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NOVEMBER 7,
THE
1925
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
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Victor Talking Machine Go. Announces
Line of Victrola Radio Combinations
Four More Ampicos Placed
in Gary Public Schools
Orthophonic Victrola and Electrola to Be Offered in Combination With Super-Heterodyne Radio
Sets—DeLuxe Credenza Embodies Both Orthophonic and Electrola With Radio Receiver
Eleven Ampicos Now in Daily Use in Class-
rooms of Gary, Ind., Schools—Heard by
12,000 Children Each Day
CIMULTANEOUSLY with the introduction
of the two new types of Victrolas, the
Orthophonic, mechanically operated, and the
Electrola, electrically operated, the Victor Talk-
ing Machine Co. announces that models of
both lines of instruments will be offered in com-
bination with radio receiving sets ranging from
five to eight tubes. In all cases where the
Orthophonic principle is utilized, the horn of
the machine will be used as an outlet for a loud-
speaker attachment.
The smallest of the new combination instru-
ments is to be the console type in the Orthophonic
line in which will be incorporated a five-tube
balanced radio frequency receiver of substanially
uni-control type (Radiola No. 20), equipped
with controllable regeneration and operating on
dry cells with either outside or loop antenna.
The console type is also being built in combina-
tion with a six-tube super-heterodyne receiver
(Radiola No. 25) having a door-loop antenna
and operating on dry-cell power. This receiver
will use the new UX-120 tube in the last audio
stage, and one UB-877 protective tube for pro-
tection against "shorts." The other five tubes
are the UX-199 type. With this model either
five or eight-tube radio equipment is optional.
Next in size comes the Florenza model with
intermediate horn, in combination with the six-
tube super-heterodyne receiver operating on
dry-cell power and equipped with an antenna of
the flat-panel-door loop type, which folds out
of sight when not in use. This model is also
substantially uni-controlled.
In the highest development of the Ortho-
phonic line, the DeLuxe Credenza, with its horn
nearly six feet long, will be installed the eight-
tube super-heterodyne receiver (Radiola No.
28) operating on battery power. The antenna
is built into the cabinet and is invisible to the
listener. This receiver has full uni-control tuning
.system, employing "straight line" frequency
condensers, giving equal spacing of all stations
or tuning scale. Seven UX-199 tubes and one
UX-122 tube are used.
Perhaps the most interesting of the new com-
binations is the DeLuxe Credenza model of the
Orthophonic providing for a mechanical opera-
tion, together with the Electrola for electrical
reproduction of sound from records and the
eigh-tube super-heterodyne receiver operated on
110-volt, sixty-cycle alternating current. This
means that the owner can reproduce his records
by the mechanical Orthophonic method or elec-
trically through the changing of the mechanical
record vibrations into electrical impulses and
amplification through the medium of vacuum
tubes and at the same time have available super-
heterodyne receiver operated from house cur-
rent. The tube equipment on this combination
consists of seven UX-199 tubes; one UX-210
tube; two UX-216B tubes; one UX-876 ballast
tube, and one UV-877 protective lamp.
There is also offered by the Victor Co. in
connection with the new line a new clock-type
loud speaker, based on new principles of sound
reproduction. This speaker employs the double
balanced diaphragm principle and a pleated
parchment sound radiating service. The electro-
magnetic unit energizes the entire service of
the diaphragm, giving loud, undistorted repro-
duction. It may be used with any good audio
frequency amplifier. The new line is complete
in every respect.
Stewart-Warner Big
National Ad Campaign
twelve months a year in the South. The Stew-
ardyne was designed to offset static. F. O.
Draughton, of the Stewardyne factory, is mak-
ing the demonstrations.
Besides Periodicals, Sixty Large City Newspa-
pers Are Being Used—Firm's Tubes Triumph
in Test
New Eveready Battery
The Stewart-Warner Speedometer Corp., man-
ufacturer of Matched-Unit Radio, announces
that recent tests of eighty tubes of different
makes, conducted by the Radio Broadcast Lab-
oratory, at Garden City, N. Y., showed the
Stewart-Warner tube had a higher percentage
of mutual conductance than the average tube
and gained a rating of 108 per cent.
Reports from dealers throughout the country
indicate that the $65 table model instrument is
proving to be one of the most popular sets in
the Stewart-Warner line and production is be-
ing speeded up to meet the demand.
A comprehensive national advertising cam-
paign is being conducted by the Stewart-War-
ner Corp. in magazines of general country-wide
circulation, including the Saturday Evening
Post, World's Work and the Review of Re-
views, and the Sunday newspapers in sixty large
cities will carry strong advertising copy from
now until Christmas to build up a public de-
mand for Matched-Unit Radio.
' Gable Radio Demonstration
October 31.—The Cable Piano Co.
is conducting daily demonstrations of the new
Stewardyne radio set, which, it is claimed, is
the result of much research work in an effort
to build a set that would work satisfactorily
A new Eveready "B" battery, designed par-
ticularly to fit the battery compartments of cer-
tain types of Operadio and De Forest receivers,
has been announced by the National Carbon Co.
The voltage is 22^4 and dimensions 4^4 x 3 ^ x
iy%. The new battery permits the use of the
largest-size cells possible in the battery com-
partments of the sets mentioned and retails
for $2.
G. A. Bogart on Road
C. Andrew Bogart, treasurer of the Bogart
Piano Co., New York, who has been alternating
with his father, E. B. Bogart, as traveler for
the concern since last Spring, left this week on
a three weeks' trip through the trade in New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland and as far
south as Washington, D. C. His letters are
encouraging in reporting a healthy condition
of retail trade through these sections. Bogart
dealers report an active turnover of the new
Bogart small upright and player.
Sidney N. Mayer Back
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Sidney N. Mayer, of Mayer Bros. & Bram-
ley, Inc., New York, returned recently from a
combination business and pleasure trip which
took him as far as the West Coast.
This Fall the Gary, Ind., public schools pur-
chased four additional Ampicos, thereby rais-
ing the total number of these instruments to
eleven, each of them in daily classroom use.
M. E. Snyder, head of the music department
of the Gary Schools, is highly enthusiastic over
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the Ampico as an educational medium, and has
written in glowing terms of its powers as a
reproducing instrument and of the extent of its
library. He states that 12,000 Gary children
hear the Ampico daily in the following schools:
Beveridge School, Emerson School, Forty-fifth
Avenue School, Froebcl School, Glen Park
School, Horace Mann School, Jefferson School,
Miller School, Roosevelt Annex School, Theo-
dore Roosevelt School and Thirty-fifth Avenue
School.
The city of Gary is recognized as one of
the leaders in progressive educational methods
and equipment, and it is indeed a sti iking testi-
monial to the Ampico that its use Vias been
adopted on so large a scale.
Help Furnish Model Home
YOUNGSTOWN, O., November 2.—Music in the
home was clearly demonstrated with the opening
of the model home at Boulevard Park here re-
cently. A Chickering grand piano graced the living
room and a Victor talking machine was also found
among the furnishings.
The Yahrling Piano Co. and the McMahon
Piano Co. were responsible for the musical ap-
pointments in the model home.
Increases Wareroom Space
NORTHAMPTON, MASS., November 2.—Announce-
ment was made here this week that the Music
House, which is an outgrowth of the Taylor
Music House on Pleasant street, has secured
a ten-year lease on half of the O'Donnell block
on Main street. This house handles the Chick-
ering, Marshall & Wendell, Brewster, Gulbran-
sen and Ivers & Pond pianos, as well as the
Ampico.
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