Music Trade Review
Issue: 1914 Vol. 59 N. 22 - Page 12
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
STUDENTS FORM ASSOCIATION.
THE SUBJECT OF PNEUMATICS.
(Continued from page 11)
line of Pianos
and Player-
Pianos creates
business of the
best kind for
the dealer.
Bear in mind that there
are no complaints
of hard times with
those who handle the
BEHNING.
Remember also that
all standards for com-
parison in the Player-
Piano field are meas-
ured by the Behning
Player-Piano.
lever attacks the problem by working directly on
the motor governor. But it is a patented device
and cannot be used by all. The "temponome" used
in the Auto Pneumatic action is open to similar ob-
jection, being also exclusive. Still we greatly need
something different from the ordinary gate valve,
something that will work more directly on the
source of power. We make the hazard that the
thing could be done by using a form of cylinder
and piston, the latter capable of depression and re-
traction. Such a piston, interposed in the motor
wind-way and capable of manipulation by a light
finger lever, would, in our opinion, give something
like the desired flexibility of motor control, with-
out the necessity for elaborate and difficult manipu-
lation now experienced with the ordinary tempo-
lever working an ordinary sliding valve over a slot.
Of course, according to the random notion pro-
posed, depression of the piston would raise the in-
ternal pressure in the wind-way and slow the mo-
tor; and vice-versa. Here is also a suggestion of
the possibility of building motors to run normally
at extreme speed with only a speed reduction pis-
ton for tempo control. There are great possibili-
ties here.
All these and more might be thought of. The
ideas here presented seem anyhow worth consider-
ation.
PUT NEW TRACKER_ON OLD PLAYER.
Brooklyn Dealer Then Sold Sixty-Five Note
Instrument as Modern Eighty-Eight Note
Model and Purchaser Recovers His Money.
Because William Damrau, Jr., who operates a
piano store at 968 Flatbush avenue, Brooklyn, was
charged with having sold as a modern eighty-eight-
note player-piano a player of the old sixty-five-note
type but provided with an eighty-eight-note
tracker bar, Judge Kelly in the Supreme Court
declared the methods of the piano man were
not square, and gave judgment in favor of Dun-
ning B. Bradford, who had sued to recover $150
he had paid for the instrument.
The instrument in question was advertised, to-
gether with a typewriter and some Angora kit-
tens, as being part of the furnishings of the pri-
vate house at 163-A Halsey street, at which ad-
dress Mrs. Emma Damrau resides. Bradford re-
ceived six rolls of music with the instrument, but
when Mrs. Bradford grew tired of hearing the
six tunes and purchased some new eighty-eight-
note rolls the new rolls would not play. Investi-
gation showed that an eighty-eight-note tracker
bar had been attached to the sixty-five-note instru-
ment. Damrau declared in his defense that there
was no demand for sixty-five-note players and
therefore the instrument had been advertised as of
a full range. It was shown in the evidence that
Damrau had been engaged in the "private house"
type of business for some time past.
Damrau's lawyer asked for a stay so the sheriff
would not go to the Damrau store to execute the
judgment.
"You'll be lucky if the sheriff don't take the
whole place, if you keep on doing that kind of
business," responded Justice Kelly.
The Lucas Piano Co. has opened a store in the
St. Paul Arcade, St. Paul, Minn., where it will
feature the Baldwin and Howard pianos.
The Behning
Piano Co. Royal
FACTORY AND OFFICE
132d Street and Alexander Avenue
NEW YORK
Warerooms, 425 Fifth Avenue
Music
Rolls
There are all
kinds of music
rolls and ROYAL
ROLLS.
Royal rolls are cut in
conformity with the estab-
lished standard measure-
ments and we guarantee that
they will fit ALL standard
players.
You won't know roll satisfaction
until you play the Royal.
Royal Music Roll Co., BU £ F Y LO
At
Banquet Danquard Player-Piano Classes
Organize Alumni Association—Over Sixty
Enrolled in School—A Happy Augury.
A.t a banquet of the students of the Danquard
Player Action School, which was held recently at
the Associated Industries Restaurant, West Fifty-
lirst street, New York, an Alumni Assciation of
the school was organized. This was one of the
most interesting features of the meeting, at which
there was an attendance of over twenty-five of the
sixty students who are enrolled at the school.
The school orchestra furnished music through-
Dinner of Danquard Player School Students.
out the evening and Cyril M. Anton, of St.
George's, Grenada. British West Indies, gave an
interesting address. George E. Martin, chief in-
structor of the school, also spoke and was pre-
sented with a gold diamond-set cigar cutter. John
W. Payne, the first graduate from the school,
spoke on the value of the school work as it ap-
plied to him.
Among those present were player-piano repair
men and tuners from various parts of the country
Avho have come especially to New York to take up
the course in player construction, which is offered
free from any cost to them by the school.
SOME CARLOAD SHIPMENTS.
The Mueller & Haines Player Piano Co., of Chi-
cago, 111., recently shipped a carload of players to
prominent houses in Texas and New York. This
in itself demonstrates that business is not so bad
as some people paint it, and that the Mueller &
Haines players are mighty popular.
THIS IS IT!
The Christman
Attachable Player
which can be installed in any grand or
upright piano, regardless of size or style,
without altering the case.
Write us for Further Information.
CHRISTMAN PIANO CO.
