January 8, 1927.
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P R E S T O-T I M E S
PIANO FACTORY OTSTORE SUPPLIES
the buried kind which is found to some extent. There
still great numbers of wild and wary elephants in
COMSTOCK, CHENEY & CO. are
Africa, according to the experiences of such travelers
SITUATION IN SUPPLIES
as Carl Ackley and Stewart Edward White, and they
are very carefully protected, too. The killing of
elephants is very carefully regulated by Great Brit-
ain, whose idea is to maintain the price of ivory and
conserve the supply and is doing both.
The cutting of ivory in the plant of Comstock,
Cheney & Co. is very interesting, both as to its his-
tory and its development over a period of ninety-
three years. Saws as thin as paper are used and the
most rigid care is observed to prevent waste. Each
tusk contains numerous grades of ivory. Certain
processes of "pickling" and bleaching are necessary
before the ivory is ready for use in piano and organ
key making.
Pacts in Various Lines of Commodities Which Enter
Into Musical Instrument Manufacture.
The Cornwall & Patterson Mfg. Co., Bridgeport,
Conn., recently acquired the piano hardware manu-
facturing business of the C. D. Potter Co., of Stam-
ford, Conn.
A most essential part of a fine piano is the set of
ivory keys. But when the keys of the cheaper pianos
Piano scarfs and bench cushions were featured suc-
are considered it does not follow that the product
cessfully during the holiday season by the Denver
from which they are made was originally part of an
Music Co., Denver, Colo., which made displays of
elephant's tusk. In this country there are two sub-
the goods both in show windows and in a room
stances used in the covering of piano keys, except
specially set aside for the purpose.
experimentally, celluloid in some of its disguises, and
The new catalog of the Self-Lifting Piano Truck
genuine ivory. Celluloid is made from the same
Co, Findlay, Ohio, describes and pictures the im-
cellulose base as lacquer and comes in many colors
provements effected in the Selpo trucks for piano
and grain effects.
movers.
GOOD RADIO RESULTS.
A complete line of Weickert hammer and damper
It is the real ivory that piano manufacturers de-
Radio, feared in its infancy as sounding the death-
mand for fine pianos, and that is why they look to knell of creative American music, is really giving the felts, fine action bushing cloths and grand and up-
Comstock, Cheney & Co., Ivoryton, Conn., for keys nation its greatest crop of tune purveyors, according right hammers made of Weickert felts are carried by
made from that desirable commodity. That company to conclusions reached by officials of C. G. Conn, Phillip W. Oetting & Son, Inc., 213 East 19th street,
has been a cutter of ivory since 1834, and today is one Ltd., band instrument manufacturers of Elkhart, Ind. New York.
A new series of illustrated folders are announced
of the biggest importers of fine ivory for industrial Heads of music schools report attendance one hun-
and art purposes. The bulk of the company's ivory dred per cent higher than that of the pre-radio era. by the Period Drapery & Mfg. Co., New Albany,
supplies comes from Africa. The tusks from India In Chicago where in 1923 only 3,000 men and women Ind., which makes and sells an artistic line of piano
and other Asiatic sections are too small and usually were enrolled in the Chicago Federation of Musicians scarfs, bench cushions, upholstered bench tops and
bags for small instruments.
there are now 6,000 members.
are used for small ornaments.
E. A. Bouslog, Inc., 2106 Boulevard place, Indian-
All the ivory for piano keys comes from the cen-
apolis, has announced a twenty-four-hour service in
APPROPRIATIONS NOT ENOUGH.
tral part of Africa, the port of Mombasa being the
shipping point for it. A large part of it is shipped to
According to a recent report issued by S. T. Dana, the recovering and bushing of piano keys for the
London where it is sold at auction, although some of president of the Society of American Foresters, only trade. Quick action on every job is assured and the
it comes to the United States direct to large import- $2,600,000 is being spent yearly on the nation's 470,- work is guaranteed.
ers like Constock, Cheney & Co. The bulk of the 000,000 acres of forest, as compared with the $18,-
The equipment for making piano hammer head
ivory shipped to this country is used for piano and 000,000 annually devoted to agricultural research mould-'ng of the S. E. Overton Co., South Haven,
organ keys, the small pieces being shipped back to bearing on 500,000,000 acres of improved land.
Mich., has been sold to Julius Breckwoldt & Son, Inc.,
Europe to be fashioned into small ornaments and art
Dolgeville, N. Y., which is extending its facilities in
this line. The S. E. Overton Company will allot the
objects.
The one hundredth anniversary of the invetion of
All the ivory that comes to us is new ivory, and not the accordeon is to be celebrated in Paris this year. space to its piano bench manufacturing department.
Name of Firm Always Suggested When the
Use of Ivory in Piano and Organ
Keys Is Discussed.
WESSELL, NICKEL & GROSS
THE SELPO TRUCKS
FOR PIANO MOVERS
Manufacturers of
PIANO ACTIONS
HIGHEST GRADE
ONE GRADE ONLY
The Wesseti, Nickel & Gross action is a
guarantee of the grade of the instrument
in which tt is found*
OFFICE.
W. 45th Street
FACTORFES:
45lhSt., 10th Afe. &W46lh.
4 57
JULIUS BRECKWOLDT & SON, INC.
DOLGEVILLE. N. Y.
Manufactured by
Manufacturers of
SELF LIFTING PIANO TRUCK CO.
Piano Backs, Boards, Bridges, Bars,
Traplevers and Mouldings
J. BRECKWOLDT, Prea.
The last word in END TRUCKS. Make your service the best.
These trucks are most complete and sturdy. The frame is cross
braced and riveted, so it can not rack.
The bail has been lengthened to increase its leverage. Also, Sill
Trucks, Piano Hoists, Covers and special made straps.
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W. A. BRECKWOLDT, Sec. & Treas.
FINDLAY, OHIO
THE! O S. KELLY CO.
IVIeirtu-fac'tkjrors
PRESTO BUYERS' GUIDE
TELLS ALL ABOUT ALL PIANOS
of
Might
Grade
PIANO PLATES
SPRINGFIELD
XH E CO MSTOCK, C HENE 1 Y
IVORYTON, CONN •
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IVORY CUTTERS SINCE 1834
MANUFACTURERS OF
Grand Keys, Actions and Hammers, Upright Keys
Actions and Hammer , Pipe Organ Keys
Piano Forte Ivory for JIB Trade
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