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Ayars, Contributions to the Art of Music in America by the Music Industries of Boston (1937) — the Squier, Farley, Rettberg, Rockwell and Elias Howe matter, 1937
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1Their trumpets, trombones and fretted instruments are exported as well as sold all over the United States. To date they have manufactured over 96,000 banjos, 40,000 guitars, 40,000 mandolins, and 30,000 trumpets.
3This firm has many patents for improved construction and tone of trumpets and fretted instruments.
5"The four most prominent players on national radio broadcasts, Tony Colucci, Earle Roberts, Eddie Connors, and Eddie Peabody all use the Vegaphone Guitar." 4
7Their best trumpets are silver plated and are played by artists like Walter Smith and members of the Metropolitan Opera House Orchestra; Cleveland, Minneapolis and San Francisco Symphony Orchestras; and Roxy and Paramount Theatre Orchestras.
9This firm also imports low and medium priced violins and accessories, and jobs these and goods of other manufacturers at wholesale. They also sell at retail some three thousand items, including the steel strings which they manufacture; and appraise, trade in, and repair all kinds of instruments.
11A special feature is their band organization and service department for helping to organize and teach school and legion bands, drum corps and orchestras. They arrange for special teachers to do this on any basis desired by a school director or music supervisor.
13After taking over the H. F. Odell Company in 1925 they published the "Odell Edition" of fretted music for five years until November 1931, when Walter K. Bauer of Hartford, Connecticut, purchased the plates and stock and still publishes and sells this music.
15The "Odell Edition" consisted of original compositions of Mr. Odell and arrangements made by him for banjo, mandolin, guitar and mandolin orchestra. They also published the Odell Company's music journal Crescendo till 1930.
17GEORGE B. STONE & SON, INC.
19This firm was established at Roxbury, Massachusetts, in 1890 by George Burt Stone who had had forty years of experience as band instructor, director, drum major and professional drummer in many musical and military organizations in the Eastern States. Practically
214 Advertisement in The Guild Reporter, Official Organ of the American Guild of Banjoists, Mandolinists and Guitarists—March-April 1935 p. 7.
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