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JANUARY/1931
The Music Trade Review
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The Seven Year Cycle
1924 Normal Piano Buying—The medium grade had largest volume at medium prices.
Increased Piano Buying—Poor quality at high prices: High quality at normal
1925 values.
Peak Piano Buying—all grades at highest prices.
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Beginning of Buyers' Strike (General)—Decreased volume all grades
and prices.
General Buyers' Strike—Many manufacturing failures
and sales chiefly with highest priced merchandise.
1930
To August 1st—Panic Selling, 2nd-hand merchandise
and cleaning of retail stock.
Since August 1st — Re-organized selling confined to
new merchandise at low prices and low quality.
1931
Increased buying — Approaching normal in
quality, volume and prices.
|3UBLIC confidence is again restored in all lines of
merchandise—True price levels will soon be in
effect and the American people will want merchandise
that is artistic, well finished and musically correct.
For 300 years the standard of living has gone forward
and the trend will be upward during 1931.
The basic law of merchandising is to have a fine dis-
play of stock and the piano dealer must meet the
competition of other lines by attractive displays.
Mr. Dealer—Show confidence in yourself—your own
community and your country—by placing on your
floor the stock in variety and volume that will invite
patronage to your establishment.
Build for the Future with Kohler*Brambach Lines
From the little five octave upright to the Concert Grand
Reproducer -
from $250 Retail to $3,500 Retail
KOHLER-BRAMBACH PIANO CO.
Incorporated
MARK P. CAMPBELL, President
609 West 51st Street, New York City
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The ATusic Track R view Published Monthly by Federated Rusiness Publications, Inc., 420 Lexington Avenue, New York. Single copies. 20 cents; $2.00 per year. Vol. 90.
ed as second-class matter September 10, 1892, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y... under the act of Congress of March .1, 1897.
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