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REVIEW
THE
VOL. LXXXII1. No. 7
Published Every Saturday. Edward Lyman Bill, Inc., 383 Madison Ave., New York, N. Y., Aug. 14, 1926
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Nearly 500 Delegates in Chicago for
the Annual Tuners' Meeting
Seventeenth Annual Gathering of the National Association of Piano Tuners, Inc., Which Opened at the Hotel
Sherman, Chicago, August 9, Has Almost Every State in the Union Represented, With Dele-
gates From Hawaii and From Canada — Gathering Sets a Record
HICAGO, ILL., August 12.—With nearly
five hundred delegates present at the
opening session, probably twice as many
as ever before have gathered on the first day of
these events, the seventeenth annual convention
of the National Association of Piano Tuners,
Inc., was called to order by President Deutsch-
inann, at 2 o'clock sharp, on Monday, in the
Louis XVI Ballroom, Hotel Sherman.
Tuners, their wives and piano men generally
were pouring in steadily all morning and the
total attendance, including all comers, came
very nearly to the 1,000 mark, thus guaranteeing
the boast of the Chicago delegation at the
1925 convention that they would show the piano
industry, as well as the tuners, just what a
music trade convention can really be. The
Hotel Sherman was evidently taken by surprise,
C
OPS MUSIC HOUSE
CRIPPLED THRU NEGLECT
It May Be True of Ypur Piano
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i THFRE WERP. A LAW AGAISST CARFLFSSNE3S AND WA C TF
— WHICH WOULD COMPEL PEOPLE TO PAY A RF.ASONMW-F.
AMOUNT FACH YEAR TOWARD . "UP.KFFP" TtF.PMR OR
RFHABILIATION OF VALUABLE. COSTLY ARTIfLFS IN DAILY
USE IN THEIR HOMES—WE FIRMLY RFLIFVF. THAT OWNERS
OF PIANOS WOULD PAY FAR IN F.XCFS": OF ANY OTHER
CI.ASS— BFCAUSE THERE IS NOT ANOTHER ARTICLE OR
COMMODITY IN THE HOME SO UNIVERSALLY NEOLECTEO
AS THE PIANOI
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THIS SFFM5 ALL THE MORE UNBELIEVABLE BE-
CAU^E THE DFAR FAITHFUL OLD PIANO r
"THERE." IT I<; PART OF YOU" DAILY I.1FF AND
LITFRALLY IT IS AND WILL REMAIN THE FUNDAMENTAL
L.BASIS OF MUSICAL ENJOYMFNT IN THF HOME. LOVE AND
CARE FOR IT AS FOR A FAITHFUL FRIEND.
QUESTIONS:
•> OFTEM p
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rcoUGHLY
and best wishes. Other messages of the same
tenor were also read.
President Deutschmann then made announce-
ment of the following convention committees:
Committee on Resolutions: Edgar L. Seagreave,
St. Louis, and A. V. Minifie, Pontiac, Mich.
Auditing Committee: George Steger, Peoria,
and W. Roke, Cincinnati. Convention Com-
mittee: W. F. McClellan, Chicago, and D. C.
Clark, Cleveland. Publicity Committee: T. J.
O'Meara, Kansas City. The Nominating Com-
mittee was not named at this session.
George C. Johnson, of Peoria, was appointed
judge of the exhibits of tuners' advertising
OUR REPLIES:
: YEAt! HO YOU
YEAR "OONT KICK- IF YOUR
i IF YOU H4VENT HAD THIS DON*
TFK DO YOU
AND VEYBOV
DJUSTED?
IT DOESNT FUNCTION TO YOUR
SATISFACTION
3. IF YOU HAVEN'T DONE THIS AT
) EFFECTS OT C L I M A T I C
,NGES AND CONDITIONS?
LOOSE OR TOO TIGHT ANI
TLE" O R "STICK."
DONT BLAME IT ON THE PIANO
IF YOU HAVE NEGLECTED IT
All Plmmmi A W R't-Ur Alttiuio* — Ktt.d.ll, fi/,w Oxnl
TUNING
STEINWAY
PIAJNOS
Charles A. Deutschmann
for the big Louis XVI ballroom was found to
be short of chairs before the proceedings even
began, and a fresh supply had to be called for
ere the meeting could start.
Wm. A. Ryan, assistant corporation counsel
CiM Tunin, Dew.
MAIN 1108-
How Droop Encourages Regular Tuning
of the City of Chicago, welcomed the delegates
and visitors on behalf of Mayor Dever, who was
unavoidably absent.
After various preliminary announcements the
minutes of the 1925 convention were offered for
reading and adopted as if read. The president
then called a roll-call by States, alphabetically.
Almost every State was represented. The dele-
gate from Honolulu, T. H., was welcomed with
wild enthusiasm and the same greeted the ap-
pearance of the delegates from Winnipeg,
Canada. Each man on rising told his name, his
division and the number of conventions he has
attended. Emil Koll, of Cincinnati, O., appeared
to be the oldest member present, this being his
sixteenth convention. Erwin Bacon, of Roch-
ester, came second with fourteen to his credit.
W. H. Alfring, vice-president and general
manager of the Aeolian Co., wired his greetings
W. F. McClellan
material, contributed by members, and show-
ing their own advertising work, which is now on
display and a winner of which is to be selected.
(Continued on page 7)