Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-16
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
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A BOMBSHELL
MATHUSHEK PIANO CAMP !
Card from BEHR BROS. Piano Manufact-
urers. to KoHLER & CHASE, San Franz
cisco.

IN REPLY TO YOUR FAVOR OF THE
/ 10Th ult. would say, that FREDERICK
MATHCSHEK, the founder of the house bear
ing his name would never have permitted the
method of securing the tuning pins now used in
the Mathushek Pianos 60 be used 50 long as he
superintended the factory. The idea originated
with and was patented by Pumeler, the President
of the Company. and his desire 10 have il
applied in the Mathushek Pianos caused the
final rupture between him and Fred. Mathu-
shek. because the latter, who Is practical piano
maker, saw that its adoption would prove Iuiu-
Gus to the manufacturers of the Mathushek
Pianos. Fred. MathuShek is now connected
with the firm Mathushek 4 Kinkcldcy, one
Hundred and Twenty ninth street, between
Second and Third Avenue New York. II YOU
will make inquiry OF him, You will learn that
the New Haven firm has 20 repair pianos by the
dozen, because their tuning pins become loose
Ii is much cheaper for them in the start 10
secure their tuning pins in bowels, stuck into
| iron, than To build up wrcSt plank the way we
| do. out of several thlckueSSeS of maple veneer:
! but when they come 10 foot up their bills of
repair, and take into account the harm done
! their reputation, they would do better 20 adopt
| our method.
| We do not claim anything new about the con-
structon of our pin block; it is the same as that
! used 10y all the manufacturers of first class
| pianos that we know 10 stand well in tune. To
| any one who knows the first thing about the
nature of wood il must be evident that a tuning
| pin cannot be permanently secured in q dOwCl
stuck into iron, because 1t Is necessarily driven
| into end wood. which cannot long successfully
| resist the immense strains upon lt-thc strains
| of the strings. In year or two the wood
beneath the tuning pin will have become com
pressed, and the tuning pin viii have sunk
| downward in front, and be loose IN couse-
Qucuce. II cannot be otherwise. because The
| tuning pin is surrounded by long fiber whert il
| should be surrounded 10y end wood We wish
YOU To- notice also that the distance oft the point
| where the string is fastened 90 the tuning pin.
| 10 the point where the tuning pin enters the
wood OF the pin block is greater III The Matlu-
| shck Piano than in ours, Notwithstanding We
| have an iron plate over the pin block
Ask your Sacramento agent To give his custom
ers chance to turn one OF curt tuning pins with
tuning hammer, and then tel, them tOdo the same
with MnthuShek pin, when they will N once dis
cover how much tiJmIr ours rest in their sockets
/ than do those i'll the MathuShe6 Pianos and
| that will convince anyone which of the two
pianos will stand longer in tune. If your SaCrs.-
mento agent has no better piano than the
Mathushek to contend against, We deem him
very fortunate.
That pin block Is their weak spot. and the
MathuShek agent at Sacramento had better say
rs little about il rs possible.
Hoping we have made clear 10 you the folly of
the Mathushek patent, we remain yours truly,
aul6- BEIlR BROS. 6 co.
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