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MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
BOSTON MAKES GOOD SHOWING.
THE AGE OF AUTOMATICS.
Happenings of the Week Show a Further Ex-
pansion of Talking Machine Business in the
City of Culture.
Some Efforts of the Past and What Was
Aimed At.
This is an age of machine-made everything;
we have calculating machines, talking machines,
(Special to The Review.)
machines which record the dynamics of thought,
Boston, Mass., October 1, 1905.
and now, in logical sequence, we are to be sup-
The business of handling and selling talking
plied with one to furnish ready-made dialects for
machines in Boston has a very interesting fea-
immediate use, which, as has been already inti-
ture about it. It is the fact that the business is mated, ought to prove a veritable blessing, not
good all the year around. There seem to be no only to the brain-fagged writer and instructor,
long dull spells, such as there is in many other
but also to a large portion of the human family,
musical lines, but in winter there is the demand
whose own mental apparatus is either incapable
for machines and records for the home or lodge
or too tired to do the work of deep thinking for
meeting, and in summer it is the proper thing them.
to have a machine on the piazza, and entertain
While on the subject of devices intended by
your neighbors as well as your own family. So
their ingenious inventors to reproduce and imi-
the talking machine business is always good in
tate the higher functions of the human machine,
Boston.
we are reminded of the efforts in that line of the
There has been, all through the present year,
famous automatists of the past, one of whom,
a steady increase in the demand for high-grade who flourished in the latter part of the seven-
goods, and there have been numerous exchanges
teenth century, is said to have succeeded in con-
of low-priced instruments for those of better
structing a manikin which played perfectly upon
grade.
the clarinet, performing music placed before it
The extension and alterations to the store of
in an able manner. A certain writer of the
the Eastern Talking Machine Co., Edison repre- period, with a lively imagination, depicts a full
sentatives, are now nearly completed and, about
orchestra composed entirely of these automata,
the middle of this month, Manager Taft will
and declares them to have been satisfactory as
have a store to be proud of. The frame for the musicians, and, he adds, preferable in many re-
front has now been put up and shows that the
spects to their living prototypes. "Wherein as
front will be one of the most attractive on Tre-
much," to use his own quaint words, "these cun-
mont street. The arch over the top adds much ningly fabricated puppets or lay figures neither
to the attractiveness. Despite the general "up- vex the ear of the listener by frequent discords
while engaged in playing, nor getting drunk and
in-arms" state of things in the store this sum-
mer, business with the Eastern Talking Ma- conspiring against their masters during their
hours of idleness." This same scribe also pre-
chine Co. has been steadily increasing, particu-
dicts that Vancusson, the maker, would undoubt-
larly on the Edison line.
A big jobbing and retail business is being edly give to the world some day a more wonder-
done on the Edison machines in Boston by the ful automaton still in the shape of an artificial
musician which would compose musical pieces
Eastern Talking Machine Co., C. E. Osgood Co.,
with as much facility as a Lully or a Scarlatti.
Boston Cycle and Sundry Co., Iver Johnson
This was certainly a remarkable prediction, but
Sporting Goods Co., and by Read & Read.
I have never been able to discover any evidence,
At the local warerooms of the Columbia Phono-
says a writer in The Dominant, that the great
graph Co., the $100 disc machine is having a
big call now and will be the chief feature of the Vancusson ever realized his alleged dream, and
perhaps it is just as well for his own sake that
trade this winter. The loud-tone 20th Century
he did not, for in those days of mental darkness
Graphophone is also creating a good clientele
for itself. Manager F. E. Winchell is now en- and consequent superstition he would undoubt-
edly have been suspected of dealings with his
joying a vacation with his family at Diamond
Sulphurous Majesty and looked upon like a sec-
Ponds, N. H.
ond Prometheus, who, as all scholars know, tried
At Oliver Ditson's, the Victor is being pushed
by Manager Bobzin with great avidity. "There's to make a man out of clay and then vivify the
form with fire stolen from heaven.
nothing like it," Le declared this week, just after
disposing of a $100 instrument.
