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The Music Trade Review
MAY 29, 1926
ing the demand for band instruments of all
kinds.
Musical Merchandise Association
June 10
The annual meeting of the National Musical
Merchandise Association will be held in Room
B of the Commodore on Thursday afternoon,
the activities of the Association being confined
to this one session for which no definite sched-
ule has yet been made public.
Piano Technicians' Association
June 7
The National Association of Piano Techni-
cians will hold a dinner meeting on Monday
evening, June 7, at the Commodore, when re-
ports will be made regarding the progress that
has been made by that Association during the
past year in the matter of standardization, stand-
ard pitch, etc.
Ampico Art Society
June 7
Will hold its annual convention election of
officers at the Hotel Commodore on Monday,
June 7. This organization is made up entirely
of representatives of the Ampico.
Music Publishers' Association
June 8
The Music Publishers' Association of the
United States will hold its annual meeting and
election on Tuesday, June 8, probably at the
Hotel Belmont. An interesting program has
been prepared, of which one of the chief features
will be a further discussion of the question of
marketing music on a net basis.
Sheet Music Dealers
tcr that has not been satisfactorily accomplished
during the past year.
Entertainment
The official entertainment, in addition to the
annual banquet and frolic on Thursday evening,
will be an all-day picnic to Briarcliff Lodge,
high in the Westchester Hills, overlooking the
Hudson River, which will be held on Friday,
filling up the entire day. A fleet of deluxe
busses, under the direction of Albert Behning,
chairman of the entertainment committee, will
leave the Commodore at 9 a. m. and proceed up
Fifth avenue to Central Park, where at the Mall
a stop will be made at the statue of Beethoven,
at the base of which a wreath will be placed as
a mark of the 200th anniversary of the perfec-
tion of the first piano, of which the great com-
poser was such a strong advocate.
Leaving the Beethoven statue the party will
proceed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
where the officials have arranged to group in a
special room a comprehensive exhibit of early
musical instruments, including the first piano,
made by Cristofori, in 1720. The visit to this
exhibit is regarded as a fitting tribute on the
part of convention delegates to this important
anniversary of the piano.
Leaving the Museum the busses will proceed
along the recently completed Bronx River High-
way to White Plains and then across country
through the Westchester Hills to Briarcliff,
where, shortly after noon, dinner will be served.
The afternoon will be given over to swimming,
tennis, and other outdoor sports and early in
the evening the party will return to New York
by the Albany Post Road along the shore of the
Hudson River.
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tournament will be played on the course at
Briarcliff, the golfers leaving the Commodore
early in the morning.
As usual, some very handsome prizes have
been donated by trade members to spur on the
contestants and it is expected that by the time
the day of the tournament arrives close to 100
prizes will be available.
Hagemeyer on Motor Trip
Harold F. Hagemeyer, traveling representa-
tive for Hardman, Peck & Co., New York, re-
turned to the city following a three-weeks' trip
by automobile through the Eastern trade. He
began his tour in western New England, pass-
ing through New York State into Pennsylvania
as far as Erie. He states that dealers are meet-
ing with favorable conditions in most sections
and are ordering new goods consistently. Mr.
Hagemeyer returned via Scranton and Wilkes-
Barre, where he found a renewed activity in
the coal-mining sections.
Death of Arthur Ropelt
ROCHESTER, N. Y., May 22.—Arthur Ropelt, for-
mer piano builder and prominent tuner, died
here recently at the age of forty-one years. For
ten years prior to the war Mr. Ropelt was
associated with his father, the late John Ropelt,
and his brothers in the manufacture of pianos
at 95 St. Paul street. Since the war he has en-
gaged in piano tuning. He is survived by his
mother, Mrs. Mary Ropelt, and his two brothers,
George and Edward Ropelt.
June 7-9
Golf Tournament
The National Association of Sheet Music
Dealers will hold its annual convention at the
Hotel McAlpin and one of the chief subjects of
discussion will be that of adhering to net selling
prices on sheet music and securing the full co-
operation of the publishers to this end, a mat-
Ghickerings for Wellesley
There will, of course, be the usual golf tour-
nament, without which no convention will be
complete. The tournament this year is in
charge of a committee of which Arthur L. Wes-
sell is chairman, Harry Sohmer treasurer, and
Herbert W. Hill master of ceremonies. The
Chickering & Sons, retail warerooms at 395
Boylston street, report the sale of ten new
Chickering pianos to Wellesley College, Welles-
ley, Mass. The pianos are for use in the music
department of Wellesley.
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