Music: Tootless Days

All stocks of 27 types of musical instruments were frozen last week by WPB, which also banned all further production after June 30. Band instruments now in manufacturers' and wholesalers' hands will be made available only to Army, Navy and Marine bands. Instrument makers will make precision instruments for airplanes; piano makers will turn out gliders, and organ makers will make blowers for Link ground trainers.

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