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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
THE "SMALL GOODS" TRADE
New Home Grand.
MANY IMPROVEMENTS MAKE THIS THE MOST
SUPERB TALKING MACHINE.
It is impossible to find a finer specimen
of a talking machine than the new Home
Grand Graphophone. It renders with all
the volume and quality of the original, the
music of all instruments, and the fine mel-
ody of the voice. It does all this without
the aid of a skilled performer. It repro-
duces with the full vibrant power of the
original sound itself, and with the exact
tone quality and sweetness of melody.
High-priced artists are at the command of
every ownsr of a Home Grand Grapho-
phone, ready to delight with their brilliant
performances. A full string orchestra, or
a military brass band, tenor and baritone
soloists, instrumentalists, monologue ar-
tists or the minstrel—all the host of enter-
tainers are ready to do the bidding of the
Graphophone user.
The new Home Grand is a most hand-
some piece of mechanism, simply but
strongly constructed, and cased in a cabinet
of such elegance as to make it an ornament
to the most sumptuously furnished apart-
ment. It has an entirely new arrangement
of clockwork mechanism, by which six
springs are utilized. This gives the new
Home Grand a long running time from one
winding. The new motor will run through
fourteen Grand cylinders before running
down.
An exceedingly convenient arrangement
has made the motor readily accessible. In-
stead of having to lift the main machine
and motor bodily out of the cabinet, the
mechanism is bolted to the hinged cover of
the lower portion of the cabinet, permitting
its being swung back on its hinges and
locked in position. Thus the motor is ex-
posed and the examination and cleaning of
parts made an easy matter.
Bargains in
Booscy Band
Instruments
The cabinet is one of superb design and
finish, being a handsomely ornate colonial
pattern. It is made of quartered oak and
has a high piano polish which brings out
in all its beauty the natural grain of the
wood.
The machine is fitted with a belt tight-
ening device, a convenience that will be at
once appreciated by all Graphophone users.
The clockwork mechanism is such also
that the machine can be wound while run-
ning without interfering in the slightest
with the reproduction of a record which
may be playing at the time.
Although vastly improved over the first
Home Grand model, the price of this cew
instrument remains unchanged—$100.
An instrument that is destined to win no
uncertain place in the esteem of lovers of
stringed instruments is the Orchestral gui-
tar, manufactured by the Wulschner Music
Co., of Indianapolis. The instrument is
unique, inasmuch as it is the nearest ap-
proach yet known to the Italian harp.
Owing to the use of twelve strings a compass
an octave greater than the standard instru-
ment is possible. The tonal qualities of
the instrument are superb and captivate all
who hear it played. For ordinary solo
work, the first six strings and finger board,
which are just like the Regal guitar, can
be used, so that there is nothing new to
learn. Meanwhile the artist can get effects
with the Orchestral guitar impossible in
•* The New York Special."
others with limited compass.
"The New York Special" is the title of
The dimensions of the orchestral guitar
C. G. Conn's latest creation in cornet mak-
are: length of body, 2 1 ^ inches; width at
ing. All the factory experts claim that
largest end, ig)4 inches; width at smallest
this cornet is a marvel, and is destined to
end, 15 inches; depth, 4% inches. Besides
win further and greater triumphs for C. G.
the foregoing there is nsarly one-half inch
Conn. "The New York Special" is now
swell on both back and top which augments
being finished up and will be on exhibition
the volume of tone considerably.
at the New York store in a few weeks.
This new creation of the Wulschner
Business in all departments at the Wonder
Music
Co. should find a large market, and
factory in Elkhart, Ind., is excellent, and
dealers
and musicians should not hesitate
the demand both there and at the ware-
to
investigate
it.
rooms in New York is brisk.
Homeward Bound.
The prestige of the Conn instruments
has been materially augmented abroad
Wm. R. Gratz, of the Symphonion Man-
through the successful tour of Sousa's ufacturing Co., who has been making a
band, the majority of the members of lengthy sojourn in Europe, is due to ar-
which use Wonder instruments. All the rive in New York by the Augusta Victoria,
soloists of this organization have won on Sept. 6. Soon after his arrival an ac-
their greatest successes with Wonder in- tive campaign will be prosecuted in the
struments, the tonal qualities of which have interest of the Symphonion music boxes.
surprised the bandsmen of Europe.
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Sousa's success abroad has not alone
Robt. B. Gregory, of the Lyon & Healy
demonstrated that we have a band organi- staff, accompanied by his wife and daugh-
zation here equal to any the world over, ter, arrived from Europe on Saturday last.
but it has demonstrated further that we After a short stay in this city, Mr. Gregory,
who, by the way, is enjoying splendid
have a band instrument factory here, health,
left for Chicago.
owned and controlled by C. G. Conn, that
occupies a leading position in the world of
band instrument manufacture.
A Harp Without Pedals.
The French have long been famed as or-
gan-builders, and the Paris Exposition pre-
sents some notable examples of their art
We have in stock some Boosey Band In- and workmanship in this line. They are
struments—Clarionets, Flutes and Piccolos,
also prominent as makers of orchestral in-
etc,, that will be sold at very low prices.
This is an opportunity for dealers to secure struments, notably the wood-wind and
some high-priced instruments as low as is brass, in which their inventions have been
asked ior cheap ones*
epoch-making. Among the exhibits in this
Our stock is large and we will quote line are some of curious and novel shape.
genuine bargain prices. It will pay you to Much attention is directed to the latest kind
write at once for quotations.
of a harp, which has no pedals. In the
At the end of the season we are also over- harps now in use some of the semi-tones
stocked on some fine lines of Accordeons and
Harmonicas that we will sell at interesting have to be produced with the aid of the
prices. They are just as good for retail trade pedals. The new instrument has all the
as the ones we now quote, new stock and tones of the chromatic scale as complete
will make large sellers.
as a piano, and therefore needs no pedals.
Hereafter harpists will not be troubled
with the frequent harmonic changes in
modern music.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
Ululscbner music Co.
Wulschner's Orchestral Guitar.
mandolins ana Guitars excel
all others
T h e y are made on scientific prin-
ciples, and for volume, purity and
sweetness of tone, have never been
equaled. Write for catalogue and
prices. J» J» J» J» J> J»
Che Rudolph Ulurlitzer Go.
manufacturer*
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Cincinnati