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\\'hi ~ h
have been made in typewrit e r co ns truc
tion durin g the la s t thirty y ea rs may perhaps
po in t the w ay to a pract ical recon~ideration o f
th e whole: s ubj e ct.
Reasons for the Discussion
Of CO lll'
a nd theoretical, but I set them down delib er
ate ly in order that the conditions of th e con
ho w imperfec tly. It will perhaps b e s aid , an d
not wi t hout ju-tic e , that I hav e raised a great
many lliAlculti es , bu t have co ntributed little or
nothing- to their so luti on. T h is, to o, is tru e so
far a s it gocs, but my object is to r a ise diffi
cu lti e, at thi s timc. It is ve ry necessary th at
difficulti es should be rai sed, man y of them,
It i< vc ry necessary th a t facts s hould be looke d
;n th e fac c. /\bo ve all, it is nece ssary that we
should under
'which wil l ha ve to be made in the constructi on
of the piano, The prese nt lumber s ituation is
a lread y calculated to m ake on e uneasy, In a
v ery few years it will hav e to be considere d a
matter for the deepest conce rn, Within ten
years it is lik e ly to be c ri ti caL
Pos s ibly eve ry s u gg estion I hav e made can
b e pic ke d to pieces very plausibl y, Pos s ibly '\
fa ct o ry super int e ndent can find a difficulty q uite
sufficiently fo rll';d a bk, to his own wa y of think
ing, to kill my contention in eac h and every
case put a bo ve, But ev en if a ll th is were so,
it would n ot in the least impro ve 11 ,<1 l te"
l 'he
mere fact th a t th e su bj ec t so readily comes up
and th at the s li.c;htest conside ration lead s to a
hundred and one su gges tion s fo r s ubstitution
"nd co n scrvat ion, sho ws lh a t the questions
raised a r c n e ither to be ex pl a ined nor to be
la ughed aw a y. They ~xist, they are pertinent,
~ ,.nd thc~ ' ca ll in s istentl y for sol uti on .
Substitution is, of course, a thought far more
distant an d r emote than con servation. It will
b e difficult to persuade even the most advan ce d
manufactur e rs to
a no th e r until aClual compul s ion ha s arrived, O n
th e other hand, th e e limination of waste, wh at
I may ca ll in trafactory conservation, p r ese nts
;,11 i1l1lllcdiate as well as a pra c tical s ubject for
st udy, Th ere are two divi s ions to th e s ubje ct
matter. Cl n e .(toes by wa y o f gr eate r pr ec ision
in desi .l'.n, w hi cll sha ll ('l illlin ate th e usc of un
nec essal"\' qua ntiti es of wood, The oth er gO('S
"' 0
\Yd ,> uf s illlpliri catio ll
n': proces s, w her eb;
fir s t human labo r and, sec o ndly, human wast e
of Illaterial Illa) b e rdill ed and redu cc d. These
two proces ses can be carri ed on top;et her ,and
a s tudy of the pos si bilitie s o f them will na tu ..
r; ,II)" b e un der tak e n in such a manner that th e
on e will be intermingled wi th the other throu g h-
0!1t,
I ~y m ean s of such st udie s the fa cts whi c h
underl ie t he \\' hole argum e nt for co ns erva ti on
wi ll gradua ll y be brou g ht to light and it ,vill
be poss ibl e to show som e of the dir ec tions at
least in whi c h m ;>: 11': conducted those salut ary
relOl'm,; of which our industry stands in need
on its factory s id·e. VVe ar e dealing with the
birth-til roe " of a new era, and it is very im
po dali c til a: \\' e ,il o ul d re cog ni ze precisely what
we are doi ng, and Why, I'- rom time t o time
niclcs i" this departme nt will. carryon the
investi ga tion,
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MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW
JULY 28, 192,1
NEW PLECTRUM PIANO ACTION
BRAMBACH GRAND USED BY WHITEMAN
Italian Inventor Receives Patent for Action to
Simulate Tone of the Ha rp
Th e Paul vVhit eman S, ~, "Leviathan" Or
c hestra gave a concert on July 13 in the ware
r0om' of Sed gw ick & Casey, T nc., of Hartford,
Conn., us in g a B ramba ch baby gr and,
\n en
thu s ia s tic audience of SOO musi c lovers attended
the concert and w as s urprised an d please d by
th e quality and vo lu me of the Brambach to n e,
"a r ev el ation," as ma ny of them told G eo. K.
