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Musical instruments at the World's Columbian Exposition : a review of musical instruments, publications and musical instrument supplies of all kinds, exhibited at the World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago, May 1 to October 31, 1893, and the awards given for these exhibits (from all nations) w, 1895
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1MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AT THE WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION.
3GERMANY—CONTINUED.
5EXHIBITOR. Group 158. Class 928.
6Georg Tiefenbrunner, Munich. Exhibit—Zithers.
7This exhibit deserves an award:
8For excellent tone quality.
9For good workmanship and finish.
10Approved: K. Buenz, (Signed) Prosper Lamal, President Departmental Committee. Individual Judge.
12EXHIBITOR. Group 158. Class 928.
13Paul Stark, Markneukirchen. Exhibit—Table-Harp.
14This exhibit deserves an award:
15For excellence of workmanship and first class materials employed.
16For a movable bar by which the number of chords can be increased to as many as ninety-six.
17Approved: K. Buenz, (Signed) Edwin P. Carpenter, President Departmental Committee. Individual Judge.
19EXHIBITOR. Group 158. Class 935.
20Andreas Koch, Trossingen.
21This exhibit deserves an award:
22For fine tone quality.
23For excellence of manufacture.
24Approved: K. Buenz, (Signed) Esmeralda Cervantes, President Departmental Committee. Individual Judge.
26EXHIBITOR. Group 158. Class 927.
27K. Heilbrunn's Sons, Berlin. Exhibit—Drums.
28This exhibit deserves an award:
29For improvement in drums, using parchment instead of skins under certain conditions.
30For good workmanship and materials employed.
31Approved: K. Buenz, (Signed) Prosper Lamal, President Departmental Committee. Individual Judge.
33EXHIBITOR. Group 158. Class 930.
34Moritz Poehlmann, Nuremberg. Exhibit—Steel Piano Wire.
35This exhibit deserves an award:
36For superior tensile strength.
37For perfection of finish.
38For over graduation and spring quality.
39Approved: K. Buenz, (Signed) George Steck, President Departmental Committee. Individual Judge.
41EXHIBITOR. Group 158. Class 930.
42Stahl & Drahtwerk, Roeslau. Exhibit—Piano Strings, Wire Netting, etc.
43This exhibit deserves an award:
44For great strength.
45For fine finish and evenness of graduation.
46Approved: K. Buenz, (Signed) Prosper Lamal, President Departmental Committee. Individual Judge.
48EXHIBITOR. Group 138. Class 928.
49Wilh. Arnoid, Aschaffenburg.
50This exhibit deserves an award:
51For superior tone quality.
52For excellent workmanship and finish.
53Approved: K. Buenz, (Signed) Prosper Lamal, President Departmental Committee. Individual Judge.
55EXHIBITOR. Group 158. Class 937.
56Franz Meier, Freiburg, Baden. Exhibit—Postal Card with Musical Pieces.
57This exhibit deserves an award:
58For the ingenuity, patience and zeal displayed in the production of twenty-one pieces of music on an international postal card.
59The calligraphy is excellent.
60Approved: K. Buenz, (Signed) Prosper Lamal, President Departmental Committee. Individual Judge.
62EXHIBITOR. Group 158. Class 938.
63Louis Wertheim, Frankfort-on-Main. Exhibit—Model of Fireproof Asbestos Theatre.
64This exhibit deserves an award:
65For model of fireproof asbestos theatre, material for theatre curtains, fire escapes of asbestos and some devices for making fireproof buildings.
66For the perfection with which the several articles of asbestos are manufactured and for the practical importance of the same all of them being fire and acid proof.
67Approved: K. Buenz, (Signed) F. Ferrari Perez, President Departmental Committee. Individual Judge.
69GREAT BRITAIN.
71EXHIBITOR. Group 158. Class 926.
72Augener & Co., London, Eng. Exhibit—Printed Music Books.
73This exhibit deserves an award:
74For an important collection of excellent musical editions.
75Approved: K. Buenz, (Signed) V. Hlavac, President Departmental Committee. Individual Judge.
77EXHIBITOR. Group 158. Class 930.
78E. Bishop & Sons., London, Eng. Exhibit—Insulators for Pianos.
79This exhibit deserves an award:
80For an ingenius device, by which the note of the piano is preserved in its original purity and natural quality; this is effected by the introduction of insulators under the piano.
81Approved: K. Buenz, (Signed) Edwin P. Carpenter, President Departmental Committee. Individual Judge.
83EXHIBITOR. Group 158. Class 928.
84S. & P. Erard, London, Eng. Exhibit—Prince of Wales Harp, Erard Model.
85This exhibit deserves an award:
86For excellent tone quality with perfect sonority from the highest treble to the lowest bass.
87For accuracy of mechanism, working with remarkable precision.
88For special attention given in construction to guard against climatic changes.
89For beauty of outline and artistic decoration.
90Approved: K. Buenz, (Signed) V. Hlavac, President Departmental Committee. Individual Judge.
92EXHIBITOR. Group 158. Class 934.
93Joseph Higham., Manchester, Eng. Exhibit—Musical Instruments.
94This exhibit deserves an award:
95For great purity of tone quality, for ease of blowing; for perfect tubing, scientifically drawn; for perfect mechanism of the valves.
96Approved: K. Buenz, (Signed) Max Schiedmayer, President Departmental Committee. Individual Judge.
98EXHIBITOR. Group 158. Class 927 & 933.
99Joseph Higham., Manchester. Eng. Exhibit—Band Instruments and "Tympani Drums."
100This exhibit deserves an award:
101For beautiful models comprising also perfect valves, scien-
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