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Show English Piano Trade Booms. There is quite a. boom in the English Eng-lish piano trade. Manufacturers have been inundated with orders from abroad, and in some factories fully 75 per cent of the orders being executed are for export. In capturing German trade, the essential es-sential is an adequate supply of highly high-ly skilled labor. Since the war began be-gan the Pianoforte Manufacturers' association, as-sociation, in conjunction with the London Lon-don county council, have formulated an apprenticeship scheme combined with technical training, and as soon as conditions permit the council propose pro-pose to establish a polytechnic in Kentish Town, one branch of which will be devoted to pianoforte construction. construc-tion. Meantime a half-time technical school has been established at the Camden School of Art, Camden road, to which apprentices are sent from the factories for half-time each week. London Chronicle. 4 |