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Music Trade Review

Issue: 1954 Vol. 113 N. 14 - Page 23

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L to R. John Schadler Jr., American Piano Supply Co., holds Ivory Tusk while others look on-Louis Pratt who has been cutting ivory tops for keys for 63 years
lany years.
marks tusk tfor cutting and is then seen at his cutting saw-Ivory tops are then graded by experts who have been doing this work for me
ford, 111.; Roy Endress, as well as M.
E. Andrews and Percy W. Gatz, Na-
tional President of the A.S.P.T. A. P.
Avery of Providence, R. I., was there,
bringing greetings from the National
Association of Music Merchants, and
among the other exhibitors was the
American Felt Co.
The meeting was one of the most
successful regional meetings which
has yet been held by this association,
and the educational program proved
to be very enlightening.
MRS. HELEN M. SOHMER
Mrs. Helen M. Sohmer, wife of
Harry J. Sohmer, president of Sohmer
& Co, N. Y., passed away suddenly at
her home on October 23rd.
Funeral services were held on Oct.
25th with a Requiem Mass at St. Vin-
cent Ferrer Church, Lexington Ave. and
66th St., N. Y. Interment was at Wood-
lawn Cemetery.
Besides her husband, Mrs. Sohmer
is survived by two sons, Harry J. Soh-
mer, Jr., and Robert H. Sohmer, both
active in the Sohmer business.
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The Key to Music
M
ifremen
one of the world's finest sphie/s
Bremen 37C is another
"slender look" model. It's
"the" console with third di-
mension tone . . . due to its
perfectly balanced scale and longer
bass strings than in the average
piano of this size. Construction is
such that every nuance and depth
of tone are captured .
Write for complete information
Bremen Piano Corporation
261 0 EDGINGTON ST.. FRANKLIN PARK, ILL.
Ho other piano offers you
so much...AT
ANY PRICE!
KIMBALL PIANOS
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Keyboard o f the Nation
^WEAVER PIANO CO., INC.
Established 1870
York, Pa.
Gulbransen New CENTURY Minuet Console
fops in styling, quality and
profitable sales!
An outstanding, full 88-note, piano value,
especially low-priced. Now equipped with the
Gulbransen sensational, exclusive, SUPERTONE
SCALE, complete closing fallboard, new fluted leg
with brass ferrule, exquisitely designed arm, pilaster,
etc. . . . More and more sales features.
Up goes the quality—down goes the price.
R. S. DRYBURGH CO.
GULBRANSEN COMPANY
Wauwatosa 13, Wisconsin
(Box 172)
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descriptive literature
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW, NOVEMBER, 1954
2050 N. RUBY ST., MELROSE PARK, ILL.
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