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OCTOBER 2,
1920
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
MUSICAL INSTRUMENT EXPORTS AND IMPORTS INCREASE
Figures for Month of July Show Imports Increased More Than Three Hundred Per Cent Over
Same Month in 1919, While Exports Show an Appreciable Gain for the Same Period
WASHINGTON, D. C, September 27.—The sum-
mary of exports and imports of the commerce
of the United States for the month of July,
1920, the latest period for which it has been
compiled, has just been issued as follows:
The dutiable imports of musical instruments
and parts, including strings, during July, 1920,
amounted to $262,107, as compared with $64 510
which were imported during- the same month
of 1919. The seven months' total ending July,
1920, showed importations valued at $1,368 338,
against $546,666 worth of musical instruments
imported during the same period of 1919 and
$382,635 in 1918. This gives an increase in im-
ports for the seven months of $821,672.
The total domestic exports of musical instru-
ments for July, 1920, amounted to $1,061,632, as
compared with $388,156 for the same month of
the previous year. The seven months' exporfa-
tioiis of musical instruments amounted to $0.-
438,326 in 1920, as against $3,708,680 in 1919 and
$2,585 343 in 1918. This shows an increase for
the seven months of $2,729,646.
Of the aggregate exportations in July, 1920,
there were 315 organs, valued at $24,626, as com-
pared with 109 organs, valued at $6,451, in 1919.
The seven months' total showed that we ex-
ported 1,504 organs, valued at $132 757, in 1920;
1,302 organs, valued at $82,674, for the same
period of 1919, and 983 organs, valued at $57,444,
during 1918.
Ill July, 1920, we exported 1,639 pianos, val-
ued at $509,031, as compared with 649 pianos,
valued at $1'54 502, for the same period of the
previous year. The seven months' total shows
9,628 pianos, valued at $2 874,730, as compared
with 7,043 pianos, valued at $1,561,920, for the
same period of 1919, and 6,430 pianos, valued at
$1,137,162, in 1918.
The exports of player-pianos show that 854
of these instruments, valued at $332,424, were
exported in 1920, as against 266, valued at $81,-
715, in 1919. The seven months' total shows
that 4,156 player-pianos, valued at $1,685,581,
were exported during 1920, as compared with
2,663, valued at $981 056, for the same period of
1919, and 1,944, valued at $^04,041, in 1918.
Of the aggregate exportations tbere were 6
piano players, valued at $2 391, in July, 1920.
3 Great Pianos
With 3 sounding boards
in each (Patented) have the
greatest talking points in
the trade.
For the seven months' period 69 of these instru-
ments, valued at $29,580, were sent abroad, as
compared with 81, valued at $26,557, in 1919.
The exports of perforated music rolls for the
month of July, 1920, amounted in value to $26,-
160, as compared with $20,030 in July, 1919. The
seven months' total amounted in value to $255,-
965, as compared with $147,536 in exports for
the same period in 1919 and $85,441 in 1918.
The value of all other musical instruments and
parts thereof sent abroad during July, 1920,
amounted to $167,000, as compared with $125,-
308 in 1919. The total exports for the seven
months under this heading foot up $1,459,713,
as against $908,937 exported during the same
period in 1919 and $662,410 in 1918.
TRAVELERS AFTER NEW MEMBERS
President Geo. W. Allen, of National Piano Trav-
elers' Association, Starts Big Drive
George W. Allen, president of the National
Piano Travelers' Association, recently sent a let-
ter to the members of that organization asking
each to pledge himself to bring in a new member
within ninety days and is quite elated over the ex-
cellent'response that has come to his call. The
response has not been confined to pledges, but
has taken the form of actual applications. Presi-
dent Allen is still keeping up his campaign, and
has advised the members of the Association that
he will give them no peace until they get busy
and make good. The Association veterans are
proving particularly hard workers, several of
them turning in as many as five new applications
each.
U. S. FOR PRACTICAL SCIENCE
In Philadelphia there are
more Lester Pianos than any
other high grade make. Folks
of this great music and art
center know pianos—this is
proved by their discrimina-
tion in buying instruments of
the Lester calibre.
WASHINGTON, U. C, September 27.—Business men
who wish to commercialize scientific discoveries
of Government experts now may have the as-
sistance of a special bureau recently organized in
the Agricultural Department under direction of
Secretary Meredith.
The new bureau, headed by David J. Price, is
officially known as the Office of Development
Work. It is intended as a go-between for busi-
ness men and science.
Government scientists often discover processes
by which valuable products may be obtained from
waste materials of factories, according to Secre-
tary Meredith's announcement. Too often in-the
past, however, the discoveries have been devel-
oped only to the theoretical stage. The aim of
the development office will be to carry the discov-
eries clear through to the practical state.
You can make more sales
with this splendid piano be-
cause it is better, yet it is
within reach of the family of
moderate means. Lesters
back up your arguments with
q u a l i t y and performance.
They stay sold. They give
you a good profit.
The Schrader Music House, conducting stores
in Escanaba and Ishpeming, Wis., has opened
a new branch store at 1614 Masonic Temple,
Marinette, Wis., with G. J. Daley as manager.
The Knabe, Lyon & Healy, Gulbransen, Pack-
ard and Krakauer pianos and players will be
handled, together with Victrolas, musical mer-
chandise, etc. The new quarters have been
handsomely decorated and furnished.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
Grand—Upright—Player
In your territory customers
will be quick to discover the
superiority of the Lester.
Schrader Music House Opens an Attractive
New Branch Store in That City
The Hcppc Piano Co,
LESTER
PIANOS
Bureau's Discoveries to Be Put to Real Use,
Says Secretary Meredith
NEW STORE IN MARINETTE, WIS.
We fix " o n e p r i c e " —
wholesale and retail.
Three Generations
Have Used the
EXTRA 5 PER CENT STOCK DIVIDEND
The American Piano Co. last week declared
a stock dividend of 5 per cent in addition to
the quarterly dividend of \y> per cent on com-
mon stock of the company, payable on Octo-
ber 3. The usual \J4 P c r cent dividend on pre-
ferred stock was also declared.
Your district may be open.
Write for full details, now.
Lester
Pianos
Last a
Lifetime
LESTER PIANO CO.
Philadelphia