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Show i H. S. MUSICAL STATISTICS Government Census Bureau Gathers Data Upon the Manufacture j Decrease in Number ; of Owners and Increase in Payrolls and Employees. Em-ployees. i Special 10 the Standard.) Washington D. C, July 29 Statistics Statis-tics for the manufacture of musical I instruments and phonographs and I grnphophoncs in the United States for I 1909 are presented In detail In a bulletin soon to be Issued by Director Harris of the Bureau of the Census, department of commerce. It was pre-' pre-' pared under the supervision of Wll-! Wll-! ham M. Stenart, chief statistician for i manufactures The establishments engaged primarily pri-marily In the manufacture of pianos ; in 1909 turned out products to the value of 56G.5t9.272. or 74.1 per cent of the total value of products of the ' three branches of the industry coni- bined The value of the products re- , ported by the establishments engaged) chiefl hi the manufacture of organs ($4,746,655) represented 5 3 per cent 'of the total fdV all three branches; and the. value of the organ parts ind nm'erials (f 181474 616) represent-j oil 2U ti per cent of the total value of products ft r the three branches. The 2061 ol Lhc materials used In the three i branches of the industry combined was $43 764,737, which Is equal lo 4H 7 1 per cenl of the total value of products while the value added by manufacture (thai Is, the value of products less the cost of materials! was $46,024,807 The establishments In the shre.- branches of the industry combined (pianos organs, and piano ami organ parts and materials) gave employment to 41,882 persons, of whom 3S OJu were wage earners, and paid out $28,313,754 In salaries and wages Of the total number of persons engaged. 67.8 per I cent were employed In the piano branch of the indusetry. 6.6 per cent in the organ branch, and 25.6 per cent i in the parts and materials branch The manufacture of pianos and organs or-gans has had an uninterrupted development de-velopment since 1869, when products to t he value ol $11,886,444 wer reported re-ported In L909 the value of products whs more than seven limes as great, $89. 7S9.544 The largest Increases are shown for the decade from 1899 to 19ii9, when the number of persons encaged en-caged In the industry Increased SO 4 ' per i.ent and the value of products 18.9 per cent The large piano and organ factories are of comparatively recent development. In lRt9 the average av-erage establishment gave employment to only 24 wage earners and the aver-age aver-age value of products was $46,797; In 1909 the average number of wage earners was 76 and the value of pro-I pro-I ducts $177,100 The decrease In the number of I proprietors and firm members is no doubt due to the growth In the corporate cor-porate form of ownership On the other hand, there was an increase of 134.8 per cent during the decade end-I end-I Ing with 1909 In the number of salaried sal-aried emplov es Although staustics are shown in the bulletin for 17 states separately, more than two-lhlrds (69 per cent) of the total value of products was reported b New York. Illinois and Massachusetts. Massachu-setts. New York reported 37 5 per cenl of the total and Illinois 21.4 per cent, Wisconsin shows the greatest relative Increase for the five-year period 1904-1909. advancing from loth place in value of products In 1904 to 12th place In 1909 Michigan also shows a marked gain in rank during this period, advancing from eighth to fifth Most of the 6tAtes held the same, or nearly the same rank in 1909 as In 1904, and In general the states had in 1909 the same, or nearly the same rank In number of wage earners earn-ers and value added by manufacture as In value of products. Production of Pianos. There has been a steady Increase In the number and value of both upright up-right and grand pianos manufactured since 1899 Of the total number of pianos reported in 1909, 97 7 per cent vvero uprights Of their total value j that of the uprights represented 93.2 ' per cent The total production of i pianos of both kinds reported In 1909 was 374. 154. valued at $59, 501,225. an ; Increase in number of 203.143, or 118.8 per cent, and in value of $32,498,373. or 120.4 per cent, over the totals for 1899. Upright plano6 Bhow tho greater great-er percentage of Increase In number but grand pianos show the greater 1 percentage of Increase in value. New ! York and Illinois were, two of the principal states in the manufacture of upright pianos at each of the three last censuses In 1909. the number reported for thesv two slates combined combin-ed (244 994) formed 67 per cent of the total for the United States 1 the manufacture of grand pianos, New York and Massachusetts were the two most Important states, reporting in 1909, 6831, or 78.1 per cent of the total number. Of the total number of upright pianos manufactured. 