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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
THE POINT OF VIEW
A NEW ACCENTING DEVICE
(Continued from page 7)
Auto Pneumatic Action Co. Secures Patent;
Rights to Apparatus Which Accents Individ-
ual Notes and Chords on Player-Pianos
part of the salesman and sometimes disastrous.
3. The questions involved in putting tech-
nical information in tuners' hands are immense-
with much friction as long as tuning and sales ly important. The Danquard School, the Stand-
departments don't agree. We offer three tab- ard Player Monthly and other efforts of the
loid chunks of more or less wise thought on sorts are to be commended and encouraged,
but they can only meet the difficulty in part.
the subject:
1. Tuners are temperamental persons; treat The real responsibility lies with the Guild, and
them considerately as men who are engaged in it might be'made a condition of their systematic
encouragement by the other associations, that
art-work.
2. Technical matters are the province of the they agree to study and propound plans for the
tuner and to make promises involving tuner's settlement of this question; proposals to be then
work without consulting the men who have to carried out with the total influence of the Music
make good on the promises, is stupid on the Industries Chamber of Commerce to be.
NEW LUDWIG PLAYER ACTION POSTER BEING DISTRIBUTED
Poster for Display Purposes Being Sent Dealers by Ludwig & Co. Contains a Concise Explana-
tion of the Ludwig Unit Player Action and Is a Splendid Aid to the Dealer
The other features which are shown are the
In accordance with their policy of furnishing
advertising aids to their dealers, Ludwig & Co., flexible finger which produces an effect equiva-
lent to that of the
human finger stroke,
SIMPLEST PLAYER ACTION IN THE WORLD
one of the eighty-
eight detachable unit
Cross-Sectional View of I ^ d t D i g UNIT PLAYER ACTION
valves which are re-
moved singly and are
interchangeable; and
the accessibility o f
the bleed by remov-
ing a small screw
from the front.
In
this way the remark-
able simplicity of the
Ludwig player action
h a s been concisely
b u t comprehensively
illustrated.
The poster will be
found of great value
to the dealer in mak-
ing explanations to
his prospects or cus-
tomers regarding the
operation of the play-
er. Already several
requests
for them
ALL REGULATION FROM FRONT
have been made and
WITHOUT REMOVING PLAVEFi
ACTION.
many are now in use
by L u d w i g dealers
throughout the coun-
try. The poster has
been compiled under
the direction of How-
ard Pemberton, who
is now in charge of
the advertising being
issued by the com-
pany.
WASHINGTON, D. C , August 14.—Patent No.
1,193,939 was last week granted to Louis W.
Southgate, Worcester, Mass., for an accenting
device for piano players, which he has assigned
to the Auto Pneumatic Action Co., New York.
The object of this invention is to provide an
accenting device for piano players by which any
note, notes, or series of notes, such as an ac-
cented note, a chord, a run, one or more par-
ticular notes of a chord", or the notes of a theme
or melody will be accented or played louder rel-
atively to the other notes. It has been pro-
posed to do this in a variety of manners, prin-
cipally by increasing momentarily the air ten-
sion which operates the pneumatics, but this
has led to difficulties, owing to the complication
of the pneumatic mechanism and to the diffi-
culty of getting only a momentary increase of
the air tension without affecting the tension
which plays the notes which are not to be ac-
cented. As distinguished from these devices,
there is arranged an independently operated
striker or pivoted bar so as to impart additional
power to the particular units of the piano ac-
tion called in proper time relation therewith, so
that said particular units will be more forcibly
operated than when operated only by the oper-
ating pneumatics. In this way the normal oper-
ating air tension is not disturbed for accent, and
a simple and effective mechanism is provided
for the purposes stated.
The striker is preferably operated automat-
ically by pneumatic mechanism arranged to be
called into operation from,an accent opening in
the tracker bar and accent perforations in the
note sheet.
NEW SEEBURGJNSTALLATIONS
Several Seeburg Pipe Organ Orchestras In-
stalled in Theatres in Middle West During
August—List of Purchasers in New Booklet
CHICAGO, I I I . , August 21.—The J. P. Seeburg
Piano Co. is having an exceedingly busy sum-
mer and August has actually been one of the
heaviest months this concern has had in point
of number of installations of the larger size
Sec-burg pipe organ orchestras. Among the
high-class theatres in which these instruments
have been installed the last week or so are: the
Star Theatre, Freeport, 111.; the Marquette
Theatre, La Salle, 111.; the well-known Smith
resort at Hudson Lade, Ind., and the Langley
Theatre on Sixty-third street, Chicago. This
installation was a Style A De Luxe. This week
A short time ago a the company will make a delivery of a De Luxe
book of electrotyped in the famous Winona Lake district in Indiana.
advertisements f o r
The company has just issued a neat booklet
•newspaper use was
giving
a list of several hundred recent Seeburg
distributed and deal-
ers have been taking installations. It is a valuable thing for a dealer
advantage of them to have in his possession, as it shows clearly
LUDWIC * COMPANY
with much success, the high-grade clientele of the Seeburg pipe
TROUBLE-PROOF
being thoroughly ap- organ orchestras.
preciative of the serv-
Poster Explaining Features of Ludwig Unit Valve Player Action
AUTOMATIC LOUD PEDAL CONTROL
ice thus being ren-
136th street and Willow avenue, New York, dered for their benefit by Ludwig & Co. in the
WASHINGTON, D. C, August 14.—The Starr
are sending out for display purposes a poster in matter of stimulating local advertising.
Piano Co., Richmond, Ind., is the owner
• two colors, eighteen by twenty-five inches, upon
through assignment by Francis W. Draper,
which is shown a cross sectional view of the
same place, of an automatic pedal for player-
THE PIANO TYPEWRITER COMING
.Ludwig Unit Player Action, special attention
pianos, Patent No. 1,194,282.
being drawn to the individual features of the Mechanism That Writes Music as It Is Played
This invention relates to player-pianos and
has for an object to provide a device for auto-
action by captions and red arrows. A repro-
Announced in England
matically actuating the loud pedal to be con-
duction of this poster is shown herewith.
Starting at the top the. features which are
The Daily Express of London, Eng., says that trolled from an opening in the tracker bar and
pointed out are the brass tubes which lead all Herman Darewski will shortly introduce to registering opening in the music sheet.
A further object of the invention is to provide
the way from the tracker bar to the valve blocks, England the "most wonderful invention in the
the cold pressed steel tracker box, which is world of musical mechanics since the coming manual control whereby the loud pedal action
exclusively found in Ludwig players, and the of the automatic piano player." It is a piano may be thrown into or out of operative condi-
front panel, which covers the regulating devices typewriter which reproduces in ordinary musical tion.
A further object of the invention is to provide
and is removable in a few seconds. Of the regu- notation whatever the performer plays. A
lating devices which are designated is a screw pianist can make a copy of any piece of music improved pneumatic means for actuating the
for regulating the stroke, and a regulating screw by merely playing it through. By the insertion loud pedal.
A further object of the invention is to pro-
to take up lost motion between the piano and of carbon papers half a dozen copies may be
•player action without reducing the striking made in one operation, as with an ordinary vide an improved primary for controlling the
pneumatic.
typewriter. The inventor is an Italian.
capacity of the pneumatic.