Music Trade Review
Issue: 1894 Vol. 19 N. 4 - Page 7
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
system of Mr. EHas, in regard to the American String Instruments
A Marked Contribution to the vaulting
quality of tone, have found that the clear and
Better Than Those Imported.
beautiful tone of the pianos continues to sound
Acoustics of the Piano.
as long as the finger holds down the key.
MANDOLINS.
J r N the last number of our esteemed contem-
^
porary, Music Instrumentenzeitung, an
interesting article appears bearing on a recent
invention of Herr G. Elias, of Stuttgart, from
which we extract the following :
The object of nearly all new systems of mak-
ing pianos is to get a greater volume and better
quality of tone. Many obtain it with more or
less success by using reeds or pipes, parts pro-
ducing tones entirely foreign to stringed instru-
ments. Only the '' legato system '' devotes a
little attention to the sounding-board, as the
soul of the piano, by adding a counter-bridge
(Gegen sleg), which increases the sounding-
board's power of resistance against the pressure
of the strings. Experts attribute the undeniable
success of this system of tone development al-
most exclusively to this increase of resistance.
Upon a similar line of thought, but in another
way, the piano manufacturer, Herr G. Elias, in
Stuttgart, succeeded in constructing a sounding-
board in such a manner that it exerts by itself a
counter-pressure, which is thoroughly effective,
constant and can be regulated at any time against
the pressure of the strings. He achieved it after
many trials, and was always guided by the
scientifically correct theory of vaulting. This
new invention is now to be placed before the
public, and will be called the '' Vaulting System.''
The perfection of the tone-development, and
especially the preservation of the original tone
volume of an upright or a grand piano depends
above all upon the sounding-board's keeping in-
tact against the pressure of the strings. Obser-
vations have shown that the loss of tone in other-
wise well-made instruments is principally a
result brought about gradually by the sounding-
board's bending in under the immense pressure
of the strings, and that this evil occurs sooner in
large instruments than in small ones, or those
of a medium size.
It is a well-known fact that no sounding-board
made in the customary way can completely resist
the very great pressure of the strings for any
length of time. In the '' Vaulting System ''
this fault is avoided in the very beginning, at
any rate a bending in of the sounding-board that
might occur later on can be easily rectified at
once and without cost by the simple turning of
screws. The general introduction of the vault-
Ing system would be very desirable if only to
preserve the original tone volume of the instru-
ments, and not to improve the quality of the
tones.
The results of the trials thus far and the ad-
option of the new system by a number of Stutt-
gart manufacturers are a sufficient guarantee for
the indisputable, extraordinarily favorable suc-
cess of it. It enriches the volume of the tones,
makes them organ-like in all octaves, because
the tones continue to sound longer than usual.
It gives greater possibilities for shading tones,
and so called dull (tubby) tones are altogether
excluded in it; and finally it must be said that,
similar to the violin, the longer the instrument
is used the better does the tone become. The
extra cost for material and labor to add this new
invention to any instrument amounts to only
4.50 to 5 Mk. Experts who have examined the
upright pianos constructed according to the
ftjcpORMERLY all the mandolins used in this
•^
country were imported from Germany
and Italy; now nearly all that are used here,
and a great many are used, are made in this
BERLIN, WIS.—Mr. E. A. Phelps will open a country. In the past year and a half or two
music store in Berlin. Mr. Phelps has been in years the mandolin has become very popular
the music business twenty years.
here, and its popularity shows no sign of di-
minishing.
The demand for mandolins comes
BANGOR, ME.—The new establishment of M.
H. Andrews & Co. (M. H. Andrews and Geo. from all over the country, and it is so great that
W. Knight), in the reconstructed and remodel- wholesale dealers in musical instruments are
led Arcade Building, Main and Water streets, is not always able to keep up with it promptly,
attracting considerable attention, and is said to We make in this country mandolins better than
be the best looking and best arranged house in the imported, and the same can be said of
American guitars.
Guitars made in this
Maine.
country are now used throughout the land, and
FARIBAUI/T, MINN.—Press of other business they are also exported to all Spanish-American
matters has forced H. C. Theopold to resign his countries.
position as business manager of the Schimmel &
VIOLINS.
