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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
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TRADE NOTES j-ROM DETROIT.
Courville Piano Player Co. Organize With $30,-
000 Capital—Ling's New Building—Detroit
Association to Hold No Outing.
(Special to The Review.}
Detroit, Mich., July 12, 1907.
The Courville Piano Player Co., organized by
Detroit men, with a capital of $30,000, have filed
articles of association, and will engage in the
manufacture, buying and selling of piano players,
actions, cabinets, pianos and other musical in-
struments. Of the $30,000 capital, $15,000 is sub-
scribed. Shares at $10 each are held as follows:
Joseph Courville, 700; David Farmer, 700; Her-
man Hintz, 50; Charles R. Robertson, 50. The
business formerly was carried on as a partner-
ship, but now will be greatly enlarged.
J. Henry Ling has contractors at work on
what are to be his new quarters in the Cowie
Building. He will occupy the second and third
floors of this large building at Gratiot avenue
and Farrar street. He reports a good July busi-
ness.
H. P. Schmidt, manager of the Cable Company
in Detroit, attended a meeting of the Cable
managers in Chicago.
The Detroit Music Trades' Association has de-
cided to hold no outing this summer—a feature
which many regret not being able to enjoy, but
which others haven't time for.
DEATH OF LEO. H. BATTALIA.
Leo. H. Battalia, who manufactured and re-
paired pianos at 131st straet and Park avenue,
died at his residence, 31 East 127th street, New
York, on Friday, July 12, aged thirty-nine years.
Mr. Battalia was the inventor of an improved
and simplified piano action which was highly
spoken of by experts, and for the manufacture of
which he was making arrangements previous to
his illness, which was brought about through
cancer of the tongue. The funeral services and
interment occurred at Calais, Me., early this
week. A widow survives him.
J. W. IRWIN ADVERTISING EXPERT.
Temple College, in Philadelphia, announces the
appointment of J. W. Irwin as instructor of ad-
vertising for the school term commencing next
fall. Mr. Irwin is advertising manager for C. J.
Heppe & Son, and has designed a course of in-
struction, consisting of lectures and practical
work in writing and preparing advertising.
Classes will meet two evenings weekly, commenc-
ing October 1.
14 feet, was greeted with a volcano of cheers by
those who had assembled to witness the impres-
sive ceremony. A feature of the affair was the
singing by a chorus of a song specially com-
posed by Albert Schermerhorn, one of the em-
ployes, which was accompanied on a magnificent
Kurtzmann piano. Following the flag raising an
informal luncheon was served.
ESTABLISH COURSE OF TUNING.
The University School of Music of Ann Arbor,
Mich., Make an Important Announcement.
The University School of Music of Ann Arbor,
Mich., of which Professor A. A. Stanley is di-
rector, announces that with the opening of the
school year next September, they will establish
a department of piano tuning and repairing.
They have secured as head of this department
W. R. Woodmansee, a graduate of the New Eng-
land Conservatory of Music (organ and piano
tuning), and who for the past ten years has
been connected with several piano factories in
this country. Mr. Woodmansee has been presi-
dent of the State Tuners' Association, and has
been long identified with the advancement of his
profession. Regular class instruction will be
given at the School of Music Building in the ele-
mentary and theoretical aspects of the art, while
arrangements have been made with the Ann ar-
bor Organ Co., manufacturers of the Henderson
pianos, whereby the facilities of that factory
will be thrown open to the students of that de-
partment for practical work in every phase of
tuning.
DECISION OF INTEREST TO INVENTORS.
(Special to The Review.)
Washington, D. C, July 15, 1907.
The Court of Appeals of the District of Colum-
bia have just handed down a decision which is
of general interest to inventors in the music
trade as well as other industries. It reads in
part as follows:
"Inventors are often compelled to have their
conceptions embodied in construction by skilled
mechanics and manufacturers, whose practical
knowledge often enables them to suggest and
make valuable improvements in simplifying and
perfecting machines or devices, and the inventor
is entitled to protection from their efforts to
claim his invention. At the same time an em-
ploye is to be protected from the rapacity of
his employer also, and if in doing the work as-
signed him the employe goes farther than me-
chanical skill enables him to do and makes an
actual invention he is equally entitled to the
benefit of his invention.
"Where an employe claims protection for an
improvement which he devised while working
upon a general conception of his employer, the
burden is generally upon him to show that he
made an invention in fact.
"To claim the benefit of the employe's skill and
achievement, it is not sufficient that the em-
ployer had in mind a desired result and em-
ployed one to devise means for its accomplish-
ment. He must show that he had an idea of the
means to accomplish the particular result, which
he communicated to the employe, in such detail
as to enable the latter to embody the same in
some practical form.
"The reduction to practice of an invention by
an original inventor cannot be taken ^.s 'a re-
duction to practice by another merely because
the ownership of the claims of both may after-
ward become vested in the same person or per-
sons. I t is not enough to entitle an applicant
to a patent that some one else, not his agent,
has shown the practicability of the invention by
reducing it to practice."
BRING SUIT AGAINST TEMPLEMAN CO.
(Special to The Review.)
Chattanooga, Tenn., July 15, 1907.
Clift & Cooke and John H. Early, representing
R. H. Wood, a piano dealer and musician of this
city, have entered suit in the Circuit Court
against the J. H. Templeman Co., seeking to re-
cover $10,000 damages. The nature of the suit is
not known, because attorneys interested will not,
discuss the suit.
Alnutt & McCall is the title of a new piano
firm in Savannah, Ga.
It Will Pay the Music Trade to Investigate this Style 25
Price & Teeple Piano.
NATIONAL MUSIC SHOW LITERATURE.
A very clever booklet has just been issued by
Captain Dressel, manager of the National Music
Show, to be held at Madison Square Garden, Sep-
tember 18 to 26. It contains expressions of ap-
proval from exhibitors of the first annual show
held last year, and is a most valuable brief,
sliov'ins the value of this mode of piano pub-
licity. The introductory to this admirably print-
ed volume is as follows: "One of the strongest
commendations given by the old exhibitors is
the fact that practically all of them are in this
year's show, and many of them have increased
the space occupied a year ago. A careful con-
sideration of this matter, laying all prejudices
and distinctions aside, will convince every
manufacturer or producer of anything pertain-
ing to music that, if the exhibit is properly
cared for, the results cannot help being bene-
fic.'al."
PATRIOTIC KURTZMANN EMPLOYES.
The employes of the factory of C. Kurtzmann
& Co., Buffalo, N. Y., are as patriotic as they
know how to make pianos. On July 4 they had
a rousing celebration in honor of a flag raising
at Factory A. Speeches were made by Treasurer
Messenger and Secretary Hackenheimer, and the
hoisting of a magnificent American flag, 12 by
Write Price & Teeple Piano Co., Chicago, for particulars.