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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
61
PLAYER HARDWARE FOR DEALER.
Henry Haas & Son Will Have Special Depart-
ment, Which Will Care for the Wants of
Retail Trade—A Long List of Player-Piano
Accessories Carried by This House.
"ONLY THE BEST"
The Strauch Grand Action
Henry Haas & Son, the well-known manufac-
turers of player-piano hardware, 1907 Park ave-
nue, New York, are now making a specialty of
furnishing piano dealers and tuners hardware for
player-pianos when it is needed in repair work or
when changes are being made. A special depart-
ment has been set aside for this work, and all or-
ders from the retail trade will be taken care of
with the greatest rapidity. Among the different
specialties which they are manufacturing is a solid
brass, brass or German silver shell combination
65- and 88-note tracker bar which is equipped with
a shifting device. This may be used by dealers
and tuners who may be changing a 65-note player
into an 88-note instrument.
Spools are also made in brass, polished or nickel-
plated, with tight or adjustable ends. Other player
hardware which dealers are usually looking for are
tube nipples, "Y" and "T" connections, transmis-
sions, left-hand spring sockets, right-hand clutch
pieces, motor shafts and pedal sets. A complete
line of miscellaneous player parts is also kept on
hand.
Louis Haas, head of the firm, stated this week
that he had discovered that many dealers through-
out the country were at a loss where player-piano
hardware might be procured when necessary and
that he had, therefore, organized this new depart-
ment, where the dealers' needs may be attended to
promptly.
product. After considering the processes through
which the resin passed to become marketable,
Judge Brown reaches the conclusion that the article
falls under the provisions of the free list.
CLASSIFICATION OF RESIN.
WOOL EMBARGO COMPLETE.
J. Warren Bird and C. H. Langely, New York
and Boston, won in a dispute regarding the classi-
fication of Malaysian resin originating in Borneo.
It was assessed at one-fourth of 1 per cent, per
pound and 10 per cent, ad valorem as a gum resin
advanced in value or condition. The claim was for
free entry as a drug such as resin, not advanced in
condition by any process of treatment whatever
beyond that essential to the proper packing of the
None Will Be Shipped from Australia Except
to Great Britain.
THE HIGHEST AWARD
The Practical Piano Manufacturers and Noted Musicians who, as judges,
awarded the Strauch Grand Action the first prize at the World's Colum-
bian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, stated secondly that—
"The piano actions manufactured by Strauch Bros, deserve the
highest commendation and are first-class in every respect."
The high grade quality and workmanship and the careful selection of ma-
terial which has been maintained in the manufacture of Strauch Actions
makes them to-day "first-class in every respect," the same as they were
when awarded this Grand Prize by these eminent judges.
STRAUCH BROS., 20-30 Tenth Ave., New York
Makers of Piano Actions and Hammers of
QUALITY AND MERIT
(Special to The Review.)
WASHINGTON, D. C, November 23.—The latest
information received here concerning Australia's
embargo on the exportation of wool shows that, far
from removing the original restriction, the Federal
Government had made the embargo complete ex-
MATERIALS FOR
PIANO MANUFACTURERS
GENUINE FLY BRAND TUNING PINS,
GENUINE FELTEN & GUILLEAUME IM-
PORTED MUSIC WIRE, FELTS, CLOTHS
PUNCHINCS, HINGES, PEDALS AND
GENERAL PIANO HARDWARE.'
cept in so far as it concerns shipments to the
mother country.
This is important to piano felt manufacturers in
America, for the long Australian wool is used
largely in the manufacture of fine felts throughout
the world. When the embargo was first proclaimed
it was possible for American manufacturers, by
taking out licenses in London, to get certain grades
of Australian wool. Whether that provision has
been formally rescinded or not is a question, but it
is known that as a matter of fact the licenses are
no longer issued.
It can hardly be doubted that the embargo as
first issued and the later tightening of its applica-
tion was proclaimed by the Australian Government
at the request of the imperial authorities in Lon-
don. Though England is a great theater of the
wool industry, it has for many years imported far
more of the raw product than was grown in the
United Kingdom. The principal reason for the
embargo permitting Australian wool to be exported
only to Great Britain was suggested by the need of
uniforms and blankets for the British Army, which
now has an authorized strength nearly six times
as great as before the outbreak of the European
LUMBER FOR THE PIANO INDUSTRY.
It is estimated that over 58,000,000 board feet of
lumber are annually consumed in this State for
musical instruments, chiefly pianos. Spruce makes
the best sounding boards on account of its excel-
lent resonant qualities. Over 9,000,000 board feet
of spruce are used in this industry. The Adiron-
dack spruce is famous for this purpose.
CORRESPONDENCE INVITED
Richardson Piano Case Co.
HAMMACHER, SCHLEMMER & GO,
NEW YORK SINCE 1848
4th Ave. and 13th St.
Manufacturers of
Upright— I V
tases
Established 1891
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