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THE
ALL ABOARD FOR PUT=IN=BAY!
Arrangements for the Great Convention Now
Completed—Pack
Your
Grip, Buy Your
Ticket and Proceed—Nominations for 1905-
1906—Mr. Werlein to be President.
(Supplied by Chairman Press Committee.)
The greatest enthusiasm prevails in every
quarter relative to the forthcoming convention
of the National Association of Piano Dealers of
America, to be held at the Hotel Victory, Put-in-
Bay, Ohio, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday,
June 20, 21 and 22. The various committees
have about completed their work, and all that
remains now is for the membership to turn out
and enjoy the fruits of the labors of the officers
for the past twelve months.
The topics for discussion, which have already
been disseminated through the courtesy of the
trade papers, are of vital importance to every
dealer, and in addition to the subjects already
published there will be some discussions, the
outgrowth of the recent Manufacturers' Conven-
tion, which will be brought up to receive consid-
eration. A complete programme of the events
will be mailed to each member and will also be
published in next week's trade papers. It is ear-
nestly hoped that members everywhere will do
their utmost to be present, and in the meantime
use every effort to obtain applications for mem-
bership from reliable dealers not at present con-
nected with the organization.
C. A. Grinnell, of Detroit, Mich., chairman of
the Membership Committee, states that never
since his connection with the Association and the
Membership Committee has there been so much
genuine enthusiasm manifested through corre-
spondence as is being shown at the present time.
Mr. Grinnell, as well as other members of the
Membership Committee and officers have received
personal letters from the most prominent manu-
facturers of the trade acknowledging receipt of
membership slips recently sent out to the manu-
facturers by the Membership Committee, and
which are being enclosed in the mail of manufac-
turers to dealers in all parts of the country,
urging them to become members of the Associa-
tion. The manufacturers invariably give expres-
sions of praise and encouragement for the Deal-
ers' Association. Letters to the members have
also been liberally responded to and a large num-
ber of applications sent in. A great deal of work
is being accomplished by the different members
o? the Association throughout the country, and
all seem most interested in their efforts and
proud of their membership in the National Asso-
ciation. Mr. Grinnell further adds in a recent
letter to the chairman of the Press Committee:
"I look forward to the meeting at Put-in-Bay as
being the most successful and largest ever held
by the Dealers' Association. Kindly inform our
good President, James C. Miller, of the great en-
thusiasm shown, and assure him that his admin-
istration is bound to be a great success in more
ways than one. I am so heartily pleased with
the prospects that words fail to express my en-
thusiasm. I find so many of the old members
are looking forward to the meeting as affording
them very much pleasure. I hope and trust that
the manufacturers will be present at our meet-
ing in goodly number, as many of the dealers
in this connection expressed to me a desire to
meet the manufacturers at Putin-Bay, and I
think the manufacturers should be urged to at-
tend."
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
via Toledo; in Chicago buy ticket Toledo to Put-
in-Bay via Cleveland, for $3.25 extra; returning,
leave Put-in-Bay Friday, June 23, forenoon or
afternoon, for Toledo, where connections will be
made with the 11.05 p. m. train for Chicago. This
will afford time in Toledo to see the city and en-
joy the welcome which will also be extended to
visitors by the Toledo dealers. Tickets from all
points will be sold at one and one-third rate for
the round trip. The purchaser, however, must
ask for a certificate from the agent when he pur-
chases his ticket. This certificate will be de-
posited with our secretary at Put-in-Bay on ar-
rival; when countersigned by the traffic manager,
will entitle the holder to a return trip ticket for
one-third the regular rate. This arrangement is
good for three days after the adjournment of the
convention, so that those members who desire
may remain at Put-in-Bay until Monday, June 26.
These instructions as to the purchasing of tickets
apply in all sections of the country.
Eastern members will leave New York, Phila-
delphia, Baltimore and Washington Sunday even-
ing, June 18, arriving in Cleveland, Ohio, Mon-
day, June 19, and proceed to Putin-Bay on Tues-
day, June 20. Schedules of boat lines from Cleve-
land, Sandusky, Toledo and Detroit have already
been published.
OFFICERS FOR 1905-1906.
The Nominating Committee has completed its
work and announce the following nominations
for officers for the ensuing year:
President, Philip Werlein, New Orleans, La.;
first vice-president, J. P. Byrne, Chicago, 111.;
second vice-president, W. H. Currier, Toledo, O.;
third vice-president, P. A. Leland, Worcester,
Mass.; fourth vice-president, G. Wright Nicols,
Baltimore, Md.; secretary, Percy S. Foster, Wash-
ington, D. C; treasurer, to be selected.
Executive Board—B. B. Crew, Atlanta, Ga.;
R. T. Cassell, Denver, Col.; D. E. Woolley, Phila-
delphia, Pa.; A. M. Hume, Boston, Mass.
Membership Committee—C. A. Grinnell, De-
troit, Mich.; J. O. Twitchell, Chicago, 111.; C. Q.
Chase, San Francisco, Cal.
Advisory Committee—James C. Miller, chair-
man; Henry Dreher, F. B. T. Hollenberg, Chand-
ler W. Smith.
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OUR FOREIGN CUSTOMERS.
Pianos and Other Musical Instruments Shipped
Abroad from the Port of New York for the
Week Just Ended.
(Special to The Review.)
Washington, D. C, June 5, 1905.
The following were the exports of musical in-
struments and kindred lines from the port of
New York for the week just ended:
Algoa Bay—66 pkgs. organs, $4,032.
