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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
NEW YORK PIANO HARDWARE CO. ENLARGES FACILITIES
& Co. for many years. Mr. Rouvct will act as
traveling representative for the company and
is making a trip through New England at the
present time.
The company has made a special study of the
manufacturing of tracker bars, and regarding
this an official of the firm stated to a represen-
tative of The Review this week: "For this
work we have improved machinery of our own
design and conception on which we had our
expert mechanical engineer working for several
years, and we expended many thousands of dol-
lars until we brought our machinery for the
After a Thorough Reorganization This Concern Has Equipped Its Factory With the Most
Modern Machines, and Is on the Highway to Success—The Plans for the Future, and the
Men Who Will Carry Them Out—A Description of the Factory
That the New York Piano Hardware Co. will however, he organized the American Brass
within a short time have one of the largest and Forging Co., which is one of the best known
most complete piano and talking machine hard- firms in the metal industry, and he has been
ware plants in the world is manifested in the president of that since its organization.
many improvements which have been and are
Mr. Coughlan became interested in the New
now being made at the factory, 168-172 Southern York Piano Hardware Co. the early part of the
Boulevard, New York. As announced in The year, and is its president and treasurer. Asso-
Review some time ago, ciated with him is Captain I. Brooks Clarke,
the company has been vice-president of the
thoroughly reorganized concern, a graduate of
and is now being man- Cornell, and incident-
aged by men who have ally one of the greatest
had a very wide prac- football guards the uni-
tical experience in the versity ever produced.
manufacturing of metal He is a man of wide-
goods, such as those spread practical expe-
made of brass, steel, rience and won fame as
iron, copper and other a mechanical and elec-
metals.
trical engineer. F o r
Many thousands of many years he was as-
dollars have been spent sociated with the West-
on the development of inghouse Air Brake Co.,
George W. Coughlan, the plant, and the auto- and later became as-
matic machines which sistant superintendent
Pres. and Treas.
have been and are being installed represent the of one of the greatest
electric elevated rail-
very finest type of machinery of this kind.
Tl e plans of the company cover a wide scope. road systems in the
There will be nothing done in a small way, world. He received .his
and it is tie intention of the officials to make title of captain during
the Spanish-American
it a point to give the
war, when he entered
piano trade the best
the service as a private.
service possible. At the
He was quickly pro-
head of the company
moted, being mustered
is George W. Coughlan,
out as a captajn, after
who as a boy became
serving in the Cuban
connected w i t h the
campaign.
General Electric Co.,
and has had experience
The other officers of
Factory of the New York Piano Hardware Co,
in all the General Elec-
the company are F. E.
168-172 Southern Boulevard, New York
tric factories in the
Hallfeld, secretary; Theodore Friedeberg, head manufacture of these goods to the stage of per-
United States, having
of the Lozier Motor Car Co., and Henry fection which we believe is unexcelled. So far
worked in every de-
Frank, Jr., president of a large hardware cor- as is possible our machines for operations such
partment as well as in
poration, who with the officers form the board as can be performed by machines are automatic,
the factories of the
of directors. Mr. Coughlan acts as general such as drilling and punching of bars, milling
concern i n England.
manager of the concern and has secured E. H. of tubes, swelling of tubes, etc.
I. Brooks Clarke,
After he had gained
"We believe that with a perfect tracker bar
Timmerman as factory manager, who for many
Vice-President
this practical experience, the General Electric years was with the L,. Weiscopf Co., and who it is quite necessary to acquire a perfect trans-
Co. sent Mr. Coughlan traveling the world over has had over twenty-two years' experience in mission as these two factors must work har-
as an expert, collecting important data for them the working of automatic machinery, die-mak- moniously, one with the other. We also manu-
to use in connection with their industry. Upon ing and other branches of the hardware manu- facture transmissions and make them as perfect
as up-to-date machinery and skilled mechanics
the termination of his traveling, he was made facturing business.
A. Knox will become factory superintendent can turn them out.
managing director of the South American Gen-
"We are in position to manufacture all kinds
after June 1. He has also had an experience in
eral Electric Co.
On account of the Argentine climate he was manufacturing hardware which covers a period of special piano and player-piano hardware, and
unable to remain in South America for any of nearly a quarter of a century. Those with will be pleased to receive inquiries and orders
length of time, and returning to this country, whom the piano trade are well acquainted and regarding same from the most critical and ex-
he was placed in charge of the export depart- who are connected with the business are Eman- acting trade."
The reproduction of the several photographs
ment of the Westinghouse Electric Co., dealing ual Strauss, sales manager, and E. T. Rouvet,
with China, Japan, West Indies, Mexico, Ar- who at one time represented the Schwander accompanying this story show the extensive
gentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. A little later, actions and was also connected with Wasle facilities which this company has at its com-
Some of the Automatic Machines Used in the New York Piano Hardware Co.'s Factory