Music Trade Review
Issue: 1904 Vol. 39 N. 25 - Page 46
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THE MUSIC TRADE
EVOLUTION OF AUTOMATIC MUSIC.
Interesting Address by John McTammany, the
Weil-Known Inventor, Before the Board of
Trade of Stamford.
(Special to The Review.)
Stamford, Conn., Dec. 12, 1904.
Before a large gathering of the merchants
of this city, who assembled at the Board of Trade
rooms on Tuesday evening, John McTammany,
who has just established a plant in this city for
the manufacture of music boxes, based on some
new patents of his, entertained them with a very
interesting address upon the evolution of the
music box and its mechanism. In this connec-
tion he gave a demonstration of the music box,
which he is about to manufacture in Stamford,
and spoke of the growth of automatic instru-
ments.
He gave credit to the barrel organ as being
the first practical device in connection with the
automatic production of music, and than pro-
ceeded to show the inadequacy of the barrel or
cylinder organ, and later the music box, each of
which had its limitations. Only short composi-
tions or sketches of long ones could be playad
and again cylinders were costly, and there were
multitudinous other objections. To overcome
these the disc was invented with the result that
a great impetus was given to the manufacture
of mechanical musical instruments. According
to Mr. McTammany we have now advanced to
the third stage and he claims that this is repre-
sented in his device which is operated by the
perforated music roll.
In the course of his remarks he paid a very
graceful tribute to the men who have labored for
the advancement of music in these words:
"And no class of men have been more self-
sacrificing in this respect than those who have
spent their lives and energies in developing the
art of music, which can no longer be regarded as
a luxury to be possessed alone by the few, but
rather as a necessity of every home. It is not
necessary to be an artist now to spend years
REVIEW
in learning how to produce the works of even
the greatest masters, for, thanks to the genius
and mechanical skill of a few men, it is possible
for anyone to render, with taste and expression,
the most difficult classical music."
Mr. McTammany is fast completing his equip-
ment for the manufacture of music boxes, and
expects to have everything in running order by
the first of the year.
up-to-date musically."
Referring ±o the new Victor dance records it
is pointed out that there is "No more need of
asking a friend to play the piano while the
others enjoy their dancing. Better music and
perfect tune. Between the dances you can hear
the greatest grand opera and light opera sing-
ers, and music of every kind."
The Victor catalogue of new records for Janu-
ary, 1905, now issuing from the press, contains
many valuable and rare additions. These will
THE VICTOR CALENDAR.
be referred to in greater detail in a later issue.
A Very Artistic Holiday Gift Which Will Be The Victor Co. have a number of pleasant sur-
Treasured
by Recipients—Victor
Dance prises in store for their patrons.
Records in Demand.
Music dealers who are not already handling
the Victor are invited to send for catalogue and
The Victor Distributing & Export Co., 7'r other information.
Chambers street, have just issued a beautiful re-
production, 10x7 inches, in colors, perfectly fin-
PHONOGRAPH DEALERS' DEVICE.
ished, of the famous painting entitled "His
Most
of the musical stores which make a spe-
Master's Voice." This picture, which closely re-
cialty
of
phonographs kept their doors open and
sembles the original painting, together with a
calendar, is available for those who desire it and one of the instruments going in the summer to
will be sent to any address in the United States attract the public. When the cold weather set in,
and possessions, also to Canada, on receipt of however, most of them found it too cold to leave
the doors open, and stopped the practice. The
ten cents in stamps.
Sun says a dealer uptown devised a scheme to
With this picture and calendar is sent a hearty
greeting in which is said: "Most people know a keep his machine going so that the passersby
talking machine as a more or less ohtrusive de- can hear it and the doors be shut at the same
vice used in public places for gathering nickels time. He bored in the frame of the door a hole
and pennies from the waiting public. It is amus- large enough for the neck of the horn of the
ing, when the train is late, but it is hardly a phonograph to slip through, and with the horn
musical entertainer of a high order. The Victor on the outside and the instrument on the inside,
is just that. We have pictured the voice of he still draws the crowds to his window.
