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THE:
MUSIC
TRADE
37
REVIEW
gina Co. have already booked many orders
from the sample which is on exhibition at
A New Regina Style Which Can Be Utilized As a
their salesrooms in this city. Deliveries
Talking Machine or Music Box at. Will—Em-
can
be made about December ist.
bodies Many Novel Features Which Must Ap-
CLEVER REGINA COMBINATION.
A GUITAR IMPROVEMENT.
Some Recent Patents Recorded at Washington of
Interest To Readers of This Department.
[Special to The Review.]
Washington, D. C , Nov. 10, 1903.
ATTACHMENT
FOR GUITARS. Ernest Q.
A VIOLIN THAT IS CHERISHED.
The Regina Music Box Co., of this city,
Bergren Chicago, 111., assignor of one-half
L. W. Bradley, of Boston, is the owner of to George Dorn, same place. Patent No.
are constantly on the alert supplying the
a
400-year-old
Prugger violin, which is said 743.O54.
trade with something new and always
to
be
the
envy
of
violin collectors in all parts
meritorious.
This invention relates to a novel attach*
of
the
world.
An
idea of the value of this ment for guitars designed to act upon the
A really novel combination which will
at once be appreciated is their new style instrument can be estimated from the fact bass or lower stringers of the instrument to
12 which is a talking
change the pitch thereof as the position of
machine and the fa-
the player's hand on the neck of the guitar
mous Regina No. n ,
is shifted, and thereby enable the player to
in one instrument. Any
produce the bass chords principally on the
size of talking machine
open strings and without the necessity of
disc record up to four-
using the fingers to bar such strings.
teen inches and any
The object of the invention is to produce
make of record can be
a device of this character by the use of which
used, and the owner
the production of difficult chords on the
" of the instrument can
guitar is facilitated and made more certain
at his option use the
than by the use of the hand alone.
instrument as a music
A device embodying this invention em-
box or talking ma-
braces generally a part which extends across
chine. This combina-
and is adapted to bear upon or bar the strings
tion gives the talking
of the guitar and is connected with a mov-
machine the benefit of
able frame which is adapted to be shifted by
the Regina long run-
the fingering-hand of the player, whereby as
ning motor, which is an
the hand of the player is moved longitudi-
nally of the neck of the guitar while playing
important
advantage.
said device follows the hand, so that not-
The regular
Regina
withstanding the position of the hand on the
disc, 153/2 inches in
neck of the guitar the pitch tones of the
diameter, is used for
open bass strings have the same relation to
the music box alone.
the treble strings as when the fingering-hand
There are two separate
of the player is at the head of the guitar. In
and
distinct
speed
this manner the principal chords to be pro-
regulators to control
duced on the lower strings may be pro-
each part as desired.
duced on the open strings and without the
Viewed from every
REGINA STYLE NO. 12
necessity of using the fingers to bar said
standpoint this combi-
nation gives the purchaser a variety which that he has it insured for $10,000 and locks it strings. The traveling bar referred to con-
sists, preferably, of a roller mounted on a
must make this style of Regina a tre- up every night in his safe deposit vault.
frame which is slidably mounted on the neck
mendous favorite. Dealers all over the
of
the guitar, whereby the bar has a rolling
country will find this instrument a big The Jos. M. Mann Co., of Providence, R.
and
a noiseless contact with the strings.
factor toward augmenting their business, I., are advertising, in a very extensive way,
ORCHESTRA BELLS. Charles H. Agne,
particularly around the holidays. The Re- a four weeks special sale.
Newark, N. J. Patent No. 742,952.
This invention relates to an improvement
in orchestra bells, and the object is to pro-
AND SAXOPHONES.
duce an aluminum'bar, preferably channel-,
shaped, which will produce an exceptionally
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REET
STAR-WHEEL. Frederick A. Richter, Ru-
WM. R. GRATZ COMPANY,
Kw ™I.
'
dolstadt, Ger. Patents Nos. 940,925 and
SOLE AGENTS for the United State*. & J& J& J&
740,926.
These inventions relate to star-wheels
for use in connection with the comb-plates
of musical boxes; and the objects are to
improve upon the construction of such
star-wheels and enable a damping effect to
be obtained after a note has been sounded.
Another object is to afford protection for
the spring dampers, so that they will not
be injured by a bent tongue of the comb-
plate or by other means.
CHAMBERS'S SUCCESS IN LONDON.
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