Music Trade Review
Issue: 1922 Vol. 75 N. 23 - Page 37
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THE
t>ECEMBER 2, 1922
MUSIC
TRADE
3?
REVIEW
FOR UNIFORM JNSPECTION RULES
CONVENTION OF TRADE INTERESTS
BOOKLET ON^RAND ACTION
Hardwood Manufacturers' Institute to Hold
Series of Open Meetings to Discuss Means
for Insuring Uniformity of Inspection Rules
Several Matters of Importance to Music Indus-
try to Be Discussed at Forthcoming Annual
Session of American Society of Mechanical
Engineers to Be Held in New York Next
Week—Many Noted Speakers to Be Heard
Staib-Abendschein Co. Distributing Booklet
Which Gives Instruction on How to Regulate
Its New Reproducing Grand Action
It is announced that the fourth district meet-
ing of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Institute
for the purpose of providing mill instructions
to bring about uniformity in the application of
inspection rules will be held at the National
Park Hotel, Vicksburg, Miss., on December 12.
The results of the previous meetings were so
satisfactory that the Institute has decided to
hold a series of such meetings in several differ-
ent localities and has extended a cordial invi-
tation not only to its own members, but to all
hardwood manufacturers in the Southern tier
of States to attend the Vicksburg session.
The manufacturers are invited to bring their
production superintendents and inspection fore-
men and the meeting will be under the direc-
tion of John M. Pritchard, chief inspector of
the Hardwood Manufacturers' Institute. The
other meeting will be announced later.
BOSTON WOOL ASSOCIATION MEETS
Walter J. Meadows Elected President at Annual
Convention
BOSTON, MASS., November 27.—At the annual
meeting of the Boston Wool Trade Association
last week officers were elected for the ensuing
year as follows:
President, Walter J. Meadows; vice-president,
Sidney A. Eisemann; secretary and treasurer,
F. Nathaniel Perkins.
Executive committee: Carl K. Bacon, Fred
M. Blanchard, William G. Fallon, John H.
Nichols and Charles W. Rider.
Arbitration committee: F. R. Eddington,
chairman; Norman E. Dupee, William E. Maier,
Stanley H. Hinton and John Wilcox.
Reports of the various committees showed a
successful and gratifying year.
The retiring president, Harold S. Edwards,
in his annual address, discussed especially the
new tariff and the transportation problems of
the year, urging in connection with the latter
department a more stable basis of support.
MERITS OF WALNUT SET FORTH
American Walnut Manufacturers' Association
Inaugurates Educational Campaign and Dis-
tributes Informative Folder
CHICAGO, III., November 27.—The American
Walnut Manufacturers' Association, in line with
its campaign of education on the merits of
American walnut in furniture, etc., has prepared
a four-page folder, entitled "Real American
Walnut Furniture," which is being widely
broadcasted. The folder has been prepared to
set the public right as to the value of this
wood. In the text the standard figures in this
wood are pointed out with a brief dissertation
on how they are obtained. Methods of dis-
tinguishing walnut from other woods are de-
scribed, as well as h6w plywood panels are
made and their proper use. The classification
6f walnut furniture, based on the trade names
put out by the National Vigilance Committee
6f the Associated Advertising Clubs of the
World, is given prominence.
THE ARTNOVELTYCO.
Cxclusive manufacturers of
Piaivo Beivekes
and Musie Cabinets
GOSHCN
catalog and. details
INDIANA
Members of the music industry, particularly
those who are connected with the woodworking
end of it, will be interested in attending the
third annual session of the Forest Products
Division of the American Society of Mechani-
cal Engineers, which will be held at the En-
gineers' Building, 29 West Thirty-ninth street,
New York, on Thursday of next week, Decem-
ber 7, at 2:30 p. m.
Six papers on woodworking subjects will be
presented, as follows: "Trend in Woodworking
Machinery Design" (Mill Work), Sern Mad-
sen, engineer, Curtis Companies, Clinton, la.;
"Lumber Dry Kiln Principles," Thomas D.
Perry, vice-president, Grand Rapids Veneer
Works, Grand Rapids, Mich.; "Woodworking
Waste," Carle M. Bigelow, secretary, Cooley &
Marvin, Boston, Mass.; "Tone Production as
an Engineering Problem," William Braid
White, technical editor, The Music Trade Re-
view, New York; "Standardization of Machin-
ery in the Wood-Turning Industry," W. A.
