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THE
JANUARY 7, 1922
MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW
MUSICAL INSTRUMENT EXPORTS A N D IMPORTS DECREASE
PIANO MEN FOR TEMPLE OF MUSIC
Figures on Foreign Trade in the Musical Instrument Field for Month of November Show a De- Ottawa Piano Men's Club Launches Movement
For. Erection of Big Auditorium
cided Falling Off in Volume—Figures for Eleven Months' Period Also Show Loss
WASHINGTON, D. G, January 3.—The summary
of exports and imports of the commerce of the
United States for the month of November, 1921,
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 November,
1921, amounted to $157,531, as compared with
$307,284 which were imported during the same
month of 1920. The eleven months' total end-
ing November, 1921, showed importations val-
ued at $2,337,089, against $2,774,485 worth of
musical instruments imported during the same
period of 1920, and $1,105,247 in 1919. This
gives a decrease in imports for the eleven months
of $437,396.
The total domestic exports of musical instru-
ments for November, 1921, amounted to
$340,588, as compared with $1,201,954 for the
same period of the previous year. The eleven
months' exportations of musical instruments
amounted to $4,138,452 in 1921, as against $10,-
829,003 in 1920, and $6,269,375 in 1919. This
shows a decrease of $6,690,551.
Of the aggregate exportations in November,
1921, there were 82 organs, valued at $8,245, as
compared with 166 organs, valued at $46,590 in
1920. The eleven months' total showed that we
exported 1,177 organs, valued at $150,111, in No-
vember, 1921; 2,509 organs, valued at $279,282,
for the same period of 1920, and 2,082 organs,
valued at $160,715, in 1919.
In November, 1921, we exported 454 pianos,
valued at $110,846, as compared with 1,582
pianos, valued at $5,529,738, for the same period
of the previous year. The eleven months' total
shows 4,197 pianos, valued at $1,271,195, as com-
pared with 15,529 pianos, valued at $4,804,724
for the same period of 1920, and 11,540 pianos,
valued at $2,743,892, in 1919.
The exports of player-pianos show that 277 of
these instruments valued at $103,377, were ex-
ported during November, 1921, as compared with
786, valued at $348,940, exported in 1920. The
eleven months' total shows that 3,041 player-
pianos, valued at $1,304,215, were exported dur-
ing 1921, as compared with 7,596, valued at
$3,145,994, for the same period of 1920, and
4,042, valued at $1,533,279, in 1919.
Of the aggregate exportations there were 8
piano-players, valued at $1,070, in 1921, as com-
pared with 6 piano-players, valued at $1,677, for
1920. For the eleven months' period, 61 of these
instruments, valued at $20,718, were sent abroad
in 1921, as compared with 117, valued at $46,399,
in 1920.
TORONTO, ONT., January 3.—The Ottawa Piano
Men's Club, comprising practically all of the
leading men of the piano and music trades of
the Canadian capital, recently launched a move-
ment, the object of which is to build a "Temple
of Music" in the city. The plan was unfolded
at a general meeting of the trade club in the
Orange Hall by Mr. A. W. Brown, honorary
vice-president of the club and manager of the
Ottawa headquarters of C. W. Lindsay, Ltd.,
one of the large local music houses.
Announcement was made by Mr. Brown that
a site had already been selected for the audito-
the seating capacity of which is to be 2,000.
WANAMAKER HOPEFUL OF 1922 rium,
The structure is to cost $200,000, apart from the
Declares Business Problems Will Be Adjusted land, and the plans and specifications call for a
building which would be in keeping with the
Gradually During New Year
social life of the Canadian capital. At present
John Wanamaker, in a New Year statement, the city has no suitable hall in which to offer
recitals by great artists or concerts by famous
says:
"Every good American must look into the new vocal or instrumental organizations. The result
year hopefully. There are still the conditions is that many stars of the musical world pass
of high wages, high costs, high rents and high Ottawa by, or else appear in midnight per-
taxes to be met and dealt with. There will have formances in theatres which are engaged with
to be an adjustment of these things before busi- regular shows afternoons and evenings.
The men of the trade in Ottawa, it was pointed
ness can get on an even keel.
"Every business man wishes, of course, that out, desire to enjoy the co-operation of all other
it could all be settled at once by some single public-spirited organizations and clubs in the
sweeping action, adjusting wages, adjusting city in order to put through the plans.
costs, adjusting prices, adjusting rents, adjust-
ing taxes—all coming down together. But it
LIMA, 0 . , FIRM INCORPORATED
will have to be worked out gradually by the
good sense and reasonableness of both employes
The B. S. Porter & Son Piano Co., of Lima,
and employers, and by a good common-sense O., has been incorporated in that State, with
reduction of the Federal expenditures and Fed- a capital of $100,000. Incorporators are W. H.
eral taxes that have become so burdensome.
Leete, Edith Ehiverdecker, Anna Owen and Ed
"But let us not be discouraged. The nation Kohler.
is full of life and health. It has the right spirit
and is not panicky minded; it has great oppor-
The Ben Schwartz Music Co., of New York,
tunities—greater than the opportunities of any has been incorporated under the laws of New
other nation in the world. We made progress in York State, with a capital of $10,000. B. and I.
1921. We are better off than we were in 1920. Schwartz and C. C. James are the incorporators.
The year 1922 will continue to be a year of
settling down and getting nearer to an even
keel."
The exports of perforated music rolls for the
month of November, 1921, amounted in value
to $17,958, as compared with $31,472 in 1920.
The eleven months' total amounted in value to
$249,076, as compared with $375,697, in exports
for the same period in 1920, and 248,870 in 1919.
The value of all other musical instruments and
parts thereof sent abroad during November, 1921,
amounted to $99,092, as compared with $243,537
in 1920. The total exports for the eleven months
under this heading foot up $1,143,137, as against
$2,176,907 exported in 1920.
Do You Know
DEATH OF MRS. JOHN KRUMME
Wife of Well-known Piano Man Succumbs to
Long Illness at Home in New York
MALGO?
John A. Krumme, Jr., who recently joined
the staff of Hardma«, Peck & Co., has the deep
sympathy of his many friends in the trade on
the death of his wife, Eva Krumme, which oc-
curred at her home, 1733 University avenue, New
York, on December 26, after a lingering illness.
The funeral was held at the University Funeral
Chapel on Thursday, December 29, the interment
being in Kensico Cemetery.
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FIRE DAMAGES LAWLER BUSINESS
•NEW HAVEN, CONN., January 3.—The establish-
ment of J. F. Lawler, piano and talking machine
dealer, Chapel street, this city, was considerably
damaged in a fire which broke out in an adjoin-
ing building and spread to surrounding business
. houses. The damage to the music store is esti-
mated at $1,000.
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Manufacturers
INDIANAPOLIS
INDIANA
ESTABLISHED 1873