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duce harmonies in zithers.
A movably
arranged finger board carrying a proper
music sheet is pressed on the strings, when
the latter are set in vibration.
533,780.
Portable
Organ.
P. P.
Bilhorn, Chicago, 111. All unnecessary
elements are omitted and the several parts
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of contact with the strings at an intermedi-
ate point to give them a tension which will
produce the proper tones. Also provides
movable sectional or interrupted bridges
which engage certain individual strings to
give the proper half tones for the desired
key.
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PATENTS CRANTKD
MASON & HAMJ.IN GROAN & PIANO CO.,
Boston, Mass., filed annual statement as
follows: Fixed capital, $500,000. Assets
—Land and buildings, $155,000; machin-
ery, $40,221; cash and debts receivable,
$465,351 ; manufactures and merchandise,
$291,418; patent rights, $3,048; miscel-
laneous, $64,290; total, $1,019,331. Liabil-
ities— Capital
stock, $500,000;' debts,
$179,895; profit and loss, $339,435; total,
KKIi. 12, I 895.
533,964.
Cell and Valve for Reed
Organs. A. N. Ostlind, Arvika, Sweden.
Patented in Sweden, September 4, 1893,
and in Norway February 24, 1894. Valved
openings are provided in the partition walls
which separate the reed cells from one
another in the pedal or bass stop. The
$1*019,331.
_
: J. C. TARVESTAD, dealer in musical in-
struments, Decorah, Iowa, store burned.
A. HAMILTON and Jacob Cook, new firm,
[under style of Hamilton & Cook, will open
jnew music store at Fayetteville, Ark.
JAMES H.
are pivoted or hinged together so that the
organ may be folded into a very smal[
space for transportation.
valves are normally open, but when the
keys are struck the valves of the corre-
sponding cells of the pedal or bass stop are
shut so that the passage of air through said
cells is prevented, except through the cell
corresponding to lowest tone, the tongue of
this cell being consequently used to sound.
Said valves are shut by means of sliding
bars connected with the keys and serving
to lift the ordinary play valves.
534,144. Musical Instrument.
Rudolph
Essig, Leipsie-Gohlis, Germany. Patented
in (ireat Britain, March 31, 1894. To pro-
GORHAM,
of
New
Bedford,
Mass., has opened piano warerooms in the
Merchants' Bank Building. He will make
a specialty of the Kimball piano. Mr.
Edward T. Davis, who has for years been
a salesman for Charles M. Haskell, becomes
manager of the business.
S. A. STONE, Chillicothe, Mo., pianos,
534,175. Autolyre. A.M. Roos, Kings-
ton, N. Y. An instrument of the autoharp organs, etc., suit for $479 reported as hav-
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class. The invention consists in providing ing been entered.
a bar having supplemental properly spaced
PROF. A. L. FIELD, Pittsfield, 111., will
bridges which may be moved into and out open new music store in Peckenbaugh's
block.
JOHN W. GROVES & BRO., Madison, Wis.,
will open new music store. John Groves
was, until recently, traveling agent for the
Smith & Barnes piano house, of Chicago.
]. ]. MA HONEY, musical instruments,
etc., at Rochester, N. Y., has been suc-
ceeded by Kalman Landau.
PETER MCCORMICK, pianos, musical in-
struments, etc., at Toledo, Ohio, reported
as having conveyed real estate mortgage
for $2,000—real estate mortgage $1,600.
R. B. LEE, pianos and organs, Rich-
mond, Va., reported assigned.
W. J. SHEAR & Co., musical instruments,
Nanaimo, B. C , reported as having adver-
tised stock for sale by assignee.
THE Buffalo Music Hall, one of the finest
places of amusement in the city of Buffalo,
w 7 as partially destroyed by fire last Monday.
The damage amounted to about $50,000.
THE
CELEBRATED
STEGER
PIANOS
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PATENTED 1892.
are noied for their fine singing quality ol
tone and great durability.
The most
profitable Piano for dealers to handle
STEG-ER & CO., Manufacturers,
Factory; Columbia Heights.
235 WABASH AVENUE, CHICAGO.