MUSICAL
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PRESTO
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THE AMERICAN MUSIC TRADE WEEKLY
10 Cents a Copy
CHICAGO, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1928
$2 The Year
E. R. Jacobson, Straube Piano Co., Hammond, Ind.
C. Alfred Wagner, American Piano Co., 659 Fifth
avenue, New York city.
Walter W. Clark, Victor Talking Machine Co.,
Camden, N. J.
Financial
The required expenses of the Chamber of Com-
All Interests in the Music Trade and Industry merce have been contributed. Expenses could have Mid-Winter Gathering at the Hotel Commo-
dore, New York, January 27 and 28,
been curtailed only by the elimination of valued em-
Represented at Meeting of Music Indus-
ployes of long experience. It was reported that
Marked by Large Attendance and
tries Chamber of Commerce in New
much of the revenue lost had been restored by an
Important Discussions.
York Last Week.
increase of 50 per cent in the Supply Association; the
Musical Instrument Accessories' Association had dou-
Officials of the National Association of Music Mer-
bled its assessments.
chants Definitely Fixes Time and Location of
Mr. Irion's Suggestion
Convention and Complete Other Plans.
President Hermann Irion recommended that the
General Program for Big Gathering at Commodore anticipated deficit be guaranteed by the music mer-
chants and manufacturers' associations. President
Hotel, New York, in June Discussed and
By H E N R Y MAC MULLAN.
Roberts of the National Association of Music Mer-
Some Items Approved.
chants, said that the matter had already been taken
E W activities for the Na-
t i o n a 1 Association of
All the interests in the music trade and industry up by that organization.
Music Merchants w e r e
President W. E. Guylee of the National Piano Man-
were represented at the meeting of the Music In-
outlined last week at the
dustries Chamber of Commerce in New York last ufacturers' Association of America, promised to take
mid-winter meeting in
week. The real motive of the joint association of up the matter with his committees right away.
the Hotel Commodore,
the music trade was made plain in the discussions in
Clearing House
New York, of the Board
which notable personages took part, among which
The next matter to reach an amicable settlement
of Control of the National
was a decision by the convention to authorize the
Association of M u s i c
establishment of a clearing house to enable the finance
Merchants. It was an en-
committee to carry out the plan of duplication. Piano
thusiastic gathering and
manufacturers appointed a committee to work out
the large a t t e n d a n c e
the details of credit for the clearing house. This
showed the intensity of
committee consists of C. D. Bond, Herbert Simpson,
interest by the board in
Chas. Jacob, E. R. Jacobson and Fred P. Bassett.
the condition and opera-
The Convention
tion of the national organ-
Social and entertainment functions, sessions and
ization. Among t h o s e
general policies for the big convention at New York
present at the opening
in June were discussed and approved. Reservations
session were:
in respect to exhibitions are to be restricted to reg-
President C. J. Roberts,
ular members who must fulfill their contracts and join
Baltimore, Md.; Chas. H.
now—not at the last moment, and this will prevent Yahrling, Youngstown, Ohio; A. Z. Moore, Lan-
any man from getting in at the last minute and then caster, Pa.; Alex. McDonald, New York City;
resigning as soon as the show is over.
Frederick P. Stieff, Baltimore; Otto B. Heaton, Col-
The executive committee, consisting of five men, umbus, Ohio: Robert N. Watkin, Dallas, Texas; W.
confirmed an application from Miss Helen Curtis as C. W. Marshall, White River Junction, Vt.; Henry
an individual member.
Dreher, Cleveland, Ohio; Jay Grinnell, Detroit; E.
Paul Hamilton, Brooklyn, N. Y.; H. G. Hyde, Cort-
Limitations of Non-Members
Non-members of the music industry and trade land, N. Y.; W. Otto Miessner, Milwaukee, Wis.; M.
may not join to more than 20 per cent of the total V. De Foreest, Sharon, Pa.; Geo. J. Winter, Erie,
membership. These non-members are allowed in Pa., and H. Uhl, Los Angeles.
The proceedings were interrupted at noon by an
to get the musical sentiment of the country before
adjournment for luncheon, which was one of the
the trade.
official features of the meeting.
Among Those Present
The Luncheon.
Among others in attendance from the piano manu-
At
the
luncheon
in
the Commodore Hotel on Thurs-
facturing official lists were noticed Mark P. Camp-
bell of the Brambach Piano Co., W. E. Guylee of day the special guest was Miss Helen Curtis, a mem-
The Cable Co.; E. R. Jacobson of the Straube Piano ber of the Committee of Music, who came- to the
Co.; D. D. Luxton of Vose Piano Co.; C. D. Bond convention at the invitation and expense of the New
of the Weaver Piano Co.; Herbert W. Hill, presi- York Piano Merchants' Association, and whose talk
dent of Brambach Piano Co., New York; Walter W. about how to conduct piano classes in schools was
HERMANN IRION.
