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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
PNEUMATICS
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a filling or coating of shellac is exposed to
pressure of a certain maximum. In specifying,
therefore, these figures should be stated, and
the manufacturer should be willing to give
every needed fact to enable the maker of the
shellac to discover whether he can fill the re-
quired specification, what figure he must put
on it, and whether some special process of
applying it will be necessary in order to carry
out the practical requirements with sufficient
regularity to enable him to guarantee his
product. In a word, specification is entirely out
of the question from a scientific standpoint un-
less the exact functions, the exact nature of
the resistances and the exact manner of appli-
cation are systematically set forth before the
prices are considered.
These principles are even more clearly to be
understood when leather and cloth are under
consideration. Pouch leather, for instance, can
be specified in the most complete and scientific
manner, seeing that its functions are so thor-
oughly understood and the conditions in which
they are performed so familiar. Here the best
of opportunities exists for specifying in a com-
pletely scientific manner. The tensile strength
of the pouch, its exact caliper measurement, its
density, its resilience, its relative porosity and
its ability to resist air-pressure all need to be
taken into the most careful consideration, and
all specifications for such leather should en-
visage each of the properties of resistance or
protection implied in the analysis.
All this, however, presupposes in itself a sys-
tem of figuring which shall be common to the
two parties. There is no sense in specifying
that a certain material shall develop a certain
resistance to given conditions unless the re-
sistance can be measured in definite terms and
the response of the material thereto be tested.
That is to say, the material supplier and the
material user must think in the same terms.
They must have a similar system of calcula-
"As Good as It Plays"
A player-piano is just as good as the music it
produces; no more and no less.
Most users of player-pianos are but slightly
equipped musically. Therefore a player-piano,
to succeed, must produce good musical results
when manipulated by such persons. Here
stands supreme the remarkable
M. Schulz Co. Player-Piano
now completing eleven years of extraordinary
success due to a wonderful combination of
technical, musical and selling qualities.
The Pre-eminent Schulz Player Virtues are:
Greatest Ease of Playing
Complete Exclusiveness
Greatest Responsiveness
Greatest Simplicity
Least Trouble in Maintenance
Greatest Reliability
Keen-minded merchants who want PROOF of
these allegations, and desire better acquaint-
ance with a player-piano that sells, and is
actually now selling as fast as it can be made,
can learn facts they need to know, if they apply
quickly to
M. SCHULZ COMPANY
Founded 1869
General Offices
Schulz Building
711 Milwaukee Are.
CHICAGO
Southern Wholesale Branch
1530 Candler Bldg.
ATLANTA, GA.
More Than 165,000 Schulz Pianos and Player-Pianos
Have Been Made and Sold !
NOVEMBER 27,
1920
tions and a similar, nay an identical, system of
tests.
For the general specifying materials of all
sorts which are subject to compression, to ten-
sion or to other strains, various measuring in-
struments exist. Of these, the Modulimeter is
probably the best known and is very efficient. It
acts on the principle of applying fixed loads to
samples of material and micrbmetrically measur-
ing the results of such application, as to com-
pression, recovery from compression, thickness,
resistance to bending strains, and as to a mul-
titude of consequences deducible from the funda-
mental tests. If both parties to a materials
contract are equipped with such means for the
measurement of the materials' resistances, ten-
sile strength, resilience, etc., it is evident that
scientific specifications become at last possible.
What, then, is gained when specification has
become so exact? First, the assurance that
variations can be detected and eliminated. Sec-
ond, the certainty that experiments can be con-
ducted for the purpose of ascertaining the pre-
cise constituents of materials needed to pro-
duce given results, and the results thereof set
down in technical language, intelligible to all
who possess the same measuring methods.
Third, that on these accounts losses due to
variations in the behavior of materials sup-
posedly identical can first be minimized and
later eliminated altogether. Fourth, that varia-
tions in labor cost owing to variations in the
behavior of materials can likewise be minimized,
with resulting economies.
The basis of modern manufacture is economy
and exactness.
BEGGARS AND CHOOSERS TO DINE
Organization of Roll and Record Concern Rep-
resentatives to Hold Beefsteak Dinner
The Beggars' and Choosers' Club, formed
some time ago for the purpose of holding
weekly luncheons, is composed of some mem-
bers of the recording staffs of the various talk-
ing machine record and player-piano roll com-
panies and representatives of music publishers
particularly interested in the mechanical record-
ing of their firm's catalogs.
Since the club has been formed, it has
had a series of luncheons, and in practically
every instance has had a good attendance.
The organization now announces that on
Tuesday evening, November 30, it will hold
a beefsteak dinner at Keen's Chop House, Forty-
fourth street, New York City. There will also
be entertainment on that occasion. The follow-
ing is a complete list of the membership: Rep-
resentatives of manufacturers: Sam Perry, Fred
Hager, Frank Hennings, Cliff Hess, Herman
Rose, Milton Delcamp, Victor Arden, Max
Kortlander, Robert Louis, William Fay, Jack
Bliss, George Sheffield, L. Stevens, J. Jaudus.
Representatives of publishers: Justin Rose,
Frank Goodman, Theo. Morse, Harold Smith,
Maxwell Silver, Jack Glogau, Edward B. Bloe-
den, Elliott Shapiro, Barry Bloeden, Ray Per-
kins, Harry Collins, Edward Christy, Ben Born-
stein, Jack Mills, Walter Douglas, Emerson
Yorke, Billy Chandler, Louis Breau and J.
Vondergoltz.
BACK FROM WESTERN TRIP
George F. Abendschein Returns After Visiting
Factories in That Territory
George F. Abendschein, of the Staib-Abend-
schein Co., 134th street and Brook avenue, New
York, returned home on Monday of this week
from a trip throughout the West, where he
visited a large number of the piano factories in
that territory.
Mr. Abendschein stated to The Review rep-
resentative, that although it was quiet at the
present time, all the piano manufacturers felt
that there would be a return to a better business
within the very near future.