Presto
Issue: 1927 2121 - Page 21
March 26, 1927.
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PRESTO-TIMES
COINOLAS
FOR
RESTAURANTS, CAFES and
A M U S E M E N T CENTERS
Style C-2
FROM THE BIGGEST
ORCHESTRION
NEW BANDS STIMULATE TRADE
Movement for Forming New Organizations Gains in
Enthusiasm All Over the Country.
Harmonica bands have recently been organized in
each of the Paducah, Ky., public schools by Miss
Ruth Townsend, supervisor of music, who announced
that approximately sixty pupils have enrolled for har-
monica study in each school building.
Berkeley, 111., may have a band municipally sup-
ported, if petitions which are now being circulated
for the forming of such an organization are acted
upon by the village.
Formation of an orchestra and chorus among the
schools of Preble County, Ohio, is planned. The
orchestra would have at least fifty pieces and the
chorus at least two hundred voices.
A band is being formed in the high school of Wash-
ington Court House, O.
The promotion of bands in the schools is encour-
aged by John C. Berg, superintendent of schools of
Trimbull County, Ohio.
The tenth Conn Saxophone Club has been formed
by the Des Moines Music Co., Inc., Des Moines, la.
A niau:ci].al band is being organized in Mason
City, la.
The Heaton Music Co., Columbus, O., recently
broadcasted from Station WEAO several numbers by
Miss Zella Roberts, an accomplished harpist.
Governor Jackson of Indiana last week signed the
bill to allow all cities in La Porte County to appro-
priate $1,800 for music in public parks.
SHEET MUSIC TRADE NOTES
A Few Items Interesting to People in Sheet Music
Department Are Printed.
The winner in the new Iowa state song contest will
be announced next week. The contest closed on
March 1.
A music department has been added to the Allen-
town, Pa., public library, the music books being
donated by music teachers and others.
Attractive sheet music windows are proven sources
of business in the new store of Carl Fischer, Inc.,
252 Tremont street, to which number the firm moved
from 380 Boylston street a few months ago.
A new bill before the House Committee on pat-
ents proposes to increase the fee for registering a
copyright from $1 to $2 and a fee of $2 is proposed
for certifying an assignment of a copyright.
Leo Friedman, composer of "Coon, Coon, Coon,"
"I Dream of Old Erin" and other well known songs,
died recently in Chicago.
John O. Martin was elected president of the Get-
Together Club of the Oliver Ditson Co., Boston, at
a meeting last week.
A KENTUCKY MUSIC WEEK.
Music teachers and supervisors throughout the
state are making plans to observe National Music
Week in Kentucky from May 1 to 7, Miss Mildred
S. Lewis, State Director of Music, announced this
week. Miss Lewis in a letter to music teachers, su-
pervisors and superintendents urged them all to begin
planning for their observance. The observance of the
week will mark 'the fourth National Music Week, as
the idea originated in 1924 when 150 cities ob-
served it.
VALUE OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.
The value of musical instruments produced in the
United States has increased to $25,000,000 a year-
There are as many musicians in this country as there
are clergymen or lawyers and five times as many as
there are journalists. These are figures given in the
latest United States official census. This means a
demand for music teachers, supervisors, and instru-
mentalists, in addition to a small army of salesmen,
dealers and workmen who must have some musical
background, possess a trained ear and be able to
speak the language of the musician.
GERMANY BARS JAZZ PLAYERS.
Germany is preparing barriers against the admis-
sion of American musicians and jazz band performers,
now flooding the dance palaces and music halls of
its cities. Inspired by the protests of the German
musicians' union, which has 25,000 members—many
of them unable to find employment—the foreign office
instructed its official representatives abroad that mu-
sicians, intending to work here in subordinate jobs
must obtain police authorization for residence before
a visa is granted.
MUSIC MEMORY CONTEST.
