Music Trade Review
Issue: 1927 Vol. 85 N. 25 - Page 12
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The Music Trade Review
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The increasing use of music constantly demands new and
novel means of expression. Glissando effects—made by sliding
the fingers up or down the piano scale—have always been
utilized as a means of adding an artistic, spectacular or finish-
ing touch to playing. Yet a full play of the entire keyboard
has been limited to the white keys and then only with a certain
degree of success.
The Starr Chromatic Glissando (sliding) keyboard enables the ordinary performer on
the piano to use Chromatic Glissando effects with ease. This invention overcomes the in-
ertia of the short leverage when a key is struck at the immediate rear of the ivory or
sharp, by placing at that point a roller bearing divided as to color into white rollers
and black rollers, yet all on the same level as the sharps or black keys. A guide
strip against which the fingers may be pressed enables one to follow the rollers easily
even though inexperienced, and chromatic sliding of the fingers singly or in various mul-
tiple forms produces many pleasing combinations of tone heretofore impossible of at-
tainment on the ordinary keyboard.
Educators, artists and musicians, and stage folk are already realizing the many
possibilities of the Starr Chromatic Glissando keyboard as an incentive for creating in-
terest in music study, as an ear developer and as means for music expression and pian-
istic brilliance. It is the first new feature in keyboard building in over 200 years.
A Starr Piano equipped with a Chromatic Glissando keyboard on your floor will
attract attention, interest your prospects and create sales. Send for descriptive liter-
ature and prices on models equipped with this new keyboard.
THE STARR PIANO COMPANY
Factories: Richmond, Indiana
Established 1872
Branches in
New York
Boston
Detroit
Cleveland
Dayton
Cincinnati
Chicago
Indianapolis
Nashville
Birmingham
Kansas City
Los Angeles
Portland
San Francisco
DECEMBER 17, 1927
12
The Music Trade Review
J
The increasing use of music constantly demands new and
novel means of expression. Glissando effects—made by sliding
the fingers up or down the piano scale—have always been
utilized as a means of adding an artistic, spectacular or finish-
ing touch to playing. Yet a full play of the entire keyboard
has been limited to the white keys and then only with a certain
degree of success.
The Starr Chromatic Glissando (sliding) keyboard enables the ordinary performer on
the piano to use Chromatic Glissando effects with ease. This invention overcomes the in-
ertia of the short leverage when a key is struck at the immediate rear of the ivory or
sharp, by placing at that point a roller bearing divided as to color into white rollers
and black rollers, yet all on the same level as the sharps or black keys. A guide
strip against which the fingers may be pressed enables one to follow the rollers easily
even though inexperienced, and chromatic sliding of the fingers singly or in various mul-
tiple forms produces many pleasing combinations of tone heretofore impossible of at-
tainment on the ordinary keyboard.
Educators, artists and musicians, and stage folk are already realizing the many
possibilities of the Starr Chromatic Glissando keyboard as an incentive for creating in-
terest in music study, as an ear developer and as means for music expression and pian-
istic brilliance. It is the first new feature in keyboard building in over 200 years.
A Starr Piano equipped with a Chromatic Glissando keyboard on your floor will
attract attention, interest your prospects and create sales. Send for descriptive liter-
ature and prices on models equipped with this new keyboard.
THE STARR PIANO COMPANY
Factories: Richmond, Indiana
Established 1872
Branches in
New York
Boston
Detroit
Cleveland
Dayton
Cincinnati
Chicago
Indianapolis
Nashville
Birmingham
Kansas City
Los Angeles
Portland
San Francisco
DECEMBER 17, 1927
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