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The Music Trade
Review
DECEMBER 15, 1928
1927 Piano Production Placed at 215,732 by Federal Census
(Continued from page 3)
the industry "Musical instruments, parts and
materials, not elsewhere classified," by ninety-
nine establishments, making a total of 371
establishments for the group. Of the 371 estab-
lishments reported for 1927, 118 were located in
New York, sixty-two in Illinois, thirty-six in
Massachusetts, twenty-two in Indiana, twenty-
of $3,216,960 were reported, as compared to
$6,067,529 for 1925. Pneumatic player actions
for installation in pianos, valued at $6,607,914,
as compared to $14,782,477 in 1925. Piano parts
and materials for sale as such, valued at
$13,828,609, as compared with $15,222,975 in 1925.
Organ parts and materials, $1,810,024, as coni-
TABLE 2
SUMMARY FOR PIANO INDUSTRY: 1927 AND 1925
Per cent of in-
crease (4-) or
1927
Number of establishments . . .
Wage earners (average for
the year) >
Wages 2
Cost of materials, fuel and
purchased power, total*..
Materials
Fuel and power
Value of products, total'
Pianos
All other products
Value added by manufacture \
Horsepower
See footnotes on Chart 5.
1925 decrease,;-)
142 —12.7
124
16,582
20,079 —17.4
$23,890,846 $28,096,207 —15.0
$33,898,668
$32,826,998
$1,071,670
$75,490,681
$66,071,159
$9,419,522
$41,592,013
29,725
$49,295,643 —31.2
3
$101,180,777 —25.4
$93,540,020 —29.4
$7,640,757 +23.3
$51,885,134 —19.8
26,912 +10.5
TABLE 4
SUMMARY FOR PIANO AND ORGAN MATERIALS
INDUSTRIES 1927 AND 1925
]
1925
1927
Number of establishments....
85
Wage earners (average for
5,399
the year) *
$6,593,645
Wages"
Cost of materials, fuel and
purchased power, t o t a l ' . . $9,657,350
$9,212,241
Materials
$445,109
Fuel and power
$22,244,731
Value of products, total 2
$17,785,889
Piano materials
$1,091,239
Organ materials
All other products (includ-
ing perforated music rolls, $3,367,603
Value added by manufacture'. $12,587,381
14,185
Horsepower
TABLE 3
SUMMARY FOR ORGAN INDUSTRY: 1927 AND 1925
J
er cent of
decrease ( - )
94
8,618 —37.4
$10,131,137 —34.9
$15,293,635 —36.9
a
$36,836,238 —39.6
$27,669,719 —35.7
$1,222,033 —10.7
$7,944,486 —57.6
$21,542,603 —41.6
15,734 — 9.8
pared with $1,652,975 in 1925.
In 1927 the piano industry was represented by
124 establishments, the organ industry by sixty-
three establishments, the piano and organ mate-
rial industry by eighty-five establishments, and
New Firm in Fulton, N. Y.
McCumber's, Inc., Fulton, N. Y., has been in-
corporated with capital stock of $10,000 to deal
in pianos and musical instruments generally at
401 West Broadway, that town. V. N. and A.
M. McCumber are among the incorporators.
New Famous Music Store
The Famous Music Stores, Passaic, N. J., will
open a new music store at 627 Main avenue,
where a complete line of music instruments
will he carried.
mic
1925
1927
Number of establishments . . .
Wage earners (average for
the year) *
Wages 2
Cost of materials, fuel and
purchased power, t o t a l ' . .
Materials
Fuel and power
Value of products, t o t a l 2 . . . .
