JUNE
THE MUSIC TRADE , REVIEW
7, 1919
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CHICAGO, ILL" J une 2.- Fo llo wi ng a preliminary
meeting of the officers of th e Music Indu str ies
Chamber of Commerce at 9 o'clock this m o rning,
t he regular meeting of th e delega tes of the va
ri o us trade associations and individual members
o f th e Ch amber o f Commerce took place on
sc hedule ti me, The meeting was opened with
a few wo rds of welco me by President C. A.
Gri nnell, followed by the roll call of the dele
ga t es from th e associations and individual mem
bers of th e Chamb er, as we ll as the r eg ul ar
order of routine busin ess, such as reading the
minut es, etc.
President Grinnell took the floor after the
reading of the min utes and deli vered hi s report
as follows:
PRESIDENT GRINNELL'S REPORT
Anothe l' year has passed- a ye ar of unpar
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allel ed actiVit ies and unprecedented de ve lop
m en ls, and the period ha s been kaleidoscopic
w ith va rying viewpoints confronting our indus
tr y, necessitating the greatest activity an d the
m ost intens e concentration ever k nown to the
music trade. It h as been a period of world-
mak ing history, and our indust~y has made
greater progress than in a ny previous year,
Wh at t o do and how to do it best has been
upp ermos t in the minds and hearts of all. Suf
fice it to say that on the whole the activ ities can
scarcely be criti cized and the results o btaine d
for the most par t have been lit t le less than
marvelous. To en um erate for a moment: The
activit ies of perhaps every bureau have been
marked by greater effort, guided by high in
telligence and most conscientious work Our
A dva ncement of Busic Bu r ea u in all its acti vi ti es
has been little less than mar ve lous in its acco m
plishments, while the coas t-to -coas t trip of
Geo rge W. Pound as outlined in our executive
meeting in January has been pronounced by
th ose qualified to give the verdict as the mos t
phenomenal effort ever put forth by any indu s
try in a ll history. It is to b e regretted that
conditions seemed to warrant, fir st, postpone
ment of th e trip and later cancelation of a con
siderabl e po r ti o n of it, and I urge that as soon
as consistent simila r trips covering other sec
tions of our countr y be arranged. And I believe
that by means of greate r co-operation and
from the experien ce gained th ro ugh the coast
t o-coas t trip, the y can be carried out more <;u c
cessf ully th a n even it has proven. Mr. Pound
in his r eport will undoubtedly g ive you some of
his experiences which seem little less than
miraculous. On hi s next trip I urge the B ureau
for the Adv ancem en t of .Music to do more ad
vanced propaganda work with the co-operati on
of the dealers in large ci t ies, preparing the public
thr ough "music in the h ome" pages for ' his
visi t t o their cities; also th a t the week of his
v isit to each city be featured by all music dealers
in their advertisements as "Music Week"
Mr. P o und found a wo rthy exponent of his
ac tivit ies through the pen of Alex. M cDona ld,
who did such yeoma n work in reporting th e tr ip
through our trade papers.
Old System of Secretiveness Eliminated
Th(' . ac tivi ti es of the techni ca l work and the
splendid co-operatIOn of th.e manufacturers in
the study of acous~ICS,. effiCien cy, economy and
efforts 111 standardl~atlOn of m a nufac.ture . truly
mark a new epoch 111 our manufactuflng 111dus-'
try. Contrary to former cust om with our manu
of formulating plans for the greatest expansion
fac turers and perhaps unparall ele d in th e his of music through philanthropic line s and as t o
t o ry of any industry has bee n the attitude of
the advis ab ility of endeavoring to have such an
th ese manufacturers in meetings assembled,
organization created and established, tak ing this
where eve ry card was thrown upon the table,
feature largel y out of its narrower confines
face up, and nothing kept back in reserve. Th e which it must always occupy more or less if
old system of secretiveness has evidently been
left to the direction of a single industry.
