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L'avenir Case Assembly Held in
Place by Metal Pins and Dowels
Last month Pratt Read & Co., Ivory-
ton, Conn., announced several new
methods of construction pertaining to
pianos. Among them was what they
Method of Securing Top Panel
have called the L'avenir case assembly
with construction of the interior of the
piano first and the installing of the
case afterwards. This method makes it
well as the dowels. In one is shown the
method of securing the bottom strip,
another the top panel, and the third
shows the block which goes between the
keys and the cheek of the piano.
When the complete case is assembled
it is as rigid and strong as if it had
been glued. This is a method which
has resulted from many years of re-
search and test by Charles Frederick
Stein, technical adviser to the Pratt
Read & Co. and has been developed for
the purpose of aiding piano manufac-
turers to speed up production. It
eliminates many of the usual opera-
tions in the present day manufacturing
of pianos, saves shipping space as well.
Hubert S. Shearin, son of H. E.
Shearin, president of the Manual Arts
Furniture Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, was
Speakers for ASPTT
Convention Announced
Early indications are that a record-
shattering attendance will be on hand
June 17th, Hotel Sherman, Chicago,
when the American Society of Piano
Tuner-Technicians open their 5th An-
nual National Convention, reports
Henry Gearman, society president.
Piano servicemen from throughout
the country, as well as Canada and
Mexico will be present to hear tech-
nical experts from leading piano man-
ufacturing companies discuss all the
latest developments in the piano world.
Among the many who have commit-
ted themselves to attend are: C. D.
Bond, of the Weaver Piano Co., who
will talk on the subject "The Piano
Business of 1947"; G. A. McDermott,
of the Gulbransen Co.; Ralph W. E.
How Bottom Panel It Secured
Sperry, of the Rudolph Wurlitzer Co.;
possible to change the case on a piano Charles Frederick Stein, of Pratt Read
in practically fifteen minutes. As there & Co., and Helmer Johnson of Permat
is no side glueing, each part is held Products Inc., Rockford, 111.
in place by metal pins and dowels.
Highlight of the convention will be a
In the accompanying illustrations complete rebuilding and restyling job
of an old-time grand piano, all the
work being done right on the conven-
tion floor during the three-day session.
The finished grand will be sold and
proceeds will go towards the national
advertising fund of the American So-
ciety. Donations of parts for the re-
building job have been made as fol-
lows: new piano legs by W. W. Kim-
ball Co.; strings by Schaff Piano String
Corp.; hammers by Standard Hammer
Co.; shanks by Pratt Read & Co.; tun-
ing pins by Tonk Bros. Co., and felts by
Geo. W. Braunsdorf.
All piano tuner-technicians are wel-
come to attend this convention, whether
Setting Clock at Side of Keyboard
or not they are members of the Amer-
some of these metal pins are shown as ican Society, states Mr. Gearman.
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW, MAY, 1946
Hubert S. Shearin
Manual Arts Treas.
HUBERT S. SHEARIN
recently elected secretary-treasurer of
the company to succeed G. C. Blocher
who has retired.
Mr. Shearin, who spent the last
three years in the U. S. Army Signal
Corps, serving in both European and
Pacific Areas, has been sales manager
of the company for the past ten years.
The company is again getting into
its stride, manufacturing a complete
line of benches and chairs to match
post-war styles of all makes of pianos.
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Rockwell Tuning School
Licensed by State
The Rockwell School of Tuning con-
ducted by C. A. Rockwell in Clearfield,
Pa., has now been licensed under the
Private Trade School Law of Penn-
sylvania by the State Board of Voca-
tional Education.
The school now occupies 12 rooms in
a modern fireproof building at 315
Market St. Among the students are
twelve veterans all of whom have been
sent to the school by music dealers.
The* school can now accommodate 80
students.
The course runs for 26
weeks and includes all phases of tun-
ing and repairing.
Clearfield is 26 miles from the main
line of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
at DuBois and 38 miles from the main
line of the Pennsylvania Railroad at
Tyrone.
It is easily reached by bus from
either of these terminals. Room and
board are available within walking
distance of the school for approxi-
mately $16 per week.
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