Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-05
1Iru AnurrtieFmtritta.
Sheer Nonsense.

WHAT? Why all this talk about "bogus"
w and ''StenciF' Pianos which some deal
ers indulge in just to air their superior Wis
dom and humbug buyers into the belief that
they are in great danger of being cheated if
they buy anywhere else but of themg It's moth
ing but the old cry of ''wOlf," when there
isn't one within a thousand miles.
We do not sell or even believe in selling
Stencil Pianos. as every instrument that we
sell bears its makers name on the name
board. So it's not our fight, but for all that,
we don't propose to have the public deceived
or misled in any particular concerning the
manufacture and sale of pianos.
Some years ago there were many Pianos
sold under counterfeit names to initiate the
great makers, but this swindling trade is all
done with, and what's the use to say any more
about it?
For twenty years past the largest and most
honorable dealers of America have sold pianos
with their own names on instead Of the
makers. and many are still doing It. The
pianos good as if the real makers
name appeared on them, and the dealers are
fully responsible for their guarantee. So
where's the harm of it?
There is none, and it's all nonsense to make
any capital out Of it. The value of the piano
does not in the least depend upon the name
on the name board, and it is worth as much
under one name as another.
Neither is it true that all stencil pianos
are OF cheap and inferior make There
are many reliable makers of good reputation
who make pianos specially for large dealers,
and put their names on them. To call such
instruments "cheap clap-trap boxes with
'rattle-trap insides" simply because they are
stenciled with the dealers instead of the
makers name is as unjust as it is false
We have sold thousands of Stencil Pianos in
the South, and we are not in the least ashamed
OF it. They were good pianos, as the satisfied
owners viii testify, and we sold them at low
prices. We recommended and guaranteed
them, and they came up to our guarantee.
We never claimed to make them. and we
always gave the makers names if desired.
There was no pretense nor deception about it.
nor was any one injured. We can now point
to hundreds of these cheap pianos that after
ten years of use are still good instruments,
and all right for ten years more.
We will put these same ''cheap Stencil"
Pianos against any that any dealer in Savan-
nah or out of it ever sold for within $50 of the
price, and If they don't compare in value we
will retire from business as quick as we can
get out.
The fact of it is that we have always sold
better Pianos for the money than our dear
friends in the trade could afford to, and they
are all on their ears about it.
Why don't they meet the competition in an
honest way by furnishing as good instruments
as we do for the price. instead of laying back
on the old "dOuble- your-money-On- each
piano policy, and feebly prating about "Sten-
ell PianOs?"
Shoot the nonsense. It's too thin. 1t went
work. Not while we are around anyhow, for
if anybody gets Stencil on the brain and tries
to bamboOzle the public about it, going
to let daylight in and expose his motives.