Music Trade Review
Issue: 1898 Vol. 27 N. 17 - Page 19
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
[Compiled especially for The Review.]
Washington, D. C , Oct. 17, 1898.
Wind Motor for Self-playing Instru-
ments. Fred W. Hedgeland, Chicago, as-
signor to the W. W. Kimball Co. Patent
No. 612,163.
In this invention, which relates to the
construction of wind-motors for operating
the music-sheets of self-playing instru-
ments, Mr. Hedgeland has adapted such
motors to the actuation of the music-rollers
in the rewinding of the sheets by making
the motors capable of reversing their mo-
tion, or, in other words, the motors them-
selves may be actuated in either direction,
according to the service required of them
—in one direction for playing and in the
opposite direction for rewinding the music-
sheets.
In the preferred construction of the mo-
tor the several bellows or power-pneumat-
ics are controlled by sliding or operating
valves, which are themselves controlled by
membrane motors in the manner set forth
in the inventor's application for patent
Serial No. 658,991. Mr. Hedgeland now
provides the motor of said application
with a movable valve-plate, which is here-
inafter designated as the " reversing-
valve," in addition to the rotating valve
controlling said membrane motors shown
in said application. This movable valve-
plate is normally stationary while the
motor is running, but is movable from one
of its positions to the other by the user
whenever occasion requires, and in one
position it causes the motor to actuate the
pulley or shaft to which it directly com-
municates its power in one direction, and
in its other position the valve-plate causes
the motor to actuate the pulley or shaft in
the other direction. This valve-plate di-
rects the currents of air whereby the mem-
brane motors are operated to the mem-
brane motors at one side or the other of
the axis of the driven device, according to
the direction in which it is desired to move
the music-sheet, and in order that this may
be done two series of ducts leading to the
membranes are provided, one series caus-
ing movement in one direction and the
other series in the reverse direction, and
the valve in each of its two positions is
adapted to close one series of these ducts
and at the same time to open the other
series. By means of suitable clutches,
which are preferably automatic in their
operation, the take-up roll is engaged and
driven in the proper direction during the
playing and the music-roll is engaged and
POOLE
driven in the proper direction during the
rewinding.
Self-playing Instrument.
Fred. W.
Hedgeland, Chicago, assignor to the W.
W. Kimball Co. Patent No. 612,164.
This invention is designed to provide a
practical construction of self-playing mec-
hanism for organs having more than one
manual. In it the inventor employs a
separate tracker-range for each manual or
organ embraced in the instrument—one,
for instance, for the swell organ and one
for the great organ—and arrange such
ranges one in advance of the other and
combine with them a single music of valve
sheet. In order that this single sheet may
be used, the openings in the ranges are
staggered with reference to each other—
that is, the openings in one tracker-range
are placed in planes lying between the
planes of the openings in the other tracker-
range, and the sheet is perforated corres-
pondingly, so as to bring the perforations
for each tracker-range into planes corres-
ponding in position to the planes of the
openings in that range. The tracker-
ranges are separated from each other a
sufficient distance to allow the placing of
a guide—such, for instance, as a roller—
between them, such roller serving to draw
the music-sheet down between the ranges,
and thus insuring close contact by the
sheet with the tops of the ranges. It will
be understood, of course, that the perfora-
tions in the sheet representing simultane-
ously-sounding notes in the two tracker-
ranges will be located in different trans-
verse planes upon the sheet, such planes
corresponding to the relative locations of
the tracker-ranges and consequently some-
what widely separated upon the sheet. It
will be further understood that each range
is connected to and controls the sounding
devices of its corresponding manual in the
ordinary manner. By the use of these
features Mr. Hedgeland is enabled to ob-
tain room in a sheet of the same or sub-
stantially the same width as those now
commonly employed for single manual in-
struments for all the notes in the two-
tracker-ranges of a two-manual instrument
by simply narrowing the orifices of the
range-openings and the perforations in
the sheet a trifle from the width hereto-
fore given them.
Emerson Success.
Since the opening of the retail fall season
in the piano trade, few of the warerooms
has presented a livelier and more business-
like aspect than that of the Emerson Co.
