Music Trade Review
Issue: 1918 Vol. 67 N. 16 - Page 4
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THE
MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW
PUBLISHED BY EDWARD LYMAN BILL, Inc
President and Treasurer, C. L. Bill, 373 Fourth Ave., New York; Vice-President, J. B.
Spillane, 373 Fourth Ave., New York; Second Vice-President, J. Raymond Bill, 373
Fourth Ave., New York; Assistant Treasurer, Wm. A. Low.
J. B. SPILLANE, Editor
J. RAYMOND BILL, Associate Editor
Executive and Reportorlal Staff:
B. BRITTAIN WILSON, CARLETON CHACE, L. M. ROBINSON, WILSON D. BUSH, V. D. WALSH,
WM. BRAID WHITE (Technical Editor), E. B. MUNCH, A. J. NICKLIN, L. E. BOWERS
BOSTON OFFICE:
JOHN H. WILSON, 324 Washington St.
CHICAGO OFFICE:
E. P. VAN HARLINGEN,
Republic
Building,
Telephone, Main 69S0.
209 So. State St. Telephone, Wabash 5774.
LONDON, ENGLAND: 1 Gresham Buildings, Basinghall St., D. C.
NEWS SERVICE IS SUPPLIED WEEKLY BY OUR CORRESPONDENTS
LOCATED IN THE LEADING CITIE8 THROUGHOUT AMERICA.
Published Every Saturday at 373 Fourth Avenue, New York
Entered as second-class matter September 10, 1892, at the post office at New York, N. Y.,
under the Act of March 3, 1879.
SUBSCRIPTION (including postage), United States and Mexico, $2.00 per year;
Canada, $3.50; all other countries, $5.00.
ADVERTISEMENTS, $4.50 per inch, single column, per insertion. On quarterly or
yearly contracts a special discount is allowed. Advertising pages, $130.
REMITTANCES, in other than currency forms, should be made payable to Edward
Lyman Bill, Inc.
Departments conducted by an expert wherein all ques-
tions of a technical nature relating to the tuning,
regulating and repairing of pianos and player-pianos
f
y a r e dealt w i t h j w i ] 1 b e found ; n another section of
this paper. We also publish a number of reliable technical works, information concern-
ing which will be cheerfully given upon request.
Player-Piano and
Departments
Exposition Honors Won by The Review
Grand Prix
Paris Exposition, 1900 Silver Medal. .Charleston Exposition, 1902
Diploma.. .Pan-American Exposition, 1901 Gold Medal.... St. Louis Exposition, 1904
Gold Medal. .Lewis-Clark Exposition, 1905
LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONES—NUMBERS 5982—6983 MADISON SQ.
Connecting all Departments
Cable address: "ElbiU, New York."
NEW Y O R K , OCTOBER 1 9 , 1918
= EDITORIAL=
REVIEW
OCTOBER 19, 1918
tions, and they have devoted their display windows to the cause with-
out stint. And most important of all, they have in many cases
practically turned over their organizations to the Liberty Loan Com-
mittee and sidetracked their business temporarily to work in the
cause of the Government.
What has been done in New York is a fair example of what
music men are doing in every part of the country. For the Third
Loan the music industries in the New York District had a quota
of $1,250,000, which they exceeded by well over 100 per cent.
When the Fourth Loan came along the quota was raised to $4,350,-
000, a figure that proved staggering even to some of those pledged
to float the loan in the industry and profession. Yet of all of the
industries represented in the Rainbow Division, the Allied Music
Committee, Industrial and Professional, was the first to exceed its
quota, an event accomplished immediately after the rally at Car-
negie Hall on September 28, and within approximately three days
after the opening of the campaign. Since then the work has been
to realize the announced goal of the committee—to register sub-
scriptions totaling $6,000,000—and to judge from last-minute re-
ports this goal will be reached.
