PRESTO-TIMES

[Pages:1]January 1, 1927.

PRESTO-TIMES

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Q R S RECORDING PLANT MOVED

P. K. Van Yorx Moves Meriden Plant, Studio and Library to New York.

The Q R S Music Co. and its staff of arrangers and editors under P. K. Van Yorx, is changing from the old Wilcox & White music roll plant, studio and library on Colony street, Meriden, Conn., to the New York headquarters of the company in the Bronx.

Mr. Van Yorx, who has been in charge of recording since the studio and library were taken over from the Wilcox & White Co., was in New York last week conferring with George H. Bliss, manager of the eastern division of the Q R S Music Co., on matters connected with the change. In accordance with the policy of the company to concentrate recording plants a new studio.has been provided for the recording of the Q R S Recordo rolls in the New York headquarters.

NEW SLINQERLAND FOLDER

Slingerland Banjo Co., Chicago, Provides Interesting Information About the De Luxe Model.

Interesting facts connected with the manufacture of May Bell banjos are told in a new folder of the Slingerland Banjo Co., 1815 Orchard street, Chicago. The cover is enlivened with a picture of Dorothy Kelley, banjoist with the Melody Girls, now playing at the Martin Hotel, Sioux City, la.

The folder is devoted to describing and picturing the De Luxe model of the May Bell banjo and the improvements in its tone from the new 'tone Chamber, designed to prevent the clashing of sound waves.

In this section of the folder is a portrait of S. R. Musmanno, the well-known professional banjoist and tester of banjos in the factory of the Slingerland Banjo Co. Besides 'the De Luxe, six other banjos and banjo ukuleles are described.

Holmes is the director of the "Hamtramck High School Band." Birmingham, Rochester, and other

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towns close by, including Walled Lake, have started

orchestras in the schools but no bands that I know In Two-Days Session at Chicago Full List of Officers

of. Henri K. Kampe is directing the orchestra at Birmingham and I am not sure that they have not started a band also."

Are Re-elected.

At the tenth annual meeting of the National Association of Piano Bench and Stool Manufacturers at

CANADA HEARS AUSTRALIA.

the Palmer House, Chicago, last week, Frank Mer-

Canadian radio fans are reporting some phenomenal reception. Malcolm Lenning of Hughton, Saskatchewan, in a report to the Freed-Eisemann Radio Corporation, states that he has picked up two Australian stations--Brisbone on 329.5 and Sydney on 410.7 meters, with volume enough to use the loud speaker. On December 15, 16 and 17, from 3:45 to 7 a. m., he brought in these stations, which are very

riam of South Acton, Mass., was re-elected president. Other officers re-elected were Charles E. Overton, vice-president; Gordon L. Aston, treasurer, and M. Vulpi, commissioner.

There was a two-day session at which all the important topics of the industry were discussed, including the proposal for a scheme of co-operative advertising.

rarely heard in the United States or Canada, except

once in a while in Southern California.

SHEET MUSIC IN JAPAN.

Another index to the increasing popularity of west-

WIRELESS FROM MOSCOW.

ern music abroad is the surprising demand for Amer-

"Allo! Allo! Toot ra-dee-to-tellay-grain-ayah tuesee-atsche tschay-tueresta pee-atdee-satee-mee-trov, toe-var-eescht-tschee, soos-tscha-ee-tee." Radio fans should not be alarmed if they hear these strange sounds issue forth from their loud speaker some evening. It is merely the opening statement of the announcer at RDW, Moscow, a new 12-kilowatt station. It means: "Hello, this is the Moscow broadcasting station calling on a wave length of 1450

ican sheet music. The value of the United States exports of sheet and book music to Japan in 1922, the first year in which separate figures for sheet music are given in the official statistics, amounted to $40,140 and increased to $71,646 in 1924. Statistics for 1924 show that Japan ranks second as a purchaser of American sheet music, being second only to Canada, and purchasing more than England and Australia.

meters. You will now hear, etc."

TUNERS APPRECIATE THIS.

In a special department for requirements by piano tuners and repairmen, Hammacher, Schlemmer & Co., Fourth avenue and Thirteenth street, New York, present a tuner's carrying case of a light and serviceable kind which has a big sale. It weighs only six pounds, and is fitted with a very secure lock and solid brass, highly nickel-plated hardware. The outside measurements are 15J/2 inches long, 7 inches wide and 8 inches high.

HIGH GRADE

Folding Organs School Organs

Practice Keyboards

Dealers' Attention Solicited

INTEREST IN BANDS GROW

Letters to C. M. Tremaine of Bureau for Music Ad-

vancement Indicates Spread of Movement.

A letter from Howard Monger. Supervisor of Instrumental Music in the Public Schools of Pontiac, Mich., received by C. M. Tremaine, of the National Bureau for the Advancement of Music, in the course of a considerable correspondence with h;m concerning school music development, is a striking illustration of the growth of the school band movement. The letter in part reads:

"The number of bands seems to increase rather rapidly in the vicinity of Pontiac and Detroit. I personally direct the "Pontiac High School Band," the "Webster Junior High School Band," and probably will form another within the next month which will be called the "Eastern Junior High School Band."

Oxford, Mich , High School has a very good band under the direction of Mr. George Dunbar. Stacy

CHAMPION RECORDS SELL.

The pre-release Christmas specials in the November bulletin of Champion electrically recorded records of the Starr Piano Co., Richmond, Ind., have proved phenomenal sellers. Other music of the line also proved strong numbers with dealers. The Champion popularly-priced, two-bit records are conceded by dealers to be the best profit-makers in the record field.

NEW SHEET MUSIC MANAGER.

Adolph Suppan has been appointed manager of the sheet music department of the Walker Musical Exchange, Milwaukee, Wis., and plans extending the stock of orchestrations which already is large. Mr. Suppan is a well known artist and a staff artist at radio station WSOE.

MUSIC PUBLISHERS DISAPPEAR. N. C. Davis Music Co., Nashville, Tenn., music publishers, reported place of business recently closed and no one knows anything about their whereabouts. The concern's creditors are thus left in a state of doubt and uncertainty.

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