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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
Victor Wins Grand Prize
Ernest R. Kroeger
Chairman
Bureau of Music,
World's Fair
Read this letter
from the judges
of musical instruments
at the St. Louis Exposition
N. J . Corey
Secretary.
Organ Expert and
Musical Lecturer,
Detroit
Emil Mollenhauer
Director Handel and
Haydn Society
and Apollo Club,
of Hoston
December 8, 1904.
Group Jury 21.
The Jury of Awards on .Musical Instruments
at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition gave
the Victor Talking Machine and Victor Records
the Grand Prize, the highest possible award
John A. O'Shea
Organist
St. Cecelia
Church and Teacher of
Music in the Public
Schools of Boston
over all other talking machines at the
Exposition.
The Victor was the only talking machine
Richard W. Gertz
Tone Expert and Secre-
tary of Mason & Hamlin
Piano & Organ Co.; also
Win. Gcrtz Piano Co..
I Nmovcr, (iermany.
that received from the musical jury a per^
centage high enough to be entitled to a
Grand Prize, under the rules governing the
judging of exhibits.
Max H. Mattes
Tone Expert on Pianos
and Organs for the New
York Conservatory ri
Music
The Grand Prize was unanimously awarded
by this jury of musical experts to the Victor
Composer and
Expert Pianist,
St. Louis
Talking Machine, because of its marked su-
periority as a musical instrument over all
other sound-reproducing machines shown.
Theo. B. Spiering
Expert on String and
Wind Instruments,
Philadelphia
Dr. F. C. Rieloff
Imperial
German Consul,
St. Louis
Violin Expert,
Chicago Musical
College
g
Machine
Emile Terquem
Music Publisher,
Paris, France
"His Master'* Voice