Mark P. Campbell, chairman of the Allied Music Committee,
J. N. Blackman, vice-chairman, and other members of the commit-
tee simply forgot business for a month and devoted their efforts
day and night to the Liberty Loan. This neglect of business inter-
ests meant financial loss and sacrifice in more ways than one, yet
these men did not count the cost. To their efforts the trade and
profession have responded nobly. Although the industry has been
of necessity curtailed by the Government and otherwise hard hit by
war conditions, there has been an outpouring of money for the Lib-
erty Loan that has been pleasingly surprising even to those who
were most optimistic.
Certainly music, in addition to the part that it is playing in
maintaining morale during the war, has in the case of the Fourth
Liberty Loan proven its patriotism beyond question of a doubt. It
is a record of which every one in the industry can be proud, and a
record that gives full credit to the men who, at the head of the
committee, offered such yeoman service in the cause.
T
H E list of committees of the National Piano Manufacturers' As-
sociation made public last week by President Paul B. Klugh
F all the questions that face the trade to-day, that of steel sup- represents not just a list of names carefully arranged under special
ply stands paramount, for steel is the keystone of the pro- headings, but rather the completion of a definite organization. Never
before in the history of the association has there been so much care
duction problem. Official and semi-official announcements from
used in selecting men to work on committees destined to look after
Washington, coupled with rumors by the dozen regarding what has
the various departments of trade and national activity. Appoint-
been clone, and what will be done, in the matter of allotting steel
ments have been made only upon the basis of the individual's fitness
to the music industry, have not been calculated to make piano men
for the work he will be called upon to do for the association. The
any too optimistic, but the assurances that have come from Wash-
result has been that men not previously very active in association
ington through the Music Industries Chamber of Commerce are
affairs have been brought to the front as chairmen of committees,
calculated to ease the minds of those who are worrying about the
because their qualifications marked them as men fitted for special
future of the industry.
work, and every man listed has signified his intention of serving,
It has been stated publicly by George W. Pound that beginning
which in itself means much to those who have followed associa-
January 1, 60 per cent, of the steel now allotted to shipyards, or a
tion affairs in the past. Some of the committees have already ac-
matter of 150,000 tons of steel monthly, will be diverted into other
complished excellent results, among them being the Finance Com-
channels, with a considerable quantity of it finding its way into
mittee.
A perusal of the list of committees leads to the belief that
peace time industries. Barring the unexpected this news should
at
next
year's
conventions in Chicago the record of the National
prove most encouraging, for with the requirements of only 731 tons
Piano
Manufacturers'
Association for the year will be one of real
of steel quarterly, the piano trade can rest content with only a small
accomplishment
on
a
broader
basis than ever before.
portion of the 150,000 tons monthly to be released, allotted to its
uses.
N the slogan "Music Maintains Morale," the Allied Music Com-
The war is not over by a long sight. The peace talk emanat-
mittee of the Fourth Liberty Loan has given to the music inter-
ing from the Central Empires may be accepted by the optimist as
ests a slogan the use of which should not stop with the end of the
the beginning of the end, but there is a long road to travel between
Liberty Loan campaign, but should continue throughout the re-
the beginning of overtures and the final peace. The United States
is not hesitating for a moment in carrying on its war work, and for mainder of the war.
months to come the question of steel and other supplies for peace
None of the slogans so far suggested and used has expressed
industries must depend not upon a cutting down of war work, but
the value of music so strongly or succinctly. The next best slogan,
rather upon a more efficient distribution of available supplies to non- "Music Will Help Win the War," left the impression that music
war industries.
was only one item among many, but to say that "Music Maintains
Morale" is a definite statement of the power of music in itself.
ERTAINLY no industry in the country has made a more envi-
It is to be hoped that the use of this slogan will become nation-
able record in working for the success of the Fourth Liberty
wide; that it will be found in practically every advertisement of
Loan than the music industry and profession. From every part of
every manufacturing and retailing piano house in order that this
the country have come reports of what music men are doing, and
knowledge of what music is doing should be brought to the atten-
have been doing in the interests of the loan. They have devoted a
tion of every one in the land, and especially to those in official posi-
large section of their advertising space to urging loan subscrip-
tions.
