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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
Che Small Goods trade
VAL SCHEHL A PROGRESSIST.
Val. Schehl, who has won for himself a
conspicuous place in the musical industries
as a maker of drum, loan jo and tambourine
heads, also rawhide snares, is a young man
of the progressive type—happily, so preva-
lent—described in the last number of The
Review. Within a comparatively short peri-
od, he has built up a big business on the
solid foundation of merit and straightfor-
Mr. Schehl, in addition to being a suc-
cessful manufacturer, is prominent as a pa-
triotic and popular citizen of Brooklyn. He
is well known as an active Republican, ad-
vocating honest government for city, state
and nation. As a singer he holds an en-
viable place in the great German singing
societies. For several years his services
have been in great request as one of the
Bach Quartet Club, of which he has been
president for several years.
IMPROVED" P HO NO-
GRAPHS.
VAL. SCHEHL,
ward commercial methods. To-day he ranks
as a leader in his branch.
In a recent issue of The Review there ap-
peared an illustration showing the Schehl
factory. It is a large building-, but the pres-
sure on space is now so great that another
addition will soon be absolutely necessary.
Mr. Schehl already owns a considerable area
of ground in the vicinity of the present
factory buildings. Success has enabled him
to do much. His program for the remainder
of 1901 shows that he has no intention of
allowing the grass to grow under his feet.
He intends to double his output ere long,
if quality, price, and prompt service, can
secure this result.
flutes, Piccolos,
Guitars,
mandolins, Banjos, Zithers
And €wry Instrument
Chat's musical « •
JOHN C HAYNES & CO.,
Importers and Manufacturers,
451 Washington St., Boston, Mass.
Two improved phono-
graphs have lately been
, invented by MM. Nernst
and de Lieben, jointly,
and by M. Rhumer. The
object of both is to do
• away with the unsatisfac-
tory wax cylinder used in
the early instruments of
the sort. The first de-
vice depends upon utiliz-
ing the alteration of the
polarizatron capacity and
of the superficial resist-
ance of metal employed as
•j an electrode, in an electro-
lytic bath. A disc of cop-
{ per some 3 mm. thick is
. rotated rapidly under a
thin piece of wood, wet-
ted with an electrolyte
pressed against it. The
secondary currents of the
, induction coil of a micro-
phone transmitter pass
through the point of con-
tact of the wood and cop-
per," and the variations in
the chemical action produce on the edge
of the disc, a permanent record. The best
results have been obtained with zincate of
potash, the copper being the cathode, the
wood being immersed in the solution with
a zinc anode. Sounds so registered can,
it is said, be audibly repeated two or three
hundred times.
The Rhumer phonograph is constructed
on a very different principle. A sensitive
flame, affected by the speech it is desired
to register, is photographed on a film in
motion. The film thus hows a visible rep-
resentation of the speech. A selenium cell
in circuit with a battery and a telephone
is used to receive light that has traversed
the photographic film. The variations in
intensity of the light produce corresponding
variation of the current through the tele-
phone. It it said that this arrangement
has produced excellent results.
HAVE YOU SEEN THE NOTAPHONE?
Oscar Schmidt's new musical educator, the
"Notaphone," is destined to become a very
important factor in the musical training of
public school children. For this purpose it
is admirably fitted and has no rival. It is
understood that live music dealers are be-
ginning to realize that the Notaphone has
opened a big field for them, one that prom-
ises a profitable crop of sales every year,
providing that seed is properly sown in the
line of judicious introduction among prin-
cipals and school trustees.
Oscar Schmidt is enthusiastic regarding
the future of the Notaphone. He announ-
ces that it will give him great pleasure to
send full particulars to any music dealer or
to others who may see in the Notaphone a
good business opportunity.
COLUMBIA7lTHER~ALWAYS POPULAR.
Notwithstanding the hot weather, orders
for the Columbia Zither in all sizes are being-
received with gratifying frequency and regu-
larity at the headquarters of the Phonoharp
Co., Boston, where Mr. J. R. Greene of the
firm is in charge. Mr. Greene has made a
specialty of factory supervision. He accepts
responsibility for the proper construction and
prompt shipment of the Phonoharp Co.'s
products. The highly creditable record made
by the firm in these particulars is, without any
doubt whatever, due to Mr. Greene's practi-
cal knowledge and devotion to the best in-
terests of the firm's patrons.
A PHONOGRAPH~IMPROVEMENT.
[Special to The Review.]
Baltimore, Md., July 30, 1901.
John R. Hare, 308 North Howard street,
has patented a device which promises a great
improvement in phonographic and grapho-
phonic methods.
Heretofore the revolving
records on which the sound impressions are
made and from which they are communicated
through the mechanism of the machines,
have been at most only 4^2 inches long. This
makes frequent changes necessary when long
programs are reproduced. The frequent hand-
ling of the records also wears them out quick-
ly, for they are easily injured. Mr. Hare's
invention makes possible a record three or
four feet long—one which will ^reproduce
whole lectures or concerts.
RUBINSTEIN AND THE VIOLA.
Professor Hermann Ritter, the inventor
of an improved viola, has written an inter-
esting account of a visit he paid to Rubin-
stein in 1877. He wanted to show him his
new instrument, in view of the fact that'
Rubinstein had written one of the finest
works in existence for the viola, the sonata
opus 49. But Rubinstein happened to be
in a bad humor. "I do not wish to hear
your viola alta," he exclaimed. "I am sat-
isfied with the viola as it is now made, and
love the way in which Schumann wrote for
it." There was nothing for Ritter to do
Scientifically Constructed.
Wonderful tone And carrying
power.
cArtistic in design and finish.
Mandolins, Guitars,
Banjeaux, flandolas,
Banjeaullns, Harp-
Qultars, Handocellog,
Piccolo and Bass
Banjeaux.
WALDO MFC CO.,
SAGINAW, MICH.