Presto
Issue: 1925 2047 - Page 14
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PRESTO
HOW TO REMEDY
PLAYER DEFECTS
When the Practical Piano Tuner Is Confronted
by "Silent" Mechanism How Does He
Go About Remedying the Difficul-
ties with Least Effort?
PRACTICAL ADVICE
This Week the Simplest Way to Regulate the Tempo
Speed Is Explained in Manner Easily
Understood.
By HENRY F. P E L T I E R .
To regulate tempo speed on high and low pressure:
Put on music paper as usual, after yoa have marked
off seven feet; put pointer at 10 degrees on tempo
dial, and note if motor starts moving. If motor does
not start promptly, regulate, or turn nut connected to
tempo rod at governor box towards right, a little
at a time, until you see motor start; then lock nut in
place, if there is one.
Now regulate speed of motor: Set tempo needle at
70 degrees; seven feet of music should go over tracker
in one minute, when pumping at a moderate pressure.
Should paper move too slow, tarn regulating nut,
under tension, or governer spring, to right; if too
fast, loosen said screw towards the left.
On some governors a small coil spring is used
for this purpose; it does not make any difference
what is used; the only thing is that when more, or
a higher tension is used the faster the motor will run;
the lower the tension on governor spring, the slower
motor will run.
an arrangement that operates like a knife—known as
a knife valve.
Regardless of interior construction, all must use
a pneumatic, or small bellows, to operate the control
valve.
Next week: What causes a valve to operate, when
paper is over tracker and not a note opened.
A KANSAS TUNER'S EXPERIENCE.
Kiowa, Kan., Oct 4, 1925.
Editor Presto: Seeing and reading the experi-
ence of a piano tuner in Presto of Sept. 26, permit
me to say that Mr. H. F. Peltier's ingenuity deserves
due credit. While I have never used macaroni to
repair player-piano tubing, Mr. Peltier's recital re-
minds me of similar circumstances when I have done
the same repairing with the paper straws from a con-
fectionery; and again, in one instance, I used goose
or turkey quills. Both expediencies sufficed very
well.
Such is the experience of the tuner. Although I
have been tuning pianos about forty years, the mac-
aroni cure is a new one and the scheme is a good
one in a time of necessity, and I wish to say to Mr.
Peltier that I congratulate him. I hope he will keep
it up.
S. CHAPMAN,
Piano Tuner and Salesman.
SPECIAL PIANO FOR
NEW LOUISVILLE HOTEL
Marshall & Wendell Grand Installed for Use of Pea-
cock Orchestra by Local Representative.
The south boasts one of the finest hostelries in
the country in the splendid new Hotel Kentucky at
Louisville in wh'ch no expense has been spared for
To Regulate Motor.
After setting tempo, let us get our motor to run
steady at any and all pressures.
You will find on governor a small screw set-out,
independent of any other, at center of movable leaf
of governor, towards end that opens farthest, or
opposite to heel where cloth folds over at end.
Turning in this screw (towards right) will keep
governor opening larger and cause motor to speed on
heavy pumping, or high pressure. Turning screw
out (towards left) will cause governor to close, caus-
ing motor to slow up.
About one-fourth turn of this screw is all that it
should be moved at one time, as you keep on testing
motor speed on light and heavy pumping.
Regardless of what method of spring is used, to
keep governor open some means must be used to
keep it from closing up entirely, whether it be a
screw or an opposite spring tension.
The Motor Governor.
A partial description of one governor is here given,
taking Diagram A for the example:
First, see if motor starts promptly when indicator
point is at 10 degrees; if it does not start, turn nut
No. 1 to the right; doing so opens tempo s!ot inside
of governor promptly. Should motor start too quick-
ly turn both nuts to the left; keep nuts snug against
Rod No. 2, so that there will be no play at this point.
AIR GOVERNOR—DIAGRAM A.
STEINWAY DUO-ART
PIANOS ON DISPLAY
Aeolian Company, New York, Makes Attrac-
tive Show Window Feature of Two Period
Model Grands in Special Cases.
