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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
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PRESIDENT EASTON GOES ABROAD.
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NOW THE PHOTOGRAPHOPHONE.
The latest wonder of the inventor is a
machine which photographs words—actually
takes pictures of them and then by the com-
bination of an especially sensitive device
known as a selenium cell and a telephone,
audibly reproduces them.
The old story
about the "frozen words" which the melting
ice set free, seems hardly more improbable
than a "talking photograph," and yet the lat-
ter is, thanks to Herr E. Ruhmer, the inven-
tor, an accomplished fact. He calls his de-
vice the photographophone.
The vibrating flame and fan arc lamp
(caused to vibrate by the sound waves of a
person talking) is photographed on a cine-
matograph film. The sound vibrations are
thus translated into dark and bright strips.
The light is concentrated on the film by
means of a cylindrical lens. After the rec-
ord has been completed the film is developed
and fixed in the ordinary way, and when it is
desired to reproduce the conversation the film
is run past an ordinary projection lantern,
and a sensitive selenium cell provided with
telephones and a dry battery is placed in the
path, of the light. The changes in the illu-
mination of the selenium cell, as the record
film passes before the lantern, produce
changes in the current corresponding to the
original sound vibrations. The velocity of
the film is from seven to ten feet, but even
with much slower speed good "photophono-
grams" are obtained.
From one negative any number of positive
films may be made, and either the negative
or positive can be used for reproduction.
Herr Ruhmer hopes to be able to record pic-
tures and sounds on the same film, so that
we may eventually have, on what is appar-
ently simply an ordinary cinematograph film,
an address describing the occurrences illus-
trated by the moving pictures.
It is claimed by Herr Ruhmer that the re-
productions obtained with the photophono-
graph are clearer and more perfect than
those of Poulsen's telegraphone, which it
will be remembered makes its record on a
steel wire by magnetization. It is obvious,
however, that neither of the new phono-
graphs is as simple in construction or in
theory as the Poulsen apparatus, and while
of course they may eventually be developed
into valuable practical contrivances, they do
not at first sight seem as promising as the
latter, which is itself as yet only in the experi-
mental stage.
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JOHN C HAYNES & CO,
Importers and Manufacturers,
451 Washington St., Boston, Mass.
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Among the passengers sailing for Europe
% by the Lucania, on Saturday, was Mr. E.
D. Easton, President of the Columbia Pho-
There are now known four distinct meth- nograph Company, who goes abroad to make
ods of registering and reproducing human his annual tour of the Company's European
speech: The mechanical one using a wax offices. Sailing with him were the members
cylinder and a stylet, as in the present pho- of his family and Mr. Mervin E. Lyle, Vice
nograph and graphophone; the magnetic sys- President of the American Graphophone
tem of Poulsen, in which a metal strip or Company.
wire receives the record; the photographic
THE GORDON CATALOGUE.
one of Ruhmer & Nernst, and von Lieben's
Hamilton S. Gordon has been making sev-
electrolytic method.
eral important alterations. These will en-
able him to have a larger stock of instruments
J. LEVERETT PIERCE'S VACATION.
available in future in his musical merchandise
J. Leverett Pierce, of the Phonoharp Co.,
department. There has been a steady growth
left for his country place, West Hampton,
for several years past in the musical instru-
L. I., on Monday. Mrs. Pierce accompanied
ment and supplies departments of Mr. Gor-
him. During his absence, orders and cor-
don's big establishment. The quality of the
respondence usually attended to at the New
York office will be under the jurisdiction of various articles catalogued, as well as the
the Phonoharp Co.'s headquarters' manage- prompt service rendered at all times, and
the liberal rating in the matter of price,
ment, Boston.
have helped greatly in bringing about this
desirable result.
A LARGE MUSIC BOX PURCHASE.
One of the biggest Gordon successes of
G. C. Aschbach, the well-known music
the
year has been the Gordon guitar. Mr.
dealer, No. 539 Hamilton street, has just
Gordon
is particularly proud of the tone
purchased from the Symphonion Music Box
and
finish
of his guitars and other string
Manufacturing Company five thousand dol-
instruments.
The testimony, voluntarily
lars' worth of music boxes of their various
makes. Mr. Aschbach paid their factory at given, in behalf of these Gordon specialties
Asbury Park, N. J., a visit and made person- bears witness to their merits. Visitors are
al selections. Mr. Aschbach is an authority always made welcome at the Gordon ware-
on music boxes and is the pioneer of the rooms.
music box business in this section of the
state, having imported from the largest and
best makers of Switzerland their finest prod-
ucts. Since the disc boxes have taken the
place of the Swiss boxes Mr. Aschbach has
largely identified himself with the boxes of
American manufactures and has selected the
Regina, manufactured at Rahway, N. J., and
the Symphonion, made at Asbury Park,
N. J., as his leaders, both concerns having
very extensive and complete plants and em-
ploying a large force of hands. The music
box exhibit in this well-conducted and com-
plete music house, like everything else, is
conducted on a large scale and nowhere can
such an assortment and variety be found.
Intending music box purchasers should ex-
amine the Aschbach assortment and become
fully convinced that the only disc music
boxes worth having on account of their satis-
factory results are the Regina and Sym-
phonion.—The Allentown, Pa., Morning
Call.
THE THIBOUVILLE-LAMY DISPLAY.
The immense stock of musical instruments
and merchandise at the New York office of
the Thibouville-Lamy Co. never appeared to
better advantage than at present. The plan
of arrangement and general display is ex-
cellent. Experts and lovers of music can
spend a very pleasant hour at the warerooms
—which are light, capacious, and in every
other way admirably fitted for the purpose.
Geo. Neppert the popular traveling ambas-
sador for Wm. F. Hasse, stool and scarf
manufacturer of this city, left last week for a
vacation of several weeks.
VAL. SCHEHL'S SUCCESS.
Val. Schehl, specialist in calf and sheep
banjo, drum and tambo heads, also rawhide
snares, continues to prosper at his Brooklyn
factories. Mr. Schehl owes much of his
success to the fact that he is content with a
narrow margin of profit. His policy of in-
sisting on "thorough dressing of skins, these
skins being exceptionally good and perfect,
has also met with hearty appreciation.
FIND THE NOTAPHONE~EFFECTIVE.
Music dealers and others interested in the
sale of musical instruments are finding,
among the schools, a big field for Oscar
Schmidt's Notaphone. Teachers express
themselves as highly pleased with it. They
find in the Notaphone a simple yet accurate
and effective method of conveying rudimen-
tary musical knowledge to children.
C. A. BURNS MARRIED.
Chas. A. Burns, general traveling repre-
sentative of F. B. Burns & Co., stool and scarf
manufacturers, has joined the order of Bene-
dicts, having been married on Thursday of
last week to Miss Stella Moore, one of the
belles of Detroit, Mich.
NOTED VIOLINMAKER DEAD.
Charles F. Albert, widely known as a
maker of violins, died at his home in Phila-
delphia, Pa., on Monday last, aged fifty-nine
years. He had been ill for nearly three
months. In accordance with his request the
body will be cremated. He leaves a widow,
two daughters, and a son.
A petition in bankruptcy has been filed by
C. G. Reed, piano dealer, Davenport, la.,
and formerly of Chicago.