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The Story of the violano-virtuoso : world's only self-playing violin and piano, 1900
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1Why the Violano Is Great
3The Mills Self-Playing Violin and Piano is really the kind of an instrument which an imaginative mind would expect to be invented at some time far into the future.
5To create a harp where before there were no harps; to build a piano for the first time; to produce a phonograph where before none was even suggested; to develop a player-piano with only the hand-played piano as pattern—all in themselves were outstanding achievements. They were all radical departures from the best that had preceded them, yet each produced by itself immeasurable good.
7The Violano bases its claim to fame on its complete newness and distinctiveness. Absolutely no instrument is manufactured today that in any way resembles or even imitates it. Even the greatest inventions have been copied, imitated, or in some manner duplicated. Practically every other musical instrument made has several other rival instruments in its own class. So completely different is the Violano that it can be called, without danger of contradiction, the ONLY self-playing violin of any kind.
9To gain this distinction and at the same time to be completely practicable from every test and every viewpoint, this instrument surely is entitled, by intrinsic value and its contribution to the glory of music, to all the praise and success it has received.
11The World Is Music-Bound
13The love of good music is a universal characteristic of all mankind. Never a man was born who did not have some appreciation and feeling for this wonder art. All men can feel the inspiring
15"The Violin with its delicacy of expression has a special appeal for many people, and its combination with the piano in the Violano-Virtuoso makes that instrument popular alike with music lovers of all types—whether they be artists themselves or only listeners. We are highly pleased with the instrument."
16—GEORGE J. VRINER,
17Champaign, Ill.
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