Music Trade Review

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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
IO
EDWARD L\MAN BILL
Editor and Proprietor.
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can manufacturers were they to come to-
It must be a great satisfaction to all to
gether and decide to hold a national ex-
note the steady advance of wages in the
hibition in this city on the lines proposed
great industrial concerns of this country,
by THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW some three
and the wage scale seems to be continually
weeks ago.
on the increase, which means a larger pur-
The same means of attracting
visitors and stimulating interest—such as
chasing power—consequently,
musical
trade, more pianos and organs and musical
competitions,
adopted.
etc.—might
be
Then its value as a means of en- instruments.
We emphasize again—it is
couraging greater activity in the way of
high time that manufacturers who desire
new styles and new ideas in the musico-
to be "in i t " in good season and in good
industrial field is apparent.
form, should set about the immediate aug-
There can be no question as to the suc- mentation of their finished wares.
cess of an American music trades exhibi- time of peace prepare for war.
In
tion from any standpoint, and we trust the
subject will not escape the attention of
wide-awake and progressive members of
"THE BUSINESS MAN'S PAPER."
in our own
the music trade.
SUMMER SILHOUETTES.
S
UMMER is usually
considered
the
time for recreation and rest, and not
the time for active mental exercise, and
IN TIME OF PEACE PREPARE FOR WAR.
yet what member of the trade, spending his
D
URING the past week we have re-
two, three or four weeks at the mountain
ceived many letters at this office in
or the seashore has not given many mo-
reference to present trade conditions and
ments to planning out the fall campaign ?
the probability of the early and favorable
This is inevitably true of students of trade
opening of fall trade.
movements as contra-distinguished
These communica-
those who take a superficial glance at trade
gratifying
affairs—the
predictions from widely sepa-
rated parts of our common country.
F
men who work more or less
automatically.
If we may judge from the reports in
The active student or manufacturer—for
other trades, there appears to be hardly
every progressive manufacturer is a stu-
one line in which the signs of improvement
dent—has made a deep study of the music
When the
trade situation, and he has demonstrated
necessaries of life are below the cost of pro-
his special ability by anticipating import-
are not strongly emphasized.
OR the past week the business of this
from
tions are indeed cheering, as they express
duction something is radically wrong, and
ant movements in the technical and indus-
it is necessary to trace a revival in business
trial fields. He possesses a thorough knowl-
to the fundamental basis—which is the ad-
edge of the possibilities of the piano and
vance in the price of wheat, cotton, iron
organ, or employs competent men possess-
and coal, which seem to be now bringing
ing this knowledge, and has placed in his
fair values, which means that the producer
factories the most improved scientific ma-
himself may market his goods at a profit.
chinery and appliances to produce all that
under trying conditions. We have had to It is a fallacious idea to believe that low
sidetrack the editorial work for painters,pol- prices mean good times; they never have,
is latest and best, so as to gratify the ad-
establishment
has been
conducted
vanced ideas of the times.
ishers and decorators. Now that they have
and never will in the history of the world.
departed, and the ink wells are all in place,
What matters it if the great staples of life
read and who understand the value of ad-
we breathe a little freer knowing" that we
are enormously cheap if the factories are
vertising; who believe in bringing to the
have a little more independence after the
closed and the wage earners haven't the
attention of dealers and musicians through
short but dictatorial reign under which we
money to buy them even at their reduced
the trade press what he has mnu accom-
have
prices?
plished,and what he intends to accomplish.
been.
The offices of THE MUSIC
This man is a sample of the men who
TRADE REVIEW are perhaps not the largest
With good wages the purchasing power
To such a man the summer rest is of profit
in the trade, as we do not occupy an entire
of the people is enormously increased, and
physically and financially. It takes him
building, but we question if theie are any
from certain infallible barometrical indica-
away from the business atmosphere and
with better appointments and fittings with
tions the commercial weather ahead will be
gives him time to recuperate and to think.
which to facilitate the conduct of news-
fair, and it is high time that piano and or-
paper work.
gan manufacturers cast a weather eye to
mossback manufacturer, the man whose in-
the future.
It is quite time that they set
terest in trade affairs is purely passive, the
about accumulating finished stock for that
man who fails to see the value of advertis-
large demand which will surely come in
ing—the necessity of enlarging the sphere
O
UR European Budget, which appears
elsewhere in this paper,
contains
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But there are others.
For instance, the
many news items which will prove of inter-
the earl} fall. Pianos—that is, good pianos
of his business or improving his wares—to
est to our readers.
•-—cannot be hurled upon the market like
this man summer and winter is practically
played by American manufacturers at the
many other
the same.
International
modities.
The prominent part
Music
Trades
Exhibition,
lines of manufactured com-
The piano business will unques-
There is no future to plan or to
think about. Hence, instead of progressing
which opened in London on the 13th inst.,
tionably be back to the old standard of the
is of especial moment.
fall of '91, therefore it will be a wise move
The summer is not the time, however,
to be in readiness to secure the harvest,
for pessimistic fancies, so let's hope that
because it is bound to be a generous one.
during the recess this type of manufacturer
The great success of this Exhibition goes
to show what might be achieved by Ameri-
he is retrogressing.