Music Trade Review
Issue: 1914 Vol. 59 N. 11 - Page 47
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THE
MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
47
MUST PAY HIGHER PRICES.
Influence of the European War on Piano Sup-
plies Discussed by a Member of the Trade—
Higher Prices Must Be Passed Along.
Discussing the effect of' the war on supplies
for the music trade, a prominent manufacturer
said to The Review 'this week: "The trade must
expect to pay higher prices for almost everything
from now on. Needless to say, as before re-
marked in The Review, imported felts and piano
wire will in time grow scarcer and dearer. Shellac
is 10 per cent, higher to-day, and stains and
finishes of all kinds are going up.
As far as the mahogany situation is concerns 1
importation is stopped for the time being, and
there is no telling when the timber boats wi'.l
resume trade. Prices have not advanced very
materially as yet, but the dealers are advising the
trade to anticipate their mahogany wants now to
insure against scarcity and higher prices.
On the other hand owing to the quietness in
business less mahogany is being used, and this,
of course, will have its effect. While most of the
African wood comes through the Liverpool mar-
ket, one leading concern brings the logs directly
across the ocean to this country. For some time
to come boats will be hard to get on account of
higher carrying rates for provisions and other
things, and higher freight rates will be added, of
course, to the cost of lumber and veneers.
Trade in Circassian walnut from Asia Minor,
no doubt, will be cut off entirely for a long time,
but American dealers are carrying a very good
supply. As far as oak gum and the native woods
are concerned, it would seem as if prices will
not be very seriously affected because a great
deal of this wood has been going abroad, an 1
with this trade killed it would look like stable, or
even lower prices in this particular field.
The price tendency, however, in all departments
of supplies is upward and this fact must be con-
sidered by manufacturers in arranging prices with
their retail trade for the coming year.
THE COPPER MARKET.
Some Talk of Further Curtailment
Demand Improves.
Unless
Lumber and Veneers
ASTORIA VENEER MILLS & DOCK CO.
BIRD'S-EYE VENEER CO.,
HOFFMAN BROTHERS CO.,
AS'lOKiA, L. I N. Y.
Custom mills for band and veneer
sawing; slice and rotary cutting oi
Mahogany, Circassian and Fancy
Woods.
ESCANABA, MICH.
Mfrs. of Bird's-eye Maple and plain
wood for Piano Linings.
Established 1867.
Incorporated 1904.
FORT WAYNE. INDIANA.
Specialties, Hardwood, Veneers, and
Lumber for Musical Instruments.
THE E. L. CHANDLER CO.,
HENRY S. HOLDEN,
ORLEANS, VT.,
Rotary-cut Rock Maple, for Piano
Pin Blocks. We also manufacture
Birch and Maple Panels.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Black Walnut Veneers.
Figures Long and Butt Poplar
Jross-banding. Rock Maple. Bird's-
-ye Linings.
operating on better time than other consuming in-
NOW FOR AMERICAN TUNING PINS.
dustries, in consequence of which condition they
War
Makes Excellent Opening for Those Sup-
bought copper, but these necessities have been filled
plies in This Country, Says Iron Age.
temporarily at least.
London sent word that stocks of copper in-
One of the fields opened to American manufac-
creased 794 tons in the second fortnight of Au- turers as a result of the present war, according to
gust, while the visible supply increased 1,194 tons. the Iron Age, is that of making tuning pins for
pianos. In this connection the paper says:
THE G R O W I N G ^ MAHOGANY.
''With normal demand, there are manufactured
approximately 200,000 pianos in the LInited States
Some Wiseacre Would Venture Into This Field
per year. Each piano requires a complete set of
and Points Out that Large Trees Are Not
tuning pins, and thus there is an approximate
Necessary for the Cabinet or Piano Maker.
demand from the piano trade for 200,000 sets of
tuning pins. Tuning pins are sold universally by
After the rubber industry is well established the
the case, eack package containing sixty packages
next venture in tropical plantations may well be the
of a sufficient number for one piano, or, in other
growing of mahogany.
words, sufficient pins for sixty pianos.
