Music Trade Review
Issue: 1913 Vol. 56 N. 6 - Page 4
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THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
worth of my merchandise, but lie can steal my designs or patterns
with impunity and cause me loss that $10,000 would not cover
in some cases."
HE piano manufacturers of France seem to be greatly upset,
if cable dispatches are to be believed, over the fact that the
tariff placed by their country on imports of American pianos is
considerably lower than that imposed on French pianos imported
into the United States. The matter has been placed before the
proper authorities in Paris with the object of raising the duty
on American pianos so as to help French industry.
Where there is smoke there must be fire, and the item of
news referred to would incline one to believe that the demand for
American pianos is growing in France, which affords further
proof of the good sense and artistic discrimination of lovers of
music in that country.
Our Gallic friends are also greatly upset at "the invasion of
American millionaires," who are said to be ransacking French
towns and cities to find art novelties to enrich their "palaces."
The latest news is that wealthy American connoisseurs are now
indulging in "organ snatching" from the small churches through-
out France for the purpose of "placing these instruments in their
Fifth avenue mansions."
The story is obviously absurd, and illustrates the skill of the
imaginative space writer in the daily papers. The amazing thing,
however, is that this story should receive, as it has, serious con-
sideration from editorial writers in the newspapers in the United
States.
It is hardly necessary to say that the United States to-day
is producing pipe organs which in construction and tone qualities
compare very favorably with anything made abroad. This was
not true some years ago, but there has been a very rapid advance
in all branches of organ building within a recent period, and
many of the modern organs have won the highest encomiums
from the most noted organists of the old world.
T
EDWARD LYMAN BILL - Editor and Proprietor
J. B. SPILLANE, Managing Editor
Executive and Reportorlal Stall:
B. BiiTTAiw WILSON,
A. J. NICKLIN,
CARLETON CHACE.
AUGUST J.TIMPE,
L. M. ROBINSON,
WM. B. WHITE,
.
GLAD HENDEBSOM,
L. E. BOWMS.
BOSTON OFFICE:
CHICAGO OFFICE:
OHM H. Willow, 824 Washington St.
E. P. VAN HAKLINGEN, 87 South Wabash Are
Telephone, Main 6860.
Room 806. Telephone, Central 414
PHILADELPHIA:
MINNEAPOLIS and ST. PAUL:
ST. LOUIS:
T
R. W. KAUFFMAN.
ADOLF EDSTEN.
SAN FRANCISCO: S. H. GRAY, 88 First St.
CINCINNATI, O.: JACOB W. WALTERS.
BALTIMORE. MD.: A. ROBERT FRENCH.
CLYBE JENNINGS
DETROIT, MICH.: MORRIS J. WHITE.
INDIANAPOLIS, I N D J STANLEY H. SMITH.
MILWAUKEE, WIS.: L. E. MEYER.
LONDON, ENGLAND: 1 Gresham Buildings, Basinghall St., E. C.
Pnbllsned Every Saturday at 373 Fourth Avenue, New York
Enttrtd at the New York Post Office as Second Class Matter.
SUBSCRIPTION, (including postage), United States and Mexico, (2.00 per year; Canada,
$8.40; all other countries, (4.00.
ADVERTISEMENTS. $8.60 per inch single column, per insertion. On quarterly or
yearly contracts, a special discount is allowed. Advertising Pages, $75.00.
REMITTANCES, in other than currency forms, should be made payable to Edward
Lyman Bill.
Departments conducted by an expert wherein all ques-
anil
aUU
tions of a technical nature relating to the tuning, regu-
I W h n f i M l l n p n a r f m o n t e lating and repairing of pianos and player-pianos are
ICCUlllCdl V e p d r i l l i e i l l S . d e a j t h w i t h j w i n b e f o u n d i n ano ther section of this
paper. We also publish a number of reliable technical works, information concerning which
will be cheerfully given upon request.
