Music Trade Review
Issue: 1925 Vol. 80 N. 13 - Page 13
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THE
M A R C H 28, 1925
13
MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
TECHNICAL DEPARTMENT
Conducted By William Braid White
ago. Already many important manufacturing
houses count upon an exhibit at the annual
tuners' convention as a regular and essential
part of their business propaganda, and the num-
ber of such houses is steadily increasing.
Association in Its Plans for Convention Has Made Manufacturers' Exhibits an Integral Part of
There must be some very good reason for *
the Gathering—The Audience Which the Exhibits Reach and the Value Which They
this, and that reason indeed exists. It is to be
Have for the Manufacturers Who Make Them—Facilities Offered
found in the obvious fact that the tuners are
technical men, that they do the service work
T the conventions of the National Asso- a general service to • make some observations of the whole piano trade and that it is a mat-
ciation of Piano Tuners, which will be
for the benefit of prospective exhibitors, upon
ter of vital necessity to the trade to have every
held during August at the Hotel Statler
the right and wrong ways of setting out their
competent tuner kept constantly up-to-date in
in Detroit, for four days beginning August 3, displays, and upon the benefits that may be ex- respect of his technical knowledge in the fields
there will be a good deal of technical exhibiting
pected to be derived from them if they are
of piano, player-piano and reproducing piano
done by manufacturers of player actions, pianos, rightly made.
construction, operation and repair. This is not
piano actions and accessories. Officials of the
Why Exhibit?
merely a matter of consideration for the feel-
Association inform us that already, five months
Little by little, as the Tuners' Association
ings of tuners; it is, on the contrary, a mat-
ahead of time, ten of the most important houses
grows in importance and power, its annual con-
ter for the consideration primarily of the manu-
in the piano business have reserved space on the ventions are becoming general gatherings of
facturers themselves. No one of these latter
exhibit floor of the hotel. On this floor all the technical men from all parts of the country. In
can possibly stand to lose by displaying his
display rooms will be together, and all of them
the absence of any other group capable of put- latest products to the tuners; but every one
will be special rooms fitted for the purpose and
ting on such a gathering, the Tuners' Associa-
can stand to lose by withholding a sight of
not mere bedrooms pressed into service. It
tion thus assumes an importance which could
(Continued on page 14)
appears, in fact, that there will probably be a not have been attributed to it even a few years
great many more exhibits at this convention
than there have ever been before at a meeting
of the tuners.
REPAIRING, REBUILDING AND
Now this question of exhibits at the Tuners'
PLAYER PIANO ADJUSTING
Convention is a very important question, for
One of the Largest Schools In the East
Tells How Anyone Can
in dealing with it we are dealing with the most
Write for Catalog R
Organized 1914
Easily and Quickly
important relations that subsist between the
The Y.M.C.A., 1421 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa.
Reiinish Any Surface
tuners and the other branches of the industry.
A WEALTH of valua-
**• ble information for
So important are these relations and so vital
the Piano dealer, reflnisher,
are they to the prosperity of the piano business
repairman, or tuner contained
in this booklet. Tells how to
in this country that I believe it will be doing
fill up holes and deep scratches,
and Refinishing
Pianos and Phonograph*
The Importance of the Exhibits at
the Piano Tuners' National Meeting
A
Philadelphia School of PianoTuning
Book Sent
REPAIRING
Write for Detail* and Term*
FAUST SCHOOL
OF TUNING
Standard of America
Alumni of 2000
Piano Tuning, Pipe and Reed Oraaa
and Player Piano. Year Book Free.
27-29 Gainsboro Street
BOSTON, MASS.
PIANO REPAIR SHOP
339 So. Wabask A r e .
Chicago
Piano Tuners, Salesmen, Repairmen
Here's where you can shine on picking up deals for
slightly used nickel-in-the-slot electric pianos and player-
pianos.
This is just the ti'me of the year when you ought
to be able to find prospects for electric pianos from con-
fectioneries, drug stores, inns and many other places.
Will
give you a good deal and show where you can make tome
real money.
GRAND RAPIDS ELECTRIC PIANO COMPANY
28-30 Ionia Avenue
Grand Rapidi, Michigan
how to remove packing- marks
and caster cup imprints, how
to match Btains, how to pre-
pare scraped and rough sur-
faces, how to renew checked
finishes. Every operation in
repair of polished surfaces
is clearly and fully explained.
