Classic Mode

Music Trade Review

Issue: 1920 Vol. 71 N. 13

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THE
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COMPOSING FOR THE PLAYER=PIANO
(Continued from page 11)
smoothness in player-piano performances. The
following passage (also from my "Magic
Guitar")
Fig. 103
could not possibly be managed by any pianist
with anything like smoothness, whereas the
player-piano disposes of it in the most charm-
ing and individual manner. With these ob-
servations, I may fittingly conclude my discus-
sion this month on arranging and shall now go
on to the last section in this study, namely,
plastic music.
(To be continued)
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
SEPTEMBER 25,
1920
JOIN BUSH & LANE SALES FORCES
RAISE PRICE OF REPUBLIC ROLLS
PORTLAND, ORE., September 20.—John A. Wolfe
has joined the sales force of the Bush & Lane
Piano Co., a company he was with for eight
years and which he left to join the Lipman,
Wolfe & Co.'s force.
He is "back home
again," he said. The
veteran salesman has
made a number of good
sales since returning to
his "first love."
He
specializes in players
and grands and is an
of
the Bush & Lane
enthusiastic admirer
Rising Cost of Production Given as Reason in
Letter From Paul B. Klugh to the Trade
products.
OPENS STORE IN DAVENPORT
B. E. Allen has arranged to open a music
store in his building on Jefferson street, Daven-
port, la. Pianos, players, Brunswick phono-
graphs and records will be handled.
An increase in the price of Republic Player
Rolls, manufactured by the Republic Player Roll
Corp., Seventy-fifth street at Broadway, New
York, to $1.20 on all new rolls listed on or after
October 1, 1920, was announced this week by
Paul B. Klugh, president of the company, in a
letter which he sent to the trade as follows:
"After a considerable struggle in a continually
rising market, we are forced to raise the price
of Republic Rolls to $1.20. There is no alter-
native. We must either raise the price or lower
the quality, and we won't lower the quality.
"We feel sure you will agree that we have
taken the proper step. Republic quality will
always be better than the best.
"This increase affects only the new rolls listed
on and after October 1, 1920, and does not mean
any change in the large and complete catalog of
recent issues which still remain at the popular
price of $1."
MUSIC ROLL SWINDLER APPEARS
The Player That Can
Be "Played"
The trade is ready to grasp the essential fact
that a player-piano is made to be "played";
and that its success with the consumer is
proportional to its
EASE IN PLAYING
RESPONSIVENESS TO CONTROL
SIMPLICITY
All these supreme qualities are represented
to the utmost in the wonderful
M. Schulz Co. Player-Piano
which for ten years has led in the progress
of technical development and sales popularity.
The SCHULZ is a player-piano that can be
played and that responds, as does no other,
to the impulse of the man or woman at the
pedals.
THIS IS THE PLAYER OF TODAY AND OF TOMORROW
Interested merchants can learn more by
addressing us directly, asking for a
copy of the SCHULZ PLAYER BOOK
M. SCHULZ COMPANY
Founded 1869
General Offices
Schulz Building
711 Milwaukee A n
CHICAGO
Southern Wholesale Branch
1530 Candler Bldg.
ATLANTA, GA.
Offers Philadelphia Player Owners Eight New
Rolls of First Class Make Each Month for
$5.40 a Year—Numerous Victims Complain
Whether or not it may be accepted as evi-
dence of the prosperity or apparent prosperity
of the music trade, the fact remains that there
are reported an unusual number of swindlers
preying upon owners, or prospective owners, of
musical instruments, and even upon music deal-
ers themselves.
The latest report comes from Philadelphia,
where a smooth young man giving the name
of R. C. Ryne, with an office at 909 North
Eleventh street, has been approaching player-
piano owners and collecting money for music
roll service that was never rendered. In Phila-
delphia the plan is as follows: The man calls
at the home and explains that as an advertise-
ment one of the leading music roll companies
is selecting one home in each block in which to
place selections from each monthly list for a
year. The player owner is simply to pay deliv-
ery charges amounting to $5.40 a year, half of it,
or $2.70, at once, and the balance in six months,
for which a formal receipt is given.
The generosity of the offer is almost over-
whelming, for upon payment of the delivery
charges the player owner is to have delivered
to him each month thirty new rolls, from which
he selects and keeps eight, making a total of
ninety-six rolls for the year, or approximately
$120 worth at current prices.
In one case the swindler used the name of the
Q R S Co., and after the victim had waited in
vain for his rolls, having paid the money, he
investigated and found out that the office ad-
dress was a fake. A private detective agency
in the building reported numerous complaints
of a like nature.
Several of the victims, as well as player roll
manufacturers whose names have been used, are
endeavoring to get on the track of the swindler,
of whom an excellent description is on file.
As the victims have simply fallen for the
something-for-nothing idea, they do not appear
deserving of any great amount of sympathy.
The use of the names of player roll manufac-
turers of standing and reputation presents an
angle to the swindler's operations that cannot
be ignored.
AUTOMATIC CONTROLLING DEVICE
WASHINGTON, D. C, September 20.—The Auto
Pneumatic Action Co., New York, is the owner
through assignment by Henry R. Heller, of
Patent No. 1,352,958 for a musical instrument
which relates to improvements in automatic con-
trolling devices adapted for use in connection
with the exhaust chambers of a pneumatically
operated piano or similar mechanism, and the
object is to prevent a jerky effect in playing.
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THE
SEPTEMBER 25, 1920
GIVES "JAG" NOT "JAZZ"
MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW
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stance of music in the development of their chil-
dren. Each of ten chapters is illustrated by one
Anti-prohibition Piano Discovered in Philadel- Cable Company, Chicago, Makes Attractive of the panels. The National Bureau assisted