Organs
All other products
Value-added by manufacture 4
Horsepower
two in Pennsylvania, nineteen in California,
nineteen in New Jersey, fifteen in Ohio, four-
teen in Wisconsin, twelve in Connecticut, eleven
in Michigan, six in Missouri, five in Maryland,
three in Kentucky, two in Minnesota, and one
pared with $1,842,197 in 1925. Parts and mate-
rials for musical instruments other than pianos
and organs, $1,991,877, as compared with $1,867,-
131 in 1925, and receipts for custom work, rent-
ing, tuning, repairing, etc., $1,815,043, as corn-
a loss of fifty-two, a net loss of twenty-two
establishments. Of the fifty-two establishments
lost, twenty-three went out of business prior to
1927, fourteen did no manufacturing within the
year, five establishments were combined with
other establishments, two reported commodities
other than musical instruments as their prin-
Per cent of m-
crease (-f) or
decrease (—)
63
57
2,770
$4,363,731
2,460
$3,609,586
t>
+ 12.6
+20.9
$4,494,449 $3,748,942 + 19.9
3
$4,382,025
:l
$112,424
$15,438,623 $12,283,089 +25.7
$14,262,688 $10,809,281 +31.9
$1,175,935 $1,473,808 —20.2
$10,944,174
$8,534,147 +28.2
4,182
3,983 + 5.0
cipal products utul were therefore transferred to
the appropriate industries, and eight reported
products valued at less than $5,000. (No data
are tabulated at the biennial censuses for estab-
lishments with products under $5,000 in value.)
TABLE 5
SUMMARY FOR MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, PARTS AND
MATERIALS NOT ELSEWHERE CLASSIFIED:
1927 AND 1925
Number of establishments....
Wage earners (average for
the y e a r ) '
Wages"
Cost of materials, fuel and
purchased power, total 2 ..
Materials
Fuel and power
Value of products, total 2
Musical instruments, otlftr
than pianos, organs and
orchestrions
All other products
Value added by manufacture 4
Horsepower
1927
1925
Per cent of in-
decrease
crease
( + (—)
) or
99
100 — 1.0
4,018
$5,737,005
4,556 —11.8
$6,519,956 —12.0
$4,640,553 $5,575,183 — 1 6 . 8
$4,431,824
$208,729
$17,891,948 $20,329,301 — 1 2 . 0
$15,289,198 $15,514,787 — 1.5
$2,602,750 $4,814,514 —45.9
$13,251,395 $14,754,118 —10.2
5,356
4,907 + 9.2
1
Not including salaried employes.
- The amount of manufacturers' protit.s cannot he calculated from the census
figures, for the reason that no data are collected in regard to a number of
items of expense, such as interest on investment, rent, depreciation, taxes, in-
surance and advertising.
3
Not reported separately.
4
Value of products less cost of materials, fuel and purchased power.
5
Per cent not computed where base is less than 100.
each in District of Columbia, Iowa, Kansas,
Vermont and Washington.
In 1925 the group was represented by 393
establishments, the decrease to 371 in 1927 being
the result of a gain of thirty establishments and
DeWitt Jones Dead
Of the thirty establishments gained, three
manufactured other classes of commodities as
their principal products in 1925, and twenty-
seven reported for the first time at the present
census.
New Store for Fresno
l)l-:s MOINKS, IA., December 10.— DeWitt Jones,
L. A. Wilkinson, proprietor of the Fresno
head of the Jones Piano Co., this city, died
Piano Co., has opened retail warerooms at 2133
at his home here recently as a result of an Kern street, Fresno, Cal. Mr. Wilkinson also
operation. He was thirty-seven years old. Mr. conducts stores in Oakland and Spokane, Wash.
Jones was born in Lacona, la., and came to Des
Moines when a boy. After graduating from a
school he joined his father, E. H. Jones, in the
piano business, and upon the death of the lat-
MILWAUKEE, WIS., December 12.—R. C. Gether,
ter assumed control of the business. He is
head of the Gether Piano Co., is in a critical
survived by a widow and three sons.
condition following an accident when the auto-
Consult the Universal Want Directory of mobile which he was driving was struck by a
street car.
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R. C. Gether Seriously Hurt