Music Trade Review
Issue: 1903 Vol. 36 N. 21 - Page 8
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8
THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
EDWARD LYMAN
BILL,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
J . B. S P I L L A N E
of prospects, the leaving of no stone unturned which has developed
unusual alertness in piano men.
The piano business differs materially from many others, in thatj
a large proportion of pianos are not sold without preliminary work
on the i art of the piano merchants themselves.
In almost all other
mercantile pursuits, customers call at the stores without having been
urged to do so by inducements out of the ordinary.
It is this con-
stant alertness, never ceasing grind which has made the piano man
MANAGING EDITOR.
EXECUTIVE STAFF :
THOS. CAMPBELI^COPELAND
OKO. P. KKT7LKR
\V. MURDOCH LIND
REVIEW
EMILIE FRANCES BAUER
GEO. W. QUERIPEL
A. J. NICKL1N
Published Every Saturday at I Madison Avenue, New Y o r k . *
SUBSCRIPTION (Including postage), United States, Mexico and Canada, $2.00 per
jear; all other countries, $4.00.
ADVERTISEMENTS, $2.00 per Inch, single column, per Insertion. On quarterly or
yearly contracts a special discount is 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.
NEW YORK, MAY 23, J903.
more alert, more keenly watchful of business interests than the
merchants in almost any other line which we could name.
"T~~ O the man who was studying the situation at Buffalo watchful
*
of opportunities, seeking to gain and profit by observations,
this one point was dominant.
We have attended conventions of almost every nature covering
various professions, including journalism and purely literary or-
ganizations, military, political and industrial, and we are impelled to
state in no spirit of flattery, but of fair honesty, that a com-
TELEPHONE NUrtBER, 1745-EIQHTEENTH STREET.
posite photograph of the men who attended the piano trade con-
ventions at Buffalo would reveal features showing more alertness
THE
On the first Saturday of each month The Review contains In its
ARTISTS'
"Artists' Department" all the current musical news. This Is
*• ' V~
effected without In any way trespassing on the size 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.
and finer developed business possibilities than those that could be
The directory of piano manufacturing firms and corpora-
tlons found on page 31 will be of great value as a reference for
might be lacking a certain reserve, the serious look of the savant,
DIRECTORY
shown by any other Convention which we have ever attended. There
the Websterian brow, but the purely American features with well
defined hustle indellibly imprinted thereon would be the dominant
one.
EDITORIAL
The alertness, the progressiveness would be impressed upon
the photograph.
A S to the work of the Convention as to the results. It is impos-
NUMBER of piano merchants from the West and South took
•* *• sible, no matter how minutely we may record the actual do-
*• * occasion to stop over in New York this week upon their re-
ings of the men, and the words expressed, to tell of the far reaching
turn from the Buffalo meeting-.
influence of association work, it goes beyond Buffalo.
A
It goes out
Their summing up of the business situation is optimistic in tone
into the far confines of the music trade, and it is repeated in thou-
and in their predictions there is nothing to savor of discontent or
sands of different ways, and works out helpful interests in con-
of business contraction.
junction with trade work.
On the contrary there is business health,
vitality and expansion, as expressed in the views of visiting piano
It is not all that we hear or see, not all of the carefully written
merchants who fairly represent the piano trade in the various States
papers which are reproduced in the trade press, not all of the elo-
of the Union.
quent speeches that are helpful to the organizations which are work-
While in our great cities the strikes and labor troubles have a
ing out a powerful influence in both departments of the trade.
tendency to depress conditions, yet the merchant in the smaller lo-
There is more than is embodied in all of these factors, beyond that
calities is in a large sense removed from the possibilities of serious
is the desire of the men of the industry to elevate the industry and
interruption to his business through causes which exist in large
to develop higher ideals.
municipal aggregations.
/
"T~* HE complete story of the Convention was told in last week's
T T is admitted that the Convention in Buffalo last week was the
A
greatest in point of trade interest that has ever occurred in this
industry.
From the first of the week to the close, enthusiastic music
*
Review, which, by the way, although an issue of one hun-
dred pages, was delivered to subscribers without an hour's delay.
Even at the risk of being called egotistical we refer briefly to
trade men thronged the corridors of Buffalo's leading hostelry where
our production of last week.
they were engaged in discussing association and business topics.
script was handled during the week from Monday until Friday.
A composite photograph of the human tide which surged back
In the first place all of the manu-
There was no systematic drumming the trade for special advertising,
and forth through the Iroquois would have resulted in showing a
for we do not believe in any kind of "specials."
face not only of more than ordinary intellect, but one dominant
was handled expeditiottsly by The Review and presented as a news-
feature of that face would be energy.
paper should present its results always on time. Saturday with us
It is that restless energy and activity that has developed this
Our vast work-
does not mean Tuesday. . It, however, reflects credit upon the staff
The method of
of this institution to have produced such a gigantic paper, typo-
selling pianos to-day has the tendency to stimulate and awaken all
graphically perfect, and from a newspaper standpoint without a flaw,
of the latent business faculties which lie within. It is the following
with not an hour's delay.
industry so marvelously within the past decade.
