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The Electric Self = Playing Piano Co
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PATENTS ISSUED NOV. 4 , 1 8 9 5 .
546,457.
Attachment for Stringed In-
struments. Albert Peitsch, St. Louis, Mo.
Improvement on patent No. 523,373, is-
An attachment for harps and similar in-
struments for playing chords. A bridge is
placed over the strings and carries a num-
ber of spring-controlled buttons adapted to
strike and sound the strings when depressed
by the player's finger.
WATERS & CO.
546,582. Electrical Piano. G. H. Davis,
New York, N. Y., assignor to the Electric
Self-Playing Piano Co., of New Jersey.
This invention has been described at length
in a previous issue of THE REVIEW.
Trade-Mark, No. 27,066. Printed Music
and Songs and Works of Fiction. Laura
Jean Libbey, Brooklyn and New York, N.
Y. The words "When His Love Grew
Cold." Used since June 25, 1895.
INSTRUMENTS THAT DEALERS SHOULD BECOME
ACQUAINTED WITH.
H
AMILTON S. GORDON, piano man-
ufacturer, 139 Fifth avenue, embarked
recently in the manufacture of mandolins,
guitars and small musical instruments, and
the wisdom of his course is apparent from
the number of orders which are coming his
way for these wares. The Gordon mando-
lins and guitars are very carefully con-
structed of seasoned woods under the su-
perintendence of a competent man. They
are sold at a reasonable price, commensur-
ate with good workmanship, and dealers
desiring Christmas stock should not fail to
546,519
Music Leaf Turner.
D. T.
look them up. They are just what the
Fo:c, Mount Pleasant, Pa. Operated by a
dealer wants, instruments that he can guar-
backward pressure on the front arms. The
antee and instruments that will pay him a
le:if-turning arms are connected with the
fair profit. Mr. Gordon reports a very sat-
front finger arms by toggle levers and
isfactory retail business and is building up
springs, and their movement is accelerated
a nice wholesale trade for the Gordon piano.
as they near the limit of their motion.
546,536. Tailpiece for Banjos. Edward
Jacoby, Los Angeles, Cal., assignor of one-
half to C. S. De Lano, same place Has
an upper flange adapted to rest on the banjo
rim and provided with posts around which
the strings may be wrapped and a lower
flange provided with notches adapted to
receive and hold the ends of the strings.
A GRAND SUCCESS.
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Gordon Handolins and Guitars.
sued July 24, 1894. The presser bars are
operated by buttons and are provided with
depending fingers adapted to strike one or
more strings in one or more frets for the
formation of accompaniment chords.
ONE ON EXHI-
BITION IN THE WAKEROOMS OF HORACE
HE whirr and buzz of machinery is
now to be heard late into the nights
at the factory of the Electric Self-Playing
Piano Co., 333-5 West Thirty-sixth street.
Although orders have been accumulating
for the past two months, they were unable
to turn out attachments in sufficient quan-
tities until the early part of last week
This was occasioned by a slight delay in
the erection of special machinery and the
preparation of dies and models for castings.
One feature of the self-playing attachment
—and an important one it is—is that it is
made of solid metal throughout, not a par-
ticle of wood being used in its construction.
In this way it is not susceptible, like other
attachments in which wood is largely used,
to climatic influences, and will outlast the
best made piano. In the meantime this
delay
has been of service, for in
numerous details the attachment has been
made still more perfect by Mr. Davis.
We had an opportunity last Monday of
hearing an attachment which Mr. Davis
had just applied to a Waters piano, and
which is now on exhibition at the ware-
rooms of Horace Waters & Co., 134 Fifth'
avenue, and our first impression of this
marvelous invention has been in every re-
spect strengthened. The evenness, precis-
ion, accuracy, authority, and it may be said
individuality of tone in the several num-
bers we heard is so apparent that one is
tempted to cry, "Perfection has at last
been reached."
While this attachment can be applied to
any piano without moving it from outside
a parlor or altering it in the least, it has
many other features which enable it to rank
superior to anything of its kind on the
Feigning Insanity.
market, but it is to the quality and effects
of the tone that the musician will find a
HELD, A MIGHTY SMART HANK SWINDLER,
special charm in this attachment. Instead
KNOWS NOTHING.
of the tubby hand organ effect, it charms
HAS. HELD, or Chas. Frank, Jr., the one by an almost imperceptible gradation
bank swindler, who is not unknown of tone which is almost human-like.
The marked demand for these attach-
to several members of the music trade in
this city and Brooklyn, is in Raymond ments is not surprising, for an examination
Street Jail, Brooklyn, waiting the Grand will convince one of its excellence. The
Jury's action on four grand larceny charges. Electric Self-Playing Piano Co. are now
shipping several instruments to Mexico
He still remains a mystery to the police.
He gives a half-dozen conflicting accounts and to the West, and "manufacturers and
dealers who haven't time to call at the fac-
of himself and feigns insanity.
For several years, it is alleged, Held lias tory should visit the warerooms of Hor-
forged drafts on a Pittsburg bank, amount- ace AVaters & Co., and if they will not be
ing in all to 1.early $500,000. Securing charmed with these attachments, why we
bank books on these he borrowed money will be greatly mistaken.
from acquaintances, giving them the bank
books as collateral. Among Held's many
victims was Freeborn G. Smith, of Brad-
AVE learn from St. Johnsville that the
bury fame. He also tried to catch the B. Meloharp, which is controlled by Geo. B.
Shoninger Co., hut was unsuccessful.
Shearer, of Oneonta, will be manufactured
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546,614. Duplex Piano Stool. A. Gsch-
wend, Portland, Ore., assignor of one-half
to Morris Sternfels, same place. A sup-
Louis MITCHELL, who was for some time
pltmiental seat is adapted to slide out from
under the main seat so as to accommodate with the Needham Organ and Piano Co.,
of this city, died on Nov. 5th.
tw > players.
in that place, giving employment to a large
number of men. It is said that orders for
ten thousand of these instruments are
already placed.