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on the market. When you consider that our
i8}/> inch double revolution sheet plays 208
bars or measures of music, making the play-
ing time of the disc nearly three minutes,
while other instruments employing the same
cans as an alien race, and those blundering number of teeth in the comb, play less than
Yankees, connected with the Columbia Pho- one minute, and that the 2jy 2 inch sheet of
nograph Company, they thought were more to-day plays only 132 bars or measures of
than usually ignorant of the real character- music, you will comprehend more clearly
istics of the unspeakable Turk that Mr. Glad- that the longest overtures and operatic se-
stone had held up to the derision of the lections can be played even more correctly
world, and who, as everybody, excepting the on this style of New Century than has been
Americans, knew was neither a saint nor a attempted heretofore. It is essential to note,
highly moral anything.
too, that even in a single revolution of this
iSy 2 inch sheet, 104 bars or measures of
MR. R. L THOMAE RETURNS.
music are played, while in the boxes of
R. L. Thomae, president Victor Distribu- other makes containing the same number of
ting & Export Co., No. i Broadway, has just teeth in the comb only 64 can be used. One
returned from a five-weeks trip to Porto revolution, therefore, of our disc is sufficient
Rico. He is delighted with the country, to play any of the popular melodies more
brings back a lot of health and, incidentally, complete! v than a disc having but ^4 bars of
Cbc Small Goods trade
THE BOOSEY CLARINET.
J. Spencer, for many years Dan Godfrey's
principal clarionet player, has written Boosey
& Co. concerning their famous clarionets.
Referring to several ot these instruments in
his possession, he says:
"Gentlemen :—With reference to the vari-
ous clarionets you have made for me, it gives
me much pleasure to state that they are by
far the best I have ever used during a long
experience as principal clarionet player in
the Grenadier Guards under Mr. Dan God-
frey, and also in orchestral work in London.
"Such correctness of intonation, comfort
in handling, and general excellence of work-
manship, I have never found in clarionets
music arranged on it; and that two tunes,
.'.tch having 104 bars of music, can be ar-
ranged on our disc and can be played one fol-
lowing the other without removing the same.
THE NEW CENTURY MUSIC BOX.
A point in favor of the smaller sheet in the
proportion of our iS l / 2 inches as to the 2y l />
Some Details Regarding This Late Development
of the Symphonion Co.—Some Important
inches of heretofore is that it is much more
Improvements.
easily handled than the larger, cumbersome
DID NOT SEE THE JOKE.
The Sym.phonion Mfg. Co., Asbury Park, style and, at the same time, the price per
A Graphophone for the Sultan of Turkey—
X. J., are having many inquiries regarding disc is less than half.
The Sequel.
"Another style which will prove a big
their New Century music boxes, which mark
seller
is our No. 312, which, while it has no
Among the most valuable of all the graph- a distinct development in these creations.
more
notes
than our ordinary duplex comb
ophones ever supplied by the Columbia Pho-
Speaking of the New Century George
box
No.
2j%,
using an 18;/-inch disc, yet
nograpih Company, is one that was built at Yarrelman, president of the company, says:
Bridgeport in 1900 and which is now one of
"Probably the most striking example of doubles the volume of same, for we have
the most highly prized possessions of the our new enterprise is stvle No. 478. The placed in this instrument a pair of double
Sultan of Turkey. It is of the Grand type. advantages of this instrument can readily combs, exact duplicates, on each side of the
The Turkish minister saw the exhibit of the be seen when you note that by arranging bed-plate, and have arranged the discs so
Columbia Phonograph Company in Paris our 181/< inch sheet so that it will make two that 312 teeth are struck and played during
and immediately ordered a machine for the revolutions, to complete only one tune, it is the revolution of the tune, instead of 156, as
Sultan, bringing the cable to his aid in get- possible to play much longer selections than are used when a single pair of combs only
ting the work started with the least possible are produced from the largest sheets now are in play, as in the ordinary duplex in-
strument. The volume of tone produced is
delay. The machine was quickly built, and
truly wonderful, being loud enough for any
both silver and gold were liberally used in
purpose for which it might be needed, while
H^GET INTO T H E
its construction. It was sent to London, to-
the whole mechanism necessary requires no
gether with a large assortment of records,
more space than the ordinary box. We wish
and before it was finally forwarded to Con-
to add that this is the first time that a four-
AS IT IS GOING BY
stantinople the London office of the Colum-
comb
instrument has been made using the same
bia Phonograph Company displayed it in
size
disc
as the ordinary duplex or two-
their show window. Some wag decorated it
Or, in other words, work up
comb
instrument.
Formerly in order to ob-
with placards, saying it was made expressly
to the very best of your oppor-
tain
the
same
volume
of tone it was neces-
for the highly moral and altogether delight-
tunities. Among the desirable
sary
to
employ
two
instruments
and two sep-
ful saint who ruled over Turkey. This was
things "away up" in merit are
arate
sheets,
which
not
only
caused
a great
too much for the Britishers and the London
the goods we are showing, and
papers had something to say about the su-
which we want you to ex-
perficial knowledge of European affairs and
amine. They're all they look
to be—and more. It's simply
foreign potentates that stamped the Ameri-
following destiny to buy of us
of other makers, and I can recommend them
with the greatest confidence to any one wish-
ing to be possessed of a really very fine in-
strument."
The illustration shows to good advantage
the 1'ooscy clarionets, No. A 107-108, one
of the handsomest of the Boosey products.
THE BOOSEY CLARINET.
s.r.-.ie good orders for Victor talking ma-
chines.
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