8
THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
EDWARD LYMAN
BILL,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
J . B. S P I L L A N E
of prospects, the leaving of no stone unturned which has developed
unusual alertness in piano men.
The piano business differs materially from many others, in thatj
a large proportion of pianos are not sold without preliminary work
on the i art of the piano merchants themselves.
In almost all other
mercantile pursuits, customers call at the stores without having been
urged to do so by inducements out of the ordinary.
It is this con-
stant alertness, never ceasing grind which has made the piano man
MANAGING EDITOR.
EXECUTIVE STAFF :
THOS. CAMPBELI^COPELAND
OKO. P. KKT7LKR
\V. MURDOCH LIND
REVIEW
EMILIE FRANCES BAUER
GEO. W. QUERIPEL
A. J. NICKL1N
Published Every Saturday at I Madison Avenue, New Y o r k . *
SUBSCRIPTION (Including postage), United States, Mexico and Canada, $2.00 per
jear; all other countries, $4.00.
ADVERTISEMENTS, $2.00 per Inch, single column, per Insertion. On quarterly or
yearly contracts a special discount is 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.
NEW YORK, MAY 23, J903.
more alert, more keenly watchful of business interests than the
merchants in almost any other line which we could name.
"T~~ O the man who was studying the situation at Buffalo watchful
*
of opportunities, seeking to gain and profit by observations,
this one point was dominant.
We have attended conventions of almost every nature covering
various professions, including journalism and purely literary or-
ganizations, military, political and industrial, and we are impelled to
state in no spirit of flattery, but of fair honesty, that a com-
TELEPHONE NUrtBER, 1745-EIQHTEENTH STREET.
posite photograph of the men who attended the piano trade con-
ventions at Buffalo would reveal features showing more alertness
THE
On the first Saturday of each month The Review contains In its
ARTISTS'
"Artists' Department" all the current musical news. This Is
*• ' V~
effected without In any way trespassing on the size 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.
and finer developed business possibilities than those that could be
The directory of piano manufacturing firms and corpora-
tlons found on page 31 will be of great value as a reference for
might be lacking a certain reserve, the serious look of the savant,
DIRECTORY
shown by any other Convention which we have ever attended. There
the Websterian brow, but the purely American features with well
defined hustle indellibly imprinted thereon would be the dominant
one.
EDITORIAL
The alertness, the progressiveness would be impressed upon
the photograph.
A S to the work of the Convention as to the results. It is impos-
NUMBER of piano merchants from the West and South took
•* *• sible, no matter how minutely we may record the actual do-
*• * occasion to stop over in New York this week upon their re-
ings of the men, and the words expressed, to tell of the far reaching
turn from the Buffalo meeting-.
influence of association work, it goes beyond Buffalo.
A
It goes out
Their summing up of the business situation is optimistic in tone
into the far confines of the music trade, and it is repeated in thou-
and in their predictions there is nothing to savor of discontent or
sands of different ways, and works out helpful interests in con-
of business contraction.
junction with trade work.
On the contrary there is business health,
vitality and expansion, as expressed in the views of visiting piano
It is not all that we hear or see, not all of the carefully written
merchants who fairly represent the piano trade in the various States
papers which are reproduced in the trade press, not all of the elo-
of the Union.
quent speeches that are helpful to the organizations which are work-
While in our great cities the strikes and labor troubles have a
ing out a powerful influence in both departments of the trade.
tendency to depress conditions, yet the merchant in the smaller lo-
There is more than is embodied in all of these factors, beyond that
calities is in a large sense removed from the possibilities of serious
is the desire of the men of the industry to elevate the industry and
interruption to his business through causes which exist in large
to develop higher ideals.
municipal aggregations.
/
"T~* HE complete story of the Convention was told in last week's
T T is admitted that the Convention in Buffalo last week was the
A
greatest in point of trade interest that has ever occurred in this
industry.
From the first of the week to the close, enthusiastic music
*
Review, which, by the way, although an issue of one hun-
dred pages, was delivered to subscribers without an hour's delay.
Even at the risk of being called egotistical we refer briefly to
trade men thronged the corridors of Buffalo's leading hostelry where
our production of last week.
they were engaged in discussing association and business topics.
script was handled during the week from Monday until Friday.
A composite photograph of the human tide which surged back
In the first place all of the manu-
There was no systematic drumming the trade for special advertising,
and forth through the Iroquois would have resulted in showing a
for we do not believe in any kind of "specials."
face not only of more than ordinary intellect, but one dominant
was handled expeditiottsly by The Review and presented as a news-
feature of that face would be energy.
paper should present its results always on time. Saturday with us
It is that restless energy and activity that has developed this
Our vast work-
does not mean Tuesday. . It, however, reflects credit upon the staff
The method of
of this institution to have produced such a gigantic paper, typo-
selling pianos to-day has the tendency to stimulate and awaken all
graphically perfect, and from a newspaper standpoint without a flaw,
of the latent business faculties which lie within. It is the following
with not an hour's delay.
industry so marvelously within the past decade.
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