November 5, 1927
15
PRESTO-TIMES
COINOLAS
FOR
RESTAURANTS, CAFES and
A M U S E M E N T CENTERS
BENCHES BY EXPERTS
as the RMA standards, but will be designated "The
Radio Industry Standards," according to H. B. Rich-
mond, director, engineering division.
Period Designs in Benches Are the Work of an
Artist of Oak Park.
DAMROSCH IS LEADER.
Walter Damrosch, who withdrew from active lead-
ership of the New York Symphony Orchestra on
The Perfection Furniture Company, 1514-20 Blue December 14, 1926, after forty-two years' service,
Island avenue, Chicago, is busy these days turning will conduct that orchestra again in a new series of
out fine benches for the piano trade. Mr. Smith, the twenty weekly broadcasts. The concerts began No-
president, is in correspondence with many of the vember 5, under the sponsorship of the Radio Cor-
leading piano dealers and manufacturers every day. poration of America if arrangements can be made to
Henry J. Fahn, the factory superintendent, is one get twenty-four stations in the hook-up. Station
of the expert woodworkers of the country. He WJZ and fifteen associated transmitters throughout
showed a Presto-Times man the latest hand-carving" the East and Middle West are already lined up.
of Thomas Bloom on a pilaster—work both intricate
and accurate. The woodworking department is FREDERICK STOCK'S JUDGMENT SOUGHT.
equipped with 28 machines, and all were busy at it
Frederick Stock, conductor of the Chicago Sym-
on Tuesday of this week when the Presto-Times call phony Orchestra, is a member of the American jury
was made. In the varnishing department the lac- for an international contest for compositions based
quers are all put on by the spraying process.
on Schubert's sketches for his unfinished symphony.
The period designs of the house are all produced
The Columbia Phonograph Company is financial
by an artist in that ilne, Mr. Mundschein of Oak guarantor for the prizes.
Park, 111.
The factory is well stocked with supplies to con-
tinue manufacturing, including quantities of mohair
frieze and other things that enter into the making
of luxurious parlor sets, chaise lounges, etc.
PIANO BASS STRINGS —PIANO REPAIR SUPPLIES
OTTO R. TREFZ, Jr.
TUNERS AND REPAIRERS
Style C-2
FROM THE BIGGEST
ORCHESTRION
RADIO STANDARDIZATION.
The Radio Manufacturers' Association, which
claims to be nearly 100 per cent representative of the
entire industry, feels that any standardization work
it may do will be truly representative of the industry.
Under the direction of the engineering division, meet-
ings are being held at which not only are members
welcome but every interested manufacturer is in-
vited. At these meetings all previous standards, re-
gardless of their origin, are being reconsidered. Out
of this previous duplication of effort, the RMA is
drawing up a new set of standards which, while spon-
sored by the RMA, will no longer be known simply
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