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NOVEMBER 27, 1926
The Music Trade Review
Exhibit of the J. P. Seeburg Piano
Co. at Sesquicentennial a Big Success
Large Crowds Attracted Since Opening of Event to Full Line Shown by Chicago Automatic Piano
Co. in the Liberal Arts Building at the Philadelphia Exposition
/"CHICAGO, November 16.—Frequent refer-
^* ence has been made to the exhibit of J. P.
Seeburg Piano Co., Chicago, at the Sesqui-
centennial in Philadelphia, Pa.
In all the
months during which this exhibit has held the
diapason to the bird-like quintadena, was con-
tained in the single case, only slightly larger
than an ordinary piano.
Another thing that made an impression was
the fact that this is a player as well as a pipe
net tones. The Style H is over seven feet in
height with an attractive case with four art
glass panels, hand-carved wooden figures as or-
namentation on the trusses, and imitation pipes
over the keyboard.
Another instrument is called a small auto-
matic orchestra or "Matchless Orchestrion."
This, in a case a few inches over five feet high
and four feet wide, contains eleven different in-
struments including a piano. This has a clear
glass section over the roll with an indicator
showing the name of the particular selection
with colored electric lights flashing on and off
and control buttons which can be operated from
a remote point, mechanism playing only the
number of pieces paid for through the coins
dropped in the slot.
New Store in Ensley
Crowds
Before the
Exhibit of the
J. P. Seeburg
Piano Co.
ENSLEY, ALA., November 20.—This prosperous
suburb of Birmingham now has a new piano
store in the Manning Music House, 714 Nine-
teenth street. M. D. Manning is the proprietor.
It will feature the Hardman, Peck & Co. line.
Mr. Manning was with the Charles M. Stieff
Co. for fourteen years. He started in 1907 K in
their Charlotte, N. C, store and after six yeVrs
as salesman won promotion to managership,
which he held for eight years. He later became
manager of the Forbes Piano Co. in Birming-
ham and more recently was with Ludden &
Bates in Savannah.
Leoni Records for Columbia
Eva Leoni, an opera star who has won suc-
cess on three continents, made her first record
for the Columbia Phonograph Co. Miss Leoni,
who was born in Vienna, received her musical
education in that city, and has sung in Rome,
Buenos Aires and at the Manhattan Opera
House, New York. She will make a number of
records for the Columbia.
Consult the Universal Want
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public fancy, its most striking characteristic
has been the educational impression which the
instruments have made. It was one of the
popular exhibits in the Liberal Arts building,
always having a crowd before it, listening not
only to the music but to the explanations of the
mechanical principles involved.
The exhibit gave the public an opportunity to
become intimately acquainted with Seeburg
automatic pianos, for it contained a full line of
all types and sizes, from the smallest automatic
to the largest art style orchestrion, as well as
the Seeburg automatic pipe organ. Each of
these could be made to play from a music roll
which operated entirely without attention, play-
ing a selection of ten pieces on each roll which
could be rewound and automatically rerolled to
the first number.
The Seeburg staff reported that the most
popular instrument with the visitors was the
Celesta De Luxe player pipe organ, the hun-
dreds being attracted by its music expecting to
see an organist at its keyboard. All commented
enthusiastically on the musical quality of the in-
strument and all of them noted that the entire
mechanism with the pipes, from the deep-voiced
organ, with its blending of pipe organ tone
with piano tone. Then the pianist at the key-
board played a Spanish love song with the ac-
companying mechanism of a guitar tone. They
also were interested in the automatic coin-op-
erated instruments of other types.
The smallest instrument in the Seeburg line
is the Style L, a little over four feet in height
and three feet wide, closely resembling a phono-
graph. It has art glass panels, a mission oak
finish, and plays the latest music with piano and
mandolin attachment.
Another Seeburg instrument is the automatic
xylophone Style E, designated as the "Auto-
matic Master," containing piano, xylophone and
mandolin attachment. It has a piano keyboard
which can be played either manually or auto-
matically and has the full piano scale. Its case
work is finished in magohany with panels of
art glass and two art lamps.
The largest instrument shown was their Style
H solo orchestration with piano, xylophone and
mandolin attachment and traps, including the
bass drum, snare drum, tympani, cymbal, tri-
angle and castanets. This has sixty-eight wind
pipes giving the yiolin, piccolo, flute and clari-
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