Music Trade Review
Issue: 1912 Vol. 54 N. 17 - Page 12
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THE MUSIC TRADE
interference with the details of personal control.
There can only be one best way in all things con-
cerned with the producing of music, with respect of
'the human element in it. This is something that
should be understood and appreciated better.
The same may be said of the music roll. These
note sheets do, in a sense, take the part of the
printed music, but at the same time they are a
distinct and essential part of the pneumatic mecha-
nism. So far as concerns their musical functions
they certainly ought to be all up to a given stand-
ard of purely artistic excellence, while their me-
chanical features, which have so much influence on
the satisfactory working of the pneumatic mecha-
nism, are equally exigent of a reliability and ef-
ficiency that can only come about through the
common recognition and practice of essential prin-
ciples, such as we have already suggested.
Viewing the Situation in a Broad Way.
A discussion of this sort has a value if it does
no more than bring clearly to mind that the player
business is still in some confusion regarding a
great many things of immense importance. It is
perhaps too much to ask the average business man
to look at matters of the trade in a broad way, but
it is not too much to ask that there should be some
sane recognition of the glaringly obvious. The
success of one is the success of all. Every bad
player mechanism is a direct slap at the whole in-
dustry, while every good and efficient device is a
boost in like measure. The various parts of the
player and piano industries are becoming more and
more mutually bound up. They must recognize
the existence of common features, common inter-
ests, common requirements. Until this is done
progress will lag.
Before long it will be seen more clearly that, just
as the piano became essentially standardized, so,
too, must the player mechanism go through a
parallel evolution. There is nothing in this that
need alarm or offend anybody. On the contrary,
s.uch a condition of affairs will be, when it arrives,
the greatest of blessings to everybody concerned.
There will never be a time when player mecha-
nisms will all be of one grade in excellence. This
is impossible as well as undesirable. But there
REVIEW
should and will come a time when the essentials
of design will be absolutely standardized. And for
the coming of that time we ought all sincerely to
pray.
Let us lo.ok at these things in a broad and candid
manner. We all have common interests, common
problems. We look to a common solution and a
common reward. Would it not be the part of wis-
dom to come close together in those things wherein
one can benefit by the other, while still retaining
our personal individuality?
One looks forward into the future to the day
where there will be a permanent conference of
piano, roll and player manufacturers, with authority
not only to discuss but to decide, and with power
to enforce decisions. Even if this be but a dream
it is a very pleasant one. Let us hope that it may
finally turn out to be more than a mere phantasm.
LATE PATENTS OF TRADE INTEREST.
(Specially prepared for The Review.)
Washington, D. C, April 9, 1912.
Thomas H. Cabasino and Theodore W. Vrana,
New York, are the patentees of a self-adjusting
attachment for piano players (No. 1,023,005)
whereby the openings in the perforated sheet or
roll will always be maintained in proper register
with the corresponding openings in the tracker.
A difficulty which has arisen in most piano play-
ers is in maintaining the corresponding openings
on the perforated sheet in proper register with the
openings in the tracker, whereby the instrument
will be caused to play the music as originally ren-
dered when forming the music sheet. It often
occurs that in reeling or unreeling the perforated
sheet it becomes slightly twisted and travels at a
slight angle, thereby bringing the corresponding
openings out of register.
An object, therefore, of this invention is to so
arrange the tracker that it will be automatically
manipulated by the position of the playing sheet.
It is to be always maintained in such a position, so
that its openings will be in register with the proper
openings in the playing sheet.
ANGELUS
PIANO-PL A YER
PIANO
Introduced in 1895 and constantly im-
proved and developed to it* present point
of superiority.
An excellent upright piano with i
Angelus incorporated in it, making ei
complete and compact kutrumesK.
THE MELODANT a n d THE PHRASING
LEVER
are patented expression devices found only on the Angelas. The Angela* in-
struments are the results of years of experience and success.
Ttie WIlcox
& White Company
MERIDEN, CONN.
The Claviola
"CHAINLESS"
Another object of this invention is to provide a
device which will be comparatively simple in con-
struction, inexpensive to manufacture, strong, dura-
ble, and both quick and reliable in its operation.
