The talking machine world (Jan-June 1928)

168 The Talking Machine World, New York, June, 1928 IN THE MUSICAL MERCHANDISE FIELD — ( Continued from page 167) BACON BANJOS Sold by Representative Music Merchants BACON BANJO CO., Inc. GROTON, CONN. Small Goods Jobbing Firm Is Organized Musical Instrument Distributors, Inc., Purchase Wholesale Small Goods Business From Sherman, Clay & Co. San Francisco, Cal., June 4. — Sherman, Clay & Co. have retired from the wholesale field and will in the future confine their activities strictly to retail operations. To that end the company recently sold its wholesale small musical instrument business to the Musical Instrument Distributors, Inc., composed of several former employes of the Sherman-Clay organization, namely, F. A. Norton, president, former small goods department manager; Louis Gottlieb, vice-president; Ray Furlang, treasurer, and Ed Schlueter, secretary. Sherman, Clay & Co. have announced that they will be responsible for the accounts and guarantee payment of all bills of the new company until further notice. Temporary quarters of the Musical Instrument Distributors, Inc., have been established at 536 Mission street, this city, and at 224 East 11th street, Los Angeles. Eugene M. Rodat, director, fifty-one players; Boys' Technical, H. C. Taylor, director, fortysix players; Riverside High, J. W. Schneck, director, forty players; North Division, Joseph Bergein, director, sixty players; Shorewood High, Sandy S. Smith, director, forty-seven players; South Division High, Louis B. Goodrich, director, forty-five players; West Division High, G. W. Ciffelt, director, forty players; Washington High, Harry D. O'Neill, director, fifty-five players; Milwaukee Vocational Boys, G. B. Behnken, director, ninety-five players; Cudahy High, Oscar Kluck, director; and Lincoln High School, N. H. Kingsley, director, thirty-four players. Local dealers are taking an active interest in the tournament and a number of tie-ups on advertising and sales promotion will be made prior to and during the tournament, it has been announced. Joliet High Wins National Band Contest Illinois City School Band Takes First Prize in Nationwide Competitive Event for Third Successive Year Junior Band Contest in Milwaukee, June 8 Fourteen Organizations Entered in Event Sponsored by the Milwaukee Leader — Two Prizes Offered to Winners Milwaukee, Wis., June 4. — Fourteen bands have entered into the fourth annual junior band contest sponsored by the Milwaukee Leader, which will be held at Lake Park on June 8. Two large trophy cups will be awarded to the winning bands in Class A and Class B. Bands which have announced that they will take part in the contest are the South Milwaukee High, which has forty-eight players, under the direction of T. Philler Curtis; Girls' Technical School, thirty-one players, director, J. E. Skornicka; West Allis High, forty players, Damon Shook; Milwaukee Vocational Girls, Joliet, III., May 28. — For the third successive year the Joliet High School Band won first honors in the third annual national high school band contest held here last week before a crowd of 3,000, which packed the high school auditorium. The Joliet band will now retain the championship cup. The band of Senn High School, of Chicago, was awarded second place, and third honors were won by Modesto, Cal. The other three bands which reached the finals finished in the following order: Gary, Ind.; Hammond, Ind., and Council Bluffs, la. Results of the contest were announced by John Philip Sousa, famous bandmaster, who headed the judges, and his associates, Edwin Franko Goldman and Capt. Charles O'Neill, also bandmasters. Twenty-seven bands from high schools in fifteen States competed in the contest. De La Salle High School Band was second, and Senn fourth, in the marching contest staged RUNq The Oldest and Largest Musical Merchandise House in America Exclusively Wholesale ESTABLISHED 1034 C.BRV/W) St S0N,lNC. 351-53Fourth Ave. NewYorkCity independently by the Joliet Chamber of Commerce. Joliet's bovs were first. First honors in the competition of class B bands (those from high schools of less than 400 students) went to St. Mary's Industrial School at Baltimore, Md.; Lansing Vocational School, Lansing, Mich., was second; Princeton, Cal., High School, third; and Vermilion, S. D., fourth. "Tuckaway" Is Newest Hohner Harmonica Covers of New Instruments Form Complete Housing, Thus Giving Full Protection to Them The "Tuckaway" is the name of a new harmonica just placed on the market by M. v„.\v,w y-. :.\. •■•/.\v^\fc\y.\v,\ Hohner, Inc., including two numbers recently perfected by the factories. These patented novelties are harmonicas that tuck themselves away into their covers at a slight pressure of the hand, the covers forming a complete housing. The same pressure drops it automatically into playing position. This self-covering device gives a harmonica that can be completely encased in the pocket free from dust and dirt. Model No. 777, ten single holes and twenty reeds, sells to the dealer at $5.75 a dozen, and model No. 780, sixteen double holes and thirty-two reeds, sells to the dealer at $7.20 a dozen. Aids Harmonica Sales Harmonica sales in Cleveland and suburbs have been greatly helped through the appearance of Borrah Minnevitch, impresario of the harmonica, who was at Loew's State Theatre for a, week's engagement and who also gave demonstrations to school children in the Auditorium of the Cleveland News. The Cleveland Board of Education instructors at the nineteen public playgrounds are teaching all the children to play the harmonica, and music dealers have been featuring this instrument in both their window and counter displays with very good success.