Music Trade Review

Issue: 1914 Vol. 58 N. 22

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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
MAKING RAPID PROGRESS IN BINGHAMTON, N. Y.
Link Piano Co. Now Occupying Spacious Factory in That City and Operating Large Force of
Men Producing Automatic Pianos with Nu m e r ous Original Features.
(Special to The Review.)
tice, but also the pleasure of a musical instrument
that has all the softness and mellowness of the
BINGHAMTON, N. Y., May 25.—One of the busiest
establishments in this busy city is that of the Link hand-played instruments. The tin-panny sound that
Piano Co., which is occupying the spacious factory has so often been identified with the automatic
illustrated herewith at 183-185 Water street. A piano in the past has entirely disappeared so far
large force o.f men are employed on the six floors as the products of the Link Co. are concerned.
The attachments embodied in this product enable
of this well-equipped factory and activity prevails
the operator to secure every possible effect desired,
everywhere.
A visit to this plant reveals the tremendous de- not merely of a piano, but the flute and harp tones
mand that exists for the Link automatic piano, and that are thrown out merge so delightfully that the
instrument may be considered an or-
chestral trio which will be found in-
valuable for use in any hall or resort
where an orchestra is desired.
Operated by electricity, the piano
is brought into operation instantly
and is stopped with equal promp-
titude. That, however, is one of the
older features of automatic instru-
ments. What is most engro.ssing
about the Link piano is that when set
in operation it will continue as long
as desired.
This means that anyone desiring
music for entertainment or dancing
could start the Link. piano and be
moving about among guests or
through any part of the ho.use and
still have music uninterruptedly. A
hotel can furnish music in this way
for its guests all through a meal.
The Link automatic piano has been
in great demand for hotels, where it
is used for dancing parties; it has
also found great favor in moving pic-
ture theaters, and in confectionary
or ice cream parlors. The Link
piano,, as now perfected, contains fif-
teen rolls of music, and these will
run on an average of three minutes
each. This supplies quite sufficient
music for the needs of "movie" audi-
ences or for dancing purposes.
The various lines of instruments
produced by the Link Piano Co. are
most attractive and the architectural
designs are such as to satisfy dis-
criminating purchasers.
Edward A. Link, general manager,
is to be congratulated on the develop-
ment of the business under his con-
trol. Its growth within the last nine
months would indicate that the pres-
ent year will mark a new record
with this house in the matter of new
Factory of the Link Piano Co.
the manner in which its special merits are appre- business developed.
The field for the automatic piano is growing
ciated by the dealers handling them and the pur-
constantly
as the instruments impro.ve in quality
chasing public.
There is with the Link piano, as the demonstrator and the early prejudice against them abates, and
shows, not only the delight of having a piano that with its excellent line the future of the Link Piano
will furnish music without the drudgery of prac- Co. is very bright.
at tlje don&entton
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attending ilje (Eon&entton at ^efo T|ork let frisit iljeir plant at (Grange,
3) ~, (o«% 50 mtnntes from ^Broafrfaa^
^ a k c a ^Real ^Recoro for IJonrself; L e*, a mnsic roll of ang composition
mljiclj y,on plajj (or iljink |jon play) particularly roelL tElje instant QVU arc
iljrongl} placing 16 sheets are perforated complete in eoerg respect anb emboh^
all of jjonr ibtosijncrastes of tempo, iecljniqne, peoaling, etc,
^an can Ijear jjonr mnsic plageb rtgljt back to \jaii anb take ilje roll Ijome.
,3M orber tn reach; mtr plant take tb,e iSubSnag at jjaroabtaatj anb 33rb Street to JMobokm, iljence tfye
JL 'jE- 8c 333. JL J^., I0 Jfigljlanb ^benue J§t»tton, &tt{tcl| is t u t too bucko from our factorg.
^uring th,e ©on&entian die brill, for tlje conbemence anb entertainment of our frienba, keep open bouse at lljfc
Ogregorian Jlotel, 42 J3H. 35tb. .Street, just U2 hlurk off JSrctabumg.
oiljer lyings, let us talk to gou about financing gonr music roll bepartment in ttje future.
C0..
Getting Down to
Plain Player Facts
The education of the public
along player lines is a neces-
sity for the expansion of the
player business.
