Music Trade Review
Issue: 1916 Vol. 63 N. 12 - Page 49
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
SIMPLEX TEAM WINS PENNANT
PLAYER ROLLS SHOULD BE "READ"
Closes Season in Shop League of Worcester
With a Record of Twelve Games Out of
Fourteen Won in Shop League Contest
The Difference Between Skilful and Amateurish
Playing Lies in a Proper Interpretation of
the Markings on Player Rolls
WORCESTER, MASS., September 11.—The base-
The following article, from the music page
ball team of the Simplex Player Action Co. has of the New York Evening Mail, demonstrates
won the pennant in the "National" division of how musical subjects may be interestingly and
instructively written, and follows out the theory
which has been advanced at the recent trade
conventions that greater interest in things
musical may easily be created by proper pub-
licity. The article, which explains the neces-
sity for watching the markings on music rolls,
says:
Every one that uses a player-piano should
"read" the perforations and expression marks
of the music roll, just as a pianist reads the
notes and other signs on his printed sheet-
music. And not only read them but apply
them to his playing.
The Simplex Player Action Ball Team
Thus the player-pianist will both give and
the Shop League of Worcester. The team has
been playing strong ball all summer, and the take more pleasure in his performance. Noth-
last game of the season, played between the ing is so boring as player-piano music ground
Simplex team and the team from the Worcester out in a steady stream of uniform tone and
Manufacturing Co. was captured by the Simplex unchanging time. And there is no excuse for
boys, the score being 3 to 1. The team, a picture it, since the few devices for musical expres-
of which is shown herewith, now leads their sion are so adequate, yet so simple.
By "reading" the passing music roll even the
division with a percentage of .857, having won
musically unskilled performer knows when to
twelve games out of fourteen.
play loud and when soft; when gradually to in-
crease the tone and when to decrease it; where
STANDARD BUSINESS INCREASING
to retard the speed and where to accelerate;
An interesting fact regarding the business of which perforations represent the melody notes
the Standard Pneumatic Action Co., Fifty-sec- —those all-important notes that should be ac-
ond • street and Twelfth avenue, New York, is cented—and which the accompaniment notes
that up to August 31, this year, within 2,700 that should be subdued.
The dotted zigzag "expression line" and the
Standard Player Actions of their entire output
of last year, were shipped. During the last perforations of a music roll are a complete and
four months of last year 9,300 Standard Player graphic diagram of the music being played—
Actions were shipped. With September, Oc- far more easily read than sheet-music. In fact,
tober, November and December yet to come absolutely no musical knowledge is required to
this year, the volume of business will show a "read" it.
remarkable increase.
The position and direction of the dotted line
Chase & Baker
Go.
49
indicates the dynamic effects—loud, soft, gradual
increase and decrease, while the perforations
show every characteristic of the notes as played
—long, short, high, low, runs, trills, flourishes,
chords.
The "tracker-bar," with its eighty-eight holes
(over which the roll passes in playing) is like
a miniature keyboard, each hole corresponding
to a note of the piano. For instance, per-
forations in the roll for ascending passages run
from left to right, the same as on the piano;
descending passages from right to left.
Some people become so expert in "reading"
music-roll perforations that they go into a
music store, unroll a yard or so of music, and
can decide by looking at the perforations
whether or not they want the piece.
DANQUARD PLAYER SCHOOL REPORT
Four Graduations and Seven New Students at
the School During the Past Month
Reports from the Danquard Player Action
School, New York, for the month of August
show that there are seven new students en-
rolled in the day class and four graduations.
The report also shows that a Crippen player
action has been installed in the school. The
students registered in the day class are: Thos.
Cade, 494 East Second street, Peru, Ind.;
Ernest Kreis, 577 Broadway, Buffalo, N. Y.;
A. L. > Stecker, 639 Twenty-sixth street, Mil-
waukee, Wis.; George Seuss, 61 Knox street,
Lawrence, Mass.; James T. Lee, 139 East
Eighteenth street, New York City; W. Howard
Ewing, Saltsburg, Indiana County, Pa.; Samuel
Warren, Adrian, Mich.
