Music Trade Review
Issue: 1903 Vol. 36 N. 10 - Page 12
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THE MUSIC TRADE
12
REVIEW
EDWARD
LYMAN
BILL,
entirely different.
J . B. S P I L L A N E , MANAGING EDITOR
See how many new institutions have been
started within the past decade, all of which shows the American
workmen are not satisfied with present conditions.
We say work-
men, for we are all workmen, some more advanced than others.
It is the same in any line.
Boldt, the proprietor of the leading
hyphenated hotel in this town, used to be a steward in a Philadel-
phia club.
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
He impressed Astor as being a man of intelligence,
and Boldt did not remain forever in his old position.
EXECUTIVE STAFF :
THOS. CAMPBELL-COPELAND
WALDO E. LADD
GEO. B. KELLER
perfectly content with surroundings, but here in this country it is
EMILIE FRANCES BAUER
GEO. W. QUER1PEL
A. J. NICKLIN
* Published Evtry Saturday at I Madlton flvtmit, Ntw York.*
SUBSCRIPTION (Including postage), United States, Mexico and Canada, $2.00 per
year; all other countries, $4.00.
ADVERTISEMENTS, $2.00 per Inch, single column, per Insertion. On quarterly or
yearly contracts a special discount la allowed. Advertising Pages $50.00; opposite
reading matter, $75.00.
REMITTANCES, in other than currency form, should be made payable to Edward
Lyman Bill.
Entered at the New York Post Office as Second Class Matter.
He was
capable of larger things, and in his line he has scored the biggest
kind of a success.
HPHIS is a country of great ambition, and it is therefore the
*
country of bitter disappointments, but if we are all satisfied
with our present conditions and accepted paternalism complacently
we would probably become frayed and run down at the heels, so
to speak.
NEW YORK, MARCH 7, J903.
Most of us are desirous of getting all we can.
The man with a little piano store takes a Kimball, or a Healy,
TELEPHONE NU/IBER, 1745- EIGHTEENTH STREET.
or a Cable as his pattern and hopes way down in his heart to own
THE
On the first Saturday of each month The Review contains In Its
ARTISTS*
"Artists' Department" all the current musical news. This is
An 1101 s
effected without In any way trespassing on the sl»e or service
DEPARTMENT of the trade section of the paper. It has a special circulation, and
therefore augments materially the value of The Review to advertisers.
DIRECTORY
The directory of piano manufacturing firms and corpora-
te- • i i u A
tlons found on page 37 will be of great value as a reference for
OF PIANO
dealers and others.
MANUFACTURERS
a big establishment some day. It is that ambition which helps
him to close some mighty good piano sales.
This industry has been a fertile ground for energetic men
and we have plenty of the younger generation who are coming
on, who will strive for greater things.
They are not satisfied to
be salesmen, for they wish to become proprietors.
All of us cannot occupy the first place, but the Nation is the
EDITORIAL
gainer by personal ambition.
NUMBER of capitalists who have been developing model
A
towns in America have been bitterly disappointed at the re-
sults.
They allege that the men fail to appreciate their work—
we all strive as hard as we can, and while some of us are less
swift and less able than others, the general music trade profession
is moving along rapidly and is making wonderful progress.
But to remain satisfied—no.
in fact, even show inguatitude in return for the benefits given them.
Passiveness in business means business degeneracy.
The trouble is, the American workman rebels at what may
be termed the spirit of paternalism.
have succeeded in America.
None cf these model towns
The workmen do not wish to receive
We all run as fast as we can, and
' T W E R E is no question but that the ethics of retailing have
*
country of bitter risappointments, but if we are all content
more the necessity of having what the people desire.
these special favors from the hands of their employers.
A model industrial plant at Dayton, O., perhaps the most
The wide-
awake piano merchant keeps in the closest possible touch with the
striking in many respects in the world, was closed by a strike which
demands of the people, and he carries "what they wish.
was precipitated because the towels which were furnished
merchant is up-to-date unless his line is complete in every par-
free
in the lavatory by the proprietor, were not washed by union laun-
drymen.
ticular, from the highest grade down to the cheap piano.
There are plenty of people of limited means whose resources
But the matter of unionism we will not discuss here.
American workmen do not wish to accept anything free.
It may
No piano
only permit of their purchasing cheap pianos, but they are en-
please in old Europe, but workmen here reject the spirit of
titled to just as good value as the man with the longer purse who
paternalism as fostered by some industrial institutions.
can purchase one of the leaders.
There is no evil in selling cheap pianos, provided they are
sold in their proper class as cheap pianos, and not at prices which
should entitle the purchaser to become the owner of a high-grade
piano.
W
E are too active here, and conditions change too rapidly to
go plodding along on any model town scheme perfectly
satisfied with conditions.
In this the workmen are right, for to
be supinely satisfied even means decay and degeneracy.
It is be-
cause we are not content with present conditions that spurs us
on with ambitious desires to win a larger and more pronounced
success.
T ^ H E example of what other men have done is always before
*
the young American. A piano maker working at his bench
is figuring on the time he can start a piano factory and begin busi-
ness on his own account. It was from such ambitious workmen as the
Chickerings, the Steinways, the Knabes that great enterprises have
been built.
In the English and German factories they plod on
CLIENT of ours has recently asked our opinion whether or
not the standing of a high-grade piano was injured in the
estimation of the trade, nationally or locally, by the acquisition of
another leader by the same dealer.
We would say, most emphatically, no. There is a great deal
of imaginary loss of prestige which is permitted to go unchal-
lenged. The reputation of no high-grade piano can be materially
affected by the proximity of good neighbors. The only trouble is
the dealer is apt to divide his energies, and perhaps not score the
success which both of the leading manufacturers whom fre rep-
resents should, desire,
A
THE MUSIC TRADE
12
REVIEW
EDWARD
LYMAN
BILL,
entirely different.