There is no doubt of that;
and education of the piano
merchants and salesmen is
also a vital necessity, because
through them will come a pow-
erful force in the education
of the public; and right here
we wish to remark that we
have produced a line of books
upon the player-piano which
comprehensively covers the
entire player situation.
In this respect this trade
newspaper stands alone, for it
has been the principal source
from which player informa-
tion has been available for
piano merchants and sales-
men for a period of years.
Our latest book,
"The
Player-Piano
Up to Date"
is the best of the series. It
contains upwards of 220 pages
of matter bearing directly
upon the player.
Every piano merchant and
piano salesman should have
a copy of this book within
easy reach. It gives to read-
ers a fund of information not
obtainable elsewhere.
It contains a series of
original drawings and a vast
amount of instructive and
educational matter, as well as
a detailed description of some
of the principal player mech-
anisms.
It costs $1.50 to have this
book delivered to any address
in the United States, and your
money will be refunded if
you are not satisfied with the
book after examination. No
one yet has availed himself
of this opportunity.
Foreign countries, 15c. ad-
ditional should be added.
EDWARD LYMAN BILL
PUBLISHER
373 Fourth Avenue
New York
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Piano dealers should find in this column many
opportunities to make sales of automatic pianos
and orchestrions as well as many other musical
instruments.
corporators are Louis Bopp, Revere; L. Bopp, Jr., and K.
Bopp.
Henri G. Deser, 15 Beacon street, Boston, is preparing to
make some alterations on a local theater in Lynn, to cost
$25,000.
California.
Minnesota.
Ben Michaels, of San Francisco, has opened a motion
picture theater on Broadway, near Stockton, called the New
Theater.
A. Eby has opened a motion picture theater on Mission
street, near Twenty-eighth, in San Francisco, known as
the Mission Theater.
James T. Turner has obtained a permit to open a moving
picture show at 64 Eddy street, San Francisco.
Harry Laugenour will soon start the erection of a large
moving picture airdome at Woodland.
A new moving picture theater has been erected on the
grounds of the Fetters Hot Springs.
Neal McGuire and J. L. Stone have been granted permits
to conduct an airdome for moving pictures at Chico
Plans are being prepared for a moving picture theater
to be erected, at a cost of $25,000, at Burlingame.
A one-story motion picture theater will be built by Red-
ding & Stroud in Windom.
The City Amusement. Co. will soon erect a moving picture
theater in Devil's Lake.
cently incorporated for $5,000. M. Faiecer, M. Rothbert,
A. Carlos, 1950 Washington avenue.
Sanger Bros. Motion Picture Co., New Rochelle, has
been incorporated for $200,000.
S. V. Dowling, F. B.
Knowlton, Harry R. Sanger, 1402 Broadway, New York
City.
La Rose Amusement Corporation has recently been in«
corporated for $5,000. The incorporators are M. Randolph,
H. C. Gamage, G. W. Kirkman, 25 Broad street, New York
City.
John J. Walker is having plans prepared for a moving
picture theater at Schenectady, to cost $2,000.
The East Avenue Amusement Co. is planning the erec-
tion of a theater building, cost $100,000, at Rochester.
Edward Clapp is having plans made for a theater building,
to cost $30,000, at Amsterdam.
Missouri.
Nebraska.
Carl Boiler, Kansas City, in the Gayety Theatre building,
is planning to construct a moving picture theater soon.
Kennedy & Steigemeyer, Benoist building, St. Louis, are
preparing plans for a motion picture theater to be built
in Marshall.
The Mozart Amusement Co., St. Louis, has been incorpo-
rated for $2,000. The incorporators are Hector M. E.
Milton, E. N. and Randolph H. Pasmezoglu.
Jacob Burnstein, Twentieth and Cuming streets, Omaha,
will make improvements on his moving picture theater
costing $2,000.
Walter Savidge is contemplating the erection of a moving
picture theater in Wayne.
North Carolina.
The Lakeview Amusement Co., of Charlotte, has been in-
corporated for $25,000. R. L. Womack, W. S. Orr and
Charles Gibson are the incorporators.
Pennsylvania.
John J, Schmidt, of Hanover, is constructing a moving
picture house.
Texas.
The Rio Grande Feature Film Co., El Paso, has been
incorporated for $20,000. The incorporators are P. J. Terry,
W. A. Muir, and P. J. McMullen.
The Phillips Amusement Co., Fort Worth, has been in-
corporated for $15,000. E. H. Phillips, T. B. Yarbrough
and W. C. Stonestreet.
