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Show English Piano Trade Booms, There is quite a boom In the Eng. ltsh piano trade. .Manufacturers have been inundated with orders from abroad, and in some factories fully 75 per cent of the orders being executed re for export. In capturing German trade, the es-- es-- Bential is an adequate supply of high ly skilled labor. Since the war began be-gan the Pianoforte Manufacturers' association, as-sociation, in conjunction with the Lon-, don county council, have formulated sn apprenticeship scheme combined with technical training, and as sooii as conditions permit the council propose pro-pose to establish a polytechnic Id 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. |