The show window of the Aeolian Company, New
York, this week featured two exquisite Steinway
Grand Duo-Art Period instruments designed by
special order for Aeolian patrons. They are probably
the costliest reproducing pianos in the world.
Both are much-traveled instruments. One, an elab-
orate Louis XV, is in a case decorated in Paris
through Alavoine & Co. of New York by special
order for Mrs. J. P. Donahue, daughter of the late
Frank Woolworth, for installation in her beautiful
New York town house. Expressed in fancy woods
and marquetry with gilt bronze mountings, is is a
striking example of antique Louis XV art and is
attracting much attention to the Aeolian window.
The second Steinway Duo-Art Reproducing Grand
in the early English period (1670), also decorated
abroad, is designed in inlaid fancy wood, the work
of the Houghton studios and more particularly of
the noted designer, Sydney Houghton, well-known in
this country and Europe, who designed the Green-
wich (Conn.) home of George E. Learned, for whom
this instrument has been made. Mr. Houghton has
added to this superb Steinway art case the distinc-
tive feature of the following inlaid inscription in old
English—an altogether original and unique note
against the dark beauty of the wood:
"Oh, Kindlie Voices in Musiques Notes, That Charm
Sweet Hours of Idleness,
Relieving Worries and Troubled Thoughts, Giving
Our Souls New Kindness."
Other special Steinway Duo-Arts in period design
have been recently sold to people prominent in the
professional, social and commercial world of this
country and Europe.
Charles A. Laurino, retail sales manager of the
Aeolian Company, was the company representative
responsible for these important transactions.
INDIANA MUSIC DEALER
CELEBRATES ANNIVERSARY
Rousing Sale Is Method of P. F. Schneider in Com-
memorating Sixth Year in Business.
P. F. Schneider, head of the Schneider Music Store
in Vincennes, Ind., is celebrating his sixth year in
business with an anniversary sale.
The Schneider Music Store has grown during the
past six years from a one-man concern with very
limited stock to a going enterprise having a fleet of
six trucks, fourteen salespeople, and doing the third
largest volume of music business in the state, accord-
ing to Mr. Schneider.
In recent months Mr. Schneider has had shipped
to him as many as four cars of pianos in one week.
An unusually large stock of fine instruments is in his
salesrooms for the anniversary sale which started last
week and will continue for two weeks.
NEW KKNTUCKY HOTEL. AT LOUISVILLE.
the fittings and decoration of the salon and private
suites.
The famous Peacock Orchestra provides a daily
program of music from an elaborate and artistic set-
ting in keeping with the scheme of excellence which
has set a new mark in hotel equipment. An especially
decorated Marshall & Wendell Grand in tones of old
ivory lias just been installed as the piano for the use
of the orchestra. The instrument was supplied by
the Stewart Dry Goods Co., of Louisville.
IN CHOICE LOCATION.
Diagram A shows the most simple form of gov-
ernor. No. 1 shows lock nuts for setting start of
motor by moving rod No. 2 towards right, for
quicker starting; towards left, to retard starting. No.
3 set screw for high and low pressure speed regu-
lating. Turn towards right to speed up motor on
light pressure. Turn towards left to slow up motor
on high pressure. No. 4. To speed motor (when reg-
ulating tempo) turn nut to right. To slow up motor,
turn nut to left.
Remember this: The higher the tension is on gov-
ernor spring, the faster the motor will run. The
lower the tension on governor spring the slower
motor will run.
No. 5 shows governor pressure regulating cone
inside of governor pneumatic.
Not all governors are alike. Some have only a
flat surface, or block, instead of a cone, others have
October 17, 1925.
The Girard P'ano Company, satisfactorily located
in Us new warerooms at 1519 Clay street, Oakland,
Calif., has begun a spirited drive for a big holiday
business. The new store is on the ground floor in
a most desirable part of the shopping district where
an opportunity to display its fine line has been ac-
quired. The Hallet & Davis, Henry F. Miller, Pack-
ard and Starr pianos and the Autopiano are carried.
