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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW, JUNE, 1U1
vention by leading piano technicians.
Illustrated lectures and demonstrations
will be featured. Clinics will be held on
a variety of subjects of great importance
to all members of the profession. Panel
discussions will be conducted at all
sessions.
The 1941 NAPT Convention Program
will be a direct reflection of the expressed
desires of the Registered Tuner member-
ship at large and will be representative
of the profession as a whole.
Piano and Supply Manufacturers have
already pledged their usual cooperation
in making the 1941 NAPT Convention
Program a success.
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Piano
Supplies
Actions - Hammers - Plates - Hardware
Strings - Pins - Felts - Tuners Supplies
NAPT Convention to be Held
In York, Pa., August 11th, 12th and 13th
The Annual Convention of the National
Association of Piano Tuners Inc. will be
held at the Hotel Yorktowne in York, Pa.
on August 11th. 12th and 13th. This was
recently decided by the usual ballot vote
of the members who also made several
valuable suggestions about the program.
The following officers received the
majority vote of the members and will
have direct responsibility for its affairs
until their successors have been elected
and have qualified.
Richard Kamperman, President, Herbert
E. Bowman, Vice-President, Bert J. Hinck-
ley. Treasurer, James W. Abercrombie,
Director, Harry A. Reddehase, Director.
Herbert E. Bowman. Harrisonburg, Va.,
the new vice-president, was formerly a
director. He succeeded John B. Rebstock
who held that office two years. He has
been an active member in good stand-
ing since 1926. He has served on many
convention committees. He entered the
field as an independent tuner in the year
1921 and his experience has covered prac-
tically every phase of Piano Servicing.
The newly elected Director James W.
Abercombie is a Charter Member of the
National Association of Piano Tuners Inc.
and one who has been an active member
in good standing since its formation. He
is an Alderman in Waterbury, Connecti-
cut, where he is a piano dealer-tuner.
He is Most Worshipful Grand Master of
Continental Lodge No. 76 A. F. & A.M.
and director of its Kiltie Degree Team
which, in Scotch uniform, travel over the
Eastern section conferring the Master
Degree, and also an officer in the Water-
A Letter of Appreciation
St. Albans, L.I.. N. Y.
April 15, 1941.
Mr. Glad. Henderson. Editor
The Music Trade Review
1270 Sixth Avenue
New York. N. Y.
Dear Mr. Henderson:
Allow me, in behalf of the Piano Tuner-Tech-
nichians Association of New York, to thank you
for your editorial in the April, 1941 issue of The
Music Trade Review pertaining to tuning and
piano service. I am sure that tuners all over the
country will appreciate it as much as we in
New York do. Let us hope that the dealers do
also and wake up to the fact that they have a
gold mine in their back yard and don't know it.
You are going to hear a lot about tuners from
now en as they are getting together in a big
way with their American Society of Piano Tuner-
Technicians, under the chairmanship of Dr.
William Braid White, which comprises the big
city and state organizations who have been for a
long time without a central organization.
Most cordially,
WM. C. STONAKER. Pres.. P.T.T.A.
119-47 194 Street.
St. Albans, L. I.. N. Y.
Richard Kamperman
Peters Has Two Tuning Fields
Larry Peters who conducted a tuning
service in New York City for many years
bury Lions Club.
All daily sessions of the convention will has just returned from Florida where he
be open to every piano tuner, to whom a spent the winter building up a successful
tuning service there. He has now left for
most cordial invitation is extended.
Classes in Grand Action Regulation the Catskill Mountain region where he has
and Voicing and in the latest and best also established a tuning service and is
methods of servicing the new type pianos making his headquarters at 11 Pleasant
will be conducted throughout the con- St., Montecello. N. Y.
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