Mr. Bobzin
has found that there is a ready response to his
monthly list of records, etc., which he sends out.
Numbers beginning with 4 are in 10-in. size; num-
He has just sent out a list of the song records in
bers beginning with 31 are in 12-fri. size.
Sousa's Hand.
German, Spanish, and Italian, with good re-
4452 America
sults. A new feature in the list of records is
44,"):? Favorite Songs of Canada
44.">4 Valse Lente "Amoureuse"
Bergei
the Gregorian High Mass, as executed at St. 31440
Die Meistersinger—Prize Song
Wagner
Piccolo
Solo
by
Marshall
P.
Lufsky,
accom.
by
Peter's, in Rome.
Sousa's Band.
The Boston Musical Instrument House, J. H.
4455 The Turtle Dove
Damare
Cornet
Trio
by
Clarke. Rogers and Bellstedt
Ormsby, manager, is having a run on the 20th
accom. by Sousa's Band.
445G The Three Solitaires
Herbert
Century machine, and the new $100 loud-tone
Pryor's Orchestra.
disc Columbia. . "We can't get all we can sell,"
31443 Dance of the Hours
Ponchielli's Gioconda
Bell Solo by Chris Chapman (Orch. accom.).
he says. Mr. Ormsby sold this week a fine No. 50
44C0 Twilight Shadows
Tobani
Banjo
Solo by Vess L. Ossman (Orch. accom.).
Reginaphone with penny slot attachment to a
4401 Yankee
Land
Hoffman
1
Tenor Solo by Byron G. Harlan (Orch. accom.).
man who had been to another store in Boston
4464 Bright Eves, Good Bye
Van Alstyne
and had left, disgusted with the treatment he
Hymn by Harry Maedonough (Organ accom.).
44(53 All the Way My Saviour Leads Me.. .".... .Lowry
received at the hands of one of the salesmen.
Baritone Solo by Emilio de Gogorza (Orch. accom.).
31446 Prologue I Pagliacci
Leoncavallo
"We believe in making friends, not enemies, of
Bass Solo by Frank C. Stanley (Orch. accom.)
the people who come into our store," said Mr.
44GG Calvary
Rodney
Hymn by Frank C. Stanley (Organ aecom.).
Ormsby, as he showed the cash slips for the
44G2 Rescue the Perishing
Doane
Hymn by Macdonough and Stanley (Organ
sale. Mr. Ormsby has recently added a line of
accom.).
cameras and camera supplies, with which he is
having excellent success. He says that camera
lovers are music lovers in nearly all cases and
the two departments go well together.
VICTOR RECORDS FOR OCTOBER.
Anything'
&nd
TALKING MACHINE SCORES.
Tne talking machine scored in a recent case
heard at the Birmingham County Court in the
suit being brought to cover the cost of a gramo-
phone, the defendant claiming it failed to pro-
nounce the words distinctly. After the judge
had heard one of the records, "The Bay of Bis-
cay," he ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, and
thus the talking machine adds one other to its
many victories.
,
Everything'
in
TALKING
MACHINES
Wholesale
VAN BUREN ST.
James I. Lyons, H2-M E. CHICAGO
47
4470 Shall We Meet Beyond t h e River?
Rice
Duet by Macdonough a n d Bieling (Orch. accom.).
4401) J u s t Before t h e B a t t l e , Mother
Root
Tenor Solo by Billy Murray w i t h H a y d n Q u a r t e t t e
(Orch. accom.).
4471 Lazy Moon
Johnson
Male Q u a r t e t t e s by
Haydn Q u a r t e t t e (Orch. accom.).
5
4472 Leaf by Leaf t h e Roses F a l l
Bishop
4473 G r a n d f a t h e r ' s Clock
Work
Comic Songs by Billy Murray (Orch. accom.).
44G5 F r i e n d s t h a t a r e Good a n d T r u e
Eysler
44G7 In My Merry Oldsmobile
Edwards
Comic Song by F r a n k Kernell (Orch. accom.)
