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LATE PATENTS OF TRADE INTEREST.
name Estey has held the ranking 1 position i n the
organ world—a position w o n b y merit and main-
tained by preserving a high standard.
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In the Estey
product, the dealers have the best that skill and experience
can produce.
T h e Estey pipe organs arc pronounced b y
those competent to judge to be marvelous i n their musi-
cal possibilities.
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PIANOS.
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1849.
Finest tone* best
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material.
PRICES MODERATE AND TERMS REASONABbt.
72,000 MADE AND IN USE.
EVERY INSTRUMENT FULLY WARRANTED.
ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE FREE.
EMERSON PIANO CO.
110 BOYLSTON STREET, BOSTON.
207 WABASH AVENUE, CHICAGO
Pianos Win Friends
For the Dealer
KURTZMANN
C. KURTZMANN Factory, 526 to 536 Niagara St., Buffalo, N. Y.
ZELLMAN
Pi a nos
E N D O R S E D
B Y Q R B A T
A R T I S T S
Admitted by piano experts to embody the largest values.
SEND FOR CATALOGUE TO
THE ZELLMAN-SOCOL PIANO M'F'G CO.
104-106 East 126th St., near Park Ave., NEW YORK
A THE-^
MATHUSHEK &
SON PIANO
of acknowledged eminence.
Instruments that
dealers should become
acquainted with.
Territory protected.
S 0 C 0 L
Piano s
The name of Mathushek has been before^the
public for half a*century and is identified with
the manufacture of instruments of high grade.
It pays to handle a well-known name. The
demand for the Mathushek & Son piano is
growing all the time." It isn't necessary to
ask why ? You k n o w ! : : : : :
The Mattushek 6 Son Piano Co.
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The Right
Piano
at the
Right Prlct
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1567 6 1569 Broadway, cor. 47th St.. N-w York
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Are Built to
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Popular Styles
Popular Sellers
5 C H A E F F E R PIANO MFQ. CO.
McClurg Building yf 215 Wabash Avenu*
— CHICAGO, ILL.
HIGHSRABE PIANO TOOLS,
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[Specially Prepared for The Review.]
Washington, D. C, Feb. 18, 1903.
PERFORATION SPACING DEVICE FOR AUTO-
MATIC PIANO PLAYER TUNE SHEETS. Alger-
non S. Seville, Memphis, Tenn. Patent No.
720,075.
This invention relates to certain new and
useful improvements in perforation spacing
devices for automatic piano player tune
sheets, and has especial reference to a spac-
ing device to determine the locations of the
perforations in tune sheets to be used di-
rectly in mechanical music instruments, es-
pecially those designed for playing the piano,
or for the stencil sheets to be used in the
manufacture of such tune sheets.
In piano players, as before stated, perfor-
ated sheets of paper called "tune sheets" are
passed over the tracker-board of the instru-
ment, the openings serving as inlets for air
to operate the piano player, and thereby
strike the piano keys. In order to simulate
more perfectly the human touch, the piano-
key is held down for varying lengths of time,
as is done by the hand. This is accomplished
by using a continuous slot of length suffi-
cient to give the desired length of depres-
sion. In using the spacing device this re-
sult is secured by cutting holes in the paper
with a round punch for a quick note and
with a narrow but long punch for a pro-
longed one. The punches used, while neces-
sarily made of a special size and shape, are
otherwise the hollow punch of commerce
and are therefore not shown. Use can be
made of the long punches by having elastic
cross-bands which may be pushed out of the
way to use a long punch and will then re-
turn to place.
In using the spacing device a reel of paper
is placed in position at the right hand end
of same, and after pointing the end of the
sheet attach a paster, which is formed to en-
gage a hook on the reel. Then slip the end
under the end of the frame and pass it up
over the blocks, and thence under the oppo-
site end and catch it on the reel on which it
is given one or two turns to give it a hold.
The frame may of course be removed, if
desired, to place the sheet in position,
and this method is to be preferred in
most cases. Then set the clamp to hold
the paper firmly and having adjusted the
cross-bands to the desired time select the de-
sired punch and placing it between the wires
at the proper note and against the first cross-
band make a hole in the paper. If several
notes are to be struck at once, they are cut
by the same cross-band, while succeeding
notes come against the second and succeed-
ing cross-bands. When one or more meas-
ures have been cut, the clamp is loosened
and the sheet moved forward until the last
note cut comes against the index-wire, when
the sheet will be in place for another meas-
ure or measures to be cut, and so on till the
sheet is completed. It is then ready for im-
mediate use and is reeled correctly for inser-
tion at once in the player.
If so desired, of course quite a number of
sheets may be cut at once, or a stencil-sheet
may be cut for use in reproducing other
sheets. If a hole is cut erroneously it may
be closed with a small sticker and if neces-
sary a new hole cut through same in a slight-