used in stringing the instrument
was known to be made from the intestine of an
animal, the expression 'kitgut' was used in the same
way we now say piano wire. Gradually the word
'kit' became obsolete in referring to the violin, and
at the same time it was interpreted as kitten or cat.
Hence we have the modern fallacy that leads most
people to put a literal interpretation on the well-
known expression.
"Try it on some of your friends. Ask them what
the strings of a violin are made of. They will answer
promptly and correctly, 'catgut.' Then ask if they
mean that literally, and where do the manufacturers
get the cats? After they have 'guessed' and 'sup-
posed,' tell them that catgut is made from the intes-
tines of sheep."
An official of Armour & Company says that of the
22,000,000 sheep annually sent to market in the
United States, 90 per cent supply material for the
manufacture of tennis racquets, musical instruments
and other products that require catgut. A feature of
this industry is that sheep from different sections of
the country are utilized for different purposes.
Animals that come from Montana and the western
ranges where the feed is rough and coarse are chosen
for the catgut used in tennis racquets, while those
shipped from eastern and middle western states are
utilized in the manufacture of strings for musical
instruments. The tone of a violin, he declares, de-
pends to a great extent on the kind of feed eaten by
the sheep that furnishes the material from which
the strings are made.
RADIO VERSUS PHONOGRAPH.
There are times when the reports of corporations
engaged in competing lines of business sound a note
that is peculiarly poignant. Wall Street, New York,
discerned something of the kind last week in the
news that one of the great talking machine concerns
had decided to defer a dividend for the admitted rea-
son that competition by the radio had made such
action advisable. It was asserted, however, that the
question whether the radio itself is or is not one of
the so-called fads that will be ultimately replaced
by something else is yet to be discovered. It was
also pointed out that the radio never has exactly
duplicated the uses of the phonograph and that there
is a great deal of "weeding out" to be done in the
radio industry itself.
OTTO R. TREFZ, Jr.
PIANO BASS STRINGS
PIANO REPAIR SUPPLIES
2110 Fairmount Ave.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
HAMMACHER, SCHLEMMER & CO
PIANO and PLAYER
HARDWARE, FELTS, TOOLS,
RUBBERIZED PLAYER FABRICS
New York, Since 1848
4th Ave. and 13th S i
The Background
A BUSY ROLL
DEPARTMENT
CAPITOL
WORD ROLLS
No.
Title
Played by
1122 Peter Pan . . . . Carl Westbank Fox-trot
1119 You and I (From My Girl)
Lindsay McPhail Fox-trot
1118 Desert Isle (From My Girl)
Lindsay McPhail Fox-trot
1115 Old Pal Nell Morrison. .A beautiful ballad
1114 My Sweetie and Me
Lindsay McPhail Fox-trot
1113 (When You and I Were)
"Seventeen"
Paul Jones
Waltz
1111 Laff It Off (Comedy Song)
Billy Fitch Fox-trot
1110 Only a Weaver of Dreams
Paul Jones
Waltz
1109 I Aint Got Nobody to Love
James Blythe Fox-trot
1108 You Know I Know
Lindsay McPhail One-step
1107 On My Ukulele
Paul Jones Comedy Fox-trot
1106 I'll See You in My Dreams
Lindsay McPhail Fox-trot
1105 Red Red Rose
Billy Fitch Fox-trot
1104 Somebody Like You
Lindsay McPhail Fox-trot
1103 Goo-Goo-Good Night, Dear
(A Stutter Song)
Lindsay McPhail One-step
1102 Christofo Columbo
Paul Jones Comedy Fox-trot
1101 Somebody Loves Me—from
"George White's Scandals"
Lindsay McPhail Fox-trot
1100 Lover's Waltz
Wayne Love
Waltz
1099 When the One You Love
Loves You
Dave Gwin
Waltz
1098 No Wonder (That I
Love You)
Wayne Love Fox-trot
1097 Back Where the Daffodils Grow
Billy Fitch Fox-trot
1096 Insufficient Sweetie
Dave Gwin Fox-trot
1095 Some of These Days
Lindsay McPhail Fox-trot
1094 Let Me Call You Sweetheart
Art Gillham Marimba Waltz
1093 Me and the Boy Friend
Billy Fitch Fox-trot
To Retail at
Why Pay More?
75
None Better.
Made of the best materials
obtainable.
Will please your trade and
double your sales.
Quality and price make
Capitol rolls the deal-
er's best profit producer
in a roll department.
Capitol Roll & Record Co.
721 N. Kedzie Ave., CHICAGO, ILL.
(Formerly Columbia Music Roll Co.)
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June 27, 1925.
PRESTO
E. SIMON KILLS FALLACY
Official of Simon Mfg. Co., Chicago, Gives
Interesting Bit of History About Mate-
rials for String Making.
Our large stock Is very seldom depleted, and your
order, whether large or small, will receive Imme-
diate attention. In addition, you get the very
best of
Felts; Cloths; Hammers; Punching*;
Music Wire; Tuning Pins; Player
Parts; Hinges; Castings; etc.
We have In stock a full line of materials for
Pianos and Organs.
