Music Trade Review -- © mbsi.org, arcade-museum.com -- digitized with support from namm.org 42 THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW OCTOBER 24, 1925 of the Standard Musical String Mfg. Corp., attention. The assortment of saxophones, trum- Musical Merchandise brought out the great need of collecting data pets, banjos and other instruments in the dis- Manufacturers' Meeting and information on the construction and proper play is valued at $5,000. E. C. Leavitt, travel- use of the instruments and accessories manufac- ling representative of the Rudolph Wurlitzer Discussion on Means of Acquainting Dealers tured by the members of the association. This Co., is here with the display and is explaining With Technical Side of Instruments Feature material could be arranged in the form of the use and history of the various instruments of Evening graphic charts and tables and would be of much to visitors to the store, which is attracting very service in acquainting dealers and also players much attention. The monthly meeting of the Musical Mer- with the fundamentals of their instruments from chandise Manufacturers' Association of the the technical standpoint and would enable them Eastern District, for October, was held last week to get the most out of their playing. Very lit- Conn Line Featured at the Hotel Lafayette, New York, with a siz- tle has been done in this direction and it was by K-ahn Orchestra Tour able attendance indicating an encouraging in- pointed out that dealers, as well as teachers and crease in interest in the activities of the asso- players, would gladly avail themselves of such Appearance of Organization in Metropolitan ciation. information, to the lasting benefit of the trade. Keith Houses Places Instruments Prom- Two new members of the trade were received This subject and the related subject of commer- inently Before New York Public into membership. The new members are the cial statistics will be again discussed at the next House of Stathopoulo, Inc., Long Island City, meeting. Conn band instruments are now in the lime- banjo makers, represented at the meeting by The invitation of the Associated Musical In- light more than ever in New York City, with Epi Stathopoulo, and Stumpf & Theiss, Newark strument Dealers of New York to join with Roger Wolfe Kahn's orchestra featuring them case makers, represented at the meeting by them in a beefsteak dinner on November 12 was in nearly every vaudeville house in the Metro- Frank Theiss. accepted and the members agreed to co-operate politan district. This fashionable dance orches- An interesting discussion, led by G. F. Chapin, with them to the fullest possible extent. tra, which has been the drawing card at the William J. Dougherty, of the Music Trades, exclusive Hotel Biltmore for several months, is addressed the meeting on the subject of the now touring the Keith-Albee theatres of New "Fake Music Studio." The speaker showed how York and Brooklyn for several weeks, playing a Kant Krack Cases this insidious evil, which is manifesting itself week at each theatre and holding down the alarmingly of late, is gnawing at the very vitals Biltmore job at the same time. 99 of the music industry by laying hold of its most The present week finds the Kahn band at "The Quality Supreme promising customers, namely, the beginners who the Palace, which is merely across the street have just bought their first instrument and are from the New York Conn Co.'s store, so that GEIB & SCHAEFER CO. eager to learn to play. a host of New York's musicians and music Manufacturers President Grover plans to have speakers from lovers have been attracted to the Conn store other allied interests and trade journals address as a result of the orchestra's programs and per- Musical Instrument Cases the members on topics related to the activities formances. Roger Wolfe Kahn, it will be Sold by all Leading Jobber* of the association at future meetings. remembered, is the son of Otto Kahn, the inter- 1751-9 N. Cntnl Park AT., Cki. national banker, and he selected and endorsed The next meeting of the Association will be Conn instruments, not so much because of the held Tuesday evening, November 10, at the similarity of name with his but because of their Hotel Lafayette. musical qualities. It will also be remembered that the Roger Kahn Orchestra was chosen to Display Modern Orchestra supply the music at President Coolidge's in- augural ball last Winter. ROCHESTER, N. Y., October 19.—The instrumenta- tion of a modern dance orchestra is the subject Consult the Universal Want Directory of of a window display in the Wurlitzer store on The Review. 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