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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
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the construction of a music record sheet with two
or
more electrically conducting layers and to con-
(Continued from page 5.)
tact devices for use in connection therewith
cause we make it so; only because we will not see whereby either two or more pianos can be oper-
that you prove mathematics to be true by knowing ated simultaneously from the same sheet or a
that two and two always make four, not by hoping multi-manual organ can be similarly operated.
that perhaps we can sometimes persuade them to
make five.
COMBINATION GRAND PIANO.
Faith, Hope and Charity: we may do worse than Details of Patent Just Granted to Peter Welin
make them our guides for 1915. If we do we shall
and Assigned to Lawrence Maxwell, of Cin-
also perhaps not fail to include Temperance, Calm-
cinnati, Bearing Upon the Application of a
ness and Wisdom. Then we may face the future
Player Mechanism to a Grand Piano.
with all confidence and in the certainly of a bright
dawn.
(Special to The Review.)
WASHINGTON, D. C, December 21.—Peter Welin,
PATENTS MUSJC_RECORD SHEET.
Worcester, Mass., was last week granted patent
No. 1,120,775, for a combination grand piano, which
(Special to The Review.)
he has assigned to Lawrence Maxwell, Cincinnati.
WASHINGTON, D. C, December 21.—Patent No.
1,120,171 for a Note Sheet for Electrical Musical O., and which relates to automatic musical instru-
Instrument was recently granted to Arthur R. ments, and more particularly to pianos of the
Trist, London, England, and relates to improve- horizontal or grand type.
Among the objects of the invention are to so
ments in record sheets for players for pianos,
organs and similar instruments and to conducting arrange and house the automatic playing mecha-
devices for use therewith, and has for its object nism within the casing that the instrument, when
THE POINT OF VIEW.
P
LAYER production
reached the highest
point of develop-
ment during 1914 and
for the coming year, it
looks "all player."
We have made several develop-
ments during the past year that have
kept the French & Sons player in the
foremost position, and for the coming
year there will be several more inter-
esting announcements.
But what pleases us most is the
reputation and profit gained by the
piano m e r c h a n t s w h o sell Jesse
French players, for these are the men
who must be shown before they show
their customers.
If you want prestige and profits
during 1915, we'll send you a book of
evidence that will surprise you.
Jesse French & Sons Piano Co.
New Castle, Ind.
closed up or being played manually, has the ap-
pearance of an ordinary horizontal or "grand"
piano; to provide a series of detachable elements,
each of which contains an entire controlling train
for one note; to provide for independently secur-
ing each striking pneumatic and its controlling
valves to the horizontal main wind trunk in a
"grand" instrument; to provide means whereby
the two foot pedals may conveniently be set so
that each actuates the bellows for automatic play-
ing and so that they will serve respectively as
"loud" and "soft" pedals for manual playing, and
to simultaneously render the bellows inoperative,
as by connecting it with the atmosphere; to pro-
vide means in an instrument of this style, for al-
lowing the finger keys to remain stationary during
automatic playing; to provide an improved way
of dividing the action, so that the parts may be
conveniently located in a 'grand" instrument
casing, and so that sections of the entire range of
automatically operated notes may be separately
controlled for loud and soft effects; to provide an
improved arrangement of tracker connections espe-
cially suitable for a "grand" piano; to provide
means in addition to the ordinary "tempo" con-
trolling means for the motor, for admitting the
full effect of the wind to the motor during the
playing or forward movement of the music sheet;
and in general to provide an improved, efficient
and simple construction of combination "grand"
piano to carry out the purposes mentioned herein.
AUTOPIANO FOR FLAGSHIP.
Instrument Sold for Warrant Officers' Mess of
U. S. S. "Connecticut" by Manager Vance of
N. Snellenburg & Co., Philadelphia.
Another Autopiano, manufactured by the Auto-
piano Co., Fifty-first street and Twelfth avenue,
Autopiano
in Warrant Offiers' Quarters on
U. S. S. Connecticut.
New York, has been placed on the U. S. Battleship
"Connecticut," one of the largest vessels in the
navy and flagship of Rear Admiral Hugo Ostcr-
haus, who commands the North Atlantic Fleet.
This instrument was sold by S. Vance, Jr., man-
ager of the piano department of N. Snellenburg &
Co., Philadelphia, and has been placed in the war-
rant officers' mess. The instrument in its attractive
surroundings may be seen in the accompanying
illustration.
OVERHEARD ON TELEPHONE.
"Does your wife ever object when you find it
necessary to stay downtown late at night?"
"Oh, no; she knows that I never stay away
from home in the evening unless it is a matter
of business that keeps me. Does your wife make
a fuss when you get home late?"
"Always. I congratulate you."
"Thanks, old man. Yes, I think I'm to be con-
gratulated. My wife's a mighty sensible little
woman, even if she isn't as beautiful as some who
might be mentioned. Give me an amiable, reason-
able woman rather than a pretty one who can't
listen to reason."
"It isn't the amiability or the good sense of your
wife that causes me to offer my congratulations,";
"No? What, then?"
!
"Your ability as a liar,"