Holton in the News
November 1910 issue of Holtons Harmony Hints Volume VI, No. 6.
In reference to the Holton Long Model cornets,
After a long series of experiments on the cornet, dealing with the effects different proportions of bore, taper, etc., have on the quality of tone, tune, volume and ease of blowing, we have built a long model cornet on principles that we have proved to be correct, and which is today the most beautiful and well-balanced cornet manufactured, and has been adopted by more professionals players that any other cornet on the market.
Heretofore many cornetists have been prejudiced against the long model cornet because the majority that have been placed on the market were merely the old short model with the mouthpiece shortened and the bell lengthened. In the New Proportion Long Model Cornet, we have a perfectly proportioned instrument. The tone is of beautiful quality that blends perfectly with string instruments in orchestra work as the tone is more mellow than that of the short model, but at the same time retains the brilliancy of the tone of the short model cornet, with excellent carrying quality, so essential for band and solo work.
Music Trade Review 1913 57 1 27
Sues C. G. Conn, Inc., For Libel.
Circulars Alleged to Have Been Distributed by Well-known Elkhart Concern, Claimed to Have Reflected Upon and Injured the Business of Frank Holton & Co., Chicago Latter Seeks $50,000 Damages.
Elkhart, Ind., July 1, 1913. Alleging libel, Frank Holton & Co., band instrument manufacturers of Chicago, have brought suit for $50,000 damages against C. G. Conn, Inc., of this city, in the Elkhart Superior Court.
The alleged libel consisted in the publication last fall of a handbill, which, it is averred, was given a circulation of 20,000 in Indiana and other States, and bore, in part, the following statement:
"The Frank Holton & Co. manufactures cheap instruments for Lyon & Healy from the same materials and tools used in the manufacture of regular Holton instruments,"
meaning and intended to convey to the customers and prospective customers of said plaintiff that the plaintiff manufactures instruments and puts them out under its own name as Holton instruments, and that such instruments manufactured for Lyon & Healy and those put out under its own name are cheap instruments.
"All of the above named factories" (meaning among other factories the factory of Frank Holton & Co.) "use the same mandrels and tools for their cheap instruments as they do when manufacturing their regular products. The tonal qualities of their regular products are no better than the playing qualities of the cheap grades sold by dealers at much lower prices"meaning that the defendant manufactures a cheap-grade of instruments and sells them as high grade instruments."
The complaint alleges that for more than ten years Frank Holton & Co. have been manufacturing and selling band instruments throughout the United States; that they had a reputation for punctuality and fair dealings and were "deservedly held in great credit and esteem by those with whom they had dealings."
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