Analysis
NAICS 339992 is the 2022 national industry for musical instrument manufacturing, part of 33999 (All Other Miscellaneous Manufacturing). Census lists 48 example activities under it in the official index.
County Business Patterns counts 609 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 11,633 people at an average annual payroll of $54,746 per employee (24th percentile of national industries). 57% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which is close to the national mix.
Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include accordions and parts manufacturing, autophones (organs with perforated music rolls)…, banjos and parts manufacturing and bassoons manufacturing, among 48 in all.
Its goods appear in 65 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 9209 (parts (for example, mechanisms for music boxes) and…), 9205 (wind musical instruments (for example, keyboard pipe…) and 9201 (pianos, including player pianos; harpsichords and other…). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.
For example, manufacturing toy musical instruments are classified in 339930 (Doll, Toy, and Game Manufacturing) instead.
Census lists 1 related activities that belong elsewhere, most often in 339930. Businesses that do several things are classified by their primary activity, the one that generates the most value, so check those boundaries before settling on this code.
Official definition
This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing musical instruments (except toys).
Source: US Census Bureau, NAICS 2022 Manual.
Not this code if…
| The business mainly does | Use instead |
|---|---|
| Manufacturing toy musical instruments | 339930 Doll, Toy, and Game Manufacturing |
Index entries (48)
- Accordions and parts manufacturing
- Autophones (organs with perforated music rolls) manufacturing
- Banjos and parts manufacturing
- Bassoons manufacturing
- Bells (musical instruments) manufacturing
- Calliopes (steam organs) manufacturing
- Cellos and parts manufacturing
- Chimes and parts (musical instruments) manufacturing
- Clarinets and parts manufacturing
- Cornets and parts manufacturing
- Cymbals and parts manufacturing
- Drums (musical instruments), parts, and accessories manufacturing
- Electric musical instruments manufacturing
- Flutes and parts manufacturing
- Fretted instruments and parts manufacturing
- Guitars and parts, electric and nonelectric, manufacturing
- Hammers, piano, manufacturing
- Harmonicas manufacturing
- Harps and parts manufacturing
- Harpsichords manufacturing
- Instruments, musical, manufacturing
- Keyboards, piano or organ, manufacturing
- Knobs, organ, manufacturing
- Mandolins manufacturing
- Mouthpieces for musical instruments manufacturing
- Music rolls, perforated, manufacturing
- Musical instrument accessories (e.g., mouthpieces, reeds, stands, traps) manufacturing
- Musical instruments (except toy) manufacturing
- Oboes manufacturing
- Ocarinas manufacturing
- Octophones manufacturing
- Percussion musical instruments manufacturing
- Piano parts and materials (except piano hardware) manufacturing
- Piccolos and parts manufacturing
- Pipes, organ, manufacturing
- Reeds, musical instrument, manufacturing
- Saxophones and parts manufacturing
- Strings, musical instrument, manufacturing
- Synthesizers, music, manufacturing
- Trombones and parts manufacturing