Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-12-26


The Knabe Piano has long since endeared
itself to the ears and hearts, of us Western
people. Its rich, mellow, pearly tone
soothing our sorrows and Tightening our
social Acknowledgements you from the
drawing in magnificent city resi-
dences as well as from the cosy fire-sides of
our thrifty farmers. When we heard of a
Piano manufacturer of New York having
recently stated that, did he only possess the
unrivaled scale of the Knabe Piano, he
would challenge the world for competition,
we telt as proud as if we ourselves could
claim fathership to the many eXcellencies
of the instrument. And when, few weeks
ago, it was announced that Knabe had en-
tered the arena of Gotham with his Pianos,
we felt at once confident that they would
satisfy even the most fastidious taste of New
York city, and that metropolitan pride
would have to humble itself before the tri-
umphant champion from the monument
city.
Our trust was well founded. With
uDanimity seldom, If ever witnessed before,
the leading Ne,o York Artists and Musical
critics have conceded to the Knabe Piano the
palm ofsuperiOrity orer all others, as will ap-
pear by the following extracts from New
York papers:
We have been so accustomed to associate
skilled labor with the North, that to find
our highest productions rivaled in slave
State is IA source of natural surprise. Yet
Baltimore firm for the manufacture of
Pianos has opened an agency in this city,
and VIM. knabe & Co. offer their instru-
ments to the public alongside those of
Chickering and Steinway. Thirty years OF
patient industry have enabled them to build
up an enormous business and an
have extended their sales. We have
examined with interest these Pianos,
at the new ware rooms in this city, and can
testify. from hearing them played by our
best performers, to their eminently melodi-
Gus qualities, their power and unerrng re-
sponse to the touch. In the last particular
they are notable to any one who tries them
for the first time, when it seems as if the
keys and the fingers had always been on
the best of terms. Their grand, square and
upright Pianos are distinguished for the
most thorough workmanship and beauty
of tlnish.-N. Y. Independent.
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Ter, Geo. w. Morgan, and other eminent
performers, after careful examination,
unanimously declared that the Knabe Pi-
ano deserves, in an eminent degree, the
high reputation it sustains among the mu-
steal performers in particular, as well as
with the public in general. The tone of
these instruments reveals singular beau
| ty, combining mellOwness, richness and pa
thetic tenderness with mobility and power
of high order.
Though there is an almost unparalleled
competition of pianomakers in our me-
tropolis, we welcome this new house as
amongst our foremost in this branch of art
and heartily commend them.-New York
Methodist.
The Knabe Pianos are highly recommend
ed by the profession for strength and dura-
| bility, and we can vouch for their brillian-
cy, mellowness and volume of tone.-Ere-
ming Post.
Knabes Grand Piano is very rich and
clear in tone, while its touch is clear and
elastic. OF equal quality is their square,
which has decided advantage over other
first-class instruments manufactured here
and in Bo .ton, from its great depth and the
fine and pure quality OF the tone evolved
from it. The Knabe squares are among the
very finest instruments of the class, which
we have ever seen.-N. Y. Mercury.
One of Knabe's Grand Pianos was eXhib-
tied and tested, which would compare hap
PLY for power, crispness, quick return,
equable register and purity of tone, with
anything of the kind we have yet seen,
while its merely physical qualities and eX-
terror workmanship were superb. OF the
spares, there was one which was fully as
powerful as some of the grand Pianos OF
ten years since; and none that were not adj
mirable instruments, as regards finish,
power and purity Of internationally. y
Courier.
The Knabe Grand Pianos, well tested by
the light-iingered Patterson, diabolically;
agreeable Robt. Heller, wonderful Harry
Sanderson, and other artists, was noble
instrument, in its clear rich and full tone,
responding to every demand of the Pro-
fessors. An upright was also deliciously
pearly III tone, as well as much more pow
erful than this class of instruments usually
are; and we ought also to comment on the
full round voice of the square Pianos, which,
it struck us, are somewhat deeper in form
than the majority of these instruments. In
style also they vary tavorably from the
New York make, which will be an addi-
tional inducement for fashion to extend its
patronizing fingers to them.-Ne,o Yorh
Dispatch.
Messrs. Seltzer, Dresel & Co., 13 Fast
State street. Columbus, Ohio are the Gen
eral Agents of Knabe's Pianos for Ohio
and are prepared promptly to supply the
rapidly increasing demand for those cele-
brated instruments throughout our State
and the entire West.
EIGHTH WARD DRAFT.-There will be a
meeting of citizens of the Eighth Ward at
the Gay street Engine House this evening
at o'clock, for the purpose of revising the
enrolment, ard hearing the Report of the
Executive Committee. Persons who be-
lieve themselves exempt are particularly
desired to be present, that their names may
be stricken from the rolls.
BY order of Committee.
dec26-1t.
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
Tenlines of Nonpare, or y inch space, constitute
asquare.