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ASPT Convention Attendance Largest Ever;
Members Visit Many Piano and Supply Plants
HPHE annual convention of the Ameri-
•*• can Society of Piano Technicians
took place at the Hotel New Yorker,
New York, on August 1st to 5th, in-
clusive.
The preliminary breakfast for dele-
gates and national officers took place
at the Panel Room on Thursday, July
31st, and there was a council meeting
held at 9 a.m. on that day which con-
tinued until all business was concluded.
At 1:30 p.m. on Friday, an address
of welcome was heard bv Charles
Quain of the New York Convention
Bureau. Later the keynote address was
made by George M. Brasch. President
of the Society. There were two address-
es during the afternoon, one by A. Per-
ry Avery, Chairman of the N.A.M.M.
Tuner Technicians Committee, and one
by H. Ellis Saxton, Saxton Advertising
Agency on "Public Relations for Piano
Technicians." In the evening, there was
a cruise around Manhattan Island.
J. F. Feddersen Addresses Tuners
The main address on Saturdav to
1. John J. Vaughn, American Piano Supply
Co. takes an order, while in No. 2 another
customer looks over the display.
3. Walter Dryburgh of Dryburgh & Sons,
Inc., shows some of the specialties manu-
factured by that company.
4. Allen M. Foote and O. Jack Buckley of
Dampp-Chaser, Inc.
5. The Dampp-Chaser exhibit, same as that
used in N.A.M.M. Trade Show.
6. Richard Hale of the Tuners Supply Co.
shows a tuning fork to a customer.
7. Mrs. Richard Hale operates a projector
which was showing several scenes of the
Hale establishment in Boston in color.
8. William W. Kimball, Jr. and Theodore H.
Krumwiede of the W. W. Kimball Co., Chi-
cago, stand beside a Kimball piano without
a case, which shows the action which is
manufactured by the company.
9. Peter H. Comstock, Vice- President, and
F. Kelso Davis, Sales and Advertising Man-
ager of Pratt, Read & Co., discussing a key
problem.
10. Edwin C. Trefz of Otto R. Trefz, Jr. &.
Co. of Philadelphia sits at a table while in
No. 11 the Trefz display is shown.
12. and 13. are parts of the display of Wood
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the general assembly which gathered
in the Grand Ballroom was made by
J. F. Feddersen, President of the Na-
tional Piano Manufacturers Associa-
tion. Richard Westervelt of the New
York University School of Retailing
also talked on "Selling your Services",
and Arthur Johnson, Chemical Engin-
eer of the Inter-Chemical Corporation's
Finishers Division, gave a talk on
"Varnish, Lacquer and Paint". From
1 to 5 p.m. there were workshops on
the 5th floor and a technical forum in
the ballroom.
On Monday, August 4th, the mem-
bers gathered in the grand ballroom
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& Brooks Co.
14. Ralph Sperry of Rudolph Wurlitzer Co.
converses with T. A. Delaney of the Stand-
ard Piano Hammer Cop.
15. A group in the Steinway exhibit room
including Alexander Hart, Technical Editor
of T H E R E V I E W ; William H. Saeger; Gran-
ville Ward, William Hupfer and Richard
Cohlman.
16. Joe Dauer, adv. mgr. of Rudolph Wur-
litzer Co.
17. Superintendent Pfau of Wood A Brooks
Co., Ralph Sperry, Rudolph Wurlitzer Co.
and Delaney, Standard Hammer Co.
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW, AUGUST I952