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THE
THE KING OF PIANO PLAYERS
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7V^USIO T R R D E
BUSY TIME FOR PIANO TUNERS.
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OARDMAN
"This is about the time of year when we
are nearly driven crazy with work," said a •
tired-looking piano tuner to a reporter of
the New York Times. "Everybody wants
the piano tuned for the holidays, and most
Pronounced by experts, who have given it the
people forget about it till the last moment.
most complete tests, to be the perfect player.
And besides being the busy season, we have
Territorial allotment Is being rapidly made to
been having the most trying weather.
agents.
"These cold dry days throw pianos out Made upon Honor for 6a years.
Have no Superior^
New. "Up-to-date," Attractive Style*.
of tune, and besides that the sounding boards
SEND FOR NEW CATALOGUE.
are beginning to split. It always surprises
Factory and Warerooms t
me
what
poor
care
most
people
take
of
their
Manufacturers of the
Apollo and Orpheus Piano Players
pianos. Let a man buy an expensive watch, 543 to 549 BROADWAY, (opposite Depot)
ALBANY, N. Y.
and the Melville Clark Pianos
and he'll treat it as though it were a living
nnoafketnrcra of
Factory and Warerooms:
thing. But people don't seem to realize NEWMAN BROS.
399-405 W. Madison St., Chicago, HL what a delicate piece of mechanism a good pi-
D i j I M A t f A Parlor and
Grade
New York: The Apollo Co., 101 Fifth Ave.
ano is. Pianos are not so much affected by
heat or cold as they are by dryness or damp- Chicago Ave. and Dix St., CHICAGO. J*
ness. Of course if you stick one end of a
piano up against a stove, or a heater, or reg-
of
ister, and let the other end come near a cold, Wareroom—250& 252 Wabash Ave.,
leaky window, it'll raise Ned with it, but Factory—1025-1035 Dunning St.,
Grands and Uprights
most persons are onto that. The trouble
GRAND
Manufacturers and Dealers ift
is the piano is too dry.
PRIX
PIANO AND ORGAN LEATHERS,
"You know the sounding board—the life
530-540 Atlantic Avenue. Boston. Mass
PARIS
of
a
piano—is
forced
into
the
case,
when
1900
Por Catalogues and Information Call on or
it is made, so tightly that it bulges up in
Address:
the centre, or has a 'belly,' as we call it, on
" O W N - M A K E "
the same principle as a violin. The wood
BAND INSTRUMENTS
is supposed to be as dry as possible, but, of
CINCINNATI
are used by prominent soloists in the following
CHICAQO
organizations:
course, it contains some moisture, and gath-
U. 5 . Marine Band. Theo. Thomas' Chicago
LOUISVILLE
ers a lot more on damp days, and in handling.
Orchestra, Rosenbecker's Symphony Or-
INDIANAPOLIS
chestra, The Kilties. Canada's Crack Band,
Now, when you put a piano in a dry, over-
TERRA HAUTE
T. B. Brooke's Band, Banda Rossa, Indian-
heated room, all this moisture is dried out,
ST. LOUIS *
apolis nilitary Band, Illinois First Regiment
Band, DeBaugh's Band, American Band,and
ESTABLISHED 1869
and the board loses its 'belly' and gets flabby,
many others.
and finally cracks. Even if it doesn't crack,
LYON & HEALY have been appointed sole agents
for
the celebrated
Manufacturers of HKJH ORADE
the tone loses its resonance, and grows thin
and tinny, and the felt cloth and leather used
which can be played with either closed or open O Sharp
in the action dry up. Then the whole ma-
Key. I he greatest invention ever applied to a flute.
East *32d St. & Alexander Ave., New York chine rattles and everybody kicks.
FARRAND ORGAN COMPANY, "How can you prevent it? Easily enough.
DETROIT, MICH.
Keep a growing plant in the room, and so
Manufacturers of High Grade
199 WABASH AVENUE,
CHICAQO
long as your plant thrives your piano ought
Reed Organs, Cecilian Piano Players and
to, or else there is something wrong with it.
Olympia Self-Playing Organs.
Just try it, and see how much more water
you'll have to pour on the flower pot in the
room where your piano is than in any other
_
Manufacturers of
^
MANUFACTURERS OP
room.
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Fine Piano
v$
"Some people keep a huge vase or urn PIANO BASS and
MALL MUSICAL
with a sopping wet sponge in it near or un- NSTRUMENT
Montclair, New Jersey. der the piano, and keep it moistened just as
312, 316 East 95th Street.
a cigar dealer keeps his stock. They keep
NEW YORK.
this up all the time the fires are on."
Apollo
at GRAY-
PIANOS
ESTABLISHED—IN—1837.
Melville dark Piano Co..
THE
BALDWIN
PIANO
LYON & HEALY
D: H. BALDWIN & CO.
Kroeger Piano Co*
Schreiber-Boehm Flutes
PIANOS
N. Y. Co-operative
Piano String Co.
STRINGS
VARNISH
PIANOS
Siiake Money for the Tfealers
Catalogue and Information can be had by addreaaln*
FELL DOWN ELEVATOR SHAFT.
IANOS
Arthur Walsh, fourteen years old, of 1520
Washington Avenue, the Bronx, an errand
of Sterfiqg
boy employed by the Weber-Wheelock Co.,
Quafity aod fow Priced.
108 Fifth avenue, was killed in that build-
THE SCHUilANN IS THE OREATEST VALUB
ft
pays Deafers to fjarydfe tftem.
POR THE nONEY HADE.
ing last Saturday afternoon by falling down
Schumann Piano Co.
Correspondence
the elevator shaft.
Solicited
uj-iafl LaStlle Avenue, Chicago^ II.
How many stories the boy fell no one
FACTORY AND OFFICE.
4O2 to 4IO West 14th Street, New York.
knows.
The
elevator
had
stopped
for
the
L, MHRSHKLL
day, and it is assumed the boy was running
(E. M. BOOTHE, Treas.)
it and in some way toppled out of the car.
Walsh was found at the bottom of the el-
of
NEW YOKK evator shaft dead. The elevator was at
Office, Warerooms and Factory,
the fourth floor and all the doors leading to
1881
and J883 PARK AVE.,
it were closed.
Corner
128th Street, New York.
. . NEW YORK . .
A second motion has been filed, this time Dealers «*curlng: territory will be protected
Address Office, 503 Fifth Ave., Cor. 42d St.
by a creditor, for the removal of the receiver
Piano Keys and Cases
appointed recently to take charge of the bus-
T h e N e w Y o r k P i a n o K e y C o . In not only maintaining Its repu-
tation or making the best Planu ami Pi)w Organ Keys In this country, but hava
iness
of
the
Wolfram
Guitar
Co.,
Columbus,
•dded to their plant a first-class H i u u o C a s e M a k i n g D e p a r t m e n t .
PIPE ORGANS
»nd guarantee to furnish th» very best of case work at the lowest price puMlhla.
O.
>4MB«* and Factory ferfaotb department! » t Fetert>or». * H-
HAQERSTOWN, VD.
, 524-534 E. 134th St., N. Y.
ScDMtnann Pianos
KOHLER & CAMPBELL,
American Piano