Clark, Victor Talking Machine Co., Camden, N. J.; very enlightening and practical.
were Dr. Hollis Dann, professor of music education M. V. De Foreest, Sharon, Pa.; Raymond E. Dur-
Alfred Smith set forth the objects of the present
in New York University, and Lee F. Hanmer, de- ham, president Lyon & Healy, Chicago; A. K. Gut- gathering and gave an informative talk about tax
partment of recreation of the Russell Sage Founda- sohn, Standard Pneumatic Action Co., New York; rating and legislative work that has been done for
tion; Joseph E. Waddy, chairman of instrumental W. E. Guylee, The Cable Co., Chicago; Win. J. piano men along that line.
officers of music supervisors' national conference, and Haussler, C. Bruno & Son, New York; Herman Irion,
Dr. Winslow a Guest.
Dr. W. Dykeman, head of the music department of Steinway & Sons, New York; E. R. Jacobson, presi-
A guest at the outset was Dr. Paul V. Winslow,
the teachers' college, Columbia University.
dent Straube Piano Co., Hammond, Ind.; Gordon
The executive committee Music Industries Chamber Laughead of Wurlitzer Grand Piano Co., De Kalb, who came at the instance of Delbert L. Loomis, ex-
ecutive secretary of the National Association of Music
of Commerce comprises the following:
111.; Richard W. Lawrence of Bankers' Commercial
Hermann Irion, chairman, Steinway & Sons, 109 Security Co., New York; C. J. Roberts of Chas. M. Merchants, who thrilled his hearers with some new
ideas about audition. Dr. Winslow, who is an ear
West 57th street, New York city.
Stieff, Baltimore; Max J. de Rochemont, Laffargue
Charles H. Yahrling, Yahrling-Rayner Music Co., Co., Inc., New York; Herbert Simpson, Kohler & specialist, and whose researches have been most ex-
tensive, disclosive and conclusive, said shocks to the
Youngstown, Ohio.
Campbell, Inc., New York; Edward H. Uhl, Los nervous system were caused by alarm clocks, and he
William J. Haussler, C. Bruno & Son, Inc., 353 Angeles; C. Alfred Wagner, American Piano Co., had been evolving a plan whereby the people could be
Fourth avenue, New York city.
New York; Arthur L. Wessell of Wessell, Nickel & awakened by musical tones, and here was a hitherto
Herbert Simpson, Kohler & Campbell, Inc., 11th Gross, New York; Chas. H. Yahrling, Youngstown, undeveloped field for the enterprising musical instru-
avenue and 50th street, New York city.
Ohio.
ment manufacturers—making these musical clocks
C. J. Roberts, Chas. M. Stieff, Inc., 315 North How-
that would awaken the worker sweetly. It had the
Other
Attendants
ard street, Baltimore, Md.
appeal of being something new and novel and there-
Among others attending various meetings and con- fore ought to be greatly salable. It would be tonic
C. D. Greenleaf, C. G. Conn, Ltd., Elkhart, Ind.
W. E. Guylee, Cable Co., 57 East Jackson boule- ferences were C. M. Tremaine, Director National instead of nerve-racking. The doctor was wonder-
Bureau for the Advancement of Music; Robert N. fully entertaining, sweetening science with cute little
vard, Chicago, 111.
Roy S. Hibschman, Motor Player Corp., 340 West Watkin of Dallas, Tex.; H. E. Lawrence of the stories, some of them humorous and some serious,
Standard Pneumatic Action Co.; E. S. Boykin, execu- but none trite.
Erie street, Chicago, 111.
Max J. de Rochemont, Laffargue Co., 455 East tive secretary of the sales promotion committee of
Mr. Morrison, of Hallet & Davis, came in at the
the National Piano Manufacturers' Association of
-47th street, New York city.
Mark P. Campbell, Brambach Piano Co., 609 West America; Franklin Dunham of the educational de- close of the luncheon, and was made most welcome.
Promotion Report
partment of The Aeolian Co.; R. E. Hopkins of the
51st street, New York city.
A report of the new promotion department estab-
Richard W. Lawrence, Bankers' Commercial Se- Victor Talking Machine Co., and Kenneth Clark of
the National Bureau for the Advancement of Music. tablished to work between the executive office of
curity Co., 270 Madison avenue, New York city.
CHAMBER MAKES
CONVENTION PLANS
BOARD OF CONTROL j
HOLDS MEETING
CONVENTION AFFAIRS
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