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DECEMBER 27,
THE
1919
MUSIC
TRADE
53
REVIEW
PLAYS HARP IN RAILWAY STATION
BUESCHER ADDITION NEARLY READY
JUDGE PROVES VIOLIN ANTIQUE
Syracuse Girl Delights Crowd and Delays Train
—Interest Shown in Harp Contest
Enlarged Plant Will Be in Running Order Early
in the Year—About 600 Employes Will Be on
the Company's Pay Roll Then
Yorkville Magistrate Gives Court a Musical
Treat and Holds Prisoner in $3,000 Bail
SYRACUSE, N. Y., December 22.—Children of
this city are taking great interest in the small
harp due to the contest which has been running
for some time and for which prizes of $10 and
$5 have been offered for the greatest number
of engagements played within the period of one
month. Melville Clark, of the Clark Music Co.,
is interested in this movement and considerable
interest has been aroused among the younger
musicians of this city. A feature of the plan
was to encourage children to overcome their
bashfulness in playing before audiences and the
prizes were offered with this in view. The win-
ner of the first prize was little Anna Brookfield,
who played thirty-seven engagements within the
time specified. The child was so interested in
her work that she played one day in a crowded
railway station while waiting for her train.
The train arrived before her number was com-
pleted and the crowd and the conductor were
so interested that they held the train until the
recital was ended.
AIR-TENSION OPERATING DEVICE
New Improved Safety-Device for Controlling
Sheet-Propelling and Air-Tension Motors
WASHINGTON, D. C, December 22.—The Cable
Co., Chicago, TIL, is the owner through assign-
ment by Paul Brown Klugh, same place, of
Patent No. 1,324,453 for an automatic musical
instrument.
This invention relates to automatic musical
instruments, and, more specifically, to an instru-
ment having a motor for causing the travel of
the music-roll or note-sheet, and another motor
for operating a device for inducing air-tension.
In an instrument of this type, if the two
motors were provided with independent con-
trollers, it might happen that the operator would
stop the sheet-propelling motor but would for-
get to stop the air-tension motor.
One of the objects of the invention is to
provide such an instrument with an improved
safety-device whereby, when the controller for
the sheet-propelling motor is placed in position
to stop this motor, the other motor will also
be stopped. Furthermore, in playing a selec-
tion, it is sometimes desirable to stop the
sheet-propelling motor for a short time and
then start it up again.
A further object of the invention is to pro-
vide an improved device whereby the sheet-
propelling motor may be stopped for a short
time without interfering with the operation of
the air-tension motor, but whereby, if the sheet-
piopelling motor is stopped for a considerable
length of time, the air-tension motor will also
be stopped.
December 22.—The large addition
that is being made to the plant of the Buescher
Band Instrument Co. of this city is rapidly
nearing completion and early in 1920 the com-
pany will enjoy the advantages of this expan-
sion. The Buescher plant now extends from
Jackson street clear through to East Lexing-
ton avenue.
With the orders on hand, however, the com-
pany will be kept busy working the entire
plant at top speed for several months. About
six hundred employes will be on the company
rolls.
The Buescher plant was organized about
twenty-five years ago by F. A. Buescher and
John H. Collins under the name of the Buescher
Mfg. Co., and was reorganized in 1904 under
the name of the Buescher Band Instrument Co.
The officers of the present company are F. A.
Buescher, president; A. H. Beardsley, vice-
president; John H. Collins, secretary-treasurer.
The company manufactures a general line of
band instruments, featuring the "Buescher" and
"True Tone" models, and has enjoyed a steady
growth by reason of the exceptional quality and
value of its products.
ELKHART, IND.,
GRANTED PATENT FOR XYLOPHONE
WASHINGTON, D. C, December 22.—Henry
Welch, Cincinnati, O., was last week granted
Patent No. 1,323,132 for a xylophone, which
he has assigned to the Norwood Novelty Co.,
Norwood, Ohio.
This invention relates to musical instruments,
and more particularly to that type of instrument
known as a xylophone, and one object is to
provide means for freely mounting a plurality
of sounding bars in such position that they will
not become displaced by the movement of the
framework or the turning of the latter to va-
rious positions, said sounding bars being adapted
to be struck by a flexibly mounted hammer car-
ried by a handle engaging a stop rail forming
a part of the framework.
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Simplified
WASHINGTON, D. C, December 22.—Patent No.
1,317,219 was last week granted to Reuben M.
Price, De Land, Fla., for a key mechanism for
wood winds, the object being to so improve
the key mechanism of instruments of this class
that difficult fingering for certain notes may be
avoided and these notes rendered with ease and.
facility.
A further object is to enhance the value and
utility of instruments of this class by simplifying
and rendering their manipulation easier.
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The Lyall Music Co., Shreveport, La., recently
moved into new quarters at 520 Texas street
on the second floor.
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DURRO
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STEWART
The soft, sad wails of a violin filled the York-
ville court recently as Magistrate Sweetser
fiddled "Ring the Bell Softly, There's Crape on
the Door." Just as sobs began to bubble from
the hangers-on the judge gave the fiddle a hitch
and, with a violent tap-tapping of his right foot,
swung into the lilting strains of "Turkey in the
Straw."
"It's an antique violin, all right," said his
honor. Thereupon he ordered that Oscar Davis,
a negro hallboy, be held in $3,000 bail on a
charge of having stolen the violin and another
one. The negro's counsel had contended that
the instruments were not of ancient make, but
"just plain fiddles."
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