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...clubs will consist of four units, the vocal club, the mandolin club, the banjo club, and the jazz orchestra. Each of these will hold a competition, and in addition tryouts for specialty numbers will be held. In the last-named department, magicians, vocal and instrumental soloists, and ventriloquists are especially in demand...
...program will appear such numbers as the "Washington Post March" by the Banjo Club, "Landlord Fill the Flowing Bowl" by the Vocal Club, Shubert's "March Militaire" by the Mandolin Club, popular selections by the Gold Coast Orchestra and as a specialty number, "Legerdemain" by W. S. Warner...
...when he, 18, was recovering from a throat operation in Vienna, spending his time in the Volksgarten listening to Johann Strauss conduct his own waltzes, that he became "really musical." As a child, piano-scales had bored him, so he had taken up violin, then the banjo and guitar. Vienna and Strauss made him want to know more. He began seriously to study the zither, laid a good musical foundation. No matter how busy making wheels & cars, William Woodin always found time to sing his children to sleep, playing his accompaniments on the guitar or zither. Many of the melodies...
What the ukulele is to Hawaii, the bagpipes to Scotland, the samisen is to Japan. A three-stringed, long-necked banjo with enormous decorative tuning pegs and a square wooden drum covered with white dogskin parchment, it makes a noise something like a ukulele-bagpipe merger. No Geisha girl dares hold up her elaborately coiffed head unless she is adept on the samisen. More samisens are made and sold than any other musical instrument in Japan, yet the samisen industry has felt the World Depression...
...Instrumental Club concert has been planned with a view to variety of interest. The Banjo Club is to play "The Washington Post March", "The Wedding of the Birds", "By the Waters of the Minnetonka", and a medley of football songs. The Mandolin Club will play "Marche Militaire", "Espana Waltz", "Two Guitars", and a tango, "Jalousie...