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AUGUST 15,
THE MUSIC TRADE
1925
33
REVIEW
SUPPLY BRANCHES OF THE INDUSTRY
Standard Player Actions
in the Chilean Navy
American Product Finds Warm Welcome
Among the "Gobs" of South America's
Yankees
The Standard Pneumatic Action Co., New
York, has long been proud of its foreign trade
player actions in foreign lands. An interesting
letter of this sort was received recently by F.
A. Barrow, from Carlos Doggenweiler, with
the First Squadron of the Chilean Navy. The
letter enclosed two postal cards, which testify
to the fact that many Standard player actions
are installed in player-pianos used in the Chilean
Navy.
As a matter of fact thousands of player-
pianos, fitted with Standard player actions, are
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Player-Actions Designed for Australian Re-
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The man who uses Behlen's Varnish
Crack Eradicates 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 today and
try it.
H. BEHLEN & BRO.
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Fillers
10-12 Christopher St., New York
Near etb AT*., and 8th It.
The manufacture of musical instruments
ranks tenth among the industries of this coun-
try in its use of wood, utilizing a total of 260,-
195,026 board feet. The types of wood used
and their quantities follow: yellow pine, 2,-
107,094 board feet; white pine, 9,394,820; Doug-
las fir, 480,400; oak, 20,638,480; maple, 45,482,-
775; spruce, 29,144,150; red gum, 9,243,825; hem-
lock, 615,600; yellow poplar, 40,371,925; cypress,
70,000; birch, 12,349,055; hickory, 225; basswood,
10,968,180; cotton wood, 2,351,000; chestnut, 38,-
125,141; ash, 2,377,332; beech, 4,186,000; elm,
15,602,440; tupelo, 460,000; redwood, 286,200;
cedar, 17,500; mahogany, 8,610,355; Spanish ce-
dar, 7,750; sycamore, 304,600; black walnut, 4,-
991,800; cherry, 334,180; buckeye, 6,000; miscel-
laneous native, 102,680; miscellaneous foreign,
458,811. In the use of mahogany, the music in-
dustries rank second, only being exceeded in
the amount used by the furniture industry.
Pratt Read Actions
for Australian Trade
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the Country—The Kinds of Wood Used and
the Various Quantities
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Wood Used in Making
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giving good service in foreign lands. Through
its own intrinsic merit, the Standard has be-
come known in Australia, Argentina, Alaska,
Barbados, Belgium, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil,
Canary Islands, China, Colombia, Chile, Cuba,
Denmark, Dominico, Egypt, Ecuador, England
Finland, France, Germany, Guatemala, Hawaii,
Holland, India, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan,
Mexico, Norway, Nicaragua, New Zealand,
Portugal, Porto Rico, Peru, Philippine Islands,
Switzerland, Spain, Scotland, Sweden, South
Africa, Trinidad, Tasmania, Uruguay, Vene-
zuela, Wales and other countries.
Coincident with the visit of the American
fleet to Australian ports, there seems to be a
marked increase of interest in American player-
pianos in that country, if the experience of the
Pratt Read Player Action Co., Deep River,
Conn., is to be taken as an example. Vice-
president E. D. Moore, of the company,
stated this week that it is filling a number of
orders for player-actions to be installed in
pianos made by both Eastern and Western
manufacturers for shipment to Australia. In
some of these instances, he said, especially
quick delivery is required because of the neces-
sity of catching steamers from New York. In
all cases these orders have been and are being
shipped on time. A large shipment of actions
was recently made three days after the receipt
of the order so that a New York piano manu-
facturer might save several weeks' delay in
shipping from that point.
Consult the Universal Want Directory of
The Review. In it advertisements are inserted
free of charge for men who desire positions.
W. M. Shailer on Trip
W. M. Shailer, vice-president and secretary
of Philip W. Oetting & Son, New York, im-
porters of Weickert piano-felts, made a brief
business trip through the piano manufacturing
zone in New England last week, spending the
greater part of his time in Boston. He was
accompanied by Fritz Weickert, of the Weick-
ert felt plant in Leipzig, Germany, who has
been spending several months in the country
studying piano-making conditions. It is an-
nounced that Mr. Weickert will depart for Ger-
many on August 22. Following their Boston
trip, both men took a brief vacation from busi-
STYLE NO. 221
"ART LINE" PIANO BENCHES
Make Satisfied Customers
Send for Your Catalog.
THE ART NOVELTY CO., Goshen, Ind.
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 Weickert Felt