The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-11-29 00:00:00

AMONG TIM PIANOS.

How little we know, and often how little trouble we
take to inquire about the great inaaufsetorbie and
iodustries of ICiojihind. For lastanee. • Piano stands Is
the corner of the room, beautiful to look at in lb cage of
rupewood or Italian amino t, polished and perfected, fitted
with keys and strings and usuoding-board, with all lb'
new improvement' an I patente, a perfect cheek repeats"
_action. a Perfectly new system of tuning, • easteeente
town for the coneer soca of mound, an exquisitely law
aloes method of changing the key without the mueician's
relearn ; and still bow widens anyone can tall where the
er, od cam, from that gives the instrument tone sad
ash& Ind delluace ; bow much was done by pun
wiry, and how much by handicraft; what pressure was
required to diacipline the soft felt lam those curious toy'
Ilk. 11th hammers, or how it came about that some
plume are • , infinitely superior to other., not only in
tone and style, but in the ultimate stigmatises. of wear
and tar. Many of us may have soused • holm menu.
factory In the Graftiondoed, Ladish Town, where
wid tos found the perpetual bum of business literally
from moraine till nigh,. With the admen of Yews
the building hal g 1.0.11 starer by dont; it le stretching
itsalf out to the adj-cent streets, atrium" sounds of
ine•ocholy music coin. from it, a hum of mingled
in Allier, end rotme, yet we ecarcely inquire what is
aping on within those busy walla. And yet it Is a very
Wive of industry, • wonderful eight, for Imre they make
the music for the million; here they tura • pin—tree into
piano, end hers Kr. John Brio/mead and his clever eons
are deasonatnitine to the world time the heat work is that
turned out by the beet workmen; and that the way to
excel in the greet competition of pianos is to tomtits 'eaten-
inset and to supervise Its manufacture in the smallest
detail with @crapulous we. The uninitiated are not aware
how much the piano is indebted to the example of that
king of in.trnments, the violin • bow Ilse delicate and
sensitive manipulation of the insis;dier.beard is areaaged,
altered, ad improved upon, Is accordance with the
principles of the undisputed model; sad the thoughts at
those who visit Wears. Briasmeers manufactory will go
beck to those old days of Cremono, when the maarriacture
of a magical instrcunent was • matter of pride. and.
In a certain sense. • laboer of love. The emenoe of •
fircdate pianoforte mum/eater* Is the grand doctrine of
esiectioe. A Saito is it Heade before us, tried and
potholed, lathe "survival of the UMW' levy
joint, every boar& every mew, every wire, and
~••dy hemmer, hag been the best of It. kind, tried and
not found wanting; not • process in the manufacture
ha, been devoid of mathematical and geometrical wow acy
and Wore a piano can be made, machinery and hoodlum,:
mutt Join hands and fortunes. A poetical idea flits 80/0111
the brain as we stand amongst the wood stacks of the
pianoforte manufactory. The trees of every rountry
under heaven have been ransacked to make up the con-
' Intent porta of • piano, and the beet trees of their kind.
But what Le the tree that makes the music, and from
whose twonch.e come that acquisitively sensitive sound.
lot-board? Why, the Swiss pine, that for years has been
Dived upon by the wind In its monetain home, and that
I, cut down and rent careering down the mountain
0 rot in the forests to bring music to our homea. Pan
c it down the reeds to mail his pine; and the Swiss
f.d.at trees are mildest to the sad. We may remark in
owing that the entire stock of timber, Dialalaina nod
aw Woe the dryingdoom, and subsequent machines end
atranidees, is little short of • value of 4/10,000. Tbe
working world cannot live without music; every house-
hold et home or abroad must have its piano. It would
take • far Wier space than Is at protect at our disposal
to de.eribe minutely the various departments and pro-
emu which ensue from the time that the phase is • mere
log of wood to the moment when the symmetrical instru-
ment, be it centennial oblique, upright Iron grand, or
boudoir gran.d, is deposited in the "chamber of horrors'
or rroolioluvroom. to be diagnosed and examined by
exports before It c dt go out to the world with the name
of "Brinsoteed upon it as • tribute to He excellence
and fine constitution. The visitor would have to go to
the furnace where the iron frame, are bronzed till they
shine sad glisten like bernlshed gold; amongst the Whit=
saw-mule and whirling machinery, where **eh nambeend
ood registered particle of • piano is crewed for the
Colohior touch of the artist ; to examine the delicate
proc se of tag, where abrade and strips of tbe
warty etcmacenoes of trees found in Persia and Circseeia
are ertificiallr arranged into those beautiful hartsenise of
woodwork that we admire in piano,; to the storeroom,
where are kept the ivory keys. the &triage, the felt, the
= rale sprolanoes, sod the turned legs neasseary for
manufacturers; to point out what varieties of
key making and stringing am misdeed for
_pianos mat to
Burro* to India, to ma, and to all hot or damp elinuitee,
where Ivory stone and wood yields to climate;
when the WO sets of parte, of which most plasm ere
composed, are satisfairteriry adjusted, the instrument
fashioned and modelled with so Mock care, le ready for
the tooutsitios NA thee, at this supreme ntonseat, woe
be to the department in which the alighted fiaw or slip is
detected. It is essential to the firet principles elite Brine.
mead manufactory that so plum goes forth to the world
tam
oit • "chin bill of heath." and tt
wound in wind end limb. At the last etegi d
tgl W—icatt-I,
manufacture courtlier taws are at work, with sown
ears and educated taste, dm& the wooer labour will be
considerably modified by aa %embus termitic° ream*
patented by We goterprldus finn, which will bring the
tuning wow withia the range of all who ere in the
colonise or at distant slalloaa Bo palmier have become
' tn. Brincinnita Piano& mint* the facilthes care in their
manufactory, the headwork sad direction of the vertical
members of the firm, and the advaateem of Saiallfatlll
illanir.d Patna., that erden pram apes the Olitietalltely
I from all peels of the ldagdom, and itl getimated that
goal SAN faikalooadi a nor on Sanad oat id Ilk =saw

