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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
Twenty=five Dollars
for an Idea.
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ANN ARBOR ORGAN COMPANY,
'S
of Ann Arbor, Mich., sole agents for the
Clifford piano, are willing to buy ideas and pay
cash for them. They offer $25.00 in cash for the
most desirable catch line for the Clifford piano.
Competition is open for everybody, and ideas
are solicited. If there be a second catch line of
special merit, the sum of $10.00 will be given for
it. The following are the conditions : By catch
line is meant a phrase such as '' You press the
button, we do the rest " of the Kodak Company ;
or '' Good Morning, have you used Pears Soap ? ''
These lines should be not less than five, and not
more than ten words. The following ideas are
offered : ' • Keep your eye on the Clifford Piano '';
" Best because built best " ; " The Clifford tone
is the tone you have looked for." Any person
can submit as many lines as they choose. Each
catch line must be enclosed in a separate envel-
ope and signed by a fictitious name, and address-
ed to the Ann Arbor Organ Company, Ann Ar-
bor, Mich. Another envelope containing the
fictitious name and the correct name and address
of the sender should be addressed to the Clifford
Piano Company, Ann Arbor, Mich. The envel-
opes containing the fictitious names will first be
opened, the others remaining sealed. When
the best line has been chosen, the second envel-
opes will be opened and a draft sent to the
author of the best line. A two cent stamp
.should be enclosed in each envelope for return
icply.
A few facts regarding the Clifford piano may
be of interest. The Clifford piano is manufac-
tured by the Clifford Piano Company, of which
Mr. Clifford C. Checkering, for twelve years em-
ployed in the factory of Chickering & Sons, of
Boston, is general superintendent. Among the
stockholders of the Clifford piano are certain
stockholders of the Ann Arbor Organ Company,
which latter Company are sole general factors
for tbe sale of the Clifford piano. The piano is
of artistic design, is made of the very best ma-
terial, and is destined to make a place for itself
among the high grade pianos. Its beautiful
tone is a source of favorable commeat from all,
and on its tone, more than, perhaps, any other
point, do the manufacturers base their claim for
superiority.
4?HRISTIAN L. O. AI/TKNBURG has just
**> patented what he terms a "treble bridge
for pianos." It is thus described: This is a
bridge supported at one end in such manner that
the treble strings pass over its free, vibrating
end, the bridge being fastened at one end on the
string frame and its free end extending into a
recess of the frame. It is designed that, with
this arrangement, the short treble strings when
struck by the hammer will give a full and sweet
sound.
A Novel Display of a Piano.
New Wood Stains.
-E saw in a thoroughfare of a neighboring
city recently an arrangement for a win-
dow which seemed to us both novel and bene-
ficial to the dealer who wishes to display a piano
in his window.
This dealer did not have a very large store nor
a very large window, and yet he wished to have
a piano in it. So he took out the window floor-
ing as it is generally built and ran his carpet
Into the alcove formed by the window (which
was a projecting one), and in this alcove placed
his piano.
However he dealt not only in pianos, but in
sheet music as well, so he put a little shelf
sloping down to the frame all about the lower
part of the window where the glass meets the
frame, and on this placed some of his most
attractive-looking music, making a very attrac-
tive display of both music and piano.
This could not be used in a store which was
raised much above the sidewalk ; but under
proper circumstances it has a most pleasing
effect.—Strings.
Jgj& SOLUTION of fifty parts of commercial
® S alizarin in one thousand parts of water, to
which solution of ammonia has been added,
drop by drop, until a perceptible ammonia odor
is developed, will give to fir and oak a yellow-
brown color, and to maple a red-brown. If the
wood is then treated with a one per cent, aque-
ous barium chloride solution, the first named
become brown, and the latter a dark brown. If
calcium chloride be used instead of barium
chloride, the fir becomes brown, the oak red-
brown, and the maple a dark brown. If a two
per cent, aqueous solution of magnesium sul-
phate be used, the fir and the oak become dark
brown, and the maple a dark violet-brown.
Alum and aluminum sulphate produce on fir a
high red, and on oak and maple a blood red.
Chrome alum colors maple and fir reddish
brown, and oak Havana brown. Finally, man-
ganese sulphate renders fir and maple a beautiful
dark violet-brown, and oak a dark walnut-
brown. All the colors are said to be very fine.—
Scientific American.
Treble Bridgej;for Pianos.
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PHOTO-ENGRAVING HALFTONES £
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