Music Trade Review
Issue: 1946 Vol. 105 N. 3 - Page 6
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Breakfast Meetings, Marked Ballots
Innovations at NAMM Convention
A new system of holding meetings
will be in vogue at the forthcoming
Convention of the National Association
of Music Merchants which will be held
at the Palmer House in Chicago from
July 14th to 18th. Instead of hold-
HUGH W. RANDALL
ing the meetings throughout the day
they will be held in the mornings and
terminated by 10:30 A.M. This plan is
to be pursued so that there will be lit-
tle if any interference with the visit-
ing for exhibits. President E. R.
McDuff has appointed Hugh W. Ran-
dall, pi"esident of the Bradford Piano
Co., Milwaukee, as Chairman of the
Convention Committee.
The other
members are W. E. Guylee, Cable Piano
Co., and John C. Weisert, president of
the Bissell-Weisert Co., Chicago. Col-
laborating with them will be Webster
E. Janssen, president of the Jans-
sen Piano Co., New York and E. F.
Story, treasurer of the Story & Clark
Piano Co., who were appointed by
Chauncey D. Bond, president of the
National Piano Manufacturers Asso-
ciation.
The nominating committee will be
under the chairmanship of Louis G.
LaMair. president of Lyon & Healy
Inc. Other members of the committee
are Win. H. Richardson, of the Birkel-
Richardson Company, Los Angeles;
Jerome F. Murphy, Steinert & Sons
Co., Boston; Otto B. Heaton, of Heat-
on's Music Store, Columbus, Ohio; E.
E. Forbes, of E. E. Forbes & Sons,
Birmingham; J. M. Wylie, of the Wylie
Piano Co., Fargo; and Robert W.
Strobel of Strobel's Music Shop, Nash-
ville, Tenn.
This committee will nominate 48 in-
dividuals for 24 offices. The commit-
tee will meet and make public its
nominations well in advance of the
date of the annual meeting. The vot-
ing this year will be by marked ballots
in accordance with the new by-laws
a dopted last year. As each member
registers he will be given a ballot
upon which will appear the names of
those nominated on which each member
will vote and deposit the ballot in a
ballot box at a designated place.
There will be exhibit rooms as well
as a booth display and allocations of
this space will be made within the
near future.
The tentative plans for the trade
show include the use of the seventh,
eighth and part of the ninth floors of
the Palmer House for exhibit pur-
poses. The seventh and eighth floors
have 174 rooms. There will also be ap-
proximately 100 booths in the open ex-
hibit. Secretary Mills of the NAMM
states, however, that it will absolutely
be necessary to ration exhibit space
and the committee has recommended
"that no firm be permitted to use more
than three units—three rooms, booths
or a combination of the two." The al-
COMING NEXT MONTH
Commencing with the April Issue,
The Review will publish a series
of exclusive articles by Steve Car-
roll of the Clark Music Co., Syra-
cuse, N. Y. embodying courses of
instruction with which to train
(il veterans to become piano sales-
men. These courses, developd by
Mr. Carroll, have been accepted
and are now being used by Syra-
cuse University.
basis. An attempt is being made also
to keep the various types of exhibitors
grouped, pianos together, band insru-
ments together etc.
It will be some little time before it
will be possible to formulate a definite
program but tentative plans so far in-
clude an opening luncheon which will
be the only industry wide lu'ncheon
during the week and that meetings will
be held in the mornings and be termin-
ated at 10:30 a.m. sharp. Wednesday
morning will be devoted to the allied
trade groups. On that day the ex-
hibits may be closed until noontime.
On that morning the NAAM group
will meet for presentation of its sales
manual.
The general banquet will be held on
Thursday night at which the new of-
ficers will be announced and the
awards given to those travelling men
who have secured new members.
B. K. Settesgren Back at Office
After being confined to the hospital
and his home since November 3rd,
owing to a broken hip, B. K. Setter-
gren, president of the Estey Piano
Corp., Bluffton, Ind., visited his office
on March 8th. Mr. Settesgren is now
improving steadily and will again soon
be at his office regularly each day.
COLLEGE COURSES
(Continued from Page 5/
LOUIS G. LAMAIR
location of space will be made accord-
ing to a formula worked out after a
conference with the Exhibitors Advis-
ory Committee.
According to Mr. Mills allocation in-
volves new problems this year due to
the combination show and the limited
amount of space and the need to scale
down requests and ration on a fair
Montana L. Grinstead, assistant pro-
fessor of piano. As a basis for the
course combinations, the committee in-
terviewed nearly a hundred leaders in
the commercial music field, all of whom
endorsed the plan. In supporting the
idea, those interviewed declared that
in the music-related fields many fine
employment opportunities are lost be-
cause of lack of "secondary training
on the part of the individual."