The market for such a crop is assured. No
"Heretofore tuning pins have been imported al-
other wood has the perennial popularity of ma-
most exclusively from Germany. Most of the im-
hogany, no other is such a delight to the artistic
cabinet maker. The natural supply is decreasing, porters have been caught without any supply. It
while the demand is growing greater each day, but is believed there is but one manufacturer in Amer-
a cultivated supply is not beyond the world's reach. ica making tuning pins, but the capacity of that
A story from the British possessions in West plant will not permit of supplying more than per-
Africa is of interest in this connection. It seems haps one-third of the pins used in this country.
"Ft is thought that manufacturers of steel and
that a good-sized town in southern Nigeria was
iron
products might -be interested in taking up this
destroyed about sixty years ago. Recent visitors
to the site of this old-time city claimed to find matter, and as the prices quoted to-day show an
mahogany trees ten feet in diameter growing in increase of over 50 per cent, as compared with
those quoted thirty days ago, there is ample mar-
the ruins.
Sixty years is too long to wait for returns on gin at the present time, as well as a market which
capital, but cabinet makers do not need trees ten would take almost any kind of product that was
feet through. Travelers' tales are a poor basis reasonably good."
fur exact computations, but it seems reasonably
ROBT. L. KAPP FILES SCHEDULES.
certain that mahogany trees, rightly handled, will
grow fast enough to make their cultivation a fair
Robert L. Kapp, the manufacturer of piano sup-
investment. If this be true, the world may escape plies of 767 East 131st street, has filed schedules
the horror of steel sofas and paper morris chairs, in bankruptcy with liabilities of $31,366, of which
after all.—Chicago Journal.
$20,765 is secured, and assets of $17,296.
There was some talk of further curtailment by
the copper producers recently if consumptive de-
mand did not improve shortly, but no definite plans
were announced for carrying such intimations into
effect. No new export buying has appeared and
shipments now being made are on orders booked in C. L. WILLEY RETURNS FROM EUROPE.
July.
The market has settled down into an unsatisfac- The Prominent Veneer Merchant of Chicago
Featured in the New York Papers Owing to
tory affair, with spasmodic inquiry from domestic
His Remarks on Russian Troops Passing
manufacturers. For a period the brass mills were
Through Great Britain on Way to War Zone.
The Ohio Veneer Co.
CINCINNATI, O.
Importers and Manufacturers of
Circassian Walnut and Figured
Mahogany Veneers for high grade
piano cases and cabinets.
New York Office and Sample Room
N. Y. FURNITURE EXCHANGE
Lexington Ave. and 46th St.
G. H. VAUGHAN, Eastern Representative
T. J. NARTZIK
Plain Sawed and Rotary Cut Veneers
1966 Maud Ave.,
CHICAGO, ILL.
Soft Poplar and Gum Cross-band-
ing. Hard Maple Pin Block Stock.
Ilird's-eye or Plain Linings.
C. L. Willey, the prominent mahogany lumber
and veneer merchant of Chicago, who arrived last
week from Europe on the "Mauretania" was prom-
inently featured in the New York papers, owing
to the fact that he brought the first information
regarding the landing of Russian troops in Bel-
gium. While in England, Mr. Willey said that
he heard of the passing of the large body of what
was supposed to be Russian troops through Lon-
don on their way to the French and Belgium
coasts. Mr. Willey reported the now customary
interruption to his European visit owing to the war.
INCORPORATED.
India Shellac and Varnish Co., New York, has
been incorporated with capital stock of $100,000,
by J. Ernst, W. F. Hunrath and G. Tuschel.
The Bradbury Piano Store in Marquette, Mich.,
has been closed, though Amos Saladin will act as
local agent for the Bradbury pianos.
Piano Manufacturers ^ J ^
•oft yellow poplar for cross band-
ing is unapproached in this country.
A large supply always on hand.
The Central Veneer Co., Huntington, W. Va.
SOSS INVISIBLE HINGES
"OUT OF SIGHT
EVER IN MIND"
When you fail
to see an un-
sightly hinge
protruding you
know SOSS is
the answer.
No. 108
Write to-day.
SOSS MFG. CO M
435 ATLANTIC AVE.
BROOKLYN, N. Y.
