The Ann Arbor City Band, Frank

E. Chase, leader, are securing instrumente tor tlieip use as ropidly as they can af ford to purchase thein. The latest instrument secured is au E Flat contra bass, made by the house ol C. G. Coran, Elkhart, Ind., and cost $75. Mr. Case imJorms us that it is a very superior instrument, one of the best made, aad as far ahead of the ordinary band instrument as the Oolumbian organ is ahead of the ordinary organ. The band boys are ■very much. elated over the securing of this particular instrument.