AMERICAN PIANO
SUPPLY COMPANY
UO-112 EAST 13th STREET
N E W YORK
• ••
SCHAFF
Piano String Co,
Manufacturers of
Piano Bass Strings
2009-2021 CLYBOURN AVENUE
Correr Lewi* Street
CHICAGO
LEATHER
FOR
PLAYERS
ORGANS
PIANOS
PNEUMATIC LEATHERS A SPECIALTY
Packing, Valves, All Special Tanned
Bellows Leather
T. L. LUTKINS, Inc.
40 Spruce Street
NEW YORK
E. Simon, Jr., of the Simon Mfg. Co., Chicago,
makers of 'cello, violin, 'cello and double bass wound
strings, reports excellent results from the exhibit
made by the company at the music trades convention
in the Drake hotel June 8 to 11. The real nature of
the so-called catgut was a mystery divulged at the
convention.
"Many people put a literal interpretation on the
trade name of the material used in the manufacture
of violin, 'cello, ukelele and other stringed instru-
ments without stopping to consider the absurdity of
it," said Mr. Simon this week. "The origin of the
expression lies in a peculiar confusion of ideas. The
word 'kit' was the old name for a small violin, and,
since the material used in stringing the instrument
was known to be made from the intestine of an
animal, the expression 'kitgut' was used in the same
way we now say piano wire. Gradually the word
'kit' became obsolete in referring to the violin, and
at the same time it was interpreted as kitten or cat.
Hence we have the modern fallacy that leads most
people to put a literal interpretation on the well-
known expression.
"Try it on some of your friends. Ask them what
the strings of a violin are made of. They will answer
promptly and correctly, 'catgut.' Then ask if they
mean that literally, and where do the manufacturers
get the cats? After they have 'guessed' and 'sup-
posed,' tell them that catgut is made from the intes-
tines of sheep."
An official of Armour & Company says that of the
22,000,000 sheep annually sent to market in the
United States, 90 per cent supply material for the
manufacture of tennis racquets, musical instruments
and other products that require catgut. A feature of
this industry is that sheep from different sections of
the country are utilized for different purposes.
Animals that come from Montana and the western
ranges where the feed is rough and coarse are chosen
for the catgut used in tennis racquets, while those
shipped from eastern and middle western states are
utilized in the manufacture of strings for musical
instruments. The tone of a violin, he declares, de-
pends to a great extent on the kind of feed eaten by
the sheep that furnishes the material from which
the strings are made.
RADIO VERSUS PHONOGRAPH.
There are times when the reports of corporations
engaged in competing lines of business sound a note
that is peculiarly poignant. Wall Street, New York,
discerned something of the kind last week in the
news that one of the great talking machine concerns
had decided to defer a dividend for the admitted rea-
son that competition by the radio had made such
action advisable. It was asserted, however, that the
question whether the radio itself is or is not one of
the so-called fads that will be ultimately replaced
by something else is yet to be discovered. It was
also pointed out that the radio never has exactly
duplicated the uses of the phonograph and that there
is a great deal of "weeding out" to be done in the
radio industry itself.
OTTO R. TREFZ, Jr.
PIANO BASS STRINGS
PIANO REPAIR SUPPLIES
2110 Fairmount Ave.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
HAMMACHER, SCHLEMMER & CO
PIANO and PLAYER
HARDWARE, FELTS, TOOLS,
RUBBERIZED PLAYER FABRICS
New York, Since 1848
4th Ave. and 13th S i
The Background
A BUSY ROLL
DEPARTMENT
CAPITOL
WORD ROLLS
No.
Title
Played by
1122 Peter Pan . . . . Carl Westbank Fox-trot
1119 You and I (From My Girl)
Lindsay McPhail Fox-trot
1118 Desert Isle (From My Girl)
Lindsay McPhail Fox-trot
1115 Old Pal Nell Morrison. .A beautiful ballad
1114 My Sweetie and Me
Lindsay McPhail Fox-trot
1113 (When You and I Were)
"Seventeen"
Paul Jones
Waltz
1111 Laff It Off (Comedy Song)
Billy Fitch Fox-trot
1110 Only a Weaver of Dreams
Paul Jones
Waltz
1109 I Aint Got Nobody to Love
James Blythe Fox-trot
1108 You Know I Know
Lindsay McPhail One-step
1107 On My Ukulele
Paul Jones Comedy Fox-trot
1106 I'll See You in My Dreams
Lindsay McPhail Fox-trot
1105 Red Red Rose
Billy Fitch Fox-trot
1104 Somebody Like You
Lindsay McPhail Fox-trot
1103 Goo-Goo-Good Night, Dear
(A Stutter Song)
Lindsay McPhail One-step
1102 Christofo Columbo
Paul Jones Comedy Fox-trot
1101 Somebody Loves Me—from
"George White's Scandals"
Lindsay McPhail Fox-trot
1100 Lover's Waltz
Wayne Love
Waltz
1099 When the One You Love
Loves You
Dave Gwin
Waltz
1098 No Wonder (That I
Love You)
Wayne Love Fox-trot
1097 Back Where the Daffodils Grow
Billy Fitch Fox-trot
1096 Insufficient Sweetie
Dave Gwin Fox-trot
1095 Some of These Days
Lindsay McPhail Fox-trot
1094 Let Me Call You Sweetheart
Art Gillham Marimba Waltz
1093 Me and the Boy Friend
Billy Fitch Fox-trot
To Retail at
Why Pay More?
75
None Better.
Made of the best materials
obtainable.
Will please your trade and
double your sales.
Quality and price make
Capitol rolls the deal-
er's best profit producer
in a roll department.
Capitol Roll & Record Co.
721 N. Kedzie Ave., CHICAGO, ILL.
(Formerly Columbia Music Roll Co.)
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).