June 18, 1927.
PRESTO-TIMES
20
STRING PLANT EXPANDS
The V. C. Squier Company, Battle Creek, Mich.,
Double Size of Factory.
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AMERICAN PIANO
SUPPLY COMPANY
110-112 EAST 13th STREET
NEW YORK
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Worry Over Player Details
is avoided by the manufac-
turer who uses the
A. C. Cheney Player Action
in his products. He knows
everything is all right and
that the best musical quali-
ties of his pianos are develop-
ed by the use of this player
mechanism.
A. C. CHENEY
PIANO ACTION COMPANY
CASTLETON, N. Y.
V. C. Squier Company, Battle Creek, Mich., makers
of violins and strings and other musical supplies, is
building a new factory at 429 Lake avenue, corner of
Janoah. The new building will be 32x67 feet, two
stories in height, and will be constructed of red brick.
With the new building, the factory will more than
double its capacity and within interval of two years
or so, it is planned to raze the present units of the
plant, the Lake avenue factory that has been in use
for years and 'the residence connected with it on
Janoah avenue, replacing them with a building that
will complement the structure now in process of
erection.
This entire factory is given over to the making of
violin strings and those for other stringed instru-
ments, as well as string-winding machines, perfected
by the mechanician, J. Gus Crawford, who has been
affiliated with V. C. Squier for years.
The violin department was taken to the Nichols
Building, North Jefferson avenue, seven years ago,
when the business of the string department grew to
such proportions it had to take over the entire fac-
tory. Floyd W. Parsons, son-in-law of Mr. Squier.
is in charge of sales and shipping, while Mr. Squier
has the repair department.
Raymond Gould, brother of Mr. Squier, is manager
of the violin department, and in full charge of the
factory, in which thirty or more people are employed
during the season, which opens in August and closes
around the first of May while the rest of the year the
number ranges from 18 to 20.
Shipments are made mostly within the United
States, though some strings are sent to the old coun-
tries, the jobbers doing the exporting for 'the most
part.
In the violin department high grade violins are
manufactured. They are sold to professional players
and are to be found all over the country. A great
deal of repair work is done also.
A 48-page catalogue listing violins and strings for
all instruments using the bow, and supplies for all
bows, cases, fittings and the like is issued annually by
the Squier company, officers in which are: V. C.
GENERAL PIANO KEY
REPAIRING
Squier, president; Mrs. V. C. Squier, vice-president;
Raymond Gould, treasurer and manager; J. Gus
Crawford, secretary.
This industry was started in 1890 at 433 Lake ave-
nue by Mr. Squier in a little building 10x21 at the
rear of his old home, and from that modest beginning
the present splendid attainments have emanated. Mr.
Squier had studied violin making for eight years in
Boston, Mass., learning his trade from his own father,
Jerome B. Squire, a famous maker of violins, then
going to Wooster, where he studied still further
with some of the greatest violin-makers in the United
States.
NEW TYPE PIANO BENCH.
The Gulbransen Company, Chicago, made its in-
itial showing of a new type piano bench with fancy
beveled top and stretchers. It is one of the most
sturdy and substantial benches on the market, and
at the same time possesses eye value to an unusual
extent. The legs are gracefully tapered also. This
will be the standard bench of the Gulbransen line,
adaptable to all instruments except the small upright.
It has full size music compartment.
AROUSING T H E BAND SPIRIT.
The Whiteland Boys' Band, Whiteland, Ind, an
organization containing fifty skilled musicians, played
a concert at the high school gym at Fortville, Ind.,
recently. One of the purposes of the concert which
was sponsored by the Lions Club was to instill an
interest in the organization of a boys' band there.
Prof. Henry has been working on the project for
some time and now has over sixty boys signed up.
No definite date has been set for the organization.
HOLD MUSIC WEEK CONTESTS.
Twenty-one children won silver medals of the New
York Music Week Association in elementary violin
contests held throughout the city, for a grade of 85
per cent or better, recently. Prominent musicians
acted as judges in each case. The contestants were
divided into Grade A and Grade B. The judges de-
clared the standards demonstrated by these young
musicians exceeded the standards of last year's con-
tests.
Downey Coleman, lumber dealer of Oakland City,
Ind., has bought a half-interest in the American Wal-
nut Co., of Rvansville, Ind.
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