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The magazine Music Trades Review, based in New York City, USA, runs an in-depth pictorial article about the manufacturing processes at The Bacon Banjo Co.'s factory in Groton, Connecticut, USA. The article pays particular attention to the manufacture of The Silver Bell Banjo and notes that, "The factory represents the last word in modern equipment and arrangements. The departments are so distributed that there is no waste of energy or space."
Ivor Novello-Award-winning jazz bandleader Tommy Watt is born in Glasgow, Scotland. His son, Ben Watt, will find success as half of the successful 80s duo Everything But The Girl.
An invention for the accurate recording of the sounds of the heart is demonstrated by the Columbia Phonograph Company in its studios at 1819 Broadway, New York City, USA.
An advertisement for Wanamaker's department store in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, invites people to come to Wanamaker's Salon of Music and "join the throngs" who are experiencing the new Victor Orthophonic Victrola . . . "imagining performers present . . . . blinking unbelieving eyes". The ad promises "you will never forget it if you live to be one hundred!"