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May 5th, 1882.
THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.
311
THE-
NEW ENGLAND PIANO
Is meeting with tlie highest praise from dealers and purchasers.
Write for prices to
• HEW ENGLAND PIANO CO., 632 & 634 HARRISON AVE., BOSTON, MASS.
Having a large stock of instruments on hand
and being about to place some new styles on the
market, we propose to offer the balance of our
present stock of low priced organs at a consid-
erable reduction FOR CASH until May 1st.
Dealers about purchasing for Spring Trade
will do well to write us for prices.
GEO.
WOODS & CO.,
Cambridgeport, Mass.,
MAKUFAOTURKES OF
UPRIGHT PIANOS AND PARLOR ORGANS,
"The Musical Critic and Trade Review" has the Largest Circulation of any
paper of its class in the world.
FOR SALE!
AHandsome Needham Organ
Suitable for organists for practicing purposes; also
for church, chapel, and lodge purposes. Two banks
of keys, 2>£ octaves, 13 stops. Original cost $1000.
Can be purchased for about half price. Inquire or
call at
46 WEST 23d STREET, NEW TOEE.
GEORGE L. WALKER,
DEALEB IN
PIANOS & ORGANS,
836 North Sixth Street,
PHILADELPHIA.
McTammany Organetts, Worcester, Mass.
1850.
DYER & HUGHES, 1882.
FOXCROFT, ME.,
Manufacturers of ORGANS.
A NEW MUSICAL
INSTRUMENT.
N a recent issue of the
London Times is des-
cribed a trial of a new
musical instrument in-
vented by Mr. Bailie
Hamilton. It resembles
in shape, and in the
means of p r o d u c i n g
sound, the harmonium
or organ. There is, how-
ever, one important dif-
ference. Mr. Hamilton
employs what is technic-
ally known as " f r e e
reeds," but instead of
acting upon them sing-
ly, he divides them into
groups of three connect-
BUZZ PLANEB.
ed by a bridge, which so
modifies their individual
sounds as to emit a single
note of great sonorous
SUCH -A.S
beauty and power. To
WOODWORTH PLANING, TOUNGING AND GROOVING MACHINES. each group of reeds be-
longs a sounding box or
ENDLESS BED PLANERS FOR SINGLE OR DOUBLE SURFACING,
cavity, through which
DANIELS' PLANERS, BUZZ PLANERS,
the air passes very much
as the breath in singing
RICHARDSON'S PATENT IMPROVED TENON MACHINES,
passes t h r o u g h t h e
MortUkig, Molding, Be-aatc and Band Saw Machine), Picture Frame A Miter CtitHng throat, the intention be-
ing to produce a quality
Machines, Box Machinery, Patent Double Saw BeneheB and Saw Table*.
of tone that resembles the
MANUFACTURED BY
human voice. In this at-
WITHERBY, RUGG & RICHARDSON, Worcester, Mass. tempt Mr. Hamilton has
been remarkably success-
86 Salisbury Street, shop formerly occupied by R. Ball & Co.
ful by means entirely different from those employ-
ed in the "vox humana" stops of ordinary organs.
The timbre of the new invention varies somewhat
between the voice and the softer wind instruments,
ESTABLISHED 1850.
such as French horn, clarionet, etc., partaking of
the qualities of both, the beauty of the sustained
notes being, indeed, remarkable. The chief de-
fect of the instrument is its slowness of speech,
which makes the execution of rapid passages a
New Haven, Conn.,
matter of extreme difficulty, if not impossibility.
Manufacturers of
This drawback, however, does not appear to bo
FIRST-CLASS ORGANS & UPRIGHT PIANOFORTES. structural,
and may no doubt be remedied in sub-
sequent specimens.
I
WOOD-WORKING MACHINERY,
B. SHONINGER ORGAN CO,
PATENTS.
William S. Liscomb, Providence, R. I., has
Gustavus W. Ingalls, Worcester, Mass., has pat- patented a back for piano stools. Application
ented a mechanical musical instrument. Applica- filed July 16, 1881. Number of patent, 256,711.
tion filed October 14, 1881. Number of patent,
256,219.
THE GAZETTE.
Frederick Niemeyer, Baltimore, manufacturer
John Waterhouse, New York city, has patented
an opera glass. Application filed March 17, 1881. of piano hardware, had his stock damaged re-
cently by an explosion.
Number of patent, 256,521.
"Walter Knox Wheeler, San Francisco, CaL, has F. A. Nolze, Cleveland, O., dealer in pianos
patented a temperament adjuster for musical in- and organs, admitted.
struments. Application filed August 18, 1881.
Number of patent, 256,524.
G&ur, ONTARIO, CANADA, March 24, 1882.
George B. Kelly, Boston, and Elwin H. Smith, Editor of MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE EEVIEW:
Cambridge, assignors to the Mason & Hamlin
Have seen a copy of your paper, and I like the
Organ Company, Boston, Mass., have patented an sample so well that I will try it for one year.
apparatus for tuning organ reeds. Application
Please send back numbers from January, if you
filed January 12, 1882. Number of application, can. $2.00 inclosed. Address
256,704.
EDWABD I. BROWN.
ABOUT THE PIPE ORGAN.
" TS the pipe-organ an ancient invention?" a
JL reporter asked an organ builder.
"Oh, yes; in a crude form it existed before the
Christian era, and one of the coins of Nero had
on it a representation of an organ of that day.
In the early instruments, there were only eight or
ten keys, which were from three to five and a half
inches wide, and were manipulated by striking
them with the fist. From the manner of this
playing, the organists were then called organ-
beaters. The methods of furnishing the wind
were also very imperfect. A German church in
this city has an old-fashioned imported organ,
which is supplied with wind from an air-tank
with a tightly fitting lid, working up and down
with weights attached. It is pulled up each time
by a man who climbs a ladder, places his foot in a
stirrup and slides down.