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The Music Trade Review
APRIL 16, 1927
Preliminaries of Detroit Piano Contest
i Are Rapidly Nearing Their Completion
York, will talk to the delegates on the advan-
tages of the carrying charge on instalment ac-
counts, and there will also be other interesting
discussions.
Detroit Times Co-operating By Giving Event Widespread Publicity—Detroit Board
of Education Working With Committees—Mayor Endorses Event
••Piano Playing
Contest for the Tuners
r \ KTRUlT, MICH., April 11,—'The pre-
^'^ liminary work on the Second Annual
Greater Detroit Piano-Playing Contest, under
the direction of Roy A. Maypole and super-
vision of Frank J. Bayley, is making rapid
strides and is much further advanced than was
the case last year at this time.
The Detroit Times is giving the contest
strong publicity and using many pictures and
the school authorities of Highland Park, Detroit,
and suburbs are co-operating to the fullest
extent. The Detroit Board of Education has
sent a circular of explanation and instruction
to the principals of all schools, and all prin-
cipals attended a meeting on April 1, whore
they-JS^ere addressed b y . Mr. Maypole. On
Aprtf-r4 the music teaeJiers of the Highland
Parl^schools attended a luncheon, where they
were addressed by Mr. Maypole, and expressed
full enthusiasm regarding the plan.
This week circulars regarding the contest
will be distributed to the 300,000 school children
of the city in order that they may be prepared
to enter the lists at the proper time. The
success of the contest last year is making
itself felt in the interest that is being shown,
both by tjie school authorities and the pupils
themselves, m the plans for this year's event.
Preliminary contests are to be held during
the month of May and up to June 3, and the
grand finals will be held at Belle Isle Bowl on
August 16, during the annual convention of
tlu- Michigan Music Merchants' Association.
Mayor Stephen Majewski, of Hamtramck,
has strongly endorsed the movement and has
written the following letter to Mr. Bayley:
"I am heartily in favor of the. work which
you and your Association are doing, as I firmly
believe that the promotion of music is as much
a part of a child's education as the three K's
and agree with you that a knowledge of tin
piano is basic
"Any work that has to do w!lh the welfare
of the boys and girls in my community most
assuredly has my hearty endorsement. The
results which followed last year's contest,
through the efforts of your Phil Sadowski, have
come to my attention and approval as a mem-
ber of the School Board at the time."
Roy M. Parsons, head of the department of
music of the Highland I'ark schools, also
promises full co-operation and says in a letter:
"We shall be glad to assist you and to en-
courage all piano students of school age to
enter the coming 'Greater Detroit Piano-Play-
ing Contest.'
"We entered last year and we feel that
any doubts we may have had in regard to its
value were quite laid at rest.
"It is, therefore, with a sincere belief in its
educational significance and music incentive
that we again enter this contest, pledging the
Detroit Music Trades Association and the De-
troit Times our utmost co-operation."
Pennsylvania State Meeting
in Harrisburg on May 9-10
& Sons, New York, and also members of the
New York City body. E. R. Jacobson, president
of the Music Industries Chamber of Commerce,
has promised to attend the sessions and speak,
and C. L. Dennis, Executive Secretary of the
National Association of Piano Merchants, will
offer information regarding piano contests and
other trade development work. W. Lee Whyte,
of the I'ankers Commercial Security Co., New
Annual Convention of State Association to Give
Thought to Holding of State-wide Piano-Play-
ing Contest
The second annual convention of the Penn-
sylvania Music Merchants' Association will be
held at the Penn-Harris Hotel, Harrisburg, on
May 9 and 10, and one of the features of the
meeting will be the taking of definite steps for
the holding of a Statewide piano-playing con-
test. The plan is to enlarge upon the idea of
Toledo, Detroit and Cleveland Technicians >to
Participate in Event to Arouse Interest in the
Foot-Power Player-Piano
'
TOLEDO,
OHIO,
April
11.—Members
of
the
National Association of Piano Tuners in De-
troit, Cleveland and Toledo, are much inter-
ested in the announced plans for a player-piano
playing contest to be held between the tuners
in those cities late in May. The announcement'
was made by A. V. Miniffe, second vice-president
of the National Association, at the recent din-
ner of the Toledo Division.
The division in each of the three cities is to
hold a contest among its own nienibyfs.
