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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW, JUNE, 19Ul
134 Exhibitors
For - Convention
Eight Floors at Hotel New Yorker N. Y.
to House Largest Display in Years
The 40th Annual Convention of the Na-
tional Association of Music Merchants
which -will be held at the Hotel New
Yorker. New York from July 29th to Aug-
ust 1st inclusive promises to be the great-
est success yet achieved since the good
old days. At the present writing there
are 134 exhibitors signed up who will oc-
cupy over 230 rooms. They are divided as
follows: Pianos and Organs 24; Supplies
6; Music Publishers 6; Musical Merchan-
dise 65; Radio Phonographs and Records
33. For the first time since the conventions
have been held at the Hotel New Yorker
exhibit rooms have been engaged on the
ninth floor. As near as possible the
branches of the industry have been seg-
regated; piano exhibits on the 3rd, 4th
and 5th floors, musical merchandise and
publishers on the 6th and 7th floors and
radios, phonographs and records on the
8th and 9th floors. Some of the exhibi-
tors will have displays on more than one
floor.
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A large attendance is expected as there
will be vital questions to be discussed at
the meetings of the various associations.
Dealers throughout the country have been
thoroughly aroused on account of the tax
situation and believing that concerted ac-
tion will be necessary in order to keep
musical instruments on the essential list
they are planning to gather at this conven-
tion in larger numbers than ever before.
hi addition to this important phase of the
convention several prominent speakers
will address the dealers on many of the
subjects which are of vital interest to
them.
Spring and have promised a program
which will keep all visitors busy during
the four days of the convention. Registra-
tion, for which there will be no charge.
Hotel New Yorker
will begin early Monday morning. Each
visitor will have a badge handed to him
which must be worn in order that he may
visit the exhibits. The opening luncheon
The committee in charge of Conven- will take place on Tuesday noon July 29th
tion arrangements is composed of Harry and the afternoon will be open for the
W. Griffith, Griffith Piano Co., Newark, inspection of exhibits. The open meeting
N. J. Chairman, Percy R. Bowers, New for dealers will be held Wednesday morn-
York Manager for Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. ing. Besides speakers, the awards for the
Byron H. Collins, Steinway & Sons, New best advertising and window displays
York, Clarence S. Hammond, piano mana- will be presented. On Wednesday night
ger at Frederick Loesser & Co., Brooklyn,
at 7:00 P. M. the National Piano Travelers
N. Y., C. Albert Jacob, Jr., Mathushek Pi-
Association will hold its annual Jamboree
ano Mfg. Co., New York, George N. Morti-
more, Wm. Knabe <& Co., New York, Eu- and on Thursday night the annual ban-
gene A. Schmitt, Hardman Peck & Co., quet will be held in the ballroom of the
New York, Herbert Koehlinger, Eastern Waldorf-Astoria. The last day of the con-
manager of Continental Music Co., New vention will be devoted to contests and
York, L. A. Elkington, New York, A. Staph- inspection of exhibits. During the week
opoulo. Epiphone Co., New York, and there will also be several entertainment
Albert Benning, New York. This commit- features by individual manufacturers
tee has had several meetings during the which have not as yet been announced.
SPECIAL CONVENTION TRAINS
William A. Mennie executive secretary
of the association has also announced
that a Special Convention train is being
arranged for the benefit of dealers coming
from the far and middle west which will
leave Chicago on Saturday night July 26th.
He also states that special low convention
rates will be available from many cities,
and advises that dealers should check
with their local railroad agents about
these.
Arrangements have also been made for
special routing tickets for those who might
desire to take in various points of interest
either coming to or going home from the
convention. One of these includes 300
miles of ocean cruising along the Atlantic
Coast, 100 miles of motoring through Vir-
ginia including a visit to the Mariner's
Museum, Williamsburg, to the reconstruc-
ted Governor's Palace, Capitol and Ral-
eigh Tavern as well as to Jamestown and
Yorktown.
The following have already engaged
space for exhibiting: PIANO AND ORGAN
MANUFACTURERS: Aeolian-Amercan
Corp., East Rochester, N. Y.; Baldwin Piano
Co., Cincinnati, O.; Estey Piano Corp.,
Bluffton. Ind.; Estey Organ Corp., Brattle-
boro, Vt.; Everett Piano Co., South Haven,
Mich.; Gulbransen Co., Chicago, 111.; Had-
dorff Piano Co., Rockford, 111.; Hammond
Instrument Co.. Chicago, 111.; Hardman
Peck & Co., New York; Janssen Piano Co.,
New York; W. W. Kimball Co., Chicago,
111.; Kohler & Campbell Inc., New York;
Krakauer Bros., New York; Kranich & Bach,
New York; Lester Piano Mfg. Co., Philadel-
phia, Pa.; National Piano Corp., New York;
Sohmer & Co., New York; The Starr Piano
Co., Richmond, Ind.; Story <& Clark Piano
Co., Chicago, HI.; Straube Pianos Inc. Chi-
cago Heights, 111.; Weaver Piano Co., York,
Pa.; Winter & Co., New York; Rudolph
Wurlitzer Co., DeKalb, 111.
The Mathushek Piano Mfg. Co. and
Steinway & Sons will maintain exhibits
at their respective retail headquarters in
West 57th St, New York.
SUPPLY MANUFACTURERS: American
Piano Supply Co., New York; Bankers
Commercial Corp., New York; Imperial
Industrial Corp., New York and Chicago,
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