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Year vs Size

The table below shows how many tower tube instruments the J.C.Deagan Company produced each year, according to size (number of tones).  The "x2" and "x3" columns refer to instruments which contained two or three sets of tubes, respectively.  The table includes a row for unknown year of installation and a column for unknown size of instrument.  The "all sizes" column at right gives the totals produced for each year; the "all years" row at the bottom gives the total of each size produced over the years.  Instruments known to have been enlarged by Deagan are counted at their final size and the year they reached that size.

YEAR 1 to 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 18 19 20 21 22 25 30 32 37 20x2 32x2 32x3 (unk) ALL SIZES
(unknown) 1 1 1 1 4
1918           1                             1
1919                                        
1920       1       2                         3
1921 1 1           2   1                     5
1922 1 7   2       5 2                       17
1923 1 13   1 1 2   15 3   1                   37
1924 1 19   4       10 8   3                   45
1925   11   7       19 4   2                   43
1926 1 18   5   1   11 3   5   1               45
1927   13   1   1   11 2 1 10     3             42
1928 1 10 1 1   1 1 13     4 1   2             35
1929   5 2         9 4   4     2             26
1930   7   2       4 1   3     4             21
1931 2 7           2 2         1             14
1932   2           1     2     1             6
1933   1                 2                   3
1934   1           1 1                       1 4
1935   3   1       1 1   1     2       1     10
1936 1 3           3 1         2             10
1937 1 1             1         1             4
1938       2       2           2             6
1939 1 3           2     1     2 1           10
1940   1           1           1   1         4
1941 1 1           5     1     1             9
1942               2                         2
1943                           1   1         2
1944                           1             1
1945                                         0
1946   1           1               5         7
1947 1 1                 1     2   2         7
1948 2               2                       4
1949               1 1                       2
1950 1                                   1   2
1951-5                                         0
1956                                       1(96) 1
1957                                         0
1958                                       1(97) 1
ALL YEARS 16 130 3 27 1 6 1 124 36 2 40 1 1 29 1 9 1 1 1 2 1 433

Altogether 433 instruments are known to have been made, as can be seen from the bottom right corner of the table above.  However, the actual total production may have been somewhat more; the corporate listing does not mention at least one relocation done by Deagan, and it appears to omit installations which they could have known had been destroyed, scrapped or replaced.

For a similar reason, the table cannot be used to compute how many tower tubes were produced in a given year; some instruments had begun with fewer tones in an earlier year, and of those, some were enlarged while others were replaced with larger instruments.  It is possible that some of the replaced instruments were recycled (in whole or in part) into later installations.

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