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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
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A New Leaf Turner.
EFFICIENT
AND
SIMPLE
IN
DESIGN
MANUFACTURED CHEAPLY
CAN BE
PATENT
RIGHTS FOR SALE.
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HERE have been a great number of
patents taken out on music leaf turn-
ers during recent years, but up to date not
one seems to have filled the bill, as to sim-
plicity of construction, ease of execution
and cheapness in price, until Mr. George
Vix, a practical inventor, set to work.
The result of his labors can be seen in
the illustration herewith. This is a device
for attachment to a piano or organ or other
instrument, or to a music stand, and may
be readily manipulated by the performer to
turn the sheets singly from left to right or
right to left.
ing arm, and correspondingly depressing the
cylinder, or allowing it to rise, a distance equal to
the thickness of the arm, a lock-latch on each side
always engaging the arm next to the one that is
turued, so that only one arm will be turned at a
time. The mechanism works smoothly and with a,
minimum of friction, and the parts are constantly
in position to cause the leaf or music turning arms
to respond instantly and positively to the move-
ment of either of the key levers.
Mr. Vix, having no connection with the
music trade industry, is anxious to dispose
of the patent rights of this device to some
wide-awake manufacturer. It can be placed
on the market at a minimum cost, and
retailed at a reasonable price. He would
be glad to hear from any house anxious to
take up this device, and can be addressed
at 20 Pleasant avenue, Weehawken, N. J.
A perfect model of this device can be
furnished at cost price on application to Mr.
Vix, or it can be seen at the office of this
paper. It is worth looking up. There is
money in it for the pushing manufacturer.
Jacob Doll.
S Mr. Doll was busily engaged with an
agent when THE REVIEW represen-
tative called on Wednesday last, the inter-
view was naturally a short one. Mr. Doll,
however, found time to say that he had the
previous evening returned from a flying
Western trip of a week's duration, had
visited Milwaukee, Minneapolis, St. Paul,
Chicago, St. Louis, Rochester and Buf-
falo, and had found an encouraging
state of affairs. He had established four
new and valuable agencies, but preferred
not mentioning names at present. Busi-
ness was distinctly good, and, to use
Mr. Doll's felicitous language, "they had
enough orders in hand to keep them alive
for a week."
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It has been patented by Mr. Vix, and all
who have examined it claim it to be one of
the best ideas in its special line, as it covers
the many points found lacking in the nu-
merous attachments at present on the
market and enumerated above.
The Scientific American, one of the best
authorities in the matter of patents, has
described the invention as highly efficient
and a "good thing" in every respect. The
reader may be enabled to get an idea of
the construction of this device from the
following description:
Attached to a lyre, a bottom board of which may
be conveniently placed upon or clipped to an instru-
ment or music stand, is a casing within which a
vertical stationary shaft is centrally journaled, and
on the shaft is loosely mounted a hollow cylinder
having a spiral opening around its front face, the
cylinder forming virtually a spring-controlled car-
riage for music-turning arms. The cylinder is
normally pressed upward by a spring, and the cas-
ing has a horizontal opening in its front and sides.
Upon the shaft are two collars between which fhe
hub ends of any desired number of music leaf turn-
ing arms are mounted to loosely turn, the arms
being placed one above another and graduated in
length, the lowest arm being the longest. Each
arm has at its free end a clip or fingers adapted to
receive and hold the marginal portion of a sheet of
music these fingers being preferably of celluloid,
as being light and transparent. By means of a
key or finger piece at the right hand and one at the
left hand of the casing, at the bottom, the music
leaf turning arms are carried successively either to
the right or left as desired, the key at its inner
end actuating a toothed segment and gear on a
shaft controlling the shifting mechanism. A
looselv mounted gear on the central vertical shaft,
above the hollow cylinder and adapted to move up
and down with it, is connected with the shifting me-
chanism, and as each key is pressed a shifting arm
is made to travel in a circle in front of the cylinder
to one side or the other, carrying with it a leaf-turn-
riehlin Piano Co.
AUL G. MEHLIN, who has been in
New York City for the past two weeks,
expects to return to Minneapolis in about
three weeks' time. On his return a stock-
holders' meeting of the Mehlin Piano Co.
will be held, after which it is expected the
Minneapolis factory will again start up.
Mr. Mehlin speaks very enthusiastically of
the future of the Mehlin instruments in the
Northwest, and is personally very anxious
to return to his favorite locality. In course
of conversation, Mr. Mehlin stated that he
thought good times were ahead, and that
business would soon improve very materi-
ally; wheat going up was a good sign, in
fact, the state of the wheat market was a reli-
able barometer for the whole country. He
thought that the general talk of there being
a superfluity of money in the country was
a little fallacious, and the commodity was
really tighter than existing conditions would
indicate. Mr. Mehlin stated that W. J.
Dyer & Brother had done an excellent busi-
ness with the Mehlin instruments, and the
general reputation of the piano in the
Northwest was very high.
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THE "Leckerling" piano, a Brooklyn
product, is now ready for the market.
CHARLIE SISSON, the popular traveling
man, was one of our several callers this
week. Mr. Sisson is having great success
with the Shoninger, and during a conver-
sation stated that dealers from whom he
secured a first order have doubled and
tripled the number of instruments in later
orders. Mr. Sisson is on a short trip to
Eastern territory, and later will wend his
way West.
C. F. SHELLAND, treasurer of the McCam-
mon Piano Co. ,Oneonta, N. Y., was in town
Wednesday on his way South. He will
spend four weeks visiting. the important
trade centers in that section, journeying as
far as Florida.
JAMES MORGAN, president of the ^Eolian
Co., who has spent the last few months in
Europe in the interest of the yEolian,
returned home last Tuesday. During his
stay abroad he made some valuable connec-
tions for his house which will materialize
in due time.
M. J. REGAL, music trade dealer, of
Easton, Pa., has secured the agency for the
Steinway piano which was recently held by
W. H. Keller.
E. A. WILSON and Jacob Sheasley, trad-
ing under the firm name of E. A. Wilson
Co., proprietors of a number of music
stores in Oil City, Titusville and other
Pennsylvania towns, have dissolved part-
nership.
W. H. KELLER, of Easton, Pa., who
recently handled the Steinway, will, it is
said, take the Gildemeester & Kroeger as
his leader.
EDWARD BEHR, of Behr Bros. & Co., has
been making a short trip this week through,
the Eastern States.
THE Chicago Cottage Organ Co. have
filed a claim to the stock of organs which
were in the possession of Kirk Johnson &
Co., of Lancaster, Pa., when they failed.
THE thief who extracted a number of
musical instruments from the show case in
front of the Dunning-Medine Music Co.,
New Orleans, last week, has been arrested.
He proved to be a negro whose propensity
for music was stronger than his sense of
honesty.
BENJAMIN'S music store has been closed
at Carroll, la., and the goods re-shipped to
Marshalltown.
E. S. JOHNSON, of Tacoma, Wash., who
has conducted sales of Chickering and
Kimball pianos in Spokane once a year for
the last two years, has opened a perma-
nent branch music store in that city.
GEO. H. QUAID, piano dealer, of Lynn,
Mass., was married recently to Miss Mary
E. Hagerty, of that city.
' MR. AND MRS. V. R. ANDRUS, Kansas
City, were among recent visitors to New
York.