W. F. PETERS BACK FROM TRIP.
W. F. Peters, head of W. F. Peters Co., 281-283
East 137th street, New York, has just returned
from an extended trip through New York State,
where he reports he secured a number of good-
sized orders. Mr. Peters said this week that he
found a good demand for the W. F. Peters and
Valois & Williams pianos and also sold a number
of player-pianos. This company now has several
styles which have become popular and are at pres-
ent doing a most satisfactory business.
Women Complain
of the great physical effort necessary to
"pump" the ordinary player-piano. They
become prejudiced against the instrument.
= Gulbransen
Player Action
is the only one which a weak woman or
little child can play without fatigue for
more than a few minutes.
A woman, using one foot only, can play
through the William Tell Overture on a
piano fitted with the GULBRANSEN
player action without feeling fatigue.
Try the experiment with the Gulbransen
action and then with any other! Compare !
Investigate!
Gulbransen-Dickinson Co.
"WE CAN PROVE IT"
NEW YORK
440 We
312-316 Union Park
The Melville Clark Apollo
The ONLY PLAYER.PIANO IN THE WORLD THAT
HAS A TOUCH EXACTLY LIKE THE HUMAN TOUCH.
The pneumatic lingers strike downward on the key in Irani
MI the human lingers strike the keys. It plays with the
REAL HUMAN EXPRESSION.
in Incomparable Player in
Every Particular
with the 88-note range; the metronome motor; the adjust-
ing and transposing device. Its intrinsic musical value makes
it a proiitable instrument to handle.
MELVILLE CURE PIANO CO.
Manufacturer*
Fin* Arts Building
CHICAGO
410 S. Michigan Boul«Tard
places the player-piano on a new pedestal of merit. It is alto-
gether worthy your inquiry at least as to just how we can
construct a player-piano that rerolls without pumping and yet
contains no noisy spring motor, friction drive, or cumbersome
chains. It is the best of recent developments and you can't
afford to be without the best.
The Claviola Co.
THE IDEAL PLAYER
363-373 RIDER AVE.
NEW YORK
"PRESTIGE, AND PROFIT
THE AUTOPIANO CO.
R .W.LAWRENCE.
PRE5.
51 5 - T TO 5Z N -° ST. AND HUD5ON
RIVER
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THE MUSIC TRADE
interference with the details of personal control.
There can only be one best way in all things con-
cerned with the producing of music, with respect of
'the human element in it. This is something that
should be understood and appreciated better.
The same may be said of the music roll. These
note sheets do, in a sense, take the part of the
printed music, but at the same time they are a
distinct and essential part of the pneumatic mecha-
nism. So far as concerns their musical functions
they certainly ought to be all up to a given stand-
ard of purely artistic excellence, while their me-
chanical features, which have so much influence on
the satisfactory working of the pneumatic mecha-
nism, are equally exigent of a reliability and ef-
ficiency that can only come about through the
common recognition and practice of essential prin-
ciples, such as we have already suggested.
Viewing the Situation in a Broad Way.
A discussion of this sort has a value if it does
no more than bring clearly to mind that the player
business is still in some confusion regarding a
great many things of immense importance. It is
perhaps too much to ask the average business man
to look at matters of the trade in a broad way, but
it is not too much to ask that there should be some
sane recognition of the glaringly obvious. The
success of one is the success of all. Every bad
player mechanism is a direct slap at the whole in-
dustry, while every good and efficient device is a
boost in like measure. The various parts of the
player and piano industries are becoming more and
more mutually bound up. They must recognize
the existence of common features, common inter-
ests, common requirements. Until this is done
progress will lag.
Before long it will be seen more clearly that, just
as the piano became essentially standardized, so,
too, must the player mechanism go through a
parallel evolution. There is nothing in this that
need alarm or offend anybody. On the contrary,
s.uch a condition of affairs will be, when it arrives,
the greatest of blessings to everybody concerned.
There will never be a time when player mecha-
nisms will all be of one grade in excellence. This
is impossible as well as undesirable. But there
REVIEW
should and will come a time when the essentials
of design will be absolutely standardized. And for
the coming of that time we ought all sincerely to
pray.
Let us lo.ok at these things in a broad and candid
manner. We all have common interests, common
problems. We look to a common solution and a
common reward. Would it not be the part of wis-
dom to come close together in those things wherein
one can benefit by the other, while still retaining
our personal individuality?
