MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AND PARTS [A preliminary report for these industries was issued December 14, 1940] Description of the industries.-This report covers four industries, namely: (1) Pianos, (2) Organs, (3) Piano and Organ Parts and Materials, and (4) Musical Instruments, Parts, and Materials Not Elsewhere Classified. The first classification embraces establishments whose principal products are complete pianos. The second covers the manufacture of complete pipe organs, reed organs, and electric organs. The third is applied to establishments engaged in the manufacture of piano and organ materials and parts for sale as such. The products include piano strings, plates, keys, actions, keyboards, cases, back frames, pedal attachments, hammers, sounding boards, legs, and bridges; organ reeds, pipes, stops, knobs, and reed boards; and perforated music rolls. The establishments in the fourth industry are engaged primarily in the manufac ture of musical instruments other than pianos and organs, and of parts and materials for such instruments. State statistics. No figures can be given for the most important State in the Organ industry, Illinois, without disclosing data for individual establishments, and those States for which it is possible to publish separate figures without disclosing such data accounted for only a small percentage of the activity of this industry (as measured by number of wage earners employed) in the United States in 1939. TABLE 1.-MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AND PARTS SUBGROUP-SUMMARY FOR THE UNITED STATES: 1899 TO 1939 MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AND PARTS 579 TABLE 1.-MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AND PARTS SUBGROUP-SUMMARY FOR THE UNITED STATES: 1899 TO Value of products less cost of materials, supplies, fuel, purchased electric energy, and contract work. See GENERAL EXPLANATIONS-Value added by manufacture. Not called for on schedule. Data not available. 'None reported for 1939. TABLE 2.-PIANOS INDUSTRY-GENERAL STATISTICS IN DETAIL, BY STATES: 1939 ' Value of products less cost of materials, supplies, containers, fuel, purchased electric energy, and contract work. See GENERAL EXPLANATIONS-Value added by manufacture. TABLE 3.-ORGANS INDUSTRY-GENERAL STATISTICS IN DETAIL, BY STATES: 1939 1 California, 2 establishments; Connecticut, 2; Illinois, 5; Indiana, 1: Kansas, 1; Kentucky, 1; Maryland, 1; Massachusetts, 3; Missouri, 2; New Jersey, 1; New York, 2, Vermont, 1. 2 See GENERAL EXPLANATIONS-Definition of establishment. 3 See GENERAL EXPLANATIONS-Persons engaged-general classification. 4 See GENERAL EXPLANATIONS-Wage earners and wages. Value of products less cost of materials, supplies, containers, fuel, purchased electric energy, and contract work. See GENERAL EXPLANATIONS-Value added by manufacture. TABLE 4.-PIANO AND ORGAN PARTS AND MATERIALS INDUSTRY-GENERAL STATISTICS IN DETAIL, BY 1 Connecticut, 1 establishment; Maryland, 1; Massachusetts, 2; New Jersey, 1; Ohio, 3; Washington, 1; Wisconsin, 1. ? See GENERAL EXPLANATIONS-Definition of establishment. 'Value of products less cost of materials, supplies, containers, fuel, purchased electric energy, and contract work. Seej GENERAL EXPLANATIONS-Value added by manufacture. MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AND PARTS 581 TABLE 5.-MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, PARTS, AND MATERIALS NOT ELSEWHERE CLASSIFIED-GENERAL STATISTICS IN DETAIL BY STATES: 1939 1 Connecticut, 2 establishments; Maryland, 1; Missouri, 1; Ohio, 4; Pennsylvania, 3; Rhode Island, 1; Wisconsin, 2. 2 See GENERAL EXPLANATIONS-Definition of establishment. * See GENERAL EXPLANATIONS-Persons engaged-general classification. 4 See GENERAL EXPLANATIONS-Wage earners and wages. Value of products less cost of materials, supplies, containers, fuel, purchased electric energy, and contract work. See GENERAL EXPLANATIONS-Value added by man. ufacture. |