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NOVEMBER 15,
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
1919
BIRMINGHAM MUSIC DEALERS PLAN STATE ASSOCIATION
Decision Made Following Dinner in Honor of George W. Pound—New Body to Be Affiliated
With National Association of Music Merchants—Many Dealers Attend Meeting
BIRMINGHAM, ALA., November 10.—Following an
informal dinner in honor of George W. Pound,
general counsel and manager of the Music In-
dustries Chamber of Commerce Wednesday night,
representative music dealers of Birmingham and
Alabama who attended,
voted unanimously to
organize a State associa-
tion of music dealers to
be affiliated with the Na-
tional Association o f
Music Merchants. The
dinner was attended by
several hundred music
dealers, salesmen, and
others interested in the
development of the music
and musical instrument
industry.
A committee was ap-
pointed consisting of E.
E- Forbes, Birmingham,
B. B. Burton
chairman; J.A.Miller, of
Albany, Ala.; James Denham, Anniston; J. T.
Kimbrell, Selma; S. E. Pace, Montgomery, and
Major A. G. Forbes, of Birmingham, and was au-
thorized to proceed at once to work out a plan
of organization. As soon as the plan of organ-
ization is adopted the State association will
affiliate with the national association.
B. B. Burton, prominent Birmingham music
dealer and president of the Cable-Shelby-Burton
Piano Co., acted as chairman of the meeting and
toastmaster of the evening. In introducing Mr.
Pound he stated that before the world war
America hardly appreciated the wide scope of
music and the music industry but now after the
conflict people were realizing what music means
to the community. Pound, he said, was the man
who had saved the music industry of America
from destruction during the war by proving to
the War Industries Board that the music industry
was an essential war industry and having it re-
moved from the non-essential list of the board.
As general counsel of the Music Industries
Chamber of Commerce of America, Mr. Pound
was very active at Washington during the war
as a representative of the music industry. He is
now making a tour of the Atlantic coast cities for
the purpose of furthering the cause of music and
giving interesting talks concerning the music in-
dustry and what it is doing and can do for the
advancement of music in America.
His address at the Southern Club Wednesday
night proved he was an expert in his subject and
was listened to by all of those present with the
deepest interest. He told of the up-hill fight in
Washington to remove music from the non-es-
sential list of industries during the war, stating
that only after weeks of work and hours of argu-
ment before the war industries board was he able
to change its opinion.
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He did so, he said, by proving to the board
that music was a war industry because the in-
dustry had perfected certain war materials to the
highest degree, such as the wire supports used in
the construction of airplanes for the bracing of
the planes. This, he said, was one of the things
that the piano manufacturer had perfected, the
inside wires of the piano being the best wire
supports possible for the airplane by reason of
their sound vibrating qualities and delicate steel
manufacture.
As to the importance of music during the war
he pointed out that music had made better sol-
diers of the boys at the front, kept them in high
spirits and brought them home with a more pro-
found appreciation of music as a community
builder and character developer. He said that
the music industry had become one of the noblest
callings and the business had been placed on a
high plane of efficiency and business management.
He urged those present to get every man, woman
and child in the State interested in music and
make it one of the important studies in the schools
of the city and State.
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The list of those present at the dinner of music
dealers follows: Geo. W. Pound, General Counsel
of the Music Industries Chamber of Commerce,
New York; R. L. Seals, E. E. Forbes, A. G.
Forbes, S. H. Warrick, R. E. Jones, J. Cellenberg,
J. J. Sandforb, R. G. Calloway, Birmingham; W.
L. Hacker, J. A. Miller, Albany; J. Edwin Hall,
Huntsville; Benjamin Hammond, Roy E. Wein-
berg, Victor Wahn, Birmingham; J. P. Shelton,
Tuscaloosa; S. A. Russell, W. G. Quinn, T. Wil-
liams, Birmingham; J. H. Callahan, Decatur; E.
H. Skipper, C. C. Holcombe, M. Herzfeld, A. R.
Boone, Birmingham; B. F. Bigihaus, Camden, N.
J.; J. Dennan, Anniston; R. L,. Andrews, J. J.
Warrick, Birmingham; F. Dennan, Anniston; J.
R. Whitaker, H. M. Stilies, Birmingham; J. T.
Kimbrelf, Selma; J. B. Gressett, Meridian, Miss.;
T. B. Long, Fred E. Moore, J. H. O'Neal, W. A.
Thomas, K. Holmberg, H. D. Harris, M. Ringel-
berg, L. C. Mclntosh, W. E. Johnson, Birming-
ham; L. H. Davis, Anniston; G. T. Treadgill,
Selma; Fred Eck, Birmingham; J. T. Morgan
Sweatt, Montgomery; Frank Willis Barnett, J.
C. Rienheardt, F. P. Eurie, J. A. Briskey, R. H.
Seals, C. McLallin, H. L. West, John M. Goude-
lock, W. W. Harman, A. H. Combs, Edwin T.
Butts, Jesse Joyes, Oliver Chalifoux, J. A. Martin,
Henry S. Jones, B. B. Burton, Ira F. Randall, all
of Birmingham; S. E. Ball, P. J. Minderhout,
Montgomery; J. L. Casey, Birmingham; C. C. Mc-
Clellan, Alexander City; T. H. Miller, J. B.
Morris, Birmingham.
SKINNER ORGAN CO. REORGANIZED
Incorporated Under Laws of Massachusetts for
$250,000—Arthur H. Marks, President
Announcement has been made of the reorgani-
zation of the Ernest M. Skinner Co., of Boston,
and the formation of the Skinner Organ Co.,
which has been incorporated under the laws of
Massachusetts with an authorized capital stock
of $250,000. Of this there has been issued $205,-
000 of which $175,000 has already been paid in.
The following officers have been elected: Presi-
dent, Arthur H. Marks; Vice-presidents, Ernest
M. Skinner and William E. Zeuch; Treasurer,
Charles G. Parker; Assistant Treasurer, Walter
G. Keating; General Manager, Edmund J. Bar-
nard.
EXPORTS TO CHINA INCREASE
The value of musical instruments imported into
China from the United States and England in
1918 was $1,035,597, showing an increase of $341,-
491 over 1917 when the value was $694,106.
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