Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-03-04
PIANO HAND oRcA..


oHGANS
HOW Those Popular me-.
~, !, street Arc Put t@Tr ess,ss.s,. .,
Their musical merita as..
chanieal pianos trundl asl0e' the asl
streets by the re-establishea about d,
performers are remarkabla = peripata
principle on which they AZ ! allalrs. III
course, well known. tn 'e made h.
m tha &c, boxes DO the hammers tn the e,nlars
Z wires being set in action ' L. STRIFE
IN contact with minute nea. ~ Conf.
cylinder that extends the v wy set il
OF the frame, or, ponuI. "nole lenstI
the cylinder is pegged to H., snese piano
ana IL makes one complete ~ zen tunes
the cylinder to finish one = evolution +
that the performer NAV 'une. ATT.
grind out the same tune as ,sn'inas
moving a lever push tho agaln, Or !,
ward by as much as the WAN i;naaer ios.
peg and SO bring out a'n Of ons
piece. These pegs arc "a difierepl
proaa as pin head, and the the , aearly I
unpleasant as the machines 's ~ that
trained ear. they rarely II ar are 70
false notes, is evidence Of A. pser strike
nicely employed in their o sae care and
For in machine pegged for orp4ts aa
1ne cylinder is simply black ~ siii tunes
pegs, and the slightest ins a with 10
placing them would BRING a a,'. ID
note somewhere. ou' Wrong
The relation of the peps
t ners may be understood if one 'l Is. nam
two hands side by side upon ' - iays Bis
palms down. The fingers an sae abls,
may n. represent the pegs, each Np pe saa u,
Ing It's part in the different tun pes play Ia
space between the levers which es The
hits is just wide enough to ON ~, one peg
otherpegs Ithappens, Of CONS. pass nine
same note does not occur in ev W., snattAs
she ten tunes; in that case no nay !, ~. uneol
be driven in in the line of te pVs would
came to setting the cylinder t %as "a
especial piece. 0f LOT this |
VI A manufacturer in Elizaho4,
makes most II not all of the mechs ''ises
pianos heard on the streets IN ~
borhood He makes every tb;n. my utlgh- |
own establishment. ming 10 bis |
"There," he said, POINTING -
lumber, ARE well-seasoned bo,sip ls
are being kept for working into a't - mat
and other parts of the piano yh nalue'
the machine for making the wires wv ~
an through the house are materi,,a Aae
the various parts of the instrpmsr.a' =. y,
the tools for putting them into sb' aaa
II kept within doors and PLAYED m saaN
ately like house piano. it womb S4e'
main IN good tune for many weeEs. !,
TACT, as long as the swell instpr,na' =
played out of doors, it gets ont ~ '. .n..
more quickly. The exposure 10 wo., ta'
and the rumbling over rough uavems 'Is'
as Well as constant playing, brinrs tti'
about. The men who have pianos /
use bring them in here on an aver... !.
once IN two weeks to get them retpnsa
VI course, another influence to mt tbsn
out OF tune is the extreme force viii
which the wires are struck.
"How is music adjusted to the cv,,,
der?a ''i4
1T requires not only a musician bo,
man who understands the mechanism
OF the machine to do this. The A..
thing after selecting the comnosition /,
to buy the piano score. Then fine mn.
slclan takes a sheet of paper Just laus
enough to cover the cylinder entirely
and writes the piece upon it in dot,
The dots correspond to the pegs The
musician, of course, knows the mecbsp.
ism, so that he can tell where to place,
dot to bring out the corresponding tone
When he has marked the paper over
mechanic uses it for chart, and drives
pegs into the cylinder exactly on the
spots indicated by the dots. But the
musicians part is by no means limited |
to mere transfer of the composition
from one style of notation, as it were,
to another. If that were done the ei-
feet would be feeble and utterly uniuter-
esting The mechanical piano has its |
own characteristics, and the musician
must understand them so that he can
double notes in a chord and even quad.
ripple them, in order to make the sound
tell in the open air. AS matter Of |
fact, piece played on mechanical pi.
ano is substantially the same as if
were arranged for eight hands on two
pianos. IN. Y. Sun.