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THE MUSIC .TRADE REVIEW
THE "SMALL GOODS" TRADE
Palatial Warerooms of Regina Music Box Co
The new home of the Regina Music Box Co., at Fifth Avenue, Broadway and
Twenty second Street, has proved to be a most desirable investment. Its location is
exactly suited to the purpose, and thousands of resident New Yorkers,—in addition to
the host of strangers who have called —have paid the Regina establishment a visit. The
fittings are tasteful as well as elegant, the choice of instruments is very large, and, it is
a pleasure to say, all callers are treated with the utmost courtesy and consideration, thus
encouraging frequent and profitable business transactions. The show frontage of the
Regina warerooms is one of best in the city.
Phonograph and Telephone.
By a recent invention of a young Dan-
ish engineer it is possible to connect a
phonograph with a telephone in such a
manner that the former becomes avail-
able for receiving the record of the speak-
er in case the individual with whom he de-
sires to communicate is not at hand. This
record will produce the words of the speak-
er at any time it is desired. The phono-
graph is said to be quite different from
Edison's and much less complicated. In-
stead of the wax roller a steel band is
used, and the record can be wiped off in
the same manner a chalk drawing is re-
moved from a slate.
Novel Use of Graphophone.
SULLIVAN COUNTY MINISTER ADOPTS A NEW
PLAN TO INSTRUCT NEW MARRIED COUPLES.
They are made on scientific prin-
ciples, and for volume, purity and
sweetness ^ftone, have never been
equaled. Write for catalogue and
prices. J& J& J& «J* <£
Cbe Rudolph Hlurlitzer £o.
manufacturer*
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Cincinnati
The Rev. W. H. Van Hosen, pastor of
the Methodist Episcopal Church at Kenosa
Lake, Sullivan county, this State, has
adopted a new method of instructing the
young couples who come to him to be mar-
ried. He has obtained a graphophone with
a good list of popular and standard songs,
as well as good advice relating to the mat-
rimonial state.
Immediately after the marriage is per-
formed the bride and bridegroom are
treated to productions from the talking
machine calculated to impress upon them
the importance of the step they have taken,
and at the same time given a pleasant en-
tertainment. Mr. Van Hosen intends to
use the graphophone in other departments
of his church work.
Relics of the Past.
On the battlefield of El Caney, after the
enemy had fled, abandoning camp equipage,
arms and accoutrements, Uncle Sam's boys
naturally examined the debris of war and
appropriated such of the spoils as might
prove interesting as trophies of conquest.
It was the good fortune of one of the mu-
sicians of the band of a U. S. Regiment
to capture and save from further destruc-
tion a quartette of saxophones bearing the
name of Adolph Sax as the maker and also
the inventor of the saxophone.
These instruments recently came into
the possession of C. G. Conn, the famous
band instrument manufacturer, and not-
withstanding their battle scarred condition
they were soon placed in playable condi-
tion, so that the first saxophones made by
the inventor might be compared with the
modern, improved product of Mons. Le-
febre, now employed at the Conn factories
as saxophone expert. M. Lefebre was
contemporary with Adolph Sax, and na-
turally has great respect and veneration
for the father and the inventor of his
favorite instrument. He regarded the
genuine Sax Saxophones with becoming
reverence, and in anticipation of the pleas-
ure of playing what he really believed to
be a masterpiece of the master workman
and inventor he prepared to pour forth the
fullness of his soul through the tuneful
tubes.
His picturesque chagrin and disappoint-
ment over the result of his best efforts to
get a satisfactory tone from the instru-
ments may be better imagined than de-
scribed. The tone was cruel, the mechan-
ism crude, the tone vile. It is difficult to
understand why the saxophone as a musi-
cal instrument survived its baptism. Le-
febre was glad to drop the genuine Sax
Saxophone and console himself for the de-
fects so lately discovered in an heretofore
cherished idol by floods of melody, full
toned, true toned, sweet voiced, well mod-
ulated melodies from the progeny of the
Adolph Sax Saxophone, viz: the modern
perfected New Wonder Saxophone, an in-
strument without a musical rival in its
class, without a successful commercial com-
petitor.
But, Lefebr- has been spoiled, hence it
is no wonder the Adolph Sax instrument
was a disappointment. Years ago, when
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