Those who graduated were: Prof. Thos.
Beardsworth, Staunton, Va., 91 per cent.; E. R.
Francis, 18 West Church street, Newark, O.,
93^ per cent.; W. J. Davis, Knoxville, Tenn.,
9434 per cent.; George A. Abeel, 1431 South
Salina street, Syracuse, N. Y., 83% per cent.
J. W. CLIFjvPROMOTED
J. W. Cliff, formerly manager for Grinnell
Bros., at Hancock, Mich., will become assistant
to the manager at the main office in Detroit
in the first of October.
Consult the universal Want Directory of
The Review. In it advertisements are inserted
free of charge for men who desire positions.
Manalaatarsra • !
PIANOS AND PLAYER-PIANOS
Th«r «r« UNEQUALED Jot muiictl efiactiveneM. raliabitite and durability and are the TRADE STANDARD
Factory and Office, Jowott Avonuo and Bolt Lino, BUFFALO, N. Y.
ANGELUS
PIANO-PLAYER
Introduced in 1895 and constantly im-
proved and developed to its present point
of superiority.
PIANO
An excellent upright piano with an
Angelus incorporated in it, making one
complete and compact instrument.
THE MELODANT and THE PHRASING LEVER
are patented expression devices found only on the Angelus. The Angelus
instruments are the results of years of experience and success.
THE WILCOX & WHITE
COMPANY
MERIDEN. CONN.
Established 1876
Melville
Clark's
APOLLO R=
Established Retail Price 0 7 A A i - &O AM\
Consistent with Quality $/UU 10 ?£,'1UU
MELVILLE CLARK PIANO CO.
FINE ARTS BUILDING, CHICAGO
YOUR, T&IZWrOIZY AfAYB&
THE AUTOPIANO COMPANY 12 T -* AVE . 51 S - T TO 52 N - D /TREET»T
NEW
YOfcK
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
SIMPLEX TEAM WINS PENNANT
PLAYER ROLLS SHOULD BE "READ"
Closes Season in Shop League of Worcester
With a Record of Twelve Games Out of
Fourteen Won in Shop League Contest
The Difference Between Skilful and Amateurish
Playing Lies in a Proper Interpretation of
the Markings on Player Rolls
WORCESTER, MASS., September 11.—The base-
The following article, from the music page
ball team of the Simplex Player Action Co. has of the New York Evening Mail, demonstrates
won the pennant in the "National" division of how musical subjects may be interestingly and
instructively written, and follows out the theory
which has been advanced at the recent trade
conventions that greater interest in things
musical may easily be created by proper pub-
licity. The article, which explains the neces-
sity for watching the markings on music rolls,
says:
Every one that uses a player-piano should
"read" the perforations and expression marks
of the music roll, just as a pianist reads the
notes and other signs on his printed sheet-
music. And not only read them but apply
them to his playing.
The Simplex Player Action Ball Team
Thus the player-pianist will both give and
the Shop League of Worcester. The team has
been playing strong ball all summer, and the take more pleasure in his performance. Noth-
last game of the season, played between the ing is so boring as player-piano music ground
Simplex team and the team from the Worcester out in a steady stream of uniform tone and
Manufacturing Co. was captured by the Simplex unchanging time. And there is no excuse for
boys, the score being 3 to 1. The team, a picture it, since the few devices for musical expres-
of which is shown herewith, now leads their sion are so adequate, yet so simple.
By "reading" the passing music roll even the
division with a percentage of .857, having won
musically unskilled performer knows when to
twelve games out of fourteen.
play loud and when soft; when gradually to in-
crease the tone and when to decrease it; where
STANDARD BUSINESS INCREASING
to retard the speed and where to accelerate;
An interesting fact regarding the business of which perforations represent the melody notes
the Standard Pneumatic Action Co., Fifty-sec- —those all-important notes that should be ac-
ond • street and Twelfth avenue, New York, is cented—and which the accompaniment notes
that up to August 31, this year, within 2,700 that should be subdued.
