Music Trade Review

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The Music Trade Review
A Letter from
HAKOLD BAUEK
The Aeolian
Company,
Gentlemen ;—
/ / has taken me several years to decide to play exclusively for the
Duo-Art.
My hesitation was not due to any doubt as to the
superior excellence of your instrument, but because, in view of still
further improvements which the future seemed to promise, I thought
it advisable to wait before taking an irrevocable step.
It is indeed a matter of the most serious importance to an
artist to determine the selection of an instrument which, through the
means of a recorded roll of paper, will reproduce his playing and
carry it all over the world. JVhere one person will hear the perform-
ance of the artist himself, thousands will listen to the music roll
reproductions of his playing, and his reputation will gain or suffer
according to the quality and fidelity of these reproductions.
In the last two years significant improvements have been made
in both the recording and the reproducing devices of the player-piano,
and "The Aeolian Company has carried these improvements to their
highest development in the Duo-Art Piano.
It is difficult indeed to
see in what direction further progress can be made or suggested.
In fidelity of production, in brilliancy, power, delicacy, quality
and variety of tone the vast superiority of the Duo-Art
over all
similar instruments is now definitely established.
The
Duo-Art
stands supreme among reproducing pianos and I need no longer
hesitate to identify myself with it and to entrust it with my reputa-
tion. I am most happy to avail myself of such a wonderful means
of leaving to posterity a record, as nearly perfect as can be con-
ceived, of my interpretative art.
Yours very truly,
New York, October 22,
ip/S