Batavia—6 pkgs. talking machines and mate-
rial, $166.
Berlin—111 pkgs. talking machines and ma-
terial, $3,496; 1 pkg. organs and material, $475.
Bremen—1 pkg. piano players and material,
$250.
Calcutta—7 pkgs. talking machines and mate-
rial, $126.
Delagoa Bay—2 pkgs. pianos and material,
$349.
Glasgow—32 pkgs. talking machines and ma-
terial, $150; 8 pkgs. organs, $400.
Hamburg—9 pkgs. pianos and material, $223;
24 pkgs. piano players, $5,575; 18 pkgs. talking
machines and material, $364; 2 pkgs. musical in-
struments, $160.
Havre—33 pkgs. talking machines and mate-
rial, $1,573; 1 pkg. pianos, $500; 4 pkgs. piano
players, $450.
Launceston—1 pkg. organ material, $100.
Leeds—7 pkgs. talking machines and mate-
vial
41 9B
Liverpool—47 pkgs. pianos and material, $6,-
450; 3 pkgs. organs and material, $155; 37 pkgs.
talking machines and material, $689; 7 pkgs.
organs and material, $350; 2 pkgs. musical in-
struments, $150.
London—14 pkgs. organs and material, $413;
4 pkgs. talking machines and material, $826;
3 pkgs. music goods, $151; 2 pkgs. talking ma-
chines and material, $278.
Manchester—8 pkgs. talking machines and ma-
terial, $302.
Melbourne—4 pkgs. music, $341; 70 pkgs. talk-
ing machines and material, $1,522; 21 pkgs.
piano players, $3,293; 80 pkgs. organs and ma-
terial, $3,570; 28 pkgs. talking machines and
material, $979.
PIANOS AND PERSONALITY.
Montevideo—11 pkgs. talking machines and
Interesting Views of Dr. Annie Patterson in a material, $204.
Pernambuco—1 pkg. pianos and material, $146.
London Paper.
Rio de Janeiro—2 pkgs. pianos and material,
Dr. Annie Patterson, who has written consid- $257.
Santos—13 pkgs. talking machines and mate-
erable regarding music, has been contributing
some interesting views upon the "personality" rial, $362.
Sheffield—5 pkgs. talking machines and mate-
of the piano to the London papers. That she is
an enthusiast can be gleaned from the following rial, $217.
St. Petersburg—2 pkgs. music, $109; 12 pkgs.
excerpt:
"Every well-built and carefully finished piano talking machines and material, $660.
Savanilla—33 pkgs. organs and material, $3,000.
possesses a kind of mysterious personality of its
Sydney—137 pkgs. talking machines and ma-
own, which calls for a certain amount of respect.
It is now many years ago that, with no little terial, $3,797.
Tampico—7 pkgs. pianos and material, $740;
sense of elation, I became the possessor of a
handsomely made and well-toned grand. A pecu- 4 pkgs. organs, $102.
Vera Cruz—1 pkg. piano material, $700.
liarity of this instrument is that, like some hu-
Vienna—7 pkgs. talking machines and mate-
man beings, it seems strongly influenced by en-
vironment. If listeners are sympathetic or en- rial, $296.
thusiastically musical, and especially if the
player is imbued with the spirit of such sur- KRANICH & BACH GRAND THE PRIZE
roundings, the grand responds in a most beautiful
way to the feelings of performer and audience. To the Party Who Composes the Best Compo-
sition from the Five Notes Forming the
But when any one of the 'wooden' or coldly crit-
Theme
in the Kranbach Nocturne.
ical fraternity is near the tone and timbre change
in a notable manner when the keys are touched.
PLATT GIBBS' PERSONALLY CONDUCTED TRAIN.
Kranich & Bach announce a prize contest based
Of course, the skeptic may sneer, 'What hyster-
All the members throughout the West who ical fancy! An instrument sounds well or ill, upon one of the incidents in their clever little
wish to join the superb special train under the according as the performer is accomplished or book written by Joseph Gray Kitchell, entitled,
conductorship of Platt P. Gibbs, chairman of the the reverse.' Yet, what I say is true of my "The Kranbach Nocturne." The theme around
Entertainment Committee, should bear in mind grand."
which the story is woven is formed of five musi-
that this special train will leave Chicago Sunday
cal notes and the prize of a grand piano is offered
evening, June 18, at 10.30, via the Lake Shore &
to the person evolving the best piano composi-
SECURE MEHLIN AND BRAMBACH PIANO
Michigan Southern Railroad, going to Put-in-Bay
tion from these five notes. The contest will close
AGENCIES.
via Cleveland, Ohio, and arriving at Cleveland
on September 1, and it will certainly arouse a tre-
7.40 Monday morning, June 19, spend the day in
The Becht Piano Co., of Atlanta, Ga., have se- mendous lot of interest, as the prize is one well
Cleveland, and enjoy the entertainment prepared cured the agency for the celebrated Mehlin worthy of competing for.
by the local association. Leave Cleveland by boat pianos, as well as the Brambach, which they will
Mason McCarty, of Emporia, Kan., has sold
Tuesday morning, June 20, at 8.30, arriving at hereafter control in Georgia, South Carolina and
Put-in-Bay at 12.45. Those going with Chicago Alabama. They also handle the Cable-Nelson his stock of sheet music and musical instru-
ments to Frank Ellis.
contingent should purchase tickets to Put-in-Bay piano.