Books › The Story of the violano-virtuoso : world's only self-playing violin and piano, 1900 › scan 25
Scan 25
The Story of the violano-virtuoso : world's only self-playing violin and piano, 1900
20 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 19. See the scan on archive.org.
1The Piano in the Mills Violano-Virtuoso
3The piano accompaniment in the Violano helps make it a complete instrument, giving the power for producing orchestral effects, and distinguishing it from all other makes of automatic pianos on the market. The violin and piano parts furnish just enough fullness of sound to be thoroughly musical and artistic, without becoming noisy or displeasing. Because of the way in which our instruments are built to give remarkable clearness and beauty of tone there is no jumbling of notes or discordance of sound that often disgusts the true music lover in other automatic music.
5It is only fitting that the extraordinary violin, in its need for an accompaniment, should have something better than an ordinary piano. And the Mills piano is just as extraordinary in its own way as is the violin.
7There is no piano on the market today that in any way resembles ours. This piano is the only one made that directly operates on electricity. There are dozens of other automatic and "electric" pianos which merely use an electric motor to furnish the power necessary to operate their pneumatic apparatus—all co-called "electric" pianos operate in this way.
9No Pneumatic Action in the Mills
11There is no air action in our piano—hence the usual complicated pneumatic apparatus is dispensed with. There are no rubber tubes, air conduits, bellows, wooden valves, sliding blocks or any such complicated parts in our instrument to get out of order. Replacements of all such parts which are usually required every year or two on ordinary automatic pianos are not necessary on the Mills Violano.
13"We highly endorse the Violano. We believe it will increase its owners' business 50%."
14—MONROE CANDY CO.,
15Mexico, Mo.
17"Would say that in the first eight months my machine paid for itself in nickels taken in; also increased my sales 30%."
18—PAUL R. WICKERT,
19Escanaba, Mich.
The computer misreads some letters and numbers. Where a name matters to you, read the scan.