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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
THE "SMALL GOODS" TRADE
The Talking Machine in the
White House.
The Graphophone plays an important
part in the business of the White House.
The Graphophone is located on the desk of
Col. Ben. J. S. Montgomery who is in
charge of the telegraph and telephone
service of the presidential office and
through whom all the war news came to
the President. The instrument is put to
some strange and interesting uses showing
that the Graphophone has great practical
value as well as power to entertain. Its
various uses are best described in the
words of Col. Montgomery who writes:
"The Graphophone is placed in the back
of my desk, near the telephone and close
to a resonator which holds a telegraph
sounder, thus within easy reach at all
times for any kind of work it may be
called upon to do. To illustrate—if an
important and confidential communication
is talked over the telephone it is repeated,
while being received, into the graphophone,
if a telegraph message is ticked out on the
sounder, and a telegrapher is not, at the
moment convenient, the speed regulator of
the graphophone is adjusted and the little
machine at once becomes an expert oper-
ator and records the telegram. In short,
for my work it is a first-class stenographer
and telegrapher combined. It is run by
the same electric current which supplies
the light and for this reason it is always
ready when wanted. Unlike many steno-
graphers and telegraphers and n*)t a few
clerks it has no attacks of indigestion, sick
headaches or restless anxiety to get away
to a ball game or meet a "cousin from the
country." It is never late in the morning,
nor in a hurry to get home in the evening;
it is never "shaky" from smoking cigar-
ettes nor " all run down " and "worn out"
by a bicycle ride or a Sunday school excur-
sion the day before. It is almost human
in its efforts but not subject to the "ills
that flesh is heir to." Of course it "talks
back " but was never known to say more
than was necessary."
latest invention. It has an extra powerful
tone and contains composition metal reeds.
So great has been the call for them since
their introduction a short time ago that an
additional supply has been necessary,
A Guitar That Inspired Shelley.
An interesting relic of the poet Shelley
was recently presented to the Bodleian
Library at Oxford, England. Though not
exactly the lyre of the poet, it came very
near being so. Readers of Shelley will re-
member the beautiful lines To a Lady with
a Guitar, beginning:
The "Bay State" Wares.
When The Review recently visited the
warerooms of the "Bay State" instru-
ments, Mr. Hunt, the manager, was en-
gaged in displaying several of the 1898
models of " Bay State " and " Hub " man-
dolins to a prospective customer.
His method of presenting the claims of
these instruments for recognition, based
on the John C. Haynes & Co. 's latest de-
claration was concise and explicit, cover-
ing the ground completely and convinc-
ingly.
"The twenty-six highest awards and
gold medals," said he, "which the 'Bay
State ' instruments have already secured
in open competition with the best makes
in the world, are a guarantee that when
you purchase a guitar, mandolin, banjo,
zither or flute, bearing the name ' Bay
State' and the trade mark ' Bay State,
Boston,' you have secured the finest mu-
sical instruments of this character the
the world produces. Their superiority in-
vites the closest scrutiny. Their reputa-
tion is their best warranty."
This is an emphatic statement, but the
unquestionable high merits of the ' • Bay
State " justify emphasis.
The " Olympia" Music Box.
The plan adopted by F. G. Otto & Sons
for bringing prominently to public notice
the merits of the " Olympia " music boxes
is already bearing good fruit. Inquiries
are pouring in, End the number of orders
has been largely increased as a result of
the firm's latest stroke of enterprise in this
branch of their business. The illustrated
design—the result of a happy thought—
has caught the public eye. The merits of
the instruments will do the rest.
'' Ariel to Miranda—Take
This slave of music."
The poet goes on to picture the making
of the guitar—
" The artist who this idol wrought
To echo all harmonious thought,
Felled a tree, while on the steep
The woods were in their winter sleep,
Rocked in that repose divine
Of the wind-swept Apennine."
Now Miranda was Jane Williams, wife of
Captain Edward Ellerher Williams, the
friend who afterward was drowned at sea
with Shelley. This guitar was most "care-
fully guarded and preserved by Mrs. Will-
iams. After remaining in the family, it
came the knowledge of Mr. E. W. Silsbee
of Massachusetts, who has devoted a life-
long study to Shelley, and he expressed a
desire to acquire the guitar. But the Will-
iams family declined to part with it unless
to some public institution where it could be
permanently preserved.
At the suggestion of Doctor Garnett, of
the British Museum, it was offered to Ox.
ford, as Shelley's university, and Mr. Sils-
bee most generously purchased the guitar
and presented it to the University. The
back of the instrument is of ebony, and the
minor portions of some ornamental wood.
It was made by Ferdinando Bottari, of
Pisa, in 1816.
The " Leader " Harmonica.
Bodies of beautifully engraved aluminum. Sound-boards
of selected spruce. Tone, Beauty, Durability.
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One of the popular harmonicas now in
demand is the " Leader," crescent-shaped,
already mentioned in The Review as one
of the Gratz specialties for 1898. It is an
entirely new departure, being shaped to
fit the mouth.
The "Leader" is Ch. Messner & Go's
The Famous
5. S. S t e w a r t
Sweet-Sounding
AND MARVELOUS Geo.
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Stewart Books, Music and JOURNAL.
S T E W A R T & B A U E R , 1016 Chestnut St., (2dfloor>, Philadelphia, Pa.
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The weekly Aeolian recitals which are
being given by C. J. Heppe & Son in their
Aeolian Hall, 1117 Chestnut St., Philadel-
phia, are being largely attended by the
elite of the Quaker City.
SCIENCE OF SOUND.
An instrument is musical and valuable according
to the degree of its perfection in tonal qualities. It
requires years of study and costly experiments to
master the science of sound, and this science must
be mastered in order to produce a perfect instrument.
It is the easy thing to copy design and finish, but it is
peculiar tone, the soul, of the Bay State Instrument
that makes it the perfect instrument and defies imita-
tion. It is largely due to the skill of our experts in
acoustics that Bay State Guitars, Mandolins, Banjos,
Zithers, and Flutes have received 26 awards and gold
medals.
JOHN C. HAYNES & CO.,
453-459 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON.
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