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JULY 5, 1924
THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
Attractive Program Prepared for the
National Tuners' Association Meeting
COINOLAS
Among Subjects Up for Discussion Are Grand Action Work and a Test of Superiority of Fourth
and Fifth System or Third and Sixth Method of Laying Equal Temperament
\ 1 I L W A U K E E , WIS., July 1.—Discussion
*•**• of grand action work, a test of the superi-
ority of the fourth and fifth system or the third
and sixth method of laying the bearing of the
equal temperament and a group of interesting
addresses are among the attractions offered in
the program prepared for the fifteenth annual
convention of the National Association of Piano
Tuners to be held in Milwaukee August 11, 12
and 13. The program committee, headed by
J. M. Kingsbury, has announced arrangements
which have been made for the convention.
The opening day of the convention will be
devoted to preliminary work. Delegates will be
registered and the entire Milwaukee division
will be on hand as a reception committee Mon-
day morning. In the afternoon an address of
welcome will be delivered by some Milwaukee
official or prominent citizen at the first session.
Appointment of convention committees and
reading of minutes of the last convention will
take up the remainder of the first afternoon.
The board of directors will confer in the
evening.
Charles Deutschmann, national president, will
deliver the keynote address at the opening of
the executive session Tuesday morning, and the
report of W. F. McClellan, secretary and treas-
urer, will be read. Expansion of the Associa-
tion activities will be discussed at this session
and plans will be formed to accomplish this ex-
pansion as well as to increase membership in
the organization.
Charles Merkel, of Milwaukee, vice-president,
will deliver the opening address for the after-
noon session and a technical paper will be read
by Nels C. Boe, Chicago. Grand action work
will be the subject of a round-table discussion
led by A. V. Simpson, Chicago.
An exceptional musical program has been
promised by Charles Merkel, entertainment
chairman, for the banquet which is scheduled
for Tuesday evening. President Deutschmann
has been asked to act as toastmaster and will
guide the evening's activities.
A full program has been arranged for the
last day of the convention. The morning ses-
sion will be devoted to reports of committees,
unfinished business, consideration of resolutions
and other subjects, and presentation of charters
to recently organized divisions.
Officers will be elected and installed at the
afternoon session. District representatives will
be appointed and the next meeting place se-
lected at this final meeting. Following this the
session will be turned over to addresses.
D. C. Swick, Clarksburg, W. Va., will address
the convention on "Cultivating Our Fields."
Emolous Smith, Greenville, Mich., will talk on
"Psychology as Applied to the Tuner." The
subject of "Shop Management" will be 1 pre-
sented by Allen E. Pollard, Houston, Tex. The
test as to the superiority of the fourth and fifth
or the third and sixth systems of laying the
bearing of the equal temperament is the final
number on the program. A special committee
will be appointed to decide this question.
Committee chairmen of the Milwaukee divi-
sion in charge of convention arrangements are
Charles Merkel, entertainment; J. M. Kingsbury,
programs, and Fred Johnston, reception. All
meetings will be held at the Hotel Wisconsin.
Arrangements for the women who accompany
their husbands to the convention have not been
overlooked by the local division and Mrs.
Merkel, assisted by Mrs. Kingsbury, will plan
for the hours of the executive sessions. A sight-
seeing tour of Milwaukee has been planned for
both men and women and other entertainment
features will be announced later. The official
group picture of the convention will be taken
Tuesday noon, Mr. Kingsbury announced.
Duo-Art Pianos Urged for
Philadelphia High Schools
of the adoption of the reproducing piano for
class-room and auditorium uses by a great num-
ber of cities throughout the United States. Some
of the city school systems in which equipment
of Duo-Arts are now playing an important part
are New York, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Los
Angeles, Birmingham, Kansas City, Atlantic
City, Passaic, Hartford, Yonkers and Pitts-
burgh."
Several Instruments of That Type Already in
Use in Quaker City School Following Demon-
stration Before School Masters' Club
PHILADELPHIA, PA., June 30.—As a result of the
demonstration of the possibilities of the Duo-
Art reproducing piano before the School Mas-
ters' Club, of this city, last December, there
have been purchased since a number of those
instruments to be used for accompanying solo-
ists and orchestras for the teaching of music
appreciation and for guiding the children in
lower grades in their singing games and folk
dances.
Sensing the demand for this musical contribu-
tion to school life, Dr. E. C. Broome, Superin-
tendent of Schools in Philadelphia, has requested
the property committee of the Philadelphia
School Board to supply each high school in the
city of Philadelphia with a reproducing piano
which, in Dr. Broome's own words, "reproduces
the world's greatest music played by the great
living artists of to-day." The first request was
made by the West Philadelphia High School
for Boys, where, according to Dr. Broome, more
interest is manifested in music than in any other
high school in the country. Such interest, he
maintained, deserves the utmost encouragement
and the best possible mode of instruction. He
said few instructors could be found who could
play in a masterly and inspiring manner and
that the playing and explanation of musical
compositions is an essential part of this study.
Franklin Dunham, educational director of the
Aeolian Co., in commenting on the Philadelphia
request, said; "This, is only a logical outcome
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"Memories" a New Booklet
to Offer Appeal of Player
Interesting and Attractive Piece of Literature
for Dealer Distribution Issued by Standard
Pneumatic Action Co.
An attractive booklet, entitled "Memories,"
has just been put out by the Standard Pneu-
matic Action Co., New York, and is being mailed
to the trade this week for distribution in retail
warerooms. The booklet carries a cleverly writ-
ten story of "How Music Came to the Little
White House on the Hill," and is appropriately
illustrated with charcoal drawings. The tale
has to do with an old couple, whose youth was
brought back to them by the playing of the
old-time melodies on their player-piano, pre-
sented them by their children, to prevent lone-
liness in their old age.
An illustration of a popular style of player-
piano, equipped with a Standard player action, is
shown on the inside back cover of the booklet
and a description follows under the head
"The Player-Piano That Brings Real Happi-
ness." This new Standard pamphlet carries a
strong appeal to the prospect in pointing out
the power of player-piano music to stimulate
a spirit of reminiscence in the listener,
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