A. F. LARSEN RETURNS.
A. F. Larsen, president of the Western Electric
I'iano Co., 439 W. Superior street, Chicago, returned
last week on the S. S. Stockholm from a visit to
Sweden. Mr. Larsen reached New York early last
week and arrived in Chicago on Friday to resume
his duties as head of the fast growing automatic
piano company.
A movement is on to organize a new La Prairie
community high school orchestra in Augusta, 111.
NEWS ABOUT THE MEN
WHO RETAIL THE PIANOS
Brief Items of Trade News Gathered Here and
There in Music Field.
The J. R. Hinton Music Co. will open a store at
220 North Fourteenth street, Herrin, 111.
Under the style name, "Everybody's Music Shop,"
a store was opened at 8945 Twelfth street, Detroit,
Mich., recently.
Unti & Perrasso, 353 Columbus avenue, San Fran-
cisco, who handle musical instruments, have changed
the firm name to that of Perrasso & Co.
Charles Soule is in charge of arrangements respect-
ing the opening of a branch of the Starr Piano Co. at
Marshfie'.d, Ore. Mr. Soule. makes his headquarters
at 381 Cable street, Portland, Ore.
The F. & F. Music Store, 1449 Pleasant street, Fall
River, Mass., has expanded into a general music
house. The business was established in 1906 under
the name F. & F. Talking Machine Co., by Louis and
Abraham Feldman. In 1923 Louis Feldman acquired
his brother's interest in the business.
Ben Marti is completing arrangements for the open-
ing of a music department to be located on the bal-
cony of the Schmueker & Burk store, New Ulm,
Minn. The department will handle everything in
music. Miss Myra Seifert will assist Mr. Marti.
W. E. Eubanks has sold his music store at Brown-
wood, Tex., to A. C. Cox.
The Griffith Piano Co. has removed from 9 West
State street to 227 East State street, Trenton, N. J.
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PRESTO
HOW TO REMEDY
PLAYER DEFECTS
When the Practical Piano Tuner Is Confronted
by "Silent" Mechanism How Does He
Go About Remedying the Difficul-
ties with Least Effort?
PRACTICAL ADVICE
This Week the Simplest Way to Regulate the Tempo
Speed Is Explained in Manner Easily
Understood.
By HENRY F. P E L T I E R .
To regulate tempo speed on high and low pressure:
Put on music paper as usual, after yoa have marked
off seven feet; put pointer at 10 degrees on tempo
dial, and note if motor starts moving. If motor does
not start promptly, regulate, or turn nut connected to
tempo rod at governor box towards right, a little
at a time, until you see motor start; then lock nut in
place, if there is one.
Now regulate speed of motor: Set tempo needle at
70 degrees; seven feet of music should go over tracker
in one minute, when pumping at a moderate pressure.
Should paper move too slow, tarn regulating nut,
under tension, or governer spring, to right; if too
fast, loosen said screw towards the left.
On some governors a small coil spring is used
for this purpose; it does not make any difference
what is used; the only thing is that when more, or
a higher tension is used the faster the motor will run;
the lower the tension on governor spring, the slower
motor will run.
an arrangement that operates like a knife—known as
a knife valve.
Regardless of interior construction, all must use
a pneumatic, or small bellows, to operate the control
valve.
Next week: What causes a valve to operate, when
paper is over tracker and not a note opened.
A KANSAS TUNER'S EXPERIENCE.
Kiowa, Kan., Oct 4, 1925.
Editor Presto: Seeing and reading the experi-
ence of a piano tuner in Presto of Sept. 26, permit
me to say that Mr. H. F. Peltier's ingenuity deserves
due credit. While I have never used macaroni to
repair player-piano tubing, Mr. Peltier's recital re-
minds me of similar circumstances when I have done
the same repairing with the paper straws from a con-
fectionery; and again, in one instance, I used goose
or turkey quills. Both expediencies sufficed very
well.