Send for Yonr FREE Copy Today
We want to place a copy of this valuable booklet in the
hands of every interested person. It points the way for
dealers who are now forced to discount shop worn" pieces
Into extra profit makers. Send for your copy today.
If you are too busy to write, just pin your card or letter-
head to this ad and we'll Jr«/>"> what you want.
THE H. L. CAMBELL CO.. 2321 Pen way, Kansas City. Ho.
romm
'A Man That Is Young in Years
May Be Old in Hours,
If He Has Lost No Time."
—Bacon
Sixty-two years of continuous progress in serv-
ing the great piano industry is back of Hilo
Varnishes—finishes just right in working quality,
in drying and the serviceability you expect are
Guaranteed.
Try Hilo for rubbing and polishing varnishes for
case goods, japans and bronzing liquids for
piano plates, finishes for piano sharps. You will
be pleased with our capability of serving you ex-
actly as you desire.
Write us.
HILO VARNISH CORPORATION
(Moller & Schumann Co.)
B R O O K L Y N : 1 Gerry St. Williamsburg 5380
BOSTON; 104 Hanover St., Capitol 4862
PHILADELPHIA.
27 So. Fourth St., Lombard 7723
CHICAGO: 2420-2*4 IVashbume St., Setlty 0150
KEYS RECOVERED AND REBUSHED
Send Postal for Free Sample
We are specialists in this work, which every dealer and tuner
needs. A l l work done by experts with most modern 'machinery,
and correct spacing is guaranteed. Replaced keys appear
exactly as when instrument left factory.
PRICES LOW—WORK GUARANTEED
Send Express or Parcel Post to
Frield, Miller & Co., 3767 Illinois St., Indianapolis,Ind.
Established 1901
POLK TUNING SCHOOL
OTTO R. TREFZ, Jr.
Pioneer school of piano, player-piano and Reproducing
Piano tuning ana repairing in tke United States.
Complete Courses Taught in SeTen to Ten Weeks
Write for terms tmd lUermtitre
POLK BUILDING
VALPARAISO. IND.
2110 Fairmount Arm.
Piano BOBS Strings
Piano Repair Supplies
PMladalpki*. Pa.
THE
M A R C H 28, 1925
13
MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
TECHNICAL DEPARTMENT
Conducted By William Braid White
ago. Already many important manufacturing
houses count upon an exhibit at the annual
tuners' convention as a regular and essential
part of their business propaganda, and the num-
ber of such houses is steadily increasing.
Association in Its Plans for Convention Has Made Manufacturers' Exhibits an Integral Part of
There must be some very good reason for *
the Gathering—The Audience Which the Exhibits Reach and the Value Which They
this, and that reason indeed exists. It is to be
Have for the Manufacturers Who Make Them—Facilities Offered
found in the obvious fact that the tuners are
technical men, that they do the service work
T the conventions of the National Asso- a general service to • make some observations of the whole piano trade and that it is a mat-
ciation of Piano Tuners, which will be
for the benefit of prospective exhibitors, upon
ter of vital necessity to the trade to have every
held during August at the Hotel Statler
the right and wrong ways of setting out their
competent tuner kept constantly up-to-date in
in Detroit, for four days beginning August 3, displays, and upon the benefits that may be ex- respect of his technical knowledge in the fields
there will be a good deal of technical exhibiting
pected to be derived from them if they are
of piano, player-piano and reproducing piano
done by manufacturers of player actions, pianos, rightly made.
construction, operation and repair. This is not
piano actions and accessories. Officials of the
Why Exhibit?
merely a matter of consideration for the feel-
Association inform us that already, five months
Little by little, as the Tuners' Association
ings of tuners; it is, on the contrary, a mat-
ahead of time, ten of the most important houses
grows in importance and power, its annual con-
ter for the consideration primarily of the manu-
in the piano business have reserved space on the ventions are becoming general gatherings of
facturers themselves. No one of these latter
exhibit floor of the hotel. On this floor all the technical men from all parts of the country. In
can possibly stand to lose by displaying his
display rooms will be together, and all of them
the absence of any other group capable of put- latest products to the tuners; but every one
will be special rooms fitted for the purpose and
ting on such a gathering, the Tuners' Associa-
can stand to lose by withholding a sight of
not mere bedrooms pressed into service. It
tion thus assumes an importance which could
(Continued on page 14)
appears, in fact, that there will probably be a not have been attributed to it even a few years
great many more exhibits at this convention
than there have ever been before at a meeting
of the tuners.
