Music Trade Review -- © mbsi.org, arcade-museum.com -- digitized with support from namm.org
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
WASHINGTON,
D. C , June 17, 1895.
The import and export trade of musical
instiuments is assuming such proportions
that statistics are always of interest and
importance. The latest reports to date from
the Treasury Department give the follow-
ing figures:
The dutiable imports of musical instru-
ments for the month of April amounted to
$85,730, against $29,442 for April of last
year. The ten months total footed up
$731,246 for this year, as compared with
$564,711 tor the same period last year.
The total domestic exports for the month
of April amounted to $73,450, against $80,-
878 for the preceding April.
The ten
months' values amounted to $953,978, as
compared with $833,234 for the same
period during 1894.
Of this total were organs to the number of
563, which were exported in April, valued
a
t $35'6i3- The exports of last April
amounted to 713, valued at $46,167. Dur-
ing the ten months of 1895 the exports
reached the number of 9,077 organs, valued
at $558,729, against 7,417 organs exported
the previous year, valued at $464,782.
Also of this total were pianofortes to the
number of 44, exported in April, 1895,
valued at $11,368, against the same number
exported the previous April, valued at
$12,721. The ten months' total reached the
number of 727 pianos, valued at $197,499,
as compared with 510 pianos, valued at
$148,153 for the same period of last year.
All other musical instruments and parts
thereof, exported during the month of
April, 1895, amounted to $26,465, an in-
crease over the same month of the year be-
fore, when the exports amounted to $21,-
990. For this year the ten months' values
were $197,750, as compared with last year,
when they reached $220,299.
The dutiable re-exports of musical instru-
ments for the month of April amounted
this year to $188, against $37 for the same
month last year. The ten months' values
for 1895 footed up $7,503 increase over
1894, when the re-exports footed up $4,549.
The free imports of sheet music fur April
amounted to $27,985, against $22,189 for
April of last year. The ten months' im-
ports of sheet music footed up $242,999 for
1895, as compared with $268,990 for the
same period of 1894.
The dutiable imports of sheet music for
April of this year amounted to $21,054,
against $14,128 for April of last year. The
ten months' values footed up $228,672 for
this year, as compared with $227,194 for
the same period last year.
The free re-exports of sheet music for
April amounted to $2,126, against $158 for
the month of April, 1894.
The ten
months' values footed up $5,877 for this
year, as compared with $2,109 for the same
period last year.
The free imports of animal ivory for the
month of April amounted to $7,326 pounds,
valued at $26,262, against 19,384 pounds,
valued at $66,511 imported last April.
The ten months' total reached the amount
°f 219,331 pounds, valued at $673,504 for
this year, as compared with 73,501 pounds,
valued at $222,575 for the same period last
year.
The free re-exports of animal ivory
amounted in April to 206 pounds, valued
at $96, against no re-exports last April.
The ten months' total footed up 14,323
pounds, valued at $25,718, against 34,178
pounds, valued at $31,032 re-exported dur-
ing the same period last year.
The free imports of vegetable ivory
reached the amount of 1,084,721 pounds in
April, valued at $14,344, against 27,619
pounds imported last April, valued at
$1,190. The ten months'values for 1895
footed up 5,837,345 pounds, valued at $64,-
446, against 6,436,239 pounds valued at
$93,501 imported during the same period
last year.
The free re-exports of vegetable ivory in
April amounted to 22,800 pounds, valued
at $670, against 30,472 pounds, valued at
$365 re-exported last April.
The ten
months' values for this year footed up
737,010 pounds of vegetable ivory, valued
at $14,267, as compared with the re-exports
for the same period of last year, which
footed up 301,240 pounds, valued at $5,001.
Remaining in customs warehouse during
April were musical instruments to the
value of $75,185, against $119,387 worth
last April.
Sheet music to the amount of $8,104 dur-
ing April, 1895, as compared with $5,403
worth during April, 1894.
No ivory remained in the warehouse dur-
ing May of either year.
With the Travelers,
'ES, we are in for a hot summer,"
remarked Kochmann, as he toyed
playfully with a delicate piece of glass-
ware which contained an appetizing cock-
tail.
"You look mournful, Reinhard; what's
the m a t t e r ? " asked T H E MUSIC TRADE R E -
VIEW
man.
"Well, you see the oyster season hasn't
materialized yet, and I am just thinking
what a long time it will be before I get an
opportunity to
"
"Toss off a hundred and fifty oysters or
so at a sitting, e h ? "
"Oh, no; but did I tell you about that
piano cover that was just chuck full of art
that I saw down in Houston, T e x a s ? "
" N o ; how was t h a t ? "
"Well, you see I dropped into the corner
grocery, on my way down to a piano store,
to get a cigar. While there a colored man
came in. He marched up to the proprietor,
and asked:
" 'Hev you got any burlap hangin' about
de shop?'
" 'Yes, a few coffee sacks; but they are
old and in pretty bad shape.'
" 'Dat's all de better, sah. I want about
Of Distinct Value to Manufac- fo' of 'em.'
" T h e y were given him, and he looked
turers.
around and inquired:
" 'Ha^ you any pieces of rope to spare?
H E New York Music TRADE REVIEW,
one of our most esteemed exchanges, I want about fifty feet.'
" A lot of old cord and rope was handed
periodically issues a special number. The
last of these is a Southern Number, de- him, and the clerk asked:
" 'Going to pack something for moving?'
voted to trade affairs in Mexico and the
" 'No, sah. My wife was workin' fur a
South. Much of the matter, which is of
distinct value to manufacturers and im- lady on Yum street de odder day, an' she
porters, is printed in Spanish, and the cotched on to a new idea. She's gwine to
whole is written and got up in exemplary use dis stuff, mingled wid a few suspender
style.—P. O. and Music Trade Journal, buckles an' shoestrings, to make a pianer
kiver.'
London.
" 'Lands! But what a cover that stuff
will make!'
ERNEST PERABO, the distinguished pian-
" ' D a t ' s what I dun tole her, but she
ist, has written a very complimentary letter brung home all de perticklers in her mind,
anent the Chickering piano. His unmeas- an' she's bound to turn out one. If you
ured praise of this instrument is hardly h'ar of anybody as wants a $25 pianer
surprising to any one who has used, or has kiver, home-made an' chuck full of art, jess
any knowledge of the Chickering piano. let me know.' "
Mr. Perabo's unsolicited testimony, com-
L. U. JOBES is a recent addition to the
ing as it does from an e'xpert, is quite in
retail
department of D. H. Baldwin &
line with the numerous opinions of cele-
brated virtuosi who have used the Chick- ^o. 's Cincinnati establishment. He is re-
puted to be an excellent salesman.
ering piano. • . . .
T