Music Trade Review
Issue: 1918 Vol. 67 N. 17 - Page 8
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
8
WHISTLE ANNOUNCES BOND SALES
Employes of Standard Pneumatic Action Co.
Make 100 Per Cent. Record and Then Start
All Over Again to Roll Up Subscriptions
A. W. Johnston, of the Standard Pneumatic
Action Co., sub-chairman of the Piano & Organ
Supply Section of the Allied Music Trade Divi-
sion Fourth Liberty Loan, who incidentally
made a wonderful record in the matter of sub-
scriptions for his section, gave his personal at-
tention to seeing that 100 per cent, of the em-
ployes of the Standard Pneumatic Action Co.
subscribed to the loan, thus raising a substantial
amount. Mr. Johnston immediately left for the
headquarters of the Allied Music Division to re-
port the good news, and upon his return found
the factory whistle blowing furiously. Investi-
gation showed that while he was away the men
started a drive of their own for additional sub-
scriptions reaching a total of $11,000. Every
time a new bond was subscribed the whistle was
blown, which explained the reason for the un-
usual amount of noise.
OCTOBER 26, 1918
STANDARD CO. QUOTES NEW PRICES has been requisitioned for Governmental use.
"Most of our raw material is bought in open
market at current prices which fluctuate con-
stantly and even where we have had binding
contracts some of these have been broken with-
The Standard Music Roll Co., Orange, N. J., out advance notice to us.
"Since 'Music Helps to Win the War,' in rec-
recently sent to the trade the following cir-
cular letter announcing slight increases in the ognition of which the Government has put us
prices of the various types of rolls manufac- in Class C without curtailment of output, we
tured by that company.
The announcement have gladly operated during the last year on
the extremely narrow profit of 6 per cent, on
reads:
"We hereby announce the following slight ad- our sales, whereas before the war our net profit
vances in prices to take effect immediately upon averaged 25 per cent.
"The moment the cost of material and labor
receipt of this notice, or not later than the 19th
drops, which we think and hope will be within
instant:
a year, we will lower our prices again.
"On Perfection rolls 1 cent per roll.
"Trusting you will fully appreciate the war
"On SingA word rolls 2 cents per roll.
"On all types of Arto rolls maximum discount exigencies which compel us to make the above
slight changes in prices without advance no-
40 per cent.
"We are compelled to make the above slight tice, we remain, etc."
advance in prices, owing to the steady increase
in the cost of labor and operating expenses and
AMATO PRAISES THE SOLOELLE
particularly because of the sudden and wholly
unexpected increase in material, particularly Famous Baritone of Metropolitan Opera Co.
Writes Letter to Kohler & Chase
flanges, much of the raw material for which
Standard Music Roll Co. Announces New Price
Schedule Covering Its Various Rolls
SAN
Any Dealer Can Sell Today As Many
Player-Pianos As He Can Get!
The More Anxious He Should
Be to Sell Only the Very Best!!
We Pointedly and Definitely Claim
That the Player Mechanism of the
FRANCISCO, CAL., October
19.—Kohler &
Chase, of this city, recently carried an attractive
advertisement in the local newspapers advising
the public that Pasquale Amato, the famous
baritone of the Metropolitan Opera Co., New
York, had endorsed the Soloelle player action.
Mr. Amato has achieved international fame as
one of the world's greatest baritones, and his
tribute to the Soloelle is indicative of the mu-
sical quality of this player. Referring to the
Soloelle Mr. Amato stated as follows:
"The effect obtained on your remarkable Solo-
elle astounded me. Such perfect control of
delicate tone-shading does not seem to belong
to a player-piano. One can play on it with
the feeling and expression of the pianist, and it
can also be used charmingly for accompanying.
(Signed) Pasquale Amato."
PATENTS GOVERNING DEVICE
Recent Invention Provides Means for Regulat-
ing Speed of Player Motors
M. Schulz Company
Player-Piano
is, by all odds, the best all-around player action
as yet produced, whether as to design, as to
workmanship, as to material, or merely as to
SATISFACTION and SALABILITY!!
