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Music Trade Review

Issue: 1916 Vol. 63 N. 12

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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
SIMPLEX TEAM WINS PENNANT
PLAYER ROLLS SHOULD BE "READ"
Closes Season in Shop League of Worcester
With a Record of Twelve Games Out of
Fourteen Won in Shop League Contest
The Difference Between Skilful and Amateurish
Playing Lies in a Proper Interpretation of
the Markings on Player Rolls
WORCESTER, MASS., September 11.—The base-
The following article, from the music page
ball team of the Simplex Player Action Co. has of the New York Evening Mail, demonstrates
won the pennant in the "National" division of how musical subjects may be interestingly and
instructively written, and follows out the theory
which has been advanced at the recent trade
conventions that greater interest in things
musical may easily be created by proper pub-
licity. The article, which explains the neces-
sity for watching the markings on music rolls,
says:
Every one that uses a player-piano should
"read" the perforations and expression marks
of the music roll, just as a pianist reads the
notes and other signs on his printed sheet-
music. And not only read them but apply
them to his playing.
The Simplex Player Action Ball Team
Thus the player-pianist will both give and
the Shop League of Worcester. The team has
been playing strong ball all summer, and the take more pleasure in his performance. Noth-
last game of the season, played between the ing is so boring as player-piano music ground
Simplex team and the team from the Worcester out in a steady stream of uniform tone and
Manufacturing Co. was captured by the Simplex unchanging time. And there is no excuse for
boys, the score being 3 to 1. The team, a picture it, since the few devices for musical expres-
of which is shown herewith, now leads their sion are so adequate, yet so simple.
By "reading" the passing music roll even the
division with a percentage of .857, having won
musically unskilled performer knows when to
twelve games out of fourteen.
play loud and when soft; when gradually to in-
crease the tone and when to decrease it; where
STANDARD BUSINESS INCREASING
to retard the speed and where to accelerate;
An interesting fact regarding the business of which perforations represent the melody notes
the Standard Pneumatic Action Co., Fifty-sec- —those all-important notes that should be ac-
ond • street and Twelfth avenue, New York, is cented—and which the accompaniment notes
that up to August 31, this year, within 2,700 that should be subdued.
The dotted zigzag "expression line" and the
Standard Player Actions of their entire output
of last year, were shipped. During the last perforations of a music roll are a complete and
four months of last year 9,300 Standard Player graphic diagram of the music being played—
Actions were shipped. With September, Oc- far more easily read than sheet-music. In fact,
tober, November and December yet to come absolutely no musical knowledge is required to
this year, the volume of business will show a "read" it.
remarkable increase.
The position and direction of the dotted line
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indicates the dynamic effects—loud, soft, gradual
increase and decrease, while the perforations
show every characteristic of the notes as played
—long, short, high, low, runs, trills, flourishes,
chords.
The "tracker-bar," with its eighty-eight holes
(over which the roll passes in playing) is like
a miniature keyboard, each hole corresponding
to a note of the piano. For instance, per-
forations in the roll for ascending passages run
from left to right, the same as on the piano;
descending passages from right to left.
Some people become so expert in "reading"
music-roll perforations that they go into a
music store, unroll a yard or so of music, and
can decide by looking at the perforations
whether or not they want the piece.
DANQUARD PLAYER SCHOOL REPORT
Four Graduations and Seven New Students at
the School During the Past Month
Reports from the Danquard Player Action
School, New York, for the month of August
show that there are seven new students en-
rolled in the day class and four graduations.
The report also shows that a Crippen player
action has been installed in the school. The
students registered in the day class are: Thos.
Cade, 494 East Second street, Peru, Ind.;
Ernest Kreis, 577 Broadway, Buffalo, N. Y.;
A. L. > Stecker, 639 Twenty-sixth street, Mil-
waukee, Wis.; George Seuss, 61 Knox street,
Lawrence, Mass.; James T. Lee, 139 East
Eighteenth street, New York City; W. Howard
Ewing, Saltsburg, Indiana County, Pa.; Samuel
Warren, Adrian, Mich.
