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WILCOX & WHITE ADVERTISING IN THE CURRENT MAGAZINES.
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T h e Angelus G r a n d Player-
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The Angelus Grand Player-
Piano of 1896.
VOLUTION is a law of mechanics as well as of nature. T h e
telephone and the automobile are far different in form and
efficiency from the original creations. So, also, is the, player-
piano, one of the most beneficent inventions of the age, for it
has brought into the home, as no other instrument has, music
with all its boundless pleasure and refining influence.
Proud as we were of introducing the first successful pneumatic
piano-playing mechanism in 1895, we did not rest upon our laurels,
but with the genius of the inventor, the talent of the musician and the
experience of the practical and successful manufacturer, we have by
infinite labor and pains continuously developed the ANGELUS to its
present point of artistic supremacy and mechanical excellence. W e
have achieved our steadfast purpose to make the ANGELUS a means
for the personal production of artistic music.
In 1896 we brought out our first GRAND player-piano in a form
which at that time was welcomed both by the trade and the public.
A comparison of that instrument with our GRAND player-piano of
today will most impressively show the progress we have made through
years of deep study, careful experimenting and the successful working
out of different problems arising from the wedding of mechanics and
art. We now incorporate the ANGELUS entirely within the GRAND
piano without appreciably enlarging the case or breaking its graceful
lines. It is the harmonious union of the highest type of piano—the
GRAND—with the ANGELUS, which is conceded to be the best
means for playing the piano with the possible exception of the human
fingers. It is the most graceful, compact and artistic form in which
any LjKAi^H|BBPeOTltaiii^Bfap|Kr mechanism has been presented;
indeed, the A N G E L U S - G F H B N D jHaytfrypiano of today is a musical
and mechanical triumph. MjiiP^iuperb instrument is most satisfactory,
both to the trained musician as well as to the untrained music lover,
for it is always ready to be played, either from the keyboard or by
means of the perforated music rolls.
THE KNABE-ANGELVS GRAND is the union of the Angelus
with the Knabe, a piano of international reputation for more than half
a century. It has the celebrated tone and touch which have earned
for the Knabe the proud title of "the world's best piano."
Only ANGELUS instruments have the following devices and aids which enable you
to produce musical effects equal to those of the most accomplished pianist:
T H E PHRASING LEVER, which gives you.
absolute control of tempo and enables you
to instill into the music your own individu-
ality. With no other tempo device is it pos-
sible to obtain the same beautiful results.
THE MELODANT, which brings out the
melody of the composition, note for note,
-against a subordinated accompaniment.
THE
GRADUATING ACCOMPANIMENT,
which gives you control of the accom-
panying notes, independent of the melody.
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thus enabling you to swell or diminish
them at your pleasure.
THE ARTISTYLE MUSIC ROLL, on which
is only one single expression line, giving
an authorative interpretation of the
composition.
THE VOLTEM RECORD ROLL, which is an
accurate and complete record of the play-
ing of a master pianist, and which enables
you to give an exact repetition of the
artist's rendition.
& WHITE
COMPANY
Business Established 1877 — Pioneers in the Player-Piano Industry
233 Regent Sc, London
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Agencies all over the World.
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