Exposition Honors Won by The Review
Grand Prix
Paris Exposition, 1900 Silver Medal.. .Charleston Exposition, 1001
Diploma... .Pan-American Exposition, 1901 Gold Medal
St. Louis Exposition, 1004
Gold Midal. .Lewis-Clark Exposition, 190S
LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONES—NUMBERS 5982 5983 MADISON SQUARE
Connecting all Departments.
Cable address •• "ElbllL N e w York."
NEW YORK, F E B R U A R Y 8, 1 9 1 3
EDITORIAL
/
I ^HERE is at present an active movement under way to have
-i- Congress, as soon as tariff revision is completed, turn its
attention to the enactment of legislation to do away with the
practice of pirating designs. This is something of wide interest
to piano manufacturers—at least to those who devote time and
money to the originating of case designs, and many of which are
later copied without any compensation or recognition of their
originators' rights.
The present movement had its inception in the textile trade,
but its application, of course, covers design piracy in a broad way.
It is claimed that the present copyright and patent laws are in-
elastic and inadequate to serve the purpose of the manufacturer
who wants to conserve his interests in designs, and the main
thing is to remove the present red tape that makes the obtaining
of a patent a tedious task, and to get the cost of obtaining design
protection within reasonable reach of the business man. A law
is needed that will make the services of a patent lawyer unneces-
sary, at least as far as design patents are concerned, with a reduc-
tion in cost of from thirty to sixty dollars to the reasonable sum
of from five to ten dollars.
A prominent manufacturer in speaking of the proposed law
covering designs said: "Another feature of the law needed is a
provision that will make pirating a criminal action. It is prac-
tically impossible to determine damages from piracy in a civil
suit, and the only reason that patents granted under the present
law are respected is the fact the offender will at least have to
suffer the time for and expense of a civil suit. The patentee under
the present system stands ready to lose time and money in prose-
cution, with no definite assurance of redress. If the offense was
made a basis for criminal action, the case decided by a Govern-
ment board from whose decision there could be no appeal and a
penalty of $500 or $1,000 imposed for every conviction, the prac-
tice would soon be at an end. As things stand to-day I can have
my competitor arrested if he or his agents should steal $ICQ
HE importance of vocational training was one of a great
number of important matters which came up for considera-
tion at the recent meeting of the Chambers of Commerce of the
United States held at Washington. A resolution was passed
setting forth the necessity of the establishment of technical
schools so that the youth of the land be educated to intelligent
lives of service and efficiency in chosen occupations. To the end
that action may everywhere be stimulated and wisely directed,
federal aid and encouragement was deemed essential. In this
connection the enactment into law of the Paige bill now before
Congress was the subject of an approving resolution.
Resolutions suggesting a permanent tariff commission were
also passed, it being held that the tariff is fundamentally an
economic question affecting, directly or indirectly, all industry
and commerce, and not a political issue to be determined by the
people at national elections. The suggestion that the Consular
service be removed from politics and placed upon a basis of
efficiency, worth and permanence was also the subject of approv-
ing resolution.
T
FEATURE of the piano trade that speaks well for the cali-
A
ber of the men who compose it is the general interest taken
in advertising and the prominent positions in organizations of
advertising men in various sections of the country held by those
engaged in the piano business. At the recent national convention
of the advertising, men held in Boston last year there were in
attendance piano men from all over the country. In view of the
efforts of the National Association of Piano Merchants to elimi-
nate through resolutions, and possibly through legislation, the
misleading advertising in the trade, the interest of many of its
members in advertising is certainly an excellent augury of the
attainment of cleaner and healthier conditions in the retail depart-
ment of the music trade industry.
I
N The Review last week there appeared a report of an impor-
tant legal case fought in Philadelphia by the Ludwig Piano
Co. to determine its rights to a piano sold on lease contract to a
man who subsequently went into bankruptcy. The piano com-
pany won the case against the trustee in bankruptcy after a hard
THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
worth of my merchandise, but lie can steal my designs or patterns
with impunity and cause me loss that $10,000 would not cover
in some cases."
