Music Trade Review

Issue: 1954 Vol. 113 N. 4

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New Dampp-Chaser Aids
Helps Dealers Sell and Install
Dampp-Chascr, Inc., Ilendersonville.
N. C. has just released new dealer
helps one of which is an attractive
aluminum display stand, the brain
child of Allen M. Foote, president of
the company. The stand occupies only
out charge.
A handy, new, colorful "Piano and
Organ folder," is avilable for use as
a mailing stuffer or to give to custom-
ers in the store. There is a nominal
charge for quantities imprinted with
the dealer's name.
Sales Manager (). Jack Buckley
smiled broadly when he told us about
the large illustrated mailing piece
that's just coming from the press.
"You'll see that it tells 'em and sells
Vm on Dampp-Chasers," he said
proudly. "It's a two-color offset job
with accurate reproductions of all of
our new merchandising helps for deal-
ers. We're mailing.it to music dealers
in our countrv and abroad."
STORY & CLARK FILM
(Cont. from Page 1)
of Music of the Church of the Latter
Day Saints in Salt Lake City.
A similar meeting was also held in
Portland, Oregon the same week at
the Multnomah Hotel, the dealers and
their organizations attending, includ-
ing Ted Korten of Longview, Wash-
ington, Mr. and Mrs. John B. Collins.
Mr. and Mrs. James J. Collins, and
Roy Adams of Collins & Erwin Piano
Company, Portland, Oregon, Messrs.
Douglas and William Jaquith of Sa-
lem, Oregon, Mr. and Mrs. "Johnny"
Walker of Albany, Oregon, Mr. and
Mrs. Ed Kienle of McMinnville. Ore-
gon, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence W. Kienle
of Corvallis, Oregon, Mr. M. E. Kien-
le, Sr. and M. E. Kienle, Jr., of Tilla-
mook, Oregon, and Mr. C. P. Macnab
of the famous "Mac of the Music Box'
in Coos Bay. Oregon.
Other dealers' meetings and film
showings were held at Ted Brown's
Music Co. in Tacoma and for the Roy
Goodman. Inc., organization in Spo-
kane. Wash.
DEALER HELPS RELEASED BY
DAMPP-CHASER, INC.
nine inches of space on floor or coun-
ter, collapses flat and can be mailed
for just three cents postage. It is furn-
ished to dealers without charge.
A new display box in red and black
fits snugly into the stand. This attracts
the attention of all potential customers
wherever displayed.
Then there are smartly styled news-
paper ads designed especially for pi-
ano and organ dealers. Mats of these
are furnished to dealers free for use
in their local papers.
Large glossy photographs show ac-
tual installation of Dampp-Chasers in
various musical instruments. They help
both music dealers and piano techni-
cians to explain graphically what the
device looks like and how it works.
These pictures are also furnished with-
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for "Tone," "Responsiveness" and
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KRAKAUER
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Retail Warerooms:
25 WEST 57th STREET
Factory:
401 WEST 124th STREET
NEW YORK
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Waller H. Benson. Assistant Salts
Manager of the DeKalb Division of
the Rudolph Wurlitzer Co., became
District Sales Manager for the South-
WALTER BENSON
western territory on April 1st. He suc-
ceeds John McDonald, who resigned
and who has traveled in that territory
for many years.
Mr. Benson has been associated with
the Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. since 1935.
Since joining the Wurlitzer organiza-
tion, he has served in the capacity of
Assistant Sales Manager, working
closely with Hugh Stewart, Vice Presi-
dent and Sales Manager, in coordinat-
ing the selling operations of the
DeKalb Division.
The Southwestern territory to which
Mr. Benson has been assigned, in-
cludes the states of Texas, New Mex-
ico, Louisiana and Mississippi.
Born in DeKalb. 111., he graduated
from the local grade and high schools,
and later attended the Northern Illi-
nois State Teachers College, the Uni-
versity of Illinois, and Northwestern
University. He served as President of
the Elementary School Board, and for
several years was also a member of
the High School Board.
