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July 23, 1927.
PRESTO-TIMES
SITUATION IN SUPPLIES
Pacts in Various Lines of Commodities Which Enter
Into Musical Instrument Manufacture.
The Tonk Manufacturing Co.'s branch factory at
4627 East 50th street, Los Angeles, Calif., guaran-
tees prompt deliveries of Tonkhench orders by west-
ern music dealers.
In a talk before the technical division of the Amer-
ican Pulp and Paper Association at the twelfth an-
nual dinner at the Hotel Commodore, New York,
Raphael Zon, director of the Great Lakes States
Forest Experiment Station, said that America's sup-
ply of spruce is being rapidly depleted.
The famous Weickert hammer and damper felts
are carried by Philip W. Oetting & Son, Inc., 213
East 19th. street, New York, which house also carries
a full line of grand and upright hammers made of
Weickert felt as well as full supplies of fine bushing
cloths and other requirements of that kind.
The piano industry is represented in the Wood
Industries Division of the American Society of Me-
chanical Engineers by Theo. Cassebeer, Paul Victor
and Paul Bilhuber, all of Steinway & Sons, New
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.
York; H. C. Rice, C. Kurtzmann & Co., Buffalo; A.
K. (iutsolin, Standard Pneumatic Action Co., New
York, and Paul Taylor.
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.
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.
The people of the United States must accept for-
estry as an opportunity as well as a responsibility,
E. A. Sherman, of the Forest Service Department,
told the meeting of the American Forestry Associa-
tion in New Haven, Conn., recently.
BILLIE WILLIAMS PLAYS CONN.
PROGRESSIVE MUSIC PRINTERS.
A business of constantly increasing interest to peo-
ple in all phases of the music trade, is that of Rayner,
Dalheim & Co., 20554-2060 West Lake street, Chi-
cago, music printers by all processes. The growth
of the house indicates the vast increase in music pub-
lishing in America, but the importance of Rayner,
Dalheim & Co. is the best proof of its active modern
methods and the appreciation of those methods by
musicians, publishers and the music trade.
Greater Beauty
and Greater
Manufacturers of
Comfort
SCARFS,
GUSH-
IONS,
COVERS
CASTLETON, N. Y.
Piano String Co.
County Fairs and Other Events in Indiana to Be
Enlivened by Good Music.
Talbott's Roys Band, of Sturgis, Ky., has been
given the contract for furnishing music at the Union
County Fair to be held at Uniontown, Ky., in August.
The Jasper silver band, Jasper, Ind., one of the best
known bands in the state, has been awarded the con-
tract to play for the Dubois County Fair that will be
held in Huntingburg, Ind., in August.
The Boonville Municipal Band, under the direction
of Professor Raymond Kirsch, is arranging to give
several concerts in southern Indiana towns.
Weyerbacher's Cadet band of Evansville, Ind., is
spending the months of July and August in the state
of Wisconsin and will return to Evansville in time for
the opening of school in September.
The American Legion Band, Cannelton, Ind., or-
ganized less than a year ago, has been whipped into
shape and has a number of engagements to till during
the remainder of the vear.
Billie Williams is a versatile musician, appearing
in vaudeville on the Keith circuit, who shows her
preference for the instruments made by C. G. Conn,
Ltd., Elkhart, Ind. She plays the saxophone, clari-
net, banjo, and other instruments, but she appears to
favor the saxophone in her program. Of course it
is a Conn saxophone she uses in her act, during
Mrs. Samuel Gompers, widow of the labor leader,
which she demonstrates the merits of the instrument who has given all her time to music since the death
as well as her own proficiency in using it. Off the of her husband three years ago, is contemplating
stage Miss Williams is one of the most enthusiastic pianoforte lessons abroad.
boosters for Conn instruments.
A. C. CHENEY
PIANO ACTION COMPANY
SCHAFF
SCHOOL BANDS GET CONTRACTS
Bench Cushions, Piano Throws, Bags
for Small Instruments. Upholstered
Bench Tops.
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OTTO R. TREFZ, Jr.
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