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JUNE 20,
THE MUSIC TRADE
1925
41
REVIEW
SUPPLY BRANCHES OF THE INDUSTRY
Piano Case Manufacturing Is To-day a
Complicated and Specialized Business
Wide Variety of Designs Together With Methods of Ordering From Piano Manufacturers Make
It a Difficult Manufacturing Process—What the Paterson Piano Case Co. Has Done
'TPHE manufacturing of piano cases has, as
everybody knows who is connected with the
piano industry, become a highly specialized
business. Not only do piano case manufactur-
ers have to take into consideration the prob-
lems of producing a wide variety of designs but
means the assurance that he will receive the
cases at such time as he may desire. It has
only been through the consistent development
of exceptional facilities and a stable organiza-
tion that such methods have been made pos-
sible. One of the reasons for the success which
Factory of the Paterson Piano Case Co.
also must place themselves in a position so that the Paterson Piano Case Co. has to its credit
they can make deliveries to manufacturers upon has been the fact that for many years Mr.
short notice. Due to the methods of ordering Looschen was in the piano manufacturing busi-
in the piano industry, the latter has presented ness and understands in detail the problems
a monumental problem unless the piano case which confront all piano manufacturers. Work-
manufacturer be equipped to keep a certain ing along the lines which his experience has
number of cases of various models on hand at taught him, he has succeeded in developing an
all times in order to meet the requirements of organization of skilled piano case makers
which, with the aid of modern machinery, can
his customers. •
This problem has been worked out to a fine- produce cases artistic in design, durably con-
ness by John W. Looschen, president of the structed and accurately executed in the shortest
Paterson Piano Case Co., which is located in possible time.
Combined with these facilities, the company
Paterson, N. J. A yearly contract for cases
placed with this corporation by a manufacturer has at its command ample space in which cases
may be stored until the proper time for deliv-
ery. For the latter this company has always
been well known, for even in the days before
automobiles their mule team delivery became
famous especially throughout the East. To-
day, naturally the automobile has superseded
this method of delivery and has sped up the lat-
ter in accordance with present-day demand.
Are you still wasting your time and
Mr. Looschen is preparing for a good Fall
going to the expense of scraping off old
business and is laying his plans at the plant
varnish and shellac to eliminate the
accordingly. To a representative of The Re-
checks and cracks in order to secure a
view he stated this week:
smooth surface for refinishing?
"We have been steadily increasing our output
Use Behlen's Varnish Crack Eradi-
during
the last few years and there is no doubt
cator.
but that more manufacturers than ever appre-
It save* time, trouble and, incidentally,
ciate the value of the support of a piano case
expense, at the same time giving you as
manufacturer with facilities like those at our
fine a body surface for the new finish
command. We are always in a position to keep
as you could possibly wish for.
a large supply of lumber and veneers on hand
A sample can for trial awaits your
at all times and now that we have stabilized our
request.
organization we believe that we have those
MESSAGE
FOR YOU
H. BEHLEN & BRO.
Anilines
Shellac.
Stains
FilUr.
10-12 Christopher St., New York
tth AT*., and 8th St.
PHILIP W. OETTING & SON, Inc.
213 East 19th Street, New York
Sole Agents for
WEICKERT HAMMER AND DAMPER FELTS
GRAND AND UPRIGHT HAMMERS
Made of Welckert Felt
facilities which will prove a great help to any
manufacturer who uses Paterson piano cases."
Use ofiDimensional Stock
to Eliminate Wastage
Hardwood Manufacturers' Institute Points Out
Economy Which Could Be Obtained in Wider
Use of Such Material
An interesting suggestion to aid timber con-
servation has been made recently by Fred
Curtis, president of the Dimension Stock
Producers' Bureau of the Hardwood Manufac-
turers' Institute, Memphis, Tenn. His proposal
is that hardwood dimensional stock be used by
all wood-working industries in place of board
lumber for all purposes, except where the full
size board can be used without recutting. Just
how far this scheme can be applied to piano
or phonograph-cabinet factories we have no
means of knowing, and a fuller discussion of
the subject belongs rather to the sectional meet-
ings of superintendents of these industries.
"The continued use of board lumber," writes
Mr. Curtis in a recent issue of the Lumber
Manufacturer and Dealer, "is a matter that
should be limited and controlled, as a conserva-
tion measure. The production of lumber in
board form is now but the wasteful result of
custom; the habit of following a worn-out meth-
od. It has always been the custom of lumber-
men to cut logs into boards.
"The consumer who requires hardwood as raw
material has always received it in board form
and he, likewise, has followed the beaten path.
That course was perhaps justified when land
had to be cleared for forests, to prepare for
agriculture, when wages were a dollar a day
and freight rates from Indiana, Wisconsin, Ohio
and other producing States averaged 10 cents
per cwt. But with but 135 million acres of
forest remaining out of 822 million (one-half
of which is on the Pacific Coast) and but one-
fifth of the total being hardwood and the tim-
ber remaining fast being consumed at the rate
of 25 per cent each year in excess of the
growth (E. E. Parsonage, president of Associa-
tion of Wood Using Industries at National
Hardwood Lumber Association Convention,
1921) we must change the program.
"There never was ample reason for cutting a
tree into long wide boards, leaving many clear
grade cuts in small pieces to burn at mill."
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THE ART NOVELTY CO.
Goshen, Ind.
For over 25 years Specialists
in high grade Piano Cases
Paterson Piano
Case Co.
PATERSON, N. J.