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Presto

Issue: 1927 2135

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July 2, 1927.
PRESTO-TIMES
NO REFORESTATION PROGRESS
Our large stock ia very seldom depleted, and your
order, whether I large or small, will receive Imme-
dlate attention. In addition, you get the very
best of
Felts; Cloths; Hammers; Punching!;
Music Wire; Tuning Pins; Player
Parts; Hinges; Castings; etc.
We have In stock a full line of materials for
Pianos and Organs.
AMERICAN PIANO
SUPPLY COMPANY
110-112 EAST 13th STREET
NEW YORK
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.
So States Dean Franklin Moon of the New York
State College of Forestry.
Little progress has been made to date in the effort
to stem the tide of forest depletion, according to
Dean Franklin Moon of the New York State College
of Forestry, Syracuse University, who stresses the
need of more general reforestation if the United
States is not to become a treeless, semi-desert coun-
try.
After a visit to practically all the principal forest
regions of Europe and a study at close range of Euro-
pean forestry educational institutions, Dean Moon says
that, on his return here, he is more impressed than
ever with the necessity for the application of scien-
tific fore&try in the United States. Our immediate
need for more reforestation is practically urgent, he
adds.
The inhabitants of this country have been spending
American resources with a lavish hand for 300 years,
Dr. Moon charges. Vast areas of farm and forest
land have been practically given away to homestead
and land companies. Huge tracts of mineral-bearing
and forest lands have been granted to railway and
road companies 'to encourage construction of trans-
portation systems.
"In spite of the campaign of education, technical
and public, little real replacemeent of our forest area
can be counted. The State of New York leads all
others in its reforestation program, yet the 20,000
acres which will be planned this year will not nearly
equal the average annual loss from forest fires and
lumbering nor from abandonment of farm land," he
said.
"Older nations have learned from experience that
an adequate supply of forest products is a necessity
in peace and war, and it is to be hoped that during
the next few years the Federal and State Govern-
ments will organize to reclothe our 90,000,000 acres of
denuded land.
"Every patriotic American should resolve to do his
part so that posterity will not inherit a barren, tree-
Greater Beauty
and Greater
A. C. CHENEY
PIANO ACTION COMPANY
SCARFS,
GUSH-
IONS,
COVERS
CASTLETON, N. Y.
SCHAFF
Piano String Co.
Manufacturers of
Comfort
Bench Cushions, Piano Throws, Bags
for Small Instruments, Upholstered
Bench Tops.
Illustrated Folder* On Request
Period Drapery and Mfg. Co.
NEW ALBANY, IND.
less land with all the ills that semi-desert conditions
bring in their train."
Dean Moon recently returned from a year's sab-
batical leave, all of which he spent in England and
on the Continent.
GLUE USED IN INDUSTRY
All Three of Principal Kind Are Suited to Piano
Factory Uses.
There are today three principal kinds of glue used
in woodworking—animal, vegetable and casein. So-
called fish glues are not used, and practically none
of the albumin glues are used.
Animal glue is the familiar glue we have known
for many years, and in the better grades is made
mostly from hide stock, and from bone stock in the
cheaper grades. It is my personal opinion that it
still is the best glue for strength that is made. Vege-
table glue is made from the cassava root, from which
we also get tapioca. It is often called tapioca flour,
and is a starch. It is made into glue by adding
caustic soda and water and stirring and cooking to-
gether. It is used cold.
Casein glue is made, as its name implies, from a
milk base. Most of it is shipped from South Amer-
ica. The method of making it into glue is very
similar to that of making vegetable glue except that
no heating or cooking is needed. It also is used cold,
and while not waterproof is very water resistant, and
good for exposed work.
CASTERS MADE OF CORK.
The Faultless Caster Company of Evansville, Ind.,
is 'turning out casters made from cork that has been
chemically treated. The small rollers, after under-
going the chemical treatment, are pressed, and it is
said they become so hard that even an emery stone
can hardly touch them. The Faultless Caster Com-
pany is well known to manufacturers of musical in-
struments. The company moved their plant to
Evansville from Nebraska City, Neb., in 1901, and
the business has rapidly grown.
CLEARS RADIO DOCKET.
The docket of the Federal Radio Commission was
cleared of all scheduled public hearings on June 22
when the Commission disposed of disputed frequency
cases involving eight stations, which had protested
their wave assignments under the June 15 allocations.
All of the cases were taken under advisement by the
Commission for later decisions.
GENERAL PIANO KEY
REPAIRING
24-HOUR
SERVICE
RECOVERING
BUSHING
SHARPS
E, A. BOUSLOG, Inc.
PIANO KEYS RECOVERED
Piano Bass Strings
2009-2021 CLYBOURN AVENUE
Cor er Lewis Street
CHICAGO
f
Heaviest grade Pyralin Ivory, beveled
and polished to look like the finest ivory
keyboards built. Beautiful work, guaran-
teed. Sharps ebonized, bushings, etc.
We begin work on your keys the minute they
arrive. Write for New Price List.
McMACKIN PIANO SERVICE
Factory: 1721-3 Mondamin Avenue
DES MOINES, IA.
HAMMACHER, SCHLEMMER & CO
PIANO and PLAYER
HARDWARE, FELTS, TOOLS,
RUBBERIZED PLAYER FABRICS
New York, Since 1848
4th AVC ami 13th
2106 Boulevard Place
INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
OTTO R. TREFZ, Jr.
PIANO BASS STRINGS —PIANO REPAIR SUPPLIES
TUNERS AND REPAIRERS
Our new Illustrated Catalogue of Piano
and Player Hardware, Felts and Tools
is now ready. If you haven't received
your copy let us know.