Babbitt, secretary, Wood Turners' Association,
South Bend, Ind., and "Standardization of Lum-
ber From the Hardwood Manufacturers' Stand-
point," F. F. Murray, engineer, Hardwood
Manufacturers' Institute, Chicago, 111.
The Staib-Abendschein Co., 134th street and
Brook avenue, New York, has just issued a
booklet on its new reproducing grand piano
action with lost motion attachment. The book-
let not only explains how the lost motion at-
tachment operates, but gives explicit instruc-
tions as to how the action should be finished
and regulated. In connection with these in-
structions there is displayed a sectional view of
the action carefully numbered so that each im-
portant part is clearly designated in conjunction
with the text.
These booklets are not only valuable for the
manufacturer and dealer, but can be used to
great advantage by the regulator, tuner and
repair man, either in a piano factory or dealer's
wareroom. On the back page there is displayed
an illustration of the Mastertouch non-blockable
piano action with which the company is having
much success.
MANY INTERESTEDJN WOOD STUDY
Short Courses Instituted by the Forest Service
at the Forest Products Laboratory Prove
Popular With Wood-using Industries
Executives and salesmen from thirteen States
and from Canada, representing fifteen wood-
using industries, attended the short courses
given by the Forest Service at the Forest Prod-
EXPECT LUMBER SHORTAGE IN 1923 ucts
Laboratory, Madison, Wis., recently.
The regular courses in kiln drying of lumber
Lumber Mills of British Columbia Refuse Quo-
and in crating and boxing, which have been
tations for January Delivery
given for the past three years, were repeated.
Two new courses were instituted—one in the
VANCOUVER, B. C, November 18.—Lumber mills
of British Columbia are almost daily refusing gluing of wood and one for lumber salesmen.
to quote on lumber deliveries and cuttings for These courses will be repeated in January.
The new gluing course shows the advantages
January on the theory that the greatest short-
age of lumber in the history of Canadian saw- of different glues for different uses and also
mills will develop in 1923. Substantiating this demonstrates the best methods of application.
The course provided for lumber salesmen
theory is the recent report from the rail saw-
covers
numerous details of wood technology,
mills of the United States. Practically every
small mill, as well as the large plants, from the such as structure, composition, seasoning and
Pacific Coast to the Atlantic is booking orders durability. These and other aspects of various
well into the Spring of next year for car mate- lumber products are brought out to guide sales-
rial. Up to November 5 nearly 50,000,000 feet men in selling a product for the purpose to
of car material had been placed by the various which it is best suited. Information is also
railroads with these mills and nearly a similar given on handling and using lumber.
amount is being tabulated for requirement.
It is estimated by the waterside mills that
all the rail mills will be out of the export trade,
or that business known as the Atlantic seaboard
trade, and this will leave only the tidewater
mills to handle a business that is assuming
gigantic dimensions.
Not only the optimists, but even the usually
despondent manufacturer of lumber, is admit-
The man who uses Behlen's Varnish
ting that the 1923 lumber trade for the Atlantic
Crack Eradicator can afford to figure
seaboard shows signs of nearly doubling that
lower, yet makes more profit on a re-
done in the present year.
finishing job, than the man who does
Over 800,000,000 feet of lumber have been
not use it.
ordered and the major portion shipped this year
The reason—he saves the time, trouble
via the Panama Canal to the Eastern States.
and expense of scraping off the old var-
The deduction then is that the mills of the
nish
and shellac and the finished job is
Pacific Coast must prepare for 1,600,600,000 feet
just as satisfactory too—if not more so.
of lumber to move that way in 1923.
Send for a sample can to-day and try
it.
IMPORTANCE OF IDEAS
It is bbvious that an airship will fail if its
propelling power ceases. It is just as obvious
that the salesman or dealer who is not con-
tinually thinking out new ideas and moving
forward in a business way cannot fail to cease
functioning successfully. There is no room in
modern business for dead wood.
H. BEHLEN & BRO.
Anilines
Shellacs
Stains
Fillers
10-12 Christopher St., New York
Near 6th Avc. and 6th St.
