Music Trade Review
Issue: 1904 Vol. 39 N. 18 - Page 46
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THE
outside engagements upon which they depend for
equalizing their earnings with those in civil life.
Gen. Elliott's suggestion is that the leader bo
given the pay and allowances of a captain in the
Marine Corps, the second leader the pay and al-
lowances of a second lieutenant, and that first
and second class musicians be paid $100 and $75
a month, respectively.
MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
again worked nicely. "Why can't we do it?" "Oh,
you forgot to put a penny in your mouth first!"
The crowd quickly cleared off with a roar of
laughter.
MUSIC BOXES.
More
Sold
Than Ever, Despite the Phono-
graph's Competition.
A whirling disk catches the teeth in little holes
punched in its surface. The tone is as good as in
the cylinder boxes and the disks cost only 50 or
75 cents.
"The Swiss make the best cylinder boxes and
the poorest, too. They make the very high-priced
ones, and also those cheap little half-dollar af-
fairs which are given to children to smash at
Christmas."—New York Sun.
"DOING" THE "AUTOMATICS.'
"Now you'd think," said the man in the music
store, "that phonographs and gramophones and
Best of the Machine and of the Crowd.
mechanical piano players had cut into the music
box business. They haven't; on the contrary,
A "small goods" man told The Review the other there are more music boxes manufactured now
day an amusing story apropos to the many de- than ten or fifteen years ago, when the phono-
vices employed by ingenious and unscrupulous graph was only a wonderful new invention which
members of the public to defraud the long-suffer- no one could use, and the mechanical piano player
ing automatic machines. A quiet man with a was never thought of.
florid face was in a crowd at a certain resort, and
"There has been only one change. We don't
the discussion turned upon swindling the auto- sell so many of the big, expensive boxes as we
matic music and weighing machines, which re- used to. There was a time, about fifteen or
spectfully request that a penny be put into the twenty years ago, when they were made costing
slot. One fellow could dodge it with a wire as high as $1,500 or $2,000. Those boxes were as
pushed in until it touched the spring which puts big as a piano. They had all kinds of arrange-
the weighing machinery at work and lets the ments of bells and drums and string effects. Some
needle loose.
of them were combined with mechanical toys.
Another made it work by inserting a knife- For example, there would be a line of little drum-
blade, and another put in a piece of lead, nicely mers to ring the bells, and they'd wiggle their
adjusted as to size and shape. A quiet young heads in a life-iike manner as they worked their
man then said: "Why put in anything? Blow drum-sticks. The makers were trying to get as
in the slot." And, jumping upon the platform, near the effect of a full orchestra as they could
he fastened his mouth over the slot, and, puffing by mechanical means.
out his cheeks threw a small hurricane into the
"When the phonograph was made practical,
works.
some six or seven years ago, it knocked the pins
Sure enough the machine worked, and the out from under these makers. The phonograph
needle registered his weight at 160 pounds. could reproduce a whole orchestra of sixty or
"Well, I declare!" said one man. "I'll be more pieces, and the music box was nowhere in
blowed!" said another. "Try it," said the young the game. The makers gave it up. Nowadays
man; "it's easy." So they all tried it. They about $400 is the limit of price.
puffed and blew, and distended their cheeks until
"The demand for ordinary boxes, costing up to
everyone of them was tired; but it did not work. $150, has kept up steadily and even gradually in-
"Blow harder!" said the quiet young man. They creased. I suppose that the phonograph got peo-
all blew until exhausted, and still the needle ple into the habit of using mechanical music mak-
never budged. 'That's funny." And again the ers.
young man stepped up, blew into the hole, and it
"Music boxes are now made on the disk plan.
HOW NOT TO TREAT VIOLINS.
An Amusing Story of How a Fellow Got the
COLUMBIA
As a repairer, Joel B. Swett thus speaks in a
sarcastic vein concerning the treatment of no-
tions: 1. To prevent the pegs from slipping, a
favorite remedy for the fault is to spit on 'em.
Rub rosin on 'em. Tar works well, especially
coal tar. If the pegs are too large hew them
down with an axe. If too small, drive in little
wedges. 2. If the pegs stick, turn them with
a monkey wrench, or drive them out and lubri-
cate with lard or tallow. Olive oil is not fit. as
that is used only to soak flutes in. 3. Never re-
move the rosin that collects on the top of a violin,
and mixing with dust and perspiration forms a
thick hard coating. This coating occurs in a
natural manner and greatly improves the tone.
