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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
ARTICLE VII.
As a musical center Cincinnati is acknow-
ledged to have a national importance, and now
it is becoming evident that she is bonnd to be-
come a center for the manufacture of musical
instruments. Within the past few years two
piano factories have sprung into existence, and
already one of them is obliged to seek enlarged
quarters. The fact is a welcome one, and the
Commercial Gazette wishes the new manufactur-
ing line a fine successful future.—Com?nercial
Gazette, Cincinnati.
IT WRITES MUSIC.
E. K. DUN VAN.
tjjwjTrR- DUN VAN is a prominent music dealer
-**J- of Moravia, N. Y. He studied music for
four years with Prof. Hugo Stadler, at Wyoming
Seminary, Pa. After obtaining some factory
experience, in order to become practically ac-
quainted with the construction of the piano-
forte, he spent several years in music stores for
the purpose of obtaining a thorough knowledge
of the music business. Three years of this time
he spent in Owego, N. Y., removing thence to
Moravia, where he opened a first-class music
«tore.
Mr. Dun Van carries a large stock of musical
instruments of all kinds, American and foreign
sheet music and general musical merchandise.
He sells the Steinway, the Starr, the Behr Bros,
and the Sporer, Carlson & Berrry pianos. He
does an extensive business in these instruments
throughout Cayuga, Tompkins and Tioga coun-
ties. Mr. Dun Van, besides being an enterpris-
ing business man, is a practical and skillful
piano tuner and repairer. He has established
an excellent business, which bears satisfactory
testimony to his ability and perseverence.
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Jm NEW instrument, the harmonigraph, has
®^J> just been patented in the United States
and eight foreign countries by Mr. J. E. Harri-
tnan, a young civil engineer.
The harmonigraph is a mechanical attach-
ment for a piano or organ whereby any notes
struck by a player in process of manipulating
the instrument are automatically recorded upon
a band of paper, properly ruled with lines and
spaces to represent the staff in music.
The operation of Mr. Harriman's invention is
not unlike that of a typewriter. It is held in
position above the key-board of the instrument
by a telescopic frame, adjustable to any length
or height. This frame is attached to the piano
or organ by a series of rubber-section tips, and
the series of pistons or levers that operate the
strikers which record the notes upon the band of
paper are attached to each key of the instru-
ment by smaller cups, so that the entire me-
chanism is detachable, leaving the piano
uninjured.
The rollers holding this band of paper are
THE
Sterling Company,
Soiled ip Jugs.
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5r;eir paeiliti :M. V. EBERSOLE & CO. are to be con-
gratulated upon firing the first heavy
gun in the fall real estate campaign, they hav-
ing just closed a deal whereby the Krell Piano
Company have secured, at a cost of about $70,-
000, the Redway & Burton Foundry plant, on
9th, Richmond and Harriet streets.
This property is 240 feet front on 9th street by
90 feet deep, and 240 feet front on Richmond by
100 feet deep, with a large five-story stone fac-
tory building, various brick buildings, etc.,
which admirably adapt it to the uses of a large
manufacturing business like the Krell Piano
Works.
The purchasers are believed to have secured a
fine bargain in the trade, and the city at large
is to be congratulated upon the fact that the
Krells have been so successful in their manu-
facturing venture that the purchase of this large
plant was a necessity.
operated by a spring, and the paper is constant-
ly moving as the notes are played, so that the
strikers may record in correct relative position
the notes as they follow each other. The lines
composing the staff, together with the added
lines above and below the staff, are ruled by a
roller that is operated by the mechanism which
governs the motion of the paper.
With the harmonigraph in position, the
player sits down to improvise. Swiftly he runs
his fingers over the keys of the instrument, and
as swiftly do the strikers operate upon an inked
typewriter ribbon, placing each note properly,
lust as the strikers of the instrument hit the
wires, only the width of the band of the har-
monigraph is about nine inches. If the note is
struck staccato, the record is a bold mark upon
the paper. If a legato, the note being held as
the paper moves, the striker remains in position
during the time, and the prolonged mark de-
notes the length of the note. Sharps and flats
have their relative position on the staff, and are
denoted by a different character. If it is desired
to play without recording, the cylinders alone
can be removed, leaving only the levers, which
do not in the least impair the action of the keys.
This invention will be a boon to composers
and musicians in general, from the vast amount
of labor it saves by recording improvised music
as it is played. By the insertion of transfer pa-
per, duplicates can be made after the manner of
typewritten matter. Strikers also indicate the
pedal accompaniments to the music.
Mr. Harriman was engaged iu pursuit of his
profession as civil engineer in Texas when he
first conceived the idea of his mechanism. His
attention was attracted by the expressed regret
of a young lady that she could improvise on the
piano, but could not write her productions.
In an instant Mr. Harriman thought—Why not
have something to record the notes automati-
cally as the strikers hit the wires and produce
the sound ? As a result the harmonigraph was
made.— The Piano, Organ avd Music Trades
Journal.
MANUFACTURERS OF
Pianos and Organs,
FACTORY :
DERBY, CONN.
It is admitted by all that no piano ever put upon the
market has met with such success as THE STERLING
and thousands will testify to their superiority of work-
manship and durability. Why ? Because they are made
just as perfect as a piano can be made.
THE STERLING ORGAN has always taken the lead, and
the improvements made this year puts it far ahead of
all others. Jt^* Send for Catalogue.
Hallet k Davis Pianos
NE of the most singular features of the
older churches in England and Western
Europe, says Answers, London, is the presence,
in the walls, of large numbers of jars. They are
embedded in the masonry, with the neck turned
toward the interior of the church, and the mouth
opening into the place.
For a long time the openings were supposed
to be holes in the walls, but a closer examina-
tion, a number of years ago, on one or two of
these old buildings, disclosed the fact that the
openings were the necks of jugs. Most old
churches—churches erected from the eleventh to
the seventeenth centuries—have them, and in
some they are present in great numbers.
A church in Leeds has over fifty, while this
number is considerably exceeded in some of the
old French churches, nearly two hundred having
been counted in the cathedral of Angouleme.
The explanation of their presence is easy.
They are placed in the walls with a view to bet-
tering the acoustic properties of the building.
The efficiency of the device is open to ques-
tion. The jugs are probably useless, but no
one can certainly say that they are so, until the
experiment has been tried of constructing two
rooms, with jugs in the walls of one, and the
walls of the other solid.
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