Music Trade Review
Issue: 1915 Vol. 60 N. 6 - Page 5
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
Department, however, calculates the population reached ioo,-
016,000 on February 1, and that the hundred-million mark was
passed on January 27 or 28. The disagreements in the estimates
arise from the different systems of computation employed by the
two statisticians.
In the Census Bureau the direct increase as shown by the dif-
ference in population in 1900 and 1910 is taken. By that system
the country would contain 100,399,318 persons on July I, 1915,
and more than 108,000,000 on July 1, 1920. The 1900 census
showed the population to be 75,994.575, while the 1910 figures
were 91,972,266. By the census estimates the population of all
the United States, including Alaska and Hawaii, would be 110,-
750,000 July i, 1915.
Census Bureau officials said to-day that decreased immigra-
tion, due to the European war and restrictive legislation now pro-
posed, would find their figures approximately accurate. They ex-
pect the great flood of immigration will not continue. Mr. Mc-
Coy, on the other hand, believes the conclusion of the European
war will see a tide of immigration that will make his estimates
conservative.
"Some" piano and player prospects truly in the hundred
million people that will soon comprise the population of the United
States. Meanwhile, if members of the music trade want real pros-
perity they must do their share to bring it on, and do it now. It is
time to get right to work—to ride on the cheer-up wagon. Quit
talking misery, get the correct mental viewpoint and you will find
that this country of ours is a pretty good place after all.
T
H E R E is food for thought and encouragement in the state-
ment made by the Collector of the Port of New York that
the export business of the United States for the year just opened will
approximate three billion three hundred millions of dollars.
"At present," declares Mr. Malone, "the value of exports from
New York ranges from $3,000,000 to $6,000,000 a day. At this
rate the total value of exports passing through this port for the
year 1915 will reach $1,350,000,000. The port of New York
handles about 40 per cent, of the export trade of the country."
This means an increase of four hundred million dollars in
exports and indicates enormous demands upon producing plants of
various kinds in this country. It tells a story of extension of busi-
ness, employment of more labor in a hundred fields, all of which
has a tonic effect upon thousands of minor and contributory in-
dustries.
A country with such a prospect must be roused in spite of
itself. No depression can spoil the start, no doubts retard the pace.
Sooner or later millions of individuals will find themselves better
off, and this means better times in the music trade industry.
F
^OR many years this publication has urged the standardization
of retail piano prices. There is no good reason why piano
manufacturers should not fix prices at which the public may pur-
chase their instruments in any section of the country.
If price standardization became general, the status of the
special brand—misnamed stencil-—piano would become perfectly
clear, and it would settle conditions in so far as selling instru-
ments out of their class is concerned.
It is known that some dealers to-day secure abnormal prices
for instruments of a very cheap or mediocre grade. But, here
again comes the question of the trade-ins, and until that matter is
cleared up satisfactorily, some dealers affirm that they must charge
prices for pianos of certain grades in order that they may make
good the allowance made for traded-in stock.
And so it goes!
Will the time ever come when there will be a fair standardi-
zation of piano prices? Until that time arrives there must neces-
sarily be a percentage of misrepresentation and over-charging.
conditions in the music trade industry, as indeed in all
v_^ lines of trade, are being given the closest consideration to-
day by individual houses as well as by trade organizations. Long
time credits are apparently doomed, for not only in the piano trade,
but in the musical merchandise and music publishing fields, the
leading men in these branches of the industry having decided on a
definite policy of doing all business in future on a shorter time
basis and along lines that will be in conformity with the new con-
ditions prevailing in the business world.
"POOLE PLAYER-PIANO PERFECTION"
This was the remark made by one of the most
prominent dealers in the country after testing
and playing our new Style 22 Player-Piano,
illustrated herewith. And his views have
been supplemented by those of many others
who extol its remarkable player action, its
constructive completeness throughout, and
more important still, its amazing volume and
quality of tone.
This is due in a very large degree to the
fact that this style contains the new improved
scale which by reason of its evenness in all
registers has added further to the high repu-
tation of the Poole Piano Co. as originators
and developers.
With this new style Poole Player-Piano
the dealer is furnished with an instrument
STYLE 22
which enables him to appeal with absolute
confidence to his constituency, for wherever it has been introduced to purchasers it has won out. Its
ease in operation; its reliability and simplicity of construction; its tone quality, and its architectural
attractiveness gives this latest Poole creation a pre-eminence that insures its being one of the best
sellers of the present year.
