PIANO "RATIONS"
ONE-TENTH OF THE PRE-WAR OUTPUT. The reason that second-hand pianos iw fetching such high prices (says the "Daily Mail") is that the English production of new instruments is only a tenth of the pre-war output. Four years ago 126,000 pianos were made in' England. But the war has made copper scarce, and six weeks ago the piano trade was rationed for three I'willis, on a bnsis which would allow of tho making of 12,500 pianos a year, and the condition, was added that threequarters of the pianos made should be exported or supplied to the Y.M.C.A. huts or the canteens of the Navy and Army Canteen Board.
Small manufacturers, a large proportion of the 16(1 in the United Kingdom, complain that they are on the verge of a crisis. When tho facts are asccrtaiiie-il they are to he placed before tho Ministry of Munitions, in the hopo of some extension of tho metal ration.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 117, 4 February 1918, Page 6
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