HE piano manufacturers of France seem to be greatly upset,
if cable dispatches are to be believed, over the fact that the
tariff placed by their country on imports of American pianos is
considerably lower than that imposed on French pianos imported
into the United States. The matter has been placed before the
proper authorities in Paris with the object of raising the duty
on American pianos so as to help French industry.
Where there is smoke there must be fire, and the item of
news referred to would incline one to believe that the demand for
American pianos is growing in France, which affords further
proof of the good sense and artistic discrimination of lovers of
music in that country.
Our Gallic friends are also greatly upset at "the invasion of
American millionaires," who are said to be ransacking French
towns and cities to find art novelties to enrich their "palaces."
The latest news is that wealthy American connoisseurs are now
indulging in "organ snatching" from the small churches through-
out France for the purpose of "placing these instruments in their
Fifth avenue mansions."
The story is obviously absurd, and illustrates the skill of the
imaginative space writer in the daily papers. The amazing thing,
however, is that this story should receive, as it has, serious con-
sideration from editorial writers in the newspapers in the United
States.
It is hardly necessary to say that the United States to-day
is producing pipe organs which in construction and tone qualities
compare very favorably with anything made abroad. This was
not true some years ago, but there has been a very rapid advance
in all branches of organ building within a recent period, and
many of the modern organs have won the highest encomiums
from the most noted organists of the old world.
T
EDWARD LYMAN BILL - Editor and Proprietor
J. B. SPILLANE, Managing Editor
Executive and Reportorlal Stall:
B. BiiTTAiw WILSON,
A. J. NICKLIN,
CARLETON CHACE.
AUGUST J.TIMPE,
L. M. ROBINSON,
WM. B. WHITE,
.
GLAD HENDEBSOM,
L. E. BOWMS.
BOSTON OFFICE:
CHICAGO OFFICE:
OHM H. Willow, 824 Washington St.
E. P. VAN HAKLINGEN, 87 South Wabash Are
Telephone, Main 6860.
Room 806. Telephone, Central 414
PHILADELPHIA:
MINNEAPOLIS and ST. PAUL:
ST. LOUIS:
T
R. W. KAUFFMAN.
ADOLF EDSTEN.
SAN FRANCISCO: S. H. GRAY, 88 First St.
CINCINNATI, O.: JACOB W. WALTERS.
BALTIMORE. MD.: A. ROBERT FRENCH.
CLYBE JENNINGS
DETROIT, MICH.: MORRIS J. WHITE.
INDIANAPOLIS, I N D J STANLEY H. SMITH.
MILWAUKEE, WIS.: L. E. MEYER.
LONDON, ENGLAND: 1 Gresham Buildings, Basinghall St., E. C.
Pnbllsned Every Saturday at 373 Fourth Avenue, New York
Enttrtd at the New York Post Office as Second Class Matter.
SUBSCRIPTION, (including postage), United States and Mexico, (2.00 per year; Canada,
$8.40; all other countries, (4.00.
ADVERTISEMENTS. $8.60 per inch single column, per insertion. On quarterly or
yearly contracts, a special discount is allowed. Advertising Pages, $75.00.
REMITTANCES, in other than currency forms, should be made payable to Edward
Lyman Bill.
Departments conducted by an expert wherein all ques-
anil
aUU
tions of a technical nature relating to the tuning, regu-
I W h n f i M l l n p n a r f m o n t e lating and repairing of pianos and player-pianos are
ICCUlllCdl V e p d r i l l i e i l l S . d e a j t h w i t h j w i n b e f o u n d i n ano ther section of this
paper. We also publish a number of reliable technical works, information concerning which
will be cheerfully given upon request.
