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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
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tery, the Company guaranteeing that one the change at the request of a customer.
charging
of a battery will take in at least
This ability to provide new and fresh
H E PIANOPHONE MIDGET SOME OF THE AD-
fifteen dollars in nickels. Or, if electric tunes as often as desired, under certain
VANTAGES OF THIS CONTRIVANCE ITS
circuits are available the storage batteries conditions, will prove a constant and con-
SIMPLICITY AND EFFECTIVENESS COM-
MEND IT SHOULD FIND A WIDE
can be dispensed with. The fact that this tinuous inducement for customers to pat-
MARKET.
device works successfully from a storage ronize the device with their nickels, where-
The latest and greatest of coin operated battery or chemical battery makes it pos- as, with other forms of musical instru-
musical instruments is the recent produc- sible to use the instrument in the many men ts, they have left the machine after hear-
tion of The Pianophone Co., 46-48 East places where electric lights are not avail- ing its limited selection of four or five tunes.
able, and it will prove a success even in
Houston street, New York City.
The new machines can be either rented,
The leading points of advantage of this remote country places. Thousands of leased or purchased, and those desiring
new device over every other nickel-in-the- public places, through lack of commercial territorial rights should communicate with
electric lights or currents have been pre- The Pianophone Co., 46-48 East Houston
slot operator are as follows:
street, New York.
Coin Operated Piano.
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Ann Arbor Enterprise.
The facilities of the immense plant of
the Ann Arbor Organ Co. continue to be
tested to their utmost in producing organs
to supply demands these days. Over three
hundred organs a month are now being
turned out, keeping an immense staff of
men working over time to avoid disappoint-
ing the trade.
J. C. Henderson, general manager, who
has recently been South, has returned as
usual with a good fat book of orders. Mr.
Henderson is a hustler, withal an unob-
trusive worker, who aims after and se-
cures results. The present gratifying con-
dition of affairs at the Ann Arbor factory
must afford no little gratification to him.
It is a tribute to his indefatigable efforts.
He has been aided of course by the fact
that the dealers have found the Ann Ar-
bor organs profitable to handle; they have
never failed to give purchasers the utmost
satisfaction. The present output of the
Ann Arbor Organ Co., contrasted with the
output of the company a few years ago,
seems amazing, but it is an evolution based
on enterprise and merit.
Conditions in Canada.
First. The national musical instrument,
and in fact, the King of all instruments
forms the foundation of their device, and
although the illustration shows a " Mid-
get " piano, yet all their improvements
can be applied equally well to a full -size
piano of any make whatever.
Second. Under their patents a person
can have his own piano transformed not
only into a self-playing piano of the latest
and best type, but he can also have a
nickel-in-the-slot mechanism applied, in
such manner that the piano can be either
played by hand, used as an ordinary self-
playing piano, or as a coin operated de-
vice ; and in view of these important ad-
vantages the owners of many public places
can utilize pianos which have been here-
tofore almost useless, either as a means of
entertaining their guests, or as a direct
money-earning machine.
Third. It is the only coin operated mu-
sical instrument which will work success-
fully and economically from a small bat-
Our friends over the border are enjoying
no small measure of the prosperity which
is now so universal in the United States.
Otto Higel, general manager of the well-
known Toronto House of Otto Higel Co.,
manufacturers of piano actions, keys and
hammers, during a chat in The Review
vented from using any former style of au- sanctum Saturday said:
tomatic musical machine, but there is ab-
"The piano business in Canada is in
solutely no place that the present machine splendid condition.
Manufacturers in
cannot be used with entire success, by em- practically every line report a larger
ploying either a storage or chemical bat- volume of trade than has been known for
tery, which is supplied with the machine. a good many years before. The Higel
Fourth. By simply pulling down a lever Co. are getting their share, so much so
a patron of the machine can instantly change that part of my business in visiting this
the music from piano into mandolin or ban- city is to secure extra workmen as well as
jo effects, and thus really three musical ma- to buy goods. Meanwhile, in view of the
chines are provided in one. Not only this, great prosperity in the piano industry in
but three methods are provided for pro- New York these days, it is no easy task to
ducing the different effects, namely, by secure piano action makers.
hand playing, the usual automatic opera-
"Yes, we look forward to a continuation
tion, and by the nickel-in-slot attachment.
of good times in Canada. There are no
Fifth. Nearly every other form of coin clouds on the business horizon to disturb
operated musical instruments is limited to the present satisfactory conditions."
four or five tunes daily, whereas The
Mr. Higel left for home Saturday night.
Pianophone Co. supplies one hundred
Read the announcement on page 16. It
tunes with each of their instruments, hav-
ing five tunes on each roll; and the device will show you how we have about gained
is so arranged that a new roll of five new five hundred new subscribers to whom we
tunes can be inserted in less than a minute, are giving the largest value ever offered
provided there is some one near by to make by any publication.