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The Music Trade Review
DECEMBER, 1930
Census Figures on Musical Instrument Production in 1929
(Continued from page 7)
and the remaining one-third the woodwind. The
only $10,000 less than that for 1927.
In the band instrument industry there was a production of stringed instruments during the
drop from $8,394,785 in the value of products two-year period showed a decrease of slightly
TABLE 1
Summary for the Piano Industry: 1929 and 1927
TABLE 2
Summary for the Organ Industry: 1929 and 1927
Per cent
of increase
( + ),orde-
1929
1927
crease (—)
81
124
—34.7
10,270
16,582 —38.1
$14,446,027 $23,890,846
—39.5
Number of establishments
Wage earners (average for the year) a
Wages b
Cost of material, fuel and purchased
electric current b
$19,460,955
Products, total value b
$43,508,453
$33,898,668
$75,490,681
—42.6
—42.4
Pianos
$35,862,878. $66,071,159
Other products, value and receipts
for custom work and repairing
$7,645,575
$9,419^522
Value added by manufacture c
$24,048,432 $41,592,013
—18.8
—42.2
1929
Number of establishments
Wage earners (average for the year) a
Wages b
Cost of material, fuel and purchased
electric current b
Products total value b
Organs
Other products, value and receipts
for custom work and repairing
Value added by manufacture c
—45.7
TABLE 3
Summary for the Piano and Organ Materials Industry:
1929 and 1927
1929
1927
Number of establishments
67
85
Wage earners (average for the year) a
3,101
5,399
Wages b
$3,606,453
$6,593,645
Cost of materials, fuel and purchased
electric current
ft
$4,217,435
$9,657,350
Products, total value b
$11,876,423 $22i,244,731
Piano materials
Organ materials
Perforated music rolls
Other products, value and receipts
for custom work and repairing
Value added by manufacture c
( + ), or de-
1927
crease (—)
61
2,355
$3,562,845
2,770
$4,363,731
— 15:0
- 18.4
$3,101i,014
$11,213,460
$4,494,449
$15,438,623
—31.0
—27.4
$10,358,557
$14,262,688
—27.4
$854,903
$8,112,446
$1,175,935
$10,944,174
—27.3
—25.9
1929
104
3i,135
$4,549,613
63
*
(+),orde-
1927
crease (—)
99
*
4,018 —22.0
$5,737,005
—20.7
—56.3
—46.6
Number of establishments
Wage earners (average for the year) a
Wages b
Cost of materials, fuel and purchased
electric current b
$3i,850,O58
Products, total value
fr
$14,273,491
$4,640,553
$17,891,948
—17.0
—20.2
Musical instruments other than pi-
anos and organs
$ll,257i,294
Parts and materials
$2,092,622
$15,289,198
$1,991,877
—26.4
+ 5.1
$610,873
$13,251,395
-f-5l.2
—21.3
*
—42.6
—45.3
$17,785,889
$1,091,239
$2,911,094
—58.1
—24.2
—16.9
$1,184,144
$7,658,988
$456,509
$12,587I,381
+159.4
—39.2
Other products,, value and receipts
for custom work and repairing
Value added by manufacture c
Per (.••lit not computed when base is less than 100.
a Not including salaried employees.
The average number of wage earners is
based on the numbers reported for the several months of the year. This average some-
what exceeds the number that would have been required for the work performed if all
had been continuously employed throughout the year, because of the fact that manu-
facturers report the numbers employed on or about the 15th day of each month, as
shown by the pay rolls), usually taking no account of the possibility that some or
$923,575
$10,423i,433
eciaiion, taxes, insurance anu auvenising.
c Value of products less cost of materials, fuel and purchased electric current
over twenty-five per cent, while percussion in-
struments practically held their own.
self, sponsored by the company, has helped
materially in this respect. This has also been
helped by their liberal advertising in the local
press, stressing the beautiful Steinway, ably
seconded by the Weber, the Steck, Stroud, Duo-
Sherman, Clay & Co. are engaged in con- Art, Brambach and Estey, and offering alluring
siderable activity in every department, and that terms.
covers the entire range of music merchandise.
In the sheet music department they are send-
Harald Pracht, manager of the retail store, ing out cards to selected mailing lists to be
states that the piano sales have been improv- filled in and returned as orders. These have
ing for some time. The progress of the sym- printed on them the names of choice new se-
phony orchestra, and some unusually fine mu- lections. And besides the use of their excel-
sical programs for the winter ahead, is attract- lent show windows, they are having their own
ing more attention to music in all its variety, publications used by some of the popular hotel
and this is reflected in increased interest in orchestras.
other forms of music merchandise than radio.
Another means of attracting customers to the
Perhaps the recent piano playing marathon it- store has been a concession to a quite high-
Piano Sales on Increase
With Sherman, Clay & Co.
The LUDWIG Piano
THE "ARISTOCRAT" OF ITS GLASS
Conventional and Period Models
in Grands and Uprights
Over 100,000 LUDWIG PIANOS have been made and
sold to date
LUDWIG & CO.
Tel.: LUDlow 5600
136th St. & Willow Ave.
Per cent
of increase
TABLE 4
Summary for the "Musical Instruments, Parts and Materials,
Not Elsewhere Classified" Industry: 1929 anil 1927
Per cent
of increase
Per cent
of increase
(-r-).orde-
crease (—)
$7,446^132
$826,888
$2,419,259
iii 1927 to $5,527,180 in 1929. Approximately
two-thirds of the decrease concerns the brasses
In connection herewith we reproduce the fig-
ures relating to the various divisions of the
musical industries covered bv the census of
NEW YORK
manufactures which should prove interesting
to members of the trade in making comparisons.
grade circulating library. This is located along-
side the elevator serving the ten stories of the
building, and has succeeded in attracting con-
siderable patronage from the business offices
which are thick in that part of the city.
A Piano Pupil at 67
At the age of sixty-seven, Mrs. Mamie I.
Doney, of Columbus, O., has resumed taking
lessons after a lapse of fifty-five years. She
practices several hours daily, and is said to
be making excellent progress. Here is food for
thought for those who are concentrating on
children exclusively as representing the piano
market.