Music Trade Review

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14TH OF THE REVIEW PRIZE SERIES
Won by I. Sherberne, Rochester, N. Y.
No.
14
In What Manner Do the High Grade
Instruments Maintain the Industry
on an Elevated Plane ?
Any meritorious branch of an industry naturally
tends to elevate other inferior branches of that particular
industry for, generally speaking, the average individual
reasons that whatever is qualified and reputable in one
line can, in most likelihood, be depended upon in
another.
The high grade instruments raise public taste to
a position where it demands universal quality. The
result is that all patrons expect to find the same degree
of excellence in all instruments. High grade elements,
in any field of activity, always uplift public ideals.
Everyone expects and demands the best.
Then, too, the high grade instruments furnish a
standard which the manufacturers of inferior pianos
continually strive to reach. This is true in any industry.
By giving complete and impartial satisfaction the
high grade pianos abolish the customary dissatisfied and
complaining patron. Surely this is maintaining the
industry "on an elevated plane."
There are five main reasons, then, why the high
grade instruments maintain the industry on an elevated
plane; by holding public taste to a high standard; by
doing away with the dissatisfied and complaining patron ;
by furnishing a high standard for manufacturers of
inferior instruments; by uplifting public ideals and by
instilling confidence into other lines.
Generally speaking, the high grade pianos are an
advertisement for the inferior instruments. They not
only maintain the industry on an elevated plane but
continually tend to raise that same plane to a higher
elevation,