Those who graduated were: Prof. Thos.
Beardsworth, Staunton, Va., 91 per cent.; E. R.
Francis, 18 West Church street, Newark, O.,
93^ per cent.; W. J. Davis, Knoxville, Tenn.,
9434 per cent.; George A. Abeel, 1431 South
Salina street, Syracuse, N. Y., 83% per cent.
J. W. CLIFjvPROMOTED
J. W. Cliff, formerly manager for Grinnell
Bros., at Hancock, Mich., will become assistant
to the manager at the main office in Detroit
in the first of October.
Consult the universal Want Directory of
The Review. In it advertisements are inserted
free of charge for men who desire positions.
Manalaatarsra • !
PIANOS AND PLAYER-PIANOS
Th«r «r« UNEQUALED Jot muiictl efiactiveneM. raliabitite and durability and are the TRADE STANDARD
Factory and Office, Jowott Avonuo and Bolt Lino, BUFFALO, N. Y.
ANGELUS
PIANO-PLAYER
Introduced in 1895 and constantly im-
proved and developed to its present point
of superiority.
PIANO
An excellent upright piano with an
Angelus incorporated in it, making one
complete and compact instrument.
THE MELODANT and THE PHRASING LEVER
are patented expression devices found only on the Angelus. The Angelus
instruments are the results of years of experience and success.
THE WILCOX & WHITE
COMPANY
MERIDEN. CONN.
Established 1876
Melville
Clark's
APOLLO R=
Established Retail Price 0 7 A A i - &O AM\
Consistent with Quality $/UU 10 ?£,'1UU
MELVILLE CLARK PIANO CO.
FINE ARTS BUILDING, CHICAGO
YOUR, T&IZWrOIZY AfAYB&
THE AUTOPIANO COMPANY 12 T -* AVE . 51 S - T TO 52 N - D /TREET»T
NEW
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SELLING "TIPS" FOR DEALERS^INMOTION PICTURE PLAYERS
New Motion Picture Theatres, Churches, Hotels and Restaurants in Various Sections of the
Country That Will Require Orchestrions, Automatic Pianos and Other Musical Equipment
Opportunities to make sales of automatic
pianos and orchestrions will be found in this
column by piano dealers desirous of developing
these prospects in the respective • localities
mentioned:
British Columbia
A large new theatre is being erected at Vancouver by
the Pantages.
( alilornia
Anderson & Wood have leased the new moving picture
theatre at Redding.
Idaho
A new moving picture theatre has been opened at
Kmmett by F. M. Buckman.
Illinois
The Grand Boulevard Theatre Co., of Chicago, has been
incorporated with a capital stock of $20,000; to operate and
conduct theatres and moving picture productions. The in-
corporators are Louis E. Jacobson, Francis J. Sullivan and
Kdgar H. Deets.
J. Will Stone, of Pittsfield, is planning to open a new
moving picture theatre at Perry.
A new moving picture theatre has been opened at
L'rookport.
Romeo Theatre & Amusement Co., Chicago; $1,000; Isaac
W. Flight, Rasolite A. Sanden, J. W. Brown, incorporators.
Senate Hotel, Freeport; $4,500; Frank M. Keck, M. B.
Keck, F. E. Davis, incorporators.
Cafe Adair, Chicago; $2,500; Joseph Rosenberg, incor-
porator.
Central Inn, Chicago; $2,500; Thomas S. G. Newbold,
incorporator.
Schaefer Brothers' Theatre, Chicago; $6,000; Andrew
J. Ryan, incorporator.
Indiana
The Washington, a new moving picture theatre, will be
opened at Richmond by Dr. Charles E. Duffin, H. H.
Englebert and Clarence Finney.
A new $30,000 church will be erected at Terre Haute
by the Centenary M. E. Church.
The South Side Evangelical Church will erect a new
$16,000 structure at Elkhart.
Iowa
I.eon Weil is planning to erect a new $50,000 theatre at
Sioux City.