J . B. S P I L L A N E , MANAGING EDITOR
See how many new institutions have been
started within the past decade, all of which shows the American
workmen are not satisfied with present conditions.
We say work-
men, for we are all workmen, some more advanced than others.
It is the same in any line.
Boldt, the proprietor of the leading
hyphenated hotel in this town, used to be a steward in a Philadel-
phia club.
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
He impressed Astor as being a man of intelligence,
and Boldt did not remain forever in his old position.
EXECUTIVE STAFF :
THOS. CAMPBELL-COPELAND
WALDO E. LADD
GEO. B. KELLER
perfectly content with surroundings, but here in this country it is
EMILIE FRANCES BAUER
GEO. W. QUER1PEL
A. J. NICKLIN
* Published Evtry Saturday at I Madlton flvtmit, Ntw York.*
SUBSCRIPTION (Including postage), United States, Mexico and Canada, $2.00 per
year; all other countries, $4.00.
ADVERTISEMENTS, $2.00 per Inch, single column, per Insertion. On quarterly or
yearly contracts a special discount la allowed. Advertising Pages $50.00; opposite
reading matter, $75.00.
REMITTANCES, in other than currency form, should be made payable to Edward
Lyman Bill.
Entered at the New York Post Office as Second Class Matter.
He was
capable of larger things, and in his line he has scored the biggest
kind of a success.
HPHIS is a country of great ambition, and it is therefore the
*
country of bitter disappointments, but if we are all satisfied
with our present conditions and accepted paternalism complacently
we would probably become frayed and run down at the heels, so
to speak.
NEW YORK, MARCH 7, J903.
Most of us are desirous of getting all we can.
The man with a little piano store takes a Kimball, or a Healy,
TELEPHONE NU/IBER, 1745- EIGHTEENTH STREET.
or a Cable as his pattern and hopes way down in his heart to own
THE
On the first Saturday of each month The Review contains In Its
ARTISTS*
"Artists' Department" all the current musical news. This is
An 1101 s
effected without In any way trespassing on the sl»e or service
DEPARTMENT of the trade section of the paper. It has a special circulation, and
therefore augments materially the value of The Review to advertisers.
DIRECTORY
The directory of piano manufacturing firms and corpora-
te- • i i u A
tlons found on page 37 will be of great value as a reference for
OF PIANO
dealers and others.
MANUFACTURERS
a big establishment some day. It is that ambition which helps
him to close some mighty good piano sales.
This industry has been a fertile ground for energetic men
and we have plenty of the younger generation who are coming
on, who will strive for greater things.
They are not satisfied to
be salesmen, for they wish to become proprietors.
All of us cannot occupy the first place, but the Nation is the
EDITORIAL
gainer by personal ambition.
NUMBER of capitalists who have been developing model
A
towns in America have been bitterly disappointed at the re-
sults.
They allege that the men fail to appreciate their work—
we all strive as hard as we can, and while some of us are less
swift and less able than others, the general music trade profession
is moving along rapidly and is making wonderful progress.
But to remain satisfied—no.
in fact, even show inguatitude in return for the benefits given them.
Passiveness in business means business degeneracy.
The trouble is, the American workman rebels at what may
be termed the spirit of paternalism.
have succeeded in America.
None cf these model towns
The workmen do not wish to receive
We all run as fast as we can, and
' T W E R E is no question but that the ethics of retailing have
*
country of bitter risappointments, but if we are all content
more the necessity of having what the people desire.
these special favors from the hands of their employers.
A model industrial plant at Dayton, O., perhaps the most
The wide-
awake piano merchant keeps in the closest possible touch with the
striking in many respects in the world, was closed by a strike which
demands of the people, and he carries "what they wish.
was precipitated because the towels which were furnished
merchant is up-to-date unless his line is complete in every par-
free
in the lavatory by the proprietor, were not washed by union laun-
drymen.
ticular, from the highest grade down to the cheap piano.
There are plenty of people of limited means whose resources
But the matter of unionism we will not discuss here.
American workmen do not wish to accept anything free.
It may
No piano
only permit of their purchasing cheap pianos, but they are en-
please in old Europe, but workmen here reject the spirit of
titled to just as good value as the man with the longer purse who
paternalism as fostered by some industrial institutions.
can purchase one of the leaders.
There is no evil in selling cheap pianos, provided they are
sold in their proper class as cheap pianos, and not at prices which
should entitle the purchaser to become the owner of a high-grade
piano.
W
E are too active here, and conditions change too rapidly to
go plodding along on any model town scheme perfectly
satisfied with conditions.
In this the workmen are right, for to
be supinely satisfied even means decay and degeneracy.
It is be-
cause we are not content with present conditions that spurs us
on with ambitious desires to win a larger and more pronounced
success.
T ^ H E example of what other men have done is always before
*
the young American. A piano maker working at his bench
is figuring on the time he can start a piano factory and begin busi-
ness on his own account. It was from such ambitious workmen as the
Chickerings, the Steinways, the Knabes that great enterprises have
been built.
In the English and German factories they plod on
CLIENT of ours has recently asked our opinion whether or
not the standing of a high-grade piano was injured in the
estimation of the trade, nationally or locally, by the acquisition of
another leader by the same dealer.
We would say, most emphatically, no. There is a great deal
of imaginary loss of prestige which is permitted to go unchal-
lenged. The reputation of no high-grade piano can be materially
affected by the proximity of good neighbors. The only trouble is
the dealer is apt to divide his energies, and perhaps not score the
success which both of the leading manufacturers whom fre rep-
resents should, desire,
A
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