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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
Comstock, Cheney & Co.
SPLENDIDLY
EQUIPPED TO MEKT THEIR RAP-
IPLY GROWING TRADE.
NE of the most convincing signs of
the rapidly expanding business of
Comstock, Cheney & Co., the celebrated
action makers of Ivoryton, Conn., is the
erection of a number of new buildings, and
the large number of new hands who have
been employed recently for the purpose of
coping with the demand for their wares
consequent upon the return of prosperity.
The development of the business of this
firm from its unpretentious beginning has
been remarkable. Their plant to-day is
certainly immense, and its equipment is in
every respect up-to-date, hence they are
well fitted to cater to the needs of the trade
in the matter of meritorious piano actions,
keys and hammers.
The Comstock-Cheney action has been
steadily advancing in the estimation of the
trade, and it is used to-day in enormous
quantities by manufacturers in all sections
of this country. The augmentation of their
trade is understandable, for it is based on
merit.
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Never Fails to Give Satisfaction.
LTHOUGH H. Lehr & Co., of Eas-
ton, Pa., are about branching out as
piano manufacturers, they are assiduous
in their efforts to maintain the pre-emi-
nence which they have won for their organs.
Their latest styles of seven-octave, piano-
cased organs are magnificent instruments,
whether as to appearance, finish, and
improved tonal qualities. Dealers have
handled these organs with profit and
pleasure and they have never failed to give
satisfaction to customers. The Lehr organ
is made in light and dark quartered oaks,
mahogany and rosewood.
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Serenading a Piano Factory.
I
T was an occasion when discretion would
have been better for the organ-grinder.
Discretion might perhaps be used at all
times in this connection. The only trouble
would be that if applied with too much
judgment there might be all discretion and
no organ grinder. But that is another
story. This particular organ grinder
caught the attention of a traveler on Second
avenue near Twenty-third street the other
day by the sadly gay tones of "Lin-ger-
long-er—Loo - cy - ling - er - long - er - Loo,"
which reached him by little bounds and
jumps as they were ground out. The tune
had crept around and through "Oh-how-I-
love-to-ling-er," and was announcing in
tones more or less musical and a little more
brisk that "Her golden hair was hanging
down her back," when the traveler became
sufficiently interested to notice that the
man was playing without an audience—no
small girls were dancing—there was not a
street hoodlum in sight, and there was not
a head at a window of the big building in
front of wnich he was standing. There Apparatus for Registering Music.
was a plaintive, wondering expression upon
HE registration of music has of late
the organ grinder's face as he finished
years made much progress. The lat-
"Her golden hair, "and walked away to the
est
registering
apparatus is virtually a me-
music of an air from "El Capitan" droned
chanical
stenographer
of music thought-
out slowly. But there was a smile of
It
gives
the
composer
a
means of instanta-
amusement upon the face of the traveler as
neously
fixing
an
improvisation,
and
he too turned away with a last look at the
makes
it
possible
for
a
professor
to
show
imposing walls of the big building, which
he had noticed was the Kranich & Bach his pupil by graphic tabulation what errors
in execution he has committed. The appa-
piano factory.
ratus, inclosed in a wooden box, is placed
under the keyboard. Under each key is an
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The Most Marvelous Instrument aperture for the passage of a rod that trans-
mits the musical thought to a pen through
in the World."
a special mechanism. This consists of a
HE Whitney & Currier Co., agents for clockwork movement which causes a band
the yEolian in Toledo, O., have the of paper to unroll at a uniform speed of fifty
following to say regarding this popular in- inches a minute. The band is brought into
strument in the tasty brochure which they contact with the pen when any particular
recently issued: "The realm of music is note is pressed. After the band has re-
no longer barred to those who have not ob- ceived the signs that are thus automatically
tained a musical education, for the ability inscribed upon it, it winds around a receiv-
to execute the finest music of the world can ing cylinder, whence it is only necessary
now be purchased when you select the in- to unwind it in order to read or criticise the
finished improvisation. The reading of
strument.
this
new method of musical inscription is
"The ^olian is without doubt the most
done
very much in the same way as that of
marvelous instrument in the world, because
ordinary
music, each note occupying in
it is artistic in its rendering of the best or-
the
two
scores
an identical place on the
chestral compositions.
staff;
only
flats
and
sharps are determined
"Under a player's direction the time and
by
the
position
that
they occupy and not
expression is changed to suit the music,
by
the
aid
of
particular
notation, and they
whether a sweet hymn or a magnificent
are
always
placed
in
the
interlines. Every
symphony with great orchestral effects.
note
that
the
performer
touches
Avill be in-
All the music of the world is at your com-
scribed
upon
the
band
of
paper
in
the form
mand if you have an
of a dash whose length will determine the
duration. A measure bar, which is moved
by the left foot, is used by the beginner to
Kranich & Bach.
facilitate the reading of the scroll, but the
deciphering of the music soon becomes so
N our recent visit to the Kranich &
easy that this can be dispensed with. The
Bach warerooms, this city, we were
band is 246 feet long, and will therefore last
pleased to find Mr. Louis P. Bach at his
an hour. The clockwork movement that
desk once more, looking but little the
actuates the mechanism needs to be wound
worse for his recent severe illness. Mr.
every twenty or thirty minutes.
Bach intimated that business was moving
in the right direction and that the general
outlook for trade was quite hopeful.
Schubert Piano Co.
The trade is well familiar with the fine
HE Schubert Piano Co., of this city, re-
product of this old and reliable house, their
port a steady revival of business, there
recent styles are models of symmetry, and
being
a special demand for their new styles
the Kranich & Bach reputation for fine
veneer, careful finish and superior tonal 16, 17, 18, 19. The latter instruments es-
quality of instrument is thoroughly main- pecially should certainly commend them-
selves to the up-to-date dealer; they are
tained.
Mr. Felix Kraemer, their well-known made in ebony finish, walnut, oak and
road representative, is in Mexico on a busi- mahogany; the carved end panels, Boston
ness trip; Mr. V. W. O'Brien is expected fall-board, and mandolin attachment are all
back from a New York State trip, and will good features and the artistic lines of case-
work, careful finish of the instruments, to-
shortly leave for the West.
gether with a fine musical tone, make the
Schubert an excellent candidate for popular
The Everett Pianos Used.
honors.
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HE Everett pianos, sold by the Jno.
Church Co., Cincinnati, O., are ex-
clusively used in the Conn Conservatory of
Music. These instruments were selected
only after the fullest investigation by ex-
pert judges of the comparative merits of
several high grade pianos. Their excellent
qualities are fully indorsed by the faculty
of the Conservatory, who recommend them
as handsome, beautiful toned and reliable
instruments.
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Aluminum Wire.
NE of the most useful characteristics
of any metal wire is its longitudinal
strength, and in this respect aluminum
has not been found wanting. Those who
have made aluminum a special study
claim that before long it will be used to a
great extent in this special field both for
general commercial uses as well as for
musical instruments.
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