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The Music Trade Review
NOVEMBER, 1929
MAGIC in MEN'S WANDS
M
EN'S HANDS are magi-
cal. They master matter
with strange craft. They fuse
into its fibre men's wills and
dreams, men's souls. Machines
can duplicate. They cannot cre-
ate. The hands of craftsmen are
conductors of a creative current
from mind to material. Only the
hands of craftsmen can impart
to a lifeless thing a soul.
For eighty-seven years, the
hands of craftsmen have created
the Hardman Piano. In a fine,
high tradition they have wrou ght,
in wood, metal, strings, the
magic of incomparable tone.
To that which craftsmen's
hands create, men's hearts pay
tribute. More Hardman Pianos
were sold last year than in any
other year in Hardman history.
More people come each day to
the Home of the Hardman than
ever before.
Eternally young with creative
vitality that must be expressed,
the hands of Hardman crafts-
men, last year, caught in the
wood that encased the instru-
ment the spirit of a new age,
and created a modernistic piano
—the Modernique. It was youth,
pioneering. And men responded.
Craftsmanship rests not alone
with the Hardman, for in Amer-
ica there are at least five pianos
of the finer type. The hands of
men have wrought more than
one kind of beauty—even of the
beauty of tone. All should be
heard —the tones of all com-
pared; but the ear should wait
for the one among them that
sings superbly of the hands that
brought it into being.
HARDMAN, PECK & COMPANY
433 Fifth Avenue, New York
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