Music Trade Review
Issue: 1952 Vol. 111 N. 3 - Page 11
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Established 1879
CARLETON CHACE, Editor
Alex H. Kolbe, Publisher
SOMEONE MUST HAVE TIPPED OFF HATLO.
V. T. Costello
Associate Editor
NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION
OF MUSIC
MERCHANTS
Alexander Hart
Technical Editor
1HI POOREST
CHILD IS RICH
VJI1H MUSK AL
Mary Louise Kauffman
Circulation Manager
Published monthly at 510 RKO Building, Radio
City, 1270 Sixth Avenue, New York 20, N . Y.
the first six months of 1950 or the last six months of
1949. However, the relief which has been granted has
created a somewhat more optimistic viewpoint
throughout the industry. In the second instance, at
the meeting of the Board of Directors of the
N.A.M.M. last month in New Orleans it was decided
to let the exhibits at the Hotel New Yorker remain
open every day during the convention week and
plans are being made to have the banquet on the
Waldorf-Astoria on the last night also, all the exhibits
will be held in the hotel this year.
Telephone: Circle 7-5842-5843-5844
A Supply Man's Dilemma
MARCH 1952
No. 3
Vol.
HIS little paragraph is for tuners and techni-
cians who order supplies from various piano
supply houses when they want to repair various
Business - As We See It
parts of the piano action or other elements in a piano.
WO things which developed this month should We saw a letter recently from one tuner who had
create considerable satisfaction among the pi- asked a certain supply distributor to send him a grand
ano manufacturers who have beeen striving for action for a square grand. No detailed information
a more liberal material allotment, and secondly, who was contained in the first letter and the supplier wrote
have felt that the exhibits at the convention this year and asked for further details, stating that they had
should be open every day and not several models of grand actions, and would like to
closed during the annual meeting know the specific type of action, even asking the tuner
of the N.A.M.M.; also that the to send in a sample of one section of the action. In
banquet should be on the last return he got a letter in which it was stated that the
night. In the first instance, the tuner didn't have to senc! a sample, because he wasn't
National Production Authority on particular what kind of square grand action was sent
February 27th advised the Piano to him, and anything that they might have that they
Manufacturers' Advisory Commit- thought might fit would probably fill the bill. Natur-
tee that the second quarter of ally, the supplier was entirely at a loss what to send
1952 copper allotments to the in- this tuner and had to write him again, so that there
dustry will equal percentage-wise were four or five days lost and he was still waiting
the amounts given to other con- for the proper information when we saw the letter.
CARLETON CHACE
sumer d u r a b l e goods manu- So, this supplier suggested that when tuners are order-
facturers. This raises the piano out of the less ing parts that they be very specific regarding the
essential category, but NPA said it could not accede action parts and hammers particularly, and in all
the Committee's previous expressed request that the cases send a sample, possibly one section of the ac-
industry be allowed to use a base period other than tion or a hammer.
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW, MARCH, 1952
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'U81C
NOTHING OF SPEttXtib
FORT MOX EVER/
TIME HE PUTS
ON A HEW
REVIEW
SOME 7H/MSS HE
J U S T WOWY GO FOR~
SUCW AS-.
Established 1879
CARLETON CHACE, Editor
Alex H. Kolbe, Publisher
SOMEONE MUST HAVE TIPPED OFF HATLO.
V. T. Costello
Associate Editor
NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION
OF MUSIC
MERCHANTS
Alexander Hart
Technical Editor
1HI POOREST
CHILD IS RICH
VJI1H MUSK AL
Mary Louise Kauffman
Circulation Manager
Published monthly at 510 RKO Building, Radio
City, 1270 Sixth Avenue, New York 20, N . Y.
the first six months of 1950 or the last six months of
1949. However, the relief which has been granted has
created a somewhat more optimistic viewpoint
throughout the industry. In the second instance, at
the meeting of the Board of Directors of the
N.A.M.M. last month in New Orleans it was decided
to let the exhibits at the Hotel New Yorker remain
open every day during the convention week and
plans are being made to have the banquet on the
Waldorf-Astoria on the last night also, all the exhibits
will be held in the hotel this year.
Telephone: Circle 7-5842-5843-5844
A Supply Man's Dilemma
MARCH 1952
No. 3
Vol.
HIS little paragraph is for tuners and techni-
cians who order supplies from various piano
supply houses when they want to repair various
Business - As We See It
parts of the piano action or other elements in a piano.
WO things which developed this month should We saw a letter recently from one tuner who had
create considerable satisfaction among the pi- asked a certain supply distributor to send him a grand
ano manufacturers who have beeen striving for action for a square grand. No detailed information
a more liberal material allotment, and secondly, who was contained in the first letter and the supplier wrote
have felt that the exhibits at the convention this year and asked for further details, stating that they had
should be open every day and not several models of grand actions, and would like to
closed during the annual meeting know the specific type of action, even asking the tuner
of the N.A.M.M.; also that the to send in a sample of one section of the action. In
banquet should be on the last return he got a letter in which it was stated that the
night. In the first instance, the tuner didn't have to senc! a sample, because he wasn't
National Production Authority on particular what kind of square grand action was sent
February 27th advised the Piano to him, and anything that they might have that they
Manufacturers' Advisory Commit- thought might fit would probably fill the bill. Natur-
tee that the second quarter of ally, the supplier was entirely at a loss what to send
1952 copper allotments to the in- this tuner and had to write him again, so that there
dustry will equal percentage-wise were four or five days lost and he was still waiting
the amounts given to other con- for the proper information when we saw the letter.
CARLETON CHACE
sumer d u r a b l e goods manu- So, this supplier suggested that when tuners are order-
facturers. This raises the piano out of the less ing parts that they be very specific regarding the
essential category, but NPA said it could not accede action parts and hammers particularly, and in all
the Committee's previous expressed request that the cases send a sample, possibly one section of the ac-
industry be allowed to use a base period other than tion or a hammer.
T
T
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW, MARCH, 1952
II
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