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February 26, 1927.
PRESTO-TIMES
other instruments will be tuned by the pitch of these
three standard 'tuning forks.
The instrument resembles a machine gun because
Tuning Fork Which Has a Machine Gun Aspect Is of a barrel-like resonator into which the fork sings
when struck. It has been calibrated so that it is
Designed to Prevent Discords.
within one-hundredth of a vibration per second cor-
A device like a tuning fork, but looking more like rect. This difficult adjustment was made by Dr.
a machine gun, pitched to an "American standard Dayton C. Miller, head of the physics department of
musical pitch," has arrived at the headquarters of the the Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland.
National Association of Piano Tuners in Chicago. It
it designed so that all in&truments be tuned to its
READ PAPERS OF INTEREST.
pitch. There are only two other such tuning forks,
"Simplified Practice and Its Application to the
W. F. McClellan, national secretary of the associa-
Music Industries" was the title of a paper read on
tion, declares. One is in the United States Bureau
Friday of this week by Henry C. Lomb before the
of Standards at Washington and the O'ther at the
American Society of Engineers, meeting in New York.
headquarters of the Music Industry Chamber of
Mr. Lomb is president of the Waverly Musical Prod-
Commerce in New York.
ucts Co., Long Island City, N. Y. Ray Hudson, of
Discords in orchestras have been caused by lack of
application of standard pitch, Mr. McClellan says. the Department of Commerce, delivered an address
When instruments of different pitch are brought to- on "Simplification and Its Meaning in the Wood
Industries.
gether interference of sound waves causes a clash. In
the future, according to Mr. McClellan, all pianos and
GOOD Q R S ADVICE.
In the new bulletin of March releases the Q R S
Music Co. admonishes player owners not to play all
passages fortissimo. "By no means compete with
the brass band type of playing," is the advice. "No
one objects to soft, beautiful music, or to a fortissimo
effect where the musical thought so indicates, but
serious and well-founded objections are raised to a
continual loud performance or the injections of fortis-
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The Hardwood Manufacturers Institute held its an-
nual meeting recently in Memphis, Tenn. The Hard-
wood Dimension Stock Mfrs. Association also held
the annual meeting there. This organization is of
lumber, men with whom the music industries have
purchasing relations.
"Wound Piano Strings'' is the title of a circular
recently distributed to piano tuners and repairmen by
the United Piano String Co., New York.
All the Idaho wools held in storage in Portland,
Ore., were recently sold at private sale at prices
ranging from 31 to 33 cents and shipped East.
RADIO BILL PASSES.
Without a roll call the senate last week approved
the conference report on the radio bill, and the meas-
ure now goes to President Coolidge, who is expected
to sign it. The bill, as it will go to the President,
creates a federal radio commission of five members
appointed by the President and confirmed by the sen-
ate. One member shall be selected from each of five
geographical zones. After the first year the secretary
of commerce will assume original jurisdiction, and
the commission will continue as an appellate body.
NEW BALDWIN PATENT.
Herschel E. Tower, Cincinnati, has been granted
a patent for a motor hanger for mechanical musical
instruments, the manufacturing rights of which have
been assigned to the Baldwin Piano Co. A claim
in .the description says: "An electric motor with a
pulley for driving the pulley on a pneumatic pump,
and two loop-shaped curved spring hanger for sup-
porting said motor, the radius of curvature of the said
hangers being to the plane of rotation of the pulleys
on said motor and pump."
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