Presto
Issue: 1920 1750 - Page 27
PRBSTO
February 5, 1920.
27
technical terms, is to produce a high decrement in
the diaphragm, and this in plain words means a
rapid decrease or diminution in the sound waves
Tail-Treading Torment That Has Afflicted the Pho- following the striking of each note, so that the Representative of Big Talking Machine Industry
waves of one reach the vanishing point before the
Points Out Advantages of Texas City.
nograph From Its Birth Is Sought Out by
next one is struck. Thus each note, or tone, is given
Scientist and Eradicated.
its own clear sound, all alone and unmixed with any
That it may be necessary to establish a distribut-
Pretty much all the world has been conscious of other sound, and then ends, leaving the way clear ing branch of the Columbia Graphophone company
in Houston, Tex., shortly was the statement made
certain deficiencies in the phonograph, certain lim- for the same thing to happen to the next one.
The device, therefore, does for the phonograph recently by J. O. Elliott, representative of the com-
itations in its capability to reproduce sounds with
harmonic exactitude. Phonograph users recognize precisely what the dampers do for the piano, only in pany.
"Houston as an ideal jobbing center of the state
it, but generally have no idea as to its cause. Music this case much more delicately and perfectly, and
men all know it, and the more skilled ones know what this means to phonographic music all lovers is recognized by all leading manufacturers. The fa-
perfectly its cause, but until very recently no one of the instrument will readily imagine in delighted cilities offered by the shipping channel are large
and the waterway will undoubtedly make Houston
has been able to supply a remedy.
one of the biggest cities in the South in the near
The trouble, as the average person will recognize
future," Mr. Elliott said.
it, is the seeming tangle or jumble of sounds, one
(Regular Phonograph)
"The business of the Columbia Graphophone com-
tone treading on the tail of another, so as to give
pany
has increased 1000 per cent in Texas within
a slightly blurred effect to the whole rendition, in-
I»ow Decrement.
the last four years. We are now building ware-
stead of the sharp and clarified definition that the
houses in Dallas three times as large as the ware-
original music would have. Skilled music men know
house we are now using there.
it to be the actual overlapping of tone waves, or the
"The same growth of the Columbia Graphophone
sounding of a second tone before the first one has
K1gh Decreoieot
company is seen throughout the country. The com-
died out, so as to create a continuous reverberation
pany is spending $15,000,000 in new plants and equip-
and produce the independent waves that mar the
ment. The Remington plant at Bridgeport, the
perfection of the reproduction.
Note interference on top line.
Canadian government airplane plant at Toronto,
" noninterference on lower 1
Now, through long experiment and study on the
Canada, and 115 acres of land at Baltimore, have
part of Eugene T . Turney of New York, whose
been purchased. A plant is being built on the 115
scientific researches in connection with phono-
acres
at Baltimore. It will cost $3,500,000 when com-
graphic, telephonic, wireless and kindred subjects
pleted and there will be 25,000 persons working
is recognized in the highest scientific circles, not anticipation. It simply perfects phonographic music there
on nothing but phonographs and records."
only has the cause of this trouble been exactly de- and renders it equal to the original production in
The Haverty Furniture company, G. A. Stowers
fined, but an effective means of remedying it has clear, distinct and sharp definition. It casts into
been provided. Mr. Turney's device has been em- outer darkness the tail-treading imp of the dia- Furniture company, Smith-Woodward Piano com-
bodied and is receiving its first practical demonstra- phragm with all his tangling tones and confusions pany and Schaeffer's Photo Supply company are
tion in the Crippen Interpretone. For proof of its of sound, and allows the harmonies to flow from Columbia representatives in Houston.
success one need only listen a moment to that in- the instrument in a crystalline stream of sound as
clear and liquid as the tinkling of water in a wood-
strument.
NEW PHONOGRAPH CABINET FACTORY.
The exact nature of the device by which this result land pool.
Manufacturing facilities for phonograph cabinets
And in so doing, it makes a big forward step in
is accomplished cannot be described without going
will be established at Louisville, Ky., by the Pres-
phonograph
construction,
and
really
marks
a
dis-
into a mass of technicalities that would be unintel-
tonia Manufacturing Co., which has been incorpor-
ligible to any but an acoustical engineer or other tinct epoch in the progress of that wonderful in- ated with $250,000, and has $1,000,000 worth of con-
scientist. But what it does, and why, can be told in strument.
The above diagram visualizes in a very simple tracts on file. The company has been incorporated
plain English, and together with the accompanying
manner
what happens in the phonograph, or any with these officers: President, Alfred Struck; vice
diagram, will render the matter clear to the lay
other musical instrument, when one tone is sounded president and general manager, Robert N. Weaver;
observer.
secretary, Robert E. Brardies. Contracts have been
What the device does, in the words of the in- before the waves created by the last previous one awarded for four buildings of 60.000 square feet
have
ceased
to
vibrate,
and
explains
the
idea
of
one
ventor, is to "prevent each tone from treading on
floor space.
the tail of the last previous one." But what it does tone treading on the tail of another. The lower
in reality, is to compel each tone to keep its tail figure shows how the Crippen Interpretoue governs
C. A. Oliver & Co., Somerville, Tenn., received
out of the way of the next one, as the diagram the sound waves so that each tone clears the way
the agency for the Pathe phonograph recently.
shows very clearly and simply. What it does, in for the one that is to follow.