4408 Girl Wanted
Weiuberg
German Specialty by Miss Jones a n d Mr. Spencer
(Orch. a c c o m ) .
4474 Katrina's Valentine
Rube Specialty by Harlan and Stanley
4475 An Evening Call in Jayville Centre
Soprano Solos and Duets by Famous Russian Artists.
Soprano Solos by Mme. A. Michallowa.
G112G Stormy Breezes
Edlichko
(51127 The Birds are Gaily Singing
Rubinstein
01128 The Handkerchief
Soprano Solos by Mme. A. Michallowa with flute
obligato.
Gil20 Aria Lucia de Laminerinoor (Mad scene) . .
Donizetti
G1130 Thou Brilliant Bird (Pearl of Brazil) . .F. David
Soprano Solo by Mme. A. Michallowa with violin
obligato.
61131 Ave Maria
Gounod
Soprano Solos by Mme. A. Mlchailowa with vio-
loncello obligato
61132 Cradle Song
Napravnlk
(51133 The Fateful Moment
Tschaikowsky
Soprano Solo by Mme. A. Michallowa with
orchestra accompaniment.
61134 Aria der Freischutz
Weber
Soprano and Contralto Duets by Mmes. Michal-
lowa and Tugarinoff.
G1135 In Silence
Gurilow
0113G Duet—Pique Dame
Tschaikowsky
01137 The Doubt
Glinka
Duet by Mme. Michallowa and M. Davldow
with orchestra accompaniment.
61138 Duet—La Traviata
Giuseppi Verdi
Favorite Hymns, Organ Accompaniment with
Cornet and Bass Tuba.
By Harry Macdonough.
4403 All the Way My S'aviour Leads Me
Lowry
By Frank C. Stanley.
4462 Rescue the Perishing
Doane
By MacDonough and Stanley
4470 Shall We Meet Beyond the River?
Rice
DEVINEAUX PHONOGRAPH CO.
Will Soon Place Their Specialties on the Mar-
ket—Many Able Men Interested.
(Special to The Review.)
Cleveland, O., Oct. 2, 1905.
The Devineaux Phonograph Co., which was in-
corporated some months ago, are about to place
their product on the market. The capital stock
of the company is $200,000, of which $125,000 is
said to have been paid in. The company will
market a new cylinder record machine, the in-
vention of Mr. Devineaux, the president of the
company. The principal features are the sound-
box, which is declared to be distinctive, and the
fact that instead of the reproducer arm traveling
over the record it is stationary, while the man-
drel travels. A prominent factor in the new
company will be W. J. Roberts, Jr., the former
Edison jobber at Cleveland, who recently sold
out his business to W. F. Powers, of Buffalo, who
continues the business under the name of the
Eclipse Musical Co. Mr. Roberts has a large
block of stock in the Devineaux Co., and has been
elected its secretary and treasurer. The com-
pany will, by the way, exploit the "Pathe" French
record.
NOW USED IN SUNDAY SCHOOLS.
(Special to The Review.)
Chicago, 111., Sept. 30, 1905.
The popularity of the talking machine for all
lines of work is being emphasized daily. The
Chicago office of the Columbia Phonograph Co.
recently received a call from C. E. Hauck, general
secretary of the Cook County Sunday School Asso-
ciation, who requested that a graphophone enter-
tainment be given at a Rally Day meeting of In-
terdenominational Sunday School Superintend-
ents of Cook County, Illinois. Previous meetings
of this kind have been entertained by a vocal ;
quartette. It is Mr. Hauck's idea to have the
graphophone used for entertaining scholars in
every Sunday School in Chicago and vicinity.
The Chicago office has arranged to meet this re-
quest and hope to be able to delight the many
children who will be attracted by this entertain-
ment.
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The Charles H. Hickok Music Co., Poughkeep-
sie, N. Y., have had a full exhibit of their Victor
and Edison lines at the local fair. According
to Mr. Hickok's plans this is the most striking
exhibit .in the main building,
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