A new theatre will be erected on Front street, Clarence,
by Mayor Bittner, which will be leased by Manager Collins.
Bruce Jones has been making arrangements to open a
new moving picture theatre at Keswick.
The Pastime Theatre, at Maquoketa, which was de-
stroyed by fire, has been rebuilt and opened by Manager
Weber.
Maryland
A new moving picture theatre has just been opened at
Hagerstown by E. T. Wright.
Michigan
First Baptist Church is erecting a new $12,000 church
at Alma.
A new $60,000 church will be erected at Royal Oak by
the First M. E. Church.
The M. E. Church at Eaton Rapids is planning to erect
a new $10,000 structure.
New Jersey
Universal Amusement Co., Wildwood; $30,000; M. J.
Neary, T. F. Reddington, Scranton, Pa., Rollin S. Cham-
berlain, incorporators.
North Carolina
The Acme, a new moving picture theatre, has just been
opened at Goldsboro by H. R. Mason.
A. B. Huff and Leonard Henderson have leased the
new moving picture theatre being erected on the site of
the old McAdoo Hotel at Greensboro.
' A new moving picture theatre, the Almeda, will be
erected on the site of the H. A. Ross residence, at Albe-
marle, which, is being moved.
Ohio
Emil Mandelbaum is planning to open the new Stillman
Theatre at Cleveland soon.
A new theatre, to be known as the Clinton, is being
erected at Wilmington for Chas. W. Murphy, of Chicago.
A new $40,000 church is being erected at Lancaster by
the German Lutheran Church.
is the provision of facilities for securing the
registration, or tracking, of the perforations in
the material with the apertures in the tracker
board.
The automatic mechanism forming the es-
sence of the Patent No. 1,197,574 may, accord-
ing to the inventor, be very usefully employed
or embodied in, or in connection with, an or-
gan, orchestrion or other like instrument hav-
ing tone-emitting elements for manual scales
and pedal scales, its employment in such case
being as a means for selectively operating the
tone-emitting elements so that the tones
emitted will be manual tones alone, pedal tones
alone, or both manual and pedal tones to-
gether, in any of the infinite variety of com-
binations of manual and pedal tones necessary
to the proper playing of musical compositions.
The automatic mechanism forming the es-
sence of Patent No. 1,197,575 may be very use-
fully employed or embodied in, or in connection
with, an organ, orchestrion or other likte instru-
ment having tone-emitting elements for manual
scales and pedal scales, its employment in such
case being as a means for selectively operating
tone-emitting elements so that the tones
emitted will be manual tones alone, pedal tones
alone, or both manual and pedal tones to-
gether.
The United Presbyterian Church is erecting a new
$15,000 church at Warren.
.\ new $25,000 structure is being erected at Kinsman by
the Methodist Church.
The Community Congregation is erecting a new $15,000
chuich at Avon.
Trinity M. E. Church is erecting a new structure at
Cincinnati.
Oregon
Meyers & Leiter are planning to erect a new moving
picture theatre at La Grande.
Pennsylvania
The Stanley Realty Co. have purchased the property at
190014 Market street, Philadelphia, and will erect a new
$600,000 moving picture theatre upon it.
Panopolis and Lambrus have purchased a site at Wood-
lawn, and will erect a new moving picture theatre upon it.
A new $10,000 theatre, the Gem, is being erected on
First avenue, Derry, by G. B. Meyers & Son.
A new moving picture theatre is to be erected at Fifth
and State streets, Erie, by II. B. Ashby and E. B. Ashby.
Manos Brothers will have their new $100,000 moving
picture theatre at Greensburg ready to open about the
middle of October.
Tennessee
Mrs. A. Genii has just opened a new moving picture
theatre at Memphis.
Texas
Mr. and Mrs. Mike Segal are erecting a new moving
picture theatre at Quanah. They are also planning to
erect theatres in two nearby cities.
Virginia
The building at 114 East Broad street, Richmond, will be
remodeled into a moving picture theatre.
Washington
Terry Hotel Co., Seattle; $10,000; C. A. and M. E.
