page_title: The Music Trades (magazine)
section_title: Selected articles, quotes, and reviews
hierarchical_section_title: The Music Trades (magazine) / Selected articles, quotes, and reviews
caption_attribution_description: English: Staff photo from 1948. John F. Majeski Sr. is center, in the double breasted suit.
context_page_description: The Music Trades is a 129-year-old American trade magazine that covers a broad spectrum of music and music commerce, domestically and abroad. The magazine was founded in New York City in 1890 and, since the mid-1970s, has been based in Englewood, New Jersey. The Music Trades is one of the longest-running, without interruption, trade publications in the world. The May 2020 issue — Vol. 168, No. 4 — is approximately the three thousand and eighty-fifth issue. A controlling ownership over the last 90 years — seventy percent of the publication's total age — has been held by three generations of the Majeski family, making it among the few current publications of any ilk that has been closely held by a single family for as long a period.
context_section_description: Articles and quotes
  Vol. 21, No. 21, May 25, 1901: Responding to a 1901 campaign by the National Musicians Union against ragtime, [the campaign is] "rather quixotic.  There are ears to which "rag-time" is more fascinating than grand opera, and ears of this sort are more numerous"
  "Too Many Piano Factories in Chicago," by Philip J. Meahl (1865–1933), Vol. 23, No. 1, January 4, 1902, pg. 13: "There is some likelihood of the piano manufacturing business being overdone"
  "Succeeded Without Being a "Catalog Dealer,'", by Bert Aaron Rose (1866–1940), Vol. 64, No. 26, December 23, 1922, pg. 32: The author, owner of the Metropolitan Music Co. in Minneapolis and director of bands at the University of Minnesota, illuminates the threat of catalog sales, similar to early 21st-century concerns over online sales vs. physical stores
  "First Selmer Silver Saxophone is Pronounced Superior to Brass Instrument by Rudy Wiedoeft," Vol. 73, No. 15, April 9, 1927, pg. 35
  "The Petrof Piano Saga" (feature story), Vol. 156, No. 12, January 2009, pps. 112–118: The article is an example of history and commentary works of the magazine
  Historic reviews
  Harry Botsford (born 1890) wrote an article titled "Diversified Needs of the Trade Magazine," in The Editor (Ridgewood, New Jersey), Vol. 52, No. 7, April 10, 1920, pps. 4–5.  In it, he lauds The Music Trades as "one of the foremost publications which may be classed as a trade journal," and proceeds to examine a particular issue — Vol. 58, No. 25, December 20, 1919.  Botsford points out that the articles in the issue are diverse, but at first glance, seemingly not relevant for a lack of direct connections to the music field.  Yet he sees how topics of other sectors and industries — and commerce as a whole — relate to music commerce.  Botsford stated that the articles, all of them, were interesting and well-written; but averred that each writing assignment might have been better-filled by "a live writer in the field, if said writer would have used his brain."  Botsford, a trade writer himself, seemed to be challenging his profession to exercise more interdisciplinarity writing.  Referring to Secor's article, Botsford posed the question, "Why couldn't some of we fellows who write for farm papers have thought of the idea? Have we been overlooking possibilities?"
  The December 20, 1919, issue, as a whole, bears some similarities to some of the special macro-economic issues of the 21st-century.  Botsford's review covered the following articles by authors, nearly all of whom were trade publication editors:
caption: Music Trades staff photo, 1948, John F. Majeski Sr., center, in the double breasted suit (photo courtesy of The Music Trades Corporation)
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