Nelson Piano Co., and J. C. Henderson was
Fine violins are made in this country, but we
chosen to fill his vacancy.
don't compete with German manufacturers in
CINCINNATI, O.—John Britting, the piano making cheap ones. There are imported violins
manufacturer, was arraigned the other day on a that are sold at wholesale, with strings com-
charge of shooting to kill. He shot his wife. plete, ready for use, as low as 50 cents each ;
Lieut. Rakel reported that the woman had dis- there are violin bows that are sold at wholesale
appeared and could not be found. The defendant as low as 80 cents a dozen. Instruments of this
was represented by Jerome D. Creed. Judge sort are sold mostly in the West and South, and
Gregg stated that he would not dismiss the case large numbers of them are sold. When one
but would continue it on September 15th. If takes into account the manufacturer's and the
the woman was not found then he would con- importer's profit, and the fact that an import
tinue it further.
duty is paid also, it will be seen that the origi-
nal cost of this violin must have been very
LANCASTER, O.—Mr. Ed. Miesse, partner of
small.
Frank L. Beck, dealers in musical instruments,
died at his home on East Main street, after a
Thanks, Brother Alfieri,
short illness, at the age of 30 years. He was
leader of the Mechanics Band, and was one of
warmly congratulate our New York
the most popular men in Lancaster. He leaves
contemporary THE Music TRADE R E -
a wife and two sons, aged 4 and 2 years respect
VIEW on its '' Western Edition," which strongly
ively.
testifies to the journalistic skill and experience
ERIE, PA.—A. Kohler will remove his music of its enterprising proprietors.—Piano, Organ
store to 22 West 9th street, where he will have and Music Trades Journal, London, August 1st.
one of the finest music stores in Western Penn-
sylvania.
BRIEF NEWSLETS.
AURORA, III.—Mr. Chas. Meyers has bought
Tensile Strength of Materials.
a half Interest in the music store of H. B. Mat-
are accustomed to think of metals as
thews, on Main street, and the firm will now be
being stronger than wood, and so they
known as Matthews & Meyers.
are if only pieces of the same size be tested. But
KANSAS CITY, MO.—Kansas City Piano Co. when equal weights of the two materials are
has increased its capital stock from $67,000 to compared, several varieties of wood are stronger
than ordinary steel. A bar of pine just as
$100,000.
heavy as a bar of steel an inch square will hold
LYNN, MASS.—Mr. Brown, the local music up 125,000 lbs., the best ash 175,000 lbs., and
dealer, has received word from his brother, Jas. some hemlock 200,000 lbs. Wood is bulky. It
C. Brown, who has been missing for six years, occupies ten or twelve times the space of steel.
and whose home is in Lynn, Mass. Mr. Brown The best steel castings made for the United
shipped from Boston in 1887 on a bark for the States Navy have a tenacity of 65,000 to 75,-
South Sea Islands. The craft was wrecked, and 000 lbs. to the square inch. By solidifying such
for nearly six years he has lived on one of the castings under great pressure, a tensile strength
Solomon Islands among the cannibals. He has of 80,000 to 150,000 lbs. may be obtained. The
a wife and 14 year old son in Lynn.
best tool steel, ironi ingots, is far superior to
ordinary steel castings and forgings in this re-
ST. PAUL, MINN.—Mr. D. M. Dyer, of the firm
spect, and fine steel wires and ribbons give a
of W. J. Dyer & Bro., general music dealers, has
tenacity of 300,000 lbs. to the square inch of
returned to St. Paul after a two months' business
cross-section. Ordinary aluminum is only one-
trip abroad.
third as heavy as steel, and a bar of the former,
MR. SAMUEL HAZELTON, of Hazelton Bros., with a cross-section of three square inches,
has been touring the West, visiting various would hold up 78,000 lbs., which is as much as
one inch of good steel would do.
dealers of his house during the past week.
THE CELEBRATE-D
STEGER
PIANOS
PATENTED 1892.
are noted for their fine singing quality of
tone and great durability. The most
profitable Piano for dealers to handle.
STEG-ER & CO., Manufacturers,
Factory, Columbia Heights.
