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TECHNICAL^SUPPIY DEPARTMENT
William BrendVftutefec/imcalEditor
Significance of the Annual Tuners'
Meeting to Manufacturers and Supply Men
Exhibitors' Breakfast, Feature for First Time of These Conventions, Indication of
the Seriousness With Which They Are Regarded at the Present Time
AST week I ventured to set forth my
opinion of the significance and probable
outcome of that present interest in the
tuners, the service men and the technicians,
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such exhibits might be increased in number and
made more effective, and (3) how the manu-
facturing interests of the industry, as rep-
resented by the exhibitors through their
down here the gist, though not the ipsissima
verba of my observations, not, however, be-
cause they were superior in form or content
to what was said by Frank Hale, Mr. Sesson
or A. K. Gutsohn on the same occasion.
It is a useful thing to be in the unique
position of one able to look at the thing from
two standpoints, both as a tuner who actually
was the founder and first member of the
Tuners' Association and as an acoustic en-
gineer engaged in research at the bidding of
a great supply house which was among the
Some of Those who Attended the Annual Tuners' Gathering in New York
which is one of the remarkable features of a
remarkable episode in the history of the piano
industry. This week, with the tuners' conven-
tion a thing of the past, with the exhibits
packed up and sent away, it becomes possible
to analyze, in the light of actual happenings,
all that which last week could only be viewed
in anticipation.
And I shall say immediately that the tuners'
convention, apart from its fixed program, wit-
nessed one event which took place without
conscious preparation, but which may very
likely come to be regarded as the most im-
portant single recent event in either the com-
mercial or the technical history of the piano
trade.
In appearance the thing was very simple.
Edwin Werolin, of the American Piano Co.,
who is head of that corporation's large service
department and who has from the beginning
designed and carried out the elaborate technical
program staged by his company, which for
some years has been a leading feature of the
tuners' convention, suggested to the fifty or
sixty manufacturers' representatives who, like
him, were on the ground in charge of exhibits,
that it might be a good idea to have a meeting
at which there might be some candid exchange
|of views on these points: (1) wheth'er the
'practice of exhibiting technical improvements
and achievements for the tuners at their con-
ventions was being justified by events, (2) how
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representatives there and then present, might
devise ways and means of assisting the work
of the Tuners' Association to general advan-
tage.
It was a happy thought and one eminently
worthy of the able and forward-thinking man
from whom it emanated. The meeting accord-
ingly took place at breakfast on Wednesday.
August 10. Every one of the manufacturers'
representatives was present. And the results
of that meeting form the text and the occasion
of the present observations.
Some Thoughts
Mr. Piquette, of the American Piano Co.,
who was in the chair, asked several of us to
Pay some words on the points which I have
outlined above. Among others on whom he
called was myself and I shall venture to set
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understanding between manufacturers and serv-
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