O
I
C
THE
MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW
PUBLISHED BY EDWARD LYMAN BILL, Inc
President and Treasurer, C. L. Bill, 373 Fourth Ave., New York; Vice-President, J. B.
Spillane, 373 Fourth Ave., New York; Second Vice-President, J. Raymond Bill, 373
Fourth Ave., New York; Assistant Treasurer, Wm. A. Low.
J. B. SPILLANE, Editor
J. RAYMOND BILL, Associate Editor
Executive and Reportorlal Staff:
B. BRITTAIN WILSON, CARLETON CHACE, L. M. ROBINSON, WILSON D. BUSH, V. D. WALSH,
WM. BRAID WHITE (Technical Editor), E. B. MUNCH, A. J. NICKLIN, L. E. BOWERS
BOSTON OFFICE:
JOHN H. WILSON, 324 Washington St.
CHICAGO OFFICE:
E. P. VAN HARLINGEN,
Republic
Building,
Telephone, Main 69S0.
209 So. State St. Telephone, Wabash 5774.
LONDON, ENGLAND: 1 Gresham Buildings, Basinghall St., D. C.
NEWS SERVICE IS SUPPLIED WEEKLY BY OUR CORRESPONDENTS
LOCATED IN THE LEADING CITIE8 THROUGHOUT AMERICA.
Published Every Saturday at 373 Fourth Avenue, New York
Entered as second-class matter September 10, 1892, at the post office at New York, N. Y.,
under the Act of March 3, 1879.
SUBSCRIPTION (including postage), United States and Mexico, $2.00 per year;
Canada, $3.50; all other countries, $5.00.
ADVERTISEMENTS, $4.50 per inch, single column, per insertion. On quarterly or
yearly contracts a special discount is allowed. Advertising pages, $130.
REMITTANCES, in other than currency forms, should be made payable to Edward
Lyman Bill, Inc.
Departments conducted by an expert wherein all ques-
tions of a technical nature relating to the tuning,
regulating and repairing of pianos and player-pianos
f
y a r e dealt w i t h j w i ] 1 b e found ; n another section of
this paper. We also publish a number of reliable technical works, information concern-
ing which will be cheerfully given upon request.
Player-Piano and
Departments
Exposition Honors Won by The Review
Grand Prix
Paris Exposition, 1900 Silver Medal. .Charleston Exposition, 1902
Diploma.. .Pan-American Exposition, 1901 Gold Medal.... St. Louis Exposition, 1904
Gold Medal. .Lewis-Clark Exposition, 1905
LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONES—NUMBERS 5982—6983 MADISON SQ.
Connecting all Departments
Cable address: "ElbiU, New York."
NEW Y O R K , OCTOBER 1 9 , 1918
= EDITORIAL=
REVIEW
OCTOBER 19, 1918
tions, and they have devoted their display windows to the cause with-
out stint. And most important of all, they have in many cases
practically turned over their organizations to the Liberty Loan Com-
mittee and sidetracked their business temporarily to work in the
cause of the Government.
What has been done in New York is a fair example of what
music men are doing in every part of the country. For the Third
Loan the music industries in the New York District had a quota
of $1,250,000, which they exceeded by well over 100 per cent.
When the Fourth Loan came along the quota was raised to $4,350,-
000, a figure that proved staggering even to some of those pledged
to float the loan in the industry and profession. Yet of all of the
industries represented in the Rainbow Division, the Allied Music
Committee, Industrial and Professional, was the first to exceed its
quota, an event accomplished immediately after the rally at Car-
negie Hall on September 28, and within approximately three days
after the opening of the campaign. Since then the work has been
to realize the announced goal of the committee—to register sub-
scriptions totaling $6,000,000—and to judge from last-minute re-
ports this goal will be reached.