eliminated. !\. new era has dawned-we may
Music is national in its scope and should be
look for greater st rides and a higher s tandard
nation a l in its broad exploitation and develop
of lllusical products than th e world has ever
ment, And thi s work should attract the mil
before kno w n, but these results wi ll n ot be at lions upon millions of dollars which would be
tai ned too soon ,
gladly placed at the command of such a na
As a result of the war, a nd through arousing
tional organization for the highest development
th e intense· interest of our nation to the vita l of mankind,
necessity of music in th e highest de ve lopm e nt
Suggests Series of Lectures
of the human family, comb in ed w ith the splen
Our industry should arrange not only some
did co-ope rati on of our trade papers, the Musical
thing paralleling in its ob j ective the coast-to
Allia nce, our .\dva nce'm ent of Music Bu
, reau, our ,coas t trip of George Vl, Po und, but no less than
manufacturers, our dealers, our musIc sc hool s
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?se avlng .qua I ed and speclal!zed on vital
thmgs pertallllllg to music and its development,
suc h as the medi cin a l mus ica l lec tures of Mme ,
Powell; s uch propaganda as emanates from our
).,Iusic .\dvancement Burea u pertaining to th e
Americanization of th e aliens of our country
through mus ic; one m aki ng a specialty of the
Child 's \Velfare Study through mus ic, etc. Have
these specialis ts available and t rips laid out in
different par ts of the 'C'nited States, minimizing
the expense of t rave lin g by their making trip s
following one another perhaps a month apart,
secure the co-operation, of course, of all in our
industry operating in suc h territory, and the y
in turn should endeavor to interest the local
public clubs and organizations by whom this
propaganda should be expound ed, and where
possible encourage the clubs to establish a
spec ial committee for the extension of music in
their own cities. Retail merchants everywhere
sho llid ge t together and organize the musi ca l
profession and awaken in them the necessi ty
C. A. Grinnell, President
thropi sts, th e human mind has become more
of co-operating with our industry in the further
fully CO l1eell trated Oil mlls ic,
I prophesy the
ing of interest in music locally, it being as
s tudy will be extended and developed to a higher
Impo rt an t to the music instructor from a busi
degree, than the world has eve r known, and ness standpoint as it is to the retail merchant
man'ufacture rs will have to de lve deeply in th eir
that the publi c come to a higher appreciation
efforts to produce a stan dard of m usic and of and a greater desi,re for music in the home, '
instrum e n ts befi tting the higher educatio n of
For Further Organization
musi c s uch as the general publi c will demand.
Eve ry branch of the talking machine industry,
Music the Vital Need of America
includin g man ufacturing, jobbing and retail
Music has become a vi tal need in America.
business, as we ll as every division of our music
It is becoming a great national movement, mak
industrytha,t may not y et be thoroughly organ
in g wond erful progress, and th e movement is
ize d, should at once be organized and become
now ge tting under marvelous momentum. Let vital facto rs in; -tlie Ch,a mber of Commerce. I
us capitalize the situati on by putting forth again,
proper effo rt backed by sufficient funds, which
tan ce , of maintit.irring: every branch of our indu s
will pay tenfo ld as a business investment at try' PI) a 100 per !fen't. cash bas is.
this time. Double the amount of last year .
\Vl;1e,l1' nlatt9,r:sd{ 5'f~al importance to the in
sho uld be placed in the hands of th e finance ' dustry; l;Ir,e,; .fo b !! '.,ta~e n , up at Washin g ton I
commit tee of our Chamber.
' belie:ve: it shQulcl' :tie., ~the '. duty of m an ufacturers
The Chamber of Comme rce of the allied
to .' go:,-themselves witJ:! ~' the manag er of the
music indu stries shou'ld be ' backed to the ut
Chamber' of 'C6rri't n er,ce'
most. Th ere should be a thoroughly qualifi ~ d ' led to "' b eliev'e tna.t, ·lh~ : moral backing which
secretary stationed in New York at the indus would , resul,t Jfroirr ' !h~iT"\,p;:esence would lend
try's headquarters, who shoulg be gen eral sec great supPQh" to'C ~;r! ;:PofftJd. ,
relar y of all the allied music industries, < who
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should give his e ntire time and effort to this
I again re~omrtlend that ' our Music Show and
wo rk, and be sup'ported whenever needed ,b y, annual meeJ ing ,be 'held ' between the first of
,sufficient assistarice to ,meet•. any arid 'eifF'Y de }aJluaJ'-y., '~nd ::~~. \ enth of: F'e bruary, next, in
mand made upo~ his office. . I believe tha t.a " New ork,· .. The ':Music Show has alwa ys b een
com~etent ~ommlt~ee ,s ho yld.
~~ Iecte d at' thIS ' , heh! i~ .:t9!"We~th.er ~nd ha,s never been a very
_ 11}f~ti,ng t o ll1vest1gatlf!b~ ... ¢ ;f.R:~!b!1lty and.,e~'ort gF~P:~~'tf~l!S]:: Let us try it out and go to
baj:k,~o ourtlnal ntt}~~ig as t o the propnety
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