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

History
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

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.
 * Names

At some point, on or before 1885, Jefferson Davis Bill (1862–1893) 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.
 * Ownership

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.
 * Coverage

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.
 * Publishing venue and continuity

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

 * 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.


 * 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).


 * August J. Timpe (1883–1918), Treasurer and Business Manager, died unexpectedly at age 35 of complications from appendicitis surgery


 * 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. 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


 * 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


 * B. Brittain Wilson (1883–1965), editor in 1933


 * CLARENDON, J. Hayden

Publishing company structures
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.


 * 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

 * The Keynote merged into the Music Trade Review February 13, 1897.

Competitive jousting
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:
 * Arrest of Charles A. Welles
 * "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.

Archival access

 * OCLCs
 * Trade Review Pub. Co. (1875–1878)
 * Charles Avery Welles, (–1956)
 * Kolbe Publications, Inc.
 * Online version
 * Online version
 * The Musical Times and Music Trade Review
 * Edward Lyman Bill
 * The Music Trade Review: Canadian number
 * Music Trade Review, microfilm, Publisher: York, C.A. Welles
 * The Music Trade Review: Canadian number
 * Music Trade Review, microfilm, Publisher: York, C.A. Welles
 * Music Trade Review, microfilm, Publisher: York, C.A. Welles

Books and articles

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