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PRESTO
November 24, 1923
POINTS TO LUMBER DEFECTS
No Species of Wood Free from Blemishes, According
to Government Experts.
NOT ONLY
do we specialize in the very best of
piano and organ supplies, including
hammers, felts, cloths, punchings,
wedges, and straight hardware, such as
hinges, tuning pins, music wire, cast-
ers, piano tools, player stock, etc.
BUT
we are also speed specialists when it
comes to the handling and filling of
your orders. Our large stock and
modern methods enable us to do so.
What do you need?
American Piano Supply Co., Inc.
110-112 E. 13th St.
New York City
The Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wis.,
says no 'tree produces lumber that is entirely free
from defects and blemishes. The same irregularities
in the wood, natural and accidental, are likely to occur
in all species; and in all woods used for the same
purpose the effect of a certain defect on the strength
and quality is about the same according to the Forest
Products Laboratory, Madison. Wis. The keen
judges of lumber in piano factories are also familiar
with the admirable and undesirable features of the
stock they buy.
According to the laboratory report, knots are prob-
ably the most common of the natural defects in lum-
ber. Most branches of forest-grown trees originate
at the center of the trunk and grow in diameter and
length so long as conditions are favorable.
All trees do not have pitch streaks or pitch pockets,
but such blemishes are found in the majority of soft-
woods. The amount of pitch often varies as much
within a species as it does between species. A typical
pitch pocket in southern wellow pine may be shorter
and wider than one in Douglas fir, but if they are
equal in area they are practically equivalent in dam-
aging effect. The same kind of blemish-producing
accidents happen to all kinds of wood.
SITUATION IN SUPPLIES
SCHAFF
Piano String Co.
Manufacturers of
Piano Bass Strings
2009-2021 CLYBOURN AVENUE
Cor er Lewis Street
CHICAGO
of a dozen states and representatives of $45,000 wool
growers in the west and middle west.
The prevailing low prices for crude rubbes, directly
resulting from post-war conditions, have been respon-
sible for little or no planting of rubber trees, accord-
ing to trade advices. This situation is causing much
concern in manufacturing circles.
LINE OF DOMESTIC CYMBALS.
Magosy & Buscher, 323 Canal street, and 118
Walker street, New York, announces a new line of
hammered cymbals, guaranteed as good as Turkish
cymbals in sound with the added advantage of not
costing so much. Magosy & Buescher has a reputa-
tion in the musical world for excellence in its produc-
tions in brass, and its representation of its domestic
line of cymbals is accepted by its large clientele in the
musical merchandist trade. The line of hammered
cymba's comes in brass and German silver from 2 to
18 inches. The company also handles brass mutes
for cornets, trombones, and French horns and is the
maker of the Bestone banjo resonators.
NEW MUSICAL MERCHANDISE STORE.
The D. W. Boland Company, Minneapolis dealers
in band instruments and musical supplies, has opened
a store at 1014 Marquette avenue in the Handicraft
Guild annex, following the making of a lease on the
premises through the Walter L. Badger agency.
The Ong Music Co., Hollywood, Cal., L. Waldo
Ong, proprietor, carries the Baldwin line.
Facts in Various Lines of Commodities Which Enter
Into Musical Instrument Manufacture.
Exports of wood and manufacturers of wood from
the United States show an increase of approximately
66 per cent over the total for June, 1922, according
to compilation by the Lumber Division of the De-
partment of Commerce. Imports for the same period
show an increase of slightly more than 48 per cent.
The Hardwood Manufacturers' Institute has com-
piled a report of interest to manufacturers of pianos
and other musical instruments. It claims that radical
changes are needed in hardwood lumber grades and
that freight rates on low grades are too high. It rec-
ommends grading lumber according to the uses for
which it is intended.
By using a cunningly devised mixture of 50 per
cent sawdust with cha 1 k and chemicals and subjecting
it to very heavy pressure, a scientist of the Kulle-
bund, Norway, says he has succeeded in making arti-
ficial wood which he claims is indestructible in water,
and on account of the chemicals it contains it is im-
pervious to rot and burns only at a temperature very
much higher than that at which real timber ignites.
Plans for making Chicago the greatest wool dis-
tributing center in the world were discussed at a
recent conference held there by the leading bankers
Established 1867
Strauch Bros.
All Well-posted Piano Dealers, c ales-
men, and the Piano Buying Public
recognize the value of this name on a
Piano Action,
For more than 55 years it has been associ-
ated with the best products of the Piano
industry. It has always represented
Quality and Merit
When a Piano Action bears the name of
Strauch Bros, it is an additional guarantee
of the quality of the instrument containing it.
STRAUCH BROS.,Inc.
Piano Actions, Hammers and Repairs
327 to 347 Walnut Ave., at 141*t Street
NEW YORK
The Piano Repair Shop
PERFECT PUNCHINGS
AT
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137 E A S T I3 -= ST.
NEW
Pianos and Phonographs Rebuilt by
Expert Workmen
Player-actions installed. Instruments
rehnished or remodeled and actions and
keys repaired. Work guaranteed. Prices
reasonable.
Our-of-town dealers' repair work solic-
ited. Write for details and terms.
THE PIANO REPAIR SHOP
425 South Wabash Ave.
Paragon Foundries
Company
Manufacturers of
Paragon Piano Plates
Chicago
Oregon, Illinois
YORK
Comstock, Cheney & Co.
Ivory Cutters and Manufacturers
Piano Keys, Aclions and Hammers
IVORY AND COMPOSITION-COVERED ORGAN KEYS
The only Company Furnishing the Keys, Actions, Hammers and Brackets Complete
Telegraph and R. R. Station: Essex, Conn.
Office and Factories: Ivoryton, Conn.
WESSELL, NICKEL & GROSS
Manufacturers of
PIANO ACTIONS
HIGHEST GRADE
ONE GRADE ONLY
The "Wessell, Nickel & Gross action is a
guarantee of the grade of the instrument
in which it is found.
r^'fwVNEW YORK
45th St., 10th Are. &W 46*h.
OFFICE: •
457 W. 45th Street
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