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The Music Trade Review was an American music trade journal published in New York City from 1877 to 1951.

History

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Founded in 1877 as the Music Trade Journal

  • Vol. 3, No. 1, August 5, 1880, Music Trade Journal
  • Vol. 3, No. 10, December 20, 1880, The Musical Critic and Trade Review
  • Vol. 3, No. 11, January 5, 1881, The Musical Critic and Trade Review
  • Vol. 5, No. 24, July 20 to August 5, 1882, The Musical Critic and Trade Review
  • Vol. 9, No. 2, September 5, 1885, The Music Trade Review


Names

Charles Avery Wells (né Charles Avery Welles; 1848–1913) founded The Music Trade Journal in 1876, and, in 1879, renamed it Musical Critic and Trade Review, and sometime between May 1882 and 1883 renamed it Music Trade Review.

Ownership

At some point, on or before 1885, Jefferson Davis Bill (1862–1893)[a] was manager of Music Trade Review. Bill and his wife caught tuberculosis and both died, his the wife in 1991 and Jefferson Davis Bill in 1893. Before that, in January 1888, Edward Lyman Bill bought an interest in the journal and soon became sole owner. He changed it from a fortnightly to a weekly under the title Music Trades Review.[1]

Coverage

The Music Trade Review was chiefly devoted to manufacturers of, and dealers in, pianos and player pianos. Jefferson Davis Bill (or someone else) was also the founder of Talk Machine World, a trade magazine devoted to talking machines.

Publishing venue and continuity

The Music Trade Review was published out of New York from 1878 until at least 1956. It apparently suspended publication with the January 1933 issue. Publication was resumed under different management sometime between 1937 and 1940.

The Music Trade Review is not to be confused with:

  1. Musical Trade Review, a fortnightly trade magazine founded in 1875 by John Christian Freund (1848–1924).
  2. Music Opinion and Music Trade Review, London

Personnel

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  • Gotthold Carlberg (1838–1881), musical editor of The Musical Critic and Trade Review from 1880 to 1881, was also a conductor.
  • Col. Edward Lyman Bill had been the police commissioner of New Rochelle, a colonel in the Idaho Militia, the founder and president of the New York publishing firm bearing his name which was later reorganized as Bill Brothers Publishing Co., operated by the couple's sons, Raymond and Edward Bill. They also had a daughter, Hester, who became came Mrs. Randolph Brown. At her husband's death, Mrs Bill assumed presidency of the firm, serving in that capacity for 17 years.[2]
  • Randolph Fletcher Brown (1895–1952) joined the Chicago office of Edward Lyman Bill, Inc., and served as a director of the reorganized firm, Bill Brothers Publishing Company, since is formation in 1933. When he died, he was Senior Vice President in the New York office. He was married to Bill's daughter, Hester Raymond Bill (1893–1966).[3]
  • August J. Timpe (1883–1918), Treasurer and Business Manager, died unexpectedly at age 35 of complications from appendicitis surgery[4]
  • Dougherty (1893–1951), after again serving as managing editor of The Music Trades beginning with Vol. 74, No. 3, July 16, 1927, became general manager at the beginning of 1928; but, effective December 4, 1928, he became editor of both The Soda Fountain the Music Trade Review, both owned by Federated Business Publications, Inc.[5][6] He left in 1932 to become general manager of The American Hairdresser, a monthly trade magazine founded in 1877
William Joseph Dougherty (1893–1951), after World War II, October 1945, Dougherty became associate editor of Music Trade Review, then editor of Musical Merchandise, one of several magazines founded by Glad Henderson (né Gladston Winchester Henderson; 1884–1942), then, beginning around 1949, advertising and sales promotion manager for Mastro Corp., founded by the French-born reed manufacturer Mario MacCaferri (1900–1993), then, beginning around 1950, executive editor of Music Dealer
  • Edward Lyman Bill, Jr. (1897–1956), the founder's son, served as president of Bill Brothers Publishing Company[7]
  • W. H. McCleary, managing editor of the Music Trade Review since 1923, left in 1928 to became editor of Rug Profits.
  • Jeremiah "Jere" B. Spillane (1868–1935), succeeded his elder brother, Daniel, as editor of the Music Trade Review. Later he became Talking Machine World. A few years ago he decided to devote himself entirely to the printing and publication of the group of business journals which formed the Bill interests.
  • Carleton J. Chace (1882–1965), editor of Music Trade Review, from as early as 1955 to his death in 1965[8]
  • B. Brittain Wilson (1883–1965), editor in 1933
  • CLARENDON, J. Hayden [1]

Publishing company structures

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In November of 1916, a certificate of incorporation of Edward Lyman Bill, Inc., of New Rochelle, has been filed. The concern will take over the publishing business of Edward Lyman Bill in New York City. Capital stock of the new firm, $250,000. Directors: Caroline Lee Bill (widow of Edward Lyman Bill), James Raymond Bill (son), and Hester Raymond Bill (daughter), of New Rochelle; Jeremiah "Jere" B. Spillane (1868–1935), editor of Talking Machine World and vice president of Bill Brothers , and August J. Timpe, Business Manager and Treasurer of Edward Lyman Bill, Inc., of New York City.[9]