Mark P. Campbell, chairman of the Allied Music Committee,
J. N. Blackman, vice-chairman, and other members of the commit-
tee simply forgot business for a month and devoted their efforts
day and night to the Liberty Loan. This neglect of business inter-
ests meant financial loss and sacrifice in more ways than one, yet
these men did not count the cost. To their efforts the trade and
profession have responded nobly. Although the industry has been
of necessity curtailed by the Government and otherwise hard hit by
war conditions, there has been an outpouring of money for the Lib-
erty Loan that has been pleasingly surprising even to those who
were most optimistic.
Certainly music, in addition to the part that it is playing in
maintaining morale during the war, has in the case of the Fourth
Liberty Loan proven its patriotism beyond question of a doubt. It
is a record of which every one in the industry can be proud, and a
record that gives full credit to the men who, at the head of the
committee, offered such yeoman service in the cause.
T
H E list of committees of the National Piano Manufacturers' As-
sociation made public last week by President Paul B. Klugh
F all the questions that face the trade to-day, that of steel sup- represents not just a list of names carefully arranged under special
ply stands paramount, for steel is the keystone of the pro- headings, but rather the completion of a definite organization. Never
before in the history of the association has there been so much care
duction problem. Official and semi-official announcements from
used in selecting men to work on committees destined to look after
Washington, coupled with rumors by the dozen regarding what has
the various departments of trade and national activity. Appoint-
been clone, and what will be done, in the matter of allotting steel
ments have been made only upon the basis of the individual's fitness
to the music industry, have not been calculated to make piano men
for the work he will be called upon to do for the association. The
any too optimistic, but the assurances that have come from Wash-
result has been that men not previously very active in association
ington through the Music Industries Chamber of Commerce are
affairs have been brought to the front as chairmen of committees,
calculated to ease the minds of those who are worrying about the
because their qualifications marked them as men fitted for special
future of the industry.
work, and every man listed has signified his intention of serving,
It has been stated publicly by George W. Pound that beginning
which in itself means much to those who have followed associa-
January 1, 60 per cent, of the steel now allotted to shipyards, or a
tion affairs in the past. Some of the committees have already ac-
matter of 150,000 tons of steel monthly, will be diverted into other
complished excellent results, among them being the Finance Com-
channels, with a considerable quantity of it finding its way into
mittee.
A perusal of the list of committees leads to the belief that
peace time industries. Barring the unexpected this news should
at
next
year's
conventions in Chicago the record of the National
prove most encouraging, for with the requirements of only 731 tons
Piano
Manufacturers'
Association for the year will be one of real
of steel quarterly, the piano trade can rest content with only a small
accomplishment
on
a
broader
basis than ever before.
portion of the 150,000 tons monthly to be released, allotted to its
uses.
N the slogan "Music Maintains Morale," the Allied Music Com-
The war is not over by a long sight. The peace talk emanat-
mittee of the Fourth Liberty Loan has given to the music inter-
ing from the Central Empires may be accepted by the optimist as
ests a slogan the use of which should not stop with the end of the
the beginning of the end, but there is a long road to travel between
Liberty Loan campaign, but should continue throughout the re-
the beginning of overtures and the final peace. The United States
is not hesitating for a moment in carrying on its war work, and for mainder of the war.
months to come the question of steel and other supplies for peace
None of the slogans so far suggested and used has expressed
industries must depend not upon a cutting down of war work, but
the value of music so strongly or succinctly. The next best slogan,
rather upon a more efficient distribution of available supplies to non- "Music Will Help Win the War," left the impression that music
war industries.
was only one item among many, but to say that "Music Maintains
Morale" is a definite statement of the power of music in itself.
ERTAINLY no industry in the country has made a more envi-
It is to be hoped that the use of this slogan will become nation-
able record in working for the success of the Fourth Liberty
wide; that it will be found in practically every advertisement of
Loan than the music industry and profession. From every part of
every manufacturing and retailing piano house in order that this
the country have come reports of what music men are doing, and
knowledge of what music is doing should be brought to the atten-
have been doing in the interests of the loan. They have devoted a
tion of every one in the land, and especially to those in official posi-
large section of their advertising space to urging loan subscrip-
tions.
O
I
C
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