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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
PIANO FACTORY SUPERINTENDENTS.
Frank J. Weiser.
lie has shown great proficiency in scale drafting,
including both uprights and grands, and has won
a high reputation in this special field.
ORDER SUPPLIER IN ADVANCE.
ARTICLE II.
Frank J. Weiser has had an unbroken career in
the mechanical end of the business, and there are
few men in the trade who can show such con-
tinuous service with a single house.
More than twenty-five years ago he entered the
Frank J. Weiser.
piano business, and ever since has proven his capa-
bilities as a factory expert. He has been with the
George P. Bent Co., Chicago, where he has shown
his skill in various factory departments. Nine
years ago he was appointed factory superintendent.
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This is the Very Timely Advice Given by Ham-
macher, Schlemmer & Co., of New York,
Who Have Sent Out a Letter to the Trade.
The remarkable activity which now prevails in
all departments of the music trade industry lias
brought about a great demand for supplies, and in
order that there may be no disappointment in ship-
ments a letter has been sent out to the trade b'y
llammacher, Schlemmer & Co., of New York,
calling attention to conditions and urging manu-
facturers to provide themselves with supplies at
the earliest possible moment. The letter reads:
"Gentlemen—While we only recently wrote you
regarding the difficulties of obtaining goods, we
feel that it is in order to again remind you that
conditions are exceedingly strained and most ab-
normal.
"We feel reasonably certain that our facilities
for handling business are as good as the average,
and we have increased our force and are straining
every nerve to satisfy our customers.
"We get many unnecessary 'collect' telegrams
and frequently most unreasonable and impertinent
letters, due in most cases to the fact that customers
have not anticipated their wants sufficiently in ad-
vance, even though times were normal, and under
present conditions care to order far in advance
of requirements should be exercised even on the
most staple items.
"This is not a note of alarm, but is merely to
caution you to provide in advance as much as pos-
sible that your own output may not be unneces-
sarily delayed through the lack of some insignifi-
cant item, perhaps of little intrinsic value but
'worth its weight in gold' when you cannot get it
promptly."
PATENTS GRAND^PIANO CASE.
Important Improvement in the Construction of
These Cases Patented by Leopold Avisus
and Assigned to the Brambach Piano Co.
(Special to The Review.)
WASHINGTON, D. C, November 22.—The Bram-
bach Piano Co., New York, is the owner, through
assignment by Leopold Avisus, same place, of pat-
ent No. 1,160,969, for a Grand Piano Case. As
heretofore constructed, so far as is known, grand
piano cases have been provided with cheek pieces
integral and continuous with the strip which ex-
tends around the rear of the case and forms the
rear and side walls. Owing to the peculiar shape
of this piece and the treatment which it has to
receive in giving it that shape, it has a tendency
to warp ordinarily, and the effect of this warping
is particularly noticeable on the ends or cheeks
thereof. It is also necessary to use long pieces of
wood of the same thickness as the cheeks, and this,
as is well understood, adds materially to the ex-
pense, as pieces which have no imperfections
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throughout are more expensive than small pieces
of the same grade.
The principal objects of this invention are to
eliminate these difficulties and to provide a con-
struction in which the warping of the long strip
will be less apparent in the ciieek pieces, and in
fact will have very little effect upon them; a con-
struction in which the cheek pieces themselves tend
to strengthen and hold the ends of the back strip
and prevent their displacement, and in which rela-
tively small pieces can be employed; also to pro-
vide a construction in which a vertical line will ap-
pear at the rear of each cheek piece, thus giving
the casing the appearance of being made of thicker
material ami adding to the beauty thereof.
COPPER UP TO TWENTY CENTS.
Heavy buying of electrolytic copper last week
resulted in an advance of 2 cents a pound on
the refined metal at New York and an advance of
£4 on American electrolytic at London On
Saturday Lie momentum attained earlier in the
week resulted in a rise of % cent a pound, the
market closing strong at 19% cents, delivered
thirty days. Heavy sales were made in the last
three days at 19VI to 20 cents to domestic con-
sumers. The demand from manufacturers of fin-
ished material was stimulated by the steady ad-
vance in the price of ingot copper.
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CINCINNATI, O.
BRANCH OFFICES:
Chicago
160 No. Fifth Ave.
San Francisco
164 Hansford Bld».
L01 Angeles
224 Central Bldg.
Importers a n d Manufacturers of
Figured Mahogany, Circassian Wal-
nut and Foreign Woods for high-
grade piano cases and cabinets.
Minneapolis
3416 Second Ave..So.
Detroit
David Whitney Bldf.
New York Office and Sample Room
Grand Central Palace Building
Lexington Ave. and 46th St.
G. H. VAUGHAN, Eastern Representative
George H. Harper Co.
Orange, N. J.
VENEERS
S O S S MANUFACTURING CO.
435 443 ATLANTIC AVE. BROOKLYN.N.Y
Circassian Walnut. Oak, Walnut
and Specializing on Mahogany.
Capacity—5 Million Feet