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"Buy Me That Instead of the Diamond''
"I don't want to be selfish—so instead of
the diamond you promised me, let's buy a
player piano—something we can all enjoy.
"Baby Dorothy is three now and she will
be six years old before she can start taking
piano lessons. In the meantime, the new
Concert Series Q*R*S Player Rolls are such
perfect reproductions of the playing of the
world's greatest pianists that they will instil
in our little girl an instinctive love for and
understanding of good music. You know,
I always had the wrong impression of the
effect a player piano would have on a
child's musical development until I heard
these wonderful Q*R*S Rolls.
*'If Dorothy was
going to study
French, the ideal
thing for her
w o u l d be a
French governess
so she would continually hear the language
correctly spoken. It looks reasonable,
doesn't it, that a child listening to good
music would get the idea and learn much
more rapidly than if there was no music in
the home,'just as she would learn a language
more quickly if surrounded by people who
spoke that particular language.
"After all, why should we wait years until
our little girl can play for us—be without
music when we love it so—especially when
it costs so little—and they tell me you can
take a whole year to pay for a player piano,
if you wish.
"And let's have at least fifty Q-R:S Player
Rolls sent right
o u t with the
instrument —
everybody
k n o w s Q-R-S
TRADE MARK
REGISTERED
Rolls are better."
PLAYER ROLLS §re
Better
Reproduction of Q.R.S Ad on Outside Back Cover Literary Digest, April 29th