Mr. Rosenberg has been untiring in his
efforts to secure desirable patronage, and
his endeavors are being crowned with un-
usual success. On nearly every occasion
when The Review calls, the sale of instru-
ments is in progress.
The merits of the Emerson products are
well-known. Mr. Rosenberg, in a recent
talk, declared that the sale of nearly every
Emerson means, in due course, the sale of
several others to friends of those who
purchase. " People say I am enthusiastic,"
he remarked. " How can I help it when
I know so well the sterling character of
the Emerson pianos ? "
Will Also flanufacture.
L. M. Kieffer, an experienced business
man and a practical piano and organ tuner,
will be general manager of the Silver State
Music Co., recently incorporated in Pueblo,
Col., with a capital of $10,000. It is not
only the intention of the company to deal
in goods kept by every first-class music
house, but also to manufacture all kinds of
musical instruments in Pueblo.
Coal gas blew the top off the furnace in
Vaughn & Tanner's music store, Detroit,
Mich., one of the closing days of last week,
and the building quickly filled with smoke.
The only damage was from smoke, and
that was very slight.
LOOK AND LISTEN.
Yes, look at it and see an organ artistically made of the best
materials and with the greatest skill of the most experienced work-
men. Look it all over, from pedals
. to music rack, and
it's just the same. ^ — — ~ ~ ~ ~
g I
\
But listen! Ah, if the
look pleased you, \ ^ ^
T ^ ^ # 1 Iw \ k ° w m u c n more the
tone? And yet, it \ §j_ ft fl f J^m
\ i s n t strange that
fifty years of voicing \ f~ LW^^^
19 \ reec * s should result
in the sweet toned \^^^/^^
__———— Estey, ever sweeter
and clearer with eachL-^——'
new instrument that comes
from the factory, else what were the uses of experience ?
SEND FOR CATALOGUE
ESTEY ORGAN CO.,
PIANOS
*RATTLEBORO, VT.
Precious, Perfect, Peerless
As to Tone, Touch, Design*
Durability and Value. , . »
5 and 7 APPLETON STREET, BOSTON. MASS.
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
[Compiled especially for The Review.]
Washington, D. C , Oct. 17, 1898.
Wind Motor for Self-playing Instru-
ments. Fred W. Hedgeland, Chicago, as-
signor to the W. W. Kimball Co. Patent
No. 612,163.
In this invention, which relates to the
construction of wind-motors for operating
the music-sheets of self-playing instru-
ments, Mr. Hedgeland has adapted such
motors to the actuation of the music-rollers
in the rewinding of the sheets by making
the motors capable of reversing their mo-
tion, or, in other words, the motors them-
selves may be actuated in either direction,
according to the service required of them
—in one direction for playing and in the
opposite direction for rewinding the music-
sheets.
In the preferred construction of the mo-
tor the several bellows or power-pneumat-
ics are controlled by sliding or operating
valves, which are themselves controlled by
membrane motors in the manner set forth
in the inventor's application for patent
Serial No. 658,991. Mr. Hedgeland now
provides the motor of said application
with a movable valve-plate, which is here-
inafter designated as the " reversing-
valve," in addition to the rotating valve
controlling said membrane motors shown
in said application. This movable valve-
plate is normally stationary while the
motor is running, but is movable from one
of its positions to the other by the user
whenever occasion requires, and in one
position it causes the motor to actuate the
pulley or shaft to which it directly com-
municates its power in one direction, and
in its other position the valve-plate causes
the motor to actuate the pulley or shaft in
the other direction. This valve-plate di-
rects the currents of air whereby the mem-
brane motors are operated to the mem-
brane motors at one side or the other of
the axis of the driven device, according to
the direction in which it is desired to move
the music-sheet, and in order that this may
be done two series of ducts leading to the
membranes are provided, one series caus-
ing movement in one direction and the
other series in the reverse direction, and
the valve in each of its two positions is
adapted to close one series of these ducts
and at the same time to open the other
series. By means of suitable clutches,
which are preferably automatic in their
operation, the take-up roll is engaged and
driven in the proper direction during the
playing and the music-roll is engaged and
POOLE
driven in the proper direction during the
rewinding.
