MUSIC IN INDUSTRY

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 51, 1 March 1930, Page 14

MUSIC IN INDUSTRY

Professor B. Saehsenberg, of Berlin, has been investigating the possibility of increasing workers'.output by means of rhythmical-sounds or by elimination of disturbing .noises. In one packing warehouse (according to the "Christian Science Monitor,) the workers' movements Were carefully 5 analysed. Then humming noises by various instruments were introduced-so that tho duration of each noise corresponded to a movement. Almost at onco the output rose, sharply1/in'sonfe'"cases by more than 20 per- cent; •• • -When the noises were changed, so. as .not to be in time with tho movements, output decreased.

Experiments in a spinning mil! resulted in a 15 per cent, increase of output. Tho most interesting case was in a factory manufacturing heat regulators.- J.t had been found that in one lot of 80 regulators there were as many as 60 faulty ones. It was found that a coppersmith, working in the same shop made a terrible noise. Ho was removed, and the output of regulators in a given time went up from 80 to 110, while tho faulty pieces dropped to 7 out of 110 instead of 60 out of SO.