Washington.
The Klipson Hotel Co., Klipson Beach, has been incor-
porated for $20,000. A. T. Stream, H. J. Weigardt and
Viola Stream are the incorporators.
Wisconsin.
The Hadfield Theater Co., Superior, has been incorpo-
rated for $20,000. The incorporators are W. M. Steele,
M. M. Hoit and A. Munro.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR SALE OF AUTOMATIC PIANOS.
New Motion Picture Theaters in Various Sections of the Country That Will Require Orches-
trions, Automatic Pianos or Other Musical Equipment.
Connecticut.
Plans are being prepared for Samuel Roodner
theater building to be built in South Norwalk.
for
a
Delaware.
The Garden Co. has been incorporated for $400,000; the-
atrical proprietors. The incorporators are M. M. Dugan,
George W. Dillman, M. L. Horty, of Wilmington.
Illinois.
D. S. Klafter, 64 West Randolph street, Chicago, is pre-
paring plans for a two-story theater, to cost $75,000. The
seating capacity will be 1,000.
Howard H. Hoyt, Jr., and L. J. Washburn, Evanston, are
having plans made for a theater building, to cost $65,000.
Frederick O. Cloyes, 189 W. Madison St., Maywood, is
preparing plans for a theater building.
E. J. Rosser has awarded the contract for the erection of
a moving picture theater at Nelsonville to Charles Vorhes.
The seating capacity will be 300 and the theater will cost
$10,000.
W. A. Ross, Hoopeston, has awarded a contract to Titus
Frankenfield to remodel his moving picture theater so it
will have a larger seating capacity.
W. W. Watts, 111 North Fifth street, Springfield, is
having plans made for a new vaudeville and moving picture
theater, with seating capacity of 1,100.
Indiana.
The old Opera House at Greenfield has just been opened
afi a moving picture theater.
The F. J. Rembusch Enterprises, of Indianapolis, have
been incorporated, with a capital stock of $10,000. They
will operate vaudeville houses featuring moving pictures.
Kansas.
The North St. Joseph Real Estate Co., 609 Edmond
street, St. Joseph, Mo., is to build a one-story moving pic-
ture theater at Atchison, Kan., to cost $30,000.
The
Standard Amusement Co., of St. Joseph, Mo., is the lessee.
Kentucky.
Arthur Mitchel, manager of the Dixie Theater at Russell-
ville, is about to move into the Dixie's new home.
The Powell Lumber Co., Lewisburg, has opened a new
picture show.
New moving picture shows have been opened at Bevier
and Livermore.
J. R. Hobson has opened the Arena, a "movie" house at
Campbellsville, and a new electric piano furnished the music
for the opening.
G. W. Neville, of Louisville, has reopened the old Ma-
jestic Theater, of Jeffersonville, Ind.
Manager John Buckland is about to open a picture show
in the Odd Fellows Hall.
C. P. Davidson, of luiddleboro, has opened the new Ly-
ceum Theater.
Luther E. Huron, of Lancaster, with several associates,
has formed a company to construct a motion picture house.
The Howe & Soper Amusement Co. has been incorpo-
rated at Nicholasville, with a capital stock of $1,000.
The new Abin Motion Picture Theater, of Hodgenville,
has opened for business.
J. T. Dillon will install a picture show in the building
now occunied by Curlin, Shaw & Co., in Hickman.
Geo. W. Bouck has leased one of the storerooms in the
new building being put up by A. A. Faris in the same town
and will open a picture show.
T. B. Dixon will use the new building being erected next
to the building used by an undertaking establishment at
Scottsville, for a motion picture show.
The Fourth Avenue Amusement Co. in Louisville has
leen incorporated for $75,000 and will open a motion pic-
ture house on Fourth avenue, between Walnut and Green
streets.
New York.
The Seventy-second Street Amusement Co. is planning
the erection of a two-story moving picture theater in New
York City, to cost $25,000.
The Hof Co. has recently been incorporated for $5,000;
hotels and restaurants. The incorporators are J. J. Spiel-
berger, A. F. Schaefer and H. P. Hof, 435 East Twenty-
third street, New York City.
