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Musical Courier 1895-01-09: Vol 30 Iss 774, 1895
72 lines. Read by computer on 20 September 2026. Printed page 6. See the scan on archive.org.
A town on its own line is one of the directory's headings. That is where the town on a maker's page comes from.
1OUR Productions of the present year are the finest we have ever offered, and represent both in exterior finish and quality of tone the highest excellence in Piano Manufacture. We solicit for them the critical examination of the musical profession and the public.
3CHICKERING PIANOS
5CHICKERING & SONS,
6791 Tremont Street,
7BOSTON.
9BOARDMAN & GRAY PIANOS
10ESTABLISHED 1837
11ALBANY, N. Y. OPPOSITE UNION DEPOT.
13SOHMER PIANOS.
14SOHMER & CO., 149-155 East 14th St., New York
16HARDMAN & LA GRASSA PIANOS
17Factory and Warerooms: N. W. Cor. 44th Street and Tenth Avenue, New York.
19J. RAYNER,
20IMPORTER OF
21MAHOGANY.
22MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN
23ALL KINDS OF CUT AND SAWED VENEERS.
24Foot Houston St., East River, Fulton and Morgan Streets, NEW YORK, CHICAGO.
26Another Quotation.
28This time from JULES JORDAN, the eminent conductor of Providence, R. I.:
30"Kindly convey to the Estey Organ people my gratification at the very valuable assistance afforded by the Phonorium at the Claremont Music Festival. It more than fulfilled my expectations, the tone being particularly pure and organ-like."
32THIS WAS USED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR AN ORCHESTRA OF EIGHT OR TEN PIECES.
34Isn't this a suggestion for other localities?
36ESTEY ORGAN CO.,
37BRATTLEBORO, VT.
39ERARD HARPS.
40Only Harps Used by the World's Greatest Harpists.
41Address all Communications to
42S. & P. ERARD,
4318 GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET, LONDON, ENGLAND.
45WE respectfully call the attention of our agents and the music loving public in general to the fact that certain parties are manufacturing and have placed upon the market a cheap piano, bearing a name so similar to our own (with a slight difference in spelling) that the purchaser may be led to believe that he is purchasing a genuine "SOHMER PIANO."
46We deem it our duty to those who have been favorably impressed with the fine quality and high reputation of the "SOHMER PIANO" to warn them against the possibility of an imposition by unscrupulous dealers or agents.
47Every genuine "SOHMER PIANO" has the following trade mark stamped upon the sounding board:
49BEN DAVIES,
50WM. C. CARL,
51CERUELOS,
52GOODRICH,
53BARBER,
54REV. J. B. YOUNG,
55PERKINS,
56SALAZAR,
57HECKER,
58MERRICK,
59DEAN,
60PRICE,
61MARZO,
62CORRADI,
63PENFIELD,
64B. B. YOUNG,
65PROTHEROE.
67IMITATIONS OF THE "SOHMER PIANO" HAVE COMPELLED THE FIRM TO ADOPT THE ABOVE TRADE MARK.
69Indorsed by the following famous artists:
71Beware of an inferior grade piano bearing a partly similar name.
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