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established by the music industry for the purpose of promoting music in general. One major source of support accrued from a voluntary levy of fifty cents on every piano manufactured and sold in the United States. Mr. Tremaine agreed to promote school band and orchestra contests if the manufacturers would finance the contests without in any way interfering with the educational development of the band contest movement, and if the Music Supervisors National Conference1 would appoint a committee of music educators to formulate the contest rules, select the contest pieces, approve judges and otherwise guide the project. All concerned agreed. The MENC Committee on Instrumental Affairs,2 in cooperation with the National Bureau for the Advancement of Music, prepared and published the first official school band contest bulletin in 1924. This
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