  • 1877 — Music Trade Review (this might be Freund's magazine)
Trade Review Pub. Co.
860 Broadway
  • 19XX — Music Trade Review
Graybar Building (moved in in 1926)
Edward Lyman Bill, Inc.
  • 1928 — Music Trade Review
Federated Business Publications, Inc.
  • 1933 — Music Trade Review
Bill Brothers Publishing Company
420 Lexington Avenue
Publisher of several trade magazines:
  1. Rubber World
  2. Plastics Technology
  3. Sales Management
  4. Automotive Electricity
  5. The Fine Arts
  6. India Rubber World
  7. Materials Handling & Distribution
  8. Music Trade Review
  9. Novelty News
  10. Premium and Specialty Advertising
  11. Rug Profits
  12. Soda Fountain
  13. Radio Digest
  14. Radio Merchant
  15. Tires
Operates in association with
  1. Building Investment
  2. Draperies
  3. Tire Rate-Book
  • October 1940
Henderson Publications, Inc.
Radio City
1270 Sixth Ave
Also publishers of:
Radio-Television Journal
The Talking Machine World
"Musical Merchandise" and "Parts" for Wholesalers


  • From as early as 1943, Kolbe Publications, Inc.
510 Americas Building
Radio City, 1270 Avenue of Americas
Alex Henry Kolbe (1895–1979), president and treasurer

Merged publications

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  • The Keynote merged into the Music Trade Review February 13, 1897.[10]

Competitive jousting

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Arrest of Charles A. Welles

Charles Avery Welles, publisher and proprietor and Jefferson Davis Bill (1862–1893) — Edward Lyman Bill's cousin and manager of The Music Review — were arrested April 21, 1885, by Deputy Sheriff Nuger on an order granted by Judge Hawes, of the City Court. The plaintiff was John C. Freund, Editor of Freund's Music and Drama, who charges that he was damaged $20,000 by allegations contained in an article entitled:

  • "Black List," The Music Trade Review, Vol. 8, No. 19, April 5, 1885, to April 20, 1885

Freund charged that the allegations in the article were false and were intended to damage his business and injure his reputation in the piano, organ, and music trade. The defendants were released on $2,000 bail each.[11]

Archival access

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OCLCs
  • OCLC 20543448 Trade Review Pub. Co. (1875–1878)
  • OCLC 41724670 Charles Avery Welles, (    –1956)
  • OCLC 1590288 Kolbe Publications, Inc.
  • OCLC 472475742
  • OCLC 874164974 Online version
  • OCLC 809143527 Online version
  • OCLC 20543484 The Musical Times and Music Trade Review
  • OCLC 19983729 Edward Lyman Bill
  • OCLC 475932555
  • OCLC 10298102
  • OCLC 317966553 The Music Trade Review: Canadian number
  • OCLC 50278510 Music Trade Review, microfilm, Publisher: York, C.A. Welles

Books and articles

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  • "History of the House of Prescott, 1814 to 1899," Music Trade Review (1899); OCLC 57271064

References

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Archives, curated collections, and reproductions
Missing: August 5, 1879, Vol. 1, No. 1, thru July 20, 1880, Vol. 2, No. 24

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Notes
  1. ^ Jefferson Davis Bill's father, James Alexander Bill (1817–1880) was a Connecticut celebrity known nationally for giving eccentric names to his children, notably for those born during Civil War, which includes Jefferson Davis Bill, names showing support towards the South. Jefferson Davis Bill's oldest brother was named Kansas Nebraska Bill (1856–1910). One of his sisters was named Missouri Compromise Bill. Jefferson Davis Bill birth name was Jefferson Davis Beauregard Jesse D. Bright Bill, Bright being a Senator from Indiana. ("Death Announced," Buffalo Courier, February 19, 1893, pg. 4, col. 3) Jefferson Davis Bill was an 1881 graduate of Eastman College in Poughkeepsie, New York ("Jefferson Davis Bill," Syracuse Morning Standard, April 2, 1881, pg. 1, col. 1)

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Inline citations
  1. ^ Pianos and Their Makers: A Comprehensive History of the Development of the Piano, Alfred Dolge (1848–1922), General Publishing Company, Ltd., Toronto (1972); ISBN 0-486-22856-8 ISBN 9780486228563
    Originally published by Covina Publishing Company, Covina, California (1911), pg. 417; LCCN 11-20107 OCLC 1199554, 609801605
  2. ^ "Stereotype of Woman's Club Leader Is a Myth," by Kay Ross, Herald Statesman (Yonkers), April 21, 1966
  3. ^ "Randolph F. Brown — Father of Yonkers Man," Herald Statesman (Yonkers), November 4, 1952
  4. ^ "Western Comment: There Breaks a Noble Heart," by E.P. Van Harlingen Music Trade Review, Vol. 67, No. 8, August 24, 1918, pg. 30
  5. ^ "Daugherty is Made Trade Paper Editor," Poughkeepsie Eagle-News, March 5, 1930, pg. 1
  6. ^ "William J. Dougherty Dies After Long Illness," Music Trade Review, Vol. 110, No. 2, February 1951, pg. 30
  7. ^ "Necrology — 1956: Obituary: Edward Lyman Bill, Jr.," 1956 Annual Report, Connecticut Historical Society, pg. 7
  8. ^ Biography Index, Vol. 7, September 1964 – August 1967, H.W. Wilson Co. (1968)
  9. ^ "New Incorporations," Yonkers Statesman, November 16, 1916
  10. ^ Checklist of American music periodicals: 1850–1900, by William Jesset Weichlein, PhD (1917–1988), Center for Research Libraries (1970); OCLC 113075
  11. ^ "Arrest of Charles A. Welles," New York Daily Tribune, April 22, 1885, pg. 2


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