Presto
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PRESTO-TIMES
June 4, 1927.
GETTING READY FOR THE BIG CONVENTION
MUSIC MERCHANTS
COMPLETE PLANS
All Arrangements Now Made for Successful
and Joyous Annual Meeting of National
Association June 6 to 9 at the Hotel
Stevens, Chicago.
BIG ATTENDANCE ASSURED
Unusual Conditions in Music Trade and Allurements
of the Annual Meeting in Chicago Justify
This Anticipation.
The National Association of Music Merchants will
hold its annual convention at the Hotel Stevens, Chi-
cago, on Monday, June 6, but important preliminary
matters will be attended to on Sunday, June 5, which
the trade. There is much to require his presence at
the Stevens Hotel the week of June 6; unusual condi-
tions in the trade that justify his keen interest in the
proceedings. It is true the piano dealers' problems
have not decreased or been minimized since the last
convention in New York City. Competition from
other lines of business has aroused many of the most
lethargic members of the trade who hitherto consid-
ered trade conventions pleasant social affairs at which
business was a less interesting phase.
The Problems Are Many.
There are many problems to be solved and it re-
quires a hundred per cent representation of dealers in
every concerted effort to solve them. The situation
in the piano trade is dangerous, but no one who an-
alyzes the efforts being made to promote piano sales
and make the piano buying spirit permanent, does it
seem hopeless. The dealer who attends the annual
convention in Chicago and hears the details of the
merchandising plans to be discussed there will return
home with renewed courage and a keener knowledge
of ways to make himself an individual power for the
revitalizing of sales.
The Affiliated Associations
The following are affiliated associations of the Na-
tional body of merchants, the members of which will
add to the spirit of the proceeding in Chicago:
Texas Music Merchants Association; Illinois Music
Merchants Association; The Dallas Music Industries
Association; Music Merchants Association of Denver;
The Cleveland Music Trades Association; Music
Merchants Association of Ohio; The New York Piano
Merchants Association; The Oregon Music Trades
Association; Piano Merchants of Pittsburgh; Music
Trades Association of Southern California; Music
Dealers Association of Charleston, W. Va.; Talking
Machine & Radio Men, Inc., of New York, New Jer-
sey and Connecticut; Michigan Music Merchants As-
sociation; Ft. Wayne Music Dealers Association.
EDWARD H. UHL,
President, National Association of Music Merchants.
is called Executive Day. On that day, at the Hotel
Stevens, at 10 a. m., there will be a meeting of the
Auxiliary Board presided over by A. Z. Moore, chair-
man. At 1 p. ni. at the same hotel there will be a
meeting and luncheon of the Board of Control which
includes the executive, advisory and auxiliary boards
and the state commissioners. Otherwise, Sunday will
be filled with interest for men of the music trade
associations and many pleasant impromptu reunions
will be enacted.
THE OFFICERS
President—Edward H. Uhl, Los Angeles.
First vice-president—Charles H. Yahrling, Youngs-
town, Ohio.
Second vice-president—Parham Werlein, New Or-
leans.
Third vice-president—J. Paul Kemper.
Fourth vice-president—Charles E. Wells, Denver.
Secretary—John W. Boothe, Los Angeles.
Treasurer—Carl A. Droop, Washington.
Directors—For three years: William C. Hamilton,
Pittsburgh; E. A. Geissler, Los Angeles; Frank J.
Bayley, Detroit; for two years: Alexander McDon-
ald, C. J. Roberts, George J. Winter; for one year:
Otto B. Heaton, S. E. Philpitt, William Howard
Heasley.
The Official Opening.
Monday, June 6, is the official opening day and
registrations and receptions will occupy the hours be-
tween 9 a. m. and noon. The actual business of the
convention will be inaugurated at the joint luncheon
of all the national associations under the auspices of
the Music Industries Chamber of Commerce. The
interesting succession of events to follow until the
adjournment and the election of officers at the final
session Thursday forenoon, are told in detail in the
program:
Big Attendance Assured
It is more of an assurance than a hope that the at-
tendance of dealers at the 1927 convention in Chicago
will exceed the numbers at any previous gathering of
SOCIAL EVENTS OF
ANNUAL MEETING
Week Filled with Enjoyable Functions
Planned by the Various Associations
Beginning with Noon Luncheon on
Monday at Hotel Stevens.
DEALERS ARE GUESTS
Joyous Features of Big Gathering When Manufac-
turing Firms Will Entertain Friends and
Customers Are Many.
