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Ohio Association Mid-Year
Meeting Held in Columbus
A meeting of the officers of the
Music Merchants Association of Ohio
was recently held in the Cleveland Hotel
in Cleveland, Ohio. President A. R.
MacClellan, First Vice-President Walter
E, Meggitt, Secretary Rexford C Hyre
and Executive Committeemen George F.
Zietlow and Roy D. Wells, were present.
The first order of business was the
selection of committees for the year
1955.
The following committees were
selected:
Music Teachers Committee—Walter
E. Meggitt, Chairman; Arvine J. Kin-
dinger, J. A. McClanahan, George F.
Schulte, Fred C. Grau. Legislative Com-
mittee—Otto B. Heaton, Chairman; Er-
nest L. Dahlen, Roy D. Wells, Carl E.
Summers. Membership Committee—
Joseph H. Berger, Chairman; Glenn D.
Bliss, Vice-Chairman; Wendell P. Gri-
sier, George F. Zietlow, Roy D. Wells,
David Hyman, V. J. Sanborn, Jr., Har-
old R. Nachazel, Hubert S. Shearin, J.
A. Gisriel, Ralph K. Stap, Ed Baier,
Neilo A. Koski.
It was decided to hold the Mid-Year
Meeting in Columbus at the Deshler-
Hilton Hotel on Sunday, January 23rd,
1955.
The 1955 Convention was suggested
for the dates of May 15, 16 or 17 or
May 22, 23, and 24, whichever is avail-
able at the hotel.
POSTER CONTEST
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basis. The end result is the same. This
phase of the judging is solely at the dis-
cretion of whatever is best locally.
The winning poster of the local high
A. L. Maresh Sr., President of the
Cleveland Music Trade Association, ex-
tended an invitation to hold the 1955
Convention in Cleveland. The officers
recommended that this be accepted at
the Mid-Year Meeting, and suggested
that the convention be held again at
the Wade Park Manor, if available.
It was decided to give merchandise
prizes in the membership contest, the
same to be purchased and donated by
President MacClellan and First Vice-
President Walter E. Meggitt.
It was further recommended to the
Mid-Year Meeting that we admit exhi-
bitors free, to exhibit their wares in the
Banquet Hall of the convention; pro-
vided each exhibitor buys at least one
strip ticket for the banquet and lunch-
eon at the convention.
Music Educators Say Piano
Best Instrument tor Students
The piano is still the basic instrument
in American musical education.
This is confirmed by more than 1,000
instrumental music directors in schools
all over the country, who responded to
a poll by the American Music Con-
ference.
With study of music booming—there
are now about 7,500,000 children learn-
ing to play an instrument, AMC estim-
ates—brass instruments, strings, fretted
strings reeds and percussion instruments
have grown rapidly in popularity. But
be in competition on a national basis.
Posters up to 17"x22" Permissible
Posters may be created in any of the
standard school art mediums—crayons,
chalk, water colors, finger painting.
SAMPLES OF POSTERS SUGESTED FOR SCHOOL CONTEST
school contest will be forwarded to the
National Association of Music Mer-
chants in Chicago, to be judged by an
impartial panel of art experts and will
drawing pencil, etc., and may be in any
standard size up to 17 x 22 inches. They
are to consist of a short original musical
slogan and be based on a musical theme
76 per cent of the music educators say
the piano is still the best instrument for
a student to start on.
More than 95 per cent of the educa-
tors in large and small schools, public
and parochial, agreed that the student
who has studied piano learns a second
instrument more easily and rapidly.
The instructors chose both melody or
per-band instruments and piano "key-
board experience" the piano is used as
ways to teach note reading. In "key-
board experience" the piana is used as
a means of teaching the fundamentals
of music to whole classes, rather than
teaching piano playing directly- This
technique is growing rapidly in popu-
larity among music educators, AMC re-
ports.
Wood & Brooks Book
For Regulating Action
The Wood & Brooks Co. now has
available for piano technicians a piano
action regulating booklet which is to be
used in conjunction with their piano ac-
tion brochure.
This booklet contains general instruc-
tions for the regulation of all the ac-
tions this well-known company manu-
factures and is available to anyone up-
on written request.
Requests for this informative book-
let should be addressed to Wood &
Brooks Company, Department N. Buf-
fola 7, New York.
or motif. Posters must express in art
form what music means to the individ-
ual creating the poster. A general idea
of the thought behind these posters is
shown in the accompanying illustration.
They will be judged on originality of
thought; imagination expressed in cre-
ating the poster slogan and adaptation
of this slogan in the poster; neatness;
harmonious or unique use of colors.
All local winners (9 posters total
from each of the three school categor-
ies) will be featured in the windows of
local music stores with suitable honor
extended to all during Music Week.
Suitable winners' awards will be pre-
sented at the high school music festival,
concert, or other suitable community
event as close to National Music Week
as possible.
Each dealer, in addition to the above,
has received a sample entry form which
is to be mimeographed by them and sup-
plied to schools by sponsoring stores.
THE MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW,
DECEMBER,
1954