34.4'tB, or 9 4 per rent, were for or with player attachments. attach-ments. The value of the Instruments for or with player attachments formoii 16.7 per cent of the total value of upright up-right pianos. New York reported U,-917, U,-917, or 54 8 per cent, of the upright pianos for or v.ith player attachments, Of the 10,8 plaver attachments which were not attached to pianos 2789 or 25 6 per cenL were reported by establishments located in New York, hut the v alue of the attachments made In New York was more than half of the total for the country, which was $1,4 74 630 Manufacture of Organs. In 1909, of the total number of reed and of pipe organs reported, 1 9 per cent were pipe organs, but of the combined value 51 I per cent was contributed con-tributed by pipe organs In 1899, of I he total number, only live-tenths of one per cent were pipe organs, while of the total value they contributed 22.6 per cent In the number of reed organs there was 8 decrease during the decade 1899-1909 of 39 9 per cent and In their value a decrease of 85 8 per cent For pipe organs there was an increase of 117 per cent In number and of 130 5 per cent in value In the manufacture of reed organs. Illinois was the leading state In 1909 as In 1899 reporting 37 5 per cent and 41.3 per cent respectively of the total value. In the value of pipe organs manufactured. Massachusetts, New York, and Illinois reported about equal amounts in 1909 Illinois showing much the largest gain from 1899 to 1909. while a decrease took place in Massachuset i s. The establishment s assigned to this branch of the musical instrument liidustrv are those engaged chiefly In the manufacture of various kinds of musical Instruments other than pianos and organs and phonographs and ..i...k r ...... l . . i r such Instruments The instrument made include cornets trombones LU has. and other brass instruments for hand and orchestral use cymbals, 'drums xylophones, castanets, dulel I mere, harps Ivres. guitars, lutes, ban-Jos, ban-Jos, mandolins, zithers, violins v Lo loncellos. flutes flageolets, piccolos etc and parts of such Instruments The value of products for this branch of the combined musical In strument liidustrv does not show the general increase from census to census cen-sus so noticeable in the two preced Ing branches The value of products prod-ucts in 1909 was 7 3 per cent less than I in 1904. and 4 9 per cent less than In 1899. During the first half or the I decade ending with 19nn there was j considerable decrease In the number of establishments accompanied ny I smaller decreases In the number of I persons employed, capital Invested. I wages paid, and cost of materials and nn increase In the salaries, mis eellaneous expenses, value of products, prod-ucts, and value added by manufacture During the lasf half of the decade there was a decrease In all of the Items except the number of establish ments. number of salaried employee, and salaries Phonographs and Graphophones. The establishments assigned to this industry were engaged chiefly In the manufacture of phonographs or graph ophones for either disk or cylinder records. rec-ords. Including those for office die tatlon, also the manufacture of records rec-ords blanks, horns, needles, or other supplies and materials used in the In- due try Bach census since 1899 has shown an Increase in the manufacture of phonographB and graphophones, but by far the greater development occurred oc-curred during the five-year period, 1899 1904. when there was an increase of 2,525 or 178 4 per cent In the number num-ber of persons engaged in the Indus try. and of $7,990,801. or 355 7 per cent. In the value of products. While there was an increase of only seven In the number of establishments during dur-ing tho decade, the number of per sons engaged in the industry' In 1909 was more than four times and the value of products more than five times as great as the corresponding figures for 1899 In 1909, 16 of the 18 estab lishments were operated by corpora tlons. New Jersey Is bv far the leading lead-ing state In the industry, as measured by value of products, followed by Con- necticut and New York In tho order I named Of the total value of products rc ported for the Industry In 1909 $11. 728,996, the value of complete instruments instru-ments formed $5,406,684 or 46.1 per cent, and that of records and blanks $5,007,104, or 42 7 per cent The re i malnder. $1 312, 2n8, or 11.2 per cent, represented for the most part horns, needles, matrices, and other supplies used In the manufacture or operation of the Instruments oo |