fathom This Is misdate' esilligh whoa we reeterebor
thet tagthign pianos are not gabled is Zoe Led to au ea
whatever. whereat every &ON piano is
whim supseted to • foreign oaattet But the of
the Beitioneed Ann to to give the but piano of Wad LIM
beat seathriath the Wet of sem the bud of taste. sail taw
bwil at finish and this is with the theautathoty in KNOW'
Town elude down to Wigatorwetreet so man, Same Pas-
feat in sustained *a taw au* in with equal
and tespasetrit tooth. and. In tett, ii Mee NI WPM. to
that theta that oil muddies moot regabo—" • thing of
beauty" that to " • }ay fog ever."—likistr aid La/maws.
October 12. 18131.

Then is nothing more wriakkg and eranntaWatlold
weathee than a cup of reak_good Doom, but to.
has ban to obtain asp. Tata may he sewed at • oast
at as. halfmanfaos resit large braskfaet cup by milli
Oadbares Cocos wilM goes throe tame es tar se
the adWsramd sad Walk, oomponads ordiaarily sold,
the waked parkas :Dams Imams breakfast ache 11/
strong Doom
Now. that so many articles an mid in washing whisk I
are injurious to me linen, it k well to anew that
Reekitt's Paris Bine is as maga= ; aid that the makers
gnanates it pertess4 safe and lia•-i•jurious.
Avoid the many dimpurom and doubtful sompowde
sold as Toilet Powders; always ask Ise NaWiewfs Pro-
pared hikes Bank used in ths Royal Nansties, and
highly moommeaded by the Faculty; it preteens the skis
taco oold triad" ebb" en, and tesserves the orethgllzica
from Mama rough.— èo. Om be obleieed of ithunists,
Netnews, mid Storm throughout Me worid as
tit. sad la By icaot Si. extra, from the sole propoiaors.
Rome sad On, 11. Wignicereckast, Lando'. &TIM
imitaions.
"There wai • yams mat la ths city,
Whose tea were an elffess el pity,
Far cons be had 11111. het me, but. lot;
Attack's Wads had this OH in • giff
Alkalis Corn Pketan are an infallible remedy tor Ocrm
Do hot buffs; but fewest It oars in • box, sad you won't
refrt.
aal
T Apncrions aro Roassames.—All suffering
from irritation of the throat and hoarseness will bee
ahly wonted at the almost immediate relief us d 54
the us at Brown's Bronchial Troche' Titre Wow
"losing.." are now sold by most respectable chanias in
? his wary at Is. 1L pee box. Napes troubled with
hacking cough," • slight add," or bronchia/ aff
555505 toy them too soca, as similar trembles, it =A
to program, n,sult in serious Pulmonary sad Asthmatic
affactiona theo that the words " Brown's Bratchisl
Trochee are on the Uovernment Stamp around each box.
—Prepared by long L Shows and Eloxs, Boston. United
Staten ffeiroman depot, removed to 3S, laninaion
road. Londoa.
lyny HOCUROLD Shedd have • box at Stanton.
Cough Pills. For Boddie Colds and Sore Throats, so
remedy has ever tom dimoveeed to squat than, may are
the best sad Wawa madlebse ever attend to the public
/saw will And 1t.... tavalaehle in the weary, sad SW
should always be kept ram at land. Sold by all Obeenirts
I. Bow at Md. and Is. Pd. Box sem post tree on receipt
of IS sr 36 swim—Wk. MATZO, Wholusil. Druggist,

