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THE MUSIC TRADE! REVIEW
elevated to enable olie to get away from the reg-
ular 4 or 8-bar rhythm and the bald repetition of
the average tune a new world is opened. Practise
in hearing alone is necessary to enable the music
lover to see that the possibilities of melody are
endless and that the irregular rhythm, the irreg-
ular divisions of a melody, no matter how long
drawn out and complex, are but so many added
beauties.
PIANOLA RECITALS IN CHICAGO.
Beautiful Little Auditorium Which Forms Part
of Aeolian Warerooms Being Renovated for
Active Campaign the Coming Season.
(Special to The Review.)
Chicago, 111., July 20, 1912.
The beautiful little theater in the Fine Arts
Melody is indeed the basis of all good composi- Building, and which is owned and controlled by the
tion. Music without it would be impossible. But Aeolian Co., as part of its display rooms, is
being renovated and made most attractive this
everything depends, when you say this, on whaf
you mean by melody. The" true answer is not summer for the Pianola recitals, which will form
found until you have learned to see that the most an important feature of the musical season the
elaborate musical works are themselves based on coming fall. During the last winter and spring
melody, and that melody itself is not confined to this hall was crowded to its seating capacity, which
the simple but extends through the complex. To is about 800, and frequently it has been found nec-
perceive this truth is to be a music lover of true essary to encroach on the Aeolian warerooms
which adjoin the Auditorium to meet the demands
color, a musical thinker.
of the visitors. The coming season it is intended
to carry on a more active propaganda in behalf of
the Pianola and other Aeolian instruments, and this
The Famous Pianist Who Delighted America hall will serve to good purpose in this connection.
Last Season Expresses Her Appreciation of
the Rythmodik Rolls of Her Playing.
GOODSON IN RYTHMODIK ROLLS.
IMPROVEMENTS IN TRACKER BARS.
The American Piano Co., of New York, has re- Some Petails of the Invention on Which Patent
ceived the following letter, dated July 8, from Miss
Has Been Issued to Wm. F. Cooper, Norwalk,
Katharine Goodson, regarding the Rythmodik music
O.—Connecting Bar with Tracker Duct.
rolls of her playing referred to recently in The
Review, and which will be issued early in the
(.Special to The Review.)
Katharine Goodson.
autumn. As will be noted, she pays a high com-
pliment to the work of the American Piano Co. in
this connection, and it goes without saying that
the many admirers of Katharine Goodson through-
out the country will be delighted to have her won-
derful playing photographed for use in the home,
thus forming a means of entertainment and in-
struction, for Katharine Goodson is undoubtedly
an artiste of the highest attainments. The letter
follows:
"To the American Piano Co., New York.
"Dear Sirs—The Rythmodik records of my play-
ing are wonderful. When I played the Debussy
Arabesque I did not think it possible to give in a
music roll for a player-piano the delicacy required.
That you have produced it is no less a surprise
than a delight. All my records are quite the most
remarkable I have ever heard, the touch and tone
color are there in so great a degree that one can-
not help but marvel at the invention which makes it
possible.
"(Signed)
Katharine Goodson."
VACTJ COUPLER PLAYER ACTION CO.
The Vacu Coupler Player Action Co. was incor-
porated last week with the secretary of the State
of Maine, with a capital of $100,000. The incor-
porators are: Ernest L. McLean, Burleigh Martin,
E. M. Hussey, R. S. Buzzell, Augusta, Me., and
E. M. Leavitt, Winthrop.
Washington, D. C, July 22, 1912.
Patent No. 1,032,467 on a tracker bar was this
week granted to William F. Cooper, Norwalk, O.
'I his invention has particular relation to the man-
ner of connecting the bar with the tracker ducts
leading to the pneumatic mechanism.
Self-playing musical instruments, the operation
of which is controlled by the use of music sheets
having perforations, have generally been arranged
in such manner as to provide for the use of but a
portion of the note-scale of the instrument. For
instance, self-playing pianos have generally been
provided with mechanism controlling approximately
sixty-five notes of the note-scale of the piano; and
the sheets prepared for a note-scale of this type-
have their perforations arranged within the limits
of this scale. It has been found, however, that this
limited scale does not permit of the performance
of certain classes of music, in that the proper ex-
ecution of the music requires a note-scale greater
than that provided by the playing instrument, ne-
cessitating a change in the arrangement of the
music if the selection is to be performed on the
instrument. To eliminate this and other objections
the note-scale has been increased to such an extent
as to include substantially the entire note-scale of
the piano, thereby raising the number af actuating
mechanisms from sixty-five to approximately
eighty-eight. By this change, however, the tracker
box mechanism must be lengthened to provide for
the additional number of tracker ducts in the
tracker bar or board, and to avoid increasing the
length of the- board to an excessive degree, the
ducts in the board have been decreased in length
on the plane of the opening thereof, the general ar-
rangement being to provide nine ducts to the inch
in place of the six ducts to the' inch structure used
with the sixty-five note-scale tracker board. Obvi-
ously, corresponding changes are made in the per-
forations of the music sheet, so that a music sheet
formed for use in connection with a sixty-five
note-scale structure and vice versa, cannot be used
with the same tracker board ducts, since the per-
forations in one would not coincide with the
tracker duct openings used for the other. How-
ever, music sheets perforated for both forms of
note-scale are now in current use, and in order
that either form may be employed in connection
with a playing mechanism, it is necessary that the
playing mechanism including the tracker box struc-
ture be formed to permit of the use of music
sheets of either type.
If you are a talesman, tuner or traveler, and
desire a position, forward your wants in an ad-
vertisement to The Review in space not to ex-
ceed four lines and it will be inserted free of
charge and replies sent to you.
There's no
surer, or more
satisfactory, or
more profitable
way of selling a
piano on the in-
stallment plan
than that used
in connection
with the
SEEBURG
Art Style Elec-
tric, Coin-Con-
trolled Piano.
Simply get it
located and it
pays for itself.
The plan ap-
peals t o t h e
purchaser.
J. P. Seeburg Piano Co.
OFFICES:.
902-904 Republic Building
State and Adams Streets
FACTORY:
415-421 S. Sangamon Street,
CHICAGO