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THE MUSIC
TRADE REVIEW.
Communications of interest to the music trade are so- a small portable organ that can be folded up so as to
licited. All Western correspondence wilt receive prompt take up but four (4) cubic feet; weighs a trifle less
than fifty pounds; just -the thing for accompani-
attention by addressing Lock Box 492, Chicago, III.
ments ; its compass is from F to C of 3i octaves.
Their latest invention is the Clark Metal Stop Knob,
made of nickel, with raised letters, about the size of
FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.
the old style knob. It is bright and pretty and it
aids to the appearance of their fine organs.
We hear that Mr. Almon Reed, once the leading
Lock Box 492.
TRADERS' BUILDING, CHICAGO, )
spirit in the Chicago piano trade, is about to venture
January 31, 1887.
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into the married state again. He is over seventy
THE MONTH of January is always a dull month in years of age, but as fine a looking old gentleman as
the music business. The past one has not been an you often see. He is hale and hearty yet, and if he
exception.
does marry again we heartily wish him joy and com-
Geo. Blurnner, who came here to take Mr. Mayer's fort. His sons, John and Henry, manage the well
place, as salesman for the Weber branch, is going known house of Reed and Sons. They manufacture
back to New York to take a position in the Weber pianos and handle the Knabe for their leading
house.
piano.
The name of the new firm here is C. 0. Curtis & Co.
Another music agent leaves his employers in the
The Weber warerooms have been newly decorated, lurch ; another defaulting employee has disappeared :
&c, and make a fitting home for these fine instru- Prentice Hill, agent for Estey and Camp of this
ments. They have taken the agency for the Ernest city. They can't tell at present what is the amount
(iabler & Bro's. pianos. They have a fine hall over of his defalcations. They have now parties investi-
their store for concerts and recitals, and a number gating but think it will take some tim« to ascertain
of our leading musicians have their musio rooms in how matters really stand, as they do not know what
the building. The well known American Conserva- instruments Hill may have sold on time, and how he
tory of Music has its school in the Weber Building. has actually collected for them. Hill has been rep-
This is one of the most popular colleges of music in resenting them in Waukesha, Wis., for the past two
Chicago, and is managed by Prof. J. J. Holstaadt, years. He is a married man and has a family.
who, with a number of fine assistant artists, makes
There is a report that the W. W. Kimball Co. are
this school take first rank, and is meeting with great
thinking of opening a branch house in St. Louis.
success.
The following music dealers and agents have been
Lyon & Healy (Steinway agt's) have resigned their
in town lately :—
membership on the New York Board of Trade. We
Wm. Sharp, Sedalia, Mo.; Sam'l Raudenbush, La
understand that a number of others are about to do
Crosse, Wis.; A. A. Fischer, Indianapolis, Ind.; James
the same.
F. Ramsey, New Lisbon, la.; S. G. Dean, Meno-
Chas. A. Cappa, Leader of the 7th Regt. Band, N.
minee, Wis.; M. Droulet, St. Anne. 111.; C. C. Ken-
Y., is in court in Chicago, trying to collect a $400 bal-
dall, Aurora, 111. M. Illidge, general agent for Guild
ance due him by Sidney B. -Tones, for music furnish-
& Co., reports trade with him as good.
ed over three years ago. in Milwaukee, Wis.
Estey & Camp have just leased the large build-
The well known dealer, Carl Hoffman, Leaven-
ing 233 State st. It has a front on State street and
worth, Kansas, is putting up a fine building, the first
a front on Jackson st. It was formerly used (and is
floor to be used for his warerooms. The second
still) by the Studebecker Carriage Co. State street is
story will be a Music Hall, with a seating capacity of
the street for the piano business in Chicago.
1,000.
Joseph Biggs, having charge at one time of W.
Over two hundred men went to work the past week
W. Kimball Co.'a Organ Factory, has accepted a posi-
breaking the ground for our Big Opera House, that
tion with the Louisville and New Albany R. R. as
is to be tho biggest thing of its kind in the world.
their General Supply Agent, and will be stationed
Nothing small about Chicago. It must have every-
at New Albany, Ind.
thing on a large soale. The largest fire, the largest
Yours,
opera house, &c.
OMEN.
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Kimball have issued 500 cards
for a ball upon the 3d of Feb., at Bournique's Hall,
HEBRBURGER-SCHWANDER.
in honor of their neiee, Miss Kimball, who is to be
brought out at this time.
Mr. S. M. Stoen, Sterling & Co's traveling man, is
ELOW we give a cut and the copy of patent Of
in California, and is stirring up a good trade for this
metalic action rail invented by Mr. Joseph
popular house.
Herrburger, of the firm of Herrburger-
N. J. Haines, Sr., of Haines Bros., was in town last Schwander, Paris, piano forte action manufacturers.
week.
A careful investigation of the merits of this invention
W. J. Dyer &Co., St. Paul, Minn., has got out a will be of value to piano manufacturers.
very neat new catalogue, with a finely got up picture
of the famous Ice Palace on the back cover.
Mr. S. B. Shoningor, of the B. ShoningerCo., New
Haven, Conn., has been here on a visit to their Chi-
cago branch house. This was the first visit since
they opened here, and as he expressed himself, "The
success of tho Chicago house is way beyond my most
sanguine expectations." With such men as Mr. Jos.
