WHAT AMERICA SPENDS ON MUSIC.
If expenditure of money ie any gauge, America can certainly claim the credit of being a musical country. According to a carefully compiled estimate by Mr. John P. i'rt-und (published in "Musical America"), the United States spends no less tlmn JE120,000,000 on music every year. This is three times as much as the same country spends on its army and navy, while "musical Germany," it is pointed out, spends ten times _ as much on its army and navy as on its music. In the American total, church musio accounts for ,£10,000,000 a year. The sale of pianos reaches .£27,000, 000, or organs £2,000,000, of gramophones and records ,£13,000,000, and of sheet music and music books .£2,100,000. Sir. Freund add 9 that from 70 to 75 per cent. Df the total is spent by women.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1899, 6 November 1913, Page 2
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139WHAT AMERICA SPENDS ON MUSIC. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1899, 6 November 1913, Page 2
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