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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
carrying or singing quality of the tones of where said key will imprint upon the
the scale from end to end.
paper, and means for operating said indi-
In some pianos the lower part is too cator, for the purposes stated.
heavy or strong as compared with the
upper part, and in other instances the
Mehlin «5c Sons.
upper part is too sharp and shrill, its
J. MABON, the courteous and inde-
tones lacking resonance, and this in-
fatigable road representative for
vention is intended to remedy these
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difficulties. These results have been ob- Paul G. Mehlin & Sons, this city, returned
tained by "graduating" the sounding- from a five weeks Western trip the early
board, i. e., varying its strength or resist- part of the week.
ance at different parts, which may be done
Mr. Mabon's itinerary included Ohio,
in a number of different ways, as, for in- Northern Michigan and west to Chicago;
stance, by varying the thickness.
he found all Mehlin agents only too willing
Sounding-boards of ordinary upright to testify to the high musical attributes of
pianos are substantially rectangular in the Mehlin instruments, and, in addition,
form, the strings crossing and recrossing took an appreciable number of orders, also
it diagonally, and hence the "scale," as it establishing some excellent new connec-
is called, runs diagonally or nearly so tions.
across the sounding-board, and the inven-
tor preferably employs several graduations,
The Fischer Piano.
or graduated portions, and arranges them
Question. Which is the most popular
diagonally across the sounding-board in
make
of piano in America?
such a manner as to accord with the diago-
Answer.
The Fischer piano.
nal arrangement of the strings and thereby
Question.
What proof have you of this
correspond to or accord with the scale.
broad, assertion ?
flusic Writing flachine.
Robt. M.
Answer. The firm of J. & C. Fischer
Saint, of Des Moines, la.
Patent No.
have made and sold over 100,000 pianos.
572,571, dated Dec. 8th, 1896. The object
No other firm claims to have approached
of this invention is to provide a machine
this record.
'of simple, strong, and durable construction
Question. By what means has the Fisch-
that may be easily and rapidly operated to
er piano distanced all competitors in the
print musical characters upon a printed staff.
race for popularity?
The object is, further, to so group, ar-
Ansiver. By making a handsome piano,
range, and construct the various operative
of remarkably powerful tone and of won-
parts of the device that the paper bearing
derful durability, and by selling it at a
the staff and the types may be so operated
very moderate price.
and moved relative to each other that the
Question. Where may Fischer pianos be
types may be conveniently and accurately
seen?
placed in their proper positions on the
Ansiver. At Lyon & Healy's, Wabash
staff, both in their vertical and horizontal
avenue and Adams street, who for years
relation thereto.
have been the exclusive manufacturers
What the inventor claims as new in this
agents for them for the Northwest. — Lyon
device is: A music-writing machine, com-
& Healy's "Christmas Annual."
prising a base, a frame mounted therein
to move longitudinally of the base, means
The Trade Directory, zvhich is a feature
for moving said frame, a track-frame fixed of The Review each month, is complete. In
to the base, a carriage mounted in said it appears the names and addresses of all
track-frame to freely slide transversely of firms engaged in the manufacture of musical
the base, a number of type-bearing keys instruments and the allied trades. The Re-
view is sent to the United States Con-
mounted in the carriage, an indicator slid- sulates throughout the world, and is on file
ingly mounted in the track-frame to point in the reading rooms of the principal hotels
to the key to be used and also to the point in America.
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Stop-Indicator for Musical Instruments.
Harry B. Treraaine, of New York, assignor
to the ^olian Co., of same place. Pat-
ent No. 572,666, dated Dec. 8th, 1896.
This invention relates to stop-indicators
for musical instruments, and has for its
object to provide the combination and ar-
rangement of parts. The object is to pro-
duce an improved music-sheet such as is
ordinarily employed in operating such well-
known musical instruments as the "yEo-
lian."
It is the purpose of this invention to im-
prove that class of music-sheets which are
provided with means for indicating to the
operator what particular stops to draw at
certain times so as to produce the proper
effects or best combination of tones at the
right time.
With these, ends in view the invention
consists in making a music-sheet with suit-
able stop-indicating characters which cor-
respond with the characters ordinarily em-
ployed to designate the various stops of
the instrument, such characters being ar-
ranged at various points along the sheet,
and in an indicating or notification mark
or marks arranged upon the sheet in rear
of the indicating-characters, so that said
marks will come to view as the music-sheet
advances and thereby notify the operator
in advance that the indicating-characters
will next appear.
5ounding=Board for Pianos. Wm. H.
Howe, of Watertown, Mass. Patent No.
572,897, dated Dec. 8th, 1896.
Sounding-boards for pianos have been
made of many different shapes and sizes,
but of a gradually increasing thickness from
one end of the board to the other.
Sounding-boards so made of a gradually
increasing thickness from end to end do
not respond with equality over all to the
vibrations of the strings, some parts of the
board vibrating more than other parts, and
in fact it appears that some parts of the
board more or less remote from the bridge
or bridges over which the strings pass vi-
brate but little, if at all. As a consequence
the resonance of the different tones varies,
that is to say, the different tones do not
possess equal carrying or singing quality,
as, for instance, in ordinary pianos the
diminution of resonance of the higher tones
is usually very marked.
This invention has for its object to con-
struct a sounding-board for pianos and the
like which will vibrate with equality or with
substantial equality over all, that is to say,
from end to end of the "scale," resulting in
the production of more resonant tones,
which by their augmented carrying or sing-
ing quality are more pleasing to the ear,
and what is, perhaps, more important, re-
sulting in equalizing the resonance or
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