The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-21
The Mathushek Piano,

The present plan of manufacturing pur-
sued by almost all the makers is to buy their
parts and put them together, SO that those
whose names pianos bear are rarely their
real makers, but merely collectors and ad-
justers of parts which have been made by
and purchased from others. The industry
of making parts of pianos for the alleged
manufacturers has become large one, and
such parts as the action, the case, the iron
plate, the sounding board, the top, the key
board, etc., are all made by different con-
Germs leach devoting itself generally to only
one of these parts, who furnish them to the
alleged piano manufacturers.
The various parts of the Mathushek Piano
are made in their own factory. There Is
the foundry, in which are cast the iron
plates; the case room, in which ali the cases
are made from lumber seasoned on the
premises for at least eighteen months; the
action room, in which the actions are all
made from the original lumber and other
material necessary, no part of them being
purchased; the sounding board room,
where the sounding-boards are made upon
an improved plan, by which they are put
together entirely from strips Of spruce, each
only one inch wide, and with the grain of
each strip running in such a direction that
up to this time not one of these sounding
boards has ever been known to crack or
warp; besides all the other rooms for var
nishing, stringing, tuning, polishing, pack
ing and shipping.
1t is an old aud well-proven adage that
IF you want thing well done do it your
self, I" and the pianos that can be trusted to
be perfectly reliable are those in which all
the parts are made by the piano manufac-
turer, who has pride and personal inter
est in seeing that the work on them is care
fully and thoroughly done.
The usual method of stringing pianos Is to
pass the tuning pin through the iron plate
free, without its touching the iron plate,
and TO depend upon the friction of the
wrest plank alone to hold the tuning pin.
A powerful leverage results from the draft
of the string on the tuning pin, which has q
tendency TO loosen it, and not being sufii-
ciently supported, nor having broad
enough bearing, does not hold firmly, and
consequently the piano is soon out of tune.
In the Mathushek the tuning pin passes
through the hard maple bushing, which is
driven into the plate, and as the grain Of
this bushing runs horizontally 1t provides a
solid and durable support for the tuning pin
close to the point where the string draws,
and gives friction TO hold the pin equal to
that given by the wrest plank. As a re ult
there is only about one-fourth of the lever
age on the tuning pin found in other pianos,
and there is fully three times the hold upon
the tuning pin. Owing to these advantages
combined, the Mathushek requires only
about one-fourth Of the tuning necessary
for others.
These tuning pin bushings are secured by
letters patent, owned by the Mathushek
Company, and cannot be used by any other
makers.
The Mathushek Piano Manufacturing
Company was organized under the laws OF
the state Of Connecticut A. d. 1886. Since
that time they have sold over Is, 900 pianos.
The general wholesale southern agency
for these choice instruments has been In the
hands Of the Ludden & Bates Southern
Music House for many years, during which
time they have sold them in large numbers,
and without case Of dissatisfaction. They
have inauguratsd special sale. 1895, IS
cash and 81 weekly, for a limited period,
and In consequence have all they can do to
supply the demand. They offer liberal
reward for information concerning anyone
who has a genuine Mathushek Piano and Is
not pleased with il.