Through the process of elimination one maiY* vs
to receive the honor of representing his division
in the finals. The final contest event will be
held in Toledo, on account of its central loca-
tion, with the three winners contesting the
right to champion player manipulator of the tri-
cities. A prize of $10 will be contributed by
each division, the total $30 to go to the winner
in the determining contest.
The purpose of the event is to arouse interest
in the foot-power player among owners as well
as the public, for it is admitted that many own-
ers do not properly understand the playing of
the instrument, and consequently many players
are idle. Likewise not a few of the tuners fail
to get all of the music possible out of the
player. It was further proposed to have as
judges at the finals three of the leading piano
teachers in Toledo.
W. W. Smith, president of the J. W. Greene
Co., very generously offered to donate the $10
prize for the Toledo Division, as well as the
use of the Greene Auditorium for the finals.
The hall seats about 425 people. Every player
dealer will be asked to give the contest his
hearty support.
Charles Miller Is Elected President of
the New York Superintendents' Club
such a contest for Philadelphia and environs in
Other Officers Are Henry Barghane, Vice-President; E. M. Reulbach, Secretary and
order that it might take in the whole State.
A. Z. Moore, of Lancaster, president of the
State association, attended the meeting held in
Philadelphia last week at which the old Phila-
delphia Piano Trade Association was revived,
and assisted materially in the work.
A. G. Gutsohn, Treasurer—Presentation to Reulbach
Program Being Completed
for Syracuse Meeting
Prominent Trade Members to Take Part in
Forthcoming New York State Convention—
Representative Attendance Promised
SVKACUSK, N. Y., April 12.—With the organiza-
tion convention of the New York State Music
Merchants to be held here on April 26 and 27,
only a little over a week off, the committee in
charge of the affair is working hard to whip the
final details into shape for the session. From
the reservations that have already been made it
is believed that the sessions will be attended by
a most representative group of retailers from
all sections of the. State including New York
City, and the plan is to give them a program
that will be worth while.
John J. Glynn, president of the New York-
Piano Merchants' Association, will attend the
convention and have a prominent part on the
program, as will L. Schoenewald, of Chickering
'TMI K annual meeting of the Superintendents'
*• Club of tlie New York Piano Manufacturers'
Association was held in the banquet rooms at 34
West Thirty-third street on Monday evening,
April 11. Following the dinner, Charles Miller,
president, brought the meeting to order and
called on the secretary, E. M. Reulbach, for his
annual report. Mr. Reulbach stated that dur-
ing the past year the superintendents had made
group visits to seven piano factories and one
I'M mil ure factory, the average attendance on
these inspection tours being fifteen. A. K. Gut-
sohn, treasurer, showed a satisfactory balance
on hand, more than double the amount at the
annual meeting of last year.
The club then proceeded to the matter of
electing officers for the coming year and L. B.
Wing, chairman of the nominating committee,
announced that a ticket had been prepared pro-
viding for the re-election of the present officers.
He was instructed by a vote of the club to cast
a unanimous ballot for the election of the ticket,
as follows: Charles Miller, president; Henry
Harghane, vice-president; E. M. Reulbach, sec-
retary, and A. K. Gutsohn, treasurer.
At this point, Mr. Miller, on behalf of the
Superintendents' Club, presented Mr. Reulbach
with a fine fishing kit, including a casting rod
and bait box, in appreciation of his services to
the dub since its inception. Mr. Reulbach made
an appropriate acknowledgment, stating that
nothing could have pleased him more than the
gift selected. Max de Rochement, president of
the National Piano Manufacturers' Association,
was present at the meeting as a representative
of the New York Piano Manufacturers' Asso-
ciation, a custom that has been provided for
during the past year. Mr. de Rochemont in a
few remarks urged the adoption of the slogan,
"Co-operation is the life of trade," to replace
the idea of competition being an incentive to in-
dustry.
Walter Drew, counsel for the New York
I'iano Manufacturers' Association, was also a
guest speaker at the meeting and prophesied the
return of the piano as the fundamental musical
instrument in the home. Before adjournment,
Mr. Gutsohn, who is president of the National
I'iano Technicians' Association, told of the
meeting of his association last week and out-
lined plans for its activities at the convention
in Chicago in June. An entire day will be de-
voted to the technicians' meeting and all piano
manufacturers will be invited to attend. Mr.
Gutsohn then distributed the typewritten pros-
pectus of the National Piano Technicians' As-
sociation, covering its proposed activities dur-
ing coming years, and the meeting adjourned.