PRESTO-TIMES
April 23, 1927.
PIANO FACTORY OT STORE SUPPLIES
intention to do everything that is humanly possible
•to give you the kind of service and prices to merit a
continuance of your confidence and patronage.
MERGER IN SUPPLIES
Business of American Piano Supply Co., New
York Consolidated with Hammacher, Schlem-
mer & Co., and New Name Announced.
Famous Industry at South Haven, Mich., Keeps
AGE OF PERIOD BENCHES
The following letter from Hammacher, Schlemmer
& Co., New York, gives the complete facts of the
consolidation of piano supply interests to be known as
the American Piano Supply Co. Division of Ham-
macher, Schlemmer & Co.:
We take pleasure in announcing to our friends the
consolidation of 'the business of The American Piano
Supply Company with Hammacher, Schlemmer &
Co., effective as of May 1, 1927.
The consolidation of the business of the two com-
panies will be known as the "American Piano Supply
Co., Division of Hammacher, Schlemmer & Co."
We have acquired by purchase, the physical assets,
the name and the good-will of the American Piano
Supply Company, and the bringing together of these
two old-line supply houses should result in benefits
mutual to the piano trade and to the new organiza-
tion.
Mr. William C. Hess, who has been associated with
the piano supply industry for the past twenty-seven
years, will remain in charge of the sales department
and our Mr. Louis Schmidt who, for thirty years has
been supervising the sales in conjunction with pur-
chases of piano materials in the Hammacher, Schlem-
mer organization, will devote all of his time and ener-
gies to the purchase of raw and finished materials.
The new organization will continue to operate in
the same building which has been occupied by the
American Piano Supply Company at 110 and 112 East
13th street, New York, N. Y., and all orders after
April 30, 1927, will be executed at this address.
Our traveling staff has been augmented by the
consolidation which brings together the traveling rep-
resentatives of both houses, and they will continue to
call on you personally as heretofore.
In closing, we want to assure you that it is our
Abreast of the Decorative Piano Designs.
The S. E. Overtoil Company, manufacturers of the
celebrated Overtoil piano benches, make special study
in the matter of "surroundings in the music room,"
which are being manifested in all lines of furniture,
but especially in pianos which are purchased now
with regard to the case quite as much as the tone and
the touch. In fact, the piano in period motif is com-
ing rapidly into its own, and wherever placed in the
scheme of room decoration it tends to dominate the
entire motif.
It is safe to say that no concern in this, or any
other, country is better prepared to supply the de-
mand for benches in keeping with the latest furniture
and furnishings, than the Overtoil Company, of South
Haven, Mich.
RUBBER GROWING REGIONS.
The investigations of the possibilities of rubber
plantation development in foreign countries, con-
ducted by the Department of Commerce, have
aroused much interest wherever conditions generally
suitable for rubber growing exist. An immediate
result of this interest has been the issuance of
treatises on the subject bu countries climatically
suited for rubber growing. Brazil, Indo-China and
Burma have been suggested as favorable to rubber
growing in recent published reports.
"Music that Pays as It Plays" is the new slogan
of the Western Electric Piano Co., Chicago, used in
featuring its line of coin-operated instruments.
WESSELL, NICKEL & GROSS
Manufacturers of
A VENEER REFERENCE BOOK
Plywood Manufacturers' Association Issues Reference
Book for Industries and Technical Schools.
The Plywood Manufacturers' Association has
issued a new reference book called "Veneers and Ply-
wood," the purpose of which are set forth in 'the
foreword. The editors are Meinrad Wulpi, commis-
sioner for the association, and E. Vernon Knight, of
the New Albany Veneering Company, New Albany,
Indiana.
The book has 372 pages with 200 illustrations, and
gives the history of veneer from the earliest civiliza-
tion to the present 'time. "Interwoven with the
romance of veneer is the significant fact that when-
ever settled economic and social conditions encour-
aged artistic expression and true craftsmanship, the
art of veneering—of plywood—prevailed, is the state-
ment."
The book is an exhaustive study of the subject and
discusses the history of veneer, processes of manu-
facture and uses and should prove invaluable to the
wood using industries and manual training schools.
ENQUIRY FROM EXPORTERS.
A firm in Madras, India, seeks connectionsw ith
American firms desiring .to import tanned cow and
buffalo hides, tanned sheep and goat skins, and dry
salted goatskins from India. Further information on
this opportunity may be had by requesting the Hide
and Leather Division for Import Trade Request
No. 58.
Phillip Fleisher, who recently bought the E. A.
Koons Music & Furniture Co., Monroe, N. Y., has
added a musical merchandise department.
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