An annual music memory contest was held at Or-
chestra Hall, Chicago, Saturday of last week under
the auspices of the In and About Chicago Music
Supervisors' Club. The contest embraced memory of
themes of various compositions, the instruments of
the orchestra, names of composers of certain selec-
tions, nationality of certain composers, and different
types of dance music. Mr. Stock and the Chicago
Symphony orchestra participated.
SELLING REMICK SONGS.
Irving Sklare, Remick's representative of the Pa-
cific Northwest and manager of the Portland, Ore.,
Remick Song & Gift Shop, spent several weeks in the
East, visiting Remick's headquarters in Chicago and
the remainder of his time with his parents. Mr.
Sklare took the Remick catalogue along with him
and stopped off en route at the principal cities in the
Pacific Northwest and reports excellent business, far
exceeding that of any previous trip of like nature.
THE RADIO-PHONOGRAPH.
A combined phonograph and radio receiving set is
announced by the Donle-Bristol Corp., Meriden,
Conn., which company promises production at an
early date. The instrument can be made to play
phonograph records and to receive radio broadcast-
ing, and in either capacity a pure tone is promised.
A distinctive name for the instrument has not yet
been selected.
Philip W. Oetting & Son, Inc.
213 East 19th Street, New York
HIGH GRADE
Folding Organs
School Organs
Sole Agents for
WEICKERT
Hammer
Practice Keyboards
215 Englewood Ave., CHICAGO, ILL.
Felts
Grand and Upright Ham-
mers Made of Wrickert Felt
Dealers' Attention Solicited
A. L. WHITE MFG. CO.
and Damper
Fine Action Bushing Cloths, etc
KEYS RECOVERED AND REBUSHED
FRIELD MILLER & COMPANY
Tiny Coinola
THE SMALLEST
KEYLESS
Samples of Work on Request
Prompt and Efficient Service
3355 North Illinois Street, INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
Manufactured by
The Operators Piano Co.
715-721 N. Kedzie Ave.
CHICAGO
FAIRBANKS
I
PIANO PLATES
THE FAIRBANKS CO., Springfield, Ohio
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21
PRESTO-TIMES
COINOLAS
FOR
RESTAURANTS, CAFES and
A M U S E M E N T CENTERS
Style C-2
FROM THE BIGGEST
ORCHESTRION
NEW BANDS STIMULATE TRADE
Movement for Forming New Organizations Gains in
Enthusiasm All Over the Country.
Harmonica bands have recently been organized in
each of the Paducah, Ky., public schools by Miss
Ruth Townsend, supervisor of music, who announced
that approximately sixty pupils have enrolled for har-
monica study in each school building.
Berkeley, 111., may have a band municipally sup-
ported, if petitions which are now being circulated
for the forming of such an organization are acted
upon by the village.
Formation of an orchestra and chorus among the
schools of Preble County, Ohio, is planned. The
orchestra would have at least fifty pieces and the
chorus at least two hundred voices.
A band is being formed in the high school of Wash-
ington Court House, O.
The promotion of bands in the schools is encour-
aged by John C. Berg, superintendent of schools of
Trimbull County, Ohio.
The tenth Conn Saxophone Club has been formed
by the Des Moines Music Co., Inc., Des Moines, la.
A niau:ci].al band is being organized in Mason
City, la.
The Heaton Music Co., Columbus, O., recently
broadcasted from Station WEAO several numbers by
Miss Zella Roberts, an accomplished harpist.
Governor Jackson of Indiana last week signed the
bill to allow all cities in La Porte County to appro-
priate $1,800 for music in public parks.
SHEET MUSIC TRADE NOTES
A Few Items Interesting to People in Sheet Music
Department Are Printed.
The winner in the new Iowa state song contest will
be announced next week. The contest closed on
March 1.
A music department has been added to the Allen-
town, Pa., public library, the music books being
donated by music teachers and others.
Attractive sheet music windows are proven sources
of business in the new store of Carl Fischer, Inc.,
252 Tremont street, to which number the firm moved
from 380 Boylston street a few months ago.