DIAPHRAGM DEMON
BANISHED
THE COLUMBIA IN TEXAS
THE ORIGINAL RELIABLE
ARTISTIC CARVINGS
for PIANO and PHONOGRAPH
Manufacturers
HIGH-GRADE CARVED
NOVELTIES
Lamps, Wall Brackets, Book Ends,
Pedestals, etc.
F>IAINO
(STRICTLY HIGH GRADE)
E. KOPRIWA CO.
When in Chicago visit our showrooms
at the Factory
2220 Ward Street, near Clybourn Ave.
Tel. Lincoln 2726
Sftare Sellers.
Certain Satisfaction
Thirty years of satisfactory service in American homes.
OBNERAL OFFICBS AND FACTORY
WEED and DAYTON STREETS
< • •
KROEGER
BRINKERHOFF
(Established 13J2)
Player-Pianos
and Pianos
rhe Lin* That Sells Easily and Satisfies Always
BRINKEBItOFF PIANO CO. " " S . ' S J " CHICAGO
BAUER PIANOS
JULIUS BAUER ® COMPANY
Office and Warerooma
Factory
Altgeld Street. CHICAGO
I
Old Number. 244 Wabash A«»
Now Number, ?05 S. Wabash A**,
E. Leins Piano Company
Makers of Pianos That Are Leaders
in Any Reliable Store
NEW FACTORY, 304 W. 42nd St.. NEW YORK
L
The name alone is enough to suggest to dealers the Best
Artistic and Commercial Values.
The New Style Players Are Finest Yet. If you can
get the Agency you ought to have it.
KROEGER PIANO CO.
NEW VOKK. N. Y.
and
STAMFORD. C O N *
TWO TRADE WINNERS
HARTFORD
I CHURCHILL
If you want Good Goods at Right Prices, here ars two
that will meet your requirements—Players and Pianos.
RELIABLE — FINE TONE — BEAUTIFUL
Made By
HARTFORD PIANO COMPANY
1223-1227 MILLER STREET, CHICAGO
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February 5, 1920.
27
technical terms, is to produce a high decrement in
the diaphragm, and this in plain words means a
rapid decrease or diminution in the sound waves
Tail-Treading Torment That Has Afflicted the Pho- following the striking of each note, so that the Representative of Big Talking Machine Industry
waves of one reach the vanishing point before the
Points Out Advantages of Texas City.
nograph From Its Birth Is Sought Out by
next one is struck. Thus each note, or tone, is given
Scientist and Eradicated.
its own clear sound, all alone and unmixed with any
That it may be necessary to establish a distribut-
Pretty much all the world has been conscious of other sound, and then ends, leaving the way clear ing branch of the Columbia Graphophone company
in Houston, Tex., shortly was the statement made
certain deficiencies in the phonograph, certain lim- for the same thing to happen to the next one.
The device, therefore, does for the phonograph recently by J. O. Elliott, representative of the com-
itations in its capability to reproduce sounds with
harmonic exactitude. Phonograph users recognize precisely what the dampers do for the piano, only in pany.
"Houston as an ideal jobbing center of the state
it, but generally have no idea as to its cause. Music this case much more delicately and perfectly, and
men all know it, and the more skilled ones know what this means to phonographic music all lovers is recognized by all leading manufacturers. The fa-
perfectly its cause, but until very recently no one of the instrument will readily imagine in delighted cilities offered by the shipping channel are large
and the waterway will undoubtedly make Houston
has been able to supply a remedy.
one of the biggest cities in the South in the near
The trouble, as the average person will recognize
future," Mr. Elliott said.
it, is the seeming tangle or jumble of sounds, one
(Regular Phonograph)
"The business of the Columbia Graphophone com-
tone treading on the tail of another, so as to give
pany
has increased 1000 per cent in Texas within
a slightly blurred effect to the whole rendition, in-
I»ow Decrement.
the last four years. We are now building ware-
stead of the sharp and clarified definition that the
houses in Dallas three times as large as the ware-
original music would have. Skilled music men know
house we are now using there.
it to be the actual overlapping of tone waves, or the
"The same growth of the Columbia Graphophone
sounding of a second tone before the first one has
K1gh Decreoieot
company is seen throughout the country. The com-
died out, so as to create a continuous reverberation
pany is spending $15,000,000 in new plants and equip-
and produce the independent waves that mar the
ment. The Remington plant at Bridgeport, the
perfection of the reproduction.
Note interference on top line.
