The talking machine world (Jan-June 1928)

no IN THE MUSICAL MERCHANDISE FIELD— (Continued from page 109) The Talking Machine World, New York, January, 1928 New Weymann Catalog Makes Its Appearance Complete Weymann Line Attractively Pictured and Graphically Described in Booklet — Distinctive Features of Products Told Federal Figures on Band Instrument Sales Statistics Covering First Ten Months of 1927 Show a Falling Off of Nearly Eleven Per Cent in the Volume of Sales The new catalog of Weymann banjos, manufactured by H. A. Weymann & Son, Inc., Philadelphia, Pa., made its appearance in the trade at the very beginning of the new year. It is attractively covered in orange and blue and presents through half-tone illustrations and printed descriptions the many models and distinctive merits of the Weymann line. The center spread is devoted to a graphic description of "Fourteen Points of Weymann Superiority." Among the models presented are the Tenor Style No. 85, Orchestra Tenor Banjo Style A, Styles 1, 2 and 3 and DeLuxe models 4 and 5, Tenor Banjo Style 135-A, 140-A and 1S0-A, MandolinBanjo Style 25-A, 35-A, Weymann Banjola Style 30 and 60 and Weymann Ukulele-Banjo Style 225. The various distinctive features of the Weymann banjo also are described, including the Weymann megaphonic tone amplifying rim, Weymann "four-to-one" pegs, Weymann patented tone resonator and banjo bridge. Buys King Saxophone San Jose, Cal., December 27. — T. French, saxophonist, who was formerly with Santreys' Orchestra but now with Peter Paul Lyons and his American Theatre Orchestra, recently purchased an artist special gold King saxophone from the San Jose branch of Sherman, Clay & Co., the sale being made by A. Caro Miller, manager of the band and orchestra instrument department. Washington, D. C, January 6. — According to figures reported by the Department of Commerce the ten months' period ending October 31, 1927, showed a 10.9 per cent decrease in the sale of band instruments from the corresponding period in 1926. Total shipments from the factories to points within the United States of cup mouthpiece and woodwind instruments and saxophones disclose a decline from $5,156,737 for the first ten months of 1926 to $4,595,112. An analysis of these figures shows that it was the cup-mouthpiece instruments and saxophones that fell off, the former dropping 11.6 per cent and the latter 11.4 per cent. Woodwind instruments, however, showed an increase for the period of 5.8 per cent. According to leading dealers and manufacturers the sales of band instruments have been improving steadily during the final two months of this year, and it is expected when the figures are in for November and December that the decrease in band instrument sales for the whole year will not be as large as the Department of Commerce figures indicate. Bacon Announces Smeck Stage Silver Bell Banjo Instrument Designed by Roy Smeck, Victor and Columbia Recording Artist and Vitaphone Player, Introduced to Trade Death of U. G. Turner Ulmer G. Turner, president of the music company bearing his name at 1100 Gervais street, Columbia, S. C, died at a local hospital in that city, after an illness of three months. He was about forty-five years old and had spent about twenty years in Columbia operating his music store. Groton, Conn., January 3. — In a very attractive and unusual circular the Bacon Banjo Co. is introducing the new Roy Smeck stage model Silver Bell banjo. The circular shows in full natural colors, style No. 4, in this instrument. The instrument was designed for Roy Smeck, Victor and Columbia recording artist and the famous Vitaphone "Wizard of the Strings." It has vermilion neck, resonator and rim, goldaleur fingerboard and peghead with beautifully engraved embossed designs in black and gold. It has double resonating tone changes same as RUNQ The Oldest and Largest Musical Merchandise House in America Exclusively Wholesale ESTABLISHED 163* CBrxzno §• Sqn,Inc. 351-53 FovrthAve.NewYorkCity B & D -Silver Bell" BANJO ARTISTS MONTANA Cowboy Banjoist ROY SMECK Wizard of the Strings FRANK REINO Iianjoist, Ben Black's Orchestra Paramount Theatre, N. Y. City STEVE FRANGIPANE Banjoist, Levitow's Commodore Hotel Grill Orchestra SLEEPY HALL With His Orchestra at Castillian Royal Pelham Parkway New 1027-28 Illustrated 48 Page Combined Catalog and Silver News — Free. THE BACON BANJO CO., Inc. Groton, Connecticut on regular styles of Silver Bell banjos. Other features are B & D super strings, web-foot bridge, Oettinger separate tension tail piece and gear pegs. Telegraph orders for Bacon banjos have been coming in very freely, according to David L. Day, general manager of the Bacon Banjo Co., Inc. The Chicago Musical Instrument Co., Middle Western distributor, recently wired for three each of the Roy Smeck stage model gold banjos and Montana special gold banjos, selling at $270 each. Other telegrams received in one day came from the Progressive Musical Instrument Co. of New York and George A. Peate, Ltd., of Montreal for Montana Silver Bell banjos and No. 1 Silver Bell banjos. Macaulay Joins Hanson San Francisco, January 3. — A. D. Macaulay, who for six years has been with the retail band and orchestra instrument department of Sherman, Clay & Co. in this city, has resigned to accept a post on the staff of the H. C. Hanson Music House. After a short stay at Hanson's main store it is expected that Mr. Macaulay will be attached to the Oakland store. Dan Coakley, drummer with Paul Kelly's Orchestra, has been placed in charge of the drum department of the H. C. Hanson Music House. Weyand Opens Quincy Branch The Weyand Repairing Co., Boston, Mass., which repairs all makes of phonographs and radio receivers, has opened a branch at 21 Waban road, Quincy, Mass. William J. Weyand, general manager of the company, is well known in talking machine and radio circles, having been connected with a number of leading Boston music houses. Foster Commemoration Hour In line with its commemorations of the deaths of Beethoven and Schubert, the Columbia Phonograph Co. broadcast on January 11, a radio hour devoted to the compositions of Stephen Foster, the beloved American composer of home songs, who died on January 13, 1864. Tommy Hill, well-known Irish entertainer, has opened a phonograph shop at 365 Willis avenue, the Bronx, New York City, where he will specialize in Irish records.