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MUSIC'S TROUBLES ON THE BORDER
Heavy Atmosphere Tests Lung Powers of
Musicians from the Higher Altitudes
That conditions on the Mexican border cause
difficulty for bandsmen as well as for the man
with the gun, is indicated by George Pattullo
in an article in the Saturday Evening Post, in
which he says:
"Some of the bands have had their troubles
on account of high and low altitude. Sergeant
Whitcomb, of a Nebraska band, was conducting
practice one afternoon and the musicians were
sweating over it. Nobody perspires down there.
Perspiration is a misnomer on the border. Well,
Sergeant Whitcomb was waving his baton,
grievously disgruntled over the volume of
sound. There was altogether too much gur-
gling and tooting for rhythm.
" 'A little stronger with the trombone there,'
he shouted to a little man who was already pur-
ple in the face.
"The trombone artist dropped his instrument
with a gesture of despair.
" 'It ain't my fault,' he retorted, mopping his
brow. 'I blow and I blow, and comes nothing
but wind.'
"The sergeant tested the trombone for him-
self; then all the other wind instruments, one
after the other. It was even so. Their camp
was only forty-two feet above sea level, and
far greater lung capacity was required than at
home."
PATENTS NEW_VIOLIN BRIDGE
WASHINGTON, D. C, August 21.—Louis Lumiere,
of Lyon, France, has been granted Patent No.
1,193,279 covering improvement in violin
bridges, especially those of which one foot ex-
ercises a pressure on the front or belly
of the instrument, whereas the other foot ex-
ercises its pressure on the back, but the arrange-
ments used do not allow of distributing the
pressure properly on each of the two boards,
and besides they require a hole to be made in
the top-board, which disturbs its vibrations
more or less. The bridge which is the object
of this invention is constructed so that while
both feet always rest on the belly, it possesses
a third foot which penetrates inside the instru-
ment through one of the existing S-holes and
rests on the back. The annexed drawing shows
as an example the application of this arrange-
ment to a violoncello.
DURRO
AND
STEWART
Buegeleisen & Jacobson
NEW
BIG CONTRACTS FOR PIANO BENCHES
Racine Piano Bench Co. Has Orders Which
Will Keep Plant Going for Several Months—
Expansion of Factory Now Completed
RACINE, WIS., August 21.—It is reported that
the Racine Piano Bench Co., successor to the
Racine Stool Co., this city, has received large
contracts from piano manufacturers sufficient to
keep the plant running at capacity for several
months.
S. B. Way, general manager of the Milwaukee
Electric Railway & Light Co., is president of
the new company, which has a capital stock of
$25,000. The expansion of the company's plant
is now complete.
PATENT ONJ*RIDGE=W1RE
WASHINGTON,
D. C,
August
21.—Patent
No.
1,190,929 was last week granted to Henry C.
Marx, Palmer, Kan., for a bridge wire for
stringed instruments, which he has assigned to
the Phonoharp Co., East Boston, Mass., and
which has for its object to provide certain im-
provements in the formation of such bridge
wires, to permit the strings to be accurately
separated and located, to reduce the tendency of
the strings to break where they cross such
wires, and yet not interfere with the vibrations
of the strings. To accomplish the ends named,
the bridge wire is formed with a series of de-
pressions or grooves, the bottoms of which are
convexly curved in the direction of the length
of the strings.
A NEW CLARINET TUNING SLIDE
WASHINGTON,
D. C,
August
21.—Patent
No.
1,194,887 has been granted to Torkild Solberg,
St. Charles, 111., for a clarinet tuning slide for
clarinets and analogous wind musical instru-
ments and has particular application to a tuning
slide for correcting deviations in pitch.
In carrying out the present invention, it is
the purpose to provide a tuning slide for clari-
nets and like wind instruments which may be
readily and conveniently attached thereto and
which can be conveniently adjusted until the
desired pitch is obtained.
W. M. DEMING PASSES AWAY
CHANGE OF FIRM NAME
Excelsior Drum Works Changes Name to the
Charles S. Caffrey Co.
CAMDEN, N. J., August 21.—The Excelsior Drum
Works, a corporation existing under the laws of
the State of New Jersey, recently changed its
name to the Charles S. Caffrey Co. No change
in the capital stock, stock holders, directors or
business of the concern has been made, how-
ever, and the firm reports that it has kept busy
all summer filling the many orders for drums of
all descriptions it has had on hand. The Ex-
celsior line has been on the market for a num-
ber of years, and is well and favorably known,
being handled by dealers all over the country.
J. W. Pepper is president and H. E. Pepper is
secretary of the concern.
C. A. RENIE ENLARGES STORE
Exclusive Small Goods Dealer of Kansas City
Reports Increasing Business—A. H. Karr in
Charge of Violin Repairing Department
Charles A. Renie, who opened an exclusive
small musical merchandise store at 1207 Walnut
street, Kansas City, Mo., a few months ago,
has found this business prospering. He has
since enlarged the balcony, extending it almost
entirely around the store, and installing a violin
repair department there. A. H. Karr, formerly
with Lewis & Son, Chicago, is the violin maker
in charge. Mr. Renie's business has increased
greatly, and he has the patronage of musicians
and teachers over a considerable range of ter-
ritory. He recently sold a bill of nearly $150
to a musician who was organizing a vaudeville
group that started from a Texas town. Mr.
Renie is himself a violinist of note, and Mrs.
Renie, who assists him in the store at times, is
also a musician.
The American Violin Co., of Charleston, W.
Va., which was organized for the purpose of
manufacturing violins by machinery, has com-
pleted the work of designing the machinery to
be installed in the factory.
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WINSTED, CONN.. August 21.—Wilbur M. Dem
ing, a violin maker of note, passed away last
week. He was famous throughout this section
of the country for the excellence of his violins,
many of which are very interesting because of
the sources from which was secured the wood
of which they are constructed.
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