Presto

June-July, 1936
York Band Instruments at the
Convention
The exhibit of York band instruments at the Stevens
Hotel during: the music trade convention in July,
while it is intended to be quite complete as to the
market of today and standard instruments in de-
mand, will not, however, be cluttered up with old
models and old styles that are of no particular interest
today except for the special bargain list. The York
Company will exhibit new and fresh models of the
York cornets, trumpets, saxophones, French horns,
trombones, and the larger instruments of the baritone,
euphonium classes and the basses. Mr. Karl Shink-
inan, president of the York Band Instrument Com-
pany, will be on hand at the York exhibit.
Many music dealers who are not yet in the band
instrument business will be arranging to take on this
line of music trade activity, and the York exhibit at
the Stevens Hotel will be a worthwhile place to get
acquainted. President Shinkman and his associates
will be glad to greet you at the convention, or hear
from vou should vou conclude not to be there.
Excelsior Accordion Show-Off
The long list of brass bands, big and little, orches-
tras, resort combinations and the like that continue
on tin- "unfair list" of the American Federation of
Musicians is a rather astounding revelation to in-
dividuals who are not familiar with the regulations
that band organizations are obliged to live up to in
order to maintain proper standing in their organiza-
tions. Of names that have appeared on this "unfair"
list, many of which are familiar to Presto-Times read-
ers, are the Atlanta (Ga.) Police Band; Bill Maupin's
Band, Kansas City; Hall Printing Band, Chicago;
Hamilton Square Y. M. C. A. Band, Trenton, N. J.;
High School Band, Mattoon, 111.; Italian Sons of
Liberty Band. Middletown, N. Y.; La Salle School
Baud, Albany, N. Y. ; Oscar Mayer Band. Madison,
Wis.; Police and Firemen's Band, Philadelphia; Spen-
cerian Business College Band, Milwaukee; Wayne
Stut's and His Band, Elkhart, Ind.; Tebala Shrine
Band, Rockford, 111.; Triple City's Traction Band,
Binghamton, N. Y.; Veterans of Foreign Wars Band,
Kalamazoo, Mich.; Playground Band, Des Moines, la.
Besides these there are many park, beach and garden
small bands and orchestras that are cautioned to
"toe the mark" and keep off the "unfair list."
Three noted band and orchestra leaders, Whiteman,
Lombardo and Waring, have organized a music pub-
F. D. Streep, Jr., sales manager of Excelsior Ac- lishing and exploiting business known as Words &
cordions,.Inc., New York, in speaking of the Excelsior
Music, Inc. The intention is to help overcome some
exhibit in rooms 613 and 614, Stevens Hotel, says
of the difficulties now experienced in using certain
that the con- copyrighted music. The proposition will encourage
vention will be a lot of new compositions and meritorious ones are
a big one for solicited and probably will be negotiated for.
Excelsior deal-
ers, as they are
showing for the
The manager of the new Lansing, Mich., branch
first time a new
store of the C. G. Conn Co., Elkhart, Ind., is W. K.
Modern Con
Baxter, who was formerly located at Baltimore, Md.,
cert G r a n d . with the Conn company store in that city. The Conn
" T h i s accor-
Pan American and Cavalier band instruments will
d i o n," M r. be featured, Leedy drums, Soprani accordions and
Streep says, "is musical instruments and accessories in general.
t h e greatest
that Excelsior
lias ever produced." Concerning the matter of special
The Will A. Watkin Co., Dallas, Tex., the members
entertainment, Mr. Streep says that "while we are of which organization are alert to the advancement
not giving a luncheon nor exactly an entertainment, of music in general in that locality, recently presented
we are arranging for two of the world's greatest ac- a loving cup to the Dallas Federation of Juvenile
cordionists. Pietro Deiro and Charles Magnante, to
Music Club on the occasion of an entertainment given
appear on Wednesday, July 29, at 3 p. m., the last
to the members of the Federated Club, and was for
day of the convention, for a clinic and recital to be three years' perfect attendance at all Federation
held in the South Ballroom on the third floor of the meetings.
Stevens Hotel." This event is of such importance
that it is listed on the convention program for dealers.
Pietro Deiro will appear at the Excelsior display
rooms during all the three days of the convention.
The Sign Bore Good Fruit
Less than a year ago a boy eight or nine years of
age shuffling along Wabash avenue. Chicago, with his
mother and a sister younger than he, read the legend
lettered on a play card in the window of one of the
musical instrument stores in that block which read:
"Learn to Play a Musical Instrument."
The boy resisted his mother's attempt to pull him
along and away from the show window, where a
great line of musical instruments was displayed. As
he looked the instruments over, his eyes fell upon
a rather plain b-rlat horn, which he said to his mother
was "just like the one played by his older pal, Jimmy,
in the new band just started in his school.'' He was
told by the band teacher that if he would buy an in-
strument for himself he would be taken into a juvenile
band just starting in the school, and he had deter-
mined to comply with the requirements, which he did.
He joined the band of youngsters and soon was put
in the Junior high. Today he is regarded a "crack"
band boy. admired by the entire school, is the pride
of his parents and the community where he lives.
2.3
PRESTO-TIMES
Piano Manufacturers,
Jobbers, Retail Dealers,
Tuners
TAKE NOTICE
NEW PUNCHINGS; NEW PROCESS;
NEW FEATURE
Guaranteed Absolutely Moth Proof
For Front Rail and Center Rail, No Extra
Paper Punchings Are Necessary to Reg-
ulate the Keyboard.
Regulating Can Be Done in Half the Time
of Other Processes.
Any Thickness Can Be Easily Removed
from This Punching. They Give the
Piano a Wonderfully Improved Touch.
Prices for Punchings
FRONT RAIL PUNCHINGS
CENTER RAIL PUNCHINGS
20 cents per hundred
10 cents per hundred
For Sale by
FROESS BROS.
1809 STATE STREET
ERIE, PA.
The .Paramount Publications has engaged in the
music publishing business at 1915 S. W. Park avenue,
Portland. Ore., under the management of Emory J.
Stevenson.
-?4-uotket Major Symphony
Artist Exclusively York •
Glenn Cook, of the Minne-
apolis Symphony Orchestra
— r a t e d by Conductor
Eugene Ormandy as one of
the w o r l d ' s truly great
Tuba artists.
For many years a 100%
York fan — but let him tell
you in his own words:
" My York Bass ha* been
a faithful servant . . . No
other Bass gives me the
assurance
of
perfect
control
and fidelity
of
pitch
plus accuracy of
intonation." GLENN COOKE
The Seiberling-Lucas Music Co., musical merchan-
Bass players, as well as
dise, 414 S. W. Morrison street, Portland, Ore., of
other brass performers who
which J. S. Haiden is manager, has added a radio
are exacting in the details
department.
of fine performance should
write for the new York
Robert P. Loomis has engaged in the musical mer-
GLENN COOKE . . . with
Catalog and literature.
chandise business in the Butler Bank building, Hood
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
River, Ore.
The W. E. Sharp Piano Co. recently engaged in
business at 3419 Geary boulevard, San Francisco, Cal.
Charles H. Starr is reported to have succeeded to
Makers of GOOD BAND INSTRUMENTS since 1882
the musical merchandise business of Showalter &
GRAND
RAPIDS, MICHIGAN
Enhanced
and the International Arcade Museum (www.arcade-museum.com).
Starr, Portland,
Ore. content © 2008-2009 and presented by MBSI - The Musical Box Society International (www.mbsi.org)
YORK BAND INSTRUMENT CO
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/