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THE
7VYUSIO TRHDE
REVIEW
EDWARD
LYMAN
BILL,
not lie outside of the ones which we have indicated for some years
to come.
*• which the managers were alleged to have made, it was clearly
demonstrated that they have yet to learn how to handle large
crowds. Now, while the music trade conventions are not great in
B. S P I L L A N E
MANAGING EDITOR
EXECUTIVE STAFF :
THOS. CAMPBELL-COPELAND
GEO. B. KELLER
W. MUKDOCH LIND
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I N St. Louis, last week, notwithstanding extensive preparations
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
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REVIEW
EMILJE FRANCES BAUER
GEO. W. QUERIPEL
A. J. NICKL1N
comparison with some others, yet the men who attend are men of
affairs in the largest sense. They are used to good living and all
of the accessories which make life pleasant, and while they are
not hypercritical yet they like good room accommodations and
^ Published Every Saturday at I Madison Avenue, New Y o r k . * agreeable table service, which it is pretty difficult to secure in
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smaller towns.
While we believe that there has been no canvass as yet as to
the next Convention city, yet in our opinion it will either go to
Entered at the New York Post Office as Second Class Matter.
New York or Boston, and for a number of years it will not go
NEW YORK, MAY 9, J903.
away from the trio of great cities. Of course a number of dealers
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DIRECTORY
The directory of piano manufacturing firms and corpor"-
nE- D i i N n
tlons found on page 23 will be of great value as a reference fo
MANUFACTURERS ^ - s and others.
will urge strongly the advantages of their home cities, and the
boomers will be on hand early next week, but we question whether
they will turn the tide away from the cities which we have indi-
cated.
U / M , DALLIBA BUTTON, who is the retiring president of
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the National Piano Manufacturers' Association, has the
satisfaction of knowing that he will retire from the office with a
EDITORIAL
membership roll larger than when he assumed the executive chair
—this notwithstanding the most virulent and bitter attacks upon
A A USIC trade men from all over America are traveling towards
*•**• Buffalo, and next Monday a goodly number of manufac-
the organization and upon him personally.
tain them.
has been tried and has endured, and has shown some vitality to
The organization to-day is more compact than ever before
' turers and dealers will have reached the Convention city, where since its organization, and whomsoever is selected to wear the
they will find that extensive preparations have been made to enter- presidential honors, will have behind him an organization which
Indications now point towards the music trade convention of
next week as perhaps the most important which has ever occurred
withstand hard knocks at all times and every time has come out
swimmingly.
in this country.
The organization is all right.
In the first place, both the manufacturer's and dealer's organi-
zation have a greater membership roll than ever before since their
formation, and aside from the increased membership in both the
associations there is also accentuated interest in -the gathering
which will naturally draw hundreds who are indirectly interested
in trade affairs.
It is estimated that six hundred men allied with
' the musico-industrial affairs of America will be registered in the
Convention city next week.
That is certainly a goodly number,
and one which a town with limited hotel facilities will find it diffi-
'""p'HE Piano Dealers' Association, under President Hollenberg's
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energetic direction, has shown surprising growth, and with-
out doubt many new members will be added during the Convention
week, as application blanks will be easily procurable and the mem-
bership committee will be on hand so that no time will be lost
in having new members admitted to the inner circles of the Asso-
ciation during Convention days.
cult to take care of to the entire satisfaction of all the visiting-
delegates.
\ \ 7HILE we are willing to admit that the paretic egotist—the man
who has attacked both organizations has a pachydermic skin
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N our opinion Buffalo will be the last city which will be desig-
compared with which the hide of the rhinocerous is the flimsiest
nated as a rendezvous for the two associations outside of the tissue, yet we hardly think that he will go so far as to be present
great cities of the union.
in person in the Convention city after his glorious turn down by
There are three cities, Boston, New York, and Chicago, which
both organizations. Still when we consider the mental decay which
have ample facilities to take care of large trade gatherings. Out-
is so noticeable in all of his utterances it would not be surprising
side of those, quarters are usually inadequate and are unsatisfac-
if he were present. With a partial eclipse of one's mental powers
tory. The hotel men are not used to handling large banquets, and
responsibility ceases and his condition is reaching that stage when
in our opinion, the music trade Convention cities of the future will
perhaps it were well to replace criticism by pity.