POOLE PIANO COMPANY,
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
Department, however, calculates the population reached ioo,-
016,000 on February 1, and that the hundred-million mark was
passed on January 27 or 28. The disagreements in the estimates
arise from the different systems of computation employed by the
two statisticians.
In the Census Bureau the direct increase as shown by the dif-
ference in population in 1900 and 1910 is taken. By that system
the country would contain 100,399,318 persons on July I, 1915,
and more than 108,000,000 on July 1, 1920. The 1900 census
showed the population to be 75,994.575, while the 1910 figures
were 91,972,266. By the census estimates the population of all
the United States, including Alaska and Hawaii, would be 110,-
750,000 July i, 1915.
Census Bureau officials said to-day that decreased immigra-
tion, due to the European war and restrictive legislation now pro-
posed, would find their figures approximately accurate. They ex-
pect the great flood of immigration will not continue. Mr. Mc-
Coy, on the other hand, believes the conclusion of the European
war will see a tide of immigration that will make his estimates
conservative.
"Some" piano and player prospects truly in the hundred
million people that will soon comprise the population of the United
States. Meanwhile, if members of the music trade want real pros-
perity they must do their share to bring it on, and do it now. It is
time to get right to work—to ride on the cheer-up wagon. Quit
talking misery, get the correct mental viewpoint and you will find
that this country of ours is a pretty good place after all.
T
H E R E is food for thought and encouragement in the state-
ment made by the Collector of the Port of New York that
the export business of the United States for the year just opened will
approximate three billion three hundred millions of dollars.
"At present," declares Mr. Malone, "the value of exports from
New York ranges from $3,000,000 to $6,000,000 a day. At this
rate the total value of exports passing through this port for the
year 1915 will reach $1,350,000,000. The port of New York
handles about 40 per cent, of the export trade of the country."
This means an increase of four hundred million dollars in
exports and indicates enormous demands upon producing plants of
various kinds in this country. It tells a story of extension of busi-
ness, employment of more labor in a hundred fields, all of which
has a tonic effect upon thousands of minor and contributory in-
dustries.
A country with such a prospect must be roused in spite of
itself. No depression can spoil the start, no doubts retard the pace.
Sooner or later millions of individuals will find themselves better
off, and this means better times in the music trade industry.
F
^OR many years this publication has urged the standardization
of retail piano prices. There is no good reason why piano
manufacturers should not fix prices at which the public may pur-
chase their instruments in any section of the country.
If price standardization became general, the status of the
special brand—misnamed stencil-—piano would become perfectly
clear, and it would settle conditions in so far as selling instru-
ments out of their class is concerned.
It is known that some dealers to-day secure abnormal prices
for instruments of a very cheap or mediocre grade. But, here
again comes the question of the trade-ins, and until that matter is
cleared up satisfactorily, some dealers affirm that they must charge
prices for pianos of certain grades in order that they may make
good the allowance made for traded-in stock.
And so it goes!
Will the time ever come when there will be a fair standardi-
zation of piano prices? Until that time arrives there must neces-
sarily be a percentage of misrepresentation and over-charging.
conditions in the music trade industry, as indeed in all
v_^ lines of trade, are being given the closest consideration to-
day by individual houses as well as by trade organizations. Long
time credits are apparently doomed, for not only in the piano trade,
but in the musical merchandise and music publishing fields, the
leading men in these branches of the industry having decided on a
definite policy of doing all business in future on a shorter time
basis and along lines that will be in conformity with the new con-
ditions prevailing in the business world.
"POOLE PLAYER-PIANO PERFECTION"
This was the remark made by one of the most
prominent dealers in the country after testing
and playing our new Style 22 Player-Piano,
illustrated herewith. And his views have
been supplemented by those of many others
who extol its remarkable player action, its
constructive completeness throughout, and
more important still, its amazing volume and
quality of tone.
This is due in a very large degree to the
fact that this style contains the new improved
scale which by reason of its evenness in all
registers has added further to the high repu-
tation of the Poole Piano Co. as originators
and developers.
With this new style Poole Player-Piano
the dealer is furnished with an instrument
STYLE 22
which enables him to appeal with absolute
confidence to his constituency, for wherever it has been introduced to purchasers it has won out. Its
ease in operation; its reliability and simplicity of construction; its tone quality, and its architectural
attractiveness gives this latest Poole creation a pre-eminence that insures its being one of the best
sellers of the present year.
POOLE PIANO COMPANY,
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