Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1874 — Exports of Musical Instruments. [ARTICLE]

Exports of Musical Instruments.

Official record's of Custom-House returns at Washington show that the total walue of musical instruments exported from the United States during the year ending June 30, 1874, was $550,327. Of this, $‘258,176 was for pianos and $292,151 for parlor or leed organs. Of this latter amount $163,169', or more than onejialf of the whole, was of the cabinet organs made by the Mason & Hamlin Organ Co., which bid fair to become as famous in Europe as-they have long been in America. This company certainly have reason to be proud of the fftet that the European demand for their organs is larger than that for all others combined.— Boston Traveller. —The largest merchant-ship ever built in Maine was launched at Kenriebunkport on the 26th of October. Her dimensions are: Length on deck, 263 feet; length of keel, 258 feet; breadth of beam, 43 feet; depth of hold. 30 feet.