phia—Omcers Drop in Half-dollar and Get Window Trim of "Music and Childhood" the Welfare Association in the preparation of
Keal Kick, as Well as Musical Selection
this booklet and in its publication. For its co-
Panels—Has Attracted Wide Attention
operation, the Bureau was granted the privilege
PHILADELPHIA, PA., September 17.—One of the
CHICAGO, III., September 20.—The accompanying of purchasing the books at cost price of print-
most popular of the new Fall dances is the illustration shows the effective use made by the ing. They are being widely used by the trade
'"Moonshine Glide," invented by John Belok, Cable Company of the "Music and Childhood" with prospects who have children, and have
owner of a saloon at Front and Poplar streets. panels and booklets prepared by the National been found an effective selling aid.
'
According to Prohibition Agents Albany and Child Welfare Association at the suggestion of
Kendrick, those who pronounce the pass word the National Bureau for the Advancement of INVENTS TRACKER BAR PROTECTOR
"Give us a Jig" and perform the dance to the Music, for window display purposes at its head-
satisfaction of the proprietor are admitted to a quarters in Chicago.
WASHINGTON, D. C, September 20.—Patent
back room where they deposit a fifty-cent piece
In sending the photograph E. L. Hadley, ad- No. 1,352,337 was last week granted to J. Wv
in an automatic piano. The piano plays a tune vertising manager of the Cable Company, de- Zimmerman, Baltimore, Md., for a player-piano,"
to which they can continue to dance if they de-
sire, and out of the pipe fastened below the key-
board flows a drmk with a powerful kick in it.
The agents who followed out this formula
testified that the kick contained in the drink was
considerably more than half of one per cent,
and, raiding the saloon, found a quantity of
liquor, mash and a still in the back yard.
Jielok was held in $500 bail for court by Com-
missioner Manley.
DISPLAY AIDS CAUSE OF MUSIC
GRANTED PATENT FOR SELF-PLAYER
Plurality of Tracker Bars Used in New Auto-
matic Instrument of Buffalo Inventor
WASHINGTON, U. C, Sept. 20.—Max Weisberg,
Buffalo, N. Y., was recently granted Patent
No. 1,330,928 for a self-playing instrument.
This invention relates to self-playing musical
instruments and more particularly to that class
of musical instruments wherein a plurality of
tracker bars is employed, each tracker bar hav-
ing a music sheet co-operating therewith.
One of the objects of the invention is the
production of an instrument of this class which
is automatically, as well as manually, controlled
and which can be controlled from a distant
point; also wherein any one of a number of
selections may be played, any music sheet re-
wound either back to its starting point or back
to a certain passage of the selection, and any
selection played independent of the positions of
the other music sheets, the starting of one se-
lection serving to interrupt the selection being
played at the time.
MUSIC ROLL ASSOCIATION MEETS-
A special meeting of the National Association
of Music Roll Manufacturers was held on Mon-
day of this week in the offices of the Music In-
dustries Chamber of Commerce, for the purpose
of giving further consideration to the several
problems affecting the interests of the music
roll men.
ROLL HOLDER
Cable Company's Window Display of "Music and Childhood" Panels
clares that much interest has been exhibited in the object of the invention being to protect the
the display, the effect of which is increased by tracker bar from dirt, dust and foreign matter
placing descriptive matter regarding the panel when the piano is not in use, the device con-
at the side of the window and connecting it with sisting of a tracker bar protector in the form
the panel by a ribbon. The "Music and Child- of a sleeve or housing which is movable on and
hood" booklets are distributed to parents while oft the tracker bar and adapted to fully expose
the display is in position. After having been said bar when the piano is in use and to fully
used in Chicago, the panels will be featured in cover and protect said bar when the piano is
window displays in the various Cable Company not in use.
retail branches.
A further object of the invention is to provide
The panels used are in what is known as the means for supporting and guiding the protector
parcel post size, twenty-eight inches high by above referred to, adapting the same to slide
seventeen wide, and are reproductions of ten freely to and from its position of use.
hand-painted panels which are being exhibited
in many parts of the country. In addition to
The music roll department of the Grinnell,
being used for window display purposes, the re- Bros, branch store in Toledo, O., has been en-
productions are being shown in public libraries larged to take care of the steadily growing busi-
and by music teachers in their studios.
ness in that department. It is the plan of the
The "Music and Childhood" booklets were store manager, H. Sturcke, to continue featur-'
designed to impress upon parents the impor- ing rolls in a big way.
LEERNOTE
TRADE MARK
Reg. U. S. Patent Office
The Most Practical Commercial Tracker-Bar Cleaner
on the Market for Use by Player Owners
Easily Attached—Out of
Sight When Not in U s e -
Preserves the Life of the
Finish of Instrument—A
Quick, Profitable Seller
for Any Dealer.
Geo. F. Usbeck
Equipped with patented Dust Screen and Valvular features, causing the dirt, when drawn
through the tracker bar openings, to be held for removal when desired, thus insuring a
Simple, Efficient and Sanitary operation.
Kleernote makes every note respond freely and avoids many player complaints
Made of substantial high-grade metal and carefully constructed to prevent device from
getting out of order.
The use of Kleernote gives patrons absolute satisfaction.
Indorsed and recommended by Leading Dealers and Mechanics.
Large demand by player users. Attractive discount rate to dealers.
AMERICAN DEVICE MANUFACTURING CO.
4520 Shaw Avenue, St. Louis, Mo.
Export Department—256 Broadway, New York City.N. Y., U. S. A.
Owner and Patentee
749 East 135th St.
New York
IEERNOTE

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