Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-09-14
Manufacture of
Musicnl Instruments

r HE bureau or census has iu.'
published bulletin ON the IMAM.
ufacture OF musical Instrument.
There were 625 establishment
engaged in this industry iu 1905. THes
employed 80. 22O wago-oarno.s reported
an aggregate capital of s12225.319 and
manufactured products Co the yaIu. o.
s69.514340. Five years before. vh..
the census OF 1900 was taken. the mum.
Der Of establishments reported for ...
industry was go. total number ..
wage-earners. 2371G tho aerrsa...
capital, Sl7106,5S2. ana the value o.
products sii4ls91S.
GROWTH or THE INDUSTRY
Comparison Of the figures for tU...
two ceususes shows that there wa. ..
Increase tn the hvo-year interval U..
60 1900 OF S25.l55 1862. or 500 per cent.
in the value OF products. S245lS.lg.. ..
STA per cent. in the amount of capita.
employed. and II, soc or ass per cent.
in the number OF wage-oaruors w..
establishments In the meantime ..
creased by only six. ur about 4 per- U...
This comparatively small uCreus. .
the number OF establishments is H.
or less characteristic of AN lines of ...
dustIg iu recent years being iudiga...
OF the tendency toward production ..
large scale or OF combinations
II is evident from an inspection %
the figures published I'm this buH..m
that the musical instrument indu try
made much greater progress u On. uNp
years between 1900 and 1905 than 30 dII
In the ten yeFrs between 1890 and IgNH.
Taking the value OF the products as
furnishing, perhaps the best iudicl-
tion Of growth. 10 will be found that
this item shows an advance from 1886.
S6S.i69 in 1890 To S4i4l891S I'm 1900 which
was an increase OF only $3.50. SO9 0r 205
per cent. as compared with the rumark-
able increase OF over S2i. 600 OOO or lG g
per cent, In the five years between 1900
and 1905.
PRINCIPAL PRODUCING STATES.
The leading state i'm production Of
musical Instruments is New York hitch
reported products to the value of S24-
21T.921. representing more than once
third Of the total product Of the United
States. The state ranking next .u im-
portance as regards this Industry was
IlliuOise. for which the aggregate pro-
duct was S1S.991.7 FPS. Next comes Mas
sachusetts, with a product OF $685.
0I3. then Connecticut, with q product
OF S5.279.0s5.
New York has been "A leader iu this
industry for more than twenty five
years. Massachusetts was the second
state in importance iu 1850 and again
ga 1880. but In 1900 was outrankod ty
Illinois, In which state the recent de-
velopment Of the industry has been
very rapid.
CLASSES OF ESTABLISHMENTS.
in presenting the statistics OF this lu-
dustry the census bureau classified tho
establishments with respect Co their
principal product under four main
heads. namely. pianos. organs plano
and organ materials. and Instruments
and materials not specified. There were
249 piano establishments % organ Cs-
Establishments. 10l establishment proc
ducing principally piano and organ wa-
terials and 1871 establishments manu-
featuring instruments and materials not
specified The value of products for
these four classes OF establishments
was. respectively, $40 922471. S6.04l sI4
Sl312S,315. and 33.4sll0. The product
Of the piano Establishments docs NOT rap-
resent pianos exclusively. for such es-
Establishments frequently manufacture
organs also. and similarly the organ
establishments produce limited mum
Der OF pianos.
PIANOS AND ORGANS.
The bulletin, however, gives the total
number and aggregate value Of pianos