THE
t>ECEMBER 2, 1922
MUSIC
TRADE
3?
REVIEW
FOR UNIFORM JNSPECTION RULES
CONVENTION OF TRADE INTERESTS
BOOKLET ON^RAND ACTION
Hardwood Manufacturers' Institute to Hold
Series of Open Meetings to Discuss Means
for Insuring Uniformity of Inspection Rules
Several Matters of Importance to Music Indus-
try to Be Discussed at Forthcoming Annual
Session of American Society of Mechanical
Engineers to Be Held in New York Next
Week—Many Noted Speakers to Be Heard
Staib-Abendschein Co. Distributing Booklet
Which Gives Instruction on How to Regulate
Its New Reproducing Grand Action
It is announced that the fourth district meet-
ing of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Institute
for the purpose of providing mill instructions
to bring about uniformity in the application of
inspection rules will be held at the National
Park Hotel, Vicksburg, Miss., on December 12.
The results of the previous meetings were so
satisfactory that the Institute has decided to
hold a series of such meetings in several differ-
ent localities and has extended a cordial invi-
tation not only to its own members, but to all
hardwood manufacturers in the Southern tier
of States to attend the Vicksburg session.
The manufacturers are invited to bring their
production superintendents and inspection fore-
men and the meeting will be under the direc-
tion of John M. Pritchard, chief inspector of
the Hardwood Manufacturers' Institute. The
other meeting will be announced later.
BOSTON WOOL ASSOCIATION MEETS
Walter J. Meadows Elected President at Annual
Convention
BOSTON, MASS., November 27.—At the annual
meeting of the Boston Wool Trade Association
last week officers were elected for the ensuing
year as follows:
President, Walter J. Meadows; vice-president,
Sidney A. Eisemann; secretary and treasurer,
F. Nathaniel Perkins.
Executive committee: Carl K. Bacon, Fred
M. Blanchard, William G. Fallon, John H.
Nichols and Charles W. Rider.
Arbitration committee: F. R. Eddington,
chairman; Norman E. Dupee, William E. Maier,
Stanley H. Hinton and John Wilcox.
Reports of the various committees showed a
successful and gratifying year.
The retiring president, Harold S. Edwards,
in his annual address, discussed especially the
new tariff and the transportation problems of
the year, urging in connection with the latter
department a more stable basis of support.
MERITS OF WALNUT SET FORTH
American Walnut Manufacturers' Association
Inaugurates Educational Campaign and Dis-
tributes Informative Folder
CHICAGO, III., November 27.—The American
Walnut Manufacturers' Association, in line with
its campaign of education on the merits of
American walnut in furniture, etc., has prepared
a four-page folder, entitled "Real American
Walnut Furniture," which is being widely
broadcasted. The folder has been prepared to
set the public right as to the value of this
wood. In the text the standard figures in this
wood are pointed out with a brief dissertation
on how they are obtained. Methods of dis-
tinguishing walnut from other woods are de-
scribed, as well as h6w plywood panels are
made and their proper use. The classification
6f walnut furniture, based on the trade names
put out by the National Vigilance Committee
6f the Associated Advertising Clubs of the
World, is given prominence.
THE ARTNOVELTYCO.
Cxclusive manufacturers of
Piaivo Beivekes
and Musie Cabinets
GOSHCN
catalog and. details
INDIANA
Members of the music industry, particularly
those who are connected with the woodworking
end of it, will be interested in attending the
third annual session of the Forest Products
Division of the American Society of Mechani-
cal Engineers, which will be held at the En-
gineers' Building, 29 West Thirty-ninth street,
New York, on Thursday of next week, Decem-
ber 7, at 2:30 p. m.
Six papers on woodworking subjects will be
presented, as follows: "Trend in Woodworking
Machinery Design" (Mill Work), Sern Mad-
sen, engineer, Curtis Companies, Clinton, la.;
"Lumber Dry Kiln Principles," Thomas D.
Perry, vice-president, Grand Rapids Veneer
Works, Grand Rapids, Mich.; "Woodworking
Waste," Carle M. Bigelow, secretary, Cooley &
Marvin, Boston, Mass.; "Tone Production as
an Engineering Problem," William Braid
White, technical editor, The Music Trade Re-
view, New York; "Standardization of Machin-
ery in the Wood-Turning Industry," W. A.
