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INDUSTRY OVERVIEW

The global market for musical instruments is increasing tremendously. Some of the top global companies making musical instruments are: Yamaha Corp., Casio Computer Co. Ltd., Steinway Musical Instruments, , Baldwin Piano & Organ Co Kawai Musical Instruments Mfg. Co., Ltd., Petrof Spol SRO, Pearl River Piano Group Ltd., Roland Corp., Samick Musical Instruments Co. Ltd., Inc., Boston Piano Co., Kemble & Company, and Young Chang Co. Ltd.

GLOBAL STATISTICS

The percentage growth in world import of musical instruments is recorded as 13.40% ( US$ 38,807.5 million) for year 2003. United States, Germany, United Kingdom, France, China, Canada, and Japan are major importing countries of musical instruments. Countries with steep growth in musical instruments import are: United Kingdom (71.28%), China (31.76%), Singapore (25.37%), and Italy (22.71%).

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The percentage growth in world export of musical instruments is recorded as 16.09% ( US$38,966.8 million ) in 2003. Major export countries of musical instruments are: United States, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, Singapore, Ireland, United Kingdom, China, and France. The growth in musical instrument export for some countries is: USA (2.83%), Germany (16.91%), Japan (16.92%), UK (2.44%), China (37.61%), France (13.34%).

COUNTRY STATISTICS

Germany : consists of 68 small and medium-sized musical instrument companies, which depend heavily on musical instrument exports – 62.2% of production is exported. Total sales of EUR 413.2 million was recorded in 2004. Musical instruments worth EUR 234.1 million were imported in Germany. Japan, China and US are main importers of Germany.

United States : consists of around 550 musical instrument manufacturing companies. The total annual revenue is US$2billion, with 50 biggest companies holding more than 80% of the total market. Major products are string instruments, which account for 20% of the market. Woodwind instruments account for 10% of the market. In 2006, export revenue was recorded as whooping $558,271,000 and import revenue was recorded as $599,756,000.

China :Musical instrument industry grew rapidly in 2003 setting an unprecedented record of 3.59 million units, with percussion instruments, wind instruments, accordions and mouth organs making a total of 1.00 million units. Stringed instruments(Y5.8 billion), wind instruments(Y5.2 billion), electric and electronic instruments (Y13.2 billion) constituted 78.9% of total musical instrument export in 2003.

A device constructed to produce musical sounds is known as Musical Instrument. The academic study of musical instruments is known as organology. Historians consider human body as the first musical instrument as it generates vocal and percussion sounds. In China, flutes made of bone and as old as 9000years have been discovered.

The chief material used in making musical instrument is wood, copper, brass, silver, and gold. More than 200 different tree species are used to make these instruments, such as, Ebonies, rosewoods and Mahoganies. These trees are famous for their resonance power and beauty in making musical instruments.

Types of musical instruments
There is no universal single classification of musical instruments. One instrument may belong to more than one category. However, they are broadly divided into following categories based on the way the sound is produced.

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS