"BRITISH-MADE" GERMAN PIANOS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 27 March 1922, Page 6

"BRITISH-MADE" GERMAN PIANOS.

A BARBER'S OFFER.

The methods by which German pianomakers are seeking to recapture the trade m Britain were described recently by Colonel Tatton, of the Federation of British Music Industries t j ™n hls Possession '(states the London Times) much documentary evidence that there are firms in Berlin and Leipzig who undertake to supply British dealers, and even manufacturers, with pianos bearing British trademarks and names. oaasa fW™ Waj- in Which great numbers of German pianos are getting i n sa id ofo'bar l Tatt£\ \*™&*h* Wstm ot barter which, because of the state ?«+« if ? xchar}Z Q > ww enters largely instead of in marks, and pianos are frequently the form'in which pa^en? rtbl aS ? ritish-made they sold readily enough at auction, because of the low price which the state of the ieo Xst a o n fg1 r d the «omparativlly° f low I cost of labour made possible. It had trvnJT\ that a barber in this comiSn^ + e uin? nevv German-made pianos, worth, he .said, from £100 to £120 apiece, at £30 apiece, which i The trouble for the purchaser of such jan instrument, Colonel Tatton said W* if^y fault dieloped.' . The barber could not put it right This baroer's pianos would probably SWVH » value to J , *>80 British instrument. There was now established in London an offshoot of the French Concern &s^-r^^ff made bl° ti, A"T^ f°r the 6erma«y i I cxc]}™Z Q and the cheaper bei man labour, they were even lower priced than the German article i£ Cokmei