Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1911 — Making Musical Instruments. [ARTICLE]

Making Musical Instruments.

As a large share of the $1,350,000 Import of musical instruments into the United States last year came from Austria, the following note on their manufacture may be of intersst:

Musical instruments to the value of $152,029 were-shipped last year from the town of Graslitz, in the Carlsbad sonsular district, to the United States. In 1908 the shipments amounted to $112,299 and in 1907 to $178,910. A large proportion of the Inhabitants pf the village, numbering about 15,000, (s engaged in the manufacture of brass horns, trumpets, bugles, cymbals, etc. There are 11 concerns, which employ 20 to 210 men in the factory, and for which hundreds of men, women and children work at home. In addition, there'are 130 master .makers of musical instruments, who employ 766 workmen. The total number engaged in the industry ic shout 4,000. The hours of labor in the factory are from 7 a. m. to 1 p. m., with half hour midmomlng and midafternoon resting spells and an hour at noon for dinner. The wages range from $2..43 to $6.09 a week, do pending on the skill of the workman. —Consular Report.