235 WABASH ATE., CHICAGO.
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
system of Mr. EHas, in regard to the American String Instruments
A Marked Contribution to the vaulting
quality of tone, have found that the clear and
Better Than Those Imported.
beautiful tone of the pianos continues to sound
Acoustics of the Piano.
as long as the finger holds down the key.
MANDOLINS.
J r N the last number of our esteemed contem-
^
porary, Music Instrumentenzeitung, an
interesting article appears bearing on a recent
invention of Herr G. Elias, of Stuttgart, from
which we extract the following :
The object of nearly all new systems of mak-
ing pianos is to get a greater volume and better
quality of tone. Many obtain it with more or
less success by using reeds or pipes, parts pro-
ducing tones entirely foreign to stringed instru-
ments. Only the '' legato system '' devotes a
little attention to the sounding-board, as the
soul of the piano, by adding a counter-bridge
(Gegen sleg), which increases the sounding-
board's power of resistance against the pressure
of the strings. Experts attribute the undeniable
success of this system of tone development al-
most exclusively to this increase of resistance.
Upon a similar line of thought, but in another
way, the piano manufacturer, Herr G. Elias, in
Stuttgart, succeeded in constructing a sounding-
board in such a manner that it exerts by itself a
counter-pressure, which is thoroughly effective,
constant and can be regulated at any time against
the pressure of the strings. He achieved it after
many trials, and was always guided by the
scientifically correct theory of vaulting. This
new invention is now to be placed before the
public, and will be called the '' Vaulting System.''
The perfection of the tone-development, and
especially the preservation of the original tone
volume of an upright or a grand piano depends
above all upon the sounding-board's keeping in-
tact against the pressure of the strings. Obser-
vations have shown that the loss of tone in other-
wise well-made instruments is principally a
result brought about gradually by the sounding-
board's bending in under the immense pressure
of the strings, and that this evil occurs sooner in
large instruments than in small ones, or those
of a medium size.
It is a well-known fact that no sounding-board
made in the customary way can completely resist
the very great pressure of the strings for any
length of time. In the '' Vaulting System ''
this fault is avoided in the very beginning, at
any rate a bending in of the sounding-board that
might occur later on can be easily rectified at
once and without cost by the simple turning of
screws. The general introduction of the vault-
Ing system would be very desirable if only to
preserve the original tone volume of the instru-
ments, and not to improve the quality of the
tones.
The results of the trials thus far and the ad-
option of the new system by a number of Stutt-
gart manufacturers are a sufficient guarantee for
the indisputable, extraordinarily favorable suc-
cess of it. It enriches the volume of the tones,
makes them organ-like in all octaves, because
the tones continue to sound longer than usual.
It gives greater possibilities for shading tones,
and so called dull (tubby) tones are altogether
excluded in it; and finally it must be said that,
similar to the violin, the longer the instrument
is used the better does the tone become. The
extra cost for material and labor to add this new
invention to any instrument amounts to only
4.50 to 5 Mk. Experts who have examined the
upright pianos constructed according to the
ftjcpORMERLY all the mandolins used in this
•^
country were imported from Germany
and Italy; now nearly all that are used here,
and a great many are used, are made in this
BERLIN, WIS.—Mr. E. A. Phelps will open a country. In the past year and a half or two
music store in Berlin. Mr. Phelps has been in years the mandolin has become very popular
the music business twenty years.
here, and its popularity shows no sign of di-
minishing.
The demand for mandolins comes
BANGOR, ME.—The new establishment of M.
H. Andrews & Co. (M. H. Andrews and Geo. from all over the country, and it is so great that
W. Knight), in the reconstructed and remodel- wholesale dealers in musical instruments are
led Arcade Building, Main and Water streets, is not always able to keep up with it promptly,
attracting considerable attention, and is said to We make in this country mandolins better than
be the best looking and best arranged house in the imported, and the same can be said of
American guitars.
Guitars made in this
Maine.
country are now used throughout the land, and
FARIBAUI/T, MINN.—Press of other business they are also exported to all Spanish-American
matters has forced H. C. Theopold to resign his countries.
position as business manager of the Schimmel &
VIOLINS.
