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MAY 19, 1928
The Music Trade Review
Rounds Out Fifty Years
in Baldwin Co.'s Service
O. P. Hazzard, for Thirty-seven Years Con-
nected With Louisville Branch of Company,
Honored on Important Business Anniversary
LOUISVILLE, KY., May 10.—On last Saturday,
May 5, O. P. Hazzard rounded out fifty years
of service with the Baldwin I'iano Co. in Cin-
cinnati, an occasion givi-n fitting recognition
"Business in Music
Is Approaching Its Zenith"
By HENRY C. LOMB
President, Musical Merchandise Manufacturers'
Association (Eastern District)
T
O. P. Hazzard
both by the company officials and by employes
of the local office with which Mr. Hazzard
has been connected for thirty-seven of his fifty
years in the piano business. In addition to
tributes from the company Mr. Hazzard re-
ceived many telegrams and letters of congratu-
lation and found his desk piled high with flow-
ers when he arrived at his usual time in the
morning. He also received a number of gifts
including a big easy chair from his associates
in the Louisville office.
Mr. Hazzard joined the Baldwin Co. at the
age of nineteen as shipping clerk and subse-
quently became a salesman. For six years he
was in charge of the company's office in Terre
Haute, Ind., and was then transferred to Louis-
ville, where he has since remained in charge
of the floor staff. Mr. Hazzard's fifty years of
service was commented on in a lengthy article
in the Herald-Post, in which he told of some
of his early experiences in piano selling.
G. M. Tremaine to Write
for Journal of Education
The wide influence that has been gained by
the National Bureau for the Advancement of
Music among school teachers, and the apprecia-
tion that is held for the work of the Bureau,
has again been emphasized in the request made
of C. M. Tremaine, director of tl\e Bureau, by
the Journal of Education, Boston, to map out
for that publication a series of ten articles on
various phases of school music, the articles to
appear once each month during the coming
year. The request followed immediately the
publication of an article on piano classes in
the April 16 number of the Journal, which has
a wide circulation among music supervisors.
HK Convention is to be a gt^at
constructive effort toward the
permanent upbuilding of the mu-
sic industries ;is well as for the im-
mediate improvement of present con-
ditions. In common with many other
industries the path of the music
industry has not, of late, been strewn
with roses. Unlike these other in
dustries, however, it has the immense
advantage of having for its basic
product a commodity which no other
industry has ever had and for which
there is a constant and avid demand,
namely, music. For, in the last analysis,
the final product of the music in-
dustry, the cause for its existence in
fact, is music and nothing else. The
music industries live by and for
music, and conversely without musi-
cal instruments there could be neither
musicians nor music.
Now this basic product, muxic, is,
in principle, at least, already com-
pletely sold to the buying masses.
The appeal of music to all classes of
people is universal and everlasting.
From the cradle to the grave music
accompanies our steps and always
will. The lullabys of childhood, the
martial airs of young manhood, the
uplifting harmonies of maturity and
old age have brought comfort and
inspiration and solace to generations
of mankind, and will continue to be
H. C. Lomb
played and sung to the end of time.
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And. what is even more to be remarked upon is the tact that this public interest
in music has now, through various agencies, reached a point that has never been
even approached in all history. The music business as such may not be what
it should be at the present time, but the business in music is approaching its zenith.
With an assured and exclusive market for the product, the part of wisdom
is not to bemoan a condition which we must know is only transitory, but to bend
every effort to fill this insistent demand for music in the manner we believe it
should be filled, that is by the self-playing of musical instruments.
Here again we have the public with us from the very beginning, provided
that we adopt the proper approach. Correctly urged, there is scarcely any one in
whom the desire to play music as a means of self-expression cannot be instilled.
This subject of inducing a greater personal participation in music is the great
issue before the music industry to-day. At the Convention opportunity will be
given to hear the foremost authorities on this subject of sales-stimulation at the
source of the demand. A great deal has already been accomplished in this direc-
tion among schools and other organizations of young people, much of which
is quite unknown to the rank and file of the industry and perhaps entirely unap-
preciated by them. Come to the Convention and learn of the vast benefits to
be derived from these indirect efforts for promoting {he sale of musical instru-
ments.
Finally there will be leading representatives of other industries present at the
Convention who will tell of the methods and policies that have made these in-
dustries great and prosperous, methods that can be successfully applied to the
music industry also.
Let it not be forgotten that these other industries must be reckoned with in
calculations for the future. If the lessons their successes teach are not heeded,
it is well within the bounds of possibility that in the mad scramble for the public's
dollar, some one of these industries will see the opportunity that exists in the
music field and will appropriate it as its own. With the battle more than half
won, with victory almost within its grasp, will the music industry permit an
outsider to snatch the fruits of victory from its hands? Come to the Convention
and make forever certain against this humiliating outcome.
which was made by S. E. Clark, general man-
ager of Grinnell Bros, and H. S. Stucke, man-
ager of the Toledo branch, will bring the Stein-
way to the John store as leader. Carl Rule,
formerly of the Toledo branch, will assume
charge. Don John, proprietor of the store, will
continue to conduct the phonograph, radio and
band instrument departments.
Grinnell Bros. Take Over
John's Music Store Stock
Receiver for Music House
LtMA, O., May 14.—The rntire stock of pianos
of the John's Music Store, 134 West High
street, this city, has been purchased by Grin-
nell Bros., of Detroit, which firm will conduct
(he piano department in the future. The deal,
CHARLESTON, W. VA., May 12.—On application
of A. T. Simms, the Circuit Court has appointed
L. E. McWhorten, special receiver for the
Simms Piano Co., this city. The receiver is
continuing the business temporarily,
Joe Hiller Corp. Chartered
PITTSBURGH, PA., May 14.—Application
for a
Pennsylvania charter was made on May 14 for
the Joe Hiller Music Corp. of Pittsburgh, by
Joseph Hiller, Evelyn Hiller and George 01-
cott, the incorporators, to engage in the busi-
ness of exploiting, publishing and marketing
original manuscripts of music, and to buy and
sell, import and export sheet music, musical
instruments and musical merchandise. The new
concern will engage in business in ibis city.
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