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THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
that therefore a violin should have no sides, pre-
senting a flat surface. He eliminates them,
Operated With Automatic Sheet Music to Play therefore, gluing the top of the violin directly
to the bottom and so shaping them that the point
Any Tune.
of junction is round. The natural swell of the
The increasing popularity of the self-playing wood gives the space in the interior.
The violin was played last week at the South-
piano has induced inventors to extend this style
of music to other instruments. The most recent ern Theater by Franc Ziegler, and was also tried
is an "automatic sheet music cornet," patented by by a violinist at the Neil House, both players ex-
a Chicago man. Like the piano-player, the music pressing themselves as much pleased with the
is on a perforated roll, the latter operating in a new design. Mr. Borneman has placed his violin
casing surrounding the cornet. . The "near-cor- in the hands of patent attorneys, who will take
netist" simply blows continually on the mouth- it to Washington this week to have it patented.
piece and a tune is the result. All complicated
fingering is done away with. In a few years
NEW HOHNER STAND
every member of the brass band will have his
instrument equipped with one of these automatic For Holding a Dozen Harmonicas in Assorted
attachments. With a cornet equipped with this
Styles and Keys Is Now Being Introduced by
M. Hohner.
automatic music roll, the cornet lover will be
able to enjoy his favorite music at home as does
the lover of piano music.
It remains unchallenged that in the exploita-
tion of their line—harmonicas and accordeons—
PERFECTS VIOLIN_DEVOID OF SIDES. the house of Hohner is conceded to be original,
pertinent and persistent. In other words, M.
Top and Bottom of Instrument Are Joined Di-
Hohner is a thorough believer in advertising and
rectly to Each Other—All Surfaces Are
the fruits thereof he enjoys, as the best informed
Round—Radical Departures on Design Used
freely acknowledge and accord him a full meed of
for Four Hundred Years.
praise. In keeping with this policy a new Hohner
stand—beautiful and attractive, as they fittingly
describe it—is offered the trade for hoi;1 ing a
(Special to The Review.)
dozen harmonicas in assorted styles and keys.
ColumDus, O., Feb. 3, 1908.
For half a thousand years violins have been A full description, accompanied by an illustra-
of one design. The violinists of to-day are still tion of this handy and artistic article appears in
making violins after patterns of violin makers their advertisement in this department, to which
of four hundred years ago. It remains for a the trade's special attention is invited.
Columbus man to announce that the design is
wrong, and to build a violin on different lines
THE LOVE OF A VIOLINIST.
and submit it to Columbus violinists for trial,
to prove it.
"A violinist," said M. Ysaye, "can love as many
Herman Borneman, of 873 East Livingston fiddles as a sultan can love wives, and more. I
avenue, a designer and patternmaker employed should like a violin harem—a regular seraglio of
at the Columbus Steam Pump works, has de- fiddles—Strads, Guadagninis, a Guarnerius or
signed and made a violin which has no sides and two, a few Amatis, and even a few Gaglianos."
whose interior presents no flat surfaces.
Once, early in his career, he was passionately
He points out that flat surfaces are not in ac- attracted by an alleged Guadagnini in a pawn-
cord with any of the laws of good acoustics, and broker's window in Hamburg. Buying it was out
of the question, and the pawnbroker, after much
persuasion, only consented to lay aside the in-
strument for a while. Even then possession
seemed remote until Ysaye, meeting a diamond-
dealing friend, actually fired him with so much
enthusiasm for fiddles that he consented to leave
a bag of stones with the pawnbroker as security
for the instrument. "In this way," said Ysaye,
"I was married to my first love among the
fiddles, my beautiful Guadagnini."
SELF=PLAYING CORNET.
J. B. FURRER OFF TO THE COAST.
The General Manager of the Regina Co. on Ex-
tended
Business
Trip—Secretary
Gibson
Well Pleased With Progress of New York
Store.
J. B. Furber, general manager of the Regina
Co., Rahway, N. J., left Sunday night on a trip
to the coast. He will visit the intermediate
cities, also the branch houses, and will be away
two months. Mr. Furber goes unaccompanied
and will devote his entire time to the business
of the company.
L. T. Gibson was a visitor at the New York
store Saturday conferring with Manager Wilber,
and was pleased with the unique window display
that attracts the attention of crowds daily.
"Psycho" is displaying his automatic personality
in the uptown branch on 125th street.
FRANK SCRIBNER'S WESTERN TOUR.
Frank Scribner, the Weiss harmonica repre-
sentative, will go West in a week or ten days on
his regular spring selling tour. He is due to
arrive in Chicago February 25, possibly earlier
if deemed expedient, and will visit the principal
jobbers in the Middle West. Mr. Scribner is not
expected East again until the middle of March.
At present he has something new up his sleeve
in connection with his new instrument, known
as the Pipeolion, and on which he will be ready
to report in some detail on returning from the
W T est.
«Last toast and of obligation
A health to the IVatlve-t>ot-n.'»
THE LATEST PRODUCT
BELL BRAND HARMONICAS
This Harmonica is
offered as the only
Mouth-organ made in
the United States, and
it is constructed en-
tirely from domestic
material by American
machinery and labor.
We claim for it the fol-
lowing advantages:
It is a perfectly tuned
Harmonica, and is
therefore a Musical
Instrument — not a
toy.
.
It is responsive and
sweet-toned.
The BELL BRAND ORI-
OLE HARMONICA is
recommended as being
strictly high grade in
every detail.
It will slay longer in
tune than any other
make.
It will stand more
jabuse.
THE ORIOLE
The First Americatrmade Harmonica.
Can be obtained from the following wholesale houses:
C. Bruno & Son, New York City, N. Y.
Buegeleisen & Jacobson, New York City, N. Y.
Oliver Dilson Company, Boston, Mass.
W. J. Dyer & Bro., St. Paul, Minn.
J. W. Jenkins Sons Music Co., Kansas City, Mo.
Robert C. Kretschmar, Philadelphia, Pa.
Lyon & Healy, Chicago, HI.
C. Meisel, New York City, N. Y.
INATIOINAU JY1USICAL, STRUNG CO.,
=
Sherman, Clay & Co., San Francisco, Cal.
Jos. W. Stern & Co., New York City, N. Y.
Tonk Bros. Co., Chicago, III.
The Rudolph Wurlitzer Co., Cincinnati, Ohio.
N e w B r u n s w i c k , IN. J .