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VOL. LXXXIV. No. 5
Polished Every Saturday. Edward Lyman Bill, Inc., 383 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y., Jan. 29, 1927
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Mid- Winter Meeting
of Merchants in Chicago
Reports From National Officers and Organization Workers
Show Rapid Growth in National Work Through Organization
and Affiliation of Both State and Regional Associations
E. H. Uhl
HICAGO, ILL., January 22.—Few mid-
Winter meetings of the executive body
of the National Association of Music
Merchants have held anything like the sig-
nificance of the sessions at the Hotel LaSalle
here this week, for the meeting served as the
first test of the new organization policy of the
national body under which it will, in future,
be constituted largely of affiliated State and
regional associations.
It was announced at the sessions that four-
teen State dissociations, some already estab-
lished and others in the process of formation,
have made application for charters in the Na-
tional Association of Music Merchants. Sonic
half-dozen State associations were represented
by delegates in the session of the Auxiliary
Board and various State commissioners report-
ed on movements to organize State bodies in
other sections.
At the meeting of the Board of Control of
the National Association of Music Merchants,
held on Wednesday afternoon, fully two-thirds
of those in attendance were delegates from
State bodies and they displayed a full measure
of interest in the work being done to solve
various problems of the trade, in their roles
as duly constituted factors in the executive
boKid of the national organization.
The executive board members present were
President E. H. Uhl, Los Angeles; Vice-Presi-
dents Charles H. Yahrling, Youngstown; Parham
Werlein, New Orleans; Charles E. Wells, Den-
ver; Secretary John W. Boothe, Los Angeles;
Wm. C. Hamilton, Pittsburgh; Otto B. Heaton,
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Columbus; Alex McDonald, New York, and
Frank J. Bayley, Detroit.
The advisory board, made up of past presi-
dents of the national association, was repre-
sented by Henry F. Weisert, Chicago; M. V.
DeForeest, Sharon, Pa.; Edmund Gram, Mil-
waukee; Robert N. Watkin, Dallas; Col. F. B.
T. Hollenberg, Little Rock, Ark.; E. Paul
Hamilton, Newark, N. J., and P. E. Conroy, St.
Louis, Mo.
Delegates representing the auxiliary board
were: A. Z. Moore, chairman of auxiliary
board, Lancaster, Pa., president, and O. B.
Lank, Han isburg, secretary of the Pennsyl-
vania Association of Music Merchants; E. E.
Hangar, Lincoln, 111., president; Lloyd L. Par-
ker, Harrisburg, treasurer, and Geo. Wiswell,
Joliet, of the Illinois Music Merchants' Asso-
ciation; W. Otto Miessner, Milwaukee, presi-
dent; L. C. Parker, treasurer, and Hugh Randall
of Wisconsin Music Merchants' Association;
Frank Bayley, president, and Arthur H. Howes,
treasurer, Michigan Music Merchants' Asso-
ciation, Detroit; Joel B. Ryde, president, and
George E. Stewart, secretary, Indiana Music
Merchants' Association, Indianapolis; Charles
E. Wells, State Commissioner, of Denver, Col.;
George E. Costain, State Commissioner of
Huron, So. Dak.; Otto B. Heaton, State Com-
missioner, of Columbus, O., and C. L. Dennis,
executive secretary of the Merchants, and Al-
fred L. Smith, secretary of the Chamber.
Piano Manufacturers' Promotion Plan
Presented
At the invitation of the merchants the sales
promotion plan of the National Piano Manu-
facturers' Association was presented by mem-
bers of the committee, including Max J. de
Rochemont, Mark P. Campbell, W. E. Guylee
and Executive Secretary E. C. Boykin. Details
of the campaign carried on thus far and future
plans of the committee were explained by Mr.
Boykin, who stated that a great deal of in-
terest has been aroused in the piano-playing
contest movement, group piano instruction and
national advertising, with many inquiries re-
ceived for material, mats, etc., for use in local
territory. It was particularly emphasized that
piano-playing contests are being launched
throughout the country and that at the present
time there are over twenty different contests
going on or planned. The committee offered
its co-operation in assisting these various pro-
motional activities in order to work hand in
hand with the promotional movement of the
National Association of Music Merchants. A
discussion of the plan followed, with efforts
being made by both groups to co-operate in
carrying out the activities outlined. President
Charles H. Yahrling
Uhl stated that the merchants would co-operate
to the fullest extent with the manufacturers
and a unanimous vote of thanks was presented
to the piano promotion committee.
Pennsylvania Presented New Charter
The first charter under the new by-laws was
presented to the Pennsylvania Association of
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