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The Music Trade Review
ary, at the time of the meeting of the National
Board of Control in that city, for a first meet-
ing, where a great amount of work was accom-
plished.
In view of what has already been accom-
plished it is now urged that the piano industry
and the merchants interested in the wider de-
velopment of group piano instruction make a
special financial provision for the further finan-
cing of this group-instruction
movement
through the medium of the Bureau for the
Advancement of Music. It must be understood
that other divisions of the music industry make
financial appropriations for the development
of work in which they are specially interested
by the Bureau', an example being in the way
in avhieh the National Band Instrument Manu-
facturers' Association makes special appropria-
tions for carrying on the work in connection
with the national and State school band con-
tests.
The report of the l'iano Section of the Com-
mittee on Instrumental Affairs of the Music
Supervisors' National Conference, which was
prepared by C. M. Tremaine as secretary of
that committee and which was published by
the National Bureau for the Advancement of
Music, covers in detail the practical side of
group piano instruction in the American public-
school. After a general foreword on the part
which piano education should take in the
child's musical education, the aims and prac-
ticability of piano classes and results are dealt
with, followed by some consideration of the
necessary type of teacher and reaction upon
the private teacher in connection with public
instruction.
This is followed by a general plan of organ-
ization for such classes, covering in detail the
preliminary work, the organization within the
school, etc. The next section of the report
is devoted to current practice in schools where
group piano instruction is already being given,
examples being drawn from Rochester, N. Y.;
Dallas, Tex,; Kansas City, Mo.; Birmingham,
APRIL 28, 1928
Ala.; Evanston, 111.; Racine, Wis.; Topeka,
Kan.; Santa Ana, Cal.; Minneapolis, Minn.;
Saginaw, Mich; Cleveland, O.; Lowell, Mass.;
Council Bluffs, la.; Springfield, O.; Milwaukee,
Wis.; South Bend, Ind.; Huntington, W. Va.,
and Marion, 111.
The next section of the report covers class-
room organization, including the room and its
equipment, class routine, seating, taking places
at the piano, technic, relationship of the piano
lesson to the singing lesson, relation to the
rest of the school, home practice and class
records. The final section is devoted to the
piano-playing contest in relation to group in-
struction in the schools.
The conference was attended by C. M. Tre-
maine, as secretary of the committee and as
the director of the National Bureau for the
Advancement of Music, and Delbert M. Loomis,
executive secretary of the National Association
of Music Merchants, who attended all the com-
mittee meetings and sessions of the conference
as a guest of that organization.
Kieselhorst Advertises to
Chinese in Own Language
as follows: "Come here for your Chinese records
and Victrolas. Time payments. Complete stock
carried here. Kieselhorst l'iano Co. Ask for
Miss Moore."
E. A. Kieselhorst, president of the company,
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Manager Record Department of St. Louis Music
House Goes After the Laundrymen's Trade
in Their Own Hieroglyphics
"Talk to Them In Their Own Language," ap-
pears to be the slogan of Miss Helen Moore,
manager of the record department of the Kiesel-
horst Piano Co., St. Louis, where Brunswick,
Columbia and Victor products are handled with
a full measure of success. Miss Moore has a
number of Chinese customers and some time
ago had one of them lay off "spotting up"
laundry tickets long enough to get up a special
letter with Chinese characters to carry the
Kieselhorst message to the music-hungry celes-
tial. The text of the letter, which is repro-
duced herewith, is translated by Miss Moore
looked over the circular letter, and after care-
ful study determined that the legend at the top
might be translated into English as the "Kiesel-
horst Piano Co.," with the company's address.
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connection with their operation of the Music
Lovers' Shoppe in that city, at a price said to
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in Rochester.
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