Music Trade Review
Issue: 1917 Vol. 64 N. 26 - Page 5
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
CONVENTION LESSONS
(Continued from page 3)
ranee regarding the player-piano is virtually
complete, and the business to win proper recog-
nition must be intelligently supported by an
intelligent system of national publicity.
Whatever may have been anybody's opinion
before the last convention, it is surely plain
enough now that every man who makes or sells
player-pianos should give not only support, but
ungrudging support, to the National Bureau for
the Advancement of Music, as the first step in
a prospective .campaign of national educational
publicity. This is the most important of all
the lessons which the late conventions and
Music Show teach us.
Music Rolls; Good and Not So Good
The music roll section of the trade gave the
observer some mixed sensations. The wonder-
ful skill displayed in the editing of the Ampico,
Welte-Mignon, Duo-Art, Artapollo and other
rolls was almost counterbalanced by the interest
and amusement provoked by some of the
more noisy of the so-called jazz, jass, jazz-rag,
saxophone, etc., arrangements. Now there is
no reason to doubt those who tell us that these
super-arrangements sell amazingly well; but
there is equally little reason to doubt that they
do not show off the player-piano to advantage.
It is not too much to say that the tone of the
piano and the action of the player are alike
unfit for the unnatural writing which the saxo-
phone and jazz arrangements necessitate when
used to their fullest extent. There is no doubt
at all that, as novelties, they take; but there is
equally little doubt that it is rank foolishness
to allow a customer to load up on them alone.
The monotony of strangeness and queerness is
the worst kind of monotony. A weird effect
fascinates, when used once; but when all the
effects one hears are weird effects, they cease
to be weird and become merely irritating.
The Perfected Player-Piano
The perfected player-piano has not yet made
its appearance. We are not yet face to face
with final developments. There are, however,
many indications suggestive of the direction
along which that final development will proceed.
That the reproducing piano and the player of
personal control will, in certain features of
each, be combined in a more perfect synthesis,
we firmly believe. And the events of the con-
ventions at Chicago strengthen this conviction.
of the third floor and facing Wabash avenue.
Here some very well arranged demonstration
Successful Department Conducted in Retail booths have been installed and since the de-
Store in Chicago Features "Artempo" Rolls— partment's opening it has been found necessary
Handles Trade of Large Proportions
to build additional racks in order to accommo-
date the large quantity of rolls necessary to
CHICAGO, III., June 25.—Here is a photograph
care for the trade.
of the music roll department of the Steger &
"Artempo" rolls are practically the only stock
Sons Piano Mfg Co.'s retail store, Chicago. carried and in the installation of this account
The department is now located at the front end O. R. Bowman, local manager of Bennett &
White, Inc., scored a
distinct success, for a
complete
catalog
stock is carried.
C. C. Lux, who is
in charge of the de-
partment, has built
the trade up to splen-
did proportions and
to-day t h e depart-
ment can be counted
as one of the best
player roll sections
in the country. Mr.
Lux is assisted by
t w o very charming
girls who are not
only accurately ac-
quainted with the en-
tire list, but know the
varied tastes of each
Music Roll Department, Steger & Sons, Chicago
of the customers.
u
NIVERSA
IIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIMIinilllllllllllll
Hand Played
L
Song and Regular
Player Rolls
LATEST HITS
This cut supplied to
Universal dealers
upon application
THE STEGER MUSIC ROLL SECTION
D. R. Weed & Son, Inc., Beacon, N. Y., has
WINS AUTOPIANO IN CONTEST
been chartered with capital stock of $5,000 to
Another
popularity contest of the Liggett &
manufacture pianos, organs and talking ma-
Myers
Tobacco
Co. has just been concluded
chines. The incorporators are B. R. Prescott,
in Indianapolis, Ind., with the result that J. J.
R. R. Weed, Jr., and G. J. Jennings.
Collins of that city has become the possessor
of an Autopiano manufactured by the Auto-
piano Co., Fifty-first street and Twelfth avenue,
New York. Mr. Collins, besides being greatly
gratified
over the fact that he was the winner of
CHILDS PLAYER AND
the
first
prize
of the contest, after receiving the
REGULAR MUSIC COMPARTMENT
Autopiano, expressed great delight regarding
its tone quality and ease of operation.
Several other popularity contests similar to
this one, are now being held by the tobacco com-
pany, in which the Autopiano is the first prize.
