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Music Trade Review

Issue: 1926 Vol. 82 N. 23

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The Music Trade Review
JUNE 5, 1926
29
The Technical and Supply Department—(Continued from page 28)
Staib-Abendschein New Dampproofing
Process Proves to Be a Big Success
Process Used on all Main Centers of Actions Produced by This House Meets With the Satisfac-
tion of Both the Piano Manufacturer and the Retail Piano Merchant
* T H E Staib-Abendschein Co., New York,
•"• manufacturer of grand and upright piano
actions, has for the last few years been experi-
menting on a dampproofing process which is
now used on all the main centers of the actions
produced by it. During the experimentation
Abendschein Co., it was immediately put into
use on the main action centers without any
extra cost to the piano manufacturers. Other
parts of the action may also be dampproofed in
the same manner, but that is done on special
order only.
The method of applying the preparation is
very simple, a touch of a brush which has
been dipped in the liquid to the tip of a flange
being practically all that is necessary, as the
liquid will penetrate the grain of the wood and
dampproof the entire flange. A very slight dis-
coloration is perceptible, but not pronounced
enough to impair in any manner the appearance
of the action in any way when the process is
used.
"This dampproofing," said George F. Abend-
schein to a representative of The Review this
week, "is proving most satisfactory and manu-
facturers who are using our actions, and dealers
who handle pianos equipped with them, tell us
that it is a wonderful help to them. Its use
guarantees the elimination of sticky action due
to dampness, because once the preparation is
applied no dampness can penetrate. Even 70
per cent humidity will not affect the action. On
this account there is no expansion or contrac-
tion and the flange operates freely at all times
without binding and sticking and the process
also prevents the center pins from corroding. A
perfect balance is always maintained in these
actions.
"This is exclusively a Staib-Abendschein fea-
ture and we are using it on all the main centers
of the Staib-Abendschein grand and upright
piano actions."
Piano Playing
Mechanisms
By William Braid White
period various severe tests were made which,
according to George F. Abendschein, have
proved beyond doubt the reliability of the prep-
aration used for this purpose. By treating the
butt and wippen flanges it has been found that
without any injury to the wood, pins, bushings
or gluing these parts have been rendered im-
pervious to climatic changes and usual trou-
ble experienced by sticky actions in damp
weather has been eliminated. .
Once tried out to the satisfaction of the Staib-
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Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter I. First Principles
Chapter II. The Modern Play-
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Chapter HI. Dimensions and
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Chapter IV. Automatic Power
and Automatic Expres-
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Chapter V. The Reproducing
Piano
Chapter VI. The Coin-Oper-
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Chapter VII. Repair and Main-
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List of Illustrations
Index
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The Music Trade Review
JUNE 5, 1926
The Technical Department-—(Continued from page 29)
many of the large American mahogany im- Jr., Louisville, Ky.; first vice-president, F. G.
Mahogany Association
porters and dealers, is responsible in large meas- Otis, New Orleans, La.; second vice-president,
Holds Annual Meeting ure for the growing popularity of mahogany as H. G. Fuller, Roston, Mass.; treasurer, F. C
a cabinet wood. It was the general feeling of
those attending the annual meeting that the
year had been a most successful one in pro-
moting public interest in mahogany, and ap-
The fifth annual meeting of the Mahogany proval of the recent rulings by the Federal
Association, Inc., New York, was held at the Trade Commission on the proper designation of
Hotel Ambassador, Atlantic City, N. J., on the furniture woods in retail warerooms was in-
three days ending May 22, and about twenty formally expressed.
prominent members of the association were
The annual banquet of the association was
present. This body, which, is composed of held on Friday, May 21, at 8 p. m., in the grill
room of the Hotel Ambassador, thirty-six mem-
bers and guests being present. The meeting
was addressed by B. C. Currie, first vice-presi-
dent of the National Hardwood Lumber Asso-
ciation, and by Dr. H. G. Cattell, of Philadel-
phia. Mr. Currie spoke as one lumberman to
another of the common problems of the lumber
business and impressed his genial optimism on
all those present. Dr. Cattell spoke in a de-
lightful and humorous way of his many years
of experience.
POUGHKEEPSIE
At the annual business meeting, held Friday
NEW YORK
morning, officers for the coming year were
elected as follows: President, C. C. Mengel,
Wide Work Done by Members in Propagating
the Popularity of Mahogany
Leary, New York; assistant treasurer and sec-
retary, F. C. Schmitz, New York, and assistant
secretary, A. L. Bahr.
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