Music Trade Review

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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
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WanamaKer Advertising
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of the ANGELUS
Perfect
Control of
Expression
Features of the ANGELVS VixequaJed ii\ Any Other Piaivo-Player
There is no royal road to soulful musical expression. There never can be. "Out of the fulness of the heart the mouth
speaketh," and all the books of rhetoric in the world can't teach a man to speak out of any other man's heart. A man
must feel what he says, else he makes only parrot-talk.
It is exactly the same in music. All Angelus music is marked for interpretation; and if a motor was attached, and an
automatic guide inserted, you could have piano playing without an effort on your part at all; and the machine could move
levers just in the same place, and just as fast or slow as Paderewski did; but it would bring to the musical ear just about the
same sensation that the shadow of a loaf of bread would bring to a hungry man. Such an instrument would be a toy of
which one would tire in a day or two.
The ANGELVS H&s & Different Aim
Its makers recognize that the supreme requirement for playing the piano is the artistic instinct in a man or woman.
The Angelus is the AID that supplies everything but the human feeling. It reads the notes and strikes the keys. It
supplies expression devices that enable the player to produce exactly the effect desired.
And yet, see just how convenient and simple it all is:
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Note that the expression devices are conveniently arranged under the two hands of the player. The thumb of the left
hand controls the accentuento lever, or soft pedal. The first finger of the same hand rests on the piston that softens the
treble independently of the bass. The second finger rests on the other piston which softens the bass independently of the
treble, thus subduing the accompaniment, and bringing out the melody as the player desires.
The thumb of the right hand controls the loud or sustaining pedal; and the fingers of this hand rest on the PHRASING
LEVER, which gives the wonderful powers of expression unknown to all other piano-players.
There is nothing complicated, nothing hard to understand, no reaching here and there to find various awkwardly placed
devices. And yet the control is so absolute, so definite and positive, the action so sensitive, the response so immediate, that
all the effects of most expert hand-playing are realized by the player of the Angelus.
It is not strange that the Angelus should stand alone.
The Angelus was invented by its makers.
All other piano-players were copied, as nearly as patent laws would allow, from the Angelus.
The perfection of the Angelus to-day has grown from the ripening artistic ideas of inventors, working along the lines of
perfecting the control of expression in the hands of the player.
Other piano-players are still copying what they can, or adding devices and guide-posts to draw their machines back to
the mechanical and arbitrary expression again.
The true musician, if he has the musical instinct, will learn music in a way that is gratifying and truly delightful, by aid
of the Angelus. If he requires more guides, his musical education is hopeless; and he would neither enjoy nor use the more
mechanical thing if he could secure it.
The new Angelus, just perfected this Summer, is the supreme effort of the brains which gave the first piano-playing
device to the world six years ago.
Now being demonstrated daily in our Piano Store.
Price, $250. Sold on easy monthly payments, if desired.
Piano Store, Fifth Floor.