Exposition Honors Won by The Review
Grand Prix
Paris Exposition, 1900 Silver Medal.. .Charleston Exposition, 1001
Diploma... .Pan-American Exposition, 1901 Gold Medal
St. Louis Exposition, 1004
Gold Midal. .Lewis-Clark Exposition, 190S
LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONES—NUMBERS 5982 5983 MADISON SQUARE
Connecting all Departments.
Cable address •• "ElbllL N e w York."
NEW YORK, F E B R U A R Y 8, 1 9 1 3
EDITORIAL
/
I ^HERE is at present an active movement under way to have
-i- Congress, as soon as tariff revision is completed, turn its
attention to the enactment of legislation to do away with the
practice of pirating designs. This is something of wide interest
to piano manufacturers—at least to those who devote time and
money to the originating of case designs, and many of which are
later copied without any compensation or recognition of their
originators' rights.
The present movement had its inception in the textile trade,
but its application, of course, covers design piracy in a broad way.
It is claimed that the present copyright and patent laws are in-
elastic and inadequate to serve the purpose of the manufacturer
who wants to conserve his interests in designs, and the main
thing is to remove the present red tape that makes the obtaining
of a patent a tedious task, and to get the cost of obtaining design
protection within reasonable reach of the business man. A law
is needed that will make the services of a patent lawyer unneces-
sary, at least as far as design patents are concerned, with a reduc-
tion in cost of from thirty to sixty dollars to the reasonable sum
of from five to ten dollars.
A prominent manufacturer in speaking of the proposed law
covering designs said: "Another feature of the law needed is a
provision that will make pirating a criminal action. It is prac-
tically impossible to determine damages from piracy in a civil
suit, and the only reason that patents granted under the present
law are respected is the fact the offender will at least have to
suffer the time for and expense of a civil suit. The patentee under
the present system stands ready to lose time and money in prose-
cution, with no definite assurance of redress. If the offense was
made a basis for criminal action, the case decided by a Govern-
ment board from whose decision there could be no appeal and a
penalty of $500 or $1,000 imposed for every conviction, the prac-
tice would soon be at an end. As things stand to-day I can have
my competitor arrested if he or his agents should steal $ICQ
HE importance of vocational training was one of a great
number of important matters which came up for considera-
tion at the recent meeting of the Chambers of Commerce of the
United States held at Washington. A resolution was passed
setting forth the necessity of the establishment of technical
schools so that the youth of the land be educated to intelligent
lives of service and efficiency in chosen occupations. To the end
that action may everywhere be stimulated and wisely directed,
federal aid and encouragement was deemed essential. In this
connection the enactment into law of the Paige bill now before
Congress was the subject of an approving resolution.
Resolutions suggesting a permanent tariff commission were
also passed, it being held that the tariff is fundamentally an
economic question affecting, directly or indirectly, all industry
and commerce, and not a political issue to be determined by the
people at national elections. The suggestion that the Consular
service be removed from politics and placed upon a basis of
efficiency, worth and permanence was also the subject of approv-
ing resolution.
T
FEATURE of the piano trade that speaks well for the cali-
A
ber of the men who compose it is the general interest taken
in advertising and the prominent positions in organizations of
advertising men in various sections of the country held by those
engaged in the piano business. At the recent national convention
of the advertising, men held in Boston last year there were in
attendance piano men from all over the country. In view of the
efforts of the National Association of Piano Merchants to elimi-
nate through resolutions, and possibly through legislation, the
misleading advertising in the trade, the interest of many of its
members in advertising is certainly an excellent augury of the
attainment of cleaner and healthier conditions in the retail depart-
ment of the music trade industry.
I
N The Review last week there appeared a report of an impor-
tant legal case fought in Philadelphia by the Ludwig Piano
Co. to determine its rights to a piano sold on lease contract to a
man who subsequently went into bankruptcy. The piano com-
pany won the case against the trustee in bankruptcy after a hard
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