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VOL. LXXXIV. No. 17 Published Every Saturday. Edward Lyman Bill, Inc., 420 Lexington Ave., New York, N.Y., April 23,1927
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The Music Dealers
And the National Convention
New Basis of Organization in National Association of Music Mer-
chants Still Gives Wide Scope for Individual Merchant Who At-
tends National Gathering to Profit From Discussions and Meetings
T
H E release this week, by President Ed-
ward H. Uhl, of the National Association
of Music Merchants, of the program
for the annual convention of that organiza-
tion at the Hotel Stevens, in Chicago, during
the week of June 6, brings pointedly to mind
the fact that the annual meetings of the sev-
eral music trade bodies are only a matter of
some six weeks off. In other words, there re-
mains only a little over a month in which to
develop the interest of the trade to a point
where an attendance will be assured of suffi-
who are already affiliated with the national body
and the others who can be interested sufficiently
to join that organization as yet.
Despite the reorganization of the national
association on a basis that accepts the State and
local associations as units in the national plan,
the convention will in no sense be constituted
entirely of delegates of such affiliated bodies.
The individual member of the national associa-
tion will be welcome at the sessions and in
fact will be expected to attend.
President Uhl has outlined the four-day pro-
cussions on those problems of direct interest to
the retail section of the industry just now.
The edict has gone forth, as was the case in
New York last year, that the social features,
under official auspices, be reduced to a mini-
mum. This may tend in a sense to cramp Chi-
cago's well-known and liberal brand of hos-
pitality, although there will be enough unofficial
and semi-official entertainment to keep the dele-
gates well occupied between sessions.
Under present trade conditions, however, it is
well to recognize that even without .expense of
Program National Association of Music Merchants
JUNE 8
PIANO CONTEST DAY
JUNE 5
10:00 A. M.—Meeting of the Auxiliary Board.
2:00 1'. M.—Meeting of the Board of Control.
Chicago Contest—by Peter Mayer
Milwaukee Contest—by Edmund Gram.
Detroit Contest—by Frank J. Bayley
San Francisco Contest—by Shirley Walker.
(Allowing twenty minutes for each talk and ample
time for discussion, followed by the Group instructions
and "What Has Been Accomplished" This talk to be
given by W. Otto Miessner, and someone else representing
the other Group instructions.)
JUNE 6
9:00 A. M.—Registration and Reception.
10:00 A. M.—Meeting of the Advisory Board
12:30 P. M.—General Luncheon Meeting—Music Industries Cham-
ber of Commerce.
2:30 P. M.—Time to be left open for Meetings of several of the
affiliated Associations who have applied for Char-
ters, but not completed for their application re-
quirements.
JUNE 7
NATIONAL AND STATE ASSOCIATION DAY
9:30 A. M.—Order of business—Reports of Officers as scheduled
in Article XII of By-Laws, Sec. 2, Nos. 1 to 10,
as listed.
10:30 A. M.—Report of Resolution Committee.
10:45 A. M.—Report on Promotion Stamps by Chairman William
C. Hamilton.
11:00 A.M.—Chairman of Auxiliary Board report on Chartered
Associations.
11:15 A. M.—Talks from different Presidents on State Association,
or their Delegates on "What They Have Accom-
plished in Their State Association."
12:30 P. M.—State Laws and Legislation—"The Function of the
State Association," by C. J. Roberts.
cient size to measure up with the high records
already set for Chicago gatherings.
It would seem well in the interim before the
convention to emphasize to music merchants
generally that it will be a general meeting of
direct interest to all music retailers, both those
JUNE 9
9:30 A. M.—Uniform Carrying Charge schedule, by W. Lee White.
10:00 A. M.—Carrying Charges and its benefits to the Merchants,
by Mr. Andrews of the Hudson Co.
10:30 A. M.—Junior Salesmanship and their training, by Charles
E. Wells.
11:00 A.M.—National Laws enabling manufacturers to fix resale
prices, by Frederick P. Stieff.
11:30 A. M.—The effects of trade-ins in price cutting, by C. Alfred
Wagner.
Unfinished and new business.
Report of Nominating Committee.
Election of Officers.
"The Programs will be started promptly at 9:30, if I
am the only one in the Convention Hall," declares Presi-
dent Uhl.
gram, one day for the general Chamber of Com-
merce meeting; another for handling associa-
tion matters; a third for the finals of the Chi-
cago piano tournament, and for a discussion of
piano-playing contests in general, and the" fourth
and final day for a limited number of dis-
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entertainment the convention still represents a
surprisingly heavy investment both of time and
money, and what the individual dealer gets out
of it as a dividend rests largely upon himself,
for he may go home with some really worth
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