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Donald, New York; Otto B. Heaton, Columbus;
Wm. H. Beasley, Dallas; Jay Grinnel, Detroit,
and Edwin R. Weeks, Binghamton, N. Y.
Sales Promotion Committee
Holds Meeting in Chicago
Music Industries Chamber of Commerce
to Meet in Chicago, Week of June 3
Executive Committee Plans Program of Co-operation With Annual Meeting of the
Radio Industry—Directors' Meeting Discusses Variety of Topics
C. Alfred Wagner Elected Member of Commit-
tee in Place of W. H- Alfring, Resigned—
Consider Progress of Promotion Work
/ C H I C A G O , ILL., October 23.—At a meet-
ing of the Board of Directors of the Music
Industries Chamber of Commerce held at the
CHICAGO, I I I . , October 22.—A meeting of the Drake Hotel here to-day it was voted to hold
Sales Promotional Committee of the National the 1929 convention of the National Music In-
Piano Manufacturers' Association was held here dustries at that hotel during the week of June
to-day at which the committee members con- 3, simultaneously with the convention of the
sidered the progress that has been made in the Radio Manufacturers' Association and the Radio
campaign since its last session and the plans Trade Show, which will be held at the Stevens.
for the future.
C. Alfred Wagner, of the Hotel.
Although the hotels are a considerable dis-
Aeolian Co., was elected a member of the com-
mittee to take the place of Wm. H. Alfring, tance apart, arrangements will be made to co-
resigned. Those who attended the meeting operate with the radio industry so that music
were Max J. deRochemont, E. C. Boykin, W. E. dealers interested in radio may have an oppor-
Guylee, C. A. Wagner, Mark P. Campbell and tunity to see the displays at the show and at
the same time participate in the program of the
John S. Gorman.
Music Industries Convention. Radio dealers
will be urged to attend the sessions of the
Music Industries Convention, and it is probable
Merchants' Convention
Committee Holds Meeting
CHICAGO, I I I . , October 23.—The first meeting of
the 1929 convention committee of the National
Association of Music Merchants, was held here
yesterday with Roger O'Connor, the chairman,
presiding, and with H. H. Fleer, Shirley Walker,
and D. L. Loomis in attendance. The session
was given over to a discussion of general plans
for the meetings, and the subjects to be con-
sidered during the business session.
Hermann Irion, C. J. Roberts and Other Association Executives Speak at Gathering
Urging Full Co-operation for the Coming National Meeting in Chicago
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that the program will include much of interest
to them.
The Executive Committee of the Chamber
will work with the Radio Manufacturers' Asso-
ciation in order to develop a definite plan of
co-operation.
In addition to the consideration of convention
plans, the Chamber directors also discussed
numerous matters relative to the affairs of their
particular organization, including its various
activities and the existent finance problem.
Those who attended the Chamber meeting in-
cluded: Hermann Irion, president; Fred P.
liassett; C. D. Bond; Mark P. Campbell; Nels
C. Boe; C. D. Greenleaf; W. E. Guylee; Roy S.
Hibshmann; E. R. Jacobson; W. A. Mennie;
C. J. Roberts; Max J. deRochemont; R. T. Stan-
ton; C. Alfred Wagner; Henry E. Weisert;
Arthur I.. YVessell and Alfred L. Smith.
Chicago Piano Club Host to Visiting
Music Men at Dinner in the Drake Hotel
C H I C A G O , ILL., October 22.—The directors
^ of the Music Industries Chamber of Com-
The Supreme Radio & Phonograph Co., New merce, the members of the executive committee
York, has been incorporated with a capital of the National Piano Manufacturers' Associa-
stock of $20,000 to engage in a retail music busi- tion, and the members of the Advisory Board
of the National Association of Music Mer-
ness.
chants, were the guests of the Piano Club of
Chicago at a dinner at the Hotel Drake tonight.
Roger O'Connor, newly elected president of
the Piano Club and chairman of the convention
committee for 1929, presided and pledged the
support of the club and the entire local trade
in making the convention in June a great
success.
An interesting talk was delivered by Her-
mann Irion, president of the Chamber, who
returned recently from a European trip during
which he was entertained at dinner by the offi-
Are the Lowest Priced Piano
cials of the British Federation of Music Indus-
Benches on the Market
tries. Mr. Irion told of what that organization
had accomplished along promotional lines, and
That is—when you look at it from the
stated that although the British piano trade has
consumer's standpoint of service-value, or
to cope with the problem of lack of purchasing
consider the importance of Good Will
power as compared with that of American
to the dealer.
wage-earners, the manufacturers were produc-
ing 100,000 pianos per annum. The strength of
Merriam Benches have always been busi-
the British trade, he declared, was due in a
ness builders because of their through-
and-through quality.
great measure to 100 per cent organization of
all British manufacturers in the Federation.
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In closing Mr. Irion asked the assistance of
all trade organizations in making the National
Piano Manufacturers' Association in this coun-
try of equal strength by encouraging 100 pei
cent membership.
The next speaker was C. J. Roberts, presi-
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OCTOBER 27, 1928
chants, who asked the aid of the Chicago trade
in making the coming convention the greatest
t vent in trade history by bringing together all
branches of the industry for the promotion of
musical activities.
Other prominent trade members introduced,
in addition to the newly elected officers of the
Piano Club, were Shirley Walker, of San Fran-
cisco, president of the Northern California
Music Trades' Association; Chauncey D. Bond,
president of the National Piano Manufacturers'
Association; Delbert L. Loomis, executive sec-
retary of the National Association of Music
Merchants; Alfred L. Smith, general manager
of the Chamber; Mark P. Campbell, and Max
1'. deRochemont, the latter hailed as father of
the trade promotion plan.
Before the entertainment of the evening
started, Chas. E. Byrne of Steger & Sons took
occasion to testify to the esteem in which the
Chicago trade holds President Irion of the
Chamber and President Roberts of the Mer-
chants' Association, and then presented each of
the gentlemen with a zipper hand bag on behalf
of the Chicago Piano Club. At an interval in
the entertainment program five reels of motion
pictures of the recent golf tournament of the
Piano Club were shown.
United Music Go. Branch
The United Music Co., operating a chain of
music stores throughout New England, has just
opened a new branch in the McGrath Building
on Main street, Wakefield, R. I.,
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