To remove it would nearly ruin the instrument.
4. In nearly all old violins the dust and lint that
accumulates inside finally forms into a round ball.
This is one proof of great age, and the ball should
never be taken out.
THE FIRST MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.
The first musical instrument of the human race
was the drum. The simple savage has the same
delight in its rat-tat-tat as our children to-day.
He is never weary of hearing it, and will sit for
hours together—if he is a musician—trying all
sorts of rhythmic experiments in its beating, and
framing countless changes in its time. "The
Hurons of Canada," says a traveler in the last
century, "touch their drum with indescribable
skill. They have innumerable turns of the hand
and tricks of style which one cannot but admire."
GRAPHOPHONES
The Best Talking Machines Made.
$5 to S1OO.
The Graphophone is the univer-
sal entertainer. It will Talk, Sing,
Laugh and Play. It combines all
instruments in one.
Send lor complete list of records.
i r _
Z,DC*
THE WORLD-FAMOUS COLUMBIA
finU) MOUTHED TYUNDFR RF.fORD.S.
7 inch, 50c. ea.;
$5 per do£.
COLUMBIA
DISC RECORDS.
->r.
^ 3 U
10 inch, $1 ea.
$ to per doz.
Grand Opera Records (10 inch discs only), $2 each.
THE LATEST TYPE—Solid Mahogany Cabinet—Beautiful in design; and an ornament
wherever placed.
The Best Talking Machine Ever Placed Before the Public at this Price.
Absolute perfection of sound reproduction. All the sweetness, volume and beauty of the
original rendition.
The word COL UMBIA on a Talking Mach ine or Record is always a guarantee of merit and
quality.
Columbia Records Fit Any M&ke of TeJking Ma-chlne
FOR SALE BY DEALERS EVERYWHERE AND BY THE
COLUMBIA
PHONOGRAPH
Typo AY, $50.
COMPANY
PIONEERS AND LEADERS IN THE TALKING MACHINE ART.
GRAND PRIZE, PARIS, 1900.
NEW YORK. Wholesale, Retail and Export, 853 Broadway.
UPTOWN, RETAIL ONLY, 872 Broadway.
LOS ANGELES, 823 South Main St.
TORONTO, ONTARIO. 107 Yonge St. MEMPHIS,302 Main St.
CHICAGO, 88 Wabash Ave.
SAN FRANCISCO, 125 Geary St.
MINNEAPOLIS,
13
Fourth
St..
South
PORTLAND
ORE. 128 Sewnth St.
PHILADELPHIA, 1019-1021 Market St. CINCINNATI, 117-119 West Fourth St.
INDIANAPOLIS. 48N. Pennsylvania St. OAKLAND CAL. 518 18th St
ST. LOUIS, 908 Olive St. (Frisco Bldg.) PITTSBURG, 615 Penn Ave.
TERRE
HAUTE.
23 S. Seventh S t
KANSAS CITY. 1016 Walnut St.
BOSTON, 164 Tremont St.
NEW ORLEANS. 628-630 Cana! St.
DUBUQUE, 623 Main St.
ST. PAUL, 886 Wabasha St.
BALTIMORE, 231 N. Howard St.
DETROIT, 272 Woodward Ave.
ST.
JOSEPH,
MO.,
718 Edmond St.
DENVER, 505-507 Sixteenth St.
CLEVELAND, Cor. Euclid Ave. & Erie S t MILWAUKEE, 391 East Water St.
SPRINGFIELD, MASS., 265 Main St.
OMAHA. 1621 Farnam St.
BUFFALO, 645 Main St.
WASHINGTON, 1212 F St., N. W.
BERLIN, 71 Ritterstrasse.
LONDON, Wholesale. Retail. 89 Great Eastern St., E. C.
RETAIL BKAKCH STORE, 200 Oxford St., W,
HAMBURG. Adolphsplatz No. 4.
PARIS. I l l and 113 Rue Montmartre.
ST. PETERSBURG. 68 Nevski Prospect
VIENNA, Seilergasse No. 14.