The Bench People Want
PATENTS PNEUMATIC ACTION
D. C, June 25.—Patent No.
1.230,549 was last week granted to Aura E
Whitehead, Chicago, 111., for a pneumatic ac-
tion for player-piano mechanism, the prominent
objects of which are to provide a simple, prac-
tical and effective pneumatic action of the class
specified; to secure separability of the apparatus
to permit easy and ready repair; to arrange for
interchangeability of parts; to avoid leakage of
air in both the windways and the connections
to the valves; and to secure the foregoing and
other desirable results in a simple manner.
WASHINGTON,
IN MAHOGANY, OAK OR WALNUT
PRICE $4.50
Patented and made for nine year* by
PETERSON ART FURNITURE CO.
FARIBAULT
MINN.
A SPECIAL
SUMMER BULLETIN
FOR JULY
The rolls listed in this Bulletin have
been selected because of their adapta-
bility to the Summer season.
They are of a light, popular char-
acter, principally dance music, and
present an ideal collection for enter-
taining purposes.
If you have not
received a copy
send for it.
Special attention is called to the
following as being particularly well
adapted for the dances they repre-
sent :
SONG ROLLS
2203 Ain't You Comin' Back to
Dixieland? Jazz-Fox Trot...$.80
2219 Cotton Pic-kin* Time in Ala-
bam'. Jazz-Fox Trot
75
2221 Darktown Strutters' Ball. Jazz-
Fox Trot
80
2235 Monkey Hunch. Fox Trot... .75
2207 Sinbad Was in Bad. Jazz-
Fox Trot
1.00
2245 There's a Vacant Chair in My
Old Southern Home. Jazz-
Fox Trot
75
2247 Where the Yang-Tze-Ki-Ang
Flows. Jazz-Fox Trot
80
2211 You Stingy Baby. Jazz-Fox
Trot
80
2217 You've r.ot a Million Dollar
Smile. Jazz-One Step
80
STRAIGHT
HAND-PLAYED
203103 Bedouin Girl, Passing Show
1917. Jazz-Fox Trot
$ .50
203127 Who's Who? One Step
50
203143 Won't You Be My Daddy?
Passiug Show 1917. Jazz-
Fox Trot
50
J
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
CONVENTION LESSONS
(Continued from page 3)
ranee regarding the player-piano is virtually
complete, and the business to win proper recog-
nition must be intelligently supported by an
intelligent system of national publicity.
Whatever may have been anybody's opinion
before the last convention, it is surely plain
enough now that every man who makes or sells
player-pianos should give not only support, but
ungrudging support, to the National Bureau for
the Advancement of Music, as the first step in
a prospective .campaign of national educational
publicity. This is the most important of all
the lessons which the late conventions and
Music Show teach us.
Music Rolls; Good and Not So Good
The music roll section of the trade gave the
observer some mixed sensations. The wonder-
ful skill displayed in the editing of the Ampico,
Welte-Mignon, Duo-Art, Artapollo and other
rolls was almost counterbalanced by the interest
and amusement provoked by some of the
more noisy of the so-called jazz, jass, jazz-rag,
saxophone, etc., arrangements. Now there is
no reason to doubt those who tell us that these
super-arrangements sell amazingly well; but
there is equally little reason to doubt that they
do not show off the player-piano to advantage.
It is not too much to say that the tone of the
piano and the action of the player are alike
unfit for the unnatural writing which the saxo-
phone and jazz arrangements necessitate when
used to their fullest extent. There is no doubt
at all that, as novelties, they take; but there is
equally little doubt that it is rank foolishness
to allow a customer to load up on them alone.
The monotony of strangeness and queerness is
the worst kind of monotony. A weird effect
fascinates, when used once; but when all the
effects one hears are weird effects, they cease
to be weird and become merely irritating.
The Perfected Player-Piano
The perfected player-piano has not yet made
its appearance. We are not yet face to face
with final developments. There are, however,
many indications suggestive of the direction
along which that final development will proceed.
That the reproducing piano and the player of
personal control will, in certain features of
each, be combined in a more perfect synthesis,
we firmly believe. And the events of the con-
ventions at Chicago strengthen this conviction.
of the third floor and facing Wabash avenue.