2110 Fairmount Ave.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
The Piano Repair Shop
Pianos and Phonographs Rebuilt by
Expert Workmen
Playci-actions installed. Instruments
refinished or remodeled and actions and
keys repaired. Work guaranteed. Prices
reasonable.
Our-of-town dealers' repair work solic-
ited. Write for details and terms.
THE PIANO REPAIR SHOP
339 South Wabash AT«.
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P R E S T 0-TI M E S
July 2, 1927.
COINOLAS
FOR
RESTAURANTS, CAFES and
A M U S E M E N T CENTERS
Style C-2
FROM THE BIGGEST
ORCHESTRION
seemed to have been more or less of an event around
the Stout plant, attracting many of the workmen
from the main plant.
The cabinets, going through the course of con-,
Industry Said to Become Stabilized by the General
struction, are advanced in somewhat the style of
Recognition of Rights.
Fords on the "endless chain" made famous in the
The radio public of this country, for the first time, Detroit plant. The packing room is in the west side
will receive the full benefit of the radio patent situa- of the building, accessible to the railroad cars.
tion this year when the new styles of receivers are Twelve days are required for the process of manu-
made available, according to J. D. R. Freed, president facture of an instrument from the boards to the
of the Freed Eisemann Radio Corporation.
finished cabinet.
"The corporations which own and control the basic
In the main plant cabinets for larger instruments
patents have reached an agreement and have made for the same are also being manufactured. The wood
it possible for broadcast listeners 'to profit by the working machines are so arranged that all are pro-
development of the latest inventions," said Mr. Freed pelled from a single line shaft, powered by two elec-
last week. "Thousands of patents are involved in tric motors.
the manufacture of modern receiving sets and most
of these patents are owned and controlled by -the
Radio Corporation of America, the General Electric
PROUD OF OLD VIOLIN.
Company, the Westinghouse Electric and Manufac-
Miss Jeannette West, Greensburg, Ind., has come
turing Company and the American Telephone and into possession of a violin which was made by Carlo
Telegraph Company. Never before has the radio Bergonzi in 1734. Bergonzi was a pupil of Antonio
public been in such an advantageous position. For Stradivarius, whom he imitated very closely in his
the first time a radio fan will be able to get an instru- early efforts, while his later instruments show much
ment which is the combined result of the patents of originality and character. He made not only violins,
practically all the controlling patent situation of the but also violas and violin-cellos, which, however, are
country. When a licensed set is purchased 'this year all now very rare. Miss West greatly appreciates
it will mean that its owner will receive the best de- the gift for its intrinsic merits and prizes it as a
velopments attained by the combined engineering family keepsake as well. The violin was once owned
laboratories.
and played by a Denver relative, well known on the
"This co-operation between 'the patent owners and concert stage.
the splendid work of the Federal Radio Commission
has done more to stabilize the industry than any
RADIO RECEPTION IMPROVED.
other factor since the inception of broadcasting. Not
In
the
first official report made with regard to the
only in the radio industry, but in banking circles,
proper patent coverage is being regarded as of vital reassignment of frequencies and power throughout
importance. This may well mark a milestone in the the United States, Commissioner H. A. Bellows, act-
radio industry, because for the first time serious con- ing as spokesman for the Federal Radio Commission,
sideration is being given to the importance of the last week declared that conditions are vastly im-
proved in the cities. With regard to long distance
rights of those who hold the basic patents."
reception,
he said that there was a varying opinion,
In regard to the radio patent outlook for the com- some advices
the situation to be better and
ing season, E. H. Schwab, chairman of the Splitdorf others not as asserting
good as it had been.
Radio Corporation, recently said:
"The clearing up of the patent situation has re-
moved the one real bugaboo of the honest-to-
goodness radio manufacturer. Being worried and
harassed, they could not devote their best talents to
production and sales problems, but all of this is back
of us now."
RADIO MAKERS POOL INTERESTS
NOW MAKES RADIO CABINETS
Stout Furniture Company, Brazil, Ind., Plans Big
Output in Old Phonograph Factory.
The same machinery that was used in making the
Knight Ampliphone phonograph and the Tourist
phonograph has been arranged by -the Stout Furni-
ture Company, Brazil, Ind., purchasers of the Knight
plant there, and has been speeded up to turn out five
hundred completed radio cabinets a day. The first
completed radio cabinets came through the endless
chain in the finishing room, stained, filled, sanded,
shellaced and lacquered, all ready for hand rubbers,
Saturday afternoon. The completion of the first of
the run of an abnormally large order of cabinets
Crossman Lumber
Company
Choice Lower Michigan
End Dried White Maple
Quartered Maple
Wide Maple
All thicknesses
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Philip W. Oetting & Son, Inc.
213 East 19th Street, New York
HIGH GRADE
Folding Organs
School Organs
Sole Agents for
WEICKERT
Hammer and Damper Felts
Practice Keyboards
Grand and Upright Ham-
mer* Made of Weickcrt Felt
Dealers' Attention Solicited
A. L. WHITE MFG. CO.
215 Envl«v;ood Ave., CHICAGO. ILL.
Fine Action Bushing Cloths, etc
KEYS RECOVERED AND REBUSHED
FRIELD MILLER & COMPANY
THE SMALLEST
KEYLESS
Samples of Work on Request
Prompt and Efficient Service
3355 North Illinois Street, INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
Manufactured by
The Operators Piano Co.
715-721 N. Kedzie Ave.
CHICAGO
FAIRBANKS
PIANO PLATES
THE FAIRBANKS CO., Springfield, Ohio
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