Word: accordioned
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Theodore C. Osborne '37, of the instrumental clubs, advertised for other players, accordion players, or players of any other instruments, or, in fact, one man who could sing a quartet or put on any specialty...
...Norfolk, Va. one day last October, a musician named George E. von Schilling was idly playing an accordion in his sitting room while his son Stanwurt, 3, toddled nearby. On a chair lay an euphonium, a tuba-like brass horn which Mr. von Schilling had borrowed from a friend. Suddenly Father von Schilling heard a soft beep from the big euphonium, saw that Son Stanwurt was not only blowing into it but blowing correctly from the solar plexus rather than from the chest. Von Schilling leaped to a piano, struck an F and B flat which the child immediately echoed...
...From H. N. White Co. in Cleveland, Father von Schilling obtained a King Giant Sousaphone with a 28-in. gold bell and the standard-sized mouthpiece. The Sousaphone was mounted on a rack so that Stanwurt could crawl into it, huff & puff, while his father accompanied on the accordion. Convinced of his offspring's commercial possibilities, George von Schilling copyrighted the name "Master Stan and His Sousaphone," induced a costume firm, Lilley Ames Co. of Columbus, Ohio, to provide a $100 cream-&-gold uniform for Stanwurt. Father von Schilling got engagements for Stanwurt and himself at Norfolk clubs...
...Schillings pleased Utica. Father George furnished most of the melody on a piano-accordion while Master Stan oom-pahed bass runs for Down the Field, Ragging the Scale, Christopher Columbus. Accustomed to learn his pieces entirely by ear, Stanwurt appeared completely at ease when Mr. von Schilling tried to confuse him by varying the rhythm and tempo of Dixie. Expert musicians pronounced Stanwurt's embouchure (placing of the lips on the mouthpiece) as good as his father had claimed it to be. As they moved on through music stores in Syracuse and Rochester, Mr. von Schilling reminded interviewers that...
Wind & String instruments in Chicago last week included a $1,000 accordion, a six-foot "bassoguitar" and cellos equipped with loudspeaker horns. Oldest & biggest band instrument maker is 62-year-old C. G. Conn, Ltd., which reports business currently running 35% ahead of a year ago, has 1,000 men at work in its Elkhart, Ind. plant. As with other makers in the same line, the saxophone is still Conn's biggest seller. Also in Elkhart is big Martin Band Instrument Co., whose founder walked there after being burned out in the Chicago fire...