Here some very well arranged demonstration
Successful Department Conducted in Retail booths have been installed and since the de-
Store in Chicago Features "Artempo" Rolls— partment's opening it has been found necessary
Handles Trade of Large Proportions
to build additional racks in order to accommo-
date the large quantity of rolls necessary to
CHICAGO, III., June 25.—Here is a photograph
care for the trade.
of the music roll department of the Steger &
"Artempo" rolls are practically the only stock
Sons Piano Mfg Co.'s retail store, Chicago. carried and in the installation of this account
The department is now located at the front end O. R. Bowman, local manager of Bennett &
White, Inc., scored a
distinct success, for a
complete
catalog
stock is carried.
C. C. Lux, who is
in charge of the de-
partment, has built
the trade up to splen-
did proportions and
to-day t h e depart-
ment can be counted
as one of the best
player roll sections
in the country. Mr.
Lux is assisted by
t w o very charming
girls who are not
only accurately ac-
quainted with the en-
tire list, but know the
varied tastes of each
Music Roll Department, Steger & Sons, Chicago
of the customers.
u
NIVERSA
IIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIMIinilllllllllllll
Hand Played
L
Song and Regular
Player Rolls
LATEST HITS
This cut supplied to
Universal dealers
upon application
THE STEGER MUSIC ROLL SECTION
D. R. Weed & Son, Inc., Beacon, N. Y., has
WINS AUTOPIANO IN CONTEST
been chartered with capital stock of $5,000 to
Another
popularity contest of the Liggett &
manufacture pianos, organs and talking ma-
Myers
Tobacco
Co. has just been concluded
chines. The incorporators are B. R. Prescott,
in Indianapolis, Ind., with the result that J. J.
R. R. Weed, Jr., and G. J. Jennings.
Collins of that city has become the possessor
of an Autopiano manufactured by the Auto-
piano Co., Fifty-first street and Twelfth avenue,
New York. Mr. Collins, besides being greatly
gratified
over the fact that he was the winner of
CHILDS PLAYER AND
the
first
prize
of the contest, after receiving the
REGULAR MUSIC COMPARTMENT
Autopiano, expressed great delight regarding
its tone quality and ease of operation.
Several other popularity contests similar to
this one, are now being held by the tobacco com-
pany, in which the Autopiano is the first prize.
The Bench People Want
PATENTS PNEUMATIC ACTION
D. C, June 25.—Patent No.
1.230,549 was last week granted to Aura E
Whitehead, Chicago, 111., for a pneumatic ac-
tion for player-piano mechanism, the prominent
objects of which are to provide a simple, prac-
tical and effective pneumatic action of the class
specified; to secure separability of the apparatus
to permit easy and ready repair; to arrange for
interchangeability of parts; to avoid leakage of
air in both the windways and the connections
to the valves; and to secure the foregoing and
other desirable results in a simple manner.
WASHINGTON,
IN MAHOGANY, OAK OR WALNUT
PRICE $4.50
Patented and made for nine year* by
PETERSON ART FURNITURE CO.
FARIBAULT
MINN.
A SPECIAL
SUMMER BULLETIN
FOR JULY
The rolls listed in this Bulletin have
been selected because of their adapta-
bility to the Summer season.
They are of a light, popular char-
acter, principally dance music, and
present an ideal collection for enter-
taining purposes.
If you have not
received a copy
send for it.
Special attention is called to the
following as being particularly well
adapted for the dances they repre-
sent :
SONG ROLLS
2203 Ain't You Comin' Back to
Dixieland? Jazz-Fox Trot...$.80
2219 Cotton Pic-kin* Time in Ala-
bam'. Jazz-Fox Trot
75
2221 Darktown Strutters' Ball. Jazz-
Fox Trot
80
2235 Monkey Hunch. Fox Trot... .75
2207 Sinbad Was in Bad. Jazz-
Fox Trot
1.00
2245 There's a Vacant Chair in My
Old Southern Home. Jazz-
Fox Trot
75
2247 Where the Yang-Tze-Ki-Ang
Flows. Jazz-Fox Trot
80
2211 You Stingy Baby. Jazz-Fox
Trot
80
2217 You've r.ot a Million Dollar
Smile. Jazz-One Step
80
STRAIGHT
HAND-PLAYED
203103 Bedouin Girl, Passing Show
1917. Jazz-Fox Trot
$ .50
203127 Who's Who? One Step
50
203143 Won't You Be My Daddy?
Passiug Show 1917. Jazz-
Fox Trot
50
J
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