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PATENTS NEW TYPE OF VIOLIN
Latest Instrument Has Cylindrical Body and
Many Advantages Are Claimed for it
Robert L. Yeakey, an Illinois inventor, has
been granted a patent on a new type of violin
of which the body is cylindrical in form, with
the sound post and bass bar, however, modifica-
tions of the usual form. The instrument is pro-
vided with a chin rest so shaped as to be ex-
tended laterally while in use, and folding against
the instrument when not in use. Although the
appearance of the violin is unusual, it is said that
the volume and quality of tone produced is
equal to that found in violins of the regular
type. The advantage of the new style is said
to be that it permits of the instrument being
made by machinery and in quantities econom-
ically.
MILITARY BANDS COMPARED
Gustave Langenus Makes Interesting Com-
parisons Between Army Bands of America and
France and England—Why Our Military Bands
Are Now Much Larger Than Heretofore
MARCH 2-, 1918
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Manufacturer of Musical Stringed Instruments — Celebrated Stella and
Sovereign Guitars, Mandolins and Banjos, Violins,
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is a band of which every Frenchman is proud.
Here in America, with the exception of the
United States Marine Band, the average regi-
mental band consists of only twenty-eight men.
General Pershing has found this number inade-
quate since the regimental quota has been
doubled, and has asked that our bands be in-
creased to forty members. Mr. Langenus con-
cluded that, though America has abundant ma-
terial, our bands were as yet entirely eclipsed
by those of England, France and even Belgium.
TWO DRUM PATENTS
The Wilson-Jacobs Drum Mfg. Co., of Chicago,
Secure Two Important Patents on Drums
WASHINGTON, D. C, February 25.—The Wilson-
The entrance of the United States into the
European war has resulted in considerable com- Jacobs Drum Manufacturing Co., Chicago, 111.,
parison between the military bands of this coun- are the owners through assignment by Tom
try and those abroad. For instance, Gustave Wilson, same place, of Patent Nos. 1,254,756 and
Langenus, first clarinet of the Symphony So- 1,254,757 for a drum.
The object of the first named invention (Pat-
ciety, gave in an interview recently some com-
parisons of army bands of America and the ent No. 1,254,756) is to provide a new and im-
Allies. He said that in England there are five proved adjustable drum. One feature of the
Guards bands—the Grenadier, Coldstream, Scots, invention relates to making the hoops of a drum
Irish and the recently formed Welsh G u a r d s - independently adjustable with respect to the
each having from sixty to seventy performers. shell for the purpose of determining the tension
The musicians perform musical duties only and of the heads, and making the adjustment for
do not accompany their regiment on marches both hoops accessible at one side of the drum.
and maneuvers. There are also three mounted Another feature relates to providing means for
bands—the First Life Guards, the Second Life preventing the drum from warping out of its
Guards and the Royal Horse Guards Blue—each true original shape.
of forty to fifty players, and stationed in Lon-
The purpose of Patent No. 1,254,757 is to pro-
don. Five artillery bands in other cities have vide improved attachments for adjusting the
sixty to eighty men. There are five marine snares of a snare drum. One object, of the
bands, of forty to forty-five men. The Royal invention is to provide means for adjusting a
Engineers Band at Chatham has sixty perform- part of the snares independently of the others.
ers, to say nothing of the many regimental Another object is to provide means for simul-
bands, consisting in many cases of sixty mem- taneously adjusting all the snares and to pro-
bers.
vide a quick release for muffling the drum.
In France the regimental band consists of
not fewer than thirty-eight regular musicians,
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INVENTS GUITAR OF NEW DESIGN
The "Tonaharp" Declared to Be Able to Produce
Any Chord in Music
E. D. Wilber, of Delanson, N. Y., has invented
the "Tonaharp" guitar, which is designed to
make that instrument as complete in harmony
as the piano or harp for solo work. The inno-
vation consists of a steel movable finger at-
tached to the neck of the guitar and an addi-
tional button attachment at the top of the in-
strument. The latter takes up or releases the
tension on the strings as desired. It is said
that the instrument will produce every chord
known to musical science, and is highly spoken
of by users of plectrum instruments.
PATENTS TROMBONE SUPPORT
WASHINGTON, D. C, February 25.—Patent No.
1,255,766 was last week granted to George Mar-
tens, New York, for a trombone-support.
The invention relates to musical brass instru-
ments, and its object is to provide a new and
improved trombone support for convenient at-
tachment to a sliding trombone, and arranged to
support most of the weight of the instrument
in the palm of the left hand of the player and
to distribute the grip of the left hand equally
to the several fingers thereof to enable the
player to firmly support and grip the trombone
without producing undue fatigue. Another ob-
ject is to reinforce the cross brace between the
upper and lower members of the stationary slide
to prevent binding of the movable slide on the
stationary slide. Another object is to protect
the little finger of the left hand from being
pinched when moving the movable slide to rear-
most or first position. Another object is to per-
mit of readily attaching the support to trom-
bones having tubes of different diameters.
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