597601 East 137th Si, New York
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
STUDENTS FORM ASSOCIATION.
THE SUBJECT OF PNEUMATICS.
(Continued from page 11)
line of Pianos
and Player-
Pianos creates
business of the
best kind for
the dealer.
Bear in mind that there
are no complaints
of hard times with
those who handle the
BEHNING.
Remember also that
all standards for com-
parison in the Player-
Piano field are meas-
ured by the Behning
Player-Piano.
lever attacks the problem by working directly on
the motor governor. But it is a patented device
and cannot be used by all. The "temponome" used
in the Auto Pneumatic action is open to similar ob-
jection, being also exclusive. Still we greatly need
something different from the ordinary gate valve,
something that will work more directly on the
source of power. We make the hazard that the
thing could be done by using a form of cylinder
and piston, the latter capable of depression and re-
traction. Such a piston, interposed in the motor
wind-way and capable of manipulation by a light
finger lever, would, in our opinion, give something
like the desired flexibility of motor control, with-
out the necessity for elaborate and difficult manipu-
lation now experienced with the ordinary tempo-
lever working an ordinary sliding valve over a slot.
Of course, according to the random notion pro-
posed, depression of the piston would raise the in-
ternal pressure in the wind-way and slow the mo-
tor; and vice-versa. Here is also a suggestion of
the possibility of building motors to run normally
at extreme speed with only a speed reduction pis-
ton for tempo control. There are great possibili-
ties here.
All these and more might be thought of. The
ideas here presented seem anyhow worth consider-
ation.
PUT NEW TRACKER_ON OLD PLAYER.
Brooklyn Dealer Then Sold Sixty-Five Note
Instrument as Modern Eighty-Eight Note
Model and Purchaser Recovers His Money.
Because William Damrau, Jr., who operates a
piano store at 968 Flatbush avenue, Brooklyn, was
charged with having sold as a modern eighty-eight-
note player-piano a player of the old sixty-five-note
type but provided with an eighty-eight-note
tracker bar, Judge Kelly in the Supreme Court
declared the methods of the piano man were
not square, and gave judgment in favor of Dun-
ning B. Bradford, who had sued to recover $150
he had paid for the instrument.
The instrument in question was advertised, to-
gether with a typewriter and some Angora kit-
tens, as being part of the furnishings of the pri-
vate house at 163-A Halsey street, at which ad-
dress Mrs. Emma Damrau resides. Bradford re-
ceived six rolls of music with the instrument, but
when Mrs. Bradford grew tired of hearing the
six tunes and purchased some new eighty-eight-
note rolls the new rolls would not play. Investi-
gation showed that an eighty-eight-note tracker
bar had been attached to the sixty-five-note instru-
ment. Damrau declared in his defense that there
was no demand for sixty-five-note players and
therefore the instrument had been advertised as of
a full range. It was shown in the evidence that
Damrau had been engaged in the "private house"
type of business for some time past.
Damrau's lawyer asked for a stay so the sheriff
would not go to the Damrau store to execute the
judgment.
"You'll be lucky if the sheriff don't take the
whole place, if you keep on doing that kind of
business," responded Justice Kelly.
The Lucas Piano Co. has opened a store in the
St. Paul Arcade, St. Paul, Minn., where it will
feature the Baldwin and Howard pianos.
The Behning
Piano Co. Royal
FACTORY AND OFFICE
132d Street and Alexander Avenue
NEW YORK
Warerooms, 425 Fifth Avenue
Music
Rolls
There are all
kinds of music
rolls and ROYAL
ROLLS.
Royal rolls are cut in
conformity with the estab-
lished standard measure-
ments and we guarantee that
they will fit ALL standard
players.
You won't know roll satisfaction
until you play the Royal.
Royal Music Roll Co., BU £ F Y LO
At
Banquet Danquard Player-Piano Classes
Organize Alumni Association—Over Sixty
Enrolled in School—A Happy Augury.
A.t a banquet of the students of the Danquard
Player Action School, which was held recently at
the Associated Industries Restaurant, West Fifty-
lirst street, New York, an Alumni Assciation of
the school was organized. This was one of the
most interesting features of the meeting, at which
there was an attendance of over twenty-five of the
sixty students who are enrolled at the school.
The school orchestra furnished music through-
Dinner of Danquard Player School Students.
out the evening and Cyril M. Anton, of St.
George's, Grenada. British West Indies, gave an
interesting address. George E. Martin, chief in-
structor of the school, also spoke and was pre-
sented with a gold diamond-set cigar cutter. John
W. Payne, the first graduate from the school,
spoke on the value of the school work as it ap-
plied to him.
Among those present were player-piano repair
men and tuners from various parts of the country
Avho have come especially to New York to take up
the course in player construction, which is offered
free from any cost to them by the school.
SOME CARLOAD SHIPMENTS.
The Mueller & Haines Player Piano Co., of Chi-
cago, 111., recently shipped a carload of players to
prominent houses in Texas and New York. This
in itself demonstrates that business is not so bad
as some people paint it, and that the Mueller &
Haines players are mighty popular.
THIS IS IT!
The Christman
Attachable Player
which can be installed in any grand or
upright piano, regardless of size or style,
without altering the case.
Write us for Further Information.
CHRISTMAN PIANO CO.
597601 East 137th Si, New York
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