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Music Trade Review

Issue: 1926 Vol. 82 N. 12 - Page 44

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THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
MARCH 20, 1926
The Technical Department—(Continued from page 39)
Danquard Player-Action School Finishes
Course in Memphis and Opens in Dallas
also includes the valuable equipment and sup-
plies of Strauch Bros.
By this purchase Pratt, Read & Co. becomes
possessor of the Strauch grand action as well
as the upright. George L. Cheney, president of
Memphis Class Has Registration of Between Twenty-five and Thirty, With High Average Attend- Pratt, Read & Co., stated this week that they
ance—Southern Itinerary of School Proving Highly Successful
will continue the manufacture of the Strauch
grand action at Deep River, strictly adhering
T^HE second stop on the Southern itinerary phus, Dallas, Tex., where it will be located to the high standard of quality for which it
of the Danquard Player Action School was for several weeks. It is expected that the at- has always been well known.
at Memphis, Tenn., where some twenty-five or tendance record for cities of the size of Dallas
thirty tuners took this free course of instruc- will be shattered as a result of the co-operation
Fred A. Beesley Heads
Salt Lake City Tuners
New Local Division of National Association of
Piano Tuners Is Formed in That City
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, March 12.—Fred A.
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Danquard Class in Memphis, Tenn.
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tion offered by the Standard Pneumatic Action which dealers are showing in sending their
Co. and the Auto Pneumatic Action Co., New piano technicians and tuners to the school.
York. Most of the men registering for the
course attended both afternoon and evening ses-
sions and studied hard for the three weeks it
lasted.
The school met in the Hotel Gayoso. Those
who attended expressed themselves as deeply Piano Action, Key and Hammer Departments
grateful to the supporting companies for the
Are Taken Over by Deep River, Conn., Con-
opportunities afforded to learn more about foot-
cern
power players and about the Welte-Mignon
(Licensee) reproducing action. From Memphis
Announcement was made late last week of
the school went to Little Rock, Ark., for a short the purchase of the piano action, hammer and
stay, making its headquarters at the Hotel key departments of Strauch Bros., Inc., as well
Marion.
as the name and good-will in so far as it per-
On March 8 the Danquard Player Action tains to these two branches of the business by
School started its sessions in the Hotel Adol- Pratt Read & Co., Deep River, Conn. The sale
Strauch Bros. Departments
Sold to Pratt, Read & Go.
Beesley was elected president of the Salt Lake
City division of the National Association of
Piano Tuners when the division was organized
at a recent meeting here. Charles Deutsch-
mann, of Chicago, president of the national
body, was the chief speaker, declaring the pur-
pose of the organization to be maintenance of
the highest ethical and technical standards in
tuning and repairing. He also stated that a
benefit to the public would result by protecting
piano owners from unskilled tuners. Charter
members include D. B. Anderson, W. P. Buxton,
George Woodruff, J. G. Morrison, Archibald
Chamberlain, Andrew Mack, B. F. Pulham, John
Toronto and Leonard Davis.
Lumber Men to Meet
WASHINGTON, D. C, March 13.—Announcement
was made here to-day that the twenty-fourth
annual meeting of the National Lumber Manu-
facturers' Association would be held Thursday
and Friday, April 22-23, at the Congress Hotel,
Chicago, 111. The morning of April 22 will be
devoted to committee meetings, with a general
program of addresses in the afternoon and an
annual dinner in the evening, at which those
present will be guests.
Consult the Universal Want Directory of
The Review. In it advertisements are inserted
free of charge for men who desire positions.
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