46
THE
outside engagements upon which they depend for
equalizing their earnings with those in civil life.
Gen. Elliott's suggestion is that the leader bo
given the pay and allowances of a captain in the
Marine Corps, the second leader the pay and al-
lowances of a second lieutenant, and that first
and second class musicians be paid $100 and $75
a month, respectively.
MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
again worked nicely. "Why can't we do it?" "Oh,
you forgot to put a penny in your mouth first!"
The crowd quickly cleared off with a roar of
laughter.
MUSIC BOXES.
More
Sold
Than Ever, Despite the Phono-
graph's Competition.
A whirling disk catches the teeth in little holes
punched in its surface. The tone is as good as in
the cylinder boxes and the disks cost only 50 or
75 cents.
"The Swiss make the best cylinder boxes and
the poorest, too. They make the very high-priced
ones, and also those cheap little half-dollar af-
fairs which are given to children to smash at
Christmas."—New York Sun.
"DOING" THE "AUTOMATICS.'
"Now you'd think," said the man in the music
store, "that phonographs and gramophones and
Best of the Machine and of the Crowd.
mechanical piano players had cut into the music
box business. They haven't; on the contrary,
A "small goods" man told The Review the other there are more music boxes manufactured now
day an amusing story apropos to the many de- than ten or fifteen years ago, when the phono-
vices employed by ingenious and unscrupulous graph was only a wonderful new invention which
members of the public to defraud the long-suffer- no one could use, and the mechanical piano player
ing automatic machines. A quiet man with a was never thought of.
florid face was in a crowd at a certain resort, and
"There has been only one change. We don't
the discussion turned upon swindling the auto- sell so many of the big, expensive boxes as we
matic music and weighing machines, which re- used to. There was a time, about fifteen or
spectfully request that a penny be put into the twenty years ago, when they were made costing
slot. One fellow could dodge it with a wire as high as $1,500 or $2,000. Those boxes were as
pushed in until it touched the spring which puts big as a piano. They had all kinds of arrange-
the weighing machinery at work and lets the ments of bells and drums and string effects. Some
needle loose.
of them were combined with mechanical toys.
Another made it work by inserting a knife- For example, there would be a line of little drum-
blade, and another put in a piece of lead, nicely mers to ring the bells, and they'd wiggle their
adjusted as to size and shape. A quiet young heads in a life-iike manner as they worked their
man then said: "Why put in anything? Blow drum-sticks. The makers were trying to get as
in the slot." And, jumping upon the platform, near the effect of a full orchestra as they could
he fastened his mouth over the slot, and, puffing by mechanical means.
out his cheeks threw a small hurricane into the
"When the phonograph was made practical,
works.
some six or seven years ago, it knocked the pins
Sure enough the machine worked, and the out from under these makers. The phonograph
needle registered his weight at 160 pounds. could reproduce a whole orchestra of sixty or
"Well, I declare!" said one man. "I'll be more pieces, and the music box was nowhere in
blowed!" said another. "Try it," said the young the game. The makers gave it up. Nowadays
man; "it's easy." So they all tried it. They about $400 is the limit of price.
puffed and blew, and distended their cheeks until
"The demand for ordinary boxes, costing up to
everyone of them was tired; but it did not work. $150, has kept up steadily and even gradually in-
"Blow harder!" said the quiet young man. They creased. I suppose that the phonograph got peo-
all blew until exhausted, and still the needle ple into the habit of using mechanical music mak-
never budged. 'That's funny." And again the ers.
young man stepped up, blew into the hole, and it
"Music boxes are now made on the disk plan.
HOW NOT TO TREAT VIOLINS.
An Amusing Story of How a Fellow Got the
COLUMBIA
As a repairer, Joel B. Swett thus speaks in a
sarcastic vein concerning the treatment of no-
tions: 1. To prevent the pegs from slipping, a
favorite remedy for the fault is to spit on 'em.
Rub rosin on 'em. Tar works well, especially
coal tar. If the pegs are too large hew them
down with an axe. If too small, drive in little
wedges. 2. If the pegs stick, turn them with
a monkey wrench, or drive them out and lubri-
cate with lard or tallow. Olive oil is not fit. as
that is used only to soak flutes in. 3. Never re-
move the rosin that collects on the top of a violin,
and mixing with dust and perspiration forms a
thick hard coating. This coating occurs in a
natural manner and greatly improves the tone.
