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Ayars, Contributions to the Art of Music in America by the Music Industries of Boston (1937) — the Squier, Farley, Rettberg, Rockwell and Elias Howe matter, 1937
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12. Present Day Music Printers
3It may be interesting to compare conditions in the music printing industry and the relative importance of Massachusetts firms in this industry both before and after the onset of the depression. The United States Census of Manufactures gives the total number of establishments for the whole country as 119 in 1927 and 103 in 1931. The total value of the product (sheet music and music books combined) was $17,146,715. in 1927 and $12,203,657. in 1931, a decrease of 28.8 per cent. In 1927 there were four states doing a volume of business of over one million dollars each, namely New York, the largest, Massachusetts next, Illinois and Pennsylvania. In 1931 there were only three doing that volume of business—New York first with $7,677,757., Massachusetts second with $1,112,415. and Illinois third with $1,008,181.
5WHITE-SMITH MUSIC PUBLISHING COMPANY
7This firm started engraving, printing and binding a few years after its founding in 1867.
9It was one of the first firms to use the lithographic process in its printing which is largely sheet music. The founder of the company also experimented some forty to fifty years ago with the photographic process but gave it up as the method was not then perfected.
11Besides its own publications this company has done printing of all types of music for large and small publishers located all over the United States, and individuals as far away as Cuba, Hawaii, South America and South Africa. English and Spanish guitar and mandolin instruction books have been the principal works printed for the Spanish-speaking countries, and English and French instruction books for Canada. It also helped to establish a music printing plant in Canada.
13JOHN WORLEY COMPANY
15This firm originated in Philadelphia about sixty years ago under the name of the Zabel-Worley Company. John Worley, a partner in this concern, withdrew from the Zabel Brothers, who then represented the Zabel interests, came to Boston in 1904 and
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