Babbitt, secretary, Wood Turners' Association,
South Bend, Ind., and "Standardization of Lum-
ber From the Hardwood Manufacturers' Stand-
point," F. F. Murray, engineer, Hardwood
Manufacturers' Institute, Chicago, 111.
The Staib-Abendschein Co., 134th street and
Brook avenue, New York, has just issued a
booklet on its new reproducing grand piano
action with lost motion attachment. The book-
let not only explains how the lost motion at-
tachment operates, but gives explicit instruc-
tions as to how the action should be finished
and regulated. In connection with these in-
structions there is displayed a sectional view of
the action carefully numbered so that each im-
portant part is clearly designated in conjunction
with the text.
These booklets are not only valuable for the
manufacturer and dealer, but can be used to
great advantage by the regulator, tuner and
repair man, either in a piano factory or dealer's
wareroom. On the back page there is displayed
an illustration of the Mastertouch non-blockable
piano action with which the company is having
much success.
MANY INTERESTEDJN WOOD STUDY
Short Courses Instituted by the Forest Service
at the Forest Products Laboratory Prove
Popular With Wood-using Industries
Executives and salesmen from thirteen States
and from Canada, representing fifteen wood-
using industries, attended the short courses
given by the Forest Service at the Forest Prod-
EXPECT LUMBER SHORTAGE IN 1923 ucts
Laboratory, Madison, Wis., recently.
The regular courses in kiln drying of lumber
Lumber Mills of British Columbia Refuse Quo-
and in crating and boxing, which have been
tations for January Delivery
given for the past three years, were repeated.
Two new courses were instituted—one in the
VANCOUVER, B. C, November 18.—Lumber mills
of British Columbia are almost daily refusing gluing of wood and one for lumber salesmen.
to quote on lumber deliveries and cuttings for These courses will be repeated in January.
The new gluing course shows the advantages
January on the theory that the greatest short-
age of lumber in the history of Canadian saw- of different glues for different uses and also
mills will develop in 1923. Substantiating this demonstrates the best methods of application.
The course provided for lumber salesmen
theory is the recent report from the rail saw-
covers
numerous details of wood technology,
mills of the United States. Practically every
small mill, as well as the large plants, from the such as structure, composition, seasoning and
Pacific Coast to the Atlantic is booking orders durability. These and other aspects of various
well into the Spring of next year for car mate- lumber products are brought out to guide sales-
rial. Up to November 5 nearly 50,000,000 feet men in selling a product for the purpose to
of car material had been placed by the various which it is best suited. Information is also
railroads with these mills and nearly a similar given on handling and using lumber.
amount is being tabulated for requirement.
It is estimated by the waterside mills that
all the rail mills will be out of the export trade,
or that business known as the Atlantic seaboard
trade, and this will leave only the tidewater
mills to handle a business that is assuming
gigantic dimensions.
Not only the optimists, but even the usually
despondent manufacturer of lumber, is admit-
The man who uses Behlen's Varnish
ting that the 1923 lumber trade for the Atlantic
Crack Eradicator can afford to figure
seaboard shows signs of nearly doubling that
lower, yet makes more profit on a re-
done in the present year.
finishing job, than the man who does
Over 800,000,000 feet of lumber have been
not use it.
ordered and the major portion shipped this year
The reason—he saves the time, trouble
via the Panama Canal to the Eastern States.
and expense of scraping off the old var-
The deduction then is that the mills of the
nish
and shellac and the finished job is
Pacific Coast must prepare for 1,600,600,000 feet
just as satisfactory too—if not more so.
of lumber to move that way in 1923.
Send for a sample can to-day and try
it.
IMPORTANCE OF IDEAS
It is bbvious that an airship will fail if its
propelling power ceases. It is just as obvious
that the salesman or dealer who is not con-
tinually thinking out new ideas and moving
forward in a business way cannot fail to cease
functioning successfully. There is no room in
modern business for dead wood.
H. BEHLEN & BRO.
Anilines
Shellacs
Stains
Fillers
10-12 Christopher St., New York
Near 6th Avc. and 6th St.
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