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MARCH 9,
THE
1918
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
THE MARKET FOR SMALL GRANDS
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of even the moderate priced ones is marvelously fine. No greater error could be imagined than to suppose that
the popularity of the small grand means a flood of cheap instruments. You cannot cheapen the grand piano
as the upright has been cheapened.
In tone, touch and mechanical construction, the small, modern grand is a wonder. In the relative lowness
of its price it is a wonder too. You buy more for-ev^y dollar in 1918, manger war costs, than ever could be
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bought in piano values at any previous time.
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Go after the small grand trade, gentlemen, of the "retail trade. You can sell all you are likely to get this
year. And you can get more cash in proportion than on any other piano proposition ever offered to the general
public if you but try. Make 191S a small-grand year! T*
ing the task they are facing. They realize that American musk
is not necessarily good because it happens to be American muiit,
but they do maintain that there is plenty of native music that wrll
stand favorable comparison with the best products of European
composers, and feel that this is the time to urge that fact on both
musicians and the public in this country. The movement is good
enough and broad enough to have the support of every member
of the industry, both individually and through the medium of the
various associations. The trade campaign for musical develop-
ment in fact very readily can be made a campaign for the develop-
ment of American music, thereby doing double duty.
HE value of always having a sentinel on guard to protect the
interests of the trade in matters of legislation was particularly
well illustrated last week in the case of the Carroll bill, providing
for the licensing of vending machines, which, it was found, might
be made to include player-pianos and talking machines even in
the home.
As soon as the menace of the bill was apparent, George W.
Pound, counsel for the Music Industries Chamber of Commerce,
took due notice of the fact and appeared before the Committee
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of the Judiciary in Albany in opposition to the measure. It was
all done quietly and without excitement, quite in contrast to
other occasions when special meetings were called and commit-
tees appointed to fight pieces of legislation inimical to the inter-
ests of the trade.
T
l 1 E Chamber of Commerce of the United States announced
this week that the resolution warning (icrman business men
that an economic combination would be formed against Germany
after the war unless the danger of excessive armament is removed
by making the German Government a responsible instrument
controlled by the people, has been favored by an overwhelming
vote, following a preliminary canvass of its organization mem-
bers. In fact, the vote as reconfed up to Saturday was 1,204 in
favor as against 154 against.
A referendum on these resolutions was ordered on Tanuary
12, and copies were sent to each of the thousand local commer-
cial and industrial organizations comprising the National Cham-
ber. Each organization has from one to ten votes, according to
membership. The overwhelming vote in favor of the resolution
shows the attitude of American business on this question.
We Are in Business to Stay
We Have Faith in Our Instruments
WE are HONESTLY, CONSCIENTIOUSLY STRIVING
for a still HIGHER degree of QUALITY.
We have NO AMBITION to become the largest producer
at a SACRIFICE of QUALITY for QUANTITY.
We prefer to be KNOWN as the PRODUCER of the BEST.
A STEADY line of SATISFIED CUSTOMERS rather than dependence upon a
fluctuating market for the sale of our GOODS IS OUR AIM.
RE-ORDERS PROVE IT.
BOGART PIANO CO.,
9-11 Canal Place
NEW YORK