Daily Yellowstone journal., 1884-05-13
RECOMMENDING A PIANO.
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Previous to entering upon his present
calling Mr.. Pfafilin was locomotive
engineer. When the lady reached the
store she had the good fortune to find
Mr.. Pfafflin in. and she asked his judg.
ment on the style and brand of a piano
That depends upon your taste,
madam" saddle If you want to com
bine elegance with utility / would sug-
gest the old-fashioned square piano. 1t
answers for an ornament, makes music.
can be used for o dining-table and Q
bed when you have company. This
kind of an instrument should not
he selected for q small cab. because
il doesn't leave room for firing
up. They make just as much steam
as the upright, but, owing to the posi-.
ton of the harp, they let down in the
hues much quicker. Being wi,le-gauge,
the wear and tear is also very great. If
you want perfect-working, handsome
machine, take the upright. 1t is mar.
row 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 Of the square. aud she
carries jus' rs much steam. You can
work il in small space and get as much
sound out Of it as you could with the old
fashioned steamboat whistles Her
%ood.wo, 1 is % neat as 0 Pullman
sleeper, and if you keep her well packed
and OILED she works as slick ss old
Seventv four. l have run one for five
years. and il makes as good time now as
the day it came out of the shop, though
the tuner has only taken up its lost mo-
ton once in that time. When il makes
too much steam YOU can shut it of
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 il little diff
ficult to clean out under her, but You
can hide great deal of stuff under there
until the spring cleaning. You can run
her out twice year on the tu-ntable
and polish off her jacket with little
oil, and she looks Just as good as new.
II you live in q clearinghouse or q
double tenement l would advise you to
take patent piano attachment re-
recently invented by Conductor
Brown, OF the Big Four railroad. This
attachment is largely in use now on old
pianos. and is very effective. BY its
use the piano is made to consume its
own noise. 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 SOL
emn silence II is really beautiful to see
the gymnastic exercise which the average
Young woman can thump out of piano
without noise when she is using this
new attachment And the performer
thinks all the time that she is making
things howl with the music she is
making. The beauty of il is that II can
he attached so that the player does not
know that il is on, which leaves persons
in the same room tree 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
Mr.. Brown $4,000 for the exclusive
use of the attachment in this city, but
lie declines so small figure. We now
have them on the pianos Of all the
leading hotels and clearinghouse in
this city, and il q prominent piano firm
in the east does not bny it We will soon
establish on agenc.' in Washington
City, which has more secondhand and
cracked pianos than any other city
in the world