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THE
MARCH 24, 1923
MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW
41
THE NEW STYLES IN FURNITURE
HARDWOOD INSTITUTE MEETING
DELAYED SHIPMENTS^ CAUSE TROUBLE
Something of the Trend in Design and Finish
That Should Interest the Piano Men
Gathering Will Represent More Than One-third
of the Hardwood Industry
Slow Movement of Freight on the Railroads
Embarrassing to Piano Manufacturers in Ur-
gent Need of Various Supplies
In view of the fact that the design and finish
of piano cases follow to a certain degree, at
least, the current styles in furniture, makes a
study of what the furniture manufacturers have
to offer each season and what buyers prefer
a matter of interest to the piano manufacturer
who desires to follow the trend of public taste.
From the comments of those who have at-
tended furniture shows and made a study of the
trend in styles there is evidence of grace in
lines and simplicity in pattern and some other
things which make a splendid opportunity for
decorative veneering. As one reviewer puts it,
the furniture of to-day runs more to lines and
less to ornament, with walnut leading decidedly,
especially in dining room and bedroom lines,
and mahogany the second in favor in the public's
taste.
There is plainly a strong tendency toward
smooth surfaces and a minimum of ledges and
raised work and it is this which makes the
opportunity for decorative veneering. Ledges
and raised work are dust collectors and hard
to keep clean, and the flat, smooth surfaces
find their favor largely because of sanitation and
cleanliness. It does not mean that people are
lacking in appreciation of beauty; it means an
opportunity, to combine beauty with smooth
surfaces and it is this which opens up the big
field of possibilities in fine face veneer. The
more we can present in the way of new and
attractive face veneer on flat surfaces the better
will be the beauty element showing in furniture
and the higher will be the favor accorded ve-
neered work.
The situation is one in which there are oppor-
tunities to exercise all the art and talent of the
fraternity in the matter of face veneer. There
is room for fantastic figures and artistic match-
ing up, also for blending, for two-tone panel
effects, and for any and all those combinations
of color and figure of face veneer which will
make for beauty in the flat surfaces finished off
with veneer.
The Hardwood Manufacturers' Institute an-
nounces its first annual convention for May 10
and 11 at the Blackstone Hotel, Chicago. Elab-
orate plans are under way to make this conven-
tion an outstanding feature in the annals of
the hardwood producing industry. The pro-
gram will provide a fitting celebration of the
strides the institute has made since its organ-
ization in June, 1922, with but some seventy
members. The May annual, less than a year
since the organization, will show the institute
with over three hundred bona fide hardwood
producers, standing as the greatest association
in the hardwood producing field and represent-
ing upwards of a third of the hardwood lumber
manufactured in this country and thus really
representative of the industry.
The many activities of the institute have
grown a pace with the strides in membership,
so that, for example, the first institute lumber
inspection force of three men is now increased
to an inspection corps of twelve giving service
upon call, whether the parties desiring an offi-
cial inspection be members of the institute or
not. Prominent speakers will address the con-
vention, representing outstanding hardwood
consuming interests, figures of national promi-
nence in politics, government and general busi-
ness, authorities on general and technical phases
of the lumber industry.
It is hoped that every hardwood manufac-
turer will attend this meeting, whether a mem-
ber of the institute or not. The institute ex-
tends a cordial invitation to all and is preparing
to give a rousing welcome at and beyond the
door of the convention.
The Steel Sounding Board Corp. has been
authorized to manufacture musical instruments
in Wilmington, Del., with a capital of $8,500,-
000. The Corporation Trust Co. of America has
charge of the incorporation.
The man who uses Behlen's Varnish
Crack Eradicator can afford to figure
lower, yet makes more profit on a re-
finishing job, than the man who does
not use it.
The reason—he saves the time, trouble
and expense of scraping off the old var-
nish and shellac and the finished job is
just as satisfactory too—if not more so.
Send for a sample can to-day and try
it
H. BEHLEN & BRO.
Anilines
Shellacs
Pulp and Paper Association Opposes Pending
Legislation in New York State
A definite forestry policy for the State of
New York was advocated in resolutions adopted
this week by the Executive Committee of the
American Paper and Pulp Association, at a
quarterly meeting at the Union League Club.
The resolutions oppose legislation now pending
in Albany, which would specify cutting regula-
tions not in accord with the unanimous recom-
mendations of the Association of Technical
Foresters of the State. The resolution said
that passage of such legislation before the State
has defined a practical forest policy would so
confuse forest officials and forest owners that
no reasonable forestry progress would be made,
and urged that any further legislation be de-
layed until the State had conducted an effective,
economic survey and worked out a reasonable
forest policy applicable to both State owned
and privately owned lands.
The Association, which is co-operating with
the American Newspaper Publishers' Associa-
tion and other similar organizations in the effort
to get Federal legislation fixing a national for-
estry policy, decided to make forestry a chief
subject of discussion at the convention in the
week of April 9, in New York, when the Wood-
lands Section, composed of foresters employed
in the industry, will discuss fundamental for-
estry education.
Near 6th Ave., and 8th St.
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Fillers
10-12 Christopher St., New York
BRITISH APPRENTICESHIP SYSTEM
FOR STATE j^OREST POLICY
THE
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Piaivo BeiveKes
and Musie eabincts
GOSHEN
An increasing number of complaints are being
tiled by local piano manufacturers regarding the
delays experienced in getting shipments of
necessary supplies from the factories, and in
several cases cited that production has been ac-
tually held up through inability to get necessary
parts that have been ordered and shipped well
in advance. One manufacturer reported that
certain supplies shipped from a Connecticut
town only a trifle over 100 miles from New
York had been twelve days in transit, and delays
equally as bad have been reported in connection
with shipments from other sections.
The situation is particularly bad on those rail-
roads that have not yet made a definite settle-
ment of the strike of the shopmen which began
last Spring and, although new forces have been
recruited, there still remains a lack of locomo-
tives and cars in sufficiently good repair to keep
moving over the rails. On top of this has de-
veloped the heaviest volume of freight reported
for several years, troubles growing out of the
coal situation and the usual drawbacks of Win-
ter weather.
The majority of manufacturers are meeting
the situation by having shipments made well
ahead of the usual schedule, in order to conclude
any possibility of a shutdown for lack of sup-
plies. One manufacturer, after going to con-
siderable expense to trace a shipment of parts,
met the emergency by sending motor trucks to
railroad yards seventy miles from New York
in order to remove a shipment from the freight
car and bring it in over the road. The move
was expensive, but it got the results.
Write/or'catalog and details
INDIANA
LONDON, ENGLAND, March 1.—The Piano Manu-
facturers' Association of Great Britain has under
consideration a plan to increase the number of
apprentices in the industry of that country. As
it is at present outlined, it calls for a five-year
apprenticeship for fly-finishers and polishers, the
boys spending the first year at the Music Trade
School at an annual cost of £ 3 each to the
Association. At the end of this period they
are balloted for by the Association's members
and for the remaining four years they arc to
spend one week a year in the school and the
remainder in the factories.
METAL MARKETS SHOW ADVANCES
During the month of February the most
marked advances in all raw materials took place
in the metal markets. Despite sharp advances,
there was no corresponding falling off in de-
mand. Copper especially advanced heavily,
which was immediately reflected in all brass
goods.
Leather Specially
Tanned for Player-
Pianos and Organs.
Also Chamois
Sheepskins, Indias
and Skivers
A Specialty of
Pneumatic and
Pouch Skin Leathers
T.L.LUTKINSInc
4 0 SPRUCE ST.. NEWYORK.N.Y.