Music Trade Review
Issue: 1901 Vol. 33 N. 9 - Page 31
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
Che Small Goods trade
TO MAKE PHONOGRAPH HORNS.
[Special to The Review.]
Syracuse, N. Y., Aug. 26, 1901.
Carl Ziegenhorn, of Surbeck avenue, East-
wood, a German piano maker, is organizing a
company to manufacture a wooden phono-
graph horn upon which he has secured a pat-
ent. Mr. Ziegenhorn has made the construc-
tion of wooden musical instruments his life's
study, and his new invention, he claims, takes
away all of the metallic sounds in the phon-
graph. As soon as the company is organized
Mr. Ziegenhorn will open a factory in the
city. Mr. Ziegenhorn claims for his horn
that it is.smaller than the brass horn now in
use, that the music is louder and more dis-
tinct, and that in vocal selections the horn
gives the voice the rich quality. In the com-
pany which is being organized several promi-
nent dealers in phonographs are interested,
both of this city and out-of-town.
MUSIC AND ELECTRICITY.
The Modern Power Has Invaded The Field of
Music and Comes to Stay.
Electricity has recently invaded the do-
main of music, and many kinds of musical
instruments are now operated by its aid. It
is coming into employment especially as an
adjunct to the organ, being utilized to work
the valves which open and shut the pipes.
Inasmuch as its use in this way permits the
placing of the keyboard at any distancce
from the mechanism proper, the connections
being made by means of concealed wires, one
may easily understand that an arrangement
convenient and desirable in many churches
and other buildings is thus rendered practi-
cable.
Where musical instruments are operated
by wind supply, the electrical agent requires
only the use of a perforated paper sheet, with
an arrangement of spring-fingers that make
contacts through the openings. With the
help of this simple contrivance, electro-mag-
nets in circuit, with those fingers, may ener-
gize piano-hammers or the valves of an or-
gan ; or they may pick the strings of a banjo.
There are several electrically-operated pi-
anos on the market, and most of them are
worked with the help of a perforated paper
sheet, electro-magnets being energized
through the holes by the closing of circuits.
When the circuit is closed the hammer is
thrown against its string and produces the
note.
Bostoij
flutes, Piccolos,
Guitars,
mandolins, Banjos, Zithers
Jf nd €wrv Instrument
Chars musical • •
JOHN C HAYNES & CO.,
Importers and Manufacturers,
451 Washington St., Boston, Mass.
The electric banjo is worked in like man-
ner by the help of a paper roll. There are
buttons for every fret, to press down eac
string, and a series of little hooks are pulled
from side to side, catching the strings and
yielding the requisite tintinnabulation. Each
button and each hook is attached to its own
slender copper wire, so that the instrument is
under as perfect control as if manipulated by
a skilled performer.
Attempts have been made to run orches-
trions by electricity, but this is merely a mat-
ter of wind supply, all of the instruments in
such a multiplex musical apparatus being
operated by wind—even to the drumsticks,
which are made to strike by the opening and
closing of valves.
The electric drum may perhaps- appear in
the orchestra of the near future, inasmuch as
hammers may be made to thump the tym-
panic sheepskin by the same means as are
used for the striking of strings. So far as
any one can see at the present time, the horn
is likely to continue to be blown by the hu-
man mouth, which seems to be the apparatus
best adapted for this purpose.
Of course, the use of an electric motor in
connection with the musical phonograph is
old, but nowadays a person who has a ma-
chine of this kind has only to touch a button
on the desk which supports the instrument
(the operating contrivance beingcleverlycon-
cealed beneath) and, the requisite cylinder
being in place, the desired tune at once be-
gins.
WALDO IMPROVED GUITARS.
The guitar in the past quarter of a cen-
tury has been the subject of many experi-
ments. Its form has been remodeled, its top
changed, and many other "would be" im-
provements have been tried, but without an
exception have all reverted to the original
idea of construction as the best and only
perfect way. With the exception of the
"improved back" the form and appearance of
the Waldo Guitar is similar to all others.
Its superiority is in the scientific construc-
tion of the instrument and the graduation of
the wood so as to produce the Harp quality
of tone with a carrying power unpreceden-
ted.
This back is constructed of six pieces of
wood, the grain running in different direc-
tions, which not only beautifies the instrument
but reduces the chances of checking and
warping to a minimum.
While there is no better wood in the world
for guitars than rosewood, it is true there
is none that is more susceptible to heat and
cold, and like metal it expands and contracts
with the change of the weather. The Waldo
guitars are all guaranteed not to crack unless
subjected to misuse or ajDiise.
MAY IRWIN TO EXPLOIT.
