Music Trade Review -- © mbsi.org, arcade-museum.com -- digitized with support from namm.org 72 THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW JUNE 13, 1925 G. H. Ditson Features New Edition of Leedy Popular Alaskan Banjoist Hohner Harmonicas Drum Topics Is Issued Uses the Gibson Banjo New York Music House Makes Fine Display, New Volume Well Filled With News and Sug- Frank Alba Gives Numerous Concerts in the Featuring Instrument in Show Window gestions of Interest to Drummers and Deal- Frozen North and Finds That the Gibson ers—Views of Leedy Plant Shown Stands Up Well Under the Climate The Chas. H. Ditson & Co. store in New York tied up all last week with the nation-wide pub- INDIANAPOLIS, IND., June 8.—Another issue of KALAMAZOO, MICH., June 8.—Frank Alba, who licity of Hohner harmonicas by devoting its Leedy Drum Topics has just been put out by the has made his home in Alaska for over twenty- entire window on busy Thirty-fourth street to Leedy Mfg. Co., makers of Leedy drums and five years, is recognized as the leading banjoist in that country, according to Frank Campbell, advertising manager of Gibson, Inc., who make the banjo that Mr. Alba uses. He recently froze both feet while on a cross-country trip to give a concert. Spending some time in the hospital at Fairbanks, ho delighted his fellow patients & = p with concerts on his Gibson Mastertone banjo. Mr. Alba gives a splendid tribute to the way the Gibson instruments stand up under severe climatic conditions. He states that until he received his Gibson his banjo necks were al- ways warping and the heads were always flabby, due to the severe weather, but now those trou- bles are no more. During his twenty-five years in Alaska he has never had an opportunity to visit the United States and was looking forward to making a trip to the Chicago convention, but this was cancelled because of his accident.

Ditson Display of Hohner Harmonicas a display of these instruments. The centerpiece drummers equipment, and it is now being sent H. Wallace Garner Dies was a lithographed cut-out furnished by M. to the trade. This publication, edited by George at Home in Richmond, Va. Hohner, Inc., sliowing Elsie Janis and Borrah Way, the Leedy sales manager, is filled with Minevitch featuring the Hohner harmonica in live news and suggestions of interest to drum- RICHMOND, IND., June 6.—H. Wallace Garner, the current success, "Puzzles of 1925," playing mers, and dealers who make use of it report for many years associated with the Starr Piano at the Fulton Theatre. that it brings them sales. Co., of this city, chiefly as traveler through the The entire line of Hohner harmonicas was Among the interesting features in this issue southeastern section of the country, died on May shown and it was backed up by an artistic are photographs of the Leedy plant which con- 28 in Richmond, Va. presentation of the Hohner advertising ma- tains 51,250 square feet of floor space, the Leedy Mr. Garner, who was very popular with the terial which is supplied to dealers for this pur- office staff and many scenes in the offices and trade, joined the Starr Co. staff in 1907, and pose. The foreground showed the miniature factory, showing the many different depart- of recent years has been the jobber for that cut-outs showing the Hohner played by citizens ments. Another interesting view is the immense company's product in Virginia, West Virginia of all nations of the world. lumber yard. and Maryland. He was 53 years old.

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