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW, MA«tCH, 1946
Breakfast Meetings, Marked Ballots
Innovations at NAMM Convention
A new system of holding meetings
will be in vogue at the forthcoming
Convention of the National Association
of Music Merchants which will be held
at the Palmer House in Chicago from
July 14th to 18th. Instead of hold-
HUGH W. RANDALL
ing the meetings throughout the day
they will be held in the mornings and
terminated by 10:30 A.M. This plan is
to be pursued so that there will be lit-
tle if any interference with the visit-
ing for exhibits. President E. R.
McDuff has appointed Hugh W. Ran-
dall, pi"esident of the Bradford Piano
Co., Milwaukee, as Chairman of the
Convention Committee.
The other
members are W. E. Guylee, Cable Piano
Co., and John C. Weisert, president of
the Bissell-Weisert Co., Chicago. Col-
laborating with them will be Webster
E. Janssen, president of the Jans-
sen Piano Co., New York and E. F.
Story, treasurer of the Story & Clark
Piano Co., who were appointed by
Chauncey D. Bond, president of the
National Piano Manufacturers Asso-
ciation.
The nominating committee will be
under the chairmanship of Louis G.
LaMair. president of Lyon & Healy
Inc. Other members of the committee
are Win. H. Richardson, of the Birkel-
Richardson Company, Los Angeles;
Jerome F. Murphy, Steinert & Sons
Co., Boston; Otto B. Heaton, of Heat-
on's Music Store, Columbus, Ohio; E.
E. Forbes, of E. E. Forbes & Sons,
Birmingham; J. M. Wylie, of the Wylie
Piano Co., Fargo; and Robert W.
Strobel of Strobel's Music Shop, Nash-
ville, Tenn.
This committee will nominate 48 in-
dividuals for 24 offices. The commit-
tee will meet and make public its
nominations well in advance of the
date of the annual meeting. The vot-
ing this year will be by marked ballots
in accordance with the new by-laws
a dopted last year. As each member
registers he will be given a ballot
upon which will appear the names of
those nominated on which each member
will vote and deposit the ballot in a
ballot box at a designated place.
There will be exhibit rooms as well
as a booth display and allocations of
this space will be made within the
near future.
The tentative plans for the trade
show include the use of the seventh,
eighth and part of the ninth floors of
the Palmer House for exhibit pur-
poses. The seventh and eighth floors
have 174 rooms. There will also be ap-
proximately 100 booths in the open ex-
hibit. Secretary Mills of the NAMM
states, however, that it will absolutely
be necessary to ration exhibit space
and the committee has recommended
"that no firm be permitted to use more
than three units—three rooms, booths
or a combination of the two." The al-
COMING NEXT MONTH
Commencing with the April Issue,
The Review will publish a series
of exclusive articles by Steve Car-
roll of the Clark Music Co., Syra-
cuse, N. Y. embodying courses of
instruction with which to train
(il veterans to become piano sales-
men. These courses, developd by
Mr. Carroll, have been accepted
and are now being used by Syra-
cuse University.
basis. An attempt is being made also
to keep the various types of exhibitors
grouped, pianos together, band insru-
ments together etc.
It will be some little time before it
will be possible to formulate a definite
program but tentative plans so far in-
clude an opening luncheon which will
be the only industry wide lu'ncheon
during the week and that meetings will
be held in the mornings and be termin-
ated at 10:30 a.m. sharp. Wednesday
morning will be devoted to the allied
trade groups. On that day the ex-
hibits may be closed until noontime.
On that morning the NAAM group
will meet for presentation of its sales
manual.
The general banquet will be held on
Thursday night at which the new of-
ficers will be announced and the
awards given to those travelling men
who have secured new members.
B. K. Settesgren Back at Office
After being confined to the hospital
and his home since November 3rd,
owing to a broken hip, B. K. Setter-
gren, president of the Estey Piano
Corp., Bluffton, Ind., visited his office
on March 8th. Mr. Settesgren is now
improving steadily and will again soon
be at his office regularly each day.
COLLEGE COURSES
(Continued from Page 5/
LOUIS G. LAMAIR
location of space will be made accord-
ing to a formula worked out after a
conference with the Exhibitors Advis-
ory Committee.
According to Mr. Mills allocation in-
volves new problems this year due to
the combination show and the limited
amount of space and the need to scale
down requests and ration on a fair
Montana L. Grinstead, assistant pro-
fessor of piano. As a basis for the
course combinations, the committee in-
terviewed nearly a hundred leaders in
the commercial music field, all of whom
endorsed the plan. In supporting the
idea, those interviewed declared that
in the music-related fields many fine
employment opportunities are lost be-
cause of lack of "secondary training
on the part of the individual."
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW, MA«tCH, 1946
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