PRESTO
February 16, 1924.
GLUE USED IN PIANO MAKING
Formula for Blood Albumen Glue Worked Out at
Forest Products Laboratory.
Glue being one of the important materials in the
making of a piano, the quality of the commodity is
a matter of vital consequence to manufacturers. For
this reason piano manufacturers pay particular atten-
tion to selecting quality glues, and sometimes they
mix the glue to be used in the piano factory.
In order to assist manufacturers of pianos and
others in properly preparing glues, the Forest Prod-
ucts Laboratory has prepared, in co-operation with
the University of Wisconsin, a number of papers on
glues. The manufacture, preparation and application
of blood albumin glues is covered in a recent publi-
cation.
Prior to 1917 only a few companies in this country
were using blood albumin glue, says the writer of this
paper, and practically all of these had formulae of
their own, which were considered secret. About 1917
there began a marked demand for water resistant ply-
wood for military purposes, and this created a de-
mand for all kinds of water resistant glues, both
casein and blood albumin. The latter glue is admir-
ably suited to many purposes and conditions of serv-
ice and is still used by some manufacturers.
Prepared blood albumin glues are not offered on
the market, owing chiefly to the decrease in solubility
of the albumin with age. The glues are, therefore,
mixed at the time of using. They may be made
either from the fresh blood of slaughtered animals or
from black soluble blood albumin obtained by process-
ing the fresh blood. To make the use of fresh blood
feasible the supply must be readily accessible to the
place of manufacture, inasmuch as rapid decomposi-
tion takes place and renders it unsatisfactory for
glue purposes.
Unless utilized at once it must, therefore, be treated
with a preservative or converted into a dried soluble
THE HEART OF THE
PIANO
form. The dried soluble albumin is the form from
which the glue is generally made, and is obtained by
subjecting the fresh blood to a process for removing
the fibrin and part of the red corpuscles and then
evaporating to dryness at a temperature below the
coagulating point of the albumin, which is approxi-
mately 160 degrees Fahrenheit.
A BUSY ROLL
DEPARTMENT
ATTRACTIVE CONN SIGN.
One of the most attractive signs in the most bril-
liantly lighted district in New York is that featuring
the instruments of C. G. Conn, Elkhart, Ind. It is
on a building on Broadway near Forty-seventh street,
and apart from its artistic qualities is strongly sug-
gestive of the desire to buy. Under the picture of a
boy playing a cornet is the caption: "Stir the Fires
of Youthful Ambition." It is estimated that close to
a million people pass the new Conn sign in the course
of a day, twenty-five per cent of whom are from
out-of-town.
CABLE N I G H T AT WJAZ.
Cable night at WJAZ broadcast radio station, Chi-
cago, is a new departure of interest to the piano
trade. A recent program was arranged by those in
the radio repartment of the Cable Piano Company.
The entertainers were Earl Billings, pianist; Weldon
Whitlock, tenor, Zetta Gay Whotson, violinist; Clara
Louise Thurston, harpist; Louise Mueller, soprano.
COLUMBIA
WORD ROLLS
February Releases
SYNCHRONIZED WORD ROLLS
Title:
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THE STANDARD ACTION CO.,
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.
LEATHER
HEINZMAN W I T H STARK & COWAN.
John Heinzman, formerly with Stark' & Cowan,
has taken over the Pacific Coast representation for
Clarke & Leslie Songs, Inc., of 1591 Broadway, New
York. Mr. Heinzman is a well known figure on the
Coast. Incidentally, Clark & Leslie's new number,
"So This Is Venice," is creating quite a sensation.
Paul Whiteman's Victor release will be on sale the
22nd of February.
PLAYERS
ORGANS
PIANOS
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NEW YORK
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Played by:
Your Mamma's Gonna Slow You
Down
Clarence Johnson Fox-trot
When Lights Are Low
Billy Fitch
Waltz
"The House of David" Blues
Clarence Johnson
Blue
Mean Blues
Art Gillham
Blue
The Land of Broken Dreams Art Gillham
Waltz
Every Day
Gladys Bagwill Fox-trot
London Bridge Is Falling Down (On the
Isle of Childhood Dreams)
Art Gillhan
Waltz
How I Miss You, No One Knows
Gladys Bagwill
Waltz
So This Is Venice
Art Gillham Fox-trot
Hard Luck Blues
Everett Robbins
Blue
It's Not the First Time You Left Me
(But It's the Last Time You'll Come Back)
James Blythe Fox-trot
Maggie (Yes Ma'am) Everett Robbins Fox-trot
Tripping Along
James Blythe
Waltz
A Smile Will Go a Long, Long Way
Everett Robbins Fox-trot
Are You Lonely? Gus Drobegg Marimba Fox-trot
Midnight Blues
Clarence Johnson
Blue
Just For Tonight
Gus Drobegg
Waltz
If I Can't Get the Sweetie I Want
(I Pity the Sweetie I Get)
Clarence Johnson Fox-trot
You Didn't Want Me When I
Wanted You
Gus Drobegg
Waltz
What Do You Do Sunday, Mary?
Billy Fitch Fox-trot
Keep Yourself Together, Sweet Fapa
Clarence Johnson Fox-trot
So This Is Love
Billy Fitch
Waltz
Old Fashioned Love Clarence Johnson Fox-trot
When It's Night-Time in Italy
Everett Robbing Fox-trot
Low Down Fapa
Clarence Johnson Fox-trot
To Retail at
Why Pay More?
Eatabliahed 1867
PNEUMATIC LEATHERS A SPECIALTY
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C. A. Gaetz, who has conducted a music store at
51 West Long street, Columbus, Ohio, for a number
of years, has purchased the entire building, 49-53 West
Long street, and 114-116 North Front street.
FOR
TUNERS"
of
W H A T H A P P E N E D TO WALNUT LOGS.
Going through some old newspaper files, W. Janes,
of Paris, Mo., recently ran across an old clipping from
a Hannibal, Mo., paper of 25 years ago, comment-
ing on the fact that Mr. Janes, who was then living
at Hunnewell, was shipping walnut logs to Germany,
says the Paris Appeal. Only the finest were being
used for the exporting and these were first heaved
square by hand so they would lie close and not roll
when loaded on an ocean vessel. Mr. Janes com-
menting on the clipping, says that he was probably
furnishing stocks for the guns with which the Ger-
mans twenty years later killed so many American
sons. One of his sons, D. P. Janes, of Moberly, was
a captain in the American Army during the World
War.
RADIO MUSIC FOR HOSPITAL.
Radio music is supplied to the patients of the
Metropolitan Hospital on Blackwell's Island, New
York City, by means of a portable set which is con-
veyed from ward to ward and floor to floor on a
stretcher wagon. The set, donated to the hospital by
the New York Tuberculosis Association, brightens
the lives of the patients.
40 Spruce Street
The Background
All Well-posted Piano Dealers, Sales-
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.
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None Better.
Made of the best materials
obtainable.
Will please your trade and
double your sales.
Quality and price make
Columbia rolls the deal-
er's best profit producer
in a roll department.
A trial order will con-
vince you.
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BASS STRINGS
STRAUCH BROS.,Inc.
OTTO R. TREFZ, Jr.
327 to 347 Walnut Ave., at 141»t Street
NEW YORK
Special attention given to the need* of the toner and
the denier
8110 Falrmoiint Avenue
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
Piano Action*, Hammer* and Rapairm
Columbia Music Roll Co.
22 S. Peoria St.
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