The yearly percentage of increase in the 85,000,000 population of the United States, the accretion, as it were, is in itself immense. If one looks at the situation in the abstract and declares that these 300,000 pianos represent a retail value of something like $90,000,000, then it is that the larger aspect is impressed upon the mind. It must be borne in mind that piano fashions change that pianos wear out that thousands of new homes are being established every year in which the love of music is manifest, and the piano is its ordinary means of expression. Those who are unacquainted with the piano field and with piano statistics will be inclined to look upon these figures as something enormous. This year, owing to prevailing conditions, it is likely that the output will be somewhat less, but if so, there will not be any serious falling off. That was approximately the piano product of the United States during 1906. Chicago The Great Central Market Magazine, July 1907
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