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THE MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
55
BUSINESS OUTLOOK ENCOURAGING
TECHNICAL CONFERENCE PROMISES VALUABLE RESULTS
David A. Smith, Eastern Sales Manager, Tells
of Great Activity With the Standard Felt Co.
Recent Meeting of Piano Men, Held at Suggestion of Frank E. Morton, Opens the Way to a
Solution of Many Technical Problems That Have Puzzled Piano Men—Other Meetings Coming
David A. Smith, Eastern sales manager of
the Standard Felt Co., New York, who recent-
ly returned from a visit to the company's
piano hammer factory and Western sales of-
fices at Chicago, states that the business out-
look at the present time is most encouraging.
The piano hammer plant is working to capacity,
and the most serious problem just now is the
labor shortage, which has affected numerous
industries in the Middle West.
The Eastern business of the Standard Felt
Co. has shown a very large gain since the
first of this year, and the month of August was
particularly gratifying. The company consum-
mated a number of important deals last month,
whereby several new names were added to the
list of users of Standard piano hammers and
hammer felts.
During the past year the Standard Felt Co.
has closed a very active export trade, and
large shipments of felts and hammers have been
made to the leading European countries. Mr.
Smith has received letters from several Euro-
pean piano manufacturers commenting upon the
splendid service which the company's products
are rendering.
CHICAGO, 111., September 16.—The local trade is
still discussing with trade interest the confer-
ence of special directors and superintendents of
piano manufacturing houses in this section of
the country held last week in the quarters of
the American Steel & Wire Co., in the Con-
tinental & Commercial Bank Building.
The
piano men were brought together upon invita-
ARTHUR L. WESSELL MARRIES
Miss Florence Goetschius Becomes Bride of
Weil-Known Piano Action Manufacturer
Arthur Lewis Wessell, vice-president of the
piano action manufacturing firm of Wessell,
Nickel & Gross, was married in Philadelphia
last week to Miss Florence Goetschius, a young
society woman, well known in Philadelphia and
New York City, whose home has been in Stony
Point, N. Y. Mr. Wessell and Miss Goetsehius,
accompanied by former Assistant District Afc
torney Henry J. Goldsmith, of New York City,
arrived in Philadelphia on an early morning
train last Thursday, and appeared at the Mar-
riage Licence Bureau soon after it was opened.
After obtaining the license the pair went to
Central Court, where Magistrate McCleary per-
formed the marriage.
Frank E. Morton
tion of Frank E. Morton, acoustic engineer of
the American Steel & Wire Co., who was re-
sponsible for the plan of tin- conference.
The conference has been under considera-
tion for sometime past, and was called, as ex-
plained by Mr. Morton, for the purpose of de-
veloping systematic research and experiment in
the trade and the individual and collaborative
MATERIALS,
TOOLS AND
SUPPLIES
FOR
PIANO MANUFACTURERS
HINGES, BUTTS, CASTERS, PEDALS, FELTS,
CLOTHS, PUNCHINGS, SWINGS, HANGERS,
KNOBS, LOCKS, ETC., AND A FULL LINE OF
TOOLS USED IN TUNING, REGULATING AND
REPAIRING. CORRESPONDENCE INVITED.
study of the various technical problems that
have arisen and may hereafter arise.
The meeting last week was the first of a
series to be held in the future, and it was
agreed that sessions should be held on the
first and third week of each month in the
American Steel & Wire Co.'s conference room,
with Mr. Morton as permanent chairman. A
number of subjects have been announced for
the coming meetings.
The subject for the
next meeting, on October 5, will be "Piano
Tone," and the question is "What quality of
tone are we striving to produce and why?"
C. H. Jackson, of the Edmund Gram Piano Co.,
of Milwaukee, will prepare a paper on the
subject.
In order that the work of the conferences
may have full effect on the trade at large" it
was agreed that the complete proceedings of
each meeting be reported by a stenographer,
carefully edited, and copies sent to trade papers
and such non-residents as were unable to be
present, but who were interested in the hap-
penings. The meeting was proceeded by an
informal dinner, and was notable for the har-
mony and unity of idea which pervaded
throughout. Those present at the meeting in-
cluded Thure Jphanson, The Cable Company;
E. B. Bartlett, W. W. Kimball Co.; William
Davis, W. W. Kimball Co.; Fred Weidling.
Smith, Barnes & Strohber Co.; II. H. Arnold,
Bush & Gerts Piano Co.; William Braid White;
Mr. Beach, Hamilton Piano Co.; Mr. Thorby,
Straube Piano Co.; Robert H. Waud, Lyon &
Healy; C. H. Jackson, Edmund Gram Piano
Co.; E. J. Fishbaugh, Hobart M. Cable Co.;
E. M. Eastman, Smith, Barnes & Strohber; C.
Kreiter, Kreiter Manufacturing Co , and C.
Arthur Brown, chief engineer, water purifica-
tion department, American Steel & Wire Co.
Verbal messages and letters of regret at be-
ing unable to attend the first meeting were
received from Paul B. Klugh, The Cable Com-
pany; George Steger, Steger Piano Manufac-
turing Co.; Mr. Starke, Kudolph Wurlitzer Co.;
Carl Williams. Williams Piano & Organ Co.;
George Lufkin, Kimball Piano Co.; Mr. Con-
socr, Smith, P.arnes & Strohber Co.; W. B.
Price, Price & Teeple Piano Co.; Will M. Bauer,
Julius Bauer & Co.; A. F. Larson, Marquette
Piano Co , and G. Miller, Lester Piano Co.
DEATH OF ROBERT M. WEBB
Robert M. Webb, formerly of Brooklyn, but
recently of Fort Worth, Tex., died Saturday in
the rectory of St. Peter's Episcopal Church, 345
State street, Brooklyn, the home of his brother,
Archdeacon Webb. Mr. Webb had come from
Texas only two weeks ago. He began business
in Brooklyn as a manufacturer of piano supplies,
and was well and favorably known to members
of the piano trade some years ago.
Failing
health compelled him to go to the Southwest.
His wife, Isabel Stradley Webb, survives him.
Richardson Piano Case Co..
Manufacturer* of
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NEW YORK SINCE 1848
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