While the business sessions, and the convention as
a whole, will not take on so much of the blare and
trumpet of high life and frolic as some past gather-
ings of the trade have exhibited, nevertheless there
will be plenty of amusement, pleasure parties, drives,
theaters and so forth, for every one who is there—
man, woman and child.
As already announced in Presto-Times, the conven-
tion starts with the great luncheon Monday noon.
Reserved seats and reserved tables may be secured
for this affair which will be an event of more than
ordinary interest as regards the entertainment to be
offered.
Advice to Members.
The chairmen of the Committee of Arrangements,
G. R. Brownell, of the Piano Club luncheon on June
6, and Roger O'Connor of the banquet Thursday eve-
ning, June 9, are giving timely warnings to secure
reservations early. "You cannot be too early," they
say. Mr. O'Connor urges that, to secure good places
in the main dining room, or even any place at all in
A JOYOUS BRITISH CONVENTION.
the dining room and avoid being tabled in a lobby
The British Music Trade Federation will hold its location, replies to the invitations already mailed be
annual convention June 7 at Folkstone. The princi- sent to him without further delay.
pal business of the convention will be the reading of
Chairman Brownell is equally insistent as to the
papers and discussions on trade topics but the social Monday noon luncheon. All seats and tables for
phases are given prominence. In addition to a fancy Monday noon are reserved; single seats and tables
dress ball, a carnival, a billiard tournament, a golf
seating groups of eight and ten persons.
game, a concert, during each evening of the conven-
It should be remembered that this is the official
tion there will be dancing. During the afternoons meeting of the Music Industries Chamber of Com-
outdoor sports will be available. Tennis courts are merce and the luncheon is to be held in the Grand
being hired for the use of the members as well as a Ball Room of the new Stevens Hotel. Coupled with
bowling green and motor coach trips will be ar- this announcement is the repeated warning to dealers,
ranged.
(.Continued on page .6)
THE OFFICIAL PROGRAM
June 5th: Executive Day.
10:00 A. M.—Meeting of the Auxiliary Board; A. E.
Moore, Chairman.
1:00 P. M.—Luncheon and meeting of Board of
Control (Executive, Advisory, Auxiliary and State
Commissioners).
June 6th: Registration Day.
9:00. A. M.—Reception and registration of incom-
ing members, secretaries or other designated officers
of all state associations and commissioners at large
from non-chartered states, should be at their respec
tive registration tables throughout the morning to
greet incoming members and assist in registration
matters.
10:00 A.M.—Meeting of Advisory Board, Resolu-
tions Committee, special committees.
12:30 P.M.—General luncheon meeting under aus-
pices of the Music Industries Chamber of Com-
merce.
2:30 P. M.—Special meetings of any state associa-
tions or any group of dealers desiring to organize a
state association.
"The Formation of State Association," by C. J.
Roberts.
June 8th: Piano Contest Day.
9:30 A. M.—Chicago Contest, by Mr. Peter Meyer.
9:50 A. M.—Milwaukee contest, by Mr. Edmund
Gram.
10:10 A.M.—San Francisco contest, by Mr. Shirley
Walker.
10:30 A. M.—Detroit contest, by Mr. Frank J. Bay-
ley.
11:00 A.M.—Report on Group Piano Instruction,
by Mr. W. Otto Miessner.
11:30 A. M— The Promotion Stamp—"Why Deal-
ers Should Buy These Stamps," by Parham Werlein.
12:00—Discussion: "Shall the National Association
of Music Merchants Promote a National Piano Con-
test to Culminate at the National Convention in
1928?"
12:00—Report of the Chairman on Resolutions.
June 9th: Business Betterment Day.
9:30 A. M.—Uniform Carry Charge Schedule, bv
W. Lee White.
10:00 A. M.—The Benefit to the Merchant by Adopt-
ing the Carrying Charge, by Mr. Andrews, of the
June 7th: National and State Association Day.
J. L. Hudson Company.
9:30 A. M.—Opening session. Report of officers.
10:20 A.M.—Junior Salesmanship and Their Train-
10:30 A.M.—Report on charter associations by the ing, by Mr. Charles E. Wells.
Chairman of the Auxiliary Board.
10:40 A.M.—National Laws Enabling Manufac-
10:50 A.M.—Short reports from President or dele- turers to Fix Re-Sale Prices, by Mr. Frederick P.
gated officers of various chartered associations on Stieff.
"What They Have Accomplished in Their State Asso-
11:00 A. M.—Effects of Trade-Ins on Price-Cutting,
ciation."
by Mr. C. Alfred Wagner.
11:20 A.M.—Unfinished and new business. Nom-
11:50 A.M.—Report from State Commissioners.
ination and election of officers.