Caruso as faithfully as an artist can paint his
"REGALS" IN DEMAND.
portrait."
There is nothing disappointing in the likeness.
As already announced in The Review, Lyon
He says so himself, and grand opera stars & Healy, of Chicago, have purchased and now
are exacting. These grand opera voices are control the Regal Mfg. Co.'s whole line, which
at your command if you have a Victor. It's not have long been known and esteemed among deal-
only the greatest entertainer in the world, but ers in small goods. The name of Regal on a
it is a musical educator as well. The owner of
mandolin, guitar and other instruments of that
a 'Victor,' who has our Red Seal records, is more family is a guarantee of excellence, and with the
familiar with opera selections than the average well-known enterprise of Lyon & Healy these in-
opera-goer. He may also hear the best bands struments are destined to become a greater and
and the latest popular songs. It will keep him more important factor than ever before.
COLUMBIA GRAF»HOF»HONES
The Best Talking Machines Made.
$5 to $100.
The Graphophone is the univer-
sal entertainer* It will Talk, Sing,
Laugh and Play. It combines all
instruments in one.
Send for complete list of records.
25c.
THE WORLD-FAMOUS COLUMBIA
GOLD MOULDED CYLINDER RECORDS.
$5 per doz.
} DISC RECORDS. }
25c.
$ t 0 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 MeJce of T a l k i n g Machine
FOR SALE BY DEALERS EVERYWHERE AND BY THE
COLUMBIA
F»HONOGRAF»H
Type AY. $ 5 0 .
COMPANY
GRAND PRIZE, ST. LOUIS, 1904.
GRAND PRIZE, PARIS, 1900.
PIONEERS AND LEADERS IN THE TALKING MACHINE ART.
UPTOWN, RETAIL ONLY, 872 Broadway.
NEW YORK. Wholesale. Retail and Export, S6S Broadway.
LOS ANGELES, 828 South Main St.
SAN
"FRAN
CISCO.
126
Geary
St
TORONTO.
ONTARIO.
107
Yonsre
St. MEMPHIS, 302 Main St.
CHICAGO. 88 Wabash Ave.
PHILADELPHIA. 1019-1021 Mai rket St. CINCINNATI, 117-119 West Fourth St. MINNEAPOLIS, 18 Fourth St. South. PORTLAND. ORE., 128 Seventh St.
_..
INDIANAPOLIS, 48 N. Pennsylvania St. OAKLAND, CAL.. 61!118th St.
ST. LOUIS, 908 Olive St. (Frisco Bldg.)
PITTSBURG, 616 Penn Ave.
TERRE HAUTE. 28 S. Seventh St
KANSAS CITY, 1016 Walnut St.
BOSTON, 164 Tremont St
NEW ORLEANS, 628-630 Canal St.
DUBUQUE, 628 Main St.
ST. PAUL, 886 Wabasha St
BALTIMORE, 281 N. Howard St
DETROIT, 272 Woodward Ave.
ST. JOSEPH, MO., 718 Edmond St
DENVER, 606-607 Sixteenth St.
CLEVELAND, Cor. Euclid Ave. & Erie St MILWAUKEE, 891 East Water St
SPRINGFIELD, MASS., S66 Main St
OMAHA, 1621 Farnam St.
BUFFALO, 646 Main St.
WASHINGTON, 1212 F St., N. W.
BERLIN, 71 Ritterstrasse.
LONDON, Wholesale. Retail, 89 Great Eastern St., E. C
RETAIL BKANCH STOU, 200 Oxford St., W.
HAMBURG, Adolphsplat* No. 4.
PARIS, 111 and 118 Rue Montmartre.
ST. PETERSBURG. 68 NevsH Prospect.
