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Scan 123
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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1ever, the need for sufficient capital and necessity of economizing in the overhead and purchase of materials for manufacture to help meet the inroads of the phonograph and the radio on pianoforte sales have been no inconsiderable factors in this result. Another interesting point is the change in the relative importance of grands as shown by the larger volume of grands manufactured in the entire country and particularly in Massachusetts between 1927 and 1931 in comparison with the number of uprights. This was undoubtedly due to the increasing popularity of baby grands which constituted in 1931 the largest number of pianofortes made.
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