Such is the experience of the tuner. Although I
have been tuning pianos about forty years, the mac-
aroni cure is a new one and the scheme is a good
one in a time of necessity, and I wish to say to Mr.
Peltier that I congratulate him. I hope he will keep
it up.
S. CHAPMAN,
Piano Tuner and Salesman.
SPECIAL PIANO FOR
NEW LOUISVILLE HOTEL
Marshall & Wendell Grand Installed for Use of Pea-
cock Orchestra by Local Representative.
The south boasts one of the finest hostelries in
the country in the splendid new Hotel Kentucky at
Louisville in wh'ch no expense has been spared for
To Regulate Motor.
After setting tempo, let us get our motor to run
steady at any and all pressures.
You will find on governor a small screw set-out,
independent of any other, at center of movable leaf
of governor, towards end that opens farthest, or
opposite to heel where cloth folds over at end.
Turning in this screw (towards right) will keep
governor opening larger and cause motor to speed on
heavy pumping, or high pressure. Turning screw
out (towards left) will cause governor to close, caus-
ing motor to slow up.
About one-fourth turn of this screw is all that it
should be moved at one time, as you keep on testing
motor speed on light and heavy pumping.
Regardless of what method of spring is used, to
keep governor open some means must be used to
keep it from closing up entirely, whether it be a
screw or an opposite spring tension.
The Motor Governor.
A partial description of one governor is here given,
taking Diagram A for the example:
First, see if motor starts promptly when indicator
point is at 10 degrees; if it does not start, turn nut
No. 1 to the right; doing so opens tempo s!ot inside
of governor promptly. Should motor start too quick-
ly turn both nuts to the left; keep nuts snug against
Rod No. 2, so that there will be no play at this point.
AIR GOVERNOR—DIAGRAM A.
STEINWAY DUO-ART
PIANOS ON DISPLAY
Aeolian Company, New York, Makes Attrac-
tive Show Window Feature of Two Period
Model Grands in Special Cases.
The show window of the Aeolian Company, New
York, this week featured two exquisite Steinway
Grand Duo-Art Period instruments designed by
special order for Aeolian patrons. They are probably
the costliest reproducing pianos in the world.
Both are much-traveled instruments. One, an elab-
orate Louis XV, is in a case decorated in Paris
through Alavoine & Co. of New York by special
order for Mrs. J. P. Donahue, daughter of the late
Frank Woolworth, for installation in her beautiful
New York town house. Expressed in fancy woods
and marquetry with gilt bronze mountings, is is a
striking example of antique Louis XV art and is
attracting much attention to the Aeolian window.
The second Steinway Duo-Art Reproducing Grand
in the early English period (1670), also decorated
abroad, is designed in inlaid fancy wood, the work
of the Houghton studios and more particularly of
the noted designer, Sydney Houghton, well-known in
this country and Europe, who designed the Green-
wich (Conn.) home of George E. Learned, for whom
this instrument has been made. Mr. Houghton has
added to this superb Steinway art case the distinc-
tive feature of the following inlaid inscription in old
English—an altogether original and unique note
against the dark beauty of the wood:
"Oh, Kindlie Voices in Musiques Notes, That Charm
Sweet Hours of Idleness,
Relieving Worries and Troubled Thoughts, Giving
Our Souls New Kindness."
Other special Steinway Duo-Arts in period design
have been recently sold to people prominent in the
professional, social and commercial world of this
country and Europe.
Charles A. Laurino, retail sales manager of the
Aeolian Company, was the company representative
responsible for these important transactions.
INDIANA MUSIC DEALER
CELEBRATES ANNIVERSARY
Rousing Sale Is Method of P. F. Schneider in Com-
memorating Sixth Year in Business.
P. F. Schneider, head of the Schneider Music Store
in Vincennes, Ind., is celebrating his sixth year in
business with an anniversary sale.
