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VOL. LX1I. No. 24. Published Every Saturday by Estate of Edward Lyman Bill at 373 Fourth Ave., New York, June 10, 1916
G
O T T S C H A L K and
Thalberg brought
their own European
grand pianos in their American
tours in 1855.
Gottschalk used a Pleyel, Thalberg
an Erard.
Both men found in America a
better piano, and their own went
promptly into storage.
The American grand " stood up
better", they said, and "had a better
tone."
The American piano they "dis-
covered" was made by a firm then
22 years old. It is 93 years old
today. And it is rather proud of the
name
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