Article: 75 years ago, with the piano sales in a state of "free-fall.".(FLASHBACKS: a look back at people, products, and events, as recorded in the pages of The Music Trades)

Article: NAMM bans cheap piano sales: 75 years ...
Music Trades;  March 1, 2006 ;     363 words ...At a year-end board meeting, the National Association of Music Merchants passed a special resolution stating the members in good standing should destroy all used pianos that cannot be sold for over $100 rather than reconditioning them and putting them on the floor for resale. Otto B. Heaton,

Article: Liberace boosts piano sales.(50 YEARS ...
Music Trades;  February 1, 2006 ;     329 words ..."Probably no other single factor is more responsible than television and Liberace for the tremendous business today in pianos," said Frank O. Wilking, president of the Wilking Company in Indianapolis. "Seeing popular performers like Liberace on television has whetted and directed this desire for

Article: Surging player piano sales.(10 Years ...
Music Trades;  June 1, 2005 ;     337 words ...What's the fastest growing product segment within the diverse music products industry? Right now, its electronically equipped player pianos like the Yamaha Disklavier and the PianoDisc and QRS player piano systems. For the first nine months of 1994 shipments of these instruments advanced to a brisk

Article: Autos hurt piano sales.(100 Years ...
Music Trades;  July 1, 2006 ;     425 words ...Among the contributing causes to the prevailing dullness in the piano trade may be noted the craze for the possession of the automobile by people with bicycle incomes. A prominent piano maker recently noted that automobiles are now sold like pianos on the installment plan, but unlike a piano, they

Article: Piano sales up 20%.(50 YEARS AGO)
Music Trades;  December 1, 2005 ;     387 words ...Sales off pianos in the first half of 1955 were more than 20 percent greater than in 1954, as revealed in a statement by the National Piano Manufacturers Association. Eugene Wulsin, president of the association, attributed the strong demand to an increase in interest in making music among children

Article: Have PMAI promo efforts moved piano sales up? ...
Music Trades;  March 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... Suggests Spells Groups Markets Post Substantial Sales Gains In an effort to reverse the decade-long decline in piano sales, three years ago the Piano Manufacturers Association International launched SPELLS (Study of Piano Enhances Life's Learning ...

Article: PIANO SALES REMAIN STRONG.
Music Trades;  October 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... He dropped "Organ" from the company's name a couple of years ago.) Any predictions he makes, therefore, are informed by ... slump, Chuck Hale remains optimistic about the future of piano sales. "I just signed a new ten-year lease," he points out ...