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THE
EXPERT TUNERj\ND MUSICIAN.
Miss Alice Clark, of Evansville, 0., Belongs to
Musical Family—Each Member of Family
Plays Some Instrument and Together They
Make an Orchestra of Six Pieces.
(Special to The Review.)
Evansville, 0., Feb. 19, 1913.
Miss Alice Clark, one of the few woman piano
tuners in this country, resides in this city, and may
be found at her daily task of tuning pianos and
piano-players at the store of the Harding & Miller
Music Co.
She has been brought up in a musical at-
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stretching qualities. While the strips are passing
into the press they are treated electrically, so as
to make them malleable. The press is then able
to blank, form, pierce and receipt the valve seats,
turning them out a finished product and dropping
each one into a box. This machine is proving a
great labor and time saver. Each department of
the plant is running full time and is rushed to
meet the demand for the American Three, which
is becoming very popular.
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"American Three"
EXHAUST REGULATING VALVE
For Pneumatic Player Actions and Music Roll
Covered in Two Patents Recently Secured by
the W. W. Kimball Co., of Chicago
(Special to The Review.)
Washington, D. C, Feb. 18, 1913.
The W. W. Kimball Co, of Chicago, 111., i.s the
owner, through assignment by Emory C. Hiscock,
same place, of two patents, Nos. 1,051,400 and
1,051,407, for an exhaust-regulating valve for pneu-
matic player actions and music roll.
Patent No. 1,051,406 relates to pneumatic actions
for mechanical piano-players, and has reference
more particularly to an improved vent regulating
valve. As is well known, in mechanisms of this
character, there is commonly employed a vent-
regulating valve controlling the exhaust effect of
the main exhaust chamber or chest upon the
tracker range and upon one side of a diaphragm,
the opposite side of which is in constant communi-
cation with the main exhaust chamber, and actuates
a valve controlling the alternate communication of
the atmosphere and the exhaust with the interior
of the action-bellows. Heretofore these vent-regu-
lating valves, of which there is one for each pneu-
matic, have commonly consisted of a needle valve
formed with a threaded stem or shank and a screw-
head for purposes of nice adjustment. It has been
found, however, that where such a valve is screwed
into a wooden wall, or, as is sometimes done, is
screwed into the threaded bore of a metallic holder
or casing itself set into the wall, the valve is ex-
ceedingly liable to accidentally get out of correct
adjustment through either the swelling or shrink-
ing of the wall in which it is mounted or by rea-
son of slip of the threaded stem in its mounting
under the effect of contraction and expansion or
for other causes.
Patent No. 1,051,407 relates to improvements in
music rolls, and in this connection the inventor
says that the hygromeiric conditions of the at-
Miss Alice Clark Tuning Piano.
mosphere affect the record sheets when rolled up
mosphere, and besides being an expert tuner is
on the spools, causing the roll to expand or
a cornetiste and pianiste. • She has a splendid ear
lengthen when moist, and contract or shorten when
for music and her experience in playing has helped
dry. Hence various means and devices have been
her a great deal in the art of tuning.
suggested and employed whereby the spool on
She is not the only one of her family who is which the sheet music roll is wound may auto-
musical. Her father plays the violin, while her
matically vary in length with the variations in the
sisters Martha, Stella and Nora play, respectively,
length of the paper roll so as to insure at all times
the piano, clarionet and trombone. The youngest
the smooth winding of the paper on the spool.
member of the family is George, eight years of
The main object of the present invention is to
age, who plays the drum. The family has an provide an improved and simplified music roll
orchestra which plays during the winter at many
wherein the spool is automatically extensible or
social functions in the city.
contractible according to the variations in the'
The Harding & Miller Music Co. handle the
length of the paper roll wound thereon.
Autopiano and other instruments.
INVENTS LABOR=SAVING MACHINE.
Eugene F. Turney, of American Player-Action
Co., Perfects Machine Which Will
Make
Valve Seats in One Operation—Will Turn
Out 10,000 Per Day—Factory Rushed.
Gentlemen:—
Opportunity is
k n o c k i n g at your
door and you are
neglecting to take
advantage of it.
We are doing all we
can to urge you to
investigate what we
are doing.
A good live wire will
investigate anything
if for no other reason
than to find out what
his competitor is do-
ing.
T h e "American Three"
is the greatest Player
Action Proposition you
ever knew of—and
you have only to see
it and get our price to
convince you.
Our success is phe-
n o m e n a l and the
reason is we give you
MAKE NEW DECKER PLAYER.
Dealers Pleased with Style S—New Design
by Decker & Son—J. A. Krumme in South.
W. C. Hepperla, credit manager of Decker &
Son, Inc., 697-701 East 135th street, New York, ,
Eugene T. Turney, vice-president of the Ameri-
stated this week that the new Style S, Decker &
can Player Action Co., 2595 Third avenue, has in-
Son player had had a good call, and that the
vented and installed in the factory of the com-
Decker & Son dealers all over the country had
pany a punch press which in one operation will
hailed it with satisfaction when they first saw
make a valve seat for the player-piano. Here-
photos and cuts of it. The Decker & Son business
tofore it has taken four operations before this par-
h continually on the increase. J. A. Krumme, Jr.,
ticular part of the player mechanism has been com-
sales manager of the firm, is at present making a
pleted and has required the employment of four
trip through the South, and has sent in some good
men to do it. With the use of the new machine
orders.
the services of only one man will be required and
The new design, Style S, is very attractive. The
the machine will be able to turn out 10,000 valve
piano is 4 feet 7 inches high, 5 feet 4 inches wide
seats per day.
and 2 feet 5 inches deep. The trusses and pilas-
The valve seats are cut from strips of non- ters are very handsome, although not highly orna-
corrosive metal, which is. very hard and has no mented,
better goods for less
money.
American Player Action Co.
Eugene T. Turney, Vice-President
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2595 Third Avenue
New York, N. Y.