14
PRESTO-TIMES
August 13, 1927.
by The Parker-Young Company should be addressed
to the newly organized company at Lisbon.
"We feel that this change will be the means of
giving you even better service than it has been pos-
Lisbon Manufacturing Company, Lisbon, N. sible for you to have in the past," is the statement
of the Lisbon Manufacturing Company, through its
H., Formed to Take Over Piano Parts
general manager, Wm. P. Long. "With our very
Business of Parker-Young Company.
large holdings of timberlands, mills, and an organ-
The Lisbon Manufacturing Company, Lisbon, N. ization especially trained in the manufacture of piano
H., has just been organized, and acquired August 1 parts, we believe we can offer you quality merchan-
the piano parts business heretofore conducted by dise at a fair price and unequaled service for many
years to come. We sincerely hope that we will con-
The Parker-Young Company at Lisbon, N. H.
H. B. Moulton, president of The Parker-Young tinue to receive your orders in the future, that we
Company, will also be president of the Lisbon Man- may have an opportunity of proving this statement."
ufacturing Company, and he needs no introduction
to the piano trade. The rest of the management
VENEER FIRM INCORPORATES.
will comprise the same personnel who have been
The Dixie Veneer Co., Richmond, Va., with a
directing the activities of this branch of The Parker- capital stock of 200 shares common (without par
Young Company for a number of years. L. R. value) and $150,000 preferred stock, was recently
Bressler will be with the company as sales manager incorporated with John R. Dean of Chicago, presi-
and will give the same personal contact as in the dent, and E. M. Preston, secretary. Irvin G. Craig
past.
and R. H. Knight are also incorporators.
Commencing August 1st, the executive, sales and
manufacturing officers will all be located at Lisbon,
Viroqua, Wis., lays claim to the youngest band in
so that any correspondence from that date on rela-
tive to the piano parts business heretofore conducted the country. Twenty children in the local school's
kindergarten, a regular, uniformed, marching, musical
organization, makes up the band.
NEW SUPPLY HOUSE
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.
OTTO R. TREFZ, Jr.
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MUSICAL INSTRUMENT WOODS
Specialized Uses Found for Varieties Which Have
the Highly Desirable Character of Resonance.
Apparatus has been used to test and determine tbe
vibratory qualities of wood, and formulas and equa-
tions involving higher mathematics have been worked
out to express values; but no scientific process has
found out much more than has been ascertained by
simple experiments with different woods by prac-
tical makers of musical instruments.
The most highly specialized use of wood, due to
its resonance, is found in the piano sounding board.
The finest spruce goes there, though occasionally
other woods have held the place. Southern white
cedar was once more popular than spruce as sound-
ing boards, but it is not so now.
The piano is not the only musical instrument which
profits by the resonance of wood. The pipe organ
does it, but probably not so much as formerly. Most
pipes are now made of metal. The quality of wood
in a violin has much to do in determining the value
of the instrument. The old master makers of vio-
lins, like Stradivari, Amati and Guarneri, selected
their wood and prepared it with as much care as
they bestowed on the actual shaping and joining.
Maple has always been one of the finest violin woods,
and it is nearly always combined with some soft-
wood like pine or spruce.
Some of the finest working in wood is done in
producing high-class horns for talking machines.
The resonance in the spruce horn of the Starr pho-
nograph is a noted feature. The horn is a sort of
sounding board, corresponding to that of the piano.
There are very fine instruments which are made
without wooden horns, but many persons claim that
the wooden horn gives a softness and richness of
the tone which is extremely rare.
The xylophone is a small musical instrument which
does not rank very high in science or art. Its name
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