Dammam Anna game. One of the most unfdeesoni
restate of lealgestioa will no longs, be eVsfiselled i 1 Dr.
Bardeley'e Antlbilious Pills ars tees rare Pills will
reveal the distress referred ts, sad by persevering in the
am of this needy for • few warm a permassat care
will be sleeted sad paa will no loam te the penalty of
;MBold by all Oheadets in Box.. at 1344. and
. Box mat peat free on reeript of 16.. 35 swaps.
WO. if wramt,Dragglet, Yenebester.
Nevolues WAS.—leider• often cares the dimes., but
when she dose, ill elvers by expelling in mem way of
other the team Dr. B.rdsisye Laailloas PIUS meet
taally aid nature in doing thla, and this is why they
perform so many great mum. Bs&d by all Clemaistp In
Beam at 13(15 sad Pd. Box mat poet tree cm receipt of 15
ar 315 gimps. —WN. Karma. Wholesale Druggist, Kea.
elmeter. . . •
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Ars-;ics vo Motagns l-Are you broksa to your rest by
• etch child suffering with the pain of cutting teethtoo al
owe to • chemist sad get • beetle of Mae. WENNATeII
BOON= STROP. It will relieve the poor sufferer
shay. It Is pettedly bander sisdrit to the taste. It
endear sauna quiet sleep, by the child from
lola, sad the little obensti swains "am t es • bottom.'
It Kathie the cell& it settees the gums, alleys all pain,
relieves wind, isolates the bowels, and la the ben knows
remedy for dysentery sad dMerhces. whether arising from
teething or other mom Kra Wlaslo
I. sold by Medlolas deakre everywhere Meth*
Per beetle
l'Osto•-" WAUSAU. IN MOLL Nalntaxots.' Mafiosi
plata -8e• papers to the Lame, by Dea Ifenalk ,Niniter
sad Lush, sad a Bader, lag. on Marsh Ito sad Pah, sad'
May 10th, MOO. "Tons maintains Its repubstioa to the
vamoose of Neuralgla"-Leassr, July lard, 1/131. It may
be taken by the most delicate without the hest fear of
Injury. In bottles at de. dd. end 11/. Of Chemist, every
Au.mt HANDIONS' " PaDDINTDD " OOD Lrvga On.
I. sanearly twines* as Cod Liver Oil eau ba"-Leasst.
" Has alusc.irt ths &allow of Salad Oil."-Brielek Mafia'
lemma 'No WYNN eructations follow."Jf afford
Pram 01 all Otteraists, to esinelled bottles only, Pr&
Is. lid.. pts. la ed., eta la. 9d., qta
immures I-Foa ima Terra •ito BiIIATIL-A. few
drops of the liquid " Plorillos" sprinkled on • wet tooth
brush produces • pleasant lather, which the=
cleanses the teeth from all parental°, iniouritiee,
the gums, prevents tartar, stops deem, gives_ to the teeth •
fregosace to
rbtur.ergr.....whitaim ::.=ctror, srlang from
isltaeth or tobacco smoke. "The Fragrant
being composed in part of honey and sweet
herbs, ie delicious to the taste and the gymnast toilet
discovery of the age. Price St 6d. of all Chemists and
perfumers. Wholesale depot removed to 33, Farringdoa•
road, Londoci.
Vai.unata Disoovear roe ma lista.-If your hair is
pacing grey or white, or falling off, use " The Mexican
Hair Renewer," for it rill peeltieely retrace to never ease
Grog or Waite Asir to it. original colour, without leaving
he dia.greeabl. small of most " Restorers? It makes
nue hair charmingly beautiful, as well as promoting ths
growth of the hair on bald spots, where the glands are not
decayed. Ask your Chemist for "Tag Maxicare Hata
Ran swan,' sold by Chemists and Perfumers everywhere
at Is dd. per bottle. Wholesale depot removed to 33,
Farringdon-rood. London.
HOLLOWAY*/ Outman AND POLL -Debilitated Coastal'.
gotta-When climate, age, or hardships, have undermined
the health, skin dhows ••• prose to mime sad segment
the existing weakness. Holloway's Ludlam's:do daily
prove more serviceable. eves tied& the most unto.
eircemataooas. Tale wall-known and highly -salaamed
=wt pompano the Aunt balsamic virtues., which soothe
he!el without inflaming or irritating the most tender
skin or most sensitive ewe. Holloway's Ointment and
Pills are infallible for curing bad legs, varicose veins,
swelled ankles, erysipelas, scaly skin, sad every variety
of skin dieters. Over all them disorders Holloway's
ressediae exact • quick and favourable adieu, sad, where
cure is possible, gradually but milady arrive at that
ceasummation. They are invaluable is the care of swot ula
sad scurvy.
A WM-To all who are suffering from the errors sod
ladiscraticias of youth, nervous weakness, early decay,
lON se manhood, etc., I will egad • receive that will cure
you, free of ODOM& This great remedy was discovered by
• mbelossary to South Aviaries. Seed • sell-addressed
70 74 68;71° iP.A. re. Joseph T. arum Station D, New

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