The dotted zigzag "expression line" and the
Standard Player Actions of their entire output
of last year, were shipped. During the last perforations of a music roll are a complete and
four months of last year 9,300 Standard Player graphic diagram of the music being played—
Actions were shipped. With September, Oc- far more easily read than sheet-music. In fact,
tober, November and December yet to come absolutely no musical knowledge is required to
this year, the volume of business will show a "read" it.
remarkable increase.
The position and direction of the dotted line
Chase & Baker
Go.
49
indicates the dynamic effects—loud, soft, gradual
increase and decrease, while the perforations
show every characteristic of the notes as played
—long, short, high, low, runs, trills, flourishes,
chords.
The "tracker-bar," with its eighty-eight holes
(over which the roll passes in playing) is like
a miniature keyboard, each hole corresponding
to a note of the piano. For instance, per-
forations in the roll for ascending passages run
from left to right, the same as on the piano;
descending passages from right to left.
Some people become so expert in "reading"
music-roll perforations that they go into a
music store, unroll a yard or so of music, and
can decide by looking at the perforations
whether or not they want the piece.
DANQUARD PLAYER SCHOOL REPORT
Four Graduations and Seven New Students at
the School During the Past Month
Reports from the Danquard Player Action
School, New York, for the month of August
show that there are seven new students en-
rolled in the day class and four graduations.
The report also shows that a Crippen player
action has been installed in the school. The
students registered in the day class are: Thos.
Cade, 494 East Second street, Peru, Ind.;
Ernest Kreis, 577 Broadway, Buffalo, N. Y.;
A. L. > Stecker, 639 Twenty-sixth street, Mil-
waukee, Wis.; George Seuss, 61 Knox street,
Lawrence, Mass.; James T. Lee, 139 East
Eighteenth street, New York City; W. Howard
Ewing, Saltsburg, Indiana County, Pa.; Samuel
Warren, Adrian, Mich.
Those who graduated were: Prof. Thos.
Beardsworth, Staunton, Va., 91 per cent.; E. R.
Francis, 18 West Church street, Newark, O.,
93^ per cent.; W. J. Davis, Knoxville, Tenn.,
9434 per cent.; George A. Abeel, 1431 South
Salina street, Syracuse, N. Y., 83% per cent.
J. W. CLIFjvPROMOTED
J. W. Cliff, formerly manager for Grinnell
Bros., at Hancock, Mich., will become assistant
to the manager at the main office in Detroit
in the first of October.
Consult the universal Want Directory of
The Review. In it advertisements are inserted
free of charge for men who desire positions.
Manalaatarsra • !
PIANOS AND PLAYER-PIANOS
Th«r «r« UNEQUALED Jot muiictl efiactiveneM. raliabitite and durability and are the TRADE STANDARD
Factory and Office, Jowott Avonuo and Bolt Lino, BUFFALO, N. Y.
ANGELUS
PIANO-PLAYER
Introduced in 1895 and constantly im-
proved and developed to its present point
of superiority.
PIANO
An excellent upright piano with an
Angelus incorporated in it, making one
complete and compact instrument.
THE MELODANT and THE PHRASING LEVER
are patented expression devices found only on the Angelus. The Angelus
instruments are the results of years of experience and success.
THE WILCOX & WHITE
COMPANY
MERIDEN. CONN.
Established 1876
Melville
Clark's
APOLLO R=
Established Retail Price 0 7 A A i - &O AM\
Consistent with Quality $/UU 10 ?£,'1UU
MELVILLE CLARK PIANO CO.
FINE ARTS BUILDING, CHICAGO
YOUR, T&IZWrOIZY AfAYB&
THE AUTOPIANO COMPANY 12 T -* AVE . 51 S - T TO 52 N - D /TREET»T
NEW
YOfcK
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