Music Trade Review

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THE
MUSIC ROLL MAN STUDYING SYSTEM
A. D. Duclos, Manager of Retail Music Roll De­
partment of Sherman, Clay & Co., Spends
Some Time at Aeolian Hall in New York
Studying Mus ic Roll Retailing Methods
A rec en t visitor of importance to New York
was A. D. Du.clos, mana ge r of the retail music
r ol l departme nt of Sherman, C lay & Co., San
Francisco, and who in th at capacity has super­
vision of t hat department in all th e compa ny's
branches along the Pacific Coast. While in
th e Eas t Mr. Duclos made his headquarters at
Aeolian Hall, where he made a close study of
the modern methods of music roll retailing 111
vogue there, and also got some live facts on
music r o ll production fr om Pau l ]. Stroup.
manager of th e Cni versal YIus ;c Co.
Mr.
Duclos is credited with being a distinctly live
w ire in his cho sen field, and has been largely
r espons ible for th e growth of th e r etail mus ic
rol l business of his ho use. On hi s way home
from the East he plann ed to v;sit all th e branch
stores of Sherman, Clay & Co. in the North­
west before going t'0 his headquarters in Sail
Francisco, and will probab ly p ut into effect
some of the new ideas he learned from East­
erners.
NEW SHEET MUSIC FEEDER
Patent Granted on Device That Automatically
Stops and Rewinds Music Rolls
W AS HINGTON, D. C, May S,- Henry K. Sa n­
del l, Chicago, III., was rece ntl y granted Patent
N o. 1,302,439 for a music s heet feeder w hi c h he
has ass ig ned to He rb ert S. Mills, same place.
This invention rel ates to improve ments in
electrica ll y-operated controllin g devices of the
t ype used in connection with mechanica l musical
in s trum e nts. More particularly, th e in ve ntion is
concerned with a fo rm of co ntr o ll e r and driving
mechanism adapted to be us ed in combination
with perforated rec ord s heet s for reproducing
music. In machines of thi s g eneral class it is
com m on to prov id e a r ecord in the form of a
perforated strip of paper or fabric wh ich is
wound upon one roll fo r purpose s o f hand lin g ,
and w hen in use is unwound from this roll, which
will be called the mu sic r o ll , and wound upon
a second r o ll , ca ll ed the feed o r tak e- up ro ll , th e
intermediate portion of the s he et or strip be­
twee n the two rolls being used t o actuate or
co ntrol the actuation or the mech a nical devices
. by which th e musical instru me nt is ca used to
operate. In s uch dev ices it has bee n common
to provide various m ea ns whereby the feeding
mechanism of the music sheet is aut o matically
stopped w h en th e end of the sheet is re ached,
It is a principal object of this invention to pro­
vide a form of feed controller for the music
shee t which will not only cause the sheet t o
REVIEW
The Linde nberg Piano Co., Colu mbus, 0" has
acquir ed the plant of t he Peters-Herron Dash
Co" and will begin the manufactur e of p ia nos
as soon as equ ipm en t has been installed.
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G. Howlett Davis, pr~t..-::tf-th e Standard
Music Roll Co., Q;:.o.:-:5<:, N. ]., ha s acq uired a
~W'~-aufacent t o the company's factory and
will immediate ly start a co-operative store for
th e benefit of hi s empl·oyes . A ll no n-perishable
goods w ill be disposed of at practically cost
price, and this, togethe r with other innovations
co ntemplated under the plan , w ill be of direct
benefit to those interested and resu lt in mate­
rial savings in the purchase of foodstuffs.
Besides the employ es of th e Standard Music
Ro ll Co,., who numb er over four hundr ed, the
employes of the Stand.ard Press and th e Stand­
a rd Paper Box Co. will take part in th e ente r­
prise. The new Arto Co., formed to manufac­
ture talkin g machine r eco rds, the factory of
which will be r eady for prod uct:on in the early
fall , whic h wi ll emp loy over a thousand people ,
will also be received in the c,o-operati ve plan.
G. Howlett Da vis is pres ident of all the above
co mpanies.
TRADE
stop automatically whe:! t he end of the per­
forated record, o r active part then;of, ha s been
r eached, but wi ll further operate to automatica lly
re-wind th e s he e t upon the mu sic r oll. It is a
fur th er object of th e in ve ;ltion to p rovi de in
com binati on with s uc h r ewinding mechanism a
means by whic h the feed roll is caused to r esume
automatically its feeding m o tion when th e music
sheet has been completely rewound. Vvith thi s
mechanism it thus becomes poss ibl e to insert a
music roll in th e mechanism an d to s tart the
same, and the me cha nism wi ll automatically
funct ion thereafter to feed the music sheet or
strip from the roll until the end of t he sheet is
reached, then r ew ind the s heet, and th e n a uto­
matically feed the mu sic sheet t hr ough th e mech­
anism aga in , and t his process of feed ing, r e­
winding and fe ed ing agai n continues automat­
ically until the mechanism is s t opped.
CO=OPERATlVE STORE FOR EMPLOYES
G. Howlett Davis Arranges to Supply Workers
With Foodstuffs at Prac t ically Cost Price
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JU NE
28, 1919
UNIVERSAL CO.'S WINDOW CARDS
Latest Universal Music Rolls Featured on Most
Attractive Show Cards for Use of the RetaBer
- J ]. Reilly's Successful Road Trip
Dealers in Universa l mus ic rolls are quite
enthusiastic over the n ew window cards now
being iss ued by the company, and featuring in
a most attractive manner th e special new num­
bers added to th e Universal catalog. All the
cards are specia lly designed and th e art work is
thoroughly in keeping with the character of
the song thus advertised. Experience has indi­
cated that the cards prove a substantial fac­
tor in promoting sales. Dealers speak most
favorably of th em.
]. J. Reilly, traveler for the Universal Music
Co., has just return ed from a trip through east­
ern Pennsylvania and New York State and
brought in some very substantial orders. He
fou'nd music roll demands most excellent. show­
ing a substantial incr ea se or at least more than
holding its own .
The Player with
"Provable" Claims
Not "probable" but "provable;" such are the
claims we make for the big selling and playing
features of the wonderful
M. Schulz Company
Player-Piano
What we say about our player, we are ready to
prove to any fair-minded and interested party.
Because we are ready to prove our claims, our
output seems to have much difficulty in keeping
up with our orders; yet output increases steadily.
NOTE EACH OF THESE "PROVABLE" CLAIMS
,( The Easiest Player to Play"
"The Tightest Player Action"
"The Player of the Lowest Maintenance Cost"
"The Easiest to Sell Player"
"The One Player, Which Women and Children Really Like to Play"
These are only a few of our big points. We can
tell you more if you are interested, and shall be
glad to do so.
MORE THAN 145,000 OF OUR PIANOS AND PLAYER-PIANOS
HAVE BEEN MADE AND SOLD ­
M. SCHULZ COMPANY
Elltablillhed 1869
General Offices
Sc:hulz Buildinlr
3 Factories in
711 Milwaukee Ave.
CHICAGO
CHICAGO
Southern Wholesale Branch
1530 Candler Bld~.
A TLANTA, GA.