In support of these claims, rve invite you to obtain and study
the remarkable little treatise on players in general, and on ours
in particular, called the SCHULZ PLAYER
BOOK.
Your copy is waiting to be dropped into the mail, just say,
"Send me your player book, 1 am interested.'* IT IS FREE.
M. SCHULZ COMPANY
More Than 135,000 Instruments Produced
Established 1869
General Offices
Schulz Building
3 Factories in
711 Milwaukee Ave.
CHICAGO
CHICAGO
Southern Wholesale Branch
1530 CandlerBldg.
ATLANTA, GA.
WASHINGTON, D. C, October 21.—Patent No.
1,279,388 was last week granted to Louis H.
Maier, New York, for a pneumatic-tension-regu-
lajtor for automatic musical instruments.
This invention relates to improved means for
regulating the action of pneumatic governors,
and is particularly applicable for use in con-
junction with pneumatic motors in automatic
musical instruments utilizing perforated music
sheets for controlling the operation of the note
sounding devices. In some well-known con-
structions of pneumatic player mechanism for
musical instruments a governor is interposed
between a source of pneumatic exhaust and a
pneumatic motor, for governing the speed of
the motor, which governors are frequently made
in bellows-like form, having a spring to control
the movement of the movable board of the bel-
lows, which movable board is adapted to regu-
late the flow of air from the motor to the ex-
haust source according to the varying tension
in such exhaust source. In such governors the
tension of the aforesaid spring may be set to "
maintain a constant speed of motor at light ten-
sion or at high tension, but at intermediate
tension such as tension between said light or
high tension the motor is liable to increase in
speed with a consequent increase of speed of
travel of the perforated music sheet over the
tracker bar. Such light, intermediate and high
tensions are usually caused by the varying
speeds of pumping to produce exhaust in the
exhaust chamber, slow, medium and fast pump-
ing causing respectively light, intermediate and
high exhaust tension in the exhaust chamber.
An object of the invention is to provide im-
proved means to govern or regulate the speed
of the motor in accordance with the varying ten-
sion in the exhaust source, as well as in ac-
cordance with the varying load put upon the
motor during movement of the music sheet.
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
8
WHISTLE ANNOUNCES BOND SALES
Employes of Standard Pneumatic Action Co.
Make 100 Per Cent. Record and Then Start
All Over Again to Roll Up Subscriptions
A. W. Johnston, of the Standard Pneumatic
Action Co., sub-chairman of the Piano & Organ
Supply Section of the Allied Music Trade Divi-
sion Fourth Liberty Loan, who incidentally
made a wonderful record in the matter of sub-
scriptions for his section, gave his personal at-
tention to seeing that 100 per cent, of the em-
ployes of the Standard Pneumatic Action Co.
subscribed to the loan, thus raising a substantial
amount. Mr. Johnston immediately left for the
headquarters of the Allied Music Division to re-
port the good news, and upon his return found
the factory whistle blowing furiously. Investi-
gation showed that while he was away the men
started a drive of their own for additional sub-
scriptions reaching a total of $11,000. Every
time a new bond was subscribed the whistle was
blown, which explained the reason for the un-
usual amount of noise.
OCTOBER 26, 1918
STANDARD CO. QUOTES NEW PRICES has been requisitioned for Governmental use.
"Most of our raw material is bought in open
market at current prices which fluctuate con-
stantly and even where we have had binding
contracts some of these have been broken with-
The Standard Music Roll Co., Orange, N. J., out advance notice to us.
"Since 'Music Helps to Win the War,' in rec-
recently sent to the trade the following cir-
cular letter announcing slight increases in the ognition of which the Government has put us
prices of the various types of rolls manufac- in Class C without curtailment of output, we
tured by that company.
The announcement have gladly operated during the last year on
the extremely narrow profit of 6 per cent, on
reads:
"We hereby announce the following slight ad- our sales, whereas before the war our net profit
vances in prices to take effect immediately upon averaged 25 per cent.
"The moment the cost of material and labor
receipt of this notice, or not later than the 19th
drops, which we think and hope will be within
instant:
a year, we will lower our prices again.
"On Perfection rolls 1 cent per roll.
