May 7, 1927.
PRESTO-TIMES
cal legislation, improving business methods and pro-
moting a greater spirit of friendliness among the
dealers.
The Officers.
The following officers were elected: President,
S. H. Morecroft, Syracuse; first vice-president, John The Metropolitan, of Indianapolis, Equipped
J. Glynn; second vice-president, B. E. Neal, Buffalo;
with Twenty-five Baldwin and Ellington
S. A. Morecroft Made First President in Con- secretary, Glenn L. Chesbro, Buffalo, and treasurer,
Pianos for Its Various Classrooms.
William H. Levis, Rochester.
vention at Which John J. Glynn Delivers
The following comprise the board of directors:
The Metropolitan School of Music at Indianapolis,
Rousing Keynote Speech in Char-
Three years—B. Burton Michael, Syracuse; H. C. affiliated with the Butler University, has in use
acteristic Style.
Hyde, Cortland, and J. H. Godard, Syracuse. Two twenty-five Baldwin and Ellington pianos. The school
years—M. Doyle Marks, Elmira; Jerome W. Ackerley, is the largest and most active school in Indiana, and
Patchogue, and T. A. Gould, Buffalo. One year—
Edward Weeks, Binghamton; M. J. Slason, Marone,
and F. W. Baumer, New Rochelle.
Comprehensive Program.
Through Frank J. Bayley, the President of the Na-
The meeting in Syracuse was remarkable for the
tional Association of Music Merchants Conveys
interesting variety of the program in which the social
Congratulatory Message.
events were notably successful. The climax was the
The New York .Stale Music Merchants' Associa- conventional dinner at which addresses were made
by Dr. Bernard C. Clausen, a minister famed as a
tion, fully organized at the final meeting of the trade,
in Syracuse last week, is another organized body de- speaker, and Charles Deutschmann, president of the
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National Association of Piano Tuners, who has
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earned the name of a felicitous talker, even when his
topic is the amazing indifference of American piano
owners to tunelessness in their instruments.
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An interesting demonstration of the success of the
Miessner Melody System of group piano instruction
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was a convincing feature at the business session on
Tuesday forenoon. With a group of boys and girls
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picked from the Syracuse schools. Miss Violet Col-
lins of the Miessner Institute of Music in Milwaukee,
showed the working methods of the system. The
demonstration provided a text for a forceful address
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by C. H. Miller, director of music in the public
schools of Rochester, who advocated group instruc-
METROPOLITAN SCHOOL OF .Ml'SIC. INDIANAPOLIS
tion regardless of what method was used.
its pupils are found in nearly every town and county
Other speakers at the session were Z. L. Potter, in the state, and have attained national reputation and
head of the Z. L. Potter Advertising Corp., and L.
eminence.
Schoenwald, new president of the New York Piano
The faculty of artistic teachers is most carefully
Merchants' Association. Alex. McDonald, of the
chosen and is entirely composed of those who have
board of directors of the National Association of
proven themselves capable of pleasing, holding, in-
Music Merchants, gave one of his usual impressive
teresting and advancing such students as are placed
addresses at the noon luncheon on Tuesday.
in their care.
Discuss Vital Topics.
The Odeon, within the Central Building, is the
All the vital topics that interest men of the music school's concert hall, with a seating capacity of 450,
trade and induce them to listen to the proceedings at
equipped with a Baldwin concert grand piano. Out-
conventions were discussed at the business session
side of the large theaters it has the best equipped
stage in the city.
on Wednesday. The laws and statutes governing con-
ditional sales and chattel mortgage were expounded
From the very beginning of this institution the
by Ben Wiles, a Syracusce attorney, who, following
Baldwin piano has been used exclusively, and today
his address, answered a group of interesting ques-
there are twenty-live in use, and are more than satis-
tions suggested by his talk.
factory in every detail.
The merits of the carrying charge were compre-
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hensively outlined by W. Lee White, of the Bankers'
can't do it for us, neither can any national advertising
voted to the promotion of piano sales and the inter- Commercial Securities Co., New York, and Frank
campaign, it requires the local contact of the mer-
ests in general of music merchants. Although the J. Bayley, president of the Michigan Music Merchants' chants through local and state association work. We
attendance at the Hotel Syracuse was compara- Association, gave one of his convincing explanations
are just forced to organize and promote the use of
tively small it was highly representative and char- of a piano playing contest as carried out in Detroit.
the piano. The time is propitious, the piano man
Mr. Bayley. at the opening session, said he was aroused and the public mind receptive.
acterized by an enthusiasm which promises results
deputed by Edward H. Uhl, president of the National
of the desirable kind.
"I come to you from the National Association of
The spirited keynote was sounded by John J. Association of Music Merchants, to extend the per-
Music Merchants. We are fostering the playing of
sonal
felicitations
of
Mr.
Uhl
and
the
greetings
of
Glynn, who presented the formal resolution calling
the piano by the children of the rising generation and
for the formation of the New York State Music Mer- the association to the New York state organization. have two primary promotional plans; the piano play-
Who's Job Is It?
chants' Association. It was seconded by H. G. Hyde
ing contest and the group instruction method, the first
of Cortland and duly adopted. Mr. Glynn's address
popularizes and creates the interest and the latter pro-
"In the encouragement of piano playing in children
reviewed the advantages of organized effort in the of the country is the solution of many mistakes of
vides the facility. The two are highly effective and
music trade and pointed out the results of association society," said Mr. Bayley at the close of his discourse taken together, furnish us with a complete promo-
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activities in New York City, where the trade organ-
on the piano playing contest. "Whose job is it? tional plan. W e seek your cooperation in a nation-
ization was a dependable influence in checking inimi-
wide campaign."
George won't and even can't do it. The Chamber
NEW YORK STATE
DEALERS ORGANIZE
LARGEST MUSIC SCHOOL
IN STATE OF INDIANA
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