Canadian government airplane plant at Toronto,
" noninterference on lower 1
Now, through long experiment and study on the
Canada, and 115 acres of land at Baltimore, have
part of Eugene T . Turney of New York, whose
been purchased. A plant is being built on the 115
scientific researches in connection with phono-
acres
at Baltimore. It will cost $3,500,000 when com-
graphic, telephonic, wireless and kindred subjects
pleted and there will be 25,000 persons working
is recognized in the highest scientific circles, not anticipation. It simply perfects phonographic music there
on nothing but phonographs and records."
only has the cause of this trouble been exactly de- and renders it equal to the original production in
The Haverty Furniture company, G. A. Stowers
fined, but an effective means of remedying it has clear, distinct and sharp definition. It casts into
been provided. Mr. Turney's device has been em- outer darkness the tail-treading imp of the dia- Furniture company, Smith-Woodward Piano com-
bodied and is receiving its first practical demonstra- phragm with all his tangling tones and confusions pany and Schaeffer's Photo Supply company are
tion in the Crippen Interpretone. For proof of its of sound, and allows the harmonies to flow from Columbia representatives in Houston.
success one need only listen a moment to that in- the instrument in a crystalline stream of sound as
clear and liquid as the tinkling of water in a wood-
strument.
NEW PHONOGRAPH CABINET FACTORY.
The exact nature of the device by which this result land pool.
Manufacturing facilities for phonograph cabinets
And in so doing, it makes a big forward step in
is accomplished cannot be described without going
will be established at Louisville, Ky., by the Pres-
phonograph
construction,
and
really
marks
a
dis-
into a mass of technicalities that would be unintel-
tonia Manufacturing Co., which has been incorpor-
ligible to any but an acoustical engineer or other tinct epoch in the progress of that wonderful in- ated with $250,000, and has $1,000,000 worth of con-
scientist. But what it does, and why, can be told in strument.
The above diagram visualizes in a very simple tracts on file. The company has been incorporated
plain English, and together with the accompanying
manner
what happens in the phonograph, or any with these officers: President, Alfred Struck; vice
diagram, will render the matter clear to the lay
other musical instrument, when one tone is sounded president and general manager, Robert N. Weaver;
observer.
secretary, Robert E. Brardies. Contracts have been
What the device does, in the words of the in- before the waves created by the last previous one awarded for four buildings of 60.000 square feet
have
ceased
to
vibrate,
and
explains
the
idea
of
one
ventor, is to "prevent each tone from treading on
floor space.
the tail of the last previous one." But what it does tone treading on the tail of another. The lower
in reality, is to compel each tone to keep its tail figure shows how the Crippen Interpretoue governs
C. A. Oliver & Co., Somerville, Tenn., received
out of the way of the next one, as the diagram the sound waves so that each tone clears the way
the agency for the Pathe phonograph recently.
shows very clearly and simply. What it does, in for the one that is to follow.
DIAPHRAGM DEMON
BANISHED
THE COLUMBIA IN TEXAS
THE ORIGINAL RELIABLE
ARTISTIC CARVINGS
for PIANO and PHONOGRAPH
Manufacturers
HIGH-GRADE CARVED
NOVELTIES
Lamps, Wall Brackets, Book Ends,
Pedestals, etc.
F>IAINO
(STRICTLY HIGH GRADE)
E. KOPRIWA CO.
When in Chicago visit our showrooms
at the Factory
2220 Ward Street, near Clybourn Ave.
Tel. Lincoln 2726
Sftare Sellers.
Certain Satisfaction
Thirty years of satisfactory service in American homes.
OBNERAL OFFICBS AND FACTORY
WEED and DAYTON STREETS
< • •
KROEGER
BRINKERHOFF
(Established 13J2)
Player-Pianos
and Pianos
rhe Lin* That Sells Easily and Satisfies Always
BRINKEBItOFF PIANO CO. " " S . ' S J " CHICAGO
BAUER PIANOS
JULIUS BAUER ® COMPANY
Office and Warerooma
Factory
Altgeld Street. CHICAGO
I
Old Number. 244 Wabash A«»
Now Number, ?05 S. Wabash A**,
E. Leins Piano Company
Makers of Pianos That Are Leaders
in Any Reliable Store
NEW FACTORY, 304 W. 42nd St.. NEW YORK
L
The name alone is enough to suggest to dealers the Best
Artistic and Commercial Values.
The New Style Players Are Finest Yet. If you can
get the Agency you ought to have it.
KROEGER PIANO CO.
NEW VOKK. N. Y.
and
STAMFORD. C O N *
TWO TRADE WINNERS
HARTFORD
I CHURCHILL
If you want Good Goods at Right Prices, here ars two
that will meet your requirements—Players and Pianos.
RELIABLE — FINE TONE — BEAUTIFUL
Made By
HARTFORD PIANO COMPANY
1223-1227 MILLER STREET, CHICAGO
Enhanced content © 2008-2009 and presented by MBSI - The Musical Box Society International (www.mbsi.org) and the International Arcade Museum (www.arcade-museum.com).
All Rights Reserved. Digitized from the archives of the MBSI with support from NAMM - The International Music Products Association (www.namm.org).
Additional enhancement, optimization, and distribution by the International Arcade Museum. An extensive collection of Presto can be found online at http://www.arcade-museum.com/library/
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