A new bill before the House Committee on pat-
ents proposes to increase the fee for registering a
copyright from $1 to $2 and a fee of $2 is proposed
for certifying an assignment of a copyright.
Leo Friedman, composer of "Coon, Coon, Coon,"
"I Dream of Old Erin" and other well known songs,
died recently in Chicago.
John O. Martin was elected president of the Get-
Together Club of the Oliver Ditson Co., Boston, at
a meeting last week.
A KENTUCKY MUSIC WEEK.
Music teachers and supervisors throughout the
state are making plans to observe National Music
Week in Kentucky from May 1 to 7, Miss Mildred
S. Lewis, State Director of Music, announced this
week. Miss Lewis in a letter to music teachers, su-
pervisors and superintendents urged them all to begin
planning for their observance. The observance of the
week will mark 'the fourth National Music Week, as
the idea originated in 1924 when 150 cities ob-
served it.
VALUE OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.
The value of musical instruments produced in the
United States has increased to $25,000,000 a year-
There are as many musicians in this country as there
are clergymen or lawyers and five times as many as
there are journalists. These are figures given in the
latest United States official census. This means a
demand for music teachers, supervisors, and instru-
mentalists, in addition to a small army of salesmen,
dealers and workmen who must have some musical
background, possess a trained ear and be able to
speak the language of the musician.
GERMANY BARS JAZZ PLAYERS.
Germany is preparing barriers against the admis-
sion of American musicians and jazz band performers,
now flooding the dance palaces and music halls of
its cities. Inspired by the protests of the German
musicians' union, which has 25,000 members—many
of them unable to find employment—the foreign office
instructed its official representatives abroad that mu-
sicians, intending to work here in subordinate jobs
must obtain police authorization for residence before
a visa is granted.
MUSIC MEMORY CONTEST.
An annual music memory contest was held at Or-
chestra Hall, Chicago, Saturday of last week under
the auspices of the In and About Chicago Music
Supervisors' Club. The contest embraced memory of
themes of various compositions, the instruments of
the orchestra, names of composers of certain selec-
tions, nationality of certain composers, and different
types of dance music. Mr. Stock and the Chicago
Symphony orchestra participated.
SELLING REMICK SONGS.
Irving Sklare, Remick's representative of the Pa-
cific Northwest and manager of the Portland, Ore.,
Remick Song & Gift Shop, spent several weeks in the
East, visiting Remick's headquarters in Chicago and
the remainder of his time with his parents. Mr.
Sklare took the Remick catalogue along with him
and stopped off en route at the principal cities in the
Pacific Northwest and reports excellent business, far
exceeding that of any previous trip of like nature.
THE RADIO-PHONOGRAPH.
A combined phonograph and radio receiving set is
announced by the Donle-Bristol Corp., Meriden,
Conn., which company promises production at an
early date. The instrument can be made to play
phonograph records and to receive radio broadcast-
ing, and in either capacity a pure tone is promised.
A distinctive name for the instrument has not yet
been selected.
Philip W. Oetting & Son, Inc.
213 East 19th Street, New York
HIGH GRADE
Folding Organs
School Organs
Sole Agents for
WEICKERT
Hammer
Practice Keyboards
215 Englewood Ave., CHICAGO, ILL.
Felts
Grand and Upright Ham-
mers Made of Wrickert Felt
Dealers' Attention Solicited
A. L. WHITE MFG. CO.
and Damper
Fine Action Bushing Cloths, etc
KEYS RECOVERED AND REBUSHED
FRIELD MILLER & COMPANY
Tiny Coinola
THE SMALLEST
KEYLESS
Samples of Work on Request
Prompt and Efficient Service
3355 North Illinois Street, INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
Manufactured by
The Operators Piano Co.
715-721 N. Kedzie Ave.
CHICAGO
FAIRBANKS
I
PIANO PLATES
THE FAIRBANKS CO., Springfield, 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).