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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
"Then everybody looked at everybody
else, and at the New Y r orker doubtfully, and
the New Yorker got up and walked out
without saying a word."
"Did that New York man resemble
you?" after a pause, asked the M. T. R.
man.
"Not very much, but—'"
"Just some, eh!"
An /Eolian Recital.
T
With the Travelers,
T
OME now, I think you gave it to me
a little heavy on that oyster story."
"How is that, Reinhard?"
"Why, you said I ate one hundred and
forty-four, and really I side-tracked on the
hundred and forty-first. "
"Oh, well, that was a slight elongation
of the truth, compared with—"
"With what?"
"Why, the inner linings of your oyster
holder."
"Easy now; what will it be?"
"A cooler."
"Make it two, waiter," and at this
point Kochman
lighted a cigar, and
straightened back in his chair. "Didn't
tell about a little discussion I heard out in
Milwaukee last month, did I ? "
"No; what was that?"
" I t was at the Plankington, and a party
of traveling men were discussing the at-
tainments possessed by a Boston man who
had recently joined the brotherhood of
Globetrotters. 'Do you know,' said a
well-known, sedate looking New York man,
'that he is quite a remarkable fellow?'
" ' I n what respect'? asked a traveler
from Cincinnati.
" ' I n respect to his linguistic ability.
He speaks French quite as well as he does
German.'
" ' I s that so?'
" 'Yes; and he speaks Italian as well, if
not better, than he does French.'
" ' B y George, he doesn't look it,' ven-
tured a smooth-faced chappie from St.
Louis.
" 'It's true, just the same,' continued the
New Yorker, 'and more, he speaks Spanish
fully as well as he does Italian.'
" 'He's a regular polyglot,' said a Cleve-
land man,
" 'He ought to be a diplomat,' suggested
a long-legged drummer from Louisville.
" 'Or a court interpreter,' added a
Hoosier from Indianapolis.
" 'He ought to take out a line of samples
of canned tongue,' said a Chicago ham
drummer, with a circus-bill laugh.
" 'How well does he speak German?' in-
quired a Detroit man, modestly.
" 'What's that?' smiled the New Yorker.
" ' I said, how well does he speak Ger-
man?' repeated the Detroiter, slowly.
HE ^Eolian pipe organ recital at the
Mendelssohn Glee Club Hall, last Sat-
urday evening, attracted a large and fash-
ionable audience, among whom we noticed
a number of organists. The application of
the ^ o l i a n principle to pipe organs is a
new departure, and much interest was
taken in this exhibition. It must be con-
ceded that it was a great success in every
respect. The numbers by Rossini, Men-
delssohn, Mascagni, Wagner, Gounod and
others were given with that finish and per-
fection which we expect from "a real, live"
and experienced organist.
Mr. Votey, of
the Farrand & Votey Organ Co., had charge
of the tone effects and tempo, and dis-
played keen discernment in the selection of
stops. A feature of the evening was a
violin solo by Prof. Albertini to an accom-
paniment by the ^olian. The concert was
most instructive and enjoyable.
To Facilitate Attaining Correct
Touch on the Piano.
A
N instrument designed to facilitate
the systematic development of finger
technic, affording also an improved exer-
cising device for beginners on the piano,
has been patented by Mr. Oscar Felden, of
No. 707 Hamilton street, Houston, Tex. It
comprises a series of mute keys and two
bells or sounding devices of different pitch
arranged so that when the keys are wrongly
played one of the bells will be sounded.
The keys, pivoted in a suitable frame, have
at their rear ends eyes throxigh which ex-
tends a cord, the cord also passing through
eyes on a fixed transverse beam and around
pulleys at its end, and thence connecting
with the rear end of a lever fulcrumed on
the frame, the lever having at its front end
a tube closed at one end, a ball resting nor-
mally at the closed end of the tube. At the
rear end of the lever, facing the open end
of the tube, is a bell, a spring normally
holding the lever in its inclined position,^
but when the player holds down a key too
long, and until after the second key is
pressed to the bottom, a pull is exerted
upon the cord which causes the lever to
swing up, the ball then rolling along the
tube and sounding the bell. Over the rear
ends of the keys is fulcrumed another lever,
having at its under side a cushioned rail
normally resting on the keys, whereby the
lever is swung upward when either of the
keys is pressed, and on the rear end of this
lever is an eye engaged by an arm ful-
crumed in a bracket, the arm being con-
nected by a loop with a striker adapted to
sound another bell. With the correct touch,
neither of the two bells will be sounded, the
time it takes the ball to roll through the
tube being the time allowed to raise the
finger which strikes the first key, but if
the player does not hold the key down
until the second key is struck, an interval
occurs between the two tones and the piv-
oted arm then actuates the sounder to strike
the second bell. The device is thus de-
signed to facilitate the requirement of d.
correct legato style of playing, or the hold-
ing of the sound of one tone to the exact
instant that the next tone commences to
sound, for by the pressing upon the second
key when the first is still held down one of
the bells is sounded, and by allowing an
interval between the touch upon successive
keys the other bell will be sounded.—Sci-
cntijic American.
'
The Connor Piano.
£
F
RANCIS CONNOR, the popular piano
manufacturer, has no reason to com-
plain of the business which is coming his
way nowadays. He is adding to his whole-
sale trade every week and making some
very good connections in that field. In his
retail warerooms, at 4 East Forty-second
street, he is doing a fair share of business.
All in all, the Connor piano is becoming
better known and better appreciated every
season.
Piano Plate Suggestion.
T
HE following suggestion from a corres-
pondent appears in the London and
Provincial Music Trades Reviczv. "I-have
had occasion to put in an iron frame into
a full trichord piano, the original frame
having broken in three places. This piano
had only two bracings besides the ends,
the plank being 1 y? in. thick, the cast only
54 in. for the plank to rest on (not half the
width), consequently it had run into the
plank. I think if the bracings are reduced
in number, the cast, at least, ought to be
the width of plank, to take the entire
weight, as the cast does I have put in."
A Reputation
Is made by selling Pianos of
the highest excellence. The
reputation of many dealers has
been made by selling the
HENRY F.
fULLER
Pianos.
They
cost more than
the majority of
Pianos, but they have ac-
quired their reputation as
Pianos of the highest grade
solely because they merit the
highest praise. If there is not
an authorized representative
in your city, write to the man-
ufacturers
88 Boylston Street
BOSTON, flASS.