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"If we will consider nature's process of season-
THE NEW HOHNER ACCORDEONS
ing wood, we may shorten the time by resorting
to artificial means. Seasoning a piece of wood Are Steadily Adding to Their Fame in All Parts
of the United States.
does not mean simply drying it, but rather
means passing through a series of seasons, alter-
The new Hohner accordeons, already described
nately warm and cold, wet and dry. If we kiln in The Review, evidently made their appear-
dry a piece of wood until all the moisture is ance just at the right time. At least, considering
driven out, and then lay it away in some cool the immediate demand made on the manufactur-
and damp place for a few days, we can say it ers, when the advent of these instruments was
has passed through two seasons, a summer and announced, and the steady call for them ever
a winter, which is, perhaps, equal to one year's since, it may fairly be considered that the time
seasoning. Repeat the operation and we have chosen for placing them on the market was well
another year's seasoning. This may be repeated considered. Latest advices from Europe show
until the wood is as well seasoned in as many that the new Hohner accordeons are being sold
weeks as nature would require in years. By tak- freely wherever they are available. Under the
ing careful measurements of the width, it can be Hohner system, that means in every city, town
readily determined when the wood is seasoned and village—practically everywhere. They are
sufficiently to put into a violin—when it ceases being used to-day in every part of the civilized
to shrink and swell."
world, and even beyond it, among those who have
not as yet attained the advantages of civilization.
THE CORRECT DESIGNATION.
In the popular mind there is considerable mis-
apprehension and confusion regarding the cor-
rect designation of talking machines. The words
"graphophone" and "phonograph" are ordinarily
misused as having the same meaning. The name
"phonograph" which was given to the first crude
model constructed by Edison, has clung in large
measure to the perfected talking machine as it
is known to-day. But all the talking machines
of the present day are officially termed "grapho-
phones" by the United States patent office, and,
technically speaking, every practical talking ma-
chine sold in the United States to-day is a graph-
ophone.
L. F. DOUGLAS ENJOYING HIMSELF.
A letter from L. F. Douglas, vice-president and
general manager of the Victor Talking Machine
Co., Philadelphia, Pa., was recently received by
one of his Eastern friends. In this communica-
tion Mr. Douglas said that he was enjoying him-
self very much on the Pacific Coast, where he has
been sojourning for some time, and that his gen-
eral health is rapidly improving.
COLIIMBA
RECORDS
A NEW TALKING MACHINE CO.
Will Probably be Launched by J. 0. Prescott and
W. Barry Owen.
Though disinclined to discuss details, the re-
port is confirmed that W. Barry Owen, late of
the Gramophone and Typewriters, Ltd., of Lon-
don, Eng., and J. O. Prescott, are to launch a new
talking-machine company. It may be an Ameri-
can branch of the International Talking Machine
Co., of Berlin, Germany, and of this no definite
information is vouchsafed. But that the two
gentlemen are interested in the same proposition
there is now no question of doubt.
BETRAYED BY HIS FEET.
Mrs. Jobsin—There goes the man who was play-
ing that Droolerski sonata so beautifully the other
night in the next flat.
Mr. Johnson—His hair hardly looks long enough
for that.
Old Jobsin—Yes, but don't you see his patent
piano-player, pedal walk?
C. W. Griswold, of Lyon & Healy, Chicago,
spent a few days in New York recently.
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SOME FAMOUS BATONS
Which are Much Desired by Collectors—A Spirit of
Hero Worship Has Helped This Demand.
Batons wielded by famous orchestra conduc-
tors have a value nowadays apart from their in-
trinsic worth. They have entered the list of col-
lectors' specialties and would sell at a high fig-
ure if put on the market and auctioned off prop-
erly.
A baton, to be desirable from the collector's
standpoint, must possess one of two virtues—it
must have been the property of a popular con-
ductor or it must have done duty on some red-
letter operatic or symphonic occasion. The sec-
ond condition presupposes the first, because at
most gala performances the conductor is a man
of previous achievements. Hence a baton that
has figured in a star musical event acquires
double importance in the eyes of the collector.