To remove it would nearly ruin the instrument.
4. In nearly all old violins the dust and lint that
accumulates inside finally forms into a round ball.
This is one proof of great age, and the ball should
never be taken out.
THE FIRST MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.
The first musical instrument of the human race
was the drum. The simple savage has the same
delight in its rat-tat-tat as our children to-day.
He is never weary of hearing it, and will sit for
hours together—if he is a musician—trying all
sorts of rhythmic experiments in its beating, and
framing countless changes in its time. "The
Hurons of Canada," says a traveler in the last
century, "touch their drum with indescribable
skill. They have innumerable turns of the hand
and tricks of style which one cannot but admire."
GRAPHOPHONES
The Best Talking Machines Made.
$5 to S1OO.
The Graphophone is the univer-
sal entertainer. It will Talk, Sing,
Laugh and Play. It combines all
instruments in one.
Send lor complete list of records.
i r _
Z,DC*
THE WORLD-FAMOUS COLUMBIA
finU) MOUTHED TYUNDFR RF.fORD.S.
7 inch, 50c. ea.;
$5 per do£.
COLUMBIA
DISC RECORDS.
->r.
^ 3 U
10 inch, $1 ea.
$ to per doz.
Grand Opera Records (10 inch discs only), $2 each.
THE LATEST TYPE—Solid Mahogany Cabinet—Beautiful in design; and an ornament
wherever placed.
The Best Talking Machine Ever Placed Before the Public at this Price.
Absolute perfection of sound reproduction. All the sweetness, volume and beauty of the
original rendition.
The word COL UMBIA on a Talking Mach ine or Record is always a guarantee of merit and
quality.
Columbia Records Fit Any M&ke of TeJking Ma-chlne
FOR SALE BY DEALERS EVERYWHERE AND BY THE
COLUMBIA
PHONOGRAPH
Typo AY, $50.
COMPANY
PIONEERS AND LEADERS IN THE TALKING MACHINE ART.
GRAND PRIZE, PARIS, 1900.
NEW YORK. Wholesale, Retail and Export, 853 Broadway.
UPTOWN, RETAIL ONLY, 872 Broadway.
LOS ANGELES, 823 South Main St.
TORONTO, ONTARIO. 107 Yonge St. MEMPHIS,302 Main St.
CHICAGO, 88 Wabash Ave.
SAN FRANCISCO, 125 Geary St.
MINNEAPOLIS,
13
Fourth
St..
South
PORTLAND
ORE. 128 Sewnth St.
PHILADELPHIA, 1019-1021 Market St. CINCINNATI, 117-119 West Fourth St.
INDIANAPOLIS. 48N. Pennsylvania St. OAKLAND CAL. 518 18th St
ST. LOUIS, 908 Olive St. (Frisco Bldg.) PITTSBURG, 615 Penn Ave.
TERRE
HAUTE.
23 S. Seventh S t
KANSAS CITY. 1016 Walnut St.
BOSTON, 164 Tremont St.
NEW ORLEANS. 628-630 Cana! St.
DUBUQUE, 623 Main St.
ST. PAUL, 886 Wabasha St.
BALTIMORE, 231 N. Howard St.
DETROIT, 272 Woodward Ave.
ST.
JOSEPH,
MO.,
718 Edmond St.
DENVER, 505-507 Sixteenth St.
CLEVELAND, Cor. Euclid Ave. & Erie S t MILWAUKEE, 391 East Water St.
SPRINGFIELD, MASS., 265 Main St.
OMAHA. 1621 Farnam St.
BUFFALO, 645 Main St.
WASHINGTON, 1212 F St., N. W.
BERLIN, 71 Ritterstrasse.
LONDON, Wholesale. Retail. 89 Great Eastern St., E. C.
RETAIL BKAKCH STORE, 200 Oxford St., W,
HAMBURG. Adolphsplatz No. 4.
PARIS. I l l and 113 Rue Montmartre.
ST. PETERSBURG. 68 Nevski Prospect
VIENNA, Seilergasse No. 14.
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