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JANUARY 25, 1919
We have frequently pointed out that the
saxophone, the 'cello, the marimba and the other
so-called "effects" which have been more or less
tried out on rolls during the last few years are
only indicative of the possibilities the future
holds. Of course, the attempts so far made by
arrangers to reproduce the effects of various
musical instruments have been very elementary.
We have not yet had anything that really sounds
like a saxophone or a 'cello. But we have had,
through the efforts of arrangers to introduce
novel tones, some revelations worth consider-
ing as to the possibilities of the player-piano.
If it is within the range of practical possibility
to produce such series of tones as shall, by their
very arrangements, simulate the voices of other
musical instruments, however imperfectly, it is
evident that a new field is opened up. It is
more than the possibility of making better imi-
tations; it is rather the possibility of producing
altogether new voices. The player-piano is a
player-piano. Its most interesting musical ef-
fects are obtained through special combinations
of perforations which cause the action to per-
form feats quite impossible with the manual
performer.
Therefore the future holds the
possibility, not so much of imitating as of de-
veloping a new voice, for the player-piano itself.
This new voice is to come partly, no doubt,
through improvements in tonal construction.
Still more, however, will it come through im-
provements in roll arranging.
Now that the "dry" regime is certainly upon
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us and soon to be translated into unmistakable Watch this column for latest music
fact, the field for the automatic musical instru-
ment will be automatically widened, as one
might lightly remark. But if this is so, then
also the field for rolls to go with these instru-
ments will be widened. Now it seems to us
that there is a lot of work to be done in re-
spect of these automatic rolls. Up to the pres-
ent time only two types of automatic music
have been at all pushed. One is the out-and-out
popular of the easiest kind and the other is the
elaborate hand-played stuff for the expression
reproducing piano. Both of these are perfectly
all right in their places, but that there is room
for yet another style, namely, for the better
arranged roll of standard march, overture and
other solid music for the better class of auto-
matic piano-organ. There is not enough of
good music for this and larger styles of instru-
ment, and there is a strong demand for more.
LIKE THE PYRAMIDS-BUILT TO LAST
In fact, one can go further and say that as the
installations of high-class organs continue to be-
come popular, it will be necessary above all
things, in the absence of trained organists, to
have really good music rolls specially arranged
for them. The man who buys a good organ
installation costing some thousands of dollars
is often at his wits' end to get a good organist
to play the instrument. Music roll installations
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are now being added to these instruments for
this very reason, and that is just why it is
necessary to look closely into the matter of
suitable music rolls. By suitable rolls we
(Pianists' Names in Parenthesis)
mean rolls fitted with a complete command over
5738 Down the Lane and Home Again.
Saxophone Fox Trot.
(Goodwin) Jerome
all devices of expression.
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FEBRUARY LIST
Hand-Played Records
With Song Words
6417—When the Boys Come Home
—March
Hay & Speaks
Poem written by the late Sec-
retary of State during the
Civil War while he was pri-
vate secretary to President
Lincoln.
Played by S. A. Perry, as-
sisted by H. R.
6424—Come on, Papa—One-step,
Leslie & Ruby
Played by Harry Shipman
6431—1 Found the End of the Rain-
bow—Fox-trot,
Mears, Tierney & McCarthy
Played by S. A. Perry, as-
sisted by H. R.
6432—Ships That Pass in the Night
—Waltz. Song or Dance,
Knight, Logan & Shannon
Syncopation and Marimba Ef-
fects
Played by S. A. Perry, as-
sisted by E. S.
HAND-PLAYED RECORD
20737—Irish Echoes—Medley Waltz,
S. A. Perry
A combination of old familiar
Irish Melodies beautifully
played in waltz time for danc-
ing by the composer.
Connorized Music Co.
144th St. and Austin PL, New York
1234 Olive St., St. Louis
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New Song Hits
FEBRUARY-1919
5739
Some Popular Sellers on the
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The music roll business would do well to
consider some of the interests of the consumer
apart from the mere titles of the rolls handed
out to that person or those persons once a
month. We have noticed several praiseworthy
efforts to make standard music interesting to
the consumer. By degrees catalog arrangers
and others are beginning to see that the pub-
lic does really want to have some better line of
information on the meaning of good music. Of
course, public taste improves but slowly, and
there are wide stretches of territory wherein
"Livery Stable Blues" remains the beginning and
the end of all music. But this is not always
or everywhere the case, for in the large cities
taste is steadily improving, and the people who
buy player-pianos are steadily becoming more
critical. Here is a chance for the music roll
men to bring themselves into better rapport
with the needs of the public. Would it not be
possible to prepare a really good little book on
the playing of the player-piano and offer it
as a premium to purchasers of more than a cer-
tain quantity of music, through the retail mer-
chants? For instance, if the manufacturers
would offer such a premium free to the dealer
in consideration of his purchases amounting to
a certain value, and on further condition that
he would award them as premiums for all pur-
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Dreaming Sweet Dreams of Mother.
Walz Song.
(Mackey) Brennan
Everybody Shimmies Now.
Fox Trot
(Goodwin) Gold-Porray
Every Day Will Be Sunday When the Town Goes Dry.
One Step.
(Weston) Jerome-Mahoney
Have a Smile for Everyone You Meet.
One Step.
(Gardner) Rule
How 'Ya Gonna' Keep 'Em Down on the Farm.
One Step.
(Kalian) Donaldson
I Know What it Means to Be Lonesome.
Waltz Song, Mandolin Arr. (Daniels) Kendls-Brockman
I Love Her and She Loves Me.
One Step.
(Hallan) Glogau
Ja-Da, The Greatest Novelty Song of the Season.
Fox Trot.
(Goodwin) Carleton
Jim, Jim. I Always Knew That You'd Win.
March Song.
(Weston) Von Tilzer
Kiss That Made Me Cry, The.
Fox Trot.
(Feoher) Gottler
Mickey.
Fox Trot.
(Morton) Mo ret
My Barney Lies Over the Ocean.
One Step.
(Hallan) Grant
Oh! Susie, Behave.
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One Step.
(Gardner) Olman
Sarah 1 Come Over Here.
One Step.
(Rowley) Conrad
Statue of Liberty Is Smiling. The.
One Step.
(Weston) Mohr
Tale the Church Bell Told, The.
Jazz-Bag, Fox Trot.
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(Sloane) Grant
Tears of Love.
Jazz-Uag Fox Trot.
(Gardner) Stern
That Tumble-Down Shack in Athlone.
Jazz-Bag Fox Trot.
(Fecher) Carlo-Sanders
Welcome Home, Laddie Boy, Welcome Home.
One Step.
(Bowley) Edwards
With the Rose (I Send This Heart of Mine).
From "Atta Boy," the Soldier Show.
Ballad.
(Wunsch) Osborne
Why Should I Care.
Waltz Song Arrangement.
(Olson) Lltras-Olson
Won't You Come Back to Me.
Fox Trot.
(Wunsch) Jacobs
You Cannot Shake That "Shimmie" Here.
Fox Trot.
(Levlne) Van-Schenck
Your Boy Is on the Coal Pile Now.
One-Stop.
(Morton) Ward
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