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THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
marred. In three years we moved it to Lander,
100 miles away overland, and here it is to-day,
tiever having been tuned, and utill in splendid
Purchased Over Thirteen Years Ago, Is Jolted
shape. I and many others can vouch for this
Over Hills and Dales for Hundreds of Miles,
statement, incredible as it may seem.
Withstands 40 Degrees Below Zero and Still
"No one without a true ear would notice a
Keeps in Tune—An Interesting Letter to
single note out of tune, but. of course they shade
Wm. Knabe & Co. from Lander, Wyo.
off in the base and treble a little, but not much.
Proofs of the reliability and all-around musi- The middle notes that are used the most show
cal excellence of the Knabe piano reach the it less than all the others. I am a singer, edu-
manufacturers, Wm. Knabe & Co., with gratify- cated by Boston's best teacher, and was a mem-
ing frequency. Recently unsolicited letters have ber of the Cecilia Club and sang tor years in the
been received from dealers and purchasers who Scmerville churches, so you may know I realize
my good fortune in owning such an instrument
have sold the Knabe piano for a long period of
years, in which this instrument is complimented and that I possess a really good ear.
"One other thing I will mention and then I am
for its musical vitality, thus demonstrating that
not only is the piano built right, but that it con- through. This being a very dry climate and
tains a scale so accurately drafted that there is with an altitude of about 6,000 feet, it is very hard
aD even distribution in all parts, which accounts to keep the uprights in town in tune. In a few
months after tuning they are so badly off the
for its staying-in-tune properties.
This fact has unquestionably helped to make pitch one cannot listen with any comfort. I've
the Knabe esteemed by its owners, for it with- been afraid to have any of these itinerant tun-
stands atmospheric changes in the most trying ers touch mine, and I really would like to have
it tuneo. We leave here in June, and I wish
climates. An illustration of this was conveyed
to have it boxed and shipped. Will you tell me
in a letter received by the Baltimore house of
Wm. Knabe & Co. recently, which lead as fol- the nearest city that I can get a box and what
I ought to pay, and describe to me how it is
lows :
screwed to the instrument.
"Lander, Wyo., May 6, 1910.
"Thanking you in advance and congratulating
"Wm. Knabe & Co., Baltimore, Md.:
"Gentlemen—I have a bit of information in you on your marvelous make of pianos, I remain,
(Signed)
regard to my Knabe baby grand that you deserve Yours truly,
"Mrs. G. B. W."
to know. I bought the piano of the Haynes
Musical Instruments Co., over Ditson's, on Wash-
ington street, Boston, in 1896 or 1897 (I have for-
OPEN PERMANENT BRANCH.
gotten which), and in 1900 I married and moved
it to Wyoming in July. It was loaded to a 14-
The Segerstrom Piano Co., St. Paul, Minn.,
horse freight outfit for a 210-mile journey over- who have conducted a temporary piano wareroom
land, and crossed fifteen rivers and streams, in Omaha, Neb., for some time past, have finally
many of them very rocky and deep; up and down moved into permanent quarters at 1808 Parnam
steep, rough hills the like of which I had never street, that city, with V. E. Segerstrom in
beheld. Sat out in the yard one year while our charge. The Omaha branch will be the Nebras-
house was being built, and that winter the ther- ka distributing point for the house.
mometer registered 40 degrees below zero. When
it was finally unboxed and moved into the house
W. A. Lindquist is a new piano dealer in
not a note was out of tune, nor any surface Cokato, Minn.
A KNABE WITH A RECORD.
MUSIC TO PREVENT CRIME.
French
Deputy
Urges Its Use in Influencing
the Young.
A despatch from Paris says that Marcel Sem-
bat, a Socialist Deputy, is developing the thesis
that society ought to make use of music, which,
the poet says, has charms to soothe the savage
breast, for the prevention of crime through its
influence upon human character in process of
formation.
"I firmly believe," he declares, "that instruc-
tion in art, and in music particularly, would
turn many young persons, especially those of
the laboring class, from the evil way that leads
to tne wineshop and too often to prison.
"The alternative of virtue or vice is presented
at a certain age before each of us. Temptation
to crime is chiefly the desire to possess the
means of pleasing the opposite sex. The cultiva-
tion of music or other arts will produce legiti-
mate opportunities for the healthful association
of young men and young women and will afford
the needed relief from daily toil, while giving to
it a zest which is now lacking, and will tend to
arrest the rapid growth of that class which is
the fruit of a diseased and unnaturally restricted
civilization—the Apaches."
PROSPEROUS TIMES IN THE WEST.
Reports from piano dealers in the great farm-
ing districts of the West are to the effect that
the farmers in that section of the country are
well supplied with money, are in a mood to
spend it and that the piano men are getting their
share. The excellent outlook for crops has
served to make the dealers optimistic regarding
the future and even in the smaller towns they
are preparing to handle an increased business.
The Schmoller & Mueller Music Co. have
opened warerooms in Mitchell, S. D., where they
are displaying a fine line of stock.
THE VOUGH WITH THE CHANGEABLE PITCH
The Vough with the
If you have not in-
Changeable Pitch has
vestigated
been growing steadily
the special
merits of this interest-
in the estimation of the
ing pianistic creation,
dealers.
do so at once.
It is an original piano
It will be to your
and different from any
business advantage.
other.
VOUGH—STYLE E.
VOUGH PIANO CO.
WM. C. VOUGH, President
CHAS. O. BECKER, Secretary
FACTORIES, WATERLOO, NEW YORK