12:00—State Laws and Legislation.
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June 4, 1927.
GETTING READY FOR THE BIG CONVENTION
MUSIC MERCHANTS
COMPLETE PLANS
All Arrangements Now Made for Successful
and Joyous Annual Meeting of National
Association June 6 to 9 at the Hotel
Stevens, Chicago.
BIG ATTENDANCE ASSURED
Unusual Conditions in Music Trade and Allurements
of the Annual Meeting in Chicago Justify
This Anticipation.
The National Association of Music Merchants will
hold its annual convention at the Hotel Stevens, Chi-
cago, on Monday, June 6, but important preliminary
matters will be attended to on Sunday, June 5, which
the trade. There is much to require his presence at
the Stevens Hotel the week of June 6; unusual condi-
tions in the trade that justify his keen interest in the
proceedings. It is true the piano dealers' problems
have not decreased or been minimized since the last
convention in New York City. Competition from
other lines of business has aroused many of the most
lethargic members of the trade who hitherto consid-
ered trade conventions pleasant social affairs at which
business was a less interesting phase.
The Problems Are Many.
There are many problems to be solved and it re-
quires a hundred per cent representation of dealers in
every concerted effort to solve them. The situation
in the piano trade is dangerous, but no one who an-
alyzes the efforts being made to promote piano sales
and make the piano buying spirit permanent, does it
seem hopeless. The dealer who attends the annual
convention in Chicago and hears the details of the
merchandising plans to be discussed there will return
home with renewed courage and a keener knowledge
of ways to make himself an individual power for the
revitalizing of sales.
The Affiliated Associations
The following are affiliated associations of the Na-
tional body of merchants, the members of which will
add to the spirit of the proceeding in Chicago:
Texas Music Merchants Association; Illinois Music
Merchants Association; The Dallas Music Industries
Association; Music Merchants Association of Denver;
The Cleveland Music Trades Association; Music
Merchants Association of Ohio; The New York Piano
Merchants Association; The Oregon Music Trades
Association; Piano Merchants of Pittsburgh; Music
Trades Association of Southern California; Music
Dealers Association of Charleston, W. Va.; Talking
Machine & Radio Men, Inc., of New York, New Jer-
sey and Connecticut; Michigan Music Merchants As-
sociation; Ft. Wayne Music Dealers Association.
EDWARD H. UHL,
President, National Association of Music Merchants.
is called Executive Day. On that day, at the Hotel
Stevens, at 10 a. m., there will be a meeting of the
Auxiliary Board presided over by A. Z. Moore, chair-
man. At 1 p. ni. at the same hotel there will be a
meeting and luncheon of the Board of Control which
includes the executive, advisory and auxiliary boards
and the state commissioners. Otherwise, Sunday will
be filled with interest for men of the music trade
associations and many pleasant impromptu reunions
will be enacted.
THE OFFICERS
President—Edward H. Uhl, Los Angeles.
First vice-president—Charles H. Yahrling, Youngs-
town, Ohio.
Second vice-president—Parham Werlein, New Or-
leans.
Third vice-president—J. Paul Kemper.
Fourth vice-president—Charles E. Wells, Denver.
Secretary—John W. Boothe, Los Angeles.
Treasurer—Carl A. Droop, Washington.
Directors—For three years: William C. Hamilton,
Pittsburgh; E. A. Geissler, Los Angeles; Frank J.
Bayley, Detroit; for two years: Alexander McDon-
ald, C. J. Roberts, George J. Winter; for one year:
Otto B. Heaton, S. E. Philpitt, William Howard
Heasley.
The Official Opening.
Monday, June 6, is the official opening day and
registrations and receptions will occupy the hours be-
tween 9 a. m. and noon. The actual business of the
convention will be inaugurated at the joint luncheon
of all the national associations under the auspices of
the Music Industries Chamber of Commerce. The
interesting succession of events to follow until the
adjournment and the election of officers at the final
session Thursday forenoon, are told in detail in the
program:
Big Attendance Assured
It is more of an assurance than a hope that the at-
tendance of dealers at the 1927 convention in Chicago
will exceed the numbers at any previous gathering of
SOCIAL EVENTS OF
ANNUAL MEETING
Week Filled with Enjoyable Functions
Planned by the Various Associations
Beginning with Noon Luncheon on
Monday at Hotel Stevens.
DEALERS ARE GUESTS
Joyous Features of Big Gathering When Manufac-
turing Firms Will Entertain Friends and
Customers Are Many.
While the business sessions, and the convention as
a whole, will not take on so much of the blare and
trumpet of high life and frolic as some past gather-
ings of the trade have exhibited, nevertheless there
will be plenty of amusement, pleasure parties, drives,
theaters and so forth, for every one who is there—
man, woman and child.