REPAIRING, REBUILDING AND
Now this question of exhibits at the Tuners'
PLAYER PIANO ADJUSTING
Convention is a very important question, for
One of the Largest Schools In the East
Tells How Anyone Can
in dealing with it we are dealing with the most
Write for Catalog R
Organized 1914
Easily and Quickly
important relations that subsist between the
The Y.M.C.A., 1421 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa.
Reiinish Any Surface
tuners and the other branches of the industry.
A WEALTH of valua-
**• ble information for
So important are these relations and so vital
the Piano dealer, reflnisher,
are they to the prosperity of the piano business
repairman, or tuner contained
in this booklet. Tells how to
in this country that I believe it will be doing
fill up holes and deep scratches,
and Refinishing
Pianos and Phonograph*
The Importance of the Exhibits at
the Piano Tuners' National Meeting
A
Philadelphia School of PianoTuning
Book Sent
REPAIRING
Write for Detail* and Term*
FAUST SCHOOL
OF TUNING
Standard of America
Alumni of 2000
Piano Tuning, Pipe and Reed Oraaa
and Player Piano. Year Book Free.
27-29 Gainsboro Street
BOSTON, MASS.
PIANO REPAIR SHOP
339 So. Wabask A r e .
Chicago
Piano Tuners, Salesmen, Repairmen
Here's where you can shine on picking up deals for
slightly used nickel-in-the-slot electric pianos and player-
pianos.
This is just the ti'me of the year when you ought
to be able to find prospects for electric pianos from con-
fectioneries, drug stores, inns and many other places.
Will
give you a good deal and show where you can make tome
real money.
GRAND RAPIDS ELECTRIC PIANO COMPANY
28-30 Ionia Avenue
Grand Rapidi, Michigan
how to remove packing- marks
and caster cup imprints, how
to match Btains, how to pre-
pare scraped and rough sur-
faces, how to renew checked
finishes. Every operation in
repair of polished surfaces
is clearly and fully explained.
Send for Yonr FREE Copy Today
We want to place a copy of this valuable booklet in the
hands of every interested person. It points the way for
dealers who are now forced to discount shop worn" pieces
Into extra profit makers. Send for your copy today.
If you are too busy to write, just pin your card or letter-
head to this ad and we'll Jr«/>"> what you want.
THE H. L. CAMBELL CO.. 2321 Pen way, Kansas City. Ho.
romm
'A Man That Is Young in Years
May Be Old in Hours,
If He Has Lost No Time."
—Bacon
Sixty-two years of continuous progress in serv-
ing the great piano industry is back of Hilo
Varnishes—finishes just right in working quality,
in drying and the serviceability you expect are
Guaranteed.
Try Hilo for rubbing and polishing varnishes for
case goods, japans and bronzing liquids for
piano plates, finishes for piano sharps. You will
be pleased with our capability of serving you ex-
actly as you desire.
Write us.
HILO VARNISH CORPORATION
(Moller & Schumann Co.)
B R O O K L Y N : 1 Gerry St. Williamsburg 5380
BOSTON; 104 Hanover St., Capitol 4862
PHILADELPHIA.
27 So. Fourth St., Lombard 7723
CHICAGO: 2420-2*4 IVashbume St., Setlty 0150
KEYS RECOVERED AND REBUSHED
Send Postal for Free Sample
We are specialists in this work, which every dealer and tuner
needs. A l l work done by experts with most modern 'machinery,
and correct spacing is guaranteed. Replaced keys appear
exactly as when instrument left factory.
PRICES LOW—WORK GUARANTEED
Send Express or Parcel Post to
Frield, Miller & Co., 3767 Illinois St., Indianapolis,Ind.
Established 1901
POLK TUNING SCHOOL
OTTO R. TREFZ, Jr.
Pioneer school of piano, player-piano and Reproducing
Piano tuning ana repairing in tke United States.
Complete Courses Taught in SeTen to Ten Weeks
Write for terms tmd lUermtitre
POLK BUILDING
VALPARAISO. IND.
2110 Fairmount Arm.
Piano BOBS Strings
Piano Repair Supplies
PMladalpki*. Pa.
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