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MUSIC TRADE
PALMER HOUSE, CHICAGO, CONVENTION HEADQUARTERS
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The conventions will hold particular interest for the piano
manufacturers because they will decide upon plans for re-
organization of the National Piano Manufacturers' Associa-
tion en the basis of two divisions, one East and one West, in
order to facilitate the work of the organization. There will
also be a special meeting on Tuesday of the Musical mer-
chandise jobbers in an effort to reorganize that division of
the trade.
So far as the exhibits are concerned there will be enough
to occupy practically the entire eighth Moor of the Palmer
House, over threescore manufacturers and exhibitors of
musical instruments having elected to display their products.
The display incidentally will include some new and novel in-
struments designed to interest the public to the buying point
and which should therefore prove distinctly interesting to
dealers who desire to keep in touch with the new things.
The entertainment program, of course,
will be topped by the annual banquet of
the- National Association of Music Mer-
chants on Tuesday evening, June 9, at
which will appear a number of artists of
high standing and reputation. Even the
early indications are to the effect that the
banquet will be particularly well attend-
ed both by the members of the music
trade proper and by the representatives of
the radio industry who will also be in
Chicago at the time.
Discussions of plans in connection with
the broadcast of piano lessons over some
forty stations on the red and blue net-
I T H I N a few days after this issue of T H E
REVIEW is in the hands of its readers music
tradesmen from all sections of the country will
gather in Chicago to attend
the annual conventions of the Music In-
dustries Chamber of Commerce and its
several affiliated associations including the
National Piano Manufacturers' Associa-
tion, the National Association of Music
Merchants, the National Association of
Sheet Music Dealers, the Musical Supply
Association of America, the National As-
sociation of Musical Merchandise Manu-
facturers, the National Piano and Music
Travelers' Association.
The prospects are that the old guard
of the trade, the men who seldom fail to
attend association meetings, will be out
in full force and with them a host of
"casuals" who while believing in or-
ganization work have heretofore been
more or less indifferent, but this year
realize that much of the future success of
FRED. P. BASSETT
the industry depends upon organized ef- President National Piano Manufacturers' Ass'n.
fort rather than individual endeavor.
This view has been expounded frequently of late for the works of the Na-
business situation has brought an increasing number of prob- tional
Broadcasting
lems which will require the efforts of the best minds of the Co. will constitute
trade in co-operation to solve.
an important part of
Whether the convention visitor is most interested in busi- one or more of the
ness discussions, in the exhibits of latest products or in the convention
sessions,
entertainment offered, he will find much to make the visit to and assurance has
Chicago worth while. In the first place the programs of the been received that E.
meetings of the various associations have been mapped out C. Mills, of the Na-
with direct reference to existing conditions and their improve- tional
Broadcasting
ment where possible, so that the individual dealer should be Co, who has from
in a position to carry back home with him some concrete ideas the start taken a
to help him in his own business. T h e open forums for gen- most active part in
eral discussion on Tuesday and Wednesday should ensure connection with this
this fact.
important broadcast,
THE
MUSIC
OTTO B. HEATON
President National A"oc ; ation
Music Merchants
TRADE
REVIEW.
June, 1931