As already announced in Presto-Times, the conven-
tion starts with the great luncheon Monday noon.
Reserved seats and reserved tables may be secured
for this affair which will be an event of more than
ordinary interest as regards the entertainment to be
offered.
Advice to Members.
The chairmen of the Committee of Arrangements,
G. R. Brownell, of the Piano Club luncheon on June
6, and Roger O'Connor of the banquet Thursday eve-
ning, June 9, are giving timely warnings to secure
reservations early. "You cannot be too early," they
say. Mr. O'Connor urges that, to secure good places
in the main dining room, or even any place at all in
A JOYOUS BRITISH CONVENTION.
the dining room and avoid being tabled in a lobby
The British Music Trade Federation will hold its location, replies to the invitations already mailed be
annual convention June 7 at Folkstone. The princi- sent to him without further delay.
pal business of the convention will be the reading of
Chairman Brownell is equally insistent as to the
papers and discussions on trade topics but the social Monday noon luncheon. All seats and tables for
phases are given prominence. In addition to a fancy Monday noon are reserved; single seats and tables
dress ball, a carnival, a billiard tournament, a golf
seating groups of eight and ten persons.
game, a concert, during each evening of the conven-
It should be remembered that this is the official
tion there will be dancing. During the afternoons meeting of the Music Industries Chamber of Com-
outdoor sports will be available. Tennis courts are merce and the luncheon is to be held in the Grand
being hired for the use of the members as well as a Ball Room of the new Stevens Hotel. Coupled with
bowling green and motor coach trips will be ar- this announcement is the repeated warning to dealers,
ranged.
(.Continued on page .6)
THE OFFICIAL PROGRAM
June 5th: Executive Day.
10:00 A. M.—Meeting of the Auxiliary Board; A. E.
Moore, Chairman.
1:00 P. M.—Luncheon and meeting of Board of
Control (Executive, Advisory, Auxiliary and State
Commissioners).
June 6th: Registration Day.
9:00. A. M.—Reception and registration of incom-
ing members, secretaries or other designated officers
of all state associations and commissioners at large
from non-chartered states, should be at their respec
tive registration tables throughout the morning to
greet incoming members and assist in registration
matters.
10:00 A.M.—Meeting of Advisory Board, Resolu-
tions Committee, special committees.
12:30 P.M.—General luncheon meeting under aus-
pices of the Music Industries Chamber of Com-
merce.
2:30 P. M.—Special meetings of any state associa-
tions or any group of dealers desiring to organize a
state association.
"The Formation of State Association," by C. J.
Roberts.
June 8th: Piano Contest Day.
9:30 A. M.—Chicago Contest, by Mr. Peter Meyer.
9:50 A. M.—Milwaukee contest, by Mr. Edmund
Gram.
10:10 A.M.—San Francisco contest, by Mr. Shirley
Walker.
10:30 A. M.—Detroit contest, by Mr. Frank J. Bay-
ley.
11:00 A.M.—Report on Group Piano Instruction,
by Mr. W. Otto Miessner.
11:30 A. M— The Promotion Stamp—"Why Deal-
ers Should Buy These Stamps," by Parham Werlein.
12:00—Discussion: "Shall the National Association
of Music Merchants Promote a National Piano Con-
test to Culminate at the National Convention in
1928?"
12:00—Report of the Chairman on Resolutions.
June 9th: Business Betterment Day.
9:30 A. M.—Uniform Carry Charge Schedule, bv
W. Lee White.
10:00 A. M.—The Benefit to the Merchant by Adopt-
ing the Carrying Charge, by Mr. Andrews, of the
June 7th: National and State Association Day.
J. L. Hudson Company.
9:30 A. M.—Opening session. Report of officers.
10:20 A.M.—Junior Salesmanship and Their Train-
10:30 A.M.—Report on charter associations by the ing, by Mr. Charles E. Wells.
Chairman of the Auxiliary Board.
10:40 A.M.—National Laws Enabling Manufac-
10:50 A.M.—Short reports from President or dele- turers to Fix Re-Sale Prices, by Mr. Frederick P.
gated officers of various chartered associations on Stieff.
"What They Have Accomplished in Their State Asso-
11:00 A. M.—Effects of Trade-Ins on Price-Cutting,
ciation."
by Mr. C. Alfred Wagner.
11:20 A.M.—Unfinished and new business. Nom-
11:50 A.M.—Report from State Commissioners.
ination and election of officers.
12:00—State Laws and Legislation.
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