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Scan 156
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
30 lines. Read by computer on 27 September 2026. Printed page 134. See the scan on archive.org.
1In 1931 the census states that the value of the pipe organ annual products not given for Connecticut, Maryland and New Jersey were larger than those of some states which were given and the same is probably true for some states not listed separately in 1927. Among those given individually in the more normal year of 1927 the five Massachusetts manufacturers made larger, more expensive instruments on the average than the rest, the figures being as follows:
3<table>
4 <tr>
5 <th>State</th>
6 <th>Value</th>
7 <th>Average value per organ</th>
8 </tr>
9 <tr>
10 <td>Massachusetts</td>
11 <td>$16,718</td>
12 <td>"</td>
13 </tr>
14 <tr>
15 <td>California</td>
16 <td>6,895</td>
17 <td>"</td>
18 </tr>
19 <tr>
20 <td>New York</td>
21 <td>6,097</td>
22 <td>"</td>
23 </tr>
24 <tr>
25 <td>Illinois</td>
26 <td>3,927</td>
27 <td>"</td>
28 </tr>
29</table>
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