March 12, 1927.
PRESTO-TIMES
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PIANO FACTORY M STORE SUPPLIES
SITUATION IN SUPPLIES
Pacts in Various Lines of Commoditie* Which Enter
Into Musical Instalment Manufacture.
Herman Trautner, the inventor of Lactosan, a
chemical crystal for destroying moths and their lar-
vae, recently organized a company for its manufac-
ture in San Francisco. He claims it protects piano
hammers and felts from insect pests.
Mahogany has been exported from British Hon-
duras for more than 200 years and since the decline
in the value of logwood has been the chief product.
Experts at the U. S. Forest Products Laboratory,
Madison, Wis., say no tree produces lumber that is
entirely free from defects and blemishes. The same
irregularities in the wood, natural and accidental, are
likely to grow in any species.
Much of the hardwood used in the piano industry
is of Georgia origin, according to a report by State
Forester B. H. Lufburrow, who recently reported on
the productiveness of twenty-three countries having
a total of 4,742,450 acres of hardwood.
The best hammer felts are made from mixtures of
Australian, Cape Colony and domestic wools, each
selected for its fineness, length of fiber and its ca-
pacity to felt well.
Creditors of Bristol & Barber, Inc., New York, re-
cently declared bankrupt, last week instructed the
receiver, Alfred L. Smith, to request the court to
continue the receivership for ninety days.
Ronald M. Beale, of Beale & Co., Ltd., with a chain
of music stores throughout Australia, spoke at the
last week of the Superintendents' Club of the New
York Piano Manufacturers' Association.
The common lumber used in pianos are poplar or
white wood, chestnut, pine and gum as cases to be
veneered. When ash was more plentiful it also was
used. These woods are used because they are rela-
tively common, are soft-textured, glue adheres to
them well and they do not warp or twist readily.
Hard rains and resultant floods have interrupted
the shipment of logs for veneer mills in Evansville,
Ind., and other points.
A piano playing tournament for children has been
organized by the Call of San Francisco, open to pub-
lic and parochial schools, and to be a part of Music
Week events.
The Mengel Co., Louisville, Ky., manufacturers of
veneers, has been allowed a claim of $3{)0,000 for two
vessels sunk by German submarines while delivering
wartime material to the allies.
RECENT INCORPORATIONS
Manufacturers of
MOVING TRUCKS
for
PIANO ACTIONS
PIANOS
ONE GRADE ONLY
The Wessell, Nickel & Gross action is a
guarantee of the grade of the instrument
in which it is found.
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Forest Experiment Station Expert Warns Manufac-
turers of Condition Affecting Piano Industry.
In a talk before the 'technical division of the Ameri-
can Pulp and Paper Association at the twelfth annual
dinner at the Hotel Commodore, New York, last
week, Raphael Zon, director of the Great Lakes
States Forest Experiment Station, said that Amer-
ica's supply of spruce is being rapidly depleted.
As a considerable portion of the spruce cut each
year is used for the manufacture of piano sounding
boards Mr. Zon's words are significant. A shortage
of supply in all the spruce producing sections natur-
ally would cause a rise in prices of the wood and all
the commodities produced from it. Planting of
spruce, he said, even if begun immediately, would not
have remedial results for twenty years.
LINES OF OTTO R. TREFZ, JR.
Otto R. Trefz, Jr., 2110 Fairmount avenue, Phila-
delphia, gives special attention to his department of
piano repair supplies and the requirements of piano
tuners. Full lines of piano player hardware, felts and
tools for piano manufacturers, repairmen and tuners,
are carried, and particular attention is called to the
fine line of piano bass strings.
As Trade Outlook Brightens, Several New Concerns
Start Up.
FAMOUS WEICKERT FELTS.
The Period Phonograph Co., New York; $25,000;
The famous Weickert hammer and damper felts G. and F. Boetcher and F. Winter.
are carried by Philip W. Oetting & Son, Inc., 213'
Alba Music Shops, New York; $15,000; A. Falsetti
East 19th street, New York, which house also carries and F. Tripoli.
a full line of grand and upright hammers made of
Cameo Record Corp., Wilmington, Del.; talking
Weickert felt as well as full supplies of fine bushing machine supplies; $10,000; T. L. Crotenu.
cloths and other requirements of that kind.
The Cleveland Festival Orchestra, Cleveland, O., to
promote better music. H. A. Sibley, R. H. Davis and
others.
LEASES IN LOS ANGELES.
H. Ross McClure, head of the Personality Shop,
BRUNSWICK-BALKE DIVIDEND.
Los Angeles, dealers in musical merchandise and
The directors of the Brunswick-Balke-Collender
sheet music, has taken a long term lease for ground
floor space in the Chester Williams Building, Fifth Co. have authorized a dividend oi l}i payable April
and Broadway. A total rental of $150,000 for the 1, 1927, on the outstanding preferred stock of that
company, as of record March 20, 1927.
term is involved in lease.
WESSELL, NICKEL & GROSS
HIGHEST GRADE
DEPLETION OFJSPRUCE SUPPLY
Orthophonic Victrolas
Electric Refrigerators
OFFICEi
457 w. 45th Street
Trucks, Hoists, Covers and Special Straps.
JULIUS BRECKWOLDT & SON, INC.
DOLGEVILLE. N. Y,
Manufactured by
Self-Lifting PianoTruck Co.
Manufacturers of
FINDLAY, OHIO
Piano Backs, Boards, Bridges, Bars,
Traplevers and Mouldings
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W. A. BRECKWOLDT, Sec. & Treas.
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