Music Trade Review
Issue: 1920 Vol. 70 N. 6 - Page 3
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THE
REVM
J1UJIC TIRADE
VOL. LXX. No. 6
Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman BUI, Inc., at 373 4th Ave., New York. Feb. 7, 1920
8ln
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A Week of Trade Progress
T
HIS has been Music Week in New York from a purely commercial as well as from an artistic
standpoint, for in addition to the host of musical events that have occurred during the week, there have
been held in and about the Hotel Commodore the annual conventions of seven trade associations,
representing- practically every division of the industry—pianos, musical merchandise, sheet music, music
rolls, the tuning profession, etc. It has been a week of trade activity that has surpassed all former records.
The memory of the Music Show will prove an inspiration to the members of the trade and public alike,
for it presented in tangible 'form the history of the industry's tremendous development. The Music Week
program, which was carried out so successfully, will likewise serve to place the art on a higher plane in New
York, as well as prove a source of inspiration to the visitors from all sections of the country who may be moved
to carry out the Music Week idea in their own particular localities and for their own direct advantage. But
when all is said and done the trade was most interested in the conventions themselves and in the plans made
at the various sessions for the progress of the several associations and of the industry as a whole.
Whether from the fact that the meetings were held in midwinter, when indoor sessions are really enjoy-
able, or whether because of the problems that face the various divisions of the industry just now, the fact
remains that the attendance during the week was the largest that has ever been registered at any
similar gathering, with a surprising number of visitors from distant points. \n the past the Chicago conven-
tions served to attract music men from the further reaches of the West, the New York meeting drawing most
strongly from the Middle West, East and South. This year, however, the Pacific Coast and Southwest were
represented as never before.
It is as yet too early to comment with any degree of accuracy upon the accomplishments of the several
conventions. The programs in practically every case were of the constructive sort, and in some instances
ambitious to a degree that would have filled the association members with awe a few years ago, but the trade
has changed and with it the attitude of association members generally. They realize that real tasks await doing,
and that the only way to solve the problems which confront them is to face them vigorously and study them
logically. The element of time and money does not enter nearly so strongly as it did some few years ago.
Budgets calling for thousands of dollars are adopted without a quiver or a question. The answer is that this
progressive spirit has already brought results, and in a sense a profit on the investment.
Of course much of the interest centered in the doings of the Chamber of Commerce, and this big central
organization adopted as final a program that measured up most successfully to the tentative plans outlined
before the convention, and that also served to add material prestige to that organization as an important and
helpful factor in the trade for the future.
The manufacturers quite naturally gave much of their thought to industrial problems and ways and means
for preserving harmony and speeding up production in the factories. It was naturally impossible to settle all
the problems at one convention, but it is safe to say that as a result of these discussions and the actions taken
at the sessions the trade may expect some constructive movements of importance in the near future.
The merchants are to be congratulated for the manner in which they rallied behind the music and trade
advancement program to which they had given such particularly earnest support, financially as well as morally,
during the past several months. It is the merchant who is most directly affected by any movement calculated
to increase interest in music generally, and he naturally should see to it that he has a part in that movement.
Taken all in all, the 1920 conventions are well calculated to make trade history in the near future. There
was little time wasted and much hard work done and the accomplishments are to be accepted as starting
the New Year off in a most auspicious manner. It was a week of progress as well as of music.
THE
REVM
J1UJIC TIRADE
VOL. LXX. No. 6
Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman BUI, Inc., at 373 4th Ave., New York. Feb. 7, 1920
8ln
«!&.S°g:
A Week of Trade Progress
T
HIS has been Music Week in New York from a purely commercial as well as from an artistic
standpoint, for in addition to the host of musical events that have occurred during the week, there have
been held in and about the Hotel Commodore the annual conventions of seven trade associations,
representing- practically every division of the industry—pianos, musical merchandise, sheet music, music
rolls, the tuning profession, etc. It has been a week of trade activity that has surpassed all former records.
The memory of the Music Show will prove an inspiration to the members of the trade and public alike,
for it presented in tangible 'form the history of the industry's tremendous development. The Music Week
program, which was carried out so successfully, will likewise serve to place the art on a higher plane in New
York, as well as prove a source of inspiration to the visitors from all sections of the country who may be moved
to carry out the Music Week idea in their own particular localities and for their own direct advantage. But
when all is said and done the trade was most interested in the conventions themselves and in the plans made
at the various sessions for the progress of the several associations and of the industry as a whole.
Whether from the fact that the meetings were held in midwinter, when indoor sessions are really enjoy-
able, or whether because of the problems that face the various divisions of the industry just now, the fact
remains that the attendance during the week was the largest that has ever been registered at any
similar gathering, with a surprising number of visitors from distant points. \n the past the Chicago conven-
tions served to attract music men from the further reaches of the West, the New York meeting drawing most
strongly from the Middle West, East and South. This year, however, the Pacific Coast and Southwest were
represented as never before.
It is as yet too early to comment with any degree of accuracy upon the accomplishments of the several
conventions. The programs in practically every case were of the constructive sort, and in some instances
ambitious to a degree that would have filled the association members with awe a few years ago, but the trade
has changed and with it the attitude of association members generally. They realize that real tasks await doing,
and that the only way to solve the problems which confront them is to face them vigorously and study them
logically. The element of time and money does not enter nearly so strongly as it did some few years ago.
Budgets calling for thousands of dollars are adopted without a quiver or a question. The answer is that this
progressive spirit has already brought results, and in a sense a profit on the investment.
Of course much of the interest centered in the doings of the Chamber of Commerce, and this big central
organization adopted as final a program that measured up most successfully to the tentative plans outlined
before the convention, and that also served to add material prestige to that organization as an important and
helpful factor in the trade for the future.
The manufacturers quite naturally gave much of their thought to industrial problems and ways and means
for preserving harmony and speeding up production in the factories. It was naturally impossible to settle all
the problems at one convention, but it is safe to say that as a result of these discussions and the actions taken
at the sessions the trade may expect some constructive movements of importance in the near future.
The merchants are to be congratulated for the manner in which they rallied behind the music and trade
advancement program to which they had given such particularly earnest support, financially as well as morally,
during the past several months. It is the merchant who is most directly affected by any movement calculated
to increase interest in music generally, and he naturally should see to it that he has a part in that movement.
Taken all in all, the 1920 conventions are well calculated to make trade history in the near future. There
was little time wasted and much hard work done and the accomplishments are to be accepted as starting
the New Year off in a most auspicious manner. It was a week of progress as well as of music.
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