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The Music Trade Review
OCTOBER 16, 1926
The Technical and Supply Department—(Continued from page 40)
order to get a good grip on the hat pin when it the old one, for you will probably spoil it, and
is in use I melt a lump of sealing wax around almost get the wrong pitch anyhow! And you Nagel President of
know what that is.
it near its middle."
New Orleans Tuners
Answer
1. When the action of a new piano shows the
Other Officers of New Orleans Division Are
Correspondence
defect of which you speak the fault is in the
Charles Hartman, Vice-President and H. H. L.
factory. The instrument has been sent off the
floor too soon. If it had stood around for
thirty days and then, before shipment, had been
re-regu!ated (as is done in the best shops) the
shrinking or. settling of parts would have been
detected and remedied. The method suggested,
of taking up on the end bolts, is usually best.
2. It is not always possible to find out the
original striking distances when the action of
an upright piano has been disturbed in the
manner spoken of by Mr. Will. Generally speak-
ing, one may assume that unison No. 2 will be
struck at one-eighth of the string's length and
unison No. 88 at one-sixteenth of its length.
If now these two points be determined and a
straight edge laid across from one to the other,
the position of the action with relation to the
line thus disclosed can be noted. Of course
one cannot always be sure about a matter like
this, for the designer may have had different
ideas. The treble point is not likely to be im-
portantly out of the way, but there may be some
difference in the bass.
3. Lyon & Healy sell a very good little ham-
mer-stem boring apparatus which I believe is
made by the Tuners Supply Co, With this, one
can easily measure the slant of the boring in
a hammer, drill out the broken stem and glue
the new one in place.
4. You are quite right about damper felt pack-
ing. Of course that is not the fault of the piano
maker, who cannot control the conditions in
which his instruments find themselves after they
have left the factory. Given certain conditions
of atmospheric content and of temperature, felt
will harden. When it hardens it is noisy.
The hat-pin may work, but I don't quite like
the idea of doing anything of this kind without
taking the action away from the strings. The
best way to treat hardened damper felts, T think,
is to take out the action, brush the felt well with
a small stiff brush and then needle it with one's
tone regulating needles.
This of course takes longer, but I think it is
better.
A Pitch Question
Mr. Murphy, of Lowell, Mass., wants to know
whether one can tune to 440 with a 435 fork.
Yes, if necessary. The five beats per second
which occur between a sound of 435 and one of
440 are about as rapid as the beatings of the
tempered major third C 2—E 2. If one can judge
this, one can tune the pitch note of the piano
until it beats that much sharp of the 435 fork.
If one cannot judge correctly, then the best
thing is to get a new fork. Do not try to tune
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NEW ORLEANS, LA., October 9. — Emile W.
through necessity. Address correspondence to Nagel, independent tuner, was elected president
William Braid White, 5149 Agatite avenue, of the newly chartered local division of the Na-
Chicago.
tional Association of Piano Tuners at its meet-
ing held recently in the establishment of the
Dwyer Piano Co., 131 Carondelet street. Five
years' experience and a successful examination
on the theory and practice of piano tuning are
required for admission to the local body, Mr.
Professor in University of Illinois Shows by Nagel stated. Meetings of the division will be
Survey How Bad Lighting Steadily Lowers held the first Wednesday in each month be-
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ginning with November.
The other officers elected at this meeting
WASHINGTON, D. C, October 9.—Another plea
were: Charles Hartman of D. H. Holmes Co.,
for adequate factory lighting, echoing the one Ltd., vice-president, and Henry H. L. Hecaud,
made recently at Atlantic City by an association independent tuner, secretary-treasurer.
uf electric lighting engineers, has been made by
Membership in the New Orleans division now
Prof. A. G. Anderson, of the University of Illi- includes the following: William North and Leo
nois, in a report just made public. He states N. Larenson, independent tuners; August Fauth
that less than 10 per cent of the factories of the of the D. H. Holmes Co.; Alvin Conner and
country are equipped with suitable lighting in- William Drews, of the Dwyer Piano Co.; Frank-
stallations, and bases his views upon a survey Ross and Frank Romano of the Junius Hart
of 445 industrial plants in various parts of the Piano House, Ltd., and Archie Thompson of the
country.
Collins Piano Co.
"Considered as a production tool, poor light-
ing may cost as much as 1 per cent of the pay-
roll," says Professor Anderson. "When the
light in a factory is increased to a point where
SOUTH BEND, IND., October 11.—Frank F. King
it costs from 2 to 3 per cent of the payroll, the has been made manager of the piano service
volume of production is found to increase 10 and repair department of Lang Bros., 439 South
to 30 per cent.
Michigan street. Mr. King comes from the
"Good light adds to profits; poor light costs I,ester Piano Co.'s factory in Philadelphia, and
money. Among the indirect benefits resulting has a wide knowledge and experience in piano
from adequate lighting are a reduction in labor tuning and repairing. He was connected in the
turnover, better quality of product, fewer acci- past with the piano service department of the
dents and a cleaner, more pleasant place to John Wanamaker stores and the Steger Bros.
work in."
Piano Co.
Inadequate Factory
Lighting Is a Waste
F. F. King Made Manager
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