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SCHAFF STRINGS IN DEMAND
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Hardware, Felts, Cloths, Hammers, etc
for Pianos. Organs, Players, Talking
Machines, Special Stampings, Turn-
ings, etc., when you order from us.
The American Piano' Supply Co., Inc.
No. 112 East 13th Street
NEW YORK CITY
SCHAFF
Piano String Co.
Manufacturers of
Piano Bass Strings
2009-2021 CLYBOURN AVENUE
Correr Lewis Street
CHICAGO
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Production of Fine Strings One of the Main Essen-
tials to the Piano Trade.
The January business of the Schaff Piano String
Mfg. Co., 2009-2021 Clybourn avenue, Chicago, was
unusually good, according to reports made at the
factory last week, and a good demand throughout
the year is expected.
The optimism on 'the part of the Schaff company
is due to the fact that the trade everywhere has taken
largely to the fine commodity it is manufacturing.
The. experience and skill employed in the making of
its products has reached the standard of perfection as
regarded by many of its customers. The entire force
of the company are skilled artisans, and the faqt that
their work is centered on a certain commodity is of
great value to its perfection.
A fine feature of the company is that it is manufac-
turing its products in a steady and consistent manner.
There are no rush seasons as the demand does not
vary to any great extent. This is also important to
the company and its customers.
DEFINES TRUE MAHOGANY
United States Forestry Service in Statement Names
Several Wood Varieties Masqueraded in Market.
The United States Forestry Service says many of
the wood varieties represented as mahogany are closely
related botanically to true mahogany, but others have
only a general rcseumblance to entitle them to the
name.
The woods now most commonly sold as mahogany
in this country are true mahogany from tropical
America, African mahogany and Philippine mahog-
any. The cedrelas (Spanish cedar) are rarely sold as
mahoganies, while crabwood, sapeli, Colombian
mahogany and Libervillc mahogany are imported in
only small quantities.
Birch and red gum are used principally as imita-
tions of mahogany, and sometimes they are sold as
the genuine mahogany.
The color of true mahogany, says the Forestry
Service in its interesting statement, varies from very
pale to very dark reddish brown. The wood is with-
out characteristic odor or taste. True mahogany
usually has interlocked grain, which gives the "rib-
bon" effect to quarter sawed material. Unlike most
other woods with interlocked grain, it does not warp
easily.
The pores in true mahogany are plainly visible
without a hand lens as minute holes on a smoothly
cut end surface and as grooves on longitudinal sur-
faces. They are scattered singly or in short radial
rows of two to four. Some of the pores are filled
with a dark brown gum, but less plentifully in the
light colored soft grades than in the darker grades.
Several species of timber are marketed as African
mahogany. This is known by the following names:
Senegal, Gambia, Benin and Gaboon mahogany, the
first word indicating the region where the particular
wood is found. Not a great deal of these woods is
Paragon Foundries
Company
Manufacturers of
February 9, 1924.
imported to the United States.
African mahogany is similar to true mahogany in
its properties, except that it does not show such ex-
tremes of density and color. Occasional boards have
a purplish tinge mixed with the usual reddish-brown
color. Interlocked grain is visually present, but, as
in true mahogany, is not associated with excessive
warping.
Another wood that is frequently sold as mahogany
is Tanguile, also called Bataan mahogany, and this
comes from the Philippines. Considerable of this is
imported into the United States and some of it is
used in the manufacture of musical instruments.
Tanguile and red lauaan constitute the bulk of so-
called "Philippine mahogany" sent to the United
States. Almon is included occasionally.
Tanguile is "soft to moderately hard; light to mod-
erately heavy, specific gravity 0.469 to 0.S09; heart-
wood pale red to dark reddish-brown; grain dis-
tinctly crossed, producing a broad, conspicuous rib-
bon when quarter sawed; seasons well, but may warp
if not carefully stacked; easy to work."
Red lauaan is "soft to moderately hard; light to
moderately heavy, specific gravity 0.406; heartw T ood
light. red to dark reddish-brown; grain distinctly
crossed, forming a conspicuous ribbon when quarter
sawed; texture rather coarse; seasons well, splitting
anw warping very little; easy to work."
CONN LINE IN PENNSYLVANIA.
The Henton & Knecht Co., Philadelphia, Pa., has
opened several new agencies for Conn band instru-
ments in the eastern district in recent months, among
the latest being that of the Atlantic City Music Co.,
31 South Virginia avenue, Atlantic City, N. J.; the
J. B. Wilson Music Co., 912 Orange street, Wil-
mington, Del., and Louis J. Pfaff, 711 Juniper street,
Quakertown, Pa. These stores will be the exclusive
distributors in their respective territories. The firm,
of which II. Bennie Henton and Albert Knecht are
proprietors, during the past year greatly increased the
repair department of the Conn line and is doing a
great deal of trade work in the shops under the direc-
tion of experts trained at the Conn factory.
NEW SLINGERLAND CATALOG.
The Slingerland Mfg. Co., manufacturer of banjos
and other stringed instruments, 1815 Orchard street,
Chicago, has issued a new catalog describing Slinger-
land's professional tone banjo, which is sold with the
slogan of ''Instruments of quality, tone and dura-
bility." The catalog is a twenty-page booklet and
shows twenty-live different models of this instrument,
of of which are in active demand with the trade. It
is attractively finished and fully illustrated with ex-
cellent cuts which bring out the full beauty of the
instruments. The new catalog also shows Slinger-
land's professional tone banjo-ukuleles, ukuleles,
guitars, mandolins and a complete line of banjo necks,
heads, accessories, resonators, hooks, brackets and
keratol and canvas cases.
NEW INCORPORATIONS.
Phonograph Recording Machine Co., Manhattan;
$100,000; W. Robb, E. W. Morse, R. S. Whitley.
Attorneys, Wechsler & Wechsler, ISO Nassau street,
New York.
Grand Music Shop, Manhatton; $10,000; L. Abzug,
T. Wilier, M. Taub. Attorney, E. Weinfeld, 217
Broadway, New York.
A BROOKLYN BANKRUPT.
Jacob Schwartz, phonographs and musical shop,
701 Madison street, Brooklyn, New York, has been
petitioned into bankruptcy by Abraham Toordin for
$900. Judge Garvin has appointed John H. McCooey
receiver, in bond of $500.
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