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VOL.
XXVIII. No. 20.
Published Every Saturday at 3 East Fourteenth Street.
New York, May 20,
tween the wind-chest and resonator being
constantly open and unobstructed, and
the valves for controlling the register of
reeds are located between the resonator
and the wind-trunk leading to the source
of air-pressure.
Organ for reinforcing melody tones.
Alfred Ahlfors, Eslof, Sweden. Patent
Folsom's Purchase.
[Special to The Review.]
Little Falls, Minn., May 13, 1899.
Walter Folsom, who is leader of the Little
Falls, Minn., Band, has purchased the
music store of A. W. Macrae. Mr. Macrae
and family will leave for Los Angeles, Cal.,
where they will make their future home.
Newton Piano Incorporates.
SINGLE COPIES m CKN I -
No. 624,
[Compiled especially for The Review.1
Washington, D. C., May 15, 1899.
The Newton Piano Co. at Dolgeville is
Reed Organ. Robt. J. Bennett, Chicago,
incorporated. Capital stock is mentioned 111. Assignor to Lyon & Healy, of same
at $5,000. The directors are Carl A. place. Patent No. 624,742.
Ammonn, Alois Brambach and Alphonse
This invention relates to improvements
Heinrich, of Dolgeville.
in organs of the type employing reeds for
producing the sound and also resonators
Has an Automatic Piano and a auxiliary to the wind-chests.
Heretofore the resonators employed have
Thousand Bottles of Liquor.
been constructed and arranged in a manner
A cablegram from Rome, dated May permitting the resonators to buckle under
13th says: The departure of the Duke of the influence of the blast and produce a
Abruzzi for Scandanavia on a polar expe- foreign discordant sound and also causing
dition has been the great sensation of the the instrument to get out of ttine. Here-
week.
tofore also in organs of this type the com-
He refused an official farewell and left munication between the resonator and the
quietly. He is very confident of success. wind-chest has been regulated and con-
The bulk of his supplies left Italy in trolled by means of valves interposed be-
1,500 portable cases. Each class of boxes tween the wind-chest and the resonator,
has a different color to permit of easy resulting in serious difficulties caused by
recognition.
the leakage of the valves and the compli-
Among the Duke's means of amusement cations of mechanism for operating the
is an automatic piano. He has one thou- valves.
sand bottles of liquor, which will be used
This invention has for its object the
only in cases of emergency, as the Duke provision of resonators of a construction
and his companions ordinarily drink water, and form which avoid buckling and con-
tea and coffee.
sequent production of discordant sounds
The expedition includes two Italian and which do not affect the tone of the
naval officers, one doctor, two Italian instrument injuriously.
sailors, four Alpine guides, ten Norwe-
A further object of the invention is to
gian sailors and several Esquimaux who provide free unobstructed communication
are to look after 120 dogs for sledges. The between the wind-chest and resonator and
dogs will be obtained at Archangel. It is operate each register of reeds by control-
calculated that the journey will occupy ling the communication between the wind-
eighteen months and cost $600, oco, a trunk and the resonator.
fourth of which has been provided by the
To accomplish the result first mentioned,
King.
resonators of a cylindrical form, are pro
The first station at which the expedition vided which, in co-operation with the
will stop is Franz Josef Land. The Duke wind-chests, source of air-pressure, and
declared that even if he found it impossible controlling-valves operated from the key-
to reach the pole he would go further than board, produce full, clean, and amplified
his predecessors or never return.
tones of greatly-improved quality and
The 'gram doesn't state what attach- quantity without accompanying discordant
ment the Duke has, but it is a mighty good sounds and without affecting the tone of
opportunity for some of the energetic the instrument injuriously.
piano specialists to originate an attractive
In accomplishing the second result men-
advertisement from the automatic instru- tioned a resonator is provided for each reg-
ment which accompanies the Duke on his ister of reeds, in close proximity to the
long trip.
wind-chest thereof, communication be-
721.
The purpose of this invention is an im-
provement in organs to provide means for
rendering the melody more prominent,
which is especially desirable in playing
preludes, chorals, and the like.
Electric Piano. George Schrade and
Harold W. Shonnard, New York, N. Y.
Assignors to G. Howlett Davis of same
place. Patent No. 624,382.
This invention relates to improvements
in self-playing pianos, and more particu-
larly to the mechanism for controlling and
regulating the speed of the instrument.
It is a further purpose of the invention
to provide a novel construction of electric
switch for controlling the action of the
electric motor usually employed in operat-
ing musical instruments of this kind; and,
finally, the invention consists in the com-
bination and arrangement of parts herein-
after described and then more definitely
pointed out in the claims which conclude
this specification.
Against Manier & Lane.
[Special to the Review].
Jacksonville, Fla., May 7, 1899.
A petition for involuntary bankruptcy
was filed in the United States Court yester-
day by several creditors against the Manier
& Lane Music Company. The petitioners
were William Tonk & Bro. of New York,
the White-Smith Music Publishing Com-
pany of Massachusetts, and the Waterloo
Organ Company.
Beechwood's Opening.
LSpecial to The Review.]
Utica, N. Y., May 15, 1899.
The formal opening of the new music
warerooms of the Geo. S. Beech wood Co.,
166-8 Genessee street occurred last week.
The warerooms are most tastefully fitted
and were thronged on the occasion of the
opening by many w«ll-known people. The
Ladies' Hungarian Orchestra gave an en-
joyable concert which has been repeated
once or twice since.