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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
Col. "Dan" Treacy, who always calls upon him
whenever he is in Boston.
One of the most popular of the Hohner har-
Business with the talking machine people is
At Conduct of Customs Officials—Insisted
monicas is the "Marine Band Echo." It is a safe very good. The Columbia Co. has made a hit
Examining Private Papers of Inventor.
guess that several thousands of the sons of Uncle recently with a young lady in the window, work-
J. C. McTammany, the inventor, well known in Sam are at this moment rendering popular airs ing a typewriter from dictation through a ma-
the music box world, whose headquarters in this on "No. 487," as it is otherwise called. Accord- chine. A crowd surrounded the window all the
country are at 47 Borham avenue, Jersey City ing to the week's report at Hohner headquarters, time.
At the Elias Howe Co. a fine business on gold-
Heights, landed here on the Neckar of the North however, this particular instrument has no mon-
wound strings is reported.
German Lloyd liner ten days ago, having spent
The new Musicians' Li-
the last year and a half in Leipsic. He brought
brary of the Oliver Ditson
with him a number of cases of tools and patents,
Co. has made an impor-
and on Friday he went to the office on the
tant place for itself among
Hoboken pier to see about having them shipped.
the music-loving public. It
AS he was leaving the pier a customs officer de-
is in an ideal series of in-
manded that he show him the contents of a little
dependent volumes of uni-
bag he carried.
form size and each con-
The bag contained private papers, contracts
tains the best work of the
and patent rights that are, under the laws, in no
respective composer, edited
way subject to examination. Nevertheless the of-
TREMOLO
by an authority, who is at
ficial made the inventor turn over the papers,
the same time an author-
which he opened and examined.
ity. The recent produc-
"I have had some annoying experiences in Rus-
tion
of "Parsifal" in Bos-
sia and other European countries," said Mr. Mc-
ton
has
increased
the
demand
for the lyrics of
opoly
among
the
juvenile
members
of
Uncle
Tammany, "but I never experienced any such
Richard
Wagner,
of
this
series.
Sam's
big
family.
Some
are
playing
on
the
outrage of the private rights of a citizen as the
one I suffered on the Hoboken pier. If this is a '"Grand Symphony," others prefer the "Up-to-
result of what is called our protective system, Date Surprise," while not a few use the "Black
HOW SOUND IS PHOTOGRAPHED
we are in a worse state of serfdom than our an- Diamond" as a matter of choice. But the result
is
invariably
the
same
in
the
hands
of
the
player.
cestors of the dark ages."
By Means of a Modification of the "Schlieren"
Harmony is produced, entertainment is afforded,
Apparatus Devised by Prof. Toepler.
pleasure is afforded to all listeners, and the unan-
A subject which has received much attention
PURETON MFG. CO. INCORPORATED.
imous voice of the happy possessors declare that from physicists during the past year is the
the "Hohner" is the "best ever."
graphic representation of sound waves, and sev-
Among the incorporations filed with the Secre-
eral very ingenious devices have been invented
tary of the State of Illinois last week was that
DITSON CO.'S GREATEST YEAR.
for securing this result. The latest and most
of the Pureton Musical Instrument Co., of Chi-
cago, with a capital stock of $20,000 for the pur- All Departments of This Great House Report successful of these is a modification of the
'"Schlieren" apparatus, originally devised by Prof.
pose of manufacturing musical instruments. In-
Big Increase Over Last Year.
Toepler. It is very simple and raay be readily
corporators: C. F. Larson, A. F. Larson and K.
constructed
in any physical laboratory. It con-
A. Ostergren.
(Special to The Review.)
sists of a good-sized achromatic lens, which must
Boston, Mass., Nov. 8, 1904.
Manager C. A. Woodman, of the Oliver Dit- be of the best quality and have a long focus. The
PHONOGRAPH AS A WITNESS.
son Co., has just returned from a business trip lens is mounted in front of two small brass balls
The Vienna police are about to experiment with which occupied two weeks. He visited New York, which form a spark gap in an induction coil cir-
a phonograph in taking a prisoner's answers to Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago, St. Louis, cuit. In this circuit is placed a Leyden jar, which
questions asked in the preliminary examination, and found trade very brisk everywhere. He says is charged by the same current which gives the
so that when the actual trial takes place there that this year's business will be the biggest in spark between the brass balls, and then immedi-
ately discharges itself through another spark gap,
the history of the Ditson house.
may be no dispute as to what was said.
Wholesale Manager Bobzin reports a phenom- "the illuminator," consisting of two thin mag-
Joseph De Kovius, a native of Prussia, and a enal growth in the business on silver wound nesium ribbons pressed between pieces of thick
piano tuner by trade, was found dead one day last strings of the best grade, the business in this plate glass. The capacity of the Leyden jar is so
regulated that the interval between the two
week on the floor of his room, 131 Abbott street, department has increased enormously.
Mr. Bobzin had for his guest one day this week sparks is about one ten thousandth of a second.
Detroit, Mich.
The brass-ball spark gap is set up between the
lens and a photographic camera, in front of
whose objective is placed an adjustable horizon-
tal diaphragm. The passage of an electric spark
between the brass balls starts a sound-wave; an
image of this wave is thrown into the camera
by the light from the magnesium-ribbon spark,
which follows the other so closely that the sound
wave has not time to disappear past the edge of
the lens. The principle on which the apparatus
depends is the varying refractive power ot air.
Has chosen the V i c t o r T a l k i n g M a c h i n e for the pur-
A sound wave is simply a moving condition of
condensation and rarefaction in the air. The
pose of handing her voice down to posterity and has consented
brass-ball spark produces this wave in the sur-
to the publication of her records. This announcement is by far
rounding air; this causes the refractive power of
the most important which it has ever been our good fortune to
these portions of air to regularly vary, and this
make, and we have been widely congratulated on the achieve-
variation is impressed on the photographic nega-
ment. In this connection, Madame Melba writes as follows:
tive in the shape of waves by means of light from
30 Great Cumberland Place, W.
the magnesium spark gap, thrown through the
" I have tried the records and find them really wonderful reproductions
lens against the sensitive plate.
of my singing. I feel that in them, all the care and trouble to which your
MR. McTAMMANY INDIGNANT
THE HOHNER MARINE BAND ECHO.
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The "VICTOR" Always in the Lead!
MADAME MELBA
experts went last month has found great reward. My friends who have heard
them are simply delighted with them. Yours faithfully, NELLIE MELBA."
These are all 12-inch De-Luxe records. Each record is put in a handsome envelope
bearing a photograph of the great prima donna and a fac-simile of her autograph.
THE GRAND PRIZE FOR TALKING MACHINES
at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Mo., has been
Awarded to the Victor Talking Machine Co.
This places the Victor Talking Machines over all others
in the matter of awards at the World's Fair.
THE VICTOR DISTRIBUTING AND EXPORT CO.
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NEW
YOJE*K:
TRUTH IS SOMETIMES BRUTAL.
An innovation among the penny-in-the-slot
weighing machines is the talking weigher, which
announces the registered number of pounds
through a graphophone horn attachment. A
woman in a department store was recently no-
ticed slyly—she was stout—droppiifg a coin into
the machine with the half-afraid manner women
always assume when they imagine other persons
are gauging their weight. The music played but
the little printed card did not drop out. The
woman flushed. She was annoyed, but plucky,
and she stood still. Then the graphophone
hurled out the deadly truth—"One hundred and
eighty." It was all so unexpected that the vic-
tim of her own penny tottered before she fled.