Self-playing Instrument.
Fred. W.
Hedgeland, Chicago, assignor to the W.
W. Kimball Co. Patent No. 612,164.
This invention is designed to provide a
practical construction of self-playing mec-
hanism for organs having more than one
manual. In it the inventor employs a
separate tracker-range for each manual or
organ embraced in the instrument—one,
for instance, for the swell organ and one
for the great organ—and arrange such
ranges one in advance of the other and
combine with them a single music of valve
sheet. In order that this single sheet may
be used, the openings in the ranges are
staggered with reference to each other—
that is, the openings in one tracker-range
are placed in planes lying between the
planes of the openings in the other tracker-
range, and the sheet is perforated corres-
pondingly, so as to bring the perforations
for each tracker-range into planes corres-
ponding in position to the planes of the
openings in that range. The tracker-
ranges are separated from each other a
sufficient distance to allow the placing of
a guide—such, for instance, as a roller—
between them, such roller serving to draw
the music-sheet down between the ranges,
and thus insuring close contact by the
sheet with the tops of the ranges. It will
be understood, of course, that the perfora-
tions in the sheet representing simultane-
ously-sounding notes in the two tracker-
ranges will be located in different trans-
verse planes upon the sheet, such planes
corresponding to the relative locations of
the tracker-ranges and consequently some-
what widely separated upon the sheet. It
will be further understood that each range
is connected to and controls the sounding
devices of its corresponding manual in the
ordinary manner. By the use of these
features Mr. Hedgeland is enabled to ob-
tain room in a sheet of the same or sub-
stantially the same width as those now
commonly employed for single manual in-
struments for all the notes in the two-
tracker-ranges of a two-manual instrument
by simply narrowing the orifices of the
range-openings and the perforations in
the sheet a trifle from the width hereto-
fore given them.
Emerson Success.
Since the opening of the retail fall season
in the piano trade, few of the warerooms
has presented a livelier and more business-
like aspect than that of the Emerson Co.
Mr. Rosenberg has been untiring in his
efforts to secure desirable patronage, and
his endeavors are being crowned with un-
usual success. On nearly every occasion
when The Review calls, the sale of instru-
ments is in progress.
The merits of the Emerson products are
well-known. Mr. Rosenberg, in a recent
talk, declared that the sale of nearly every
Emerson means, in due course, the sale of
several others to friends of those who
purchase. " People say I am enthusiastic,"
he remarked. " How can I help it when
I know so well the sterling character of
the Emerson pianos ? "
Will Also flanufacture.
L. M. Kieffer, an experienced business
man and a practical piano and organ tuner,
will be general manager of the Silver State
Music Co., recently incorporated in Pueblo,
Col., with a capital of $10,000. It is not
only the intention of the company to deal
in goods kept by every first-class music
house, but also to manufacture all kinds of
musical instruments in Pueblo.
Coal gas blew the top off the furnace in
Vaughn & Tanner's music store, Detroit,
Mich., one of the closing days of last week,
and the building quickly filled with smoke.
The only damage was from smoke, and
that was very slight.
LOOK AND LISTEN.
Yes, look at it and see an organ artistically made of the best
materials and with the greatest skill of the most experienced work-
men. Look it all over, from pedals
. to music rack, and
it's just the same. ^ — — ~ ~ ~ ~
g I
\
But listen! Ah, if the
look pleased you, \ ^ ^
T ^ ^ # 1 Iw \ k ° w m u c n more the
tone? And yet, it \ §j_ ft fl f J^m
\ i s n t strange that
fifty years of voicing \ f~ LW^^^
19 \ reec * s should result
in the sweet toned \^^^/^^
__———— Estey, ever sweeter
and clearer with eachL-^——'
new instrument that comes
from the factory, else what were the uses of experience ?
SEND FOR CATALOGUE
ESTEY ORGAN CO.,
PIANOS
*RATTLEBORO, VT.
Precious, Perfect, Peerless
As to Tone, Touch, Design*
Durability and Value. , . »
5 and 7 APPLETON STREET, BOSTON. MASS.
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