Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-12
REC omxEnp,mc 4 PIANO.
How the Ex-Enaineer Did TIA Piano
tn-t Consumes Its Own Noise.
Z indianapolis Times. !


Previous to entering upon his
present calling Mr.. Pfafflln was a
locomotive engineer. When the
lady reached the store she had the
good fortune to find Mr.. Pfafliin
in, and she asked his Judgment
on the style and brand Of q piano.
"That depends upon your taste,
madam" said he. "If you want
to combine elegance with utility
I would suggest the old-fashio ned
square piano. 1t answers for an
ornament, makes music, can be
used fof a dining table and bed
when you have company. This
kind OF an instrument should not
be selected for q small cab, be-
cause it doesn't leave roon for
firing up. They make just as
much steam as the upright, but,
owing to the position Of the harp,
they let down in the fues much
quicker. Being wide-gauge, the
wear and tear is also very great.
II you want q perfect working,
handsome machine, take the up
right. II 10 narrow-gauge, hung
low on the trucks. and has all the
modern improvements, including
patent brake and snow pillow. The
running board is the same size as
the square, and she carries just
q. much steam. You can work
it in small space and get just as
much sound out Of it rs you could
with the old fashioned steamboat
whistles. Her woodwork is as
neat as Q Pullman. sleeper, and if
you keep her well packed and
oiled she works as slick as old
Seventy four. I have run one
for five years, and it makes as
good time now as the day it came
out Of the shop, though the tuner
has only taken up its lost motion
once in that time. When it
makes too much steam you can
shut it off by pressing your foot
on this little safety valve, but if
you want to pull her wide open,
press on the other one and she
huns along. Her body and
fire. box hang low, making it al
little difficult to clean out under
her. but you can hide q great deal
OF stuff under there until the
Spring cleaning. You can rnn
her out twice year on the turn
table and polish off her jacket
with little oil, and she looks
just as good as new. II you iive
in boarding house or double
tenement | would advise you to |
take a patent piano attachment
recently invented by Conductor
Brown, of the Big -Four railroad
This attach nent is largely in uss
now on old pianos. and is very |
effective BY its use the pisno is
made to consume its own iioise.
When your children are practicing
you can attach il. and every sound
goes directly into the ears Of the
player, leaving other occupants
of the house and neighborhood
in the most solemn silence. I'll
is really beautiful to see the
gymnastic exercises which the
average young woman can thump
out of a piano without q noise
when she Is using this new attach
ment. And the performer thinks
all the time that she is making |
things howl with the music she
10 making. The beauty Of it is |
that it can be attached 50 that
the player does not know il is on,
which leaves persons in the same
room free to carry on conversation
in an ordinary tone, while the
person at the piano cannot hear
anything but the noise she makes.
The Indianapolis Bachelors club
offered NJ. Brown s75. 600 for
the exclusive use Of the attach
ment in this city, bat he declines
SO small q figure. We new have
them on the pianos Of all the
leading hotels and boarding
houses in thi city, aud If a prom
inent piano firm in the east does
not buy it we will soon establish
an agency in Washington City,
which has more secondhand and
cracked pianos than any other
city in the world"