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CHICAGO, SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1927
PLANS COMPLETED
FOR TUNERS' MEET
An Alluring Series of Lectures by Experts,
Special School Sessions and Comprehensive
Exhibits of Pianos, Players, Actions and
Farts Assures an Interesting Time.
EXPECT BIG ATTENDANCE
Unusual Interest in Event at Hotel Commodore,
New York, from August 8 to 11 Points to
a Record Crowd.
All plans are completed for a successful annual
convention of the National Association of Piano
Tuners, Inc., to be held next week fruin Tuesday to
Thursday at the Hotel Commodore. Xew York City.
The assurances of success are in the more than usual
interest in the meeting by tuners everywhere and by
the alluring promises of an instructive and thor-
oughly.enjoyable time impressed in the propaganda
of the organization.
The tuner who loves his work looks for Itechnical
thrills at. the business, sessions and this year he is
going to get a-head full.. Some of the most distin-
guished men in the manufacturing and service divi-
sions of the piano industry will make addresses dur-
morning and evening sessions and Xels C. Boe will
be there to unknot the tuners' technical problems and
solve mechanical difficulties.
The Contest.
A phtyerpiano playing contest wi 1 take place dur-
ing the convention under the auspices of the Stand-
ard Pneumatic Action Company, New York. This
contest will test the skill of association tuners as
player pianists and handsome trophies will be
awarded to the three making the best showing.
There will be contestants from all sections of the
country, and the event will be of outstanding sig-
nificance.
Duo-Art Lec.ures.
A series of interesting and instiuctive lectures by
piano experts is scheduled by the Aeolian Company,
Xew York, to be given in Room 740 of the Hotel
MAYOR OF DETROIT
FAVORS CARNIVAL
Mayor John W. Smith Urges All Lovers of
Music to Attend Demonstration in Con-
nection with Annual Convention at
Michigan Music Merchants' Ass'n.
STRONG SUPPORT
Governor of State, Police Commissioner and Many
Prominent Men to Take Active Part in
Events of Great Week.
By FRANK J. HAY LEY.
The following ietter from Mayor John W. Smith
of Detroit is an official encouragement of the music
carnival organized as a prominent feature of the
annual convention of the Michigan Mus : c Merchants'
Association, to be held from August 15 to 13:
"To All Lovers of Music:
"The second week cf August 15. during which will
be held Detroit's Second Annual Music Carnival, is
dedicated to the universal language of music. The
carnival is to be the finest civic presentation the city
has seen, and 1 urge all lovers of music to attend this
demonstration on August 16 and 17 as the guests of
Detroit.
"During this time the convention of the Michigan
Music Merchants' Association will be held and I
want especially to commend this carnival to their
attention, and promise that as the city's guests they
will find it of extraordinary interest and pleasure.
Sincerely,
"JOHN W. SMITH. Mayor."
\V. F. McCI.KLT.AN.
Secretary.
CHARLKS UEUTSCHMANN,
President.
ing the business sessions and discussions are in order
at their conclusion. That questions by tuners are
officially invited a most absorbing time is expected.
The officials of the tuners' organization believe that
nothing broadens the vision and modernizes the
thinking like spontaneous discussion of a topic.
The instructive features of the tuners' convention
at the Hotel Commodore, New York, next week, will
mark the feeling of cooperation which actuate sev-
eral representative industries. More than twenty
companies will have exhibits of pianos, players, re-
producing pianos, actions or parts and each display
will be a wonderful source of enlightenment for the
members.
In addition there will be the several schools for in-
struction in the player and reproducing mechanisms.
For those who wish to take a complete course ar-
rangements can be made for continuing the classes
after the convention is over. A class in voicing will
be conducted by Herbert F. Antunes, a recognized
and respected authority on this subject. Classes in
grand action regulating, under the supervision of
E. S. Werolin, an eminent authoritv, will have earlv
$2 The Year
Commodore at a convenient period each day. A
corps of experts will be on hand to answer all ques-
tions relating to the Duo-Art reproducing piano and
a practical souvenir will be given to each visitor.
The Weaver Proposition.
C. I). IJond, superintendent of the Weaver Piano
Co., Inc., York, Pa., will be at the convention of the
National Association of Piano Tuners, Inc., at the
Hotel Commodore, New York, from August
trend of the piano business, the situation in China,
the baseball scores, etc.—ask 'C. D." for some details
of the Weaver Proposition to Tuners," says the an-
nouncement. "Every tuner who attends this great
convention owes it to himself to find out what it has
meant in dollars and cents to other tuners and what
it could mean in the same language to you. It isn't
just a dried out, last minute plan of 'you do some-
thing for us and we'll do something for you.' It
couldn't be dried out. for it's unique with this com-
pany. And a great deal of time and thought have
been spent on it—to make it 100 per cent attractive
and profitable to every ambitious tuner.
"So, when you breeze in at the Commodore on the
8. 9. 10 and 11 of August, go up to 'C. D.' and ask
him for details."
An Action Exhibition.
The Pratt Read Player Action Co., Deep River,
Conn., will have a display of its keys and actions for
grand and upright pianos in room 744 at the Hotel
Commodore during the three days of the tuners'
convention.
Ampico School Session
All tuners are invited to the Ampico exhibit at the
X. A. P. T. convention August 8 to 11, of the Hotel
Commodore, Xew York, in rooms 639-641-643 and
645.
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What Public Expects.
It is customary for each succeeding music con-
vention to be heralded as the greatest ever, but
Detroit feels that the coming Michigan convention
will be a landmark, especially in the eyes of the
public, and that the program is exceedingly strong.
The program contains many strong civic, business
and indnustry names. The two annual piano playing
contests that have been conducted in the school sys-
tems of Greater Detroit have been >uch noteworthy
successes that public men and the whole press has
become interested in the movement and do not hesi-
tate to endorse the movement, thus the mayor, the
governor and the police commissioner will do so
from the convention platform, with the knowledge
that they will be quoted in the press. Fred Wardell,
one of the foremost of Detroit's many big business
men, will likewise take the opportunity to congratu-
late the music men for instituting a movement of
such timely cultural and sociological benefit to the
rising generation.
A Series of Events.
Detroit will read piano propaganda, initiated in the
meetings of the convention in the daytime and have
three big nights of demonstration and celebration.
The first night will be the grand finals of the piano
playing contest held in the most conspicuous and
civic auditorium in the city, the Belle Isle Symphony
Shell, broadcasted by radio and taken by the movies.
Following this civic event will take place the gigan-
tic Detroit Music Carnival on the four blocks of
Washington boulevard, the Fifth avenue of Detroit,
in the very heart of the city, to accord befitting
honor to the 430 school chiMren who have been
judged the champions of their respective schools. A
civic demonstration, financed by the city government.
U. S. Takes Part.
The U. S. Government thinks so well of it that
Washington has made an exception to a recent ruling
and is sending a squadron of 24 bombers over the
town to open the carnival. The total actual cost
will run nearly $20,000, but the music men are not
putting up a penny. The demonstration over the
children piano champions will be greater and more
expensive that over Lindbergh, as acknowledged by
the committee in charge of the latter. Detroit be-
lieves that it is putting over piano playing as Lind-
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