May Irwin is by repute a thrifty actress.
She used to have certain brands of bever-
ages in the farces that she acted in. It is
said that in the next piece she will introduce
the members of her company as a brass
band with patented self-playing instruments
in the manufacture of which she is inter-
ested. A picture advertising them shows
her as the smiling leader of the blowers
of these new things, and remarking that they
are a howling success.
REGAL CO. OFFICERS^ ELECTED.
[Special to The Review.]
Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 27, 1901.
The Regal Mfg. Co., of Indianapolis, have
perfected the re-organization of their concern
through the election last week of the follow-
ing officers: Wm. E. Kurtz, president; Geo.
A. Marott, vice-president; John W. Keyes,
secretary, and Asher B. Evans, treasurer.
These gentlemen with John R. Evans, W. H.
Dillman, W. J. Richards, John A. Carey, Al-
fred Hoberg, M. B. Wilson, constitute the
owners and members of the new organiza-
tion. It is their intention to develop their
business on thoroughly up-to-date lines.
The new company is made up of men well
known and eminent in the commercial world,
and it is their purpose to enlarge the Regal
plant which is housed in fine buildings on
South Capitol avenue, and make a number of
improvements which will enable them to fur-
ther increase the manufacture of their spec-
ialties.
ABOUT THE REGINA.
"A Show to Make Money" is the title of
an attractive little book devoted to the Regina
Music boxes which has just reached us. It
is conceived along the original lines every
second page containing a crisp timely sen-
tence or caption which at once strikes home.
This, like other literature sent out by the
Regina Co., is admirably printed and up to
that standard which has ever distinguished
this institution.
WEISS SUES STRAUSS.
Suit has been instituted in the U. S. Cir-
cuit Court by Christian Weiss, Jr., of Tros-
singen, Ger., for whom Frank Scribner, 415
Broadway, is general agent in this country,
against Adolph Strauss & Co. of this city, for
an alleged infringement of the Weiss patent
on harmonicas. This patent covers the Clar-
ion harmonica (having pipes over the reeds),
and is the patent referred to by Judge Coxe,
in the opinion recently decided by him and re-
ported in The Review. An injunction and
damages are demanded.
The oldest bagpipe now in existence is said
to be in possession of a man in Edinburgh,
and bears the date 1704. A comparison with
the Highland- bagpipe of to-day shows that
there is very little difference except that
it lacks the large drone.
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
Che Small Goods trade
TO MAKE PHONOGRAPH HORNS.
[Special to The Review.]
Syracuse, N. Y., Aug. 26, 1901.
Carl Ziegenhorn, of Surbeck avenue, East-
wood, a German piano maker, is organizing a
company to manufacture a wooden phono-
graph horn upon which he has secured a pat-
ent. Mr. Ziegenhorn has made the construc-
tion of wooden musical instruments his life's
study, and his new invention, he claims, takes
away all of the metallic sounds in the phon-
graph. As soon as the company is organized
Mr. Ziegenhorn will open a factory in the
city. Mr. Ziegenhorn claims for his horn
that it is.smaller than the brass horn now in
use, that the music is louder and more dis-
tinct, and that in vocal selections the horn
gives the voice the rich quality. In the com-
pany which is being organized several promi-
nent dealers in phonographs are interested,
both of this city and out-of-town.
MUSIC AND ELECTRICITY.
The Modern Power Has Invaded The Field of
Music and Comes to Stay.
Electricity has recently invaded the do-
main of music, and many kinds of musical
instruments are now operated by its aid. It
is coming into employment especially as an
adjunct to the organ, being utilized to work
the valves which open and shut the pipes.
Inasmuch as its use in this way permits the
placing of the keyboard at any distancce
from the mechanism proper, the connections
being made by means of concealed wires, one
may easily understand that an arrangement
convenient and desirable in many churches
and other buildings is thus rendered practi-
cable.
Where musical instruments are operated
by wind supply, the electrical agent requires
only the use of a perforated paper sheet, with
an arrangement of spring-fingers that make
contacts through the openings. With the
help of this simple contrivance, electro-mag-
nets in circuit, with those fingers, may ener-
gize piano-hammers or the valves of an or-
gan ; or they may pick the strings of a banjo.
There are several electrically-operated pi-
anos on the market, and most of them are
worked with the help of a perforated paper
sheet, electro-magnets being energized
through the holes by the closing of circuits.
When the circuit is closed the hammer is
thrown against its string and produces the
note.