THE
MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
47
MUST PAY HIGHER PRICES.
Influence of the European War on Piano Sup-
plies Discussed by a Member of the Trade—
Higher Prices Must Be Passed Along.
Discussing the effect of' the war on supplies
for the music trade, a prominent manufacturer
said to The Review 'this week: "The trade must
expect to pay higher prices for almost everything
from now on. Needless to say, as before re-
marked in The Review, imported felts and piano
wire will in time grow scarcer and dearer. Shellac
is 10 per cent, higher to-day, and stains and
finishes of all kinds are going up.
As far as the mahogany situation is concerns 1
importation is stopped for the time being, and
there is no telling when the timber boats wi'.l
resume trade. Prices have not advanced very
materially as yet, but the dealers are advising the
trade to anticipate their mahogany wants now to
insure against scarcity and higher prices.
On the other hand owing to the quietness in
business less mahogany is being used, and this,
of course, will have its effect. While most of the
African wood comes through the Liverpool mar-
ket, one leading concern brings the logs directly
across the ocean to this country. For some time
to come boats will be hard to get on account of
higher carrying rates for provisions and other
things, and higher freight rates will be added, of
course, to the cost of lumber and veneers.
Trade in Circassian walnut from Asia Minor,
no doubt, will be cut off entirely for a long time,
but American dealers are carrying a very good
supply. As far as oak gum and the native woods
are concerned, it would seem as if prices will
not be very seriously affected because a great
deal of this wood has been going abroad, an 1
with this trade killed it would look like stable, or
even lower prices in this particular field.
The price tendency, however, in all departments
of supplies is upward and this fact must be con-
sidered by manufacturers in arranging prices with
their retail trade for the coming year.
THE COPPER MARKET.
Some Talk of Further Curtailment
Demand Improves.
Unless
Lumber and Veneers
ASTORIA VENEER MILLS & DOCK CO.
BIRD'S-EYE VENEER CO.,
HOFFMAN BROTHERS CO.,
AS'lOKiA, L. I N. Y.
Custom mills for band and veneer
sawing; slice and rotary cutting oi
Mahogany, Circassian and Fancy
Woods.
ESCANABA, MICH.
Mfrs. of Bird's-eye Maple and plain
wood for Piano Linings.
Established 1867.
Incorporated 1904.
FORT WAYNE. INDIANA.
Specialties, Hardwood, Veneers, and
Lumber for Musical Instruments.
THE E. L. CHANDLER CO.,
HENRY S. HOLDEN,
ORLEANS, VT.,
Rotary-cut Rock Maple, for Piano
Pin Blocks. We also manufacture
Birch and Maple Panels.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Black Walnut Veneers.
Figures Long and Butt Poplar
Jross-banding. Rock Maple. Bird's-
-ye Linings.
operating on better time than other consuming in-
NOW FOR AMERICAN TUNING PINS.
dustries, in consequence of which condition they
War
Makes Excellent Opening for Those Sup-
bought copper, but these necessities have been filled
plies in This Country, Says Iron Age.
temporarily at least.
London sent word that stocks of copper in-
One of the fields opened to American manufac-
creased 794 tons in the second fortnight of Au- turers as a result of the present war, according to
gust, while the visible supply increased 1,194 tons. the Iron Age, is that of making tuning pins for
pianos. In this connection the paper says:
THE G R O W I N G ^ MAHOGANY.
''With normal demand, there are manufactured
approximately 200,000 pianos in the LInited States
Some Wiseacre Would Venture Into This Field
per year. Each piano requires a complete set of
and Points Out that Large Trees Are Not
tuning pins, and thus there is an approximate
Necessary for the Cabinet or Piano Maker.
demand from the piano trade for 200,000 sets of
tuning pins. Tuning pins are sold universally by
After the rubber industry is well established the
the case, eack package containing sixty packages
next venture in tropical plantations may well be the
of a sufficient number for one piano, or, in other
growing of mahogany.
words, sufficient pins for sixty pianos.
