The talking machine world (Jan-Dec 1916)

THE TALKING MACHINE WORLD. 45 THORPE ELECTRIC MOTORS FOR TALKING MACHINES (Operate on all currents) 29 West 34th Street New York City VICTOR TUNGS=TONE STYLUS. Important Discovery Announced by the Victor Talking Machine Co. of a New Needle Which Has Remarkable Qualities. CHRISTMAS DISPLAY BRINGS TRADE. COMBINE PLAYER AND PHONOGRAPH. Yule-Tide Sentiment and Good Salesmanship Blended in Window Display of Victor Goods by Gately-Haire Co., Albany, N. Y. Many of the big stores spend thousands of dollars monthly in an effort to take proper advantage of their window displays. Artisticness of window displays as well as salability of the merchandise both tend to dispose of the goods so presented to the public. Considerable attention is directed to window work by the talking machine dealers, and the accompanying example is a photograph of the window of the Gately-Haire Co., Inc., 108 State street, Albanv. X. Y. The background was that ^VVJELY HAIR) : PhCTDR VICT *OLAS Holiday Exhibit of Gately-Haire Co. of a beautiful painting of the "Wise Men of the East'' following the Star of the East, and the unusualness of the display created a great deal of favorable comment. John L. Gately, president, stated that he can trace many dollars' worth of actual business which came as a response from people seeing the window, and he is of the belief that windows of all dealers should be utilized not only from the window display standpoint but from the salesmanship viewpoint. A WRITING TALKING MACHINE! Novel Combination of Edison Phonograph and Telautograph Attracts Crowds in Kansas City — Clever Idea of Manager M. Blackman. (Special to The Talking Machine World.) Kansas City, Mo., January 2. — Manager M. Blackman, of the Kansas City Edison Shop, headquarters for the Diamond Disc machine, devised a novel window attraction for the recent holiday crowds. He secured a telautograph and mounted it on an Edison phonograph, the wires running down into the body of the machine and through the window-floor out of sight. An operator, hidden from view, watched the crowds passing and wrote pertinent messages to them on the machine, so that a man with a brilliant necktie or a lady shopper with her arms full of bundles would stop in front of the window and suddenly see a message addressed to them personally appear on the roll of paper in the machine. So completely was the illusion carried out that some spectators seemed to have the idea that the machine was actually a part of a new talking machine that could transcribe whatever was on a record! While this idea may seem fantastic, still it is not without the range of possibility that some day a machine may be perfected which will put into written or printed notes whatever may be spoken into it. DO IT NOW! YOUR INTERESTS ARE VITAL IN SEEING THAT THE STEVENS BILL PASSES THE NEXT CONGRESS. IT MEANS THAT YOUR STOCK WILL BE NONDEPRECIABLE, BUT IF THE CUT-RATERS WIN, THEN LOOK OUT. Details of the Latest Patent of Edwin S. Votey Which He Has Assigned to the Aeolian Co. of New York — Covers Many Features. (Special to The Talking Machine World. J Washington, D. C, January 8.— The Aeolian Co., New York, is the owner through assignment by Edwin S. Votey, Summit, N. J., of patent No. 1,165,470, for a combined musical instrument, such for example as a piano or player-piano, and a mechanism for the reproduction of the human voice or sounds, as for instance a phonograph or graphophone. One object of the invention is to provide for a compact and convenient arrangement of a mechanism for the reproduction of the numan voice or sounds, within the casing of the piano where access to said mechanism may be "had with facility and convenience for the purpose of adjusting said mechanism when desired, and for changing the records thereof. A further object of the invention is to combine the two instruments in such a manner that the sounds of said instruments may be properly mingled for the purpose of producing harmonious effects, and to this end the piano is provided with a sound-blending chamber in rear of the sounding board into which chamber the sounds from the human voice reproducing mechanism are conveyed, and from which chamber they are discharged through an opening formed in a wall of the piano casing." "Victor Tungs-tone Stylus" is the name of an important discovery just announced by the Victor Talking Machine Co., Camden, N. J., this being an improved, semi-permanent, changeable reproducing stylus of tungsten combining all the desirable features of the Victor system of changeable needles with the added advantage of playing fifty to 200 records without changing, and which is referred to in an advertisement elsewhere. The virtue of the Tung-stone stylus lies in a small cylinder of tungsten projecting from the end of a s'.eel holder in which it is rigidly set. A novel feature of this stylus is that it automatically tells the machine owner when to change the needle, so to speak, for when the tiny cylinder of tungsten is worn off it will not play. In other words, you cannot play the new Victor Tungs-tone stylus in a "worn" condition. These needles are made in two tones, full and soft, retailing at 25 cents for a box of ten, or for a package of four needles, 10 cents. ELECTED VICE=PRESIDENT. At the annual meeting of the stockholders and directors of the Musical Instrument Sales Co., held on Monday, C. R. Wagner was elected a vice-president of the company. Mr. Wagner has been associated with the company for several years, having achieved signal success as head of its Victor business. There are no other changes in the officers and directorate of the company, Mr. Wagner being elected to a new position and the present officers continuing for the ensuing year. 'C. A. Wagner is president of the company. TO MAKE DEMONSTRATING ROOMS. (Special to The Talking Machine World.; Philadelphia, Pa., January 8. — The Huskey Manufacturing Co., 1700 North Howard street, this city, maker of fixtures for drug stores, announces its intention of entering the talking machine field with the Huskey demonstrating rooms. These will be built at its factory in Philadelphia and shipped to the various dealers throughout the country. In its experience as manufacturer of drug store equipments and fixtures it has drawn different conclusions regarding how the dealer's space should be utilized, and this experience will stand it in excellent stead in the promotion and sale of Huskey demonstrating rooms. The A. H. Fitch Music Store, of Arkansas City, Kan., recently bought out the stock of machines and records of the Talking Machine Shop at Winfield, Kan. Bert Woodward, formerly in charge of the Edison phonograph department of the Santa Fe Watch Co.'s store in Topeka, Kan., has accepted a connection with the Kansas City Edison Co. The Pathe Shop has been opened on Boston avenue, Tulsa, Okla, for a display of Pathephones. No. 439 (Vertical Interior). FOR VICTROLA IX. Height, 3Z'/2 in. Width, 1754 in. Depth, 21 in. Holds 240 Victor or Columbia Records. Mahogany front, sides and back. Quartered oak front, sides and back. Average weight, crated, 80 lbs. -No. 449 is this Cabinet arranged with top for Columbia "Favorite." (If horizontal shelving is desired, order No. 1439. When felt interior is desired, order No. 439F.) Udell Cabinets for ALL Talking Machines With Vertical Interiors, Horizontal Shelves or FeltLined Uprights, One Disc to the Space For years we have led in the Record Cabinet field. Our 1915 business was the biggest year we ever had on Record Cabinets. In 1916 we purpose to stay at the head of the procession AND WANT YOUR HELP. Machine — Records — Cabinet — that's the combination that makes you the biggest profit and the most satisfied customers. Get our literature — and you'll want our cabinets. The good cabinets will back up the good catalog. A postal will do. The Udell Works 1205 W. 28th St., Indianapolis, Ind.