Shoninger to look after their wholesale business, Mr.
A. de Anguerain charge of the retail trade, and Mr.
E. F. Greenwood traveling in their interest, how can
it help but bo a success? By the way, the new styles,
10, 11 and 12 pianos just got out by this Co. is meet-
ing with rapid sales. They are full iron frames, in
cases of rich designs in mahogony, rosewood and
French walnut. Orders are pouring in for these new
styles faster than the company can furnish them.
Chas. Avery Wells' new semi-monthly came to
hand. It is a bright paper, full of points. We wish
him the best success in his new enterprise.
M. Steinert & Sons have taken the agency of the
Mathushek (New Haven) and the Gabler pianos for
their new warerooms in Cincinnati.
L. V. Moore, who used to sell Estey & Camp goods
at Waco, Texas, has been engaged for the Chicago
ACTION-RAIL FOR TJPRIGHT PIANOS.
warerooms of F. G. Smith. Tho manager of this
branch, Mr. Hawkhurst, speaks very encouragingly Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 355,394,
dated January 4, 1887.
of their new venture, and says the Bradbury is bound
to sell in Chicago.
Application filed June 4, 188G. Serial No. 204,111.
(No model.) Patented in France, February 19,
Story & Clark (the organ builders of Chicago) are
1885, No. 167,145, and in England, February 24,
as busy as bees. One month is the same as the other
1885, No. 2,497.
with them—no end of orders. They have just got out
CHICAGO CORRESPONDENCE.
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To all ivhom it may concern:
Be it known that I, JOSEPH HERRBURGER, of
Paris, France, but temporarily a resident of the city
of New York, county and State of New York, have
invented a new and Improved Action-rail for Upright
Pianos (for which I have obtained English Letters
Patent No. 2,497, February 24, 1885, and Frenoh
Letters Patent No. 167,145, February 19, 1885), of
which the following specification is a full, clear, and
exact description :
This invention relates to a metallic action-rail for
upright pianos, so constructed that the various
pieces composing the action have a free play, while
the rail itself occupies but a minimum amount of
space. The rail is so constructed that two styles of
action may be attached to it, one style having the
catch beneath and the other at the side of the ham-
mer-butt.
The invention consists in the elements of improve-
ment hereinafter more fully pointed out.
In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a sec-
tional side view of one style of an action provided
with my improved action-rail. Fig. 2 is a similar
view of the second style of action.
The letter a represents the key, b the bottom rail,
c the jack, d the hammer-butt, e the hammer, and /
the hammer-rest rail, of an upright-piano action, all
as usual. A is the action-rail connected to the butt
flange g, and also to the bottom rail, b, by means of
fork h. This action-rail is made of iron or other
metal, and is of uniform width, excepting at the top,
where it is tapering.
The peculiar shape of the action-rail is shown in
both figures, of the drawings, and is as follows: A
tapering horizontal top section, i joins a down-
wardly-extending straight section, j , which termin-
ates in a backwardly-curved portion, k. This portion
k connects with a straight section, I, having a for-
wardly-projecting horizontal flange, m, which in turn
is provided with a downward extension, n.
Thus it will be seen that the rail has three princi-
pal vertical or nearly vertical sections, j I n, of
which the upper and lower sections are in line, while
the central section is thrown backward, and is joined
to the upper section by a curved portion, and to the
lower section by a straight portion.
The uppermost horizontal portion, i, of the action-
rail serves, as has already been stated, for the
attachment of the butt-flange g. To the upper
straight section j there is attached the support o of
the regulating-rail p. The cavity formed by placing
the section I backward is utilized in the construction
shown in Fig. 1, for the reception of catch q, attached
to the hammer butt d and co-operating with the
back check r. With this construction, the curved
portion 7c of the action rail corresponds to the curve
of catoh q, and permits the free motion of such
catch. The seat formed by the parts m n is designed
for the reception of the fork h, which is screwed to
section n, and bears against section m, as shown.
In Fig. 2 the form of the rail A has the same ad-
vantages as in Fig. 1, with the exception that the
catch q need not be cleared by the rail. In this
figure the part I is set back so as to bring the section
m in proper position above the fork h.
I claim as my invention—
1. The combination of key a, bottom rail b, jack
c, hammer-butt d, hammer e, and butt-flange g, with
action-rail A, having two forwardly set upper and
lower sections, j n, and a central backwardly-set sec-
tion I, substantially as specified.
2. As a new article of manufacture, an upright-
piano-forte action-rail, A, composed of tapering
horizontal section i, straight vertical section ;,
curved section k, straight vertical section I, straight
horizontal section m, and straight vertical section n,
substantially as specified.
J. HERRBURGER.
Witnesses:
F. V. BRIESEN,
HENRY E. ROEDER.
A HOME is a mighty good thing to have in a fam-
ily. At St. Paul, Minn., there are forty building
associations, which have collected, mostly from
laboring men, upward of $10,000,000, the greater
part of which would have been wasted if not thus in-
vested. About one-fourth of the families in St. Paul
are interested in these societies, and more than a
thousand loans yearly are made by them. Through
their instrumentality from 8,000 to 10,000 homes in
St. Paul have been secured to their owners, who
would otherwise be still paying rent.—Exchange.