Nelson Piano Co., and J. C. Henderson was
Fine violins are made in this country, but we
chosen to fill his vacancy.
don't compete with German manufacturers in
CINCINNATI, O.—John Britting, the piano making cheap ones. There are imported violins
manufacturer, was arraigned the other day on a that are sold at wholesale, with strings com-
charge of shooting to kill. He shot his wife. plete, ready for use, as low as 50 cents each ;
Lieut. Rakel reported that the woman had dis- there are violin bows that are sold at wholesale
appeared and could not be found. The defendant as low as 80 cents a dozen. Instruments of this
was represented by Jerome D. Creed. Judge sort are sold mostly in the West and South, and
Gregg stated that he would not dismiss the case large numbers of them are sold. When one
but would continue it on September 15th. If takes into account the manufacturer's and the
the woman was not found then he would con- importer's profit, and the fact that an import
tinue it further.
duty is paid also, it will be seen that the origi-
nal cost of this violin must have been very
LANCASTER, O.—Mr. Ed. Miesse, partner of
small.
Frank L. Beck, dealers in musical instruments,
died at his home on East Main street, after a
Thanks, Brother Alfieri,
short illness, at the age of 30 years. He was
leader of the Mechanics Band, and was one of
warmly congratulate our New York
the most popular men in Lancaster. He leaves
contemporary THE Music TRADE R E -
a wife and two sons, aged 4 and 2 years respect
VIEW on its '' Western Edition," which strongly
ively.
testifies to the journalistic skill and experience
ERIE, PA.—A. Kohler will remove his music of its enterprising proprietors.—Piano, Organ
store to 22 West 9th street, where he will have and Music Trades Journal, London, August 1st.
one of the finest music stores in Western Penn-
sylvania.
BRIEF NEWSLETS.
AURORA, III.—Mr. Chas. Meyers has bought
Tensile Strength of Materials.
a half Interest in the music store of H. B. Mat-
are accustomed to think of metals as
thews, on Main street, and the firm will now be
being stronger than wood, and so they
known as Matthews & Meyers.
are if only pieces of the same size be tested. But
KANSAS CITY, MO.—Kansas City Piano Co. when equal weights of the two materials are
has increased its capital stock from $67,000 to compared, several varieties of wood are stronger
than ordinary steel. A bar of pine just as
$100,000.
heavy as a bar of steel an inch square will hold
LYNN, MASS.—Mr. Brown, the local music up 125,000 lbs., the best ash 175,000 lbs., and
dealer, has received word from his brother, Jas. some hemlock 200,000 lbs. Wood is bulky. It
C. Brown, who has been missing for six years, occupies ten or twelve times the space of steel.
and whose home is in Lynn, Mass. Mr. Brown The best steel castings made for the United
shipped from Boston in 1887 on a bark for the States Navy have a tenacity of 65,000 to 75,-
South Sea Islands. The craft was wrecked, and 000 lbs. to the square inch. By solidifying such
for nearly six years he has lived on one of the castings under great pressure, a tensile strength
Solomon Islands among the cannibals. He has of 80,000 to 150,000 lbs. may be obtained. The
a wife and 14 year old son in Lynn.
best tool steel, ironi ingots, is far superior to
ordinary steel castings and forgings in this re-
ST. PAUL, MINN.—Mr. D. M. Dyer, of the firm
spect, and fine steel wires and ribbons give a
of W. J. Dyer & Bro., general music dealers, has
tenacity of 300,000 lbs. to the square inch of
returned to St. Paul after a two months' business
cross-section. Ordinary aluminum is only one-
trip abroad.
third as heavy as steel, and a bar of the former,
MR. SAMUEL HAZELTON, of Hazelton Bros., with a cross-section of three square inches,
has been touring the West, visiting various would hold up 78,000 lbs., which is as much as
one inch of good steel would do.
dealers of his house during the past week.
THE CELEBRATE-D
STEGER
PIANOS
PATENTED 1892.
are noted for their fine singing quality of
tone and great durability. The most
profitable Piano for dealers to handle.
STEG-ER & CO., Manufacturers,
Factory, Columbia Heights.
235 WABASH ATE., CHICAGO.
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