The Interurban Amusement Co., Schenectady, has been
incorporated for $6,000; E. Savage, H. R. Leonard, A. M.
Jackson.
The Chenango Theater Corporation, Norwich, has been
incorporated for $35,000.
The incorporators are R. S.
Eaton, W. H. Wells, Adam Tennis, Utica.
The Chartered Theaters Corporation, New York City, has
been incorporated for $150,000. H. A. Hallett, F. U. Adams
and V. J. O'Farrell, 27 William street, are the incorporators.
The International Pastime Co., Buffalo, has been incor-
porated for $5,000. The incorporators are C. D. Devere,
S. E. Crittenden and H. J. Brown.
The Brunell Amusement Co., New York City, has been
incorporated for $5,000. Charles Black, H. C. Wing, Giu-
seppe Brunell, 307 West Forty-third street, are the incor-
porators.
The Van Kelton Amusement Corporation, New York City,
has been incorporated for $6,000. A. M. Rosenthal, J. S.
Siegel, Francis Gilbert, 237 West 122d street, are the incor-
porators.
The Marie Hotel Co., Freeport, has recently been incor-
porated for $15,000. The incorporators are Isidor Mayer,
H. J. George, Charles Johnsen.
The Mirror Motion Picture Co. was recently incorporated
for $50,000. L. B. Parmer, R. V. and W. F. Haddock, 570
East Fifteenth street. New York City.
The Tidewater Standard Co., to build structures for ad-
vertising and amusements, has been incorporated for $10,000
in Brooklyn.
The incorporators are A. G. McLaughlin,
P. G. Honeyman.
M. Lippman, 226 Pennsylvania avenue,
Brooklyn.
Guillaume & Co., Utica, hotels, has been incorporated for
$10,000. J. G. Fritten, F. L. and H. F. Guillaume are the
incorporators.
Smith & Quinn's Restaurant was recently incorporated
for $10,000. The incorporators are R. F. Mitchell, A. B.
Wilde and W. Quinn, 24 Myrtle avenue, Brooklyn.
The C. & R. Amusement Co., New York City, was re-
The
A MUSICAL RENDEZVOUS
Is the Establishment of Chas. H. Ditson & Co.,
of New York, Where, in Addition to a Com-
plete Line of Musical Merchandise and Mu-
sic, the National Piano Co.'s Line of Pianos
and Players Are Handled.
One of the attractive points in the musical in-
strument industry of New York is the large build-
ing of Chas. H. Ditson & Co., wherein eight
floors are devoted to the display and sale of
musical instruments of all kinds. This company
is the local representative for the Briggs, Merrill
and Norris & Hyde pianos, as well as the metal
Arrow-player; the department being in charge of
Louis R. Dressier.
A. L. Jewett, of the National Piano Co., will be
here during the conventions and the dealers who
contemplate looking at the National players can
see an entire line of styles in their respective fin-
ishes at Ditson's.
Approval
OFFER
that was recently made
by this company to re-
sponsible dealers has met
with a wonderful response
from North, South, East
and West.
W e are making this
offer because we £non>
that the Coinola is "trou-
ble-proof" and sure to
make good.
Maine.
The Eastern Theaters Co., of Boston, has taken over the
management of the Casco Theater at Portland.
Maryland.
George K. Callis, Jr., Knickerbocker building, Baltimore,
will build a one-story moving picture theater in this city
which will cost $10,000.
Style C—a big seller—is encased
attractively in mission oak with an
illuminated art glass panel.
The
attractive steel orchestra bell at-
tachment, new scale, improved
mandolin attachment, nickel-plated
frame, high grade keys, felts, etc.,
offer a remarkable value in auto-
matics.
Massachusetts.
The T. J. Broderick Co., of Ipswich, has been incorpo-
rated for $5,000; hotel. The incorporators were Thomas J.
l-roderick, T. J. Broderick and M. J. Lucey.
The Navahoe Club, of Boston, has been incorporated for
$40-,000. C. F. Corey, John H. Brennan, of Everitt, and
C A. Reardon, of Boston, are the incorporators.
The Revere Beach Amusement & Construction Co., Re-,
vere, has recently been incorporated for $15,000. The in-
STYLE
C—"TROUBLE-PROOF"
COINOLA
OPERATORS PIANO COMPANY
1911 CLYBOURN
AVENUE
CHICAGO

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