Bostoij
flutes, Piccolos,
Guitars,
mandolins, Banjos, Zithers
Jf nd €wrv Instrument
Chars musical • •
JOHN C HAYNES & CO.,
Importers and Manufacturers,
451 Washington St., Boston, Mass.
The electric banjo is worked in like man-
ner by the help of a paper roll. There are
buttons for every fret, to press down eac
string, and a series of little hooks are pulled
from side to side, catching the strings and
yielding the requisite tintinnabulation. Each
button and each hook is attached to its own
slender copper wire, so that the instrument is
under as perfect control as if manipulated by
a skilled performer.
Attempts have been made to run orches-
trions by electricity, but this is merely a mat-
ter of wind supply, all of the instruments in
such a multiplex musical apparatus being
operated by wind—even to the drumsticks,
which are made to strike by the opening and
closing of valves.
The electric drum may perhaps- appear in
the orchestra of the near future, inasmuch as
hammers may be made to thump the tym-
panic sheepskin by the same means as are
used for the striking of strings. So far as
any one can see at the present time, the horn
is likely to continue to be blown by the hu-
man mouth, which seems to be the apparatus
best adapted for this purpose.
Of course, the use of an electric motor in
connection with the musical phonograph is
old, but nowadays a person who has a ma-
chine of this kind has only to touch a button
on the desk which supports the instrument
(the operating contrivance beingcleverlycon-
cealed beneath) and, the requisite cylinder
being in place, the desired tune at once be-
gins.
WALDO IMPROVED GUITARS.
The guitar in the past quarter of a cen-
tury has been the subject of many experi-
ments. Its form has been remodeled, its top
changed, and many other "would be" im-
provements have been tried, but without an
exception have all reverted to the original
idea of construction as the best and only
perfect way. With the exception of the
"improved back" the form and appearance of
the Waldo Guitar is similar to all others.
Its superiority is in the scientific construc-
tion of the instrument and the graduation of
the wood so as to produce the Harp quality
of tone with a carrying power unpreceden-
ted.
This back is constructed of six pieces of
wood, the grain running in different direc-
tions, which not only beautifies the instrument
but reduces the chances of checking and
warping to a minimum.
While there is no better wood in the world
for guitars than rosewood, it is true there
is none that is more susceptible to heat and
cold, and like metal it expands and contracts
with the change of the weather. The Waldo
guitars are all guaranteed not to crack unless
subjected to misuse or ajDiise.
MAY IRWIN TO EXPLOIT.
May Irwin is by repute a thrifty actress.
She used to have certain brands of bever-
ages in the farces that she acted in. It is
said that in the next piece she will introduce
the members of her company as a brass
band with patented self-playing instruments
in the manufacture of which she is inter-
ested. A picture advertising them shows
her as the smiling leader of the blowers
of these new things, and remarking that they
are a howling success.
REGAL CO. OFFICERS^ ELECTED.
[Special to The Review.]
Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 27, 1901.
The Regal Mfg. Co., of Indianapolis, have
perfected the re-organization of their concern
through the election last week of the follow-
ing officers: Wm. E. Kurtz, president; Geo.
A. Marott, vice-president; John W. Keyes,
secretary, and Asher B. Evans, treasurer.
These gentlemen with John R. Evans, W. H.
Dillman, W. J. Richards, John A. Carey, Al-
fred Hoberg, M. B. Wilson, constitute the
owners and members of the new organiza-
tion. It is their intention to develop their
business on thoroughly up-to-date lines.
The new company is made up of men well
known and eminent in the commercial world,
and it is their purpose to enlarge the Regal
plant which is housed in fine buildings on
South Capitol avenue, and make a number of
improvements which will enable them to fur-
ther increase the manufacture of their spec-
ialties.
ABOUT THE REGINA.
"A Show to Make Money" is the title of
an attractive little book devoted to the Regina
Music boxes which has just reached us. It
is conceived along the original lines every
second page containing a crisp timely sen-
tence or caption which at once strikes home.
This, like other literature sent out by the
Regina Co., is admirably printed and up to
that standard which has ever distinguished
this institution.
WEISS SUES STRAUSS.
Suit has been instituted in the U. S. Cir-
cuit Court by Christian Weiss, Jr., of Tros-
singen, Ger., for whom Frank Scribner, 415
Broadway, is general agent in this country,
against Adolph Strauss & Co. of this city, for
an alleged infringement of the Weiss patent
on harmonicas. This patent covers the Clar-
ion harmonica (having pipes over the reeds),
and is the patent referred to by Judge Coxe,
in the opinion recently decided by him and re-
ported in The Review. An injunction and
damages are demanded.
The oldest bagpipe now in existence is said
to be in possession of a man in Edinburgh,
and bears the date 1704. A comparison with
the Highland- bagpipe of to-day shows that
there is very little difference except that
it lacks the large drone.
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