Hi. I'm trying to find out:

1) How many music schools that offer accordion lessons are in
operation in the US today OR
2) How many accordions were sold in the US last year

I have emailed a US manufacturer of accordions in the hope of getting
nonproprietary information on total U.S. accordion sales in 2003.  I
will let you know what I find out.

markj-ga

I found the following information pertaining to Question 2:

"Accordions are manufactured in many countries. Most production takes
place in Italy, Austria, Germany, France, Russia, Czechoslovakia &
China. Some small production is from the U.S.A. and other countries,
primarily using German or Italian components & assembling them.

The number of manufacturers fluctuates all the time. They range from
one person hand building an instrument at a time, to cottage
industires assembling components, to worker groups (co-operatives), to
fullscale factories. At one stage, manufacturers in Germany and Italy
were making approximately 750,000 instruments per year."

www.accordions.com/index/faq/faq.shtml

"'Trick Bothers' of Toledo, Ohio were the last accordion manufacturers
to operate in the United States"

www.accordion.com/rose

infonut7

dianamaps --

I got an email reply from a manager at the Hohner company who said
that statistics on U.S. sales of accordions have not be been compiled
for many years.

markj-ga