Kerriss, E. B. Herald, incorporators.
West Virginia
A new $18,000 church will be erected at Hinton by the
Presbyterian Church.
Wisconsin
E. 11. Parks has opened a new moving picture theatre
at Iola.
A new moving picture theatre is being erected at Thirty-
eighth and Vliet streets, Milwaukee, by Mrs. F. Russell.
JENKINSON CO. INCORPORATED
The Whitehquse, a new moving picture theatre, being
erected on Third street, near Grand avenue, Milwaukee,
Manufacturers of Player Actions for Special
by O. L. Meister, will open shortly.
IMPROVED TRACKING DEVICE
Installation Now Known as the Jenkinson
Player Action Co., Inc.
Recent Patent Granted on Device Which Au-
tomatically Insures Perfect Tracking
CINCINNATI, O., September 11.—The former
Jenkinson Player Co., manufacturers of player
actions for special installation, located at 912
WASHINGTON, D. C, September 11.—The Ameri-
Elm street, has recently been incorporated, and
can Player Action Co., New York, are the own-
is now known as the Jenkinson Player Action
ers through assignment by Eugene T. Turney,
Co., Inc. The concern also rebuilds and re-
Davenport, la., of Patent No. 1,197,080 for a
pairs electrically operated pianos, and Presi-
tracker for piano players, and relates to im-
dent S. Jenkinson states that it is doing a con-
provements in piano players in which a strip
stantly increasing business in the installation
of perforated material is caused to pass over
of Jenkinson Player Actions in upright pianos.
a member having apertures therein, usually
The concern manufactures the "Makemplay"
termed a tracker-board, for the purpose of clos-
Suction Pump, which is specially designed for
ing the apertures in said tracker-board, except
player-piano use.
as and when the perforations in said material
come into coincidence with the said apertures.
The Crescent Theatre Co., of Ithaca, N. Y.,
As is obvious, in order to secure the most suc-
has closed a contract with the Marr & Colton
cessful operation of such a mechanism, the per-
Organ Co., of Warsaw, for the installation of
forations in the material should pass directly
a specially constructed two manual orchestral
over, or track with, the apertures in the tracker-
organ for the new theatre being erected on
board; and one of the objects of the invention
North Aurora street.
T H E COMSTOCK, CHENEY & CO., 1V0RYT0N - C0NN
:MANUFACTURERS =
Piano-forte Ivory Keys, Actions and Hammers,
Ivory and Composition Covered Organ Keys
Established 1853
GRUBB & KOSECARTEN BROS.
Manufacturers of HIGH GRADE
PIANO-FORTE ACTIONS
NASSAU. Rensselaer County. N. Y.
THE STANDARD CO.,
TORR1NGTON,
CONN.
Manufacturers
SYLVESTER TOWER CO.
Grand a n d
Towers Above
All Others
Upright Plano-torte Actions
Keys, Actions. Hammers. Brackets and Nickel Rail Furnished Complete
131 to 147 Broadway
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CAMBRIDGEPORT, MASS.
WESSELL, NICKEL & GROSS
MANUFACTURERS
OF
Manufacturers of a
Complete Line of Piano Action Hardware
Brass Flanges, Damper Rods, Special Capstan Screws,
Bracket and Ball Bolts, Key Pins, Regulating Brackets
and Specialties.
WHITE, SON COMPANY
Manufacturers
ORGAN AND PLAYER-PIANO LEATHERS
530-540 ATLANTIC AVENUE
PIANO
ACTIONS
HIGHEST GRADE
ONE GRADE ONLY
OFFICE
457 WEST FORTY-FIFTH ST.
FACTORIES—WEST FORTY-FIFTH ST.
Tenth Avenue and West Forty-Sixth Street
NEW YORK
BOSTON. MASS
A. C. CHENEY PIANO ACTION CO.
^# J PNEUMATIC ACTIONS FOR PLAYER-PIANOS
ol < HIGH-GRADE PIANOFORTE ACTIONS
CASTLETON, NEW YORK

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