If the famous batons now in New York were
to be passed in review probably the prize would
be awarded to the magic wand wielded by Con-
ductor Hertz, of "Parsifal" fame. Mr. Hertz
might have done much for himself in a financial
way if he had realized his opportunities. If he
had been willing to place commercialism on a
level with art he could have made a mint of ex-
tra money this season by selling souvenir batons.
The batons used by Signor Mancinelli in ex-
tracting from his orchestral forces those dulcet
strains for which he is famous are in demand,
and he has received many letters requesting the
gift of a "Romeo and Juliet" or a "Faust" baton.
Another conductor who could make a good thing
out of selling batons is Theodore Thomas, who
gets many requests for his batons.
But, unfortunately, the men of power among
orchestra leaders have the inconvenient habit of
forming an attachment for the batons with which
they beat their way up to glory. Still it is pos-
sible, by means of cajoling, sometimes to gain
possession of the coveted treasures. One woman,
who has conducted a number of singing classes
as well as a juvenile orchestra in this city, has
in her collection thirty batons with a history.
A Word About Gold-Moulded
Records
Columbia Moulded Cylinder Records were the first Moulded Records on the market by
about a year.
They always have been GOLD-moulded. A gold mould is the ONLY economical and efficient
mould known to the art.
Moulded records are superior to the old engraved records, because they may be made of
HARDER material. Hard records last longer and have a better quality of tone.
A gold-moulded record made of SOFT material would be no better in quality than an
ENGRAVED record in soft material.
The best Moulded Records are not only GOLD-MOULDED; they are SUPER-HARDENED.
Gold-moulded records are LESS expensive than engraved records. The PROCESS is simpler.
Formerly, BLANK cylinders were moulded, then SHAVED, then ENGRAVED from an original. The
originals soon wore out under the reproducing stylus.
Now, a gold-lined MOULD is made from the original, and the product of that mould is a
SMOOTHLY FINISHED cylinder, with the SOUND RECORD ALREADY ON IT. The life of the original is
increased ten times, a hundred times, a thousand times.
A record is not MORE expensive because it is gold-moulded.
It is LESS expensive.
Columbia Moulded Cylinder Records are NEW records, made by a NEW process. They are
not only gold-moulded. They are SUPER-HARDENED.
Irrespective of PRICE, they are superior in QUALITY to any other gold-moulded record on
the market.
FOR SALE BY DEALERS EVERYWHERE, AND BY THE
COLUMBIA PHONOGRAPH COMPANY
PIONEERS AND LEADERS IN THE TALKING MACHINE ART
GRAND PRIZE, PARIS, 1900
UPTOWN,
NEW YORK. Wholesale. Retail and Export, 93 Chambers St.
PITTSBURG, 615 Penn Ave.
CHICAGO. 88 Wabash Ave.
NEW ORLEANS. LA., 628-630 Canal St.
PHILADELPHIA. 1019-1021 Market St.
DETROIT, 37 Grand River Ave.
ST. LOUIS, 908 Olive St. (Frisco Building).
MILWAUKEE, 391 East Water St.
BOSTON. 164 Tremont St.
WASHINGTON,
1212 F St., N. W.
BALTIMORE, 231 N. Howard St.
TORONTO, ONTARIO, 107 Yonge St.
CLEVELAND, Cor. Euclid Ave. and Erie St.
MINNEAPOLIS.
13 Fourth St., South.
BUFFALO, 645 Main St.
INDIANAPOLIS, 48 N. Pennsylvania St.
SAN FRANCISCO, 125 Geary St.
LONDON, Wholesale, Retail. 89 Great Eastern St., E. C. RETAIL BRANCH STORE, 200 Oxford St., W.
PARIS, 111 and 118 Rue Montmartre.
ST. PETERSBURG, 58 Nevski Prospect.
RETAIL ONLY, 872 Broadway.
KANSAS CITY. 1016 Walnut St.
ST. PAUL, 886 Wabasha St.
DENVER, 505-507 Sixteenth St.
OMAHA, 1621 Farnam St.
LOS ANGELES, 328 South Main St.
MEMPHIS, 302 Main St.
PORTLAND, ORE., 128 Seventh St.
OAKLAND, CAL., 468 18th St.
BERLIN, 71 Ritterstrasse.
HAMBURG, Adolphsplatz No. 4.