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With Fourteen Associations the
Music Industry Should Go Forward
N entering the postwar era the music industry undoubt-
edly has a bright future. To help make it the most
successful era the industry has ever known, there are
now fourteen associations, the purposes and aims of twelve
of which are herewith printed. The other two associations
from which THE REVIEW has not received that part of their
constitutions and by-laws which state their purposes and
aims are the Music Publishers Association of the United
States, and the Master Tuners Association. The purposes
and aims of the others follow:
I
National Piano Manufacturers Association
of America, Inc.
Objects and Purposes
The object of this Association shall be the mutual protec-
tion and promotion of our manufacturing and trade interests.
Notional Association of Music Merchants, Inc.
Objects
In keeping with the highest service to the public and with
the purpose that each of its members may earn a deserved
success through his efforts within this trade, the objectives
of this Association shall be to carry on important activities
in the common interest of all of its members; to cultivate
acquaintance, fellowship, cooperation, good will and a pro-
fessional spirit among them; to facilitate the exchange of
their ideas and methods; to recognize and honor their ex-
ceptional services and achievements;
And, as it may affect their interests, to further the effi-
ciency of management; to promote the study and growth jf
markets; to increase the productivity of distribution; to aid
in the maintenance of fair competition; to advise in the en-
actment of just, equitable and constructive legislation; to
foster the continuity of employment; to assist in programs
for the training of all members and their employees; to en-
courage the development of technicians for the servicing of
musical instruments; to gather, organize, keep on file and
diffuse useful information; to facilitate research in all func-
tions of the retail musical instrument business, and to ac-
quire and maintain a library of pertinent material thereto;
to conduct Trade Shows, Educational Exhibits and National
and Regional Meetings for all members;
And, through the proper operation of this Association and
the integration of the creative forces at its command, to act
or co-act with others in the improvement and appreciation
of the economic, social, civic, educational cultural and spirit-
ual values of music; and to advance the welfare of all who
are engaged in Music and the Music Industry.
National Association of Band Instrument
Manufacturers
Purpose and Objects
"The purpose of purposes and the objects for which this
corporation is formed, are as follows, to wit:
(a) To protect, safeguard and promote the mutual in-
terests of the manufacturers of wind or percussion band in-
struments, or other musical instruments, whose factories are
located in the United States of America.
(b) To act as the governing agency of manufacturers of
wind or percussion band instruments, or other musical in-
struments, whose factories are located in the United States,
under and in accordance with the rules, regulations and
codes of the National Recovery Act, and to act as the offi-
cial representative of said band and musical instrument manu-
facturers in transactions under said Act with the adminis-
trators thereof.
(c) To gather, acquire and obtain, and to disseminate and
distribute to its members, information which may be useful
or helpful to them in carrying on the manufacture of wind
or percussion band instruments, or other musical instru-
ments.
(d) To apply for, obtain, purchase, lease, register or other-
wise acquire, and to take, hold, use, develop, sell or other-
wise dispose of trade marks, trade names, letters patent,
patent rights, improvements, processes, methods, copy rights,
formulae, designs, brands and labels of the United States,
or any other country or government, used in connection with,
related to or bearing upon the manufacture of wind or per-
cussion band instruments, and to use, exercise, accept li-
censes for and grant licenses on, in respect to any of said
trade margs, trade names, letters patent, patent rights, im-
provements, processes, methods, copy rights, formulae, de-
signs, brands and labels of the United States, or any other
country or government, used in connection with, related to
or bearing upon the manufacture of wind or percussion band
instruments.
(e) To purchase or otherwise acquire, and to hold, own,
maintain, work, develop, sell, lease, convey, mortgage or
otherwise dispose of lands and leaseholds and any interest,
estate and rights in real property, which may be required,
convenient or approprite for carrying on any of the busi-
ness or corporate objects herein set out.
(f) To borrow money and to make, accept, endorse, trans-
fer, assign, execute and issue bonds, promissory notes de-
bentures and all other evidence of indebtedness, for the pur-
pose of securing any of its obligations or contracts, upon
such terms and conditions as the Board of Directors shall
authorize, and as may be permitted by law.
(g) To do all and everything necessary, suitable and
proper for the accomplishment of any of the purposes or the
attainment of any of the objects or the furtherance of any of
the powers hereinbefore set forth, either alone or in asso-
ciation with other corporations, firms or individuals, and to
do every other thing or things, act or acts, incidental or
appurtenant to or growing out of or connected with the
aforesaid business or powers or any part or parts thereof,
provided the same be not inconsistent with or in violation
of the laws under which this corporation is organized.
National Association of Musical Merchandise
Manufacturers
Purpose
"It shall be the purpose of the Association to create a spirit
of understanding and fellowship and promote an interchange
of views among its members so that in cooperation improve-
ments may be brought about in methods of manufacture and
accounting, in working relations and conditions, in dis-
tribution, and in promotion of interest in the playing of
musical instruments and the use of musical instruments and
the use of musical merchandise, and in all other activities
that may properly and legally advance or protect the mutual
interests of the industry and the public, and to these ends,
may co-operate, affiliate with, and support other organiza-
tions with purposes in common."
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW, SEPTEMBER, 1945