One looks forward into the future to the day
where there will be a permanent conference of
piano, roll and player manufacturers, with authority
not only to discuss but to decide, and with power
to enforce decisions. Even if this be but a dream
it is a very pleasant one. Let us hope that it may
finally turn out to be more than a mere phantasm.
LATE PATENTS OF TRADE INTEREST.
(Specially prepared for The Review.)
Washington, D. C, April 9, 1912.
Thomas H. Cabasino and Theodore W. Vrana,
New York, are the patentees of a self-adjusting
attachment for piano players (No. 1,023,005)
whereby the openings in the perforated sheet or
roll will always be maintained in proper register
with the corresponding openings in the tracker.
A difficulty which has arisen in most piano play-
ers is in maintaining the corresponding openings
on the perforated sheet in proper register with the
openings in the tracker, whereby the instrument
will be caused to play the music as originally ren-
dered when forming the music sheet. It often
occurs that in reeling or unreeling the perforated
sheet it becomes slightly twisted and travels at a
slight angle, thereby bringing the corresponding
openings out of register.
An object, therefore, of this invention is to so
arrange the tracker that it will be automatically
manipulated by the position of the playing sheet.
It is to be always maintained in such a position, so
that its openings will be in register with the proper
openings in the playing sheet.
ANGELUS
PIANO-PL A YER
PIANO
Introduced in 1895 and constantly im-
proved and developed to it* present point
of superiority.
An excellent upright piano with i
Angelus incorporated in it, making ei
complete and compact kutrumesK.
THE MELODANT a n d THE PHRASING
LEVER
are patented expression devices found only on the Angelas. The Angela* in-
struments are the results of years of experience and success.
Ttie WIlcox
& White Company
MERIDEN, CONN.
The Claviola
"CHAINLESS"
Another object of this invention is to provide a
device which will be comparatively simple in con-
struction, inexpensive to manufacture, strong, dura-
ble, and both quick and reliable in its operation.
W. F. PETERS BACK FROM TRIP.
W. F. Peters, head of W. F. Peters Co., 281-283
East 137th street, New York, has just returned
from an extended trip through New York State,
where he reports he secured a number of good-
sized orders. Mr. Peters said this week that he
found a good demand for the W. F. Peters and
Valois & Williams pianos and also sold a number
of player-pianos. This company now has several
styles which have become popular and are at pres-
ent doing a most satisfactory business.
Women Complain
of the great physical effort necessary to
"pump" the ordinary player-piano. They
become prejudiced against the instrument.
= Gulbransen
Player Action
is the only one which a weak woman or
little child can play without fatigue for
more than a few minutes.
A woman, using one foot only, can play
through the William Tell Overture on a
piano fitted with the GULBRANSEN
player action without feeling fatigue.
Try the experiment with the Gulbransen
action and then with any other! Compare !
Investigate!
Gulbransen-Dickinson Co.
"WE CAN PROVE IT"
NEW YORK
440 We
312-316 Union Park
The Melville Clark Apollo
The ONLY PLAYER.PIANO IN THE WORLD THAT
HAS A TOUCH EXACTLY LIKE THE HUMAN TOUCH.
The pneumatic lingers strike downward on the key in Irani
MI the human lingers strike the keys. It plays with the
REAL HUMAN EXPRESSION.
in Incomparable Player in
Every Particular
with the 88-note range; the metronome motor; the adjust-
ing and transposing device. Its intrinsic musical value makes
it a proiitable instrument to handle.
MELVILLE CURE PIANO CO.
Manufacturer*
Fin* Arts Building
CHICAGO
410 S. Michigan Boul«Tard
places the player-piano on a new pedestal of merit. It is alto-
gether worthy your inquiry at least as to just how we can
construct a player-piano that rerolls without pumping and yet
contains no noisy spring motor, friction drive, or cumbersome
chains. It is the best of recent developments and you can't
afford to be without the best.
The Claviola Co.
THE IDEAL PLAYER
363-373 RIDER AVE.
NEW YORK
"PRESTIGE, AND PROFIT
THE AUTOPIANO CO.
R .W.LAWRENCE.
PRE5.
51 5 - T TO 5Z N -° ST. AND HUD5ON
RIVER
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