Effective April 1st, Mr. Benson as-
sumed his new duties April 1st with
his temporary headquarters being cen-
tered in Texas.
i | N E of the few pianos now on
the market that is made, owned
and operated by the same family
that created it.
F OUR generations of the Kra-
kauer family have produced the
Krakauer piano—over 75 years
in the same family.
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Walter Benson Now Wurlilzer
Southwestern Representative
USED
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UPRIGHTS
GRANDS
STUDIOS
BRODWIN PIANO CO.
Established 1914
244-246 West 23rd St., N. Y . N. Y.
Tel.: CHelsea 2-4350
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW, APRIL, 1954
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PRACTICAL PIANO TUNING
By ALEXANDER HART
Formerly with Steinway & Sons Tuning Department, Instructor in
Piano Tuning, Teachers College, Columbia University, N. Y.
Registered Member of the
National Association of Piano Tuners
Notes of Interest on Tuning
QAHALLEL and in keeping with this
• column. I have decided to devote
this month's space to an account of an
organization which is playing a major
part in developing and furthering our
fine art of Piano Tuning and Servic-
ing in the United States—(not to men-
tion far-off points as Alaska, the West
Indies, Hawaii and Israeli). This or-
ganization is right here in New York,
namely: The Piano Crafts Department
of the New York Trade School, in
Manhattan, under the tutelage of Earle
M. Turner.
Many of you readers will recognize
the name of Earle Turner, for he is
"Piano Man" to the core, a man of
great ability and wide experience, hav-
ing spent more than forty years in the
business, twenty of them traveling con-
stantly with great artists. He is a man
who holds strong ideas about Tuning
and about what's right (and wrong)
with the piano business in general—
and who has the courage of his con-
victions. As a matter of fact, when I
asked him if I could do a piece about
him and the school in my column with
a picture of him included, he smiled
wryly and said, "I guess I'm one of
the most-hated men in the piano busi-
ness. Because I teach men to be tuners
and make their way in the piano field,
a lot of piano men think I'm taking
bread and butter out of their mouths
—at a time like this, when there is a
shortage of 5,000 technicians right at
this moment! You're welcome to a pic-
ture of my boys (the class) but I'll be
happier if you leave me out!" Mr.
Turner is a graduate Electrical Engi-
neer, and is one of the few piano
tuners in the country who can success-
fully challenge the Stroboconn . . .
which speaks for his ability.
Trade School 73 Years Old
The Mew York Trade School itself
has a fine record of 73 years of teach-
ing young men how to work with their
hands and their heads, and how to
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW, APRIL, 1954
THE PIANO CRAFTS CLASS AT THE NEW YORK TRADE SCHOOL
apply that work. Each instructor is
required to complete the State Teach-
er's Course at the University of the
State of New York.) It is the oldest
trade school in the U. S., being en-
dowed and non-profit making. Not
only does this endowment maintain the
school; it actually contributes to the
cost of each student's tuition. With
its fine record of service, it is not
strange that when the leading piano
manufacturers decided to start i
school for technicians they chose the
.New York Trade School to sponsor it.
Being acquainted with the School,
and particularly the Piano Crafts De-
partment, and knowing what it is,
what it does, and what it means to a
student to be under* the guidance of an
outstanding instructor like Mr. Tur-
ner, I can well congratulate students
who have graduated as Piano Tuners
and Technicians from the New York
Trade School; dealers throughout the
country can be sure that when they
need a good reliable man. all they
have to do is order him and put him
to work; for the breadth of instruc-
tion offered these young men is typi-
fied by the sign which first meets the
eye on entering the Piano School:
"Everything that happens in the
Piano world happens here."—And
graduates arc found in every branch
of the business, from chippers to store
owners and agents handling our finest
makes of pianos.
Begins Ninth Year this month
The Piano Crafts Department begins
its ninth year this month (April, '54).
It occupies 5,124 sq. feet of floor
space, divided into shop, lecture room,
action-regulating room, and seven
tuning booths. The shop is equipped
with work benches, cleaning tables, ac-
tion racks, booths for small work,
machinery and spray gun equipment.
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