Word: aeolian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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National Music Week is the idea of Charles Milton Tremaine, a little old man who makes no music but has been associated with it all his life. Mr. Tremaine got his start promoting pianolas for the Aeolian Co., later tried to make his own pianos, failed. In 1916, deciding he was a better promoter than manufacturer, Tremaine formed his still existing National Bureau for the Advancement of Music. Four years later he put on a celebration which he called New York Music Week. Other cities copied this week, and in 1924 they united for the first National Music Week. Each...
Died. William H. Alfring, 52, president since 1932 of Aeolian American Corp., one of the world's largest piano-makers; by diving under a New York Central Train; at Hartsdale, N. Y. Month ago he suffered a nervous breakdown...
...banking house." In third place is Winter & Co. Winter goes in for low-priced pianos, stands near the top in unit production. One of its models is a "pianette" at $99.50 built to compete with Japanese pianos, which cost $4 to make, sell in the U. S. for $50. Aeolian American Corp. has been slipping in the past few years but still holds fourth place in dollar volume with such big names as Chickering and Knabe...
Before Richard Leo Simon and M. (for Max) Lincoln Schuster formed a publishing firm in Manhattan a dozen years ago, nervous young Simon had been a salesman for Aeolian pianos, shrewd young Schuster a newshawk who played the violin for fun. Though they never play together, Publishers Simon & Schuster are both still impassioned amateurs of music. Lately it became evident that the duet, whose profitable puzzle-&-game volumes set the book-publishing business by its ears, was venturing into the stodgy realm of music publishing...
Alfred Grosjean of Pasadena invented a sharp-angled violin, which is tuned three musical steps higher than an ordinary violinand and which he says reproduces the "celestial" or "seraphic" tones of ancient instruments. He calls it a "violaeol," a word made up from violin and aeolian. Miss Violet Sheldon was interested...