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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW, JUNE, 19Ul
Convention
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111.; Manual Arts Furniture Co., Cincin-
nati, O.; Pratt Read <& Co., Ivoryton, Conn.;
Thayer Action Co., Rockford, 111.; Wood
& Brooks. Buffalo, N. Y.
SHEET MUSIC PUBLISHERS: Alfred
Music Co., New York City; Ashley Music
Supply Co., New York City; Chart Music
Publishing House, Inc., Chicago, 111.; M.
M. Cole Publishing House, Inc., Chicago,
IU.;Mills Music Co., Inc.; New York City;
O. Pagani & Bro., New York City; Huckins
& Son Music Co. Glendale, Cal.
PHONOGRAPHS, RECORDS & SUP-
PLIES: Amperite Co., New York; Andrea
Radio Corp., Woodside, Ansley Radio
Corp., New York City; Boetsch Bros., New
New York; Brunswick Radio & Television,
New York City; Capehart (Div. Farns-
worth Tel. & Radio Corp.). Fort Wayne,
Ind.; Columbia Recording Corp., Bridge-
port, Conn.; Decca Distributing Corp., New
York City; Duotone Mfg. Co., New York
City; Emerson Radio & Phonograph Corp.,
New York City; Espey Mfg. Co., Inc., New
York City; Famsworth Television and Ra-
dio Corp., Fort Wayne, Ind.; Favorite Mfg.
Co., New York; Freed Radio Corp., New
York; Fibra Development Co., New York
City; Galvin Mfg. Corp., Chicago, 111.; Gen-
eral Electric Co., Bridgeport, Conn.; Mag-
navox Co.. Fort Wayne, Ind.; Musicraft
Records, Inc., New York City; Peerless
Album Co.. New York City; Philco Radio
& Tel. Corp., Philadelphia, Pa. Port-O-
Matic Corp., New York City; Presto Re-
cording Corp., New York City; RCA Manu-
facturing Co.. Inc., Camden. N. I.; Schloss
Bros., New York City; H. Royer Smith Co..
Philadelphia, Pa.; Stromberg-Carlson Tel.
Mfg. Co., Rochester, N. Y.; Tunnis Bros..
Oak Park. 111.; United Pressed Products
Co., Chicago, 111.; Waters Conley Co..
Rochester, Minn.; Widder Bros., New York
City; Recordaid, Philadelphia, Pa; Garod
Radio Corp., New York.
The Entertainment Committee is com-
posed of Percy R. Bowers, George Morti-
more, Herbert Koehlinger, Harry W. Grif-
fith, and W. A. Mennie.
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Large Attendance Expected at Ohio
Association Convention June 22-24
The Music Merchants Association of
Ohio will hold its 30th Annual Conven-
tion at the Breakers Hotel, Cedar Point-
on-Lake Erie, near Sundusky, on Sunday,
Monday and Tuesday, June 22nd, 23rd
and 24th, 1941.
Cedar Point, the "Atlantic City" of the
Great Lakes, has one of the finest beaches
in the United States. In addition to being
an amusement resort, it has one of the
finest and most beautiful ballrooms in the
Middle West, and each week finds a na-
tionally known band playing therein. In
addition, the Ohio convention this year
will be one of the most interesting be-
cause of its theme "Governmental and
Organization Methods of Protecling the
Retail Music Merchant."
Monday morning's business session will
be a Fair Trade Session. Victor Keyes of
Columbus, Executive Secretary of the
Ohio State Pharmaceutical Association,
who helped enact the Ohio Fair Trade
Law, will talk. The report of the Fair
Trade Committee of the Music Merchants
Association of Ohio, will be presented,
discussed and considered.
Tuesday morning, June 24th, will wit-
ness the reports of standing committees,
as well as the special report of the Mu-
sic Teachers Committee, which has been
attempting to bring about better cooper-
ation between the private and public
school music teachers of Ohio and our
association. Resolutions will be passed
and officers elected. In addition, there will
be the report of a shopper at the meet-
ing. Each business session will close
with an appropriate moving picture on
salesmanship.
The banquet on Sunday evening. June
22nd, will be a gala affair, as will the
Monday luncheon on June 23rd. Among
the prominent speakers at the Manufac-
turers Association, Melville Clark of Syra-
cuse, New York, first Vice-President of
the National Association of Music Mer-
chants, William R. Steinway of Stein way
& Sons, and Judge R. E. Freer, a member
of the Federal Trade Commission. Surely,
a representative group of national fig-
ures.
The following manufacturers and job-
bers have already reserved space for ex-
hibits at the convention: Gretsch & Bren-
ner, Grossman Bros., Co., Gulbransen
Co., Kohler & Campbell. Inc., Krakauer
Bros. Martin Band Instrument Co., F. A.
Reynolds Co., WFL Drum Co., The Ru-
dolph Wurlitzer Co.
Concluding, on Tuesday afternoon, the
Ohio Music Trade Golf Association, head-
ed by President Otto B. Heaton, will hold
its annual gold tournament at Plum Brook
Country Club, concluding with a fine din-
ner, where the prizes will be awarded.
New Steinway
Dealers Appointed
New dealers which have been appoint-
ed by Steinway & Sons, New York during
the past month include the W. E. Jones
Piano and Furniture House, Mansfield, O.,
Lauerman Bros. Co., Marinette, O., and
Earl B. Windham, Meridian Miss.
Both William R. Steinway and Roman
De Majewski have been travelling exten-
sively this Spring. The former completed
a thirty day trip through the South the
early part of May during which he visited
20 cities in the states of North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, Flor-
ida, Tennessee, Virginia and Mississippi.
Steinway business throughout the coun-
try has shown a steady increase since the
first of the year according to Mr. Majewski.
New York retail business is also well
ahead of last year.
Martin Does Gulbransen Carload Business
Looks Like 150,000 Pianos
The shipment of 12,100 pianos, on an
average, for the first four months in this
year gives promise of approximately a
150,000 production for the whole year.
This will be getting back to where the
production of straight grands and up-
rights was in 1923. In that year, however,
grands constituted about 28' ( of the pro-
duction whereas this year they repre-
sent 13'/2'f of the production. It is in-
teresting to note that the production of
grands is not becoming less but remains
about the same as last year. Up to the
end of April 48,403 pianos had been
shipped. Unfilled orders showed a great
gain of 144.23', over last year. The
total at the end of April was 8,294 while
last year it was only 3,396. Needless to
say that all factories are on full time.
C. B.
Gould
hands
Gulbransen
carload
order
to
F. M.
Martin
According to news reports M. F. Mar-
tin Pacific Coast representative of the Gul-
bransen Co., Chicago, 111., must be jump-
ing from carload order to carload order.
In the accompanying illustration he is seen
receiving one of these from C. B. Gould
head of the Gould Piano Co., Pasadena,
Cal. At the right Gene Renault manager
of the company is smiling with consider-
able satisfaction. Reports from this com-
pany indicate a steady increase in busi-
ness since the first of the year.