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THE MUSIC TRADE
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THE POINT OF VIEW
REVIEW
AMPICO ENTERTAINS PRINCE
NOVEMBER 29, 1919
NEW PERFORATED RECORD SHEETS
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piano. And she was fearfully and wonderfully tal-
ented. Not to say pretty, distractingly so. This
young lady used to take singing lessons from a
friend of ours. She would come tearing in ten
minutes late, with her perfectly wonderful hair all
mussed up and her green (dark green) eyes snap-
ping. "Gee whiz, life is hectic, isn't it?" she would
gasp, sinking into a chair. Well, this energetic and
fascinating, but just terrible young person used to
startle her friends very much. But today she would
not startle us at all. We should regard her as quite
a banal young person. For, in point of fact, life at
the moment of going to press is just a bit more hec-
tic than hecticity itself, if you know what we mean.
When one goes to buy a player-piano and finds that
the mere dream of being able to get one inside of
a month provokes derisive laughter. When one pays
twenty dollars for a pair of five dollar shoes, when a
carpenter gets a dollar an hour, when half the popu-
lation yells "Down with everything," and the other
half is busily engaged in putting everything up, up,
up, and then some, life, as one might say, is decidedly
hectic, not to say tempestuous, cyclonic and tornado-
esque. The question is: What shall we do? And
the answer is: Smile! What else?
WASHINGTON, D. C, November 24.—Patent No.
1,322,448 was last week granted to Charles D.
Isaacson, Brooklyn, N. Y., for a perforated music
sheet. This invention relates to music record
sheets such as are used on so-called self-playing
musical instruments for controlling the operat-
ing mechanism thereof, and consists in providing
such sheets with certain distinguishing characters,
marks or imprints that will assist the operator
in giving a more correct and intelligent interpre-
AEOLIAN PIPE ORGAN AT AUCTION tation of the music.
The object of the invention is to provide music
At the sale of the contents of the De Lamar Man- record sheets, such as are wound on rolls, with
sion, at Thirty-seventh street and Madison avenue,
New York, which was concluded on Saturday last means such as a concise verbal description of
under the auspices of the American Art Association, the particular selection, setting forth in words,
an Aeolian pipe organ with harp and chimes, built an interpretation of the story which the composer
at a cost of more than $25,000, brought the second has rendered in musical notation. In addition
highest price of the day for an individual article, to this verbal description, there will be printed
going to Frank Campbell for $13,000. A note with on or attached to the record sheet at various
the description in the catalog provided that the places throughout its length and at suitable points
buyer should agree to "employ careful and compe- to correspond with the musical theme, pictures,
descriptive of the music.
tent workmen and remove it at his own risk."
In the New York papers on Monday there ap-
peared attractive advertisements announcing to the
public the fact that a part of the equipment of H. M.
S. "Renown" was an Ampico reproducing piano to
provide music and entertainment for the Prince of
Wales, who made his home on the ship while visit-
ing New York, and also while on the way to Halifax.
The advertisement was of an attractive design and
showed a picture of the Prince and the "Renown."
NEW QUARTERS FOR WRIGHT & SONS
Player Action Makers Increasing Output 20 Per
Cent, a Month—Large Quantities of Pneumatic
Stacks Being Sold—Many Accounts Opened
WORCESTER, MASS., November 24.—Wright & Sons,
manufacturers of player actions, report that they are
increasing their production at the rate of 20 per
cent, per month. The directors of the company are
considering the matter of larger quarters. In this
event it is stated that the company will continue to
operate in the present quarters until the new quar-
ters are entirely completed so as to allow as little
interruption as possible. Some important new ac-
counts have been opened in the West. Wright &
Sons are catering to manufacturers of player-pianos
of the better class and report that they are selling
a large quantity of pneumatic stacks, as well.
RECEIVER ASKED FOR ACTION CO.
Pianissimo Player Action Co. Made Defendent in
Suit—Organized Last December
TRENTON, N. J., November 24.—Asserting that the
Pianissimo Player Action Co. is not now actually
operating a factory in Philadelphia, but that its es-
tablishment in that city is simply for the purpose of
inducing people to purchase stock of the corporation,
Louis Israel, of Camden, has filed a suit in the Court
of Chancery asking for the appointment of a receiver
for the company.
The defendant corporation was chartered in New
Jersey December 30, 1918, with an authorized capital
stock of $125,000. Mr. Israel sets forth that he paid
$150 for thirty shares of the common stock at the
rate of $5 a share. Although he had made repeated
demands upon the officers of the corporation for a
certificate of stock, Mr. Israel says that thus far he
has been unable to obtain the same.
INVENTS NEW MODIFYING DEVICE
WASHINGTON, D. C, November 24.—John Black-
wood, London, England, was last week granted
Patent No. 1,321,654 for a piano and piano player,
which relates to devices of the type in which the
movement for actuating a hammer for striking a
string of a musical instrument, as in a piano or
the like, is modified between the original source
and the point at which it is imparted to the ham-
mer action. Such modification may take the form
of an alteration in velocity or accentuated accel-
eration, or it may affect the amount of the move-
ment of the hammer and thus be called an adapted
movement.
The object of the present invention is to pro-
vide improved means for modifying the hard
brilliant quality of tone produced by mechanical
pianos and piano players and obtaining a full
sympathetic quality of tone.
PEP!
SNAP!!
GINGER!!!
INSTANT RESPONSE TO PEDAL
COMPLETE
A POPULARITY
RELIABILITY
RECORD WITHOUT
TRADE HISTORY
EQUAL IN
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All This Is What You Get When You Get the Franchise
as Representative of the Wonderful
Schulz Co. Plaver-Pia
/ / is not surprising that the demand for our
player-pianos is literally beyond our power
to Jill; for the time. But we can say confi-
dently that during 1920 we shall be able
to make deliveries in better shape than at
any time during the last two years.
More than 150,000 Schulz Pianos and Player-pianos have
been made and sold.
The SCHULZ representation means PROFIT and PRESTIGE
to the merchant.
CHULZ CO.
ESTABLISHED 1869.
GENERAL OFFICES:
SOUTHERN WHOLESALE BRANCH
711 Milwaukee Avenue
Chicago
1530 Candler Building
Atlanta, Ga.