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National Association of Piano Tuners
Plans Constructive Convention Program
T
HE National Association of Piano
Tuners will hold its 43rd Annual
Convention in the Hotel Atlanta
Biltmore in Atlanta, Ga., on August 6th.
7th and 8th. The Planning Committee
Chairman and Vice-President Anson D.
Overdorff, who has planned to have reg-
istrations start promptly at 8:30 A.M.
on August 6th. The Convention itself
will be open at 10 A.M. and Walter E.
Crawford. Secretary of the Convention
Bureau, will greet the members and
guests and introduce the Mayor of At-
lanta who will officially turn over the
key of Atlanta for the 3-day session in
seeing Atlanta and to learn more about
the business of piano service. Frank S.
Pursley, Instructor of Music at the Geor-
gia Academy of the Blind. Macon, Ga.,
will render a piano solo, after which
James H. Alverson, Jr., a registered
member of the N.A.P.T. and local Chair-
man of the Planning Committee, will
welcome the guests.
J. E. Kohl, National President of the
N.A.P.T., will then greet the guests and
following his remarks there will be the
appointment of the Convention Commit-
tee and other announcements.
After lunch there will be a demon-
stration of spinet regulation by Mr. Bolz,
Technician for the Baldwin Piano Co.,
and a discussion period to follow. A
technical movie entitled—"The Tuner at
Work"—will be shown by Robert M.
Boelter, Technical Editor of the Tuner's
Journal. A discussion period will fol-
low and also a Question Box.
At 9 o'clock on the next day, August
7th, the keynote address of the Con-
vention will be made by President Kohl
and there will be an address also on
salesmanship by Joe Daurer, Advertising
Manager of the Rudolph Wurlitzer Co.
in DeKalb, 111.
F. X. Friedel will be chairman of the
"brag session" which has always been
an amusing session during these con-
ventions. On the afternoon of the same
day there will be a Technical Clinic on
old pianos and piano parts. In other
words, this clinic will show how to re-
build an old piano. It will be conducted
by the technical staff of N.A.P.T. There
will also be a grand regulating class and
voicing of hammers under the supervi-
sion of Granville Ward and William
Hupfer from Steinway & Sons. New
York.
Business sessions will be held on the
evenings of August 6th and 7th. re-
stricted to members only.
On August 8th, Richard Kamperman,
President Emeritus of N.A.P.T., will
talk on "Laying of Touch on an old
Grand Piano and Other Points on Regu-
lations." There will also be a clinic on
old pianos continued from the first day,
and conducted by technical members
of the N.A.P.T.
In the afternoon, President J. E.
Kohl will be Chairman of the Technical
Panel, which will be conducted by
N.A.P.T. and factory technicians. There
will also be a Tuner-Teachers Session.
The theme of this session will be the
ironing out of the knotty problems
which tuner and teacher are confronted
with each day, and how the N.A.P.T.
and teachers as professional organiza-
tions can pool ideas for mutual benefit.
Chairman of this Tuner-Teachers Ses-
sion will be Mr. Overdorff. At the end
of this session there will be a piano con-
cert by Estelle Ruth, teacher and pianist
of the National Guild of Piano Teachers.
The Convention will terminate with
the 43rd N.A.P.T. banquet in the Em-
pire Ballroom at the hotel, where there
will be suitable entertainment and re-
freshments.
The ladies who attend the Convention
will be treated to various forms of en-
tertainment, a feature of which will be
a 45-minute TV Show on WSG-TV
called "Strictly for the Girls."
Joseph A. Fischer Elected
Pres. r Music Publishers Ass'n
Joseph A. Fischer of J. Fischer & Bro..
New York City, has been elected presi-
dent of the Music Publishers' Associa-
tion of the United States, succeeding
Arthur A. Hauser of G. Ricordi & Co.
Mr. Hauser automatically became vice-
president, succeding Nelson M. Jansky
of C. C. Birchard & Co., Boston.
New directors elected at the associa-
tion's annual meeting at the Warwick
Hotel were: A. Walter Kramer, Galaxy
Music Corp., New York, and William
Arthur Reilly, McLaughlin & Reilly Co..
Boston. Ralph Satz. Chappell & Co.,
Inc.. New York City, was elected treas-
urer. Donald H. Gray, the H. W. Gray
Co., Inc., New York City, and Miss
Amy W. Klingmann succeed themselves
as secretary and administrative secre-
tary, respectively. Two of the directors
whose terms expired this year were
elected to succeed themselves—C. A.
Foy- Theodore Presser Co.. Bryn Mawr.
Pa., and Mack Stark, Mills Music, Inc.,
New York City.
Election of the new president, Mr.
Fischer, took place on the thirtieth an-
niversary of the election to the same
office of his father, the late George Fis-
cher.
Other association directors, whose
terms did not expire this year, are:
Joseph A. Fischer, the new president;
Guy Freeman, Leeds Music Corp., New
York City; Mr. Gray, the re-elected
secretary; Edwin L. Gunther, Schroeder
& Gunther, Inc., Rhinebeck, N. Y., Mr.
Hauser, the new vice-president; Mr.
Jansky. the retiring vice-president;
Bernard A. Kohn, Elkan-Vogel Com-
pany, Inc., Philadelphia, Pa. Roy Ner-
hood, G. Schirmer, Inc., New York City;
J. Tatian Roach, Music Publishers'
Holding Corporation, New York; Mr.
Satz. the new treasurer; John F. Seng-
stack, Clayton F. Summy Company,
Chicago, III.; and Willard Sniffin. Har-
old Flammer, Inc., New York City.
Directors who retired from office this
year were Frank Hayden Connor, Carl
Fischer. Inc., New York City, and
Leonard Feist, Mercury Music Corpora-
tion, New York City.
ASPT Convention
Continued from l'ajje 5
waukee Auxiliary Chapter; Mrs. Maude
Houdek, National Auxiliary President,
and an interesting talk by Joe Daurer,
Advertising Manager of the Rudolph
Wurlitzer Co. of DeKalb. 111., on "Today
I Am a Technician's Wife."
On Tuesday, after election, at the
Hotel Schroeder, the ladies were enter-
tained by a special hat demonstration—
the demonstrating of trimming, etc.
On Wednesday, the ladies were taken
on a bus tour of Milwaukee and also
at 1:30 p.m. listened to an address on
"How to Promote Your Business." In
th« evening they attended a banquet
at the Hotel Schroeder. The election
of officers took place on Thursday, June
28th. in the morning.
There were several exhibits and many
supply men attended the Convention,
among them being Robert Johnson, Jr.,
of the Schaff Piano String Co.; Peter
H. Comstock, Vice-President, and F.
Kelso Davis, Sales Mgr. of Pratt, Read
& Co.; T. A. Delaney of the Standard
Piano Hammer Co.; Harry Hale, Jr.,
of the Tuners Supply Co.; Joe Kulicik
of the Piano Supply Dept. of Conti-
nental Music Co. and others.
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW, JULY, 1951