VIENNA, Seilergasse No. 14.
46
THE MUSIC TRADE
EVOLUTION OF AUTOMATIC MUSIC.
Interesting Address by John McTammany, the
Weil-Known Inventor, Before the Board of
Trade of Stamford.
(Special to The Review.)
Stamford, Conn., Dec. 12, 1904.
Before a large gathering of the merchants
of this city, who assembled at the Board of Trade
rooms on Tuesday evening, John McTammany,
who has just established a plant in this city for
the manufacture of music boxes, based on some
new patents of his, entertained them with a very
interesting address upon the evolution of the
music box and its mechanism. In this connec-
tion he gave a demonstration of the music box,
which he is about to manufacture in Stamford,
and spoke of the growth of automatic instru-
ments.
He gave credit to the barrel organ as being
the first practical device in connection with the
automatic production of music, and than pro-
ceeded to show the inadequacy of the barrel or
cylinder organ, and later the music box, each of
which had its limitations. Only short composi-
tions or sketches of long ones could be playad
and again cylinders were costly, and there were
multitudinous other objections. To overcome
these the disc was invented with the result that
a great impetus was given to the manufacture
of mechanical musical instruments. According
to Mr. McTammany we have now advanced to
the third stage and he claims that this is repre-
sented in his device which is operated by the
perforated music roll.
In the course of his remarks he paid a very
graceful tribute to the men who have labored for
the advancement of music in these words:
"And no class of men have been more self-
sacrificing in this respect than those who have
spent their lives and energies in developing the
art of music, which can no longer be regarded as
a luxury to be possessed alone by the few, but
rather as a necessity of every home. It is not
necessary to be an artist now to spend years
REVIEW
in learning how to produce the works of even
the greatest masters, for, thanks to the genius
and mechanical skill of a few men, it is possible
for anyone to render, with taste and expression,
the most difficult classical music."
Mr. McTammany is fast completing his equip-
ment for the manufacture of music boxes, and
expects to have everything in running order by
the first of the year.
up-to-date musically."
Referring ±o the new Victor dance records it
is pointed out that there is "No more need of
asking a friend to play the piano while the
others enjoy their dancing. Better music and
perfect tune. Between the dances you can hear
the greatest grand opera and light opera sing-
ers, and music of every kind."
The Victor catalogue of new records for Janu-
ary, 1905, now issuing from the press, contains
many valuable and rare additions. These will
THE VICTOR CALENDAR.
be referred to in greater detail in a later issue.
A Very Artistic Holiday Gift Which Will Be The Victor Co. have a number of pleasant sur-
Treasured
by Recipients—Victor
Dance prises in store for their patrons.
Records in Demand.
Music dealers who are not already handling
the Victor are invited to send for catalogue and
The Victor Distributing & Export Co., 7'r other information.
Chambers street, have just issued a beautiful re-
production, 10x7 inches, in colors, perfectly fin-
PHONOGRAPH DEALERS' DEVICE.
ished, of the famous painting entitled "His
Most
of the musical stores which make a spe-
Master's Voice." This picture, which closely re-
cialty
of
phonographs kept their doors open and
sembles the original painting, together with a
calendar, is available for those who desire it and one of the instruments going in the summer to
will be sent to any address in the United States attract the public. When the cold weather set in,
and possessions, also to Canada, on receipt of however, most of them found it too cold to leave
the doors open, and stopped the practice. The
ten cents in stamps.
Sun says a dealer uptown devised a scheme to
With this picture and calendar is sent a hearty
greeting in which is said: "Most people know a keep his machine going so that the passersby
talking machine as a more or less ohtrusive de- can hear it and the doors be shut at the same
vice used in public places for gathering nickels time. He bored in the frame of the door a hole
and pennies from the waiting public. It is amus- large enough for the neck of the horn of the
ing, when the train is late, but it is hardly a phonograph to slip through, and with the horn
musical entertainer of a high order. The Victor on the outside and the instrument on the inside,
is just that. We have pictured the voice of he still draws the crowds to his window.
