New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-02-07
SPECIAL Notices.
A Card from Steinway e Sons.

9perlal Notices.
Card from Steinway e Sons.
APLAIN STATEMENT OF FACTS.
In TIE TRIBUNE Of January 81 appeared another euson
from the selfs,yled innocent panomaker A. Weber
MI Weber desires to appear In the Of credible witness
he ought first plead the indictment found against him.
lie stands charged with being only Of the $4,000
btors at tho Centennial whose outrageous as
to cause the arrest Of employee October 1875 by order
claiming the highest award" &C. &C., the circulars being
conascated by the Centennial Guards He stands charged by
the Judges his Group with having falsely published their
never made or signed and also with having published table
Of fraudulent or ratings attributed to the Examining
Judges Against this unwaanted Of their names the
JUDGES protested 10 the Stntcuuih SounSsA"H' '- -
ecutve Committee Of that honorable body after having fully
the matters charged January H. 1873 passed
resolution recommending that the full Commission should
take such acton as would prevent webers further fraudulent
use of Judges We also showed In our last card
that Of all those be rtclass manufacturers Mr.
webers only that not found among the re-
cords OF the Patent Office for he attempted an
Improvement invention s energies being devoted
solely ~ nventng fraudulent tables OF ratings and other
equally spurious advertisements wherewth to deceive the
pubc We also showed that his piano actions and
other most important parts OF his pianos ready made in the
open market OF the same dealers who furnish these articles
to the bogus" makers in this city, Although
Mr. Weber has published several cars IN none OF which
he has denied single one foregoing statements is to
be presumed that he admits their truthfulness.
In order to divert the attention OF the public from his own
iseed he portance OF award to stenway
sons at the London Worlds Fair 1862 Being unable to
deny accuracy the report and award published by u.s.
he attempts to bettle its significance by quoting doned
portions jury reports the exhibit of an English man
uiacture stenway have always published word for
word what they awarded at the London Worlds Fair in
oeo ILL., rir, rri,a Modal toge,her with tho splen
DID official repOr; jury their exhibit. For particulars
Of their great ana unqualified triumph that occasion.
well Worlds the reader is referred TO the
array Of official printed in adjoining column
It's rather amusing that Mr. Weber besides showing his
malice should also display gross ignorance again to
up bug since disposed Of by stating
that Russian overstrung grand piano exhibited in Lon
don in 1851 and that therefore one Of stenway great
inventions vz their patent co. 1862 had
to grief
In that slndar work. which n the hand, OF every intel
gelt History OF the PanotOrc by Dr. Oscar
Paul Professor Of Acoustics and the University OF
Lepzg published in 1863 on pages 243 found
illustration ard description OF this very Russian grand
piano exhibited at London 1884, by Lhtenha of st. Pc
tersburg Dr. that this instrument had two
sounding boards one the strings tho other for the
treble por on the strings crowded
,bo oh
therefore being entirely dmar to and quite the reverse Of
s,cnways OF construction After indcat
ing how oversrnging applied in its cruest forms
In the 10th and centuries and subsequently by the oee
brated Pape about the $50 and finally
co..fuy attempted by chtentha of ST. Petersburg whose
grand piano was pronounced failure London in 1851 and
his method condemned Paul concludes as follows:
The firm OF s,einway sons through entirely inven
tons in the OF the oyerstruns system first
brought Il to successful issue aud anybody asserts that
the seinway system only imitation OF
former they simply show their Of the
history Of the subject"
The senway system OF oversung grands after being hon
ored with first Prize medal at London. in lSG2. mmed
aeiy copied BY all German and Austrian and by many
other continental makers that at the Paris Exposition Of
1867 Shero seinway Sons received grand gold medal OF
honor list order OF merit for American pianos
large proportion OF the medals awarded to pianos made
in imitation tho stenway system. At the Vienna Expo
ton Of 1873 were ssway did not exhbD than two
thirds the pianos medals copies Of the Stein
Vienna Exposon the seinway oyersrung system Is min
utely described and approved and last but not east IN the
Official report OF Judges Musical Instruments at the