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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
MUSIC ROLL MEN DIP IN THE BRINY.
Take Advantage of Ocean Bathing While Va-
cationing at Block Island—A Music Trade
Rendezvous—Some Recent Vacationists.
You can now witness a demonstration of the
One of the chief essentials for a well-regulated
sojourn at the seashore is the morning dip, or "my
tub," as they say across the water. Notwith-
standing quite a few of the people dress for parade
along the beach, frequently a few are found who
actually go into the water and get wet all over.
It undoubtedly takes the piano trade to show "lnw
'tis done," for in the accompanying illustration is
Sonorus Player Piano
in Chicago
at the factory, 708 Townsend St. Take Chicago Avenue car,
seven minutes from the loop.
The Sonorus Player Action fits any upright piano, is easily
operated, thoroughly responsive, wonderfully simple and dur-
able, and most moderate in price.
SONORUS COMPANY
Left to Right—Charles Bolduc, Mrs. Bolduc
and F. E. Herbert.
seen F. E. Herbert, president, and Charles Bolduc,
sales manager, of the Herbert Co., makers of
"Square-cut" music rolls; Newark, N. J., as the in-
coming tide rolled them on the beach at Block Isl-
and, where they spent their vacation. Mr. Herbert
is on the right, while on the left is Mr. Bolduc,
Mrs. Bolduc being in the center.
This little island is located fifteen miles out in
the ocean, right east of Narragansett Pier, and is
the rendezvous of piano men. Fish are plentiful,
and it frequently happens that a morning's catch
will total 500 to 600 pounds of fish, including tuna,
bluefish, swordfish and other inhabitants of the
briny deep.
CHANGES COMPANY NAME.
The Gram-Richtsteig Piano Co., of Milwaukee,
has filed an amendment with the Secretary of State
at Madison, Wis., changing the name to the Ed-
mund Gram Piano Co.
If you desire a man for any department of
your service, either for your factory or for your
selling department, forward your advertisement
to us and it will be inserted free of charge.
Market Street, near Huron
CHICAGO, ILL.
TO EXHIBIT BUSH & LANE CECILIAN.
Latest Development of the Well-Known Ce-
cilian Action at the Hands of the Bush &
Lane Piano Co., Which Now Controls It, to
Be Shown at Michigan State Fair.
( Special to The Review.)
DETROIT, MICH., August 24.—W. H. Beach, treas-
urer of the Bush & Lane Piano Co., was at the De-
troit branch store this week, talking over with
Manager C. W. Cross the plans for bringing o.ut
the new Bush & Lane Cecilian player-piano. It
will be done at the Michigan State Fair in Septem-
ber, an elaborate exhibit and a liberal advertising
campaign being the vehicles of its introduction to
the public.
The Cecilian player action has been greatly im-
proved since the patents came under the control of
Bush & Lane. The pumping mechanism has been
altered and made to operate much easier than it
did in the old Cecilian. The rubber connections
A Business Opportunity
that no dealer who plans a
big Fall should overlook lies
in the Style E
Marquette Player
STYLE E MARQUETTE PLAYER
It embodies a matchless
player action, a tone that is
smooth and sweet and a case
that is most artistic. In addi-
tion this player sells at a low
yet profitable price..
MARQUETTE PIANO CO.
MAKERS OF THE FAMOUS CREMONA LINE OF AUTOMATICS
1610-22 So. Canal Street
-
CHICAGO
formerly used with metal tubing of the player ac-
tion have been done away with and the action is
now entirely of metal tubing.
While none of the new Cecilians have been put
on the market yet, a number o.f them are on their
way through the plant, and are pronounced by ex-
perts who have examined them to be magnificent
instruments. In addition to the excellence of the
action, the cases will be some of the best that the
Bush & Lane Piano Co. ever has produced. The
company's piano.s are noted for their attractive
designs and elegant woods.
The State Fair will last nearly two weeks this
year, the dates being September 7 to 18. Manager
Cross says the Bush & Lane exhibit will be one of
the finest that a piano house has shown at a State
fair. Already there have been a number of in-
quiries for the new Cecilian, and Mr. Cross expects
a triumphant trade with it during the fall and holi-
day season.
INVENTS ELECTRIC PIANO.
Patent Granted George B. French and Frank
L. Hall on New Form of Instrument with
Special Expression Devices.
(Special to The Review.)
WASHINGTON, D. C, August 25.—George
B.
French, Boston, Mass., and Frank L. Hall, New
York, are the owners through mesne assignments
by Clyde Coleman, Chicago., 111., of patent Xo. 1,
107,49.") for an electrically operated musical instru-
ment, the prime object of which is to attain sub-
stantially perfect expression in so far as affected
by intensity or modulation of notes. To this end
there is provided a separate hammer or note-pro-
ducing means to sound each note, and for each
note-producing means a separate actuative means
independent of and not affected by the actuative
means for the other notes, and adapted to actuate
its respective note-producing means with two or
more forces or force components, either separately
or simultaneously, whereby each note may be pro-
duced with considerable variation in volume or in-
tensity and without affecting or being effected by
the simultaneous similar control of the notes.
Preferably the components of actuative force de-
livered to an individual note-producing means by
its respective actuative means, will be all different
in value or intensity, since this difference contrib-
utes greatly to the range of intensity variation at-
tainable by applying these actuative components
separately and jointly in various combinations.
A branch store of the Jesse French & Sons
Piano Co. has been opened at St. Francisville, 111,