"Trusting you will fully appreciate the war
"On SingA word rolls 2 cents per roll.
"On all types of Arto rolls maximum discount exigencies which compel us to make the above
slight changes in prices without advance no-
40 per cent.
"We are compelled to make the above slight tice, we remain, etc."
advance in prices, owing to the steady increase
in the cost of labor and operating expenses and
AMATO PRAISES THE SOLOELLE
particularly because of the sudden and wholly
unexpected increase in material, particularly Famous Baritone of Metropolitan Opera Co.
Writes Letter to Kohler & Chase
flanges, much of the raw material for which
Standard Music Roll Co. Announces New Price
Schedule Covering Its Various Rolls
SAN
Any Dealer Can Sell Today As Many
Player-Pianos As He Can Get!
The More Anxious He Should
Be to Sell Only the Very Best!!
We Pointedly and Definitely Claim
That the Player Mechanism of the
FRANCISCO, CAL., October
19.—Kohler &
Chase, of this city, recently carried an attractive
advertisement in the local newspapers advising
the public that Pasquale Amato, the famous
baritone of the Metropolitan Opera Co., New
York, had endorsed the Soloelle player action.
Mr. Amato has achieved international fame as
one of the world's greatest baritones, and his
tribute to the Soloelle is indicative of the mu-
sical quality of this player. Referring to the
Soloelle Mr. Amato stated as follows:
"The effect obtained on your remarkable Solo-
elle astounded me. Such perfect control of
delicate tone-shading does not seem to belong
to a player-piano. One can play on it with
the feeling and expression of the pianist, and it
can also be used charmingly for accompanying.
(Signed) Pasquale Amato."
PATENTS GOVERNING DEVICE
Recent Invention Provides Means for Regulat-
ing Speed of Player Motors
M. Schulz Company
Player-Piano
is, by all odds, the best all-around player action
as yet produced, whether as to design, as to
workmanship, as to material, or merely as to
SATISFACTION and SALABILITY!!
In support of these claims, rve invite you to obtain and study
the remarkable little treatise on players in general, and on ours
in particular, called the SCHULZ PLAYER
BOOK.
Your copy is waiting to be dropped into the mail, just say,
"Send me your player book, 1 am interested.'* IT IS FREE.
M. SCHULZ COMPANY
More Than 135,000 Instruments Produced
Established 1869
General Offices
Schulz Building
3 Factories in
711 Milwaukee Ave.
CHICAGO
CHICAGO
Southern Wholesale Branch
1530 CandlerBldg.
ATLANTA, GA.
WASHINGTON, D. C, October 21.—Patent No.
1,279,388 was last week granted to Louis H.
Maier, New York, for a pneumatic-tension-regu-
lajtor for automatic musical instruments.
This invention relates to improved means for
regulating the action of pneumatic governors,
and is particularly applicable for use in con-
junction with pneumatic motors in automatic
musical instruments utilizing perforated music
sheets for controlling the operation of the note
sounding devices. In some well-known con-
structions of pneumatic player mechanism for
musical instruments a governor is interposed
between a source of pneumatic exhaust and a
pneumatic motor, for governing the speed of
the motor, which governors are frequently made
in bellows-like form, having a spring to control
the movement of the movable board of the bel-
lows, which movable board is adapted to regu-
late the flow of air from the motor to the ex-
haust source according to the varying tension
in such exhaust source. In such governors the
tension of the aforesaid spring may be set to "
maintain a constant speed of motor at light ten-
sion or at high tension, but at intermediate
tension such as tension between said light or
high tension the motor is liable to increase in
speed with a consequent increase of speed of
travel of the perforated music sheet over the
tracker bar. Such light, intermediate and high
tensions are usually caused by the varying
speeds of pumping to produce exhaust in the
exhaust chamber, slow, medium and fast pump-
ing causing respectively light, intermediate and
high exhaust tension in the exhaust chamber.
An object of the invention is to provide im-
proved means to govern or regulate the speed
of the motor in accordance with the varying ten-
sion in the exhaust source, as well as in ac-
cordance with the varying load put upon the
motor during movement of the music sheet.
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