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V O L . X X X V I I . No. 9.
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PIANOTIST IN PHILADELPHIA.
AT PIANO FOR 26 HOURS.
A MACHINE TO WRITE MUSIC.
Will Enable Composers to Jot Down Their Com-
positions as Swiftly as if They Were Writing
a Letter—The Invention is Credited to Isaac F.
Badeau and Will be Invaluable to Copyists.
Some people who have learned to manip-
ulate the typewriting machine as an aid in
handling" a heavy correspondence or for
journalistic work, find it difficult to com-
pose readily, and seem to be able to think
more clearly and transcribe their thoughts
better with a pen than by the aid of the
machine. But with the majority the type-
writer is such a great advantage that they
have no further use for the pen except to
add the signature at the finish. Possibly
this rule will obtain in the same manner
with the machine recently invented, al-
though it is designed for the use of a dif-
ferent profession from that of the business
man or author. The success of the type-
writer has been so decided and permanent
that a New York man has determined to
apply the same idea to the designing of
a machine to write music in order to sim-
plify the work of the composer. As in the
ordinary writing machine there are letters
and punctuation marks, so in music there
are notes and accents, but in addition each
note and accent must be placed in a cer-
tain position on the staff.
To surmount this difficulty the inventor
has designed a double keyboard, with one
set of keys operating guides to determine
the position each note is to take on the
staff, and the second set operating the
notes themselves. In writing a note it is
necessary first to bring the guide in posi-
tion to receive the note bar, and when the
latter is manipulated it enters the guide
and descends to the paper in the predeter-
mined place. There is no reason why a
musician should not learn to manipulate
this machine as readily as the typewriter
is mastered, and it will certainly save many
hours of tedious work for the composer
and music copyist. The patentee is Isaac
F. Badeau, of Schenectady, N. Y.
PIANO STOCK ATTACHED.
Fred Nelson, of Grafton, N. H., who has
been selling pianos and other musical in-
struments in addition to carrying on a
sewing machine and tailoring business, is
missing, and his stock of pianos has been
attached by the piano manufacturers from
whom he purchased his goods.
Ben Alcock has leased quarters in the
Beresford Building, Wooster, O., which he
will open as piano warerooms.
Man Plays Against Time, Breaking All Keyboard
Endurance Records.
[Special to The Review.]
St. Louis, Aug. 24, 1903.
With blisters on his fingers and his
nerves and muscles in a state of utter col-
lapse, J. M. Waterbury ended a twenty-
six-hour sitting at a piano, which he had
been playing without intermission in a
saloon in Belleville.
He began his endurance feat at 8 o'clock
Saturday night, and, with never a stop of
longer than five seconds' duration, con-
tinued to thump the keys with both hands
until 10 o'clock Sunday night. He ate one
Swiss cheese sandwich and one ham sand-
wich and drank whiskey. He smoked cig-
arettes almost without cessation. For
most of the time he was sitting on the or-
thodox piano stool, but now and then he
would stand.
For this remarkable feat, Waterbury re-
ceived $i an hour. He says his best pre-
vious endurance record was made in the
Lambs Club, New York City. This was
a contest, Ada Bellville being his oppon-
ent. She played for twenty-four hours.
He lasted an hour longer. He challenges
anybody to try to beat him.
WEBER EMPLOYES' LIVELY TIME.
While the employes of the Weber
Piano Co. were organizing a parade at
Fifth avenue and Eighteenth street, on last
Saturday afternoon for their annual outing,
their brass band frightened a team of
truck horses that were standing in front
of the house at 4 E. 18th St. The horses
shied across the street and knocked down
an electric light pole, the wires of which
got mixed and shocked one of the horses.
As a result he broke away from the har-
ness and cut up all sorts of queer stunts on
the street, running around in circles among
the paraders who scattered to escape his
hoofs. Their cries didn't quiet him any,
and the efforts of several policemen were
futile to corner the animal. Firemen were
called to the rescue and after a great deal
of difficulty they lassooed the horse, and
were compelled to tie the animal's legs and
carry him to the engine house.
After all this excitement the paraders
started off, brass band and all, without
serious damage. They had a most enjoy-
able day. One of the paraders informed
The Review that the trouble was caused
by the band playing "Hiawatha." Even
truck horses won't stand this affliction.
Julius Wellner Secures the Agency—Atlantic City
Exhibit a Big Success—Mr. Ackerman Reports
the "Nicklin" in Great Demand.
The Atlantic City exhibit of the "Piano-
tist" and "Nicklin" instruments on the
Board Walk, has proved to be quite a suc-
cess. Numerous sales and important new
connections have been brought about
through this latest stroke of enterprise on
the part of Mr. Ackerman. The most re-
cent accession to the growing list of live
Pianotist and Nicklin agents is Julius Well-
ner, the well known Philadelphia dealer,
with headquarters at 905 Walnut St. "We
are doing a big business with the 'Nick-
lin,' " said Mr. Ackerman to The Review
on Tuesday at the Pianotist factory, "and
every one now using it is evidently de-
lighted with results achieved. We are
now adding to our chain of agencies and
shall be glad to hear from any dealer who
is in business for larger profits."
INCORPORATED IN MAINE.
The Tammany Organet Co., of Port-
land, was incorporated this week with the
Secretary of State of Maine, for the pur-
pose of making and dealing in musical in-
struments. Capital, $150,000. President,
E. S. Jones, Port Deposit, Md.; treasurer,
J. H. Fogg, Portland, Maine. Directors:
E. S. Jones, J. H. Fogg, J. T. Fagan, F. I.
Moore and John C. McTammany, all of
New York City, and A. H. Bellowes, Worces-
ter, Mass.
PIANO MEN OBJECT TO OPEN TRENCH.
The piano dealers and other merchants
located on Fulton Street, Brooklyn, have
joined forces with the business men of
Broadway in protesting against taking the
lid off these prominent thoroughfares, ren-
dering them impassable for months, which
will occur if present plans of open trench
construction is pursued in connection with
the building of the subway. For this atti-
tude no one is responsible but the sub-
contractors of the tunnel now nearing
completion, some of whom have shown a
wanton and continuous disregard of the
people's rights and interests.
Efforts are being made by G. S. Smythe,
of Smythe & Benzinger, Binghamton, N.
Y., to organize the piano dealers of that
city. The majority of the dealers have
signified their intention to aid in organiza-
tion, and it is very probable that an asso-
ciation will be formed in the near future.