M or e house, the manage r of the piano depart
mrnt oi Sedgwick & Casey, In c,
VVASHTN(;TON, n. c, July 21.- -Giusel'pe Casci
otta, ;.z ew Y or k, was , las t week, g-rante d Patent
No . 1,462,444 for a plec trUll " piano action,
w hi ch aims t o pro v ide certain 'le w a nd us efu l
iJllprO Ve l11 e nts in COlHlcclion wi th a d ev ice of
th is character.
It is wel l under s tood in ce rt a in respe cts tha t
the tonal qu a liti es a nd effe cts produced b y a
h a rp are incap ab le of bei n g produced in a p ian o
when thc s tr in g s th ereof are s ubj ec ted to the
o rdi nary p e rc ussio n act ion; it b e in,,; well kn ow n
that the strings of a harp must be pi cke d.
O n th e oth e r h
ma y produ ce run s and brilli a nt ton es up on a
p ia no in v iew of th e ke yboa rd forming a part
of thi s instrume nt, which pe rmit s of th ese r e
sults bei ng accomp li s he d without the expen di
ture of that amount of i'nergy whi c h w ould be
ne cessary t o produ ce th e same r es ul t upon a
harp,
It is an obj ec t of this ill ve di o n to pro v id e
a nove l pi a no action ca pabl e of b e il1 ~' s ub
s tituted' for a con ve ntion a l piano action con
structed in a n ew piano and by m ean s of which
th e s ame to nal qualiti es wi ll be capable of be ing
duplicated by mean s of a piano as a re now ca
pable of bei n g rend e red o nly b y a p e rform e r
upon a h a rp,
\ further obj ec t of th e in ven tion is th e co n
s tru ction of a device of the c haract e r stated
which s hall b e extre mely simple an d by mean s
of which the effe C'ls brough t o ut in the preced in g
para g raph may be accomp lish e d, in addi tion to
the brilliant tones, e tc., which were h('retofore
capa bl e of a ccomp li s hment on ly upon 8 piano,
TO HAVE A MUSIC DEPARTMENT
ESTEY AGENCY WITH MORGAN CO.
HE ll RT)I, ILL., July 24,- The ex clusiv e agency [ ()r
th e Estey pi ano in thi s locality ha s just beel
obtained b y the Morgan M'usi e Co" acco rding
to C. V", Fi she r, manager for th e Mor ga n con
cern, vVith in the past three weeks this company
has so ld three ca rload s of pianos thro u g h the
effort s of it s w el l- organi ze d for ce of sa le smen
in th e Herrin and IVIurphys boro s tor es, Th e
Morgan Music Co, now h olds the agency for
eightee n diffe r ent mak es of pianos,
A Complete Line of High Grade
Commercial Instruments
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and
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Pianos and Player Pianos
Write for our dealer propo8ition
EAST RADFORD, V I\" July 24,- -R. N, Gentry &
Co., now op enin g on 'l\1ain street, will have a
music Je pa rt ll1 ent a lon g wit h the regu lar furni
ture business.
THE WEYDIG PIANO CORP.
Wm, E, Weydig, Pr.. IJenl
133rd St, and Brown Place
New York
Tuners and Repairers
We hilve just issued a little 20
page price list of
. PIANO ' MATERIALS AND TOOLS
and will send a copy upon request.
It is in convenient form and of in
terest to every Tuner and Repairer.
CORRESPONDENCE
o n subjects p ertinent to th e aim s of thi s depart
ment is
Qu es tion is ahvays gladly r ece iv ed, no matter
l'Ow small its importance m ay appear to be,
Such Quest ions are a lway s a nswered at the fir s t
opp ortunity.
Address a ll ma tt e r to "'Wi llia m
Hr aid White, care of The Mu s ic Trade Review,
~i8j N[adison avenue, New '{ork, N, y,
HEARD=BELL TO CARRY MUSIC
ATLANTA, G,\" Jul y 23.-A li n.; of mu sical in
strurne,lts will be c-ar riec1 by th e H eard-Be ll
Fnrniture C o., which wi ll op e n soon her e,
Simply ask for Circular No. 244
HAMMACHER, SCHLEMMER & CO.
PIANO AND PLAYER HARDWARE, FELTS AND TOOLS
NEW YORK SINCE 1848
4th Avenue and 13th Street
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