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Musical Courier 1892-05-04: Vol 24 Iss 637, 1892
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1Vose in Chicago.
3As announced in last week's Musical Courier, the Vose piano is now represented in Chicago by Lyon, Potter & Co. The above is a cut of the Vose piano, of which Lyon, Potter & Co., will sell about 300 to 400 during the next 12 months, for if there is to-day a rapid selling, reliable piano it is this very Vose, made in Boston, in the State of Massachusetts, by the Vose & Sons Piano Company.
5Where Is the Objection?
7We are in receipt of the following letter enclosing the advertisement we publish below the letter:
9Editors Musical Courier:
10I wish to beg you for information. Inclosed find newspaper advertisement. I intend to buy a piano soon and want a good one. According to that advertisement do you think that would be a good house to make a selection from? I will appreciate your kindness by answering through your valuable columns.
11Very respectfully yours,
12MUSICAL COURIER READER.
14The Advertisement Referred To.
16GOOD INFORMATION TO PIANO PURCHASERS.
17We are not located on the best street in the city. We have not the largest store in the State. Our stock is not the largest in the United States. We have not the only and best piano in the world. We do not sell at or below cost. We do not put the price high in order to come down to make the impression that you are saving a hundred or so. We do not offer you a special low price on one particular piano, because we have only the one left, or because it is a sample, or because you were baptized in the same church that we were. We do not rent new pianos five or six years, repolish and sell for new. We do not charge more for a piano sold on time than for cash. We do not pay a big commission to parties who offer to be your guardian and advise you what piano to select. In all such cases the commission comes out of the purchaser. We do not put the price higher on pianos because you have an old organ or piano to exchange. We do not sell a $500 piano for $200. We do not sell a $200 piano for $500. We do not sell a low grade piano and call it the "favorite." We do not sell cheap on account of removal, a change in business, or short of room or any other such taffy. We are here to stay. We are located on Third street, No. 508 Metropolitan Block. Our store is so large that it holds all the pianos and organs we have in stock—Haines Brothers, also the Kurtzman piano in all the different sizes and fancy woods—ebonized, rosewood, mahogany, ash, oak, blister walnut and Circassian walnut. Those pianos have been sold in this market 35 years. Their prices and quality are well established and fully warranted. Then we have a few other makes which come lower in price because they do not cost so much. We also have the self playing organ. Anyone can play it, and play any piece ever written. You must see and hear this organ to believe its wonderful workings. In short, we have a beautiful stock to select from and sell on easy terms. We earnestly invite intending purchasers to call at our warerooms. The price and quality of our goods will be appreciated. Warerooms open to 8:30 p.m. Established in 1872.
19GROBMAN & SON.
21Where is the objection? Grobman & Son do not mention any names. They certainly expose some of the very worst features of the piano trade in this advertisement and give an opportunity for the ventilation of the same. What's the trouble?
23Everett or Miller.
25The following letter of inquiry is far above the usual muddled requests that come before us for decision:
27BOSTON, April 27, 1892.
28Editors Musical Courier:
29I am thinking of buying a piano, and am undecided as to the relative merits of the Miller and Everett. I want one of these two makes, and my friends are about equally divided as to which is the best. I can buy both at the same price.
30Now, I write you as authority, knowing you will tell me without prejudice, and give me a good reason why you prefer one to the other, if there is any difference in them. Kindly let me hear from you, and oblige
31Mrs. * * * M.
32* * * Washington street,
33Suite 6. Boston, Mass.
35We prefer the one to the other because we like the one better than the other, and that is our first reason. The one is the Everett; the other the Miller. The Miller piano is a very good instrument—the upright, we mean—but it is not as good in tone or in touch as an Everett. This is on the average. Once in a while you'll find a Miller running a little ahead of its average.
36The spirit of progress and improvement has not yet affected the Miller upright; it is a piano of the ordinary character, which has not been advanced for years by taking advantage of the vast improvements made in the construction of pianos. Other firms have embodied these advantages in their factory systems, in their methods of construction and in the development of their scales. Not so with the Miller upright. A great deal of attention has been bestowed upon the Miller grand piano—a very excellent instrument; but there are not enough of these made to create any deep impression and there is no particular demand for them.
37The Everett Piano Company makes about four times as many uprights as the Miller concern produces, and if the same prices are charged, as you say, and which we do not doubt, this conclusively proves that the people at large certainly agree with us and prefer the Everett. Another thing to be remembered is the case. By putting Everett and Miller pianos next to each other, you will at once discover that the Everett case is far ahead of the Miller in architecture and finish. Try this method if you have any interest in such matters.
39Conover.
41It is seldom that any piano manufacturer receives from such an authentic source a testimonial embracing such an unqualified indorsement as is represented in the appended letter:
43GREENCASTLE, Ind., January 20, 1892.
44Chicago Cottage Organ Company:
45Gentlemen—Having given the Conover a very careful examination with the assistance of my own regular tuners and teachers, I find that they are unanimous with me in saying it is a first rate and durable piano. It not only gives satisfaction to my pupils, but also to those persons to whom I have recommended it.
46Out of the 40 instruments that are used in our school the Conover not only holds its own, but stands very high in the estimation of professors and pupils.
47Respectfully yours,
48JAMES HAMILTON HOWE
49Dean of the School of Music De Pauw University.
51—The membership of the D. C. Joslyn Music Company, of Spokane, Wash., has been enlarged by taking in N. Bornholdt and C. S. B. Chant. This gives a chance to Chant.
53MALCOLM LOVE PIANOS.
54A High Grade Piano, equal to any!
55MANUFACTURED BY
56WATERLOO ORGAN CO., Waterloo, N. Y.
57We invite correspondence from Dealers in localities where we are not represented.
59Twenty Minutes from Union Square, via Third Ave.
60Elevated and Brooklyn Bridge Cars, to
61294, 296, 298 AND 302 FULTON STREET,
62BROOKLYN, N. Y.,
63WHERE THE WISSNER PIANOS ARE MADE.
64Every Piano Dealer in the Union who visits New York should make that trip and examine these WISSNER PIANOS.
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