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56 PRESTO ADDS PIANO SUPPLY BRANCH Old Established Bass String Industry of Otto R. Trefz, Philadelphia, Piano Repair Supplies. The enterprising industry of Otto R. Trefz, bass string winder, of Philadelphia, has added a new department, in which all piano manufacturers, repairers and dealers will be especially interested. It is a complete piano repair supply branch of the business. Mr. Trefz is thoroughly experienced in every branch of the piano industry and knows just what repair men and tuners need. The factory of Otto R. Trefz is perfectly equipped for the manufacture of supplies of all kinds needed in piano repairs, and similar work. Dealers and others are advised to get in touch with the Philadelphia house for prompt attention to wants of the kind intimated. MANDOLIN ORCHESTRA SUCCESS Creates Wonderful Enthusiasm at First Public Rehearsal at Lyon & Healy Hall. The Chicago Mandolin Orchestra made a tremendous hit at the first public rehearsal in the Lyon & Healy Concert Hall last week. One enthusiastic auditor said that one had never really heard a composition like "Spain," until he heard it played by the Mandolin Orchestra. The instrumentation of the Chicago Mandolin Orchestra is as follows: Four mandolins, one violin, one cello, one harp, two guitars, one flute, one double bass and one drum. The Brunswick Phonograph Company, through their representative, at the close of this rehearsal immediately made arrangements to make records of the Chicago Mandolin Orchestra's renditions of both high class popular songs and dance numbers. RADIO HELPS MUSIC STUDENT Strcudsburg, Pa., Girl Finds It Great Help in Improving Her Technique. Eunice Lentz, who lives just outside of Stroudsburg, Pa., is a music student, and she has found radio to be a tremendous help. When she returns home from her music lessons she tunes up her fivetube set and listens in to the artistry of some of the world's greatest musicians. She studies their technique and applies it to her own work. Miss Lentz plays in the town orchestra, and is interested in the programs broadcasted by famous orchestra leaders and their bands. She can tune up her violin and play along with them and thus gain the experience of finding out what it means to keep in time with the world's best. NEW COLUMBIA WORD ROLLS May 24, 1924. 866Never Again, fox trot, Gus Drobegg. 865"No" Means "Yes," fox trot, Clarence Johnson. 864If the Rest of the World Don't Want You, waltz, Clarence Johnson. NEW C. Q. CONN PROCESSES T. L. LUTKIN SPECIALTIES Whole World Market Where Great Leather House Seeks and Finds Piano Materials. The urgent demand for the best and most dependable leathers for playerpianos and organs has developed the specialty leather house of T. L. Lutkins, Inc., 40 Spruce street, New York. As the chain is as strong as the weakest link so the pneumatics of the player, the reproducing piano and the organ are as dependable as the weakest leather part. The reason that T. L. Lutkins, Inc., is admittedly a specialty leather house is because its product is specially prepared to fulfill the requirements of the playerpiano and organ manufacturer proud of the dependable character of their instruments. To keep the leather product up to the high standard it has established, the company makes the whole world its Held for purchasing. A great many conditions attending the growth of the soft leather producing animal governs the character of the skins in their final form of tanned leather. Climate and topography of the habitat of the animal have as much to do with the production of the best pneumatic leather as its breed and health. That is why all the world is the market where the agents of T. L. Lutkin, Inc., continuously seek the most desirable skins. In addition to leathers specially tanned for playerpianos and organs the company also handles chamois, sheepskins, Indias and skivers. The long line includes packing, valves and specially tanned bellows leather. Q R S IN PHILADELPHIA. The headquarters of the Q R S Music Roll Co., in Philadelphia, will continue in the Weymann Build-' ing, 1108 Chestnut street, but the jobbing arrangements with H. A. Weymann & Son, Inc., have been terminated and hereafter the Philadelphia depot will be operated directly by the Q R S Music Co. Through the courtesy of H. A. Weymann & Son, Inc., the quarters used by that company for Q R S roll distribution will be continued by the Q R S Music Roll Co. NEW SEATTLE MANAGER. Robert Brown, assistant to Manager E. J. Meyers of the musical department of the Bush & Lane Piano Co., Portland, Ore., has been made manager of the musical merchandise department in the Seattle, Wash., store of the company. 