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Corded-Reed Backs Now Offered
for All Story & Clark Spinets
At the NAMM Convention
the Story & Clark Piano Co..
111., revealed to the trade
corded-reed back for spinets,
natural blonde color, and has a sturdy
hardwood frame which is finished 'o
match the piano. Installation of the
new back is simplicity itself. It re-
in July
Chicago.
its new
consoles
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and uprights—again demonstrating this
firm's talent for progressive thinking
and smart styling. The model shown
herewith was the Story & Clark Tradi-
tional Spinet in blonde walnut.
The corded-reed material in the new
back is extremely good-looking, in a
Musical Aptitude Test
A unique feature of the Education Di-
vision's Convention Business session on
Store-Studios was the introduction of a
musical aptitude test. Members have
shown much interest in such tests, and
this one published by NAMM makes
available to all mmebers a simple music
survey test. It can be administered any-
where including the home because it
utilizes the mobility of the accordion.
The test can be used in the Studio, the
canvassing operation, public or paroch-
ial schools, and in developing indus-
trial music. It can determine a grade
in establishing the child's native musical
ability, help to place the child proper-
ly in group work, and be of service in
converting the student from a rental
instrument to a purchase. The test is
flexible in its many uses, and takes just
twenty minutes to give to any one per-
son or a group. The Music Ability Sur-
vey Test is available to members in any
quantity at ten cents per copy. The Stu-
dent Test Sheets are available as fol-
lows: 25 copies @ 20c; 50 copies
@ 30c; 100 copies (a 50c. Members
may secure a sample copy.
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quires only eight screws and can be
done either at the factory or by the
dealer.
According to Story & Clark officials.
the idea for an attractive back started
when they began having a demand for
decorative backs on Their Style 14-C
Organo installations in churches-
churches where the organist wanted to
face the audience, without having the
congregation "'looking into the back of
the organ."
in addition to churches, other obvi-
ous possibilities for Story & Clark
pianos with the new corded-reed back
include schools, restaurants, night clubs,
cocktail lounges and similar institution-
al uses—as well as in homes them-
selves, for modern room-partitioning
effects, or for rooms where no wall
space is available for a piano.
Teacher Invents Adjustable
Piano Chair
The Sit-Rite adjustable piano chair
has been perfected which can be ad-
justed properly for any person in the
home, for the student in the studio
and for any artist at the keyboard. A
special feature designed for comfort
is its back, which is in "just the right
place"' for restful back support when
the student or artist who practices
many hours a day feels the neeed.
The mechanism permits eleven seat
adjustments at intervals of three-eighths
of an inch, starting at eighteen inches
from the floor. This is the height of the
lowest piano bench made. It will ad-
just up to twenty-two inches from the
floor, which is an inch higher than
the highest piano bench made. The ad-
justment is made by pressing with the
thumb and forefinger, the metal tabs
at the back of the chair. When the
scat has been raised or lowered to the
proper height, the tabs arc then re-
leased.
Bruce M. Dougherty, of Dallas, Tex.,
a singer and teacher, is the inventor of
this adjustable chair.
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