The market for such a crop is assured. No
"Heretofore tuning pins have been imported al-
other wood has the perennial popularity of ma-
most exclusively from Germany. Most of the im-
hogany, no other is such a delight to the artistic
cabinet maker. The natural supply is decreasing, porters have been caught without any supply. It
while the demand is growing greater each day, but is believed there is but one manufacturer in Amer-
a cultivated supply is not beyond the world's reach. ica making tuning pins, but the capacity of that
A story from the British possessions in West plant will not permit of supplying more than per-
Africa is of interest in this connection. It seems haps one-third of the pins used in this country.
"Ft is thought that manufacturers of steel and
that a good-sized town in southern Nigeria was
iron
products might -be interested in taking up this
destroyed about sixty years ago. Recent visitors
to the site of this old-time city claimed to find matter, and as the prices quoted to-day show an
mahogany trees ten feet in diameter growing in increase of over 50 per cent, as compared with
those quoted thirty days ago, there is ample mar-
the ruins.
Sixty years is too long to wait for returns on gin at the present time, as well as a market which
capital, but cabinet makers do not need trees ten would take almost any kind of product that was
feet through. Travelers' tales are a poor basis reasonably good."
fur exact computations, but it seems reasonably
ROBT. L. KAPP FILES SCHEDULES.
certain that mahogany trees, rightly handled, will
grow fast enough to make their cultivation a fair
Robert L. Kapp, the manufacturer of piano sup-
investment. If this be true, the world may escape plies of 767 East 131st street, has filed schedules
the horror of steel sofas and paper morris chairs, in bankruptcy with liabilities of $31,366, of which
after all.—Chicago Journal.
$20,765 is secured, and assets of $17,296.
There was some talk of further curtailment by
the copper producers recently if consumptive de-
mand did not improve shortly, but no definite plans
were announced for carrying such intimations into
effect. No new export buying has appeared and
shipments now being made are on orders booked in C. L. WILLEY RETURNS FROM EUROPE.
July.
The market has settled down into an unsatisfac- The Prominent Veneer Merchant of Chicago
Featured in the New York Papers Owing to
tory affair, with spasmodic inquiry from domestic
His Remarks on Russian Troops Passing
manufacturers. For a period the brass mills were
Through Great Britain on Way to War Zone.
The Ohio Veneer Co.
CINCINNATI, O.
Importers and Manufacturers of
Circassian Walnut and Figured
Mahogany Veneers for high grade
piano cases and cabinets.
New York Office and Sample Room
N. Y. FURNITURE EXCHANGE
Lexington Ave. and 46th St.
G. H. VAUGHAN, Eastern Representative
T. J. NARTZIK
Plain Sawed and Rotary Cut Veneers
1966 Maud Ave.,
CHICAGO, ILL.
Soft Poplar and Gum Cross-band-
ing. Hard Maple Pin Block Stock.
Ilird's-eye or Plain Linings.
C. L. Willey, the prominent mahogany lumber
and veneer merchant of Chicago, who arrived last
week from Europe on the "Mauretania" was prom-
inently featured in the New York papers, owing
to the fact that he brought the first information
regarding the landing of Russian troops in Bel-
gium. While in England, Mr. Willey said that
he heard of the passing of the large body of what
was supposed to be Russian troops through Lon-
don on their way to the French and Belgium
coasts. Mr. Willey reported the now customary
interruption to his European visit owing to the war.
INCORPORATED.
India Shellac and Varnish Co., New York, has
been incorporated with capital stock of $100,000,
by J. Ernst, W. F. Hunrath and G. Tuschel.
The Bradbury Piano Store in Marquette, Mich.,
has been closed, though Amos Saladin will act as
local agent for the Bradbury pianos.
Piano Manufacturers ^ J ^
•oft yellow poplar for cross band-
ing is unapproached in this country.
A large supply always on hand.
The Central Veneer Co., Huntington, W. Va.
SOSS INVISIBLE HINGES
"OUT OF SIGHT
EVER IN MIND"
When you fail
to see an un-
sightly hinge
protruding you
know SOSS is
the answer.
No. 108
Write to-day.
SOSS MFG. CO M
435 ATLANTIC AVE.
BROOKLYN, N. Y.
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