21,967 RADIO STATIONS. There are 21,967 radio transmitting stations of all kinds in the United States. This includes amateur stations, ship stations, trans-Atlantic stations, broadcasting and all other kinds of stations from which messages are transmitted. • Perfected Methods of Expanding Taper Branches Described in Interesting New Booklet. Nothing shows the progress in the manufacture of band instruments as clearly as a comparison of the old and new processes. The old way of making wind musical instruments by hand is rapidly being replaced by the more accurate and scientific method of using tools and machinery for that purpose. The method perfected by C. G. Conn, Ltd., Elkhart. Ind., assures perfect results as far as intonation and ease of playing are concerned and a thousand instruments of any one kind may be made by this process and no person will be able to detect or discern any difference in the scale or good playing qualities of any one of these instruments. They will all play exactly alike. A new booklet issued by C. G. Conn, Ltd., "How Wind Musical Instruments Have Been Improved," describes the new processes which assure true tone and ease of playing in the instruments manufactured by that company. This is said: Mr. Conn's method of expanding taper branches in mefal molds by means of hjdraulic pressure does away with the old hand work and positively turns out each particular kind of a branch exact in size and proportions. In order to better comprehend the importance of his method of expanding taper branches of all sizes by hydraulic process, readers should not lose sight of the fact that the good tonal qualities, perfect intonation and ease of playing of a cup mouthpiece instrument depends entirely upon its accurate acoustical proportions. Such proportions are impossible when the taper branches are made by hand in the old way. These proportions are both possible and sure when the taper branches are expanded in accurately shaped molds by Mr. Conn's methods. The slightest deviation from the correct proportions is certain to result in a defective intonation, and that is the reason why there is such a difference in the tonal qualities of handmade instruments. Mr. Conn has expended at least fifty thousand dollars in manufacturing machinery and molds with which to turn out taper branches by the hydraulic process. You may be sure that the hundred or more sets of molds, manufactured by his workmen, are accurate in size and proportions, also that the instruments made up from the branches turned out by this new process are better, far better, than those manufactured by the old hand method. MANAGES HARP DEPARTMENT. George Wheeler, a well-known harpist and formerly secretary of National Association of Harpists, has been made manager of the harp department of the Clark Music Co., Syracuse, N. Y. Mr. Wheeler has used the Clark harp made by the Clark Harp Co., and is an enthusiast on the tone of the easy selling portable harp. HE'S ON HIS WAY. J. P. Simmons, who is traveling over a wide territory in the South, representing U. S. Music Rolls and other trade essentials expects to make a trip through one or two of the best towns in Eastern Kentucky, all of the larger towns in West Virginia, and on to New York, where he will be through convention week. Excellent List of Winners for June Announced by Chicago Company. The new June list of Columbia Word Rolls has been issued by the Columbia Music Roll Company, Chicago. It is a profit-assuring array of hits admirably recorded by the tried artists of the company. The new list comprises the following: 8.7Mobile Blues, a melody blue, Clarence Johnson. 886Deep in My Heart, fox trot, James Blythe. 885Paradise Alley, fox trot, Billy Ritch. 884Don't Blame It All on Me, fox trot, Clarence Johnson. 883Adoration, waltz, Wrayne Love. 882Hula Hula Dream Girl, Hawaiian waltz, Nell Morrison. S81I Must Have Company, fox trot, Clarence Tohnson. 880Me Xo Speak-a-Good-English, fox trot, Billy Fitch. 879Why Did I Kiss that Girl, fox trot, Harry Geise. 878Jealous, fox trot, Billy Fitch. 877Blue Evening Blues, blue, Clarence Johnson. #76Not Yet, Zuzette, one-step, Everett Robbins. ! 75From One 'Till Two, ballad, Gus Drobegg. 874From One 'Till Two, fox trot, Gus Drobegg. 873Whose Izzy Is He (Is He Yours or Is He Mine), fox trot, Harry Geise. 872Lovey Came Back, fox trot, Harry Geise. 871What'll I Do, fox trot, Billy Fitch. 870Worried, fox trot, Harry Earl. 869She Wouldn't Do What I Asked Her To, fox trot, Wayne Love. 868Wait'll You See My Gal, fox trot, Harry Geise. 867Unfortunate Blues, blue, Billy Fitch. SLINGERLAND May Bell Slingerland Banjos are sold the country over because they are Highest quality and sold at a reasonable price. Over 40 Styles of Banjos, Banjo Mandolins, Tenor Banjos and Banjo Ukuleles, to select from. 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