Connecticut western news., 1878-03-07

TWNHE great competition among reed organ makers
 \ now, is as to who shall make organ which will cost the least money Therefore the strife Is to make, by cheapest material and workmanship, the POOREST POSSIBLE organ and it is wonderful what progress has been made in this direction :! The country flooded with circulars and advertisements representing these cheaply made organs worth great prices, but offering them, on various spacious pretences, at fractions of these.
 Into such competitor the MASON x HAMLIN ORGAN COMPANY do not enter From the be- ginning their first endeavor has been to make the VERY INSTRUMENTS POSSIBLE. They have been rigdy careful in the selection and preparation of MOST CHOICE MATERIAL, and the employment of the best woRKMEN only, in every department. And they have called to their assistance the best skill the world afford having been themselves 50 fortunate as to effect the most important Improvements in such instruments ever made.
 AND THIS HIGHEST STANDARD THEY RIGIDLY MAINTAIN.
 They invented and introduced the instrument substantially in it's present form, being an improve ment upon the melodeon, ill ls6l
 It Mir Hamlin, of this Company, who invented the modern SYSTEM OF VoIClNG REEDS, the most important improvement ever made in such instruments universally practiced but carried to highest perfection only in these organs. MASON x HAMLIN ORGANS have been constantly placed in competition at PRINCIPAL INDUSTRIAL COMPETITIONS in America to the number or hundreds and in almost every instance have at such been the SOLE RECIPIENTS OF HIGHEST HONOlss, for demonstrated superiority.
 all WORLDS at PARIS, 1887; VIENNA, 1878; SANTIAGO, lS'S' and PHILADELPHIA, 1876, they have taken FIRST MEDALS OR OTHER HIGHEST HoNoRs.
 At the U S. CENTENNIAL EXEMPTION, MASON HAMLIN ORGANS were dec la"ed by the distinguished jury to ExCEI. ALL oTHt Ri IN ALL IMPORTANT RESPECTS. ." Every member of the jury, writes MT. GEO. F. BRIsTow, one of their number, heartily concurred in assigning to those of your make, and YOURS ONLY, THE FIRST RANK i'll ALL IMPORTANT QUALITIES of such instruments" These are the ONLY AMERICAN ORGANS which have ever been found worthy of any award at ANY EURO PEAN WORLDS EXPOSITION, and they nave ootalned the FIRST MEDAL at such wherever exhibited So well established is the superlorly oI the Mason x Hamlin Organs that other leading makers now decline to compete with them at Industrial Competitions entering their organs !" for exhibition only"
 It is the MASON & HAMLIN ORGANS which, by their great excellence, have given great reputation to AMERICAN ORGANS, and opened wide market for them in Europe
 MUSICIANS IN EUROPE AND AMERICA recognize the uneoualed excellence of the MASON HAMLIN ORGANS and do not hesitate to declare it. While they sometimes give recommendations Of other organs mentioning some good qualities Tn thehl' IL VIII pe noticed by examination and comparison of the circu lars makers containing such recommendations that the MASON HAMLIN are in almost all cases declareu BEST. Dr. FRANZ LIszT, than whom no musician Tn the world stands higher, recently characterlzed them as "MATCHLEss," "uNRIvALED." THEODORE THOMAS than whom no musician is more esteemed in America has wider acquaintance with best musicians says the MASON HAMLIN ORGANS "are the best instruments of the class made either i'll this country or Europe;" that they excel especially in richer better qualities of tone," and that musicians generally regard the Mason Hamhn organs as | uNEoUALED ANY OTHERS"
 The testimonials recognizing the superiority of the 1 MASON x HAMLIN ORGANS, which are published in their Circulars were characterized by the New York l Tribune as "The universal opinion of the musical I profession" and by the New York World as The | Judgment of nearly every organist and pianist of l note"