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LEVEN YEARS AGO the world gathered at the beautiful White City by the blue waters of Lake Michigan, where were
shown the many and varied accomplishments of man.
Since then the world has traveled farther in science, art and industry than it ever did before in a quarter of a
century. During that time marvelous progress has been made. We have seen the development of forces and methods in the physical
world, which have been remarkable in their influence for advancement in every line of thought and research. They show that the material
potentialities and intellectual faculties of mankind are utilized towards a common end, and that end, the uplifting of the human race
and the promotion of its happiness.
Music and musico-industrial art have played well their parts in American advance to aesthetic ideals. Since the last great
American Exposition there has been an almost phenomenal development in musical culture.
This steady trend towards greater musical expansion leads one to believe that in the future not far removed, America will
be the foremost musical country of the world. Our magnificent institutions of musical learning, our gifted composers and leaders,
together form an influence which is encouraging America still further ahead to higher musical ideals.
The part which music is filling in our daily life is steadily becoming more accentuated. Its broadening and ennobling
influences are more clearly recognized and defined than ever before in the nation's history.
The part which piano manufacturers have played in the encouragement and development of this musical life should not
be overlooked, for it was the founders of our great piano institutions, who encouraged, by personal energy and by great ex-
penditures of money, the musical germ which was early planted on these shores.
Had it not been for the magnificent support given by these men, it is not likely that music would have reached its present
high state in this country. Therefore, all honor to piano manufacturers for the generous aid that they have given to the cause
of music!
Some of the greatest artists and most noted musical organizations have been brought to America through the generosity
of piano manufacturers. Their coming has stimulated others, and so it has gone on until we have had in this country the best
talent of the old world, which, combined with the restless energy of the new, shall create a musical nation which shall dominate the world.
Piano making has been in truth termed an art industry, and it is not alone an art industry which is conducive to great
material prosperity, but it has been an impelling force for the cultivation and broadening of the musical strength of the nation.
There is a touch of sympathy existing between musical instrument manufacturers and the musicians who give to their
products that life and expression which charms and fascinates all hearers.
It should be understood that the piano under American makers has reached its highest development.
Instruments were
made in this country in a sporadic way shortly after they were first manufactured in England, so that the industry in America
is almost as old as the industry in England, but here it occupies a more important position, and the American piano through
its acknowledged superiority has become the conceded standard of the world.
It is, therefore, fitting that this World's Fair number ot The Music Trade Review, published in commemoration of the great
St. Louis Exposition of 1904, should deal with music and its makers as well as personalities and institutions which have given
to American industry a strength which all the world recognizes. It is at once impossible to deal exhaustively with the various
personalities who have contributed to the musico-industrial development of America.