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Music Trade Review

Issue: 1925 Vol. 81 N. 15 - Page 10

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Send us new book on your Fall campaign—
of 13,810,899, reaching three out of live families in the | 3 out of 5
United States, are being used in the Gulbransen Fall
campaign. The great opportunity offered the Gulbran-
sen merchant becomes infinitely greater!
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The Biggest Thrill in Music
is playing itYourself
And now even untrained persons can do it
TN MUSIC as in every human activity, it's
JL your own participation that rouses your
emotions most.
It's the ball you drive down the fairway
yourself that stirs your blood.
It's the song that you sing yourself that
touches your heart.
It's the number that you dance yourself
that entrances you.
And this human trait is even more p r o
nounced in the music that you play.
There is rapture in listening to the playing of others; the Touch and the Tone Volume that you yourself
but in playing yourself there's the thrill of personal
impart to it.
creation, the hush of ineffable sweetness, and the
You can play a piano solo correctly, accenting the
flight of joy to heights no other music can attain. melody and chords.
It is here you find your supreme inspiration.
You can play dance music in perfect time and rhythm.
You can play an accompaniment for voices or instru-
Only Piano of Its Kind
ments, subduing the melody to a whisper, pausing for
We admit that it seems incredible that untrained per- the singer, and playing only the bass or lower register.
sons can play like this—can play by roll, equal to play-
Why Pianists Own It
ing by hand. Indeed it would be impossible were it
You
could
not do more if you played by hand than
not for the Gulbransen Registering Piano, the only in-
you can do by roll on the Gulbransen. And you could
strument of its kind in the world.
not play so many pieces.
For neither ordinary player-pianos, nor reproduc-
That's one reason many pianists own the Gulbran-
ing pianos can give you complete control of the keys, sen Registering Piano, notwithstanding that this same
the same as in hand playing. The Gulbransen alone beautifully toned instrument is made without the roll-
does this.
playing action.
Hence you can play not "mechanical" music, but
human music, with the human expression—the Time,
You can play better by roll than
many who play by hand
Pieces they study, they can play by hand.
More difficult compositions by Chopin,
Rachmaninoff and others of the masters—
they can play by roll.
Then there are many who cannot read a
single note of sheet music who play by roll
on the Gulbransen beautifully, easily and
inspiringly. Who accompany artists who
would not sing to "mechanical" music—
whose only exception to hand-played ac-
companiments are those played by roll on
the Gulbransen Registering Piano.
And you can play ALL pieces while
they can play but a few
National Price — Suitable Terms
The New Qulbransen
GRAND
As a Straight Piano, $785
As a Registering Piano, $1275
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G O 1926 G. Co.
Gulbransen pianos are sold at the same cash price,
freight prepaid, throughout the United States. For
your protection, we stamp this price on the back,
where you can read it. And Gulbransen dealers
are prepared to deliver any model. Grand or Up-
right, for a small cash payment — balance to suit
the purchaser. A reasonable allowance will be
made for your present piano, if you own one.
Four Upright Models—Community, $450, Sub-
urban, $530, Country Seat, $615, White House,
$700; Straight Grand, $785; Registering Grand,
$1275.
The Nat'I Association of Piano Tuners rec-
ommends that all pianos be tuned twice a
year. Your Gulbransen deserves this care.
P r ULBRANSEN
\ J The Registering Piano
This Free Book
"Your Unsuspected Talent"
Will Surprise You
Mail us the coupon today for our new illustrated
book de luxe—"Your Unsus-
pected Talent—Its Discovery
and Enjoyment." It reveals a
Treasure Trove of musical
compositions. It shows the joys
of playing them at home.
With this book comes the
address of the nearest Gul-
bransen show room where you
can see and play all Gulbran-
sen models—Grand and Up-
right.
Mail the coupon now — In-
Qulbransen Suburban Registering
door Months are here. Let
„ , c P^no $530
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Style S, same model in a straight
music make home gay.
Piano, $330
SEND THIS COUPON
to Gulbransen Company, 3232 Chicago Ave., Chicago
for Color-Illustrated Book De Luxe
"Your Unsuspected Talent — Its Discovery
and Enjoyment"
Name
Address
City

State.
Check here if you own a piano and we will send
you form enabling ua to estimate value.
"Easy to
Play"

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