Caruso as faithfully as an artist can paint his
"REGALS" IN DEMAND.
portrait."
There is nothing disappointing in the likeness.
As already announced in The Review, Lyon
He says so himself, and grand opera stars & Healy, of Chicago, have purchased and now
are exacting. These grand opera voices are control the Regal Mfg. Co.'s whole line, which
at your command if you have a Victor. It's not have long been known and esteemed among deal-
only the greatest entertainer in the world, but ers in small goods. The name of Regal on a
it is a musical educator as well. The owner of
mandolin, guitar and other instruments of that
a 'Victor,' who has our Red Seal records, is more family is a guarantee of excellence, and with the
familiar with opera selections than the average well-known enterprise of Lyon & Healy these in-
opera-goer. He may also hear the best bands struments are destined to become a greater and
and the latest popular songs. It will keep him more important factor than ever before.
COLUMBIA GRAF»HOF»HONES
The Best Talking Machines Made.
$5 to $100.
The Graphophone is the univer-
sal entertainer* It will Talk, Sing,
Laugh and Play. It combines all
instruments in one.
Send for complete list of records.
25c.
THE WORLD-FAMOUS COLUMBIA
GOLD MOULDED CYLINDER RECORDS.
$5 per doz.
} DISC RECORDS. }
25c.
$ t 0 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 MeJce of T a l k i n g Machine
FOR SALE BY DEALERS EVERYWHERE AND BY THE
COLUMBIA
F»HONOGRAF»H
Type AY. $ 5 0 .
COMPANY
GRAND PRIZE, ST. LOUIS, 1904.
GRAND PRIZE, PARIS, 1900.
PIONEERS AND LEADERS IN THE TALKING MACHINE ART.
UPTOWN, RETAIL ONLY, 872 Broadway.
NEW YORK. Wholesale. Retail and Export, S6S Broadway.
LOS ANGELES, 828 South Main St.
SAN
"FRAN
CISCO.
126
Geary
St
TORONTO.
ONTARIO.
107
Yonsre
St. MEMPHIS, 302 Main St.
CHICAGO. 88 Wabash Ave.
PHILADELPHIA. 1019-1021 Mai rket St. CINCINNATI, 117-119 West Fourth St. MINNEAPOLIS, 18 Fourth St. South. PORTLAND. ORE., 128 Seventh St.
_..
INDIANAPOLIS, 48 N. Pennsylvania St. OAKLAND, CAL.. 61!118th St.
ST. LOUIS, 908 Olive St. (Frisco Bldg.)
PITTSBURG, 616 Penn Ave.
TERRE HAUTE. 28 S. Seventh St
KANSAS CITY, 1016 Walnut St.
BOSTON, 164 Tremont St
NEW ORLEANS, 628-630 Canal St.
DUBUQUE, 628 Main St.
ST. PAUL, 886 Wabasha St
BALTIMORE, 281 N. Howard St
DETROIT, 272 Woodward Ave.
ST. JOSEPH, MO., 718 Edmond St
DENVER, 606-607 Sixteenth St.
CLEVELAND, Cor. Euclid Ave. & Erie St MILWAUKEE, 891 East Water St
SPRINGFIELD, MASS., S66 Main St
OMAHA, 1621 Farnam St.
BUFFALO, 646 Main St.
WASHINGTON, 1212 F St., N. W.
BERLIN, 71 Ritterstrasse.
LONDON, Wholesale. Retail, 89 Great Eastern St., E. C
RETAIL BKANCH STOU, 200 Oxford St., W.
HAMBURG, Adolphsplat* No. 4.
PARIS, 111 and 118 Rue Montmartre.
ST. PETERSBURG. 68 NevsH Prospect.
VIENNA, Seilergasse No. 14.
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