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THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
55
W. H. PLACE, JR., WITH CLARK CO.
PATENTS PNEUMATIC CALLIOPE
IMPROVEMENT IN VIOLIN TONE
Now in Charge of Mandolin Department in
Syracuse Store
Plurality of Single Tone Whistles in Connec-
tion With Variable Pitch Provided in Instru-
ment Recently Patented
Device Recently Patented Whereby Violin
Bodies May Be Indirectly Vibrated
SYRACUSE, N. Y., September 11.—Wm. H. Place,
Jr., one of the foremost mandolinists in the
country, took charge of the mandolin depart-
ment of the Clark
Music
Co., 420
South Salina street,
on the first of this
month, and will also
do promotion work
in connection with
t h e Clark H a r p
Manufacturing Co.
Mr. Place is a di-
rector of the Amer-
ican Guild of Man-
dolinists, and will
endeavor to bring
the 1918 convention
of t h e Guild t o
W. H. Place, Jr.
Syracuse. He has
recently been doing organization work in the
Middle West, conducting several series of man-
dolin concerts throughout the State of Mich-
igan. He has made many records for the
Victor Talking Machine Co., and is also a com-
poser, a number of his compositions being pub-
lished by Carl Fischer.
WASHINGTON, D. C, September 11.—Patent No.
1,197,116 was last week granted to Roscoe
calliope has been invented by Joseph E. Ori, Mariner Floyd, Brookline, Mass., for a method
Bloomfield, N. J., Patent No. 1,197,302, for of and means for increasing the resonance of
which was granted him last week.
sound-modifying wooden bodies, which he has
The principal object of this invention is the assigned to the Boston Conservatory of Music
provision of a novel instrument comprising a and College of Oratory, Boston, Mass.
plurality of single tone whistles in combination
It is well known that long continued vibra-
with a* variable pitch whistle.
tion of a resonant body is a very important
A further object of the invention is to pro- factor in securing and maintaining the reso-
vide a whistle organ having a plurality of nance required to clarify and improve the tone
single tone whistles in combination with a vari- of a musical instrument of which the body
able pitch whistle so arranged that the vari- forms a part, and that a marked deterioration
able pitch whistle may be under the immediate of the tone due to absence of vibration when a
manual control of the operator.
fine instrument is infrequently used, or has
been disused for a considerable period, is at
once detected by an expert.
TO FACILITATEjyiANGE OF PITCH
It has been proposed to indirectly vibrate a
Patent Granted on Pitch Changing Device for
violin body to improve its tone-modifying ac-
Brass Wind Instruments
tion by a long continued mechanical bowing of
WASHINGGTON, D. C,
September
11.—John
the strings, the vibrations being imparted from
Parduba, New York, was last week granted the strings to the body through the usual con-
Patent No. 1,197,058 for a brass musical wind nections between the strings and body. This
instrument in which the pitch may be readily method is open to at least two objections, one
changed from B flat to A natural as desired, of which is its indirectness and the length of
without any interruption in the use of the in- time required to produce an appreciable result,
strument by the musician.
and the other is the wear of the strings by the
The object of the invention is to provide a mechanical bow.
pitch-changing device which is neat, compact
DEATH OF FERDINAND HITTL
The invention has for its object to obviate
and simple in construction and easily applied these objections by making provision for the
BOSTON, MASS., September 11.—Ferdinand Hittl, to any standard instrument.
rapid improvement of the resonance qualities
a veteran musical instrument maker, died
of a mechanical instrument, by means of vibra-
at his home on Bell Rock street, Everett, last
ANCIENT WATCH WILL PLAY TUNES tions applied to the body of the instrument,
week. Mr. Hittl was connected with the Bos-
without injury to the strings, and, if desired
CHILLICOTHE, O., September 11.—Chas. M. Haines,
ton Music Instrument Co., for forty-five years,
while the strings are absent.
and retired seven years ago from active busi- a jeweler of this city, recently purchased a
The invention also has for its object to
musical watch from a Maiden lane, New York
ness.
utilize conjointly mechanical vibration and
City dealer. The watch is one hundred and
thermal action in improving the tone-modifying
twenty-five years old, and was made in Paris
VIOLAPHONE CO. INCORPORATED
effect of a violin body or the like, by subject-
at a time when watches of this description were
The Violaphone Co., of Brooklyn, N. Y., was very much in vogue. The watch is provided ing the same successively to different tempera-
granted a certificate of incorporation last week with a small steel tone cylinder, which en- tures, ranging from a relatively low to a rela-
by the Secretary of State at Albany, N. Y. The gages the teeth of a steel comb, the action be- tively high temperature while it is being me-
new concern will handle small goods, and is ing the same as that used in the making of old- chanically vibrated.
incorporated with a capitalization of $5,000, L. fashioned music boxes.
W. & F. Gretsch, of Brooklyn, being the in-
corporators.
GOOD VIOLIN BUSINESS
Consult the universal Want Directory of
The Review. In it advertisements are inserted
free of charge for men who desire positions.
DURRO
AND
STEWART
A. R. Killinger, who conducts a violin shop
at 14 Monroe avenue, N. E., Grand Rapids,
Mich., reports an excellent demand for these in-
struments. He is an expert violin maker him-
self, and has produced violins which are being
used at the present time by many prominent
artists throughout the country, who have used
his instruments for years.
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