The Schneider Music Store has grown during the
past six years from a one-man concern with very
limited stock to a going enterprise having a fleet of
six trucks, fourteen salespeople, and doing the third
largest volume of music business in the state, accord-
ing to Mr. Schneider.
In recent months Mr. Schneider has had shipped
to him as many as four cars of pianos in one week.
An unusually large stock of fine instruments is in his
salesrooms for the anniversary sale which started last
week and will continue for two weeks.
NEW KKNTUCKY HOTEL. AT LOUISVILLE.
the fittings and decoration of the salon and private
suites.
The famous Peacock Orchestra provides a daily
program of music from an elaborate and artistic set-
ting in keeping with the scheme of excellence which
has set a new mark in hotel equipment. An especially
decorated Marshall & Wendell Grand in tones of old
ivory lias just been installed as the piano for the use
of the orchestra. The instrument was supplied by
the Stewart Dry Goods Co., of Louisville.
IN CHOICE LOCATION.
Diagram A shows the most simple form of gov-
ernor. No. 1 shows lock nuts for setting start of
motor by moving rod No. 2 towards right, for
quicker starting; towards left, to retard starting. No.
3 set screw for high and low pressure speed regu-
lating. Turn towards right to speed up motor on
light pressure. Turn towards left to slow up motor
on high pressure. No. 4. To speed motor (when reg-
ulating tempo) turn nut to right. To slow up motor,
turn nut to left.
Remember this: The higher the tension is on gov-
ernor spring, the faster the motor will run. The
lower the tension on governor spring the slower
motor will run.
No. 5 shows governor pressure regulating cone
inside of governor pneumatic.
Not all governors are alike. Some have only a
flat surface, or block, instead of a cone, others have
October 17, 1925.
The Girard P'ano Company, satisfactorily located
in Us new warerooms at 1519 Clay street, Oakland,
Calif., has begun a spirited drive for a big holiday
business. The new store is on the ground floor in
a most desirable part of the shopping district where
an opportunity to display its fine line has been ac-
quired. The Hallet & Davis, Henry F. Miller, Pack-
ard and Starr pianos and the Autopiano are carried.
A. F. LARSEN RETURNS.
A. F. Larsen, president of the Western Electric
I'iano Co., 439 W. Superior street, Chicago, returned
last week on the S. S. Stockholm from a visit to
Sweden. Mr. Larsen reached New York early last
week and arrived in Chicago on Friday to resume
his duties as head of the fast growing automatic
piano company.
A movement is on to organize a new La Prairie
community high school orchestra in Augusta, 111.
NEWS ABOUT THE MEN
WHO RETAIL THE PIANOS
Brief Items of Trade News Gathered Here and
There in Music Field.
The J. R. Hinton Music Co. will open a store at
220 North Fourteenth street, Herrin, 111.
Under the style name, "Everybody's Music Shop,"
a store was opened at 8945 Twelfth street, Detroit,
Mich., recently.
Unti & Perrasso, 353 Columbus avenue, San Fran-
cisco, who handle musical instruments, have changed
the firm name to that of Perrasso & Co.
Charles Soule is in charge of arrangements respect-
ing the opening of a branch of the Starr Piano Co. at
Marshfie'.d, Ore. Mr. Soule. makes his headquarters
at 381 Cable street, Portland, Ore.
The F. & F. Music Store, 1449 Pleasant street, Fall
River, Mass., has expanded into a general music
house. The business was established in 1906 under
the name F. & F. Talking Machine Co., by Louis and
Abraham Feldman. In 1923 Louis Feldman acquired
his brother's interest in the business.
Ben Marti is completing arrangements for the open-
ing of a music department to be located on the bal-
cony of the Schmueker & Burk store, New Ulm,
Minn. The department will handle everything in
music. Miss Myra Seifert will assist Mr. Marti.
W. E. Eubanks has sold his music store at Brown-
wood, Tex., to A. C. Cox.
The Griffith Piano Co. has removed from 9 West
State street to 227 East State street, Trenton, N. J.
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/
Future scanning projects are planned by the International Arcade Museum Library (IAML).