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Established 1879
July, 1952
REVIEW
VOL. I l l - No. 7
THE
PIONEER
PUBLICATION
2,868th Issue
OF T H E MUSIC
INDUSTRY
NAMM Members Planning Promotion Minded
Meetings During Fifty-first Convention
r
•'•HE 51st annual Convention of the
•*- National Association of Music Mer-
chants will take place at the Hotel New
Yorker, New York from July 28th to
Hist inclusive.
The trade show will probably be one
of the largest which has ever been held,
and small musical instruments, records,
radios, sheet music, toys, recorders, etc.
will be able to move their exhibits in
A. At 4 p.m. the National Piano Trav-
elers Association will meet in Parlor B.
At 6:30 p.m. the National Association
of Musical Merchandise Wholesalers
will have their annual meeting in the
Terrace Room. There will also be the
annual meeting of the National Asso-
ciation of Musical Merchandise Manu-
RAY S. ERLANDSON
President
HARRY E. CALLAWAY
Vice President
on Friday, July 25th. The piano divi-
sion, which will be on the 8th floor,
will move their instruments in on Sat-
urday, July 26th. There will be no
booths this year in Manhattan Center
like there was the last time the Conven-
tion was held in New York, and in-
stead, the 9th floor of the hotel will be
used for phonographs, radios, televi-
sion, accessories, accordions, musical
instruments, some pianos and organs,
which will be a runover from the 8th
floor.
THE MUSIC TRAM REVIEW, JULY. 1952
The registration will start at 10 a.m.
on Sunday, July 27th, in the ballroom
foyer. All members of the N.A.M.M..
however, as well as commercial mem-
bers, will be pre-registered so that they
can call for their badges any time after
10 a.m. on Sunday and will find them
ready.
Sunday Meetings
There will be some meetings on Sun-
day. At 11:30 a.m. the National As-
sociation of Musical Merchandise
Wholesalers, Executive Committee, will
meet in Parlor B on the 3rd floor. At
2 p.m. the National Association of
Music Merchants Board of Directors
will have their annual meeting in Parlor
BEN E. DUVALL
Treasurer
facturers at the same time, 6:30 p.m., in
Parlor A.
The exhibits on all floors will be
open at 9 a.m. on Monday, July 28th.
At 10 a.m. there will be an N.A.M.M.
press conference in the Panel Room,
and at 12 Noon the opening luncheon
will take place in the grand ballroom.
Opening Luncheon
Dr. Kenneth McFarland, consultant
to General Motors and one of the most
popular speakers in the country, will