Music Trade Review

Issue: 1926 Vol. 82 N. 1

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JANUARY ?, 1926
THE
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series of valves for said regulator pneumatics,
and controlling said valves so that when one is
operated the valve or valves at one side thereof
will be operated, whereby the regulator pneu-
matics can progressively be thrown out of oper-
Ceremony Marks Laying of Stone of New Deep River Institution—Under the Stone Were Placed ation.
Ivory Pieces From Factory and a Copy of the Holiday Number of The Review
The device is preferably arranged to operate
normally at the lowest tension for the softest
T N Deep River, Conn., a village which has been
The committee having charge of the building playing, which is obtained by having all of the
closely affiliated with piano-making since the is headed by Delmont L. Tufts, and also on the regulator pneumatics in operation. Then by the
industry's very beginning, there was recently committee is Jerome H. Russell, both of whom arrangement previously described by cutting the
regulator pneumatics progressively out of oper-
laid the corner-stone of the new Baptist Church, are factory executives of Pratt, Read & Co.
which is shown in the accompanying illustration.
Among the articles placed in the corner-stone ation, the expression or tension on the actions
As will be noticed, the church is of Gothic were old photographs of the village of Deep can be progressively increased.
design, and is to be constructed of native River, a photograph of the Soldiers' and Sailors'
Pratt, Read & Go- Products Are Placed
Under the Corner-stone of New Church
A Pfriemer Memento
In addition to sending out its customary calen-
dar to the trade, the hammer-felt house of
Charles Pfriemer, Inc., New York, has sent out
a photographic facsimile of the Declaration of
Independence. Charles Pfriemer, head of the
company, has long desired a copy of this manu-
script for personal reference.
stone. The main building is to be forty-three
by sixty-four feet, and will have a total seating
capacity in the main auditorium and gallery of
about 350. The Austin Organ Co., of Hartford,
Conn., has been awarded the contract for the
organ, which will carry two sets of organ pipes,
on either side of the pulpit platform. A large
wing at the rear of the main edifice will contain
the Sunday educational equipment and ladies'
parlors.
Memorial erected at the close of the Great War,
a copy of the Connecticut Baptist Manual for
1924, copies of the local newspaper, The Deep
River New Era, The New York Herald-Tribune
and Hartford Courant, postage stamps, includ-
ing air mail and special delivery stamps, postal
views and map of the village of Deep River,
ivory pieces typifying Pratt, Read & Co.'s prod-
ucts, current advertisements and a copy of the
Holiday Number of The Music Trade Review.
Hardman Reproducing Grand
on Cruise of Level Club
Harvard Piano Co., Dayton, Ky., consisting of
a three-story factory building, with adjacent mill
room, machine room, etc., to Fred Matre, who,
it is said, will erect a number of modern homes
on the site.
Instrument Furnishes Music for Members of
New York Organization on Trip to the West
Indies
About 450 members of the Level Club of
New York, a local social organization of
Masons, set sail on a cruise to the West Indies
aboard the S.S. "Reliance" on December 19.
One of the organizers of the trip was Philip
Besserman, of the retail sales staff of Hard-
man, Peck & Co., New York, who was instru-
mental in installing a Hardman Welte-Mignon
(Licensee) reproducing grand in the beautiful
main salon of the steamer. Numerous concerts
were given on the Hardman reproducing grand,
at one of which a member of the club disguised
himself as Ignace Paderewski and seated him-
self at the piano while a Paderewski recording
was played.
A cable from Mr. Besserman received this
week by Calvin T. Purdy, retail manager, states
that the Hardman Hour of Music broadcast
from WMCA on Friday evening, December 25,
came in as plain as day on the ship's Radiola
as they lay off Kingston, Jamaica.
Harvard Piano Plant Sold
CINCINNATI, O., December 28.—Announcement
has been made of the sale of the property of the
More Piano Sales!
Do as many other progressive music
dealers are doing—use the "Melody
Way" of Class Piano Instruction
to interest parents, sell pianos, and
gain prestige in your community.
Miessner dealers have enrolled
thousands of children under this
plan.
Start the New Year the
"Melody Way" and sell more
pianos. Mail the coupon for full
information.
Cox Co. in New Store
BROWNWOOD, TEX., December 26.—The A. C. Cox
Music Co. has recently moved from the King
Building on Fisk avenue to a new store on
East Baker street, which has been decorated and
enlarged. The Cox concern was formerly the
Eubanks Music Co., and suffered a heavy fire
loss last Fall. The new store will be equipped
with the same lines of pianos, phonographs and
musical instruments, which were carried in the
old location.
"As many of the parents of pupils
have no pianos, we feel sure that
the coarse is going to result in our
making a number of sales.
"We are very confident that the
"Melody Way" classes are going to
benefit The Miessner Piano Co.,
Parks Music House Co., and the
City of Hannibal."
A Danquard Patent
WASHINGTON, D. C, December 29.—The Auto
THE LITTLE PIANO WITH THE BIG TONE
Pneumatic Action Co., New York, N. Y., is the
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owner through assignment by Thomas Dan-
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quard, same place, of Patent No. 1,566,654 for
^ Reed St?Milwaukee, Wis.
an expression-controlling mechanism for musi-
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Gentlemen:
Please send me your Melody
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W a y b o o k l e t a n d fu]1 d e t a i l s o f yOUr p r o p o s i .
I he object of this invention is to provide a